The future of magazines may be digital – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a good thing for magazines. A new study suggests that iPad magazines have one major drawback when compared to their print editions: The iPad itself.
A study carried out by Bonnier, publisher of Popular Science, Parenting and other special interest …
Finally, your phone can do something more important than check email, browse the internet or help misguided birds channel their aggression against their pig overlords: The SETI Institute has launched a private beta test for SetiQuest Explorer, an app that will allow users to search for intelligent life in space.
The new app – …
This week we learned that cable and satellite TV companies are beginning to show targeted advertisements to viewers. That is, they can beam custom-tailored commercials to individual households even if they’re tuned to the same program.
For example, a 17-year-old male watching Watson on Jeopardy! might get a commercial for the Xbox, …
The following is a guest post by Thor Muller, the co-founder and CTO of Get Satisfaction.
Years ago my mother cornered me, as she often does. “What’s going to be the next big thing?” she asked me.
“Telepathy,” I blurted. I was being cheeky, of course. But I wasn’t far off, as she now reminds me. The last decade has been a race to …
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. The new supergroup Wild Flag–Mary Timony of Helium, Janet Weiss and Carrie Brownstein of …
Time for Boxee and Roku to worry. Apple TV now streams live sports from MLB.TV and NBA League Pass. The new video sources are part of a software upgrade, released today alongside iOS 4.3.
Apple launched its revamped Apple TV in September after dismissing earlier models as a “hobby.” In addition to playing content from iTunes, the new …
We don’t all have that well-read friend who can direct us to the latest news stories and blogs that he thinks we’d appreciate. That’s why there’s Zite, a free personalized iPad magazine and news discovery service that launched today.
While it’s noticeably similar to the much-loved Flipboard, Zite functions more as a web discovery …
Foursquare is giving users more reasons to check in with Foursquare 3.0 including better deals, more suggested places to visit and an easier way to rack up points.
As added incentive to check in, Foursquare 3.0 added a Explore tab. You can search for a category like “German restaurants,” and the app will point you to the nearest …
If, like me, you spend far too much of your life wondering what life is like for your dog(s), then a new exhibition of canine photography may go partway towards providing some much-needed answers. And, yes, that’s “canine photography” as in “photos taken by dogs.” Well, kind of.
Dogtography: A Dog’s Eye View Of New York is an …
It’s the oldest not-so-stupid human trick in the book and the hardest to pull off in a video game, but freestyle murder mystery L.A. Noire seems on the cusp of nailing it after scanning the latest trailer.
I’m talking about reading someone’s believability based on their body language, from shifty eyes and furtive glances to subtle …
Admit it: You’ve had enough of Charlie Sheen. For a while, it was almost funny, as he talked about Warlocks and Trolls and always winning, and then it became kind of uncomfortable when you realized that it wasn’t really an act, and now you’re at the point where you kind of wish you could just pretend that he doesn’t exist. Luckily, …
It’s official: Spider-Man beats Batman. Well, when it comes to auction, that is.
A copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Marvel Comics’ web-crawling super-hero from 1963, has sold for $1.1 million in auction, beating Detective Comics #27, Batman’s first appearance from 1939, to become the second most expensive comic …
