Microsoft isn’t one to be left too far behind, tacking daily deals onto its Bing search product. Bing Deals for the desktop and mobile gives thousands of unique offers spanning 14,000 cities and towns in the U.S.
Being a search engine, the new Deals section aggregates offers from top providers, including Groupon, Living Social and …
In case you missed it, Apple announced the iPad 2 yesterday. It’ll be available on March 11 with pricing starting at $499, just like the previous version. Noteworthy additions include front- and rear-facing cameras, a 33% thinner profile, a slightly lighter weight and a dual-core processor.
If you’ve been waiting to buy an iPad, …
If you remember falling to sleep while one of your parents read Goodnight Moon at your bedside, and if you also remember the first time you read Dune and found yourself wide awake late into the night with thoughts of ornithopters, sandworms, and spice – well, Goodnight Dune is going to be right up your sietch.
Julia Yu’s wonderful …
BlackBerry’s instant messaging service—fittingly called BlackBerry Messenger—may someday be available as a standalone application for iPhones and Android handsets, according to BGR.com.
In its current form, BlackBerry Messenger (or “BBM”) facilitates lightning quick back-and-forth between BlackBerry users with features like group …
Global mobile data use almost tripled between 2009 and 2010, according to a new report from Cisco, but that’s not the most surprising detail they’re offering: Apparently, they expect mobile data use to increase by a factor of 26 by 2015 – and much of that growth will come from users who don’t even have electricity at home.
Cisco’s …
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. Those of you who are inclined toward geek-rap should note that Adam WarRock–the most …
Launched last week, the Montreal-based startup site Viinyl propounds the novel theory that the problem with online music is that the pictures aren’t big enough. Each song registered with the site gets a single-serving URL of its own–Ali Milner’s “I Dare You,” for instance, is http://idareyou.viinyl.com/ , and Armistice’s “Mission Bells” …
We might not know exactly when the BBC will launch their iPad-only global iPlayer app, but at least we know that it won’t be too expensive to sign up. BBC Director General Mark Thompson has announced that the subscription cost of the international iPlayer, which will give users access to new and archived content from multiple British …
At least 10,000 Twitter users fell for a scam that spread like wildfire across the social networking site early today.
Quick action by link shortening service bit.ly – as well as thousands of people retweeting warnings – brought the scam attack under control in a few hours.
Graham Cluley of security company Sophos raised the alarm …
Should Apple own the exclusive rights to the term “App Store”? Microsoft sure doesn’t think so, and Apple’s latest trademark filings couldn’t resist taking a jab or two at its biggest, longest-standing competitor.
(More on TIME.com: Top 10 Consumer Tech Rivalries)
On Monday evening, Apple filed its newest round of …
If you have a computer and listen to anything other than your “new message” alert noise on it, you probably take advantage of one of the many online music services. But each one has its own vibe and constituency; which one is most appropriate for you? Take our quiz and see!
Whose taste in music do you trust the most?
A. I used to …
Demand Media, the soul-crushingly prolific supplier of SEO-friendly link-bait, has convinced celebrity chef Rachael Ray to join its fold. This is quite the coup for the company, which recently went public and which has also been battling all those newly-menacing Google algorithms aimed at lowering the rankings of content farms on search …
