It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Sanyo HD pocket camcorder: $150 at Amazon (today only)
Normally priced at just north of $222, Amazon is selling the Sanyo VPC-CS1 high-definition pocket camcorder for $150—the deal’s good today only.
Oh, and it’s pink.
Acer 10-inch netbook: $200 at Target (in-store only)
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I’ve been wrestling with Lynd Ward’s comics lately–staring at them, flipping through them, doubling back on them, trying to get a grasp on what’s happening on their surface and beneath it. Part of the wrestling comes from the fact that he didn’t quite think of them as comics, and they only really got gerrymandered into the comics family …
It only took two days, but News Corp.’s The Daily has made it from the iPad to the internet, for free. Thank Andy Baio, the man behind The Daily: Indexed, a Tumblr linking to each story’s home on the web. He explained the origins behind the site over on his personal blog:
The Daily’s publishing free, web-based versions to every article,
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With Ad Age predicting that we will see more digital online advertising during the Super Bowl than ever before, you can expect people to by simultaneously watching the game while surfing the Internet at the same time. According to a ComScore survey about web use during Superbowl Sunday 2010, two-thirds of people who responded said they …
The British Supreme Court are fans of Twitter, it seems. The court announced yesterday that journalists, legal teams and members of the public will be allowed to tweet – sorry, I mean create “live text based communications” – from the courtroom in most cases that the court hears, because doing so may be in the greater public …
MySpace is still up for sale, and News Corp. is claiming a lot of interest – which is probably a good thing, considering the site has cost the company $275 million in the last three months of 2010 alone. MySpace was responsible for dragging losses for News Corp’s Digital Media Group from $31 million to $156 million in the same time …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about DC Universe Online Legends #1 and Scenes from an Impending Marriage.
DOUGLAS: DC Universe Online was officially announced in mid-2008 (and has to have been in …
With the Super Bowl around the corner, it’s probably no surprise that people all over the US are getting excited – more surprising, perhaps, is that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces are amongst those most active in the run-up to the big day.
Federal officials are seizing sports-streaming websites in advance of Superbowl …
Official: Free internet porn is not illegal. Nor is it unfairly competing with porn companies who’d rather you paid for your thrills, according to a California Appeals Court, which has dismissed a case against one free site, Redtube.com, as an unfair attack on free speech.
According to plaintiff Kevin Cammarata, Redtube.com – …
The audience for news on television may be shrinking, but that doesn’t mean that news video is losing its appeal; MSNBC.com is reporting that last month had its highest video viewership yet (158 million views), and the Associated Press has found a new audience on YouTube, with 645 million views since launch. Brightcove and Beet.TV held a …
For those of you out there who are fans of Google’s apps, the company announced on their blog today that they’ve created Google Shopper for the iPhone and added a check-in function for Google Latitude.
Previously only for the Android Market, Google Shopper allows you to search for the item you want by typing the word in, …
February 2, 2011 –
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 jam of the week is a novelty song, debuted on last weekend’s …
