One of the longstanding promises of the Internet–of the last century’s worth of technology, really–is that the cultural heritage of the world will be accessible to everyone in their homes. Today, the global museum has taken another step forward with Google Art Project. An ingenious application of Google’s Street View and Picasa tools, …
Apps & Web
Apple Tightens App Store Rules on In-App Purchases
Apple wants to have control over what content you are selling within your app. Among the recently declined was Sony’s iPhone application, which would have sold e-books and materials from the Sony Reader Store as an in-app purchase. Sony digital reading division president Steve Haber said that Apple told them that all in-app …
Joint Venture 110: The Venture Bros. from the Very Beginning
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
AOL Purchases 18000-Site Strong Video Network
AOL is continuing its move away from the written word by buying its own video distribution network. The company explains its purchase of GoViral by saying that it “supports our overall content strategy by creating another immediate delivery path for all of the great content we are generating daily.”
The sale is worth $74.1 million, …
People Magazine Owns Facebook’s Magazine Stand
Say what you like about People Magazine, a lot of people like it. In fact, almost a million have “Liked” it on Facebook, making it likely that the magazine will be the first magazine brand to pass the million Like mark on the networking site. Forbes points out that the celebrity magazine is, at 967,000 Likes, way ahead of its nearest …
AOL To Debut Web Shorts Based On “CliffsNotes”
You can schedule less time to read those CliffsNotes for the long-winded, heavy-hitting classic piece of literature that your teacher assigned to you for your report.
AOL and Mark Burnett, in conjunction with John Wiley & Sons and Coalition Films, announced that they will be creating comedic digital shorts off the classic reading …
“Credit Card Bait” In-App Purchases Worries Parents
Although many apps are free in the App Store, a lot of them require in-app purchases to use all the functionalities of the program. The problem occurs when people don’t realize that they are being billed large amounts. According to one group, a lot of times these purchase trap apps are games targeted toward kids, who click on the costly …
Top 10 Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Vizio 42-inch 1080p TV: $600 at Amazon (today only)
With the Super Bowl coming up this Sunday, TV deals abound. Amazon starts things off with a 42-inch Vizio priced at $600—that’s over $100 off its regular price.
Free shipping, too. The deal’s good today only.
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“Flashpoint” and “Fear Itself”: Adding Up the Tie-Ins
Marvel and DC are already gearing up for this year’s big superhero comics crossover events. The shape of Marvel’s Fear Itself is not yet entirely clear, but it’ll involve a central seven-issue miniseries by Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen (which launches in April), a seven-issue secondary miniseries called Fear Itself: The Home Front, a …
Mark Zuckerberg Joins Jesse Eisenberg On SNL
Mark Zuckerberg came face-to-face with not just one, but two evil twins Saturday. (Yes, Andy. “Awkward” is right.)
The Facebook CEO joined actors Jesse Eisenberg and Andy Samberg on stage for Saturday Night Live’s opening monologue after arguing that he was, in fact, the real Mark Zuckerberg. “That guy’s like my evil twin, …
TweetDeck Launches Deck.ly For Longwinded Users
Tweetdeck has decided that 140 characters isn’t enough anymore. The company has announced Deck.ly, a new service that allows users to post tweets longer than 140 characters. Similar to the already existing Twitlonger, Deck.ly will let users post longer tweets that will be linked to on Twitter and then available to read in full on a …
Emanata: The Future of the Comic Book Store
The announcement this week that comiXology would be offering brick-and-mortar comic book stores an opportunity to become its “digital storefront affiliates” is probably not actually that big a deal. Digital storefronts are not often particularly useful, or well-trafficked, unless they offer something that’s unavailable elsewhere. That’s …