Advertisers aren’t doing a better job on in-app mobile phone ads, you’re just clicking on them by mistake. A new survey by lead gen provider Pontiflex and researcher Harris Interactive shows that 47 percent of people admit that they more often than not click on the mobile ads that pop up unintentionally – with an overwhelming 61 percent …
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Will Mark Zuckerberg Appear On SNL This Week?
As The Social Network’s Jesse Eisenberg (an Oscar nominee for his role as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg) takes the reigns of Saturday Night Live tomorrow night, his real life counterpart could join him on stage.
(More on Techland: The Social Network Filmmakers Thank Zuckerberg During Acceptance Speech)
The New York Post is …
What Went Viral This Week
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Soldier Proposes To The Wrong Woman
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Does 3D Work?
The debate whether 3D technology is necessary has basically boiled down to one question: Does the technology even work? Leading the anti 3D group has been Roger Ebert. Vehemently against the technology, he’s posted time and time again his reasons to why he doesn’t believe it’s worth our time and money. In his post “Why I Hate 3-D (And …
Google Helps Digitize Holocaust Archives
In honor of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow, Google is partnering with Jerusalem-based Holocaust museum Yad Vashem in bringing 130,000 photos and documents to the Internet, where they will be organized and stored in Google’s cloud.
The search engine giant has been working for three years with the museum to index …
Number of Real 3D Screens To Double in Regal Entertainment Theaters
With the increasing amount of movies being released on 3D, it’s no surprise that theaters will be upping their 3D capable screens as well. Today, Regal Entertainment Group announced that they will be adding an addition 1,500 Real 3D-enabled screens, doubling the current amount set in their May 2008 contract.
“We continue to see high …
Will Hulu Become An Online Cable Provider?
Just because Hulu may be a leader in the field of Internet TV doesn’t mean that it’s resting on its laurels – or that it won’t be torn apart by internal disagreements. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hulu is undergoing a number of behind-the-scenes arguments that could result in massive changes in direction for the company in …
Crowdsourced YouTube Documentary Shows Us “Life In A Day”
Probably nothing out of the ordinary happened to you on July 24, 2010. It’s those seemingly unimportant, mundane details that director Kevin McDonald (Last King of Scotland, State of Play) was looking to feature in his new documentary Life In A Day. Composed solely from YouTube submissions of people who had filmed something on that
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The Comic Book Club: Fantastic Four #587 and Infestation #1
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about Fantastic Four #587 and Infestation #1.
DOUGLAS: There are a lot of things I enjoyed about FANTASTIC FOUR #587, the “death of the Human Torch” issue (I’d try to …
Cord-Cut No More: Pay TV Numbers Rise For Q4 2010
The days of cord-cutting talk may be over, with analysts predicting that the number of pay TV subscribers will have grown in the final quarter of 2010 amid fears that viewers were choosing to bypass television for other methods of watching TV shows.
Verizon reported growth in its FiOS TV service earlier this week, and Time Warner …
ComiXology Lets Your Local Comic Store Sell Comics Online
ComiXology, the company behind both its own digital comic store and the technology that powers similar stores for publishers like Marvel Comics and DC Comics, has solved a dilemma for loyal fans wanting to step into the future: Thanks to their just-announced Digital Storefront Affiliate program, no longer will fans have to choose between …
Netflix Tries to Go Social (Again)
After a failed attempt at social networking in September, Netflix announced yesterday in a quarterly earnings report that it will once again try going social.
The report stated that the company is working on an “extensive Facebook integration.” While Netflix won’t say exactly what that means, we’re guessing it will allow users to do …