You can’t blame Gail Davis for hanging up on the person who called her to congratulate her on downloading Apple’s 10 billionth app and winning a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate. Her husband and her both don’t have iPods capable of using App store items.
“I thought it was a prank call,” Gail Davis said to Cult of Mac. “I …
Giving up connectivity is hard to do. Apparently, it’s especially hard to do for the 8% of participants in a recent survey that declared that they would rather give up eating than give up cable, cellphones or internet.
AdAge commissioned a survey from Ipsos Observer, asking 1000 Americans whether they’d be more willing to give up …
The Comics Code Authority, the organization responsible for making sure American comic books were safe for children’s consumption, blinked out of existence late last week, following the withdrawal of the final two publishers that used its services. It was 56 years old.
The initial version of the Comics Code was adopted by a consortium …
The unlikely marriage between nightlife and gaming seems antithetical on paper, but that didn’t stop the creators of a new Las Vegas nightclub from trying to do both.
(More on TIME.com: Duke Nukem Has a Release Date and a SFW Trailer)
Insert Coin(s), opening this Spring, seems intent on luring party-going gamers with booze, …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Casio Exilim digital camera: $79.99 at Woot (today only)
Today only, Woot.com is selling the Casio EX-Z800 14-megapixel digital camera for $80. The compact point-and-shoot sells for around $120 elsewhere. Shipping adds $5 and the camera’s available in one of six colors.
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YouTube has a new look that, the company hopes, will keep users happy while making the site more aimed at you – yes, you in particular. In a refreshingly hype-free blog post, the reason behind the changes was made clear:
After countless user studies and community surveys, one thing came in loud and clear: the homepage in its current
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Never ones to miss the chance to celebrate, especially if it means the chance for exclusive performances from “today’s hottest stars”, MTV is planning a new awards show aimed at the web – literally. The show, which will honor the best of digital music and social media, will take place at some point this spring, and be …
John Constantine got married this week, to no particular fanfare. It happened in Hellblazer #275, an oversized issue with a 38-page story by writer Peter Milligan and penciller Giuseppe Camuncoli. The bride has the very Milliganian name of Epiphany Greaves; the real wedding takes place after a fake wedding, and the mechanics of the story …
Syfy’s Being Human may not be breaking new ground in terms of content – It’s a remake of a popular British series, already seen in the US on BBC America – but it is making technological moves no-one has seen before by becoming the first season-long “TV Tagging” series on the air.
Syfy is partnering with Shazam to allow viewers to use …
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 The Invincible Iron Man #500, Supergirl #60 and Wolverine and Jubilee #1.
EVAN: Y’know, I didn’t love Iron Man #500 when I first read it, and then I read it …
Look out, Twitter, it looks like the folks at VS Technologies are after you.
The small company alleges that the micro-blogging site is infringing on patent 6,408,309, which discloses “a method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people.”
Hold on–Twitter is a virtual community of famous people? Now, …
It was the offer that confused the internet: Buy $20 worth of Amazon value for $10. Daily Deal site LivingSocial brought the internet to its knees yesterday by offering “a once-in-a-lifetime deal”: a $20 gift card to Amazon.com for just $10. 1.3 million of the cards were sold by the end of the day, although it’s uncertain how many of …
