You’ve seen commercials, you’ve seen product placement – but have you seen the “promercial” yet? That’s when broadcasters run commercials to let viewers know about upcoming product placement in their favorite television shows.
It might sound like a joke, but last week, ABC premiered the first promercial, for the January 5th episode of …
It may not look like it, but the iPad might just end up becoming known as a DVR for reading. According to data collected by Read It Later – an app that allows users to save web pages for reading at their leisure, even without an internet connection – today’s readers are time-shifting their reading until later in the day, with iPad users …
Google is continuing to push into the e-book space with the purchase of eBook Technologies, a company focused on developing both hardware and software to create and distribute content for electronic readers. The acquisition, announced by Google yesterday, will allow the company to – according to a statement on the front page of its …
If you’ve been looking to get your NOVA fix on the go, you’re in luck.
Following up on the success of its free iPad app, which was unveiled in October, PBS is now offering a free iPhone app that streams full episodes. While the two apps are quite similar, the iPad does offer a slightly more extensive list of shows and episodes. Even …
Move over, Yelp and Urbanspoon–Google’s getting in on the local recommendation app action.
The company has come a long way from being just a search engine. And with this week’s release of its latest iOS app, Google Places, Google is moving ever closer to social network territory.
The free app, which is available now in the iTunes …
Babel be damned. Google’s free “Translate” app for Android now includes a feature called Conversation Mode that does a pretty decent job of facilitating a verbal back-and-forth between English and Spanish.
Per Google’s blog post:
“In conversation mode, simply press the microphone for your language and start speaking. Google …
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here. With the Verizon iPhone set to be available in less than a month, plenty of disgruntled AT&T customers and Verizon lifers alike are getting ready to light up the airwaves of the self-proclaimed “most reliable network in America” with Apple’s iPhone 4. And while there are several reasons the …
You’d think that Comcast would’ve learned from Google’s mistakes, but apparently not. The cable company’s new Xfinity TV app for the iPad is currently under fire from broadcasters and content providers unhappy with an app that streams their programs live or on-demand without their permission.
According to Mediaweek, a presentation of …
Want to stay on top of the latest Gold Box deals from Amazon.com? Now, finally, there’s an app for that: Amazon today announced Amazon Deals, a free iPhone app that offers easy access to daily deals such as Amazon’s Deal of the Day or limited period Lightning Deals, as well as offering reminders and allowing users to share deals through …
In a partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, AMBER Alerts will now be available on Facebook.
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Laurie O. Robinson made the announcement in a press conference today, saying, “These efforts demonstrate the high priority this Administration places …
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. Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne is currently the most anticipated hip-hop album …
It turns out your overprotective mother may have been right: Too much television may, in fact, kill you. A new international study is suggesting that anyone who spends more than four hours a day in front of any “screen-based entertainment” – be it television, videogames or the internet – is increasing their chance of heart attack or …
