Here’s a good reason to buy The Other Guys on iTunes: You’ll be taking part in a secret experiment.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is using the Will Ferrell movie to test whether adding additional extras unavailable on DVD or Blu-Ray versions of the release will increase sales through iTunes as part of a trial to see whether …
Best Buy has had enough of selling other people’s hard work, and has decided that its time to sell its own. The retailer has launched Best Buy On, a “multichannel network” full of original content that will both broadcast to its retail outlets and be streamed online as part of its accompanying “online magazine.”
The project has …
Happy New Year! While most of you are making resolutions and predicting what’s going to happen, Buzzfeed has uncovered this gem from 1993 about the future of technology according to AT&T. See if any of these “ideas” have become reality. The company said, “You will.” And, we did.
We’re borrowing books from thousands of miles away with …
One thing that makes Disney movies stand out from other animation features is that their universal story and plot can appeal to any one in any decade. Every child can imagine wanting to be the hero that saves the day, and ever adult can remember back to a time when they believe the world was magical. So, is it really necessary that the …
After a $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs and a big time Russian investment firm, Facebook ‘s value jumps to a stunning $50 billion, making the company worth more than competing companies eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.
(More on Techland: Facebook Forecast 2011: Mobile & E-Commerce)
The new investment comes at the beginning …
It’s not even an entire workday into 2011, and we’ve already gotten an excellent piece of comics news: Fantagraphics has just announced that they’ll be publishing the complete comics of Carl Barks, in something around 30 hardcover volumes, over the next 15 years. (There’s an extensive interview about it with Fantagraphics publisher Gary …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Xbox Live 12-month Gold membership: $39.96 at Walmart
Priced at $60 directly from Microsoft, Walmart is selling year-long subscription cards for the Xbox Live Gold service for just $40.
Wii Hardware Bundle: $179 at Amazon
Available for around $200 elsewhere, Amazon is selling the
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With so much available online for free, it might be surprising to discover that almost two-thirds of web users pay for what they’re looking for. A new survey from the Pew Institute’s Internet and American Life Project has found that 65% of internet users have paid for some form of content, with music and software downloads providing the …
It’s New Year’s Eve–the time for setting intentions and goals for the year ahead–and as a devoted comics reader, a few of my New Year’s resolutions this year have to do with the way I deal with my favorite medium. Here are some of the ones I’d like to follow through with in 2011.
Be more conscious about where my comics dollar is …
As we close the door on 2010, you might find yourself wondering, “What was that year all about?” Well, finally you can find out, thanks to Hitwise listing the most searched-for terms on the internet over the last fifty-two weeks. For example, Facebook owned the year. Not only was “facebook” the most searched-for term of the year (with …
Ever since 1907, New York City has dropped a version of of the New Year’s Ball on One Time Square. Originally, the ball tied the maritime tradition of lighthouses with the new invention of electricity to show the latest technology to the world. One hundred 25-watt bulbs descended down on the area, and the crowd marveled at the bright …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Batman: The Dark Knight and Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead.
DOUGLAS: I suspect Batman: The Dark Knight #1 may be the first comic of its kind in a long …
