Gone are the days when being a Netflix subscriber meant leaving your house to check the mail for the latest DVD. Late last year Netflix decided they would start offering a streaming-only plan with a lower monthly rate. Now, the company plans to introduce a one-click Netflix remote button, making it even easier for subscribers to search …
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New Year’s Resolution: A Savvier Facebook Profile
With Facebook’s ever-evolving profile, sometimes it seems simpler to leave your profile information untouched than update it, even if your fondness for The Amazing Race has seriously dwindled over the last few years. Still, your online identity could be in serious need of some readjustments.
As Facebook profiles are now considered a …
Sony Stealth-tests Added Extras To iTunes Movie Sales
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 …
AT&T Commercials From 1993 Eerily Comes True
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 …
As Facebook Hits A $50 Billion Valuation, Will It Go Public?
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 …
The Year’s Most Popular Web-Searches Explain 2010 To Us All
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 …
Twitter Does Not Mean Copyright Free, Court Rules
Publishing something on Twitter is not the same as relinquishing ownership, the US District Court has ruled to the relief of millions of Twitter users worldwide. District Court Judge William Pauley has disallowed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit that photographer Daniel Morel has brought against Agence France-Presse for using his work …
Skype Launches Free Video Chat App For iPhone, iPad
Trust Skype to come through where Apple fails: While the iPhone’s own FaceTime only works on WiFi, Skype today releases an updated app that will let iPhone users video chat on both WiFi and AT&T’s 3G network.
The app will also allow iPad and iPod Touch users to receive video calls, with those using the latest iPod Touch being able to …
Techland’s Top Stories of the Year
It was a big year in tech: Apple unveiled the iPad (remember how much slack they got for the name? Now it’s a part of our everyday language). Google’s Nexus One launched (and failed), but the android operating system and app market blew up big. Facebook had lots of issues with privacy (but still managed to make an impact).
As 2010 …
Android App Stores Doubles In Size In Just 63 Days
Apple, it’s time to be nervous (Oh, alright, you might have another three years or so). After taking almost two years to reach 100,000, the number of apps available on Google’s Android phone doubled to 200,000 in a staggering 63 days.
Admittedly, that’s still 100,000+ below the number of apps available from Apple’s App Store, but with …
Is Apple Planning A Holographic 3D TV?
If patents are to be believed, Apple is working on the creation of the world’s first glasses-free 3D display that would produce holographic images using a screen made up of “pixel-sized domes” that would be read differently by the human eye depending on where they’re viewing from.
The patent itself explains the technology like
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Study: More Friends on Facebook Equals A Bigger Amygdala In Your Brain
The number of Facebook friends you have is correlated to the size of your amygdala, the center used to process the memory of your emotional reactions in your brain, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience. The volume of your amydala has been connected to the size of the circle of those you come in contact with even …