Is Google unfairly promoting its own content above everyone else’s? According to those who run rival services, the answer is definitely yes, and now the company is under investigation by the European Union over allegations of favoritism. The problem is apparently the placement of Google services above other search results, and for those …
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Are Video Game Developers Growing an Industry For Apple Devices?
Nintendo and Playstation might be household names when it comes to gaming, but the graphics and portability of Apple’s iOS devices are making it a contender in the gaming market. It’s not cheap for developers, who have to pay a $99 licensing fee and a steep 25 percent in royalties after the first $5,000 in sales, but many are opting to …
Dissecting the Latest 4G Verizon iPhone Rumors
The long-rumored Verizon iPhone got another shot in the arm recently, with MacDailyNews reporting that not only would the most anticipated phone that doesn’t even exist yet be here right after Christmas, but it would run on Verizon’s new 4G network that was just lit up a couple weeks ago.
Like all the Verizon iPhone rumors before it, …
Montage: Making The Internet Safer For Lazy Searching
Is the internet just too scattered for you? Would you like some way to collect all the things you’d like to read and watch into one place, but find yourself allergic to the acronym RSS? If so, Microsoft has just the thing for you – Introducing Montage, which Microsoft describes as
a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy
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“Super Mario All-Stars” 25th Anniversary Edition: For Completists Only
There’s a problem when you’re a company like Nintendo, which leans very heavily on its franchise characters year in, year out and constantly goes to its back catalogue. Eventually, you start to hit the bottom of the well and wind up re-packaging stuff that’s already been re-packaged.
Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition …
Acai Berry Twitter Spam Hijacks Thousands Of Feeds
In a morning swimming in cyber attacks, Twitter is now fending off one of its own. A new acai berry Twitter scheme has compromised thousands of accounts, spamming followers with dangerous links.
Mashable reported that the spam was spreading at a pace of 10,000 tweets per minute early this morning, with tweets linking to an …
November Video Game Sales Show Upturn For Industry
Whoever says that video games don’t sell anymore just needs to look at November’s stats.
“November sales represent the best November on record in terms of new physical retail sales,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier wrote in the company’s latest report according to Ars Technica. “It bests November 2008 by roughly $30 million, and that time …
What Are the Top-Selling Apple Apps of 2010?
Apple has unveiled their top-selling apps of the year, and it seems that depending on what device you have you tend to like certain programs. For iPhone users, it’s all about entertainment-based apps revolving around games, but iPad users tend to like apps the help them with productivity such as Apple’s Pages software and its Numbers and …
Amazon Receipt Scam Aimed At Online Merchants
If you try to sell you wares on Amazon, watch out: A new scam out there is sending fake Amazon receipts to merchants that look convincingly like the real ones and then claiming they never received their products. GFI Software discovered the software, which is free to download on the internet.
“The free program available online …
Study Shows Only 8 Percent of People Online Use Twitter
Strangely enough, although it seems that everyone and their mother has a Twitter account, a recent study by PEW Internet and Life Project discovered that only eight percent of people online admitted having a Twitter account, with two percent saying they use it every day. Twenty-four percent of people surveyed did say they used some sort …
Twitter On Possible #WikiLeaks Block: It Isn’t What You Think
Twitter has responded to accusations of the possible censoring of WikiLeaks hashtags that have hit the blogs this week.
(More on Techland: Who Are The WikiLeaks Hackivists?)
In the wake of big web blocks from Amazon and Paypal, Twitter says it won’t block WikiLeaks-related conversations from trending. In a blog post, Twitter …
Hulu Faces Calls To Evolve Or Die
What’s the point of Hulu? That’s the question being asked by some in the wake of the news that Disney – one of the three co-owners in the online VoD service – has licensed hit shows like Lost, Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy to competitor Netflix Instant (which itself came two months after NBC Universal, another Hulu parent, licensed 35 …