According to a letter to shareholders released yesterday, Netflix is finally going to launch an app to integrate itself with Facebook…in Latin America and Canada. Why is the U.S. missing out? That would be because of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The VPPA – passed in 1988, following an alt-weekly’s publishing of Supreme Court …
Ready for something like Mozilla’s Firefox on your mobile phone? Okay, you can already get that if you’re an Android user. So how about something like Firefox running in its own Mozilla-crafted mobile operating space?
Heads up Apple and Google, it sounds like the company that wrapped a fox around a globe (and a browser around much of …
Retail giant Walmart is putting its recent purchase of VUDU to work with the full integration of the service’s on-demand movie and TV show offerings on the Walmart.com website.
Aside from offering a 99-cent “Movie of the Day,” the service seems similar to on-demand offerings from the likes of Amazon and others. New-release rentals go …
If you like to read your feeds through Flipboard, don’t be too surprised if you start seeing advertisements over the next few months; the social reader has signed a deal with magazine heavyweight Conde Nast that will see ads appear on content from that particular publisher, starting with American Express now and Lexus ads beginning in …
Forget about Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue – soon you might want to head on over to Grand Central Station instead. Want to grab an iPad while you’re waiting for your next train? That might be a closer reality than you think.
Apple has proposed a new storefront within New York’s iconic Grand Central Station. The Metropolitan …
It looks like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they’ve been forced to comply with Apple’s controversial App Store rules. What’s more, Google’s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely.
Onward, tangled web! Recall the controversy in February, …
In another sign that Amazon is cutting corners on its rumored tablet to make it as cheap as possible, a new report suggests that the device’s screen will be less capable than those of its rivals. Or not.
Whereas the touch screen on Apple’s iPad supports input from up to 10 fingers at a time, Amazon’s tablet will use a cheaper touch …
Google+ looks like it’s about to become a little more authentic…and maybe a little less annoying about the way it gets there.
In a post from Rackspace’s Robert Scoble yesterday on everyone’s favorite quasi-Facebook, he discussed a conversation he’d had with Google VP Vic Gundotra on the subject of identities and Google+:
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In the wake of last week’s fake-Apple-Store-in-China story, government officials in China have begun investigating stores that sell Apple products to determine whether or not the stores are operating legally.
Reuters reports that 300 shops in Kunming have been inspected, with five of them “found to be selling Apple products without …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
$100 off any tablet: Prices vary at Staples
Whoa-ho-hold it. Here’s a wheel of a deal on tablets from Staples—$100 off any model sold in stores, to be precise. And by “any” we’re not talking the iPad, which Staples doesn’t sell; we’re not talking the HP TouchPad; and we’re …
Turns out, smartphone buyers still clamor for the iPhone 3GS.
The proof is in the latest earnings statements of AT&T and Verizon, which showed that the former activated 1.3 million more iPhones than the latter.
Although AT&T didn’t break down its iPhone sales figures by model, one explanation for the discrepancy is that AT&T still …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
Titanium Straw: $15
At your …
