At a glance, Gigwalk sounds like a shady work-at-home marketing scam: Take pictures on your iPhone! Get paid!
In reality, Gigwalk is not as sketchy, but also not as simple. Yes, Gigwalk will pay you (via Paypal) to report on various locations and establishments in a handful of major U.S. cities, using pictures and text. The …
MacRumors.com is reporting that an AT&T customer service rep apparently told a customer the following regarding the next iPhone:
“Apple has informed us that they do not plan to release the iPhone in the June to July timeframe, though there will be a newer version in the future. Unfortunately, we have not been given a release time for
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A home without a TV isn’t quite as unheard of as it used to be.
New research from the Nielsen Company found that 96.7 percent of American homes have at least one television, down from 98.9 percent the last time Nielsen took count. This is the first time in 20 years that TV ownership has declined.
Nielsen partly blames the drop on …
Back in the day, whoever had the biggest, most awe-inspiring Super Soaker was automatically crowned King of the Block. One of those summers, I was lucky enough to wield said proverbial conch in the form of a high-powered water rifle that I used to blast other kids in the face.
Needless to say, 2010 was a really good year for …
Microsoft’s model home of the future is packed with cutting-edge technology, including touch screens, capacitive chargers and completely digital wallpaper. But the living room is still controlled by a crusty old remote control instead of gesture controls like those of Kinect for Xbox 360.
Microsoft posted a partial video tour of the …
Being a YouTube star is one thing, but if you’re going to be really good at it, you’re going to have to go to camp. The site has decided on the 45 video creators it believes in so much that it’s willing to put its money where its mouth is, enlisting them in Creator Camp or inviting them to be part of the YouTube Creator …
A funny thing happened at the Blackberry World conference today: Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer strode on stage and announced that Bing would be the default search engine and maps provider for Research in Motion’s Blackberry smartphones.
Yes, the same Blackberry that stakes its reputation on business use. The same business …
It’s no stretch to consider that Amazon could really shake things up with a tablet just like it did with its Kindle e-book reader. And it’s looking more and more like an Amazon tablet will be an inevitability.
Word out of the Far East is that the Seattle-based retailer has placed tablet production orders with Quanta Computer, a …
Someone didn’t tell the folks at Bloom Studio that music players are supposed to be boring, because Planetary for iPad is something entirely different.
The free app visualizes your music library as a massive galaxy, floating in deep space. Artists are represented as solar systems, their albums are planets, and each song is a moon, …
And all at once, the sound of an infinite number of ripped pants pockets could be heard around the world as Apple fans removed their wallets with total disregard for the square-shaped denim enclosures that had held them safely in place. Those poor brass rivets never even saw it coming.
Apple has just updated its all-in-one iMac line …
It’s like a lesson in how not to use social media. Village Voice Media, looking for more hits for their various web properties, hires some “social media experts” to drive more traffic to their sites. Said experts start spamming Reddit, and then get caught doing so.
Unsurprisingly, VVM decided to apologize… Well, kind of:
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Dish Network and former parent company EchoStar have settled their long-running patent lawsuit with TiVo by agreeing to pay the company $500 million for unlawful infringement of TiVo’s “Time Warp” DVR technology.
The settlement follows a costly legal battle that’s not only seen Dish faced with a court order to shut down all its DVRs …
