How bad are things for Nintendo? Well, a Bloomberg story that circulated last week reportedly had investors clamoring for the Kyoto-based gaming giant to start porting its legendary characters over to Apple’s iOS devices. Super Mario Bros on the iPhone? Metroid on the iPad? Sounds too good to be true, right?
Turns out it was. The …
Google dropped a bomb this morning by announcing that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Motorola Mobility, which became independent from Motorola earlier this year, currently builds Android phones such as the Droid 3 and Android tablets such as the Motorola Xoom.
Android will remain open to other handset …
Social media may be being blamed for the role it played in the U.K. riots, but the authorities are finding that it has its uses during the aftermath, as well.
The Greater Manchester Police have been using Twitter and Flickr to identify people who took part in the riots, as well as announcing names and locations of those arrested, …
The hits (and trademark misses) just keep coming out of China, whose authorities now say they’ve uncovered a whopping 22 fake Apple stores—and that’s just in the city of Kunming, where this strange, sordid tale of Apple retail ne’er do wells started.
According to Xinhua News Agency, China’s official press agency, the country’s …
Make no mistake about it: The timing of this is completely intentional. Facebook took to its blog to announce that it was giving its already successful gaming interface a facelift in the wake of Google’s own announcement that it was implementing games on Google+.
(MORE: Surprise, Google Plus Adds Games)
In efforts to make the …
Now there’s something we didn’t see coming: Google Plus (or Google+, if you want to get technical), Google’s Facebook-Twitter rejoinder, just revealed it’s adding games to its social networking roster, or will be shortly. Bet you didn’t see that coming.
Google seems to think you didn’t. The company’s official blog announcement opens …
The HiPhone 5 beats the iPhone 5 to market, death threats against Facebook, Apple tops Exxon, and more: Here’s a quick look back at some recent stories from the Land o’ Tech.
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It’s not just employers who may be monitoring your social networking presence. The New York Police Department has launched a social media unit to track potential criminal behavior on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, according to the New York Daily News.
Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor has been named to head up the …
Following discussion on whether or not social media was “responsible” for the recent riots and looting in the United Kingdom, the British Government is looking at ways to reduce the likelihood of social media being used to organize riots or violent protest again.
Officials are considering both banning specific users from sites like …
Three years ago, Braid came out and changed people’s perceptions of what video games–especially independently developed ones–could be. The time-manipulating platformer gave players an experience that channeled the ephemeral nature of selective memory and the sting of lost love. Braid became a bona fide hit on the Xbox 360, thanks to …
For this week’s Technologizer column over at TIME.com, I said a few words in defense of the beleaguered set of technologies known as physical media. One of the points I bring up: Much digital media, including stuff like Kindle books and movies from Amazon, Apple, and others, is locked up with copy protection. I don’t object to that …
If you’re going to risk towing 7 million tons of ice across the Atlantic Ocean to quench the thirst of drought-stricken communities, you better have a plan. Enterprising engineer Georges Mougin, 86, is using digital imaging to map the best possible routes to get the massive freshwater deposits 3,400 miles from Newfoundland to the thirsty …
