Buckle up, we may be entering the first slump in what could turn out to be a bumpy growth ride for Google+, Google’s slim and scrappy social-networking response to Facebook. According to analytics firm Experian Hitwise, the average time users spent on the fledgling service fell last week in the U.S.
Time to sound a collective ruh-roh? …
According to a new Reuters report, Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) is planning on opening up its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to embed in work and play apps.
The goal is not only to attract more app developers, but RIM is hoping that by inserting that popular instant messaging service into games, entertainment and …
In the wake of a $324 million net loss over the past quarter, Nintendo has announced that its flagship glasses-free 3D portable gaming machine, the Nintendo 3DS, will be discounted by $80—from $250 down to $170—starting August 12.
That’s a pretty aggressive price drop, and one which is highlighted with an almost desperate quote …
Nearly a month after famed Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei was released from government detention, he’s finally broken his silence—on Google+.
It was a short message that Ai first posted in Chinese, announcing, “Greetings, I am here.” It was the first public message Ai has sent since he was released from three …
When the Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing website Hotfile earlier this year, it would’ve expected a defense. What it might not have expected was that the defense would claim that movie studios are using anti-piracy tools to remove content that they don’t even own.
A bit of Apple news for you this morning: MacRumors is reporting that Apple is late-stage testing a new 15-inch, ultra-thin laptop with features similar to the MacBook Air; TUAW is betting that it’s going to be a sveltely redesigned MacBook Pro.
Currently, MacBook Airs are available in 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch sizes with a starting …
Security company Imperva released the results of a study that found “web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every two minutes.” The company monitored 10 million attacks between December of last year and May of this year “targeting 30 different enterprise and government web …
Gamers have grown accustomed to waiting for the other shoe to drop when a grisly crime–especially one involving guns or murder–happens. Sooner or later, some media outlet somewhere is going to try to find a link between video games and the horror that one person visits upon another.
Usually, dubious connections are made via …
Everyone with a console knows that this fall’s biggest FPS showdown will be when EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 come out within weeks of each other. And, as fans leaning toward one title or another have fired shots on comment threads all over the web, speculation’s run rampant over which war title will …
Oops, it looks like you can’t buy the Nintendo 3DS direct from Amazon anymore, thanks to either a sales goof or some sort of actual manufacturing glitch. Nintendo’s notorious no-glasses 3D games handheld is officially not for sale from the site at this moment.
You can still grab it from third-party resellers, like Target, of course, …
Things are looking grim and grimmer for Canada-based Research in Motion, who said today they’d slash 2,000 jobs to counter sales declines. “Slash” would be the correct verb, too, since 2,000 equals roughly 11% of RIM’s global workforce, reports Reuters.
The logic behind the job cuts: RIM says it’s zeroed on “eliminating redundancies …
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 …
