The sold-out New York Comic Con, which claims to be the largest pop culture event on the East Coast, starts today at New York City’s Javits Center and runs through October 14. Attendees will include Kevin Bacon, Carrie Fisher, …
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How to Fix RIM: A Twitter Symposium
Over on Twitter, I asked my followers to provide their best advice on the operating-system strategy which RIM (which just delayed BlackBerry 10 until 2013) should adopt moving forward. “Dump BlackBerry 10 for Windows Phone” seems to be the most popular option…
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Flipboard Launches Android Version of Its Popular News Reading App
Good news, Android users. Flipboard has officially made its reader app available in Google Play.
What is Flipboard? Ask someone with an iPhone — nearly 1 million of them downloaded the app after its first week of release, …
SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else
Anti-piracy bills in U.S. House and Senate would block sites with infringing content, but empower the government to censor anything it deems unlawful.
The Consequences of Apple’s Walled Garden
At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from …
RIM Launches BBM Music, and It’s Doomed Already
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is forging ahead with its BBM Music offering, an attempt at creating a viral music service that will probably fall flat.
BBM Music launches today with a free 60-day trial, and costs $5 per month thereafter. Here’s how it works:
You pick 50 songs for your music library. If you know anyone who’s …
Napster No More: Rhapsody Nabs Subscribers, Assets
Napster’s long, troubled life is finally coming to an end, with Rhapsody acquiring the service’s subscribers and assets from Best Buy. The Napster brand will be phased out as part of the deal.
Napster was best known for its early run as a peer-to-peer music sharing service (read: a way to download pirated MP3s) before the advent of …
Pandora Ends the Tyranny of 40-Hour Listening Caps
Remember back in the day when you listened to Pandora and hit your 40-hour listening limit?
“Wait, what? No more music?” you ask, brow furrowing as you slowly remove your earbuds. “Geez, 99 cents? For an entire month of streaming radio that I can customize as I please? Does it LOOK like I’m made of money?”
(MORE: Which Music …
Who Needs Hulu? NBC Adds Free TV Shows to Its iPad App
NBC’s iPad app just got a lot more useful with full episodes of popular shows like Community and Parks and Recreation. Both the app and the TV episodes are now free.
The selection of full episodes in NBC’s app isn’t too shabby. For primetime, scripted TV shows, the five most recent episodes are available. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon …
YouSendIt Now Offering Cheap, Unlimited Dropbox-style Storage
Despite a smattering of bad press thanks to some security loopholes, Dropbox remains one of the most widely used services on the web, now with over 25 million users. The way they got there is simple, really: Not only were they one of the first to offer free cloud-based storage, but they streamlined the process to make storing and sharing …
Survey: Bing Closes On Google, Wikipedia Beats Facebook, Fox News Reigns
The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) is a national survey conducted by the University of Michigan that evaluates customer satisfaction with a number of businesses annually.
In the internet sector, they’ve looked at and ranked three different types of services—social media, search engines and news sites—to determine …
Hands-on with Spotify: Promising, with Let-Downs
(UPDATE: Spotify has clarified that the software made available to me is the U.K. version of the service, not the U.S. version. Therefore, things may change before launch, and these should be considered early impressions.)
Spotify’s U.S. launch has been a long time coming, and now it’s nearly here. Although the subscription music …