Who will be the first to launch a serious competitor to Netflix’s Watch Instantly service? That question may be close to having an answer, as Amazon’s been tipped to spin off its “Amazon Prime” streaming video section as a …
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It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Apple Cult
Why a decades-old stereotype is less relevant than ever.
Xbox Rumors Galore! New System Rumored to Run 6x Faster and Play Blu-ray Discs
Hold on to your hats, gamers, because there are some pretty juicy rumors floating around out there about the next generation Xbox, or the “Xbox 720,” as the press has dubbed it.
According to Kotaku’s “games industry sources,” …
Latest iPhone 5 Rumors Reportedly Come Straight from Foxconn Worker
9to5Mac is reporting that “a reliable source at Foxconn in China” has revealed details about Apple’s next iPhone – namely that it’s “currently being geared up for production,” according to the blog.
As for the reliability of …
$100 Price Rumored for Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone
File under “good news if true”: Nokia’s Lumia 900, the company’s first premium Windows Phone for the U.S. market, may cost $100 on contract.
Boy Genius Report says it has “a portion of AT&T’s 2012 roadmap,” which shows a $100 …
Greatest Innovator? 16- to 25-Year-Olds Choose Edison over Steve Jobs
The Lemelson-MIT Invention Index is a self-proclaimed “annual survey that gauges Americans’ perceptions about invention and innovation.” The latest survey asked 1,000 respondents between the ages of 16 and 25 various questions …
5 Things You Should Know Before the Facebook Timeline Switch Happens
As we mentioned recently, Facebook Timeline is coming whether you like or not. In the next few weeks, your Facebook profile will be assimilated, giving you seven days to get your house in order before everyone can browse through …
The Right to Be Forgotten: Europe Proposes New Online-Privacy Laws
After two years of investigation and discussion on the subject, the European Commission has proposed a new set of online-privacy rules that would allow users to demand that information about them be deleted by companies such as …
8 Mind-Blowing Facts from Apple’s Q1 Earnings
Apple set a tech industry record last quarter with $46.3 billion in sales. Turns out, most people don’t care about the iPhone 4S having the same shape as its predecessor and not being called an iPhone 5. They gobbled 37.04 …
Photos: Software Behind ‘Best Visual Effects’ Academy Award Nominees
The five movies nominated for the “Best Visual Effects” Oscar have something fairly obvious in common: They all relied on special software to create the effects. Check out the various 3D tools from Autodesk that were used for each film.
Isaacson on Jobs: Should He Have Been a Nicer CEO?
The man who arguably knew the Apple founder best – his biographer, Walter Isaacson – was at the 92nd Street Y on Manhattan’s Upper East Side telling a standing-room-only audience of 600 about insights gained during the two …
Social Media Okayed by the Pope
For all those who have been staying off social media until the Almighty Himself says that it’s O.K., would you settle for the Pope’s approval? Yes, his Holiness has been talking about humanity’s need for connection and how it …