With cookbooks, toys and a rumored movie spinning off from their successful Angry Birds app, some have thought of Rovio as a wannabe Disney. But if rumors are true, Disney might actually be looking at the app maker with a view to helping it on its way to world domination.
Mr. Freeze Makes Things Chilly in New ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Trailer
It’d be pretty hard to disagree that Batman has the best rogues gallery in superhero comics. (But, you can try. That’s what comment sections are for.) The Dark Knight took down a slew of his nastiest villains in the hit Arkham Asylum a few years back, but lots of fan-favorite felons didn’t make the cut.
However, with a sequel due out …
How an ‘Apple Wireless’ Provider Could Sell You More Hardware
Apple’s huge successes with the iPhone and iPad have allowed the company to amass $76 billion in cash. While no one outside Apple knows what the company will do with this Scrooge McDuck-like money pile, Jean-Louis Gassée has an interesting theory: Apple should buy a wireless carrier, such as T-Mobile.
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Top Five Monday Tech Deals
Its Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Westinghouse 60-inch 1080p TV: $800 at Best Buy
Remember 20 years ago when people would be like, “Hey, guys, who wants to watch the Quebec Nordiques game on my new 32-inch TV?! It’s huge!”
Nowadays if you have a 32-inch TV, people feel bad for you. That’s the brilliance of …
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Someday, There Will Be a Great 7-inch Tablet
With all due respect to Steve Jobs, I’ve never been convinced by his stance that 7-inch tablets are a bad idea. But I haven’t been able to mount a convincing case that he’s wrong, either.
The original 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab suffered from using a version of Android meant for phones. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBookhad even bigger …
The Nintendo Difference: What’s at Stake for Mario’s Kingdom
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 to Acquire Motorola Mobility (for a Few Obvious Reasons)
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 …
See Pictures of Apple’s New ‘Spaceship’ Campus
Images of the new Apple “mothership” have landed.
Yes, Apple’s upcoming campus is circular. It won’t actually be done until 2015, but meanwhile Cupertino is assaulting the general public with a barrage of wonderfully rendered pictures of what it will look like. It’s probably not a guarantee that everyone will be so beautifully …
Why Chrome OS Is More Important to Google’s Future than Android
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
There is a debate happening in the industry about whether or not we are heading toward a future where all computing takes place in the browser or …
Paycheck Friday! Purchasing Suggestions for Your Perusal
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
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Wearable Flashing Roller Skates: …
Groupon Posts $103 Million Loss in Last 3 Months
It’s not cheap offering the internet daily deals, it seems. The most popular daily deals site, Groupon, has suffered a $103 million loss for the second quarter of 2011 alone, according to financial statements the company has submitted to the SEC.
(More: Signpost: Like Groupon, Without the Stuff People Don’t Like About Groupon)
The …
U.K. Police Crowdsource Rioter Identification via Flickr, Twitter
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, …