Google+ looks like it’s about to become a little more authentic…and maybe a little less annoying about the way it gets there.
In a post from Rackspace’s Robert Scoble yesterday on everyone’s favorite quasi-Facebook, he discussed a conversation he’d had with Google VP Vic Gundotra on the subject of identities and Google+:
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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 …
Facebook has been exceptionally restrictive when it comes to interfacing with Google, from privatizing search to its non-allowance of friend importing to Google+. Simply put: There isn’t much cross pollination between the two web companies, which, at times, can be a bit of a pain for users.
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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 …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
$100 off any tablet: Prices vary at Staples
Whoa-ho-hold it. Here’s a wheel of a deal on tablets from Staples—$100 off any model sold in stores, to be precise. And by “any” we’re not talking the iPad, which Staples doesn’t sell; we’re not talking the HP TouchPad; and we’re …
Is that Megatron sitting on top of the Bird’s Nest? Perhaps. Transformers have come to China, and while they may not be the walking and talking kind, they’ve mysteriously cropped all across cities in China.
(VIDEO: Watch the Official Trailer for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon)
Okay, well maybe it’s not so mysterious. …
Is it time to start talking about cord-cutting again?
Two days after analysts at research firm SNL Kagan forecast that 12.1 million homes will have abandoned traditional TV providers for video-on-vemand services by 2015, Verizon and AT&T released their Q2 2011 subscriber numbers and, well, if people are planning on abandoning …
Damian Hess has been recording and performing as MC Frontalot for 11 years now. When he started out the music he made didn’t have a name, so he named it himself: it’s called nerdcore. Frontalot raps about computers, video games, Dungeons and Dragons, superheroes, action movies, cartoons and other things beloved of the Comic-Con
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Joss Whedon’s movies don’t make billions. His last foray into TV, Dollhouse, was canceled after two seasons. The one before that, Firefly, lasted only eleven (glorious, unforgettable) episodes. But more than any other writer or director working in Hollywood, he represents the authentic voice of the fan in the big-studio world, and more
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Today I was able to meet up with, seriatim, three artists who in different ways exemplify what Comic-Con is about. They are not the richest or most famous people at Comic-Con, but they are its royalty. If there is a soul within the heaving mass of hype and advertising that Comic-Con has become, they are it.
Royal Number One is Felicia
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So George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Paolini, Scott Westerfeld, David Anthony Durham and I walk into a bar.
No, seriously, we did. After the show floor closes at Comic-Con, big entertainment companies throw parties at bars all around the city. Mostly they’re the big movie and game companies — in the great Comic-Con …
