February 23, 2011
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. The big musical surprise this week was the release of Radiohead’s …
The Nancy Drew series might have been around for 80 years, but that doesn’t mean that the art of the mystery novel is outdated. Her Interactive has updated the fan favorite female detective’s adventures with the Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries app. Using text inspired by the original books, the app creates an interactive story for readers. …
If Google has its way, YouTube won’t just be the destination for clips about honey badgers and viral videos in the future; it’ll also be where you go to watch live sports. The online video giant is in talks with both the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League to stream live games online.
The talks follow the …
If you’ve been trying to keep track of the latest Apple rumor announcements, you’re probably lost in all the delayed iPhone 5 news, miniature MacBook Pros that may or may not be launched and Light Peak ports that work at warp speed. To make things easier, Techland is going to break down what’s been overheard for you to make it easier to …
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jerry Brito, a policy wonk and web developer based in Washington, D.C.
If you’re a serious or even occasional twitterer, you may have wondered what the “.ly” at the end of those shortened bit.ly URLs stand for. Well, the answer is Libya. Like “.uk” for United Kingdom or “.jp” for …
Attention, laptop-toting members of the global workforce: In an effort to maximize potential productivity to stratospheric levels, new portable computers with 30+ hour battery life will soon be entering the market.
Who to blame? Start with Lenovo. The company unveiled the ThinkPad T420 yesterday, promising that the machine “reaches …
The comics and animation worlds are in shock today with the news that writer and producer Dwayne McDuffie has died from complications following a surgical procedure on Monday evening.
McDuffie got started in the comics industry as an assistant editor for Marvel Comics in the late 1980s, before becoming a freelance writer responsible …
Killzone 3
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Guerilla Games
Systems it’s available on: PS3
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: PS3
Pity poor Killzone. The FPS franchise that’s lived on two iterations of Sony’s PlayStation game machines always gets compared to other exemplary franchises. The first Killzone was …
If you look at Samsung’s line of “Galaxy” devices, you’ll notice that the company has just about every screen size covered. There are several 4-inch phones, a 4-inch iPod Touch-like media player, 4.3- and 4.5-inch 4G handsets, a 5-inch Wi-Fi tablet, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet and the upcoming 10-inch Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
There’s a big software update coming for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 devices next month but the company’s rolling out some sort of minor pre-update in order to grease the wheels, so to speak.
That update has been gradually rolling out over the air to certain users this week, and people have been reporting that some Samsung …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does
Link: Ars Technica
Whuh oh. It seems that an update to Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 software has been bricking certain …
A U.S. District judge ruled today that Internet TV service ivi was breaking the law by offering live streams of network and cable television. The company, which offers online broadcasts of 55 stations in the Los Angeles, Chicago and New York area for under $5 a month, was ordered to cease operations immediately as a result of a …