You’ve been waiting for this game for over a decade, and it’s finally here. Get ready for sore thumbs and button mashing action with Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. Capcom community manager (and gaming legend) Seth Killian gave us some insight to the little easter eggs they added, especially about what those characters are …
Google Announces ‘One Pass’ as Publishers Push Against Apple Subscriptions
Yesterday, Apple announced how it plans to handle subscriptions inside apps. The basic details are that subscriptions to content-based apps sold within the App Store earn Apple a 30% cut of any revenue generated unless the subscriber is referred directly to the app from the publisher.
(More on TIME.com: The Basics Behind Apple’s New …
TechFast: Quad-Core Tablets, 3D Angry Birds, Apple’s Antitrust Questions
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories so far.
Apple’s Subscription Rules Raise Possible Antitrust Issues
Link: Wall Street Journal
Apple’s plan to take a 30% cut of subscriptions to newspaper and magazine apps have left some publishers bent out of shape. Will the debate spill over into the courts?
Angry …
Before Watson: Five Great Man vs. Machine Battles in Comics
Long before Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter heroically took on IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy! to defend the honor of humanity against the vanguard of the inevitable robot uprising, comic book superheroes were battling evil computers and robots, and handing those metallic jerks their mechanical back panels. Here are five of the more memorable …
Survey: Twitter’s Trending Topics Reinforce User’s Love Of Mainstream Media
Big media still rules when it comes to Twitter, it seems. Hewlett-Packard researchers have been looking into where Twitter’s Trending Topics come from, and the answer may be somewhat depressing to those convinced that the internet is all about democraticizing information.
According the HP report, Trending Topics are all about the …
Netflix Finally Makes It To Boxee
It’s taken a few months longer than expected – not to mention a couple of missed deadlines – but Netflix has finally made it to Boxee. Yesterday, the New York-based start-up added its much-anticipated, long-delayed Netflix app to the Boxee Box, with CEO Avner Ronen making the official announcement on the company blog:
Netflix support
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The Basics Behind Apple’s New Subscription Payments System
Apple has officially opened its new subscription payment service up to publishers today. Here’s how everything shakes out.
How does this affect you?
Unless you’re a publisher that wants to sell “content-based apps” in Apple’s App Store, it doesn’t affect you all that much. You’ll probably start to notice more newspapers and …
Jeopardy!’s Alex Trebek on Watson: “Holy Smokes, This Is Serious Stuff”
Meet Watson, Jeopardy!’s fiercest manmade competitor. The IBM machine made headlines after it was announced that the super computer would be competing on the quiz show against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most celebrated players in the television program’s history.
Watson has the unique ability to understand natural …
App of the Week: Amazon for Windows Phone 7
Whatever its size, the cross-section of Amazon diehards and Windows Phone 7 owners can now officially be placated with Amazon’s Windows Phone 7 app.
The app takes advantage of Windows Phone 7’s swipe-friendly interface to provide easy access to a specific product’s details, customer reviews and related items without having to load up …
YouTube’s Future Improves With Cloudy Outlook
If you’ve noticed recently that YouTube videos seem to be uploading faster, and without as much buffer-stutter, then perhaps you should be thanking the Hydra. That’s the name of an internal project within YouTube to speed up video loading times, and in the process, lower both user frustration and operating costs. The key? Google …
The Next iPhone: 4-inch Screen? Keyboard? Time Travel?
I’ll be honest: Rumors of an iPhone that’s capable of facilitating time travel haven’t surfaced… yet. But there’s some new scuttlebutt regarding larger-screen versions and an apparent prototype with a slide-out keyboard.
The rumors pertain to the iPhone 5, which is widely expected to be announced in June during Apple’s …
HTC Launches 7-inch ‘Flyer’ Tablet, Two Facebook Phones
HTC has officially made its entry into the wild world of tablets with the HTC Flyer, a 7-inch Android tablet.
The Flyer features a 1.5GHz processor, 1024×600-resolution screen, aluminum body, 4G cellular data connection, and access to web-based gaming service OnLive. It’ll be running Android version 2.4 by launch time underneath HTC’s …