Not to be left behind in the scuffle, but T-Mobile is entering the Verizon vs. AT&T fight with a great offer of their own: free phones. While the coveted iPhone won’t be included in the promotion, all phones – including 4G-capable phones – will be gratis on February 11 and 12. The last time the company attempted this on Father’s Day …
Shadowy Sequel Surprise: 2K Games Announces the Darkness II
Uncorking one of the better kept secrets of recent months, the publisher of BioShock and NBA 2K11 announced today that they’ll be releasing a sequel to The Darkness, a 2007 FPS inspired by the Image/Top Cow comic of the same name.
I had the chance to ask 2K president Christoph Hartmann about the upcoming game and why the time is ripe …
TechFast: Facebook Stalker, Dual-Screen Phone, Apple Goes Boxless
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover some of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Kyocera Echo, Exclusively from Sprint, Revolutionizes the Android Experience as the First Dual-Touchscreen Smartphone
Link: Sprint
Sprint and Kyocera have unveiled an Android phone with …
Joint Venture 111: The Venture Bros. from the Very Beginning
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
It’s Awards Season: Does “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood” Deserve Best-Written Game?
Video Game Awards Season is in full swing, with the games of 2010 having already been assessed in tons of Game of the Year round-ups all over the web. Now come the professional and organizational awards, where developers and other groups recognize outstanding creativity in the video game medium.
The Writers’ Guild of America …
Want a Custom Domain Suffix? Prepare to Shell Out At Least $185,000
As soon as 2012, the way we navigate the Web could be an entirely different beast. Top-level domains like .com and .net — which, according to the Washington Post, comprise about “half of the world’s 202 million Internet addresses” — could soon be a thing of the past.
In 2008, the judicious board that makes up the Internet …
Super Bowl Tech Ads: A List of Casualties Throughout the Years
So what’d everybody think of all the Super Bowl ads last night? While there’s been some discussion as to whether or not Groupon’s ads were the most offensive or all the ads in general have just plain stunk lately, let’s not forget all the awful, overfunded, offensive ads from years past.
Here’s a look at some of the tech-centric …
FCC Wants to Help Connect Rural America To Broadband
Rural America deserves broadband internet as much as everyone else, according to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is expected to propose that the $8 billion fund used to subsidize rural telephone service be adapted into one that helps pay to provide underserved areas with broadband internet.
The fun, known as the …
Too Good To Last: Last.FM To Start Charging Feb. 15
Get ready to open your wallets: Last.FM is going to start charging. While the streaming music and Internet radio service is still going to remain free on the website and and for US and UK users of Xbox Live, the company is going to charge for other devices that use the service on Feb. 15. Relax, it’s only going to set you back $3 a …
Yahoo Prepares To Personalize Your Mobile Experience
When the going gets rough, the rough get customized. Or, at least, that’s what Yahoo! is hoping; the onetime internet giant is about to announce a publishing platform for apps that will allow users to receive personalized content on mobile devices, according to the New York Times.
Anonymous sources from the project, apparently named …
Photos: Theoretical Tech Solutions For Our Environmental Problems
Our world might have a lot of problems, but Vincent Callebaut thinks he has the right idea on how to solve them. The Belgian architect has designed ways to solve our environmental and societal woes that combine technology and visual aesthetics.
From a vertical farm that could provide New York City residents with locally grown food to …
Comic-Con International 2011 Totally Sold Out
Thinking about going to Comic-Con International 2011 this July in San Diego? Too bad. Unless you’ve managed to score tickets already, it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen: all 100,000-plus spaces for attendees are now completely sold out.
Following a couple of attempts that resulted in technical meltdowns as several zillion people …