“Don’t ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly boy. It renders you powerless.” – Max from The Lost Boys
iPad adoption passes DVD players [CNBC]
Microsoft Store being built across from Apple Store in Mall of America [9to5Mac]
And So It Has Begun Of The Day: Man …
Darren Aronofsky, the famed director of Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler and the Black Swan, has had his name in the ring as the possible director for a number of comic book movie adaptations. First, there …
While at one time finding itself eerily devoid of Android devices, AT&T has now rounded out its offering of the Google-backed handsets somewhat with three new additions from Motorola.
Motorola Flipout
The $80-with-contract Motorola Flipout will be the first of the new handsets to become available—it’ll hit stores on October …
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — As we previously indicated in our July 2010 earnings call, we have been examining strategic opportunities for FLO TV. We have been engaging in conversations with a wide range of partners for both the network and the spectrum. We are seeing strong interest in using the FLO TV network or …
If the prospect of a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1980s version of The Thing fills you with more dread than the shapechanging alien itself, then you might be reassured by Meredith Woerner’s report from the set of the upcoming movie over at io9. Woerner talked to the people behind the movie – which describes itself as a “prelude” to …
I told you back in May that Google would be releasing a Goggles app for the iPhone sometime this year. Well, today’s the day but it isn’t being released as a separate app. No, Goggles is now being bundled into the Google Mobile App that’s being updated today. Goggles is English-only for now and is only supported on the iPhone 3GS …
Preparations for the New York Comic Con continue as we take a closer look at some of the books that the publishers will get onto the racks in time for the show. No coincidence that there’s more Issue Number One’s than usual. Be sure to check out the rest of our coverage of the NYCC including what not to miss if you’re going to make it …
This year’s New York Comic Con begins this Friday, October 8, its first year in its new autumnal slot. It’s not quite as overwhelmingly huge as San Diego Comic-Con (maybe half or two-thirds as big, without nearly as much movie-studio presence), but there are still a bunch of panels you’ll want to get there early for–not least Techland’s …
The UK government campaign to lower carbon emissions by 10 percent starting on October 10, 2010 sounds like an eco-friendly idea that the public can get behind. But, the controversial ad that recently was created by Eugenie Harvey and written by Love Actually and Notting Hill scribe Richard Curtis and documentarian Franny Armstrong has …
It’s official: Zack Snyder will direct the next Superman movie for Warner Bros/DC Entertainment, and he’s already talking about it:
It’s early yet, but I can tell you that what David [Goyer, scriptwriter] and Chris [Nolan, producer] have done with the story so far definitely has given me a great insight into a way to make him feel
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TechnologizerSmartphones
For this week’s Technologizer column over at TIME.com, I wrote about the smartphone wars–and by the smartphone wars, I mean the battle between the iPhone and Android. It’s not that simple, of course: RIM still sells scads of BlackBerries, Windows Phone 7 handsets are arriving shortly, and HP will release new WebOS phones at some point. …
Last night, consumer electronics giant Panasonic unveiled the Jungle, a QWERTY-enabled device dedicated to MMO playing on the go. Specifics on the data connection, screen resolution and pricing aren’t yet available. On the device’s official site, Panasonic’s being coy about specs and functionality:
All we can say for now is that this
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