Dinosaurs are the new glee clubs. Or, at least, that seems to be the hope for Fox, who plan to give Steven Spielberg’s new show Terra Nova the pre-summer preview treatment that helped build buzz for Glee last year. The network has announced that the pilot of Terra Nova – in which Life on Mars‘ Jason O’Mara stars as the head of a family …
Video: Small Press Creators at Comic-Con
Hundreds of comics creators were showing off their work at Comic-Con International. We caught up with a handful of them to talk about their small-press projects, both new and still-in-the-works. In order of appearance: Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Cecil Castellucci (Odd Duck), Jacen Burrows (Neonomicon), Thomas Zahler (Love and Capes), …
DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Gets More Features, iPad Streaming
DirecTV subscribers, I envy you. Moreso this year than in previous years. Not only can you get the NFL Sunday Ticket package, which grants you access to live coverage of almost every NFL game, but this year you’ll also get all the extra stuff you had to pay an additional $99 for in previous years.
DirecTV is now offering its $300 NFL …
Froyo Will Not Unlock Tethering or Mobile Hotspot For Droid
The good news is that Motorola’s Droid for Verizon Wireless will receive its Android 2.2 update this week; the bad news is that the tethering and mobile hotspot features won’t be coming with it. Our friends at Phone Scoop were contacted by Verizon Wireless spokesperson Brenday Raney who said in an e-mail that the “Droid by …
Jedi In Training: We Still Don’t Know What Yoda Is?
With E3, Comic-Con and a handful of other events it’s been difficult to post Jedi In Training updates but a layover at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport gave me plenty of time to finish Zahn’s Heir to the Empire and begin Dark Force Rising.
The beauty of Zahn’s work, so far as I can tell, is his pacing. I hate to read …
Ultimate Air Jaws: The Amazing New Technology Of Shark Week
AT: How much waiting around did you do in order to capture these sharks?
JK: Sometimes you can go two weeks and not see a single shark. That’s exactly what happened to us. We were sitting in our hotel rooms everyday, nervously watching the clock and hoping that something will change. Sharks are really unpredictable. They come …
What I’d Like to See: A Suicide Squad Video Game
One of the tossed-off tidbits that came out of Comic-Con 2010 was the development of a Suicide Squad game. Geoff Johns let the word slip over at Comic Alliance, saying the project would be “hardcore violent”. The film rights for the DC Comics riff on the Dirty Dozen were optioned a while ago and it’s a safe bet that said game will be …
PA Consulting Confirms “Death Grip” is Unique to iPhone 4
As if we didn’t already know. PA Consulting has released their own report on AntennaGate and confirms that the “death grip” is unique to Apple’s latest iPhone.
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Pitted against a BlackBerry 9700 and HTC HD2, the iPhone 4 performed within the same wireless range as the …
Five Boston Startups to Watch
I had a chance to swing by a geek mixer held at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (NERD, get it?) to rub elbows with a handful of local startups doing some interesting things. Keep these guys on your radar screens—you might hear more from them in the future.
Episend
Browser-based Episend aims to make …
New Comics for 8/4/10
Coming to a comic shop near you, here are your new comics for this week. No magazines, no trades or children’s books here, no sir. No statues or t-shirts or lunch boxes. Just comics. Floppy four dollar fantasies just waiting for you to escape into. As always the ♠’s denote my projected pull list. Be sure to come back later this week …
Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
Monday, you are a jerk. The jerkiest of all days. You’re only welcome September through December thanks to Monday Night Football and various three-day weekends upon which yours is the day off.
Here are some handpicked gadget deals to help get you through your Monday. The theme today seems to be refurbished pocket camcorders, …
Hey You Guys!: The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
And here I thought Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was the only one celebrating an anniversary this year.
The Goonies turns 25 this year and Warner Bros. is set to release a collector’s edition that even One-Eyed Willie would pillage and plunder for. The $28 set includes a board game, reprints of a 1985 souvenir magazine and a …