Netflix, Apple, and Now Microsoft All Say Nay to Blu-ray Sorry, Sony: The days of physical media are just about over. Microsoft, Netflix, and Apple all know it, and are planning for it.
Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010
Google New Tells You What's New...At Google Itself Google releases or updates products at a dizzying pace, and it can be hard to keep up, even for things that might be interesting or useful. So Google has come up with a way to keep you updated on what's new within Google itself.
Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010
Netflix CEO Insults Humorless Americans With Harmless Joke The CEO of Netflix recently made a joke that some humorless Americans have taken as anti-American. He was, embarrassingly, forced to apologize, and dropped a hint about Netflix's future in the process.
Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010
Netflix Plants Actors in Audience of Canadian Launch, Gets Caught, Apologizes Why would Netflix, a company so very loved, feel the need to plant over-enthusiastic actors in the audience at their Canadian launch event? They're probably asking themselves that, now that they've been caught.
Posted Thu Sep 23, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg Is Ridiculously Rich, Donates $100 Million to Newark Schools Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is deliriously rich--richer than Steve Jobs, even--and contrary to what a certain movie might tell you, apparently has a philanthropic bent.
Posted Thu Sep 23, 2010
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Scores Millions of Downloads: No Longer "Internet Exploder"? Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer has been cheekily known as Internet Exploder for some time now, thanks to its sluggishness and out-of-date feature set. But the new IE9 beta is netting millions of downloads: Is the curse broken?
Posted Thu Sep 23, 2010
Facebook Knows You Don't Care About Your Coworker's Farmville Achievements Those that play Farmville on Facebook love it. Those that don't should not be bombarded with weird updates about penguins or lettuce or whatever. At least, that's Facebook's new philosophy.
Posted Wed Sep 22, 2010
Verizon's Separate App Store Explained: Still Not Necessary Verizon's own V CAST app store for Android is not very hotly anticipated, but the company's going full-steam ahead anyway. So what does it have to offer that the regular Android Market doesn't?
Posted Wed Sep 22, 2010
NBC's Community to Pre-Premiere With a "Twittersode" Ugh to the word "Twittersode," but yay to more Community: NBC's returning sitcom premieres today, but first there'll be a pre-premiere episode played out on Twitter.
Posted Wed Sep 22, 2010
Flash Defeats HTML5 in Round One by a Knockout This video shows an unscientific but intriguing battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 on mobile devices. For all the talk about HTML5 being the savior of web video, you might expect it to not get trounced so thoroughly.
Posted Tue Sep 21, 2010
HP Announces an Android-Based Tablet, More or Less HP's mythical Slate won't be the first tablet from the company to hit the market, but maybe it should be.
Posted Tue Sep 21, 2010
Google Docs Coming to iPad in "the Next Few Weeks" to Slap iWork Around Google very casually announced today that iPad-compatible versions of Google Docs will be heading to Android and iPad soon. Could Docs upstage Apple's own iWork and make the iPad a true work machine?
Posted Tue Sep 21, 2010
Is Facebook Building a Phone? Possibly, But It Won't Be the "Facebook Phone" This weekend, TechCrunch published a rumor that Facebook is secretly working on a new smartphone platform--the "Facebook Phone." After a somewhat cagey response from Facebook, we can make a guess at what this all means.
Posted Mon Sep 20, 2010
BlackBerry Earnings Jump 68%, Reports of Death Greatly Exaggerated Despite consistent negative chatter from tech journos and analysts, RIM (BlackBerry) put up some crazy-strong numbers this quarter, with a 68% jump in profit.
Posted Fri Sep 17, 2010
Netflix's "Elite Raters" Have Rated Over 50,000 Movies The Atlantic got ahold of some of Netflix's internal stats regarding ratings, and the results show something we might have expected: some Netflix users are insane.
Posted Fri Sep 17, 2010
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Launch Could Crash and Burn Without Verizon Verizon announced that they will not carry any of Microsoft's do-or-die Windows Phone 7 phones at launch--or any time this year. That could well doom Windows Phone 7 to a Palm-like demise.
Posted Fri Sep 17, 2010
Yahoo's Three-Year Plan to "Bring Cool Back" Yahoo's new three-year initiative to "bring cool back" hits all the company's beats: A revamped Yahoo Mail, an iPad app, connected TV, better search, and more social networking.
Posted Fri Sep 17, 2010
iOS 4.2: The iPad Is a Real Computer Now The newest beta version of the iPad software, version 4.2, just came out today, bringing everything iPad owners have wanted: multitasking, homescreen folders, wireless printing, and more.
Posted Thu Sep 16, 2010
Halo: Reach Tops $200 Million on Launch Day, Crushes Avatar Halo: Reach is not only Microsoft's biggest game of the year--its opening day sales show that it might just be the biggest launch of the year in any medium.
Posted Thu Sep 16, 2010
Penn State's Geospatial Revolution Project: Where Are We, and How Did We Get Here? Penn State University's new project isn't exactly existential, but it does answer some of life's big questions: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Turns out all those answers can be answered through GPS.
Posted Thu Sep 16, 2010
