By Sean P. Aune |
This morning Apple quietly rolled out a lower cost 21.5-inch iMac, but before you whip out those credit cards and place your orders, you better make sure you can set up Joe’s College for Wayward Teens as a legitimate school of higher education. The new…
By Emily Price |
The Samsung Galaxy S II is on its way to T-Mobile as the Samsung Hercules. TmoNews scored a picture of the back of the previously rumored handset, indicating it is indeed a Galaxy S II variant for T-Mobile. The Hercules will be similar to the…
By Damon Brown |
So there’s this guy, Jay-Z, who mentored another guy, Kanye West. They both became fairly successful artists. One day, probably while getting drunk at a Parisian fashion show, they suddenly decide to do an album together. Get this, though: They are going to make it…
By Emily Price |
American Airlines is officially rolling out a new in-flight entertainment option for passengers on its Gogo-equipt flights. Called “Entertainment on Demand” the service will work similar to other online video rental options, allowing users to purchase movie and TV show rentals to watch on their…
By Emily Price |
The Onion is test driving a metered paywall on its site. Now non-US users who want to read more than 5 articles a month on the site will be prompted to pay up to the tune of $2.95 per month, or $29.95 annually. “Like everyone…
By Adriana Lee |
Anonymity on the web has been called both a blessing and a curse. Online alter-egos allow people an unprecedented freedom to communicate their deepest hopes or explore alternate activities or pastimes without risk to their real lives or reputations. It can also empower our worst…
By Emily Price |
We knew the white version of the Samsung Galaxy II was headed to some UK carriers next month, and now we know at least one of those carriers is going to be O2. O2 has posted a landing page for the white Galaxy S II,…
By Emily Price |
Do you live in an Android State or an iOS state? Jumptap, a mobile ad network, put out a map this week detailing its 83 million users and their operating system preferences. Android wins the nationwide race, but it’s interesting to see what states are…
By Sean P. Aune |
The numbers for July of which Web browsers are winning the current browser wars shows a dark horse coming up on the outside that no one seems to be watching very closely. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how…
By Emily Price |
If I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball were still alive, today would be her 100th birthday. To celebrate, Google has turned its logo for the day into a retro television set that plays clips form the classic television show. “Google” replaces the portion of the…
By Joey Davidson |
EA has gone and made the rumor from a few weeks back official: players will not be able to download and play Battlefield 3 over Steam. The brief, concise word came from @Battlefield, the official Twitter account for the Battlefield franchise. The team behind the…
By Adriana Lee |
If you had to choose, which would you rather give up for a week: sex or your mobile phone? Turns out, according to a new report from Telenav, about a third of Americans would pick the former rather than ditch their cellies for the same…
By Sage Lane |
Introductions are never easy, so I’ll try my best to make this painless. My name is Sage, and I love little bits of everything. I grew up stomping around barefoot in my backyard, launching model rockets, reading books about dinosaurs, the outdoors and jets. After…
By Adriana Lee |
Having 40 bajillion tabs open when a browser suddenly crashes has got to be the second-most annoying thing about Web work. The number-one most annoying thing, though, is the blaring video, music or ad stream that inevitably comes up when you re-launch the program. I…
By Noah Kravitz |
This past May during the Google I/O developers’ conference, Google announced the forthcoming availability of Chromebooks, the consumer-facing evolution of their Chrome OS-based CR-48 laptop pilot program. Where CR-48 was a limited edition, free to the chosen few, beta program, Chromebooks were to be a…
By Adriana Lee |
Hackers are getting more creative by the second. Is there nothing they can’t burrow into? Well with this, they can add one more thing to the list: our vehicles. Among the cool (and maybe scary) things that are coming out of The Black Hat Technical…
By Adriana Lee |
Curious about the webOS tablet experience, but put off by the $500–600 asking price? Well, this weekend only, HP is selling its Touchpad tablet for a hundred off the full retail price. This means you have until Sunday August 7th to grab a $400 16GB…
By Sean P. Aune |
Noah’s back with his weekly Rumor Roundup video to give you a sample of some of the biggest news to rock the tech blogosphere this week. Is Hulu Prepping an Ad-Free Subscription Tier? Google TV Refresh Imminent? Four New Verizon Phones Ready to Launch? The…
By Joey Davidson |
Resistance 3, the upcoming entry in one of the PlayStation 3′s exclusive series from Insomniac Games, has officially gone gold. The game is ready to ship out to gamers so that they may mount up and collectively ride on some aliens. To celebrate the official…
By Killian Bell |
Oh dear! This is a move I was kind of expecting Apple to take shortly after the release of the first iOS 5 beta, but now that it’s on its fourth release already, I thought that maybe they’d let us have our fun. To those…
By Noah Kravitz |
Not everyone wants a giant superphone – for you, T-Mobile presents the HTC Wildfire S. Android 2.3, HTC Sense, and compact form factor with a 3.2-inch display. What it may lack in hardcore specs, Wildfire seeks to make up for by packing the full Android…
By Adriana Lee |
Seems that HTC‘s forthcoming LTE 10-incher has peeped out in the public eye: What looks like leaked shots of the Puccini tablet has been spotted on the webs, courtesy of PocketNow. Unfortunately, judging by the images, it looks like AT&T went whole hog with the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Our own Jon Rettinger got up at the crack o’ early this morning to head over to Fox 11 in Los Angeles to talk with the morning news crew at the amazingly early hour of 5:45 AM. What could get him out of bed at…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that a previously unannounced Samsung phone called the Samsung Hercules got a rather unsophisticated introduction to the world last night in Canada. MobileSyrup attended a Samsung event last night in Canada, and in the VIP area is where they spotted the phone you see above.…
