Apple appears to have introduced a new “Free App of the Week” promotion to its App Store, offering up a different iOS title each week that won’t cost you a penny. This week’s choice is Cut the Rope: Experiments, which is free on both iPhone and iPad. Users noticed the new promotion when the App

Samsung has unveiled a new entry-level Android-powered smartphone this morning that has a nifty trick up its sleeve: The ability to handle two SIM cards simultaneously. With dual SIM slots, it allows you to receive calls and text messages on two different numbers without the need to switch between them manually. The Galaxy Ace DUO

Samsung has appointed David Beckham its Olympic Games ambassador and its using his soccer skills to promote the new Galaxy Note Olympic Games edition. In the Korean company’s latest ad, the LA Galaxy star kicks soccer balls at a wall made out of drums to play Ode to Joy. Beckham also uses the Note’s S Pen functionality to

If you’re the owner of an iOS device and you’ve been installing Apple’s latest software updates, you’ve probably been waiting for the latest untethered jailbreak for many, many months. But thankfully that wait is nearly over. Chronic Dev Team member Pod2g has confirmed on Twitter that the latest iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak is “near ready

According to a recent study in the Harvard Business Review, the Twitterverse is full of some big, dull duds. The study had 1,443 users rate 43,738 Tweets. The ones that scored well were funny or exciting to the participants, shared interesting info or asked questions. They even still viewed self-promoting messages as worthwhile, if they

Twitter announced on Monday that its users can now opt to sign up for a new weekly email digest that highlights the “most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected with on Twitter.” The email will feature a format that’s similar to the existing Discover tab on its mobile applications and will

Thanks to a tip from a hacker dubbed “Airdemon,” we now know that a massive list of 55,000+ Twitter usernames and passwords were dumped onto Pastebin. Who was responsible for this or why/how they did it, however, still isn’t known at this time. Twitter told CNET that it sent out password updates to the affected

Samsung Galaxy Note users are reporting this morning that their devices have begun receiving a tasty slab of Ice Cream Sandwich. It appears the Korean electronics giant is now pushing out the Android 4.0 update to its super-sized smartphone for those located in Europe. According to The Verge, the news was broken by Devin Balentina

Over the weekend, we recorded and posted a video highlighting a somewhat troubling issue for the brand new Xbox 360 Edition of Minecraft. The map size of each world is limited to a single in-game map. For the PC version of this game, however, the world is essentially infinite in size. By way of Twitter,

As the discussions of multi-core processors and gigabytes of RAM tend to be the norm here, we easily forget that there’s still a niche market for the not so smart feature phones. Fully aware of this, Twitter has retooled its mobile website to offer phones that aren’t too bright a similar experience to what smartphone owners

The folks at Ubisoft have started a promotional campaign to get everyone in the community to work together and unlock the world premiere gameplay trailer of Assassin’s Creed III.  If you want to contribute to unlocking this content, head on over to their Facebook page to like it and get started. Once liked, all you have to

Rdio, a popular music streaming service that has long been rivaling Spotify in the U.S., finally makes its debut in the United Kingdom and France today. The company is yet to officially announce its expansion, but music lovers have been taking to Twitter to report that they are now able to sign up to the

After Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, Twitter turned its attentions to the popular iPhone app Camera+. Bloomberg recently reported that Twitter executives met with the app’s developer  Tap Tap Tap in hopes of acquiring the company. However, the idea fell apart before Twitter could make an offer due to the developer not wanting

Registered developers have been testing OS X Mountain Lion, Apple’s next-generation operating system, since back in February, and the software is now on its third beta preview. Last night, the Cupertino company released a small software update that adds a helpful ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature to Notification Center. For those unfamiliar with Notification Center, it’s

Twitter on Thursday announced that it has updated its iOS and Android applications with a number of improvements. Among the enhancements are better search capabilities, improved notifications and improvements to the discovery tab for easily viewing replies, direct messages and favorited tweets from your stream. Here are just a few notes on the update: “Now

Remember KONY 2012? Sure you do. It was all the rage just a month ago, inspiring first world kids of all ages to rise up and fight against grevious crimes against humanity in far-off lands. Actually, no, there didn’t turn out to be a whole lot of rising and fighting, but there was a TON

All it takes is one person with some time on their hands to start a rumor.  Put in a dash each of two hot companies, mention a purchase price, and voilà, a rumor is born.  To that end, no, Apple is not buying Twitter for $10 billion dollars. Eric Jackson’s Forbes article yesterday asserts that Apple needs

It seems as if there is some new evidence to support Batman: Arkham City getting a Harley Quinn based DLC drop. Earlier today, the game’s Twitter account released the teaser image above supporting the rumors. This image adds some justification to the rumor published by us earlier this month. The story originally broke because of

Over 50 million downloads and an acquisition later, and Draw Something is at last receiving a much needed upgrade for both iOS and Android. The Pictionary-style game, which shot to the Top Charts overnight, is finally bestowing upon its users an “undo” button that’ll erase their last brush stroke. In addition, the update is bringing

In preparation for its launch in several European countries on April 27, the Kindle Touch has just received a software update that adds new languages and a number of nifty new features. The 5.1.0 update, which is available for both the Wi-Fi and 3G models, allows you to change the Kindle Touch’s interface from English

RIM on Wednesday announced several new applications that will automatically integrate with its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service. The Twitter and Facebook BlackBerry apps, for example, will soon allow BBM users to automatically share their latest tweet or Facebook status update with their BlackBerry friend list. BlackBerry Travel will automatically update your BBM status with your

When I think of all the battles fought on the warfront of technology, there have been way too many to count. But there have been a overarching ones that transcend geekdom to reach the broader masses, including: Mac vs. PC (ongoing) Android vs. iOS (ongoing) Gmail vs. Yahoo vs. Hotmail (mostly done, mostly won by

OMGPOP, the studio behind Draw Something, was acquired by Zynga for around $200 million in the last two weeks. During that purchase, one OMGPOP employee decided to walk away from the company in order to keep making and supporting his own, independent games. That dev is Shay Pierce, and you can read his story now. In the

It has never been easier to search for apps, games, movies, music, and books for your Android device, with Google Play now available directly via the Google.com homepage. Visit Google.com today and you’ll notice that a new “Play” link has been added to the navigation bar along the top of the page. As you might

Rovio launched Angry Birds Space late last week – the latest title in its hugely popular series of Angry Birds games — on Android, iOS, Mac, and PC. It couldn’t have been easy to reach four platforms within the space of 24 hours, but it was certainly worth the effort. Rovio has confirmed in a message posted to