Gorillaz Release Tons Of Free Content Through Spotify, Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary

Gorillaz Release Tons Of Free Content Through Spotify, Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary

In the last 10 years the chart topping group Gorillaz have managed to score Number 1 hits in more than a dozen countries, have received various industry awards and have continued to showcase their artistic side with odd but compelling […]

Flavors.me Aims to Join the Social Network Fray

Flavors.me Aims to Join the Social Network Fray

What started as a content aggregator (albeit from mostly social sites) aims to achieve a spot alongside big players like Facebook, as Flavors.me rolls out some enhancements to compete on the social playing field. Today, a fresh design and a […]

Canceled Soaps ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children’ Web Plans Scrapped

Canceled Soaps ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children’ Web Plans Scrapped

Bad news for soap fans planning to follow their favorite, now-cancelled programs onto the web. It seems the frankly shaky-sounding plans to move the high-cost soaps to the internet for a new life have been quashed, yanking the plug from […]

Disney, YouTube Broker Movie Rental Deal

Disney, YouTube Broker Movie Rental Deal

With all the hand-wringing over Netflix and Hulu, it’s easy to forget YouTube is all up in the film-streaming business as well. But they are, and expect to hear a bit more about it as more channels launch and the […]

Cyber Monday Sales Up 18% Over Last Year

Cyber Monday Sales Up 18% Over Last Year

Perhaps getting stomped, pepper-sprayed, frozen or otherwise braving the rigors of Black Friday is finally falling to the wayside proper for Cyber Monday, as sales in 2011 were up 18% over 2010 as of 9PM tonight. Traffic was up even […]

Mall owners realize a very bad idea when they see one and pull tracking plans

Mall owners realize a very bad idea when they see one and pull tracking plans

The other day there was some interesting news about how a couple of malls in the United States planned on tracking shoppers, anonymously of course, as they went about their Christmas shopping. They handed out the typical line that this […]

Report reveals that smartphones only have 26% of the global market

Report reveals that smartphones only have 26% of the global market

If you pay any attention to the tech blogosphere you would think that smartphones rule the world, that everyone and their grandmother has one. It turns out that this might not be the case if a new report from VisionMobile […]

U.S. Viewers Set Record, Watch 42.6 Billion Online Videos In October 2011

U.S. Viewers Set Record, Watch 42.6 Billion Online Videos In October 2011

New statistics from the U.S. comScore Video Metrix have been revealed and U.S. viewers have set a new monthly record by watching just shy of 42.6 billion online videos in October 2012. Based on those numbers the average web surfer viewed 21.1 […]

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Apple is preparing to launch their own connected TV units and now that rumor has added voice and motion control functions to those devices. Currently known as iTV the new option […]

Twilio CEO Tries To Buy Yahoo Using WePay Donations Page, Offers Board Member Positions

Twilio CEO Tries To Buy Yahoo Using WePay Donations Page, Offers Board Member Positions

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson wants to buy Yahoo for $18 billion and to reach that goal he has decided to skip private equity firms and instead raise the money using a grassroots campaign. Lawon this week started a WePay donations […]

The UAE a dangerous place for bloggers as another goes to jail for 3 years

The UAE a dangerous place for bloggers as another goes to jail for 3 years

Over here in the part of the world where the worst we can get for expressing our opinions is some pepper spray in the face or getting a little roughed up by law enforcement. In other places in the world […]

Survey: One in Five Say Switching Smartphones More Hassle Than Switching Banks

Survey: One in Five Say Switching Smartphones More Hassle Than Switching Banks

One of the more arduous and entirely devoid of joy tasks of adulthood is that of switching financial institutions, which is why most people only do it when they’ve been boned so badly by their bank that there is no possible […]

Netflix Price Fixing Lawsuit Tossed

Netflix Price Fixing Lawsuit Tossed

Finally some good news for content streaming and DVD rental company Netflix, as a lawsuit alleging price fixing has been tossed by a US District Court Judge. US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled in the case that began in 2004 […]

Cyber Monday Deals on Amazon Will Make You Glad You Didn’t Get Up at 3am

Cyber Monday Deals on Amazon Will Make You Glad You Didn’t Get Up at 3am

If you stayed up drinking too late on Thanksgiving and missed all the doorbusters this morning, take heart. A ton of decent deals await on Cyber Monday, and technically, through the rest of the season here and there. Amazon is […]