Electronic Arts' wildly successful Madden NFL franchise has made the leap from the Xbox to Facebook. The gaming giant has launched Madden NFL Superstars, the company's second social game since it acquired social game maker Playfish. The company's fir...
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At the mention of an "e-reader," most people think Kindle or Nook, but if you just want the device, sans the deal with the content provider, Sony has a nice little trio of e-readers on offer, and they've all just been upgraded with several important ...
Sweden's chief prosecutor has reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Recently, Assange was accused with crimes of molestation and rape by the Swedish authorities. Assange has denied the allegations, claiming they are ...
Travelers and city adventurers looking for a better way to harness geolocation data for their own amusement, get ready: Gowalla is releasing a brand new beta feature designed to crowdsource the best a city has to offer. Gowalla Highlights is a web-ba...
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Motorola's new Android-based smartphone, the Defy, boasts an interesting combination of solid features and ruggedness that will appeal to users prone to splashing, dropping and scratching their phone. If you saw the Defy and read its specifications, ...
Put this on your startups-to-watch list: FashionStake, a New York City-based company that allows consumers to buy a "stake" in a designer's collection in exchange for varying degrees of perks and privileges, such as pre-order discounts and runway sho...
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Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com is introducing the newest component to its platform, Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM. Jigsaw for Salesforce integrates the Salesforce CRM and Salesforce Chatter experience with Jigsaw's crowdsourced busines...
Ultimate Ears, a subsidiary of Logitech, have set loose another pair of custom earbuds that will make ears swoon and wallets groan. The Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors feature three individually tuned and balanced armature speakers in each ea...
Imagine streaming video from your Android phone to the web at the click of a button -- no Wi-Fi needed, no painful upload times, no maneuvering back and forth between a handful of apps to shoot and share your video. Today, Justin.tv is making all tha...
Apple's Steve Jobs has taken the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to make a slew of announcements related to iOS, Apple TV, iTunes and the iPod. First though, he dropped some big stats on the state of the iOS ecosystem. A...
At Apple's special event today, the company announced its next two iOS releases: iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2. Apple will be releasing iOS 4.1 next week as a free update for the iPhone and iPod touch, fixing some bugs and adding new features like HDR photos, ...
Apple has revealed iTunes 10, the newest version of iTunes complete with a new logo, new features and its very own social network for music called "Ping" that he described as Facebook meets Twitter for music. Ping allows users to follow others, just ...
Target will be the first retailer to sell Facebook Credits in its stores come Sunday. The Facebook Credits gift cards will be available in $15, $25 and $50 denominations at all 1,750 Target locations and at Target.com. The cards will soon make their ...
Lots of news came out of today's Apple press event, but in the words of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, iPods were "the entree of the day." The iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod touch each received significant cosmetic and feature updates, while the iPod Classi...
If I were MySpace, I would be shaking in my boots. Earlier today, Apple launched iTunes 10, the latest rendition of its wildly popular music software. Really though, iTunes 10 is just a vessel for Ping, Apple's new music-centric social network. Avail...
It's US Open time in New York, which means tennis fever has officially hit the city that never sleeps. As the final major tournament in professional tennis, the US Open always draws a healthy audience, nationally and abroad. Maybe you’ve been waiting...
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If you're one of those people who has yet to figure out exactly how and why to use Facebook Places -- and you're single -- MeetMoi might have the answer. This week, the geolocation dating service became the first matchmaking service to integrate with...
So fall's official jam (no, really, it was even playing in a super hipster Brooklyn club last weekend), Cee-lo Green's "F**ck You," officially has a video. Just last week, a stripped-down video featuring merely the song's lyrics officially went viral...
Next week, Apple will launch Game Center for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The app and platform will allow video game players to track one another's achievements, create multiplayer matches and discover new games. The features are comparable to thos...
The other week we called upon you, gentle readers, to create a parody commercial for the Snazzy Napper -- or Snuggie 2.0, as we have dubbed it. Although three of you stepped forward to assume to mantle of director, veritable Scorseses of schlock, in ...
Selecting the right wine for every occasion is a form of art most of us only pretend to understand. That's why Lion Nathan Wine Group, a wine owner and importer, has put QR codes on wine bottles to help everyday wine buyers make better selections. Ce...
At Apple's special event today, the company announced a redesigned and re-formulated Apple TV. As expected, the new device comes with support for Netflix, streams content and offers affordable rental pricing for TV shows. The new Apple TV will be ava...
Documentary filmmaker Simon Klose has more than 200 hours of unedited footage that he plans turn into a feature-length film, The Pirate Bay -- Away From Keyboard (TPB AFK). After years of documenting The Pirate Bay's legal proceedings, and taping num...
Microsoft has completed the development of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7. The mobile OS has reached the release to manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced today. All that remains now is for networks and manufacturers to work on the final i...
As expected, a massive upgrade to the iPod touch was announced earlier today at Apple's special event. Although the most outwardly impressive revisions come by way of front and rear facing cameras and the retina display, perhaps more significant was ...
In the debate between the old version of Digg and the new Digg, the readers have spoken. Last week, Digg launched version 4.0 of the popular social news website. It's been a rocky road pre-launch, so why would it be any different post-launch? Since t...
