If you’ve been waiting to pick up a 3GS iPhone, now may very well be the time. Retail giant Wal-Mart announced this morning that they will be selling the 16GB iPhone 3Gs for an unprecedented $97, a $102 price drop from its previous price point. The phone still requires customers to sign a 2-year contract [...]
SpaceKateGal confirmed last week that iPads are not allowed in Yankee Stadium. The device apparently falls into the laptop computers category as depicted below in the Stadium Security policies write up. The iPad rule is probably at least partly relevant to the MLB’s notoriously stingy copyright rules. The organization is famous for trying to pull [...]
disrupt on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference kicked off today and as I type 1,780 people are watching live. Click on the video above to tune in. You can also watch by following this link and participate with the #tcdisrupt hashtag. If you’re on a mobile device, you can tune in on your [...]
Google hit us hard at the I/O conference; they want to keep everyone buzzing about not only the Android, but the benevolent concept of open source. Google even keeps a a blog dedicated to the idea, but in a day when Facebook is revamping their privacy policy and Apple doesn’t say a word, how do [...]
iStoryTime and Dreamworks Animation have made so you can take a little piece of the newest Shrek movie Shrek Forever After off the big screen and onto your iPhone or iPad. The companies a have created an interactive “Shrek Forever After” storybook which tells the story of the blockbuster movie.? The book allows readers to [...]
Announced today in partnership with electronics giants Sony, Logitech and Intel, Google has unveiled a new product that aims to fully integrate television and the internet. It’s not the first time TV and the web have crossed paths, but Google believes that Google TV will be a big step forward for home entertainment; “Google TV [...]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned at Google’s I/O conference the past couple days, it’s that Google and Apple are still at each other’s throats in downright war. The Google I/O side of the battle started with snarly comments like “it turns out that on the internet, people use Flash” (Google VP of Engineering Vic [...]
While it’s already possible for indie writers to self-publish through Amazon, Barnes & Noble – the world’s biggest “physical” retailers – have just announced plans for a new self-publishing service called PubIt! The move is sure to fire up competition, with the service being accessible not just on B&N’s own Nook eReader, but also on [...]
Borders is set to challenge the Apple iPad, Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook with their own low cost e-reader, the new $149 Kobo. The Kobo, like the Kindle, is a light-weight device with a 6 inch monochrome e-ink display. This compares with the 9.7 inch full color display on the iPad, which can [...]
Following months of criticism from developers over Apple’s decision to shun Flash support from its mobile devices, Steve Jobs has hit-back at Adobe in an essay posted recently on the Apple website. Escalating the row between the two companies, Jobs stated that “Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers.” [...]
