Archive for: January, 2011

Without Fanfare, Cablevision Starts Up Network DVR in the Bronx

Cablevision has now launched its DVR-Plus service in the Bronx in New York. It’s also available only to subscribers who opt for Cablevision’s Family Cable tier. The service will let users access recorded programs on the provider’s remote servers, with each having access to 160GB worth of storage. The service went live on January 18 […]

Crackle for Android Now Features 250 Hollywood Movies and 1,000+ TV Episodes

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Crackle now has more of full-length movies and TV shows which can be viewed on Android devices. The Crackle app launched in October 2010 with 34 movies and 600 television episodes. Due to the early success of this app, Crackle has dramatically expanded its already robust content offering to 250 movies and […]

English Mother Wins the $10,000 iTunes Card

Apple has announced that a mother from Kent in England has downloaded the 10 billionth app from the iTunes App Store. The winning app, Paper Glider, is a free app by Neon Play and was downloaded by the woman’s daughters. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Gail Davis joked that, “I have to confess it […]

Acer Plans to Grow Its Netbook Share While Others Leave the Field

Acer plans preserve its netbook sales by counting on other companies failing first, the company’s Taiwan president Scott Lin said on Monday to the Digitimes. As competitors drop out this year, its netbook shipments might actually go up and fill the vacuum. Lin told Digitimes that the netbook market was stable at over 30 million […]

Apple Hits 10 Billion App Store Downloads Mark – The Winner is?

Apple overnight said it had reached 10 billion downloads on the App Store. The milestone came a little over a week after the countdown began. Apple accumulate about 250 million downloads in just the past week alone. The company hasn’t yet said who has won the $10,000 iTunes gift card offered for the download or […]

Dr. King Comic Book Created by Rice University Student

A comic book about the life of Martin Luther King was given out to all Houston Independent School District elementary and middle school librarians. The comic is by Rice’s Ruchir Shah and published by EZ Comics, a nonprofit company he started while still in high school. The 19 year old Shah has big plans for […]

Jennifer Hudson’s Sophomore Album ‘I Remember Me’ Drops on March 22

Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson will release her highly anticipated sophomore album I Remember Me on March 22 on Arista Records. The album’s first single, “Where You At,” written and produced by R. Kelly, will hit the airwaves January 24 (a 30-second snippet can be heard now at www.jenniferhudson.com). The album is available […]

Waterstone’s 11 – Annual List of Hot Debut Authors

UK bookseller Waterstone’s announced its first annual list of 11 debut novelists expected to achieve critical and commercial success. “We aspire to make the Waterstone’s 11 one of the first major fixtures of the literary calendar, annually introducing our squad of authors en masse to the media, and supporting their titles as they are published,” Waterstone’s […]

Android 2.2 Update Now Shipping for Samsung Vibrant

On Friday, T-Mobile  started to download Android 2.2 to Samsung Vibrant owners. On top of the new features in Android 2.2 (Froyo) features, the update adds T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi calling app. Android 2.2 enables many more official Google apps as well as Voice Actions, storing apps on microSD and other extras. Not an Over the Air […]

Dead Space: Extraction Video Demo Using PlayStation Move

Sony’s Senior Social Media Specialist Rey Gutierrez has shared a video today spotlighting Dead Space: Extraction on PS3 with PlayStation Move. Hiding in the deepest corner of the galaxy — and in the vast recesses of your Dead Space 2: Limited Edition Blu-ray next Tuesday — you can find Dead Space 2’s maniacal cousin Dead Space:  […]

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