Fans of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas have something to rejoice about, there will be another Johnny Depp/Hunter Thompson film. Looks like FilmDistrict is releasing The Rum Diary, based on Thompson’s 1998-released novel (but written much earlier) about a world-weary journalist who escapes the rat race of New York City to work in Puerto […]
IDC has predicted both that Android would keep its lead until 2015 and Windows Phone would overtake the iPhone for second place. Android would take 39.5 percent this year but gain only slightly to hit 45.4 percent four years later. Nokia’s Windows Phone switch would end up reversing its situation and Symbian’s predicted 20.9 percent share in […]
Apress today announced it has published The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed. With more than 10 billion apps downloaded from Apple’s iTunes App Store and approximately 15,000 new apps and updates submitted each week to the Apple app review team, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for new apps […]
Netflix, in its first signs of addressing a rapidly constricting audience, told Canadian users it was slimming down the bandwidth demands of its video service. By default, streaming in the country will now use a lower 300MB per hour bitrate that consumes two thirds less data but with “minimal impact” on the perceived image quality. […]
Amazon has unveiled its long rumored media locker. Cloud Drive gives users a way to store a minimum of 5GB of files on the web and access them from any Mac or PC. The company has a unique tie-in with Amazon MP3: any songs bought through the music store are saved to the Cloud Drive […]
AMC has announced that Season 5 of its popular hit Mad Men will appear in 2012. The official statement came from the network and said the following: “AMC has officially authorized production of season 5 of Mad Men, triggering our option with Lionsgate (Mad Men‘s production company),” reads the statement. “While we are getting a […]
BabyCenter today released its “21st Century Mobile Mom Report,” which revealed that mobile phones – and smartphones in particular – have become indispensible to moms, who are 18% more likely than average to have a smartphone. Overall adoption of smartphones among moms has risen 64% over the past two years, and 51% of moms say […]
Lenovo’s chief Yang Yuanqing in a presentation at the Chinese IT Leadership Summit revealed that the company already has a sequel to the LePad in development. He claimed that the new Android tablet had been developed almost side-by-side with the original in a distinct group and was due to ship in September or October, as […]
Verizon today began shipping some of the 4G data-only devices it showed at CES this year. The Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot is its first shipping LTE router and shares its speeds over an 802.11n Wi-Fi connection with as many as five devices, reverting to EVDO 3G if not in one of Verizon’s faster areas. […]
Mad Catz has recently pledged continued support for Teenage Cancer Trust, a UK charity which helps young people fight cancer. The company is auctioning two of its Rock Band Wireless Wooden Fender Stratocaster Guitar Controllers signed by the charity’s long standing patron and ‘The Who’ front man, Roger Daltrey, and band mate, Pete Townshend, with […]
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