Archive for: December, 2011

Kindle for iOS Gets Kindle Fire Magazines and Newspapers

Amazon has announced a major update of the Kindle iOS app, 2.9. The most important changes apply exclusively to the iPad, which now has access to the same magazines and newspapers available on the Kindle Fire. This includes over 400 publications, such as Men’s Health and Popular Science. People can either subscribe to content or […]

OnLive Player Now Fully Supports Xperia Play Gamepad

OnLive on Thursday night brought its live play free Android app to Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play. The already gaming-oriented phone can stream games and get full access to the physical gamepad, making it a much better fit for console and general action games. Gamers can now skip playing the touch-optimized adaptations if they prefer the […]

GoDaddy Rethinks SOPA Stance After Users Quit

GoDaddy in a statement backed off of its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act. The web domain registrar maintained that fighting piracy was important but decided that the backlash against it meant the company had to adjust its attitude. GoDaddy would only support SOPA if the broader Internet field did, and its very […]

Wahoo Blue Heart Rate Monitor Syncs with iPhone 4S

Wahoo Fitness has revealed some early details on its Blue HR smart heart rate monitor that pairs to smartphones using Bluetooth. It will officially be unveiled at CES, and will pair with Bluetooth smartphones and works natively with the iPhone 4S and its Bluetooth 4.0 support. It works with any health app and shows real-time […]

Intuit Will Update Quicken 2007 to Work on Lion

Quicken customers have reported receiving e-mails from Intuit promising a new effort to winning back disaffected Mac users, announcing a new solution to make Quicken 2007 Lion-compatible that will be delivered by “early spring” and saying that the company is expanding its Mac development team to better support Mac users, AppleInsider reports. Quicken 2007 worked […]

RIM Claims BlackBerry 10 Rumors Are ‘Inaccurate and Uninformed’

RIM responded to claims that BlackBerry 10 was far too unfinished with an outright rejection. It called the rumor “inaccurate and uninformed” and insisted on its official position, which was a need to wait on a new chip that could give it dual-core and LTE 4G. There was no alternate explanation, RIM suggested. “We will […]

Sprint Lets Good Customers Upgrade Before End of 2011

A sighting gave away clues that Sprint has been quietly rewarding loyal customers with early upgrades. Some Premier subscribers are being given a “targeted” offer that lets them get upgrade pricing early if they exercise the option before the end of 2011, SprintFeed said. It only applies to in-store offers and needs a check from […]

Sonos 3.6 Update Pulls Windows Media DRM – Better Spotify Support

Sonos has quietly put out an update for its Play and Bridge devices last week that unusually strips out features. The 3.6 update pulls support for copy-protected Windows Media files, leaving Zune Pass users and those still tied to mostly inactive PlaysForSure DRM stores without a way to stream their music to Sonos boxes. The […]

Rhapsody Passes the One Million Subscriber Mark

The Rhapsody streaming subscription music service, which has been around for 10 years, has just reached over one million paying subscribers. The growth also means Rhapsody president Jon Irwin kept his promise and shaved his head to commemorate the milestone. Just last year, Rhapsody was at 650,000 subscribers when it became an independent company. While […]

Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin Join Ender’s Game

The Ender’s Game cast looks to be just about finalized as Variety reports that Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin have officially signed on. Ford will play Colonel Hyram Graff, Steinfeld Petra Arkanian and Breslin Ender’s older sister, Valentine Wiggin. To be directed by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and based on the […]

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