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Sony Music not crazy about Amazon’s newly launched cloud services

Sony criticizes Amazon for launching its Cloud Player without obtaining the necessary music streaming licenses while the online retailer contends that such licensing is not needed in this case.
Mobile

EVE Online MMORPG demoed on Tegra 2-powered mobile devices

EVE Online developer CCP Games shows off a demo of its wildly popular space-based MMORPG running on NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered tablets and smartphones.
Gaming News
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Nintendo responds to reports of 3DS system failures

Some Nintendo 3DS owners have been experiencing system failures following the handheld's Sunday launch, and the video game company has responded with an official statement.
Gaming News

Amazon Cloud Player doesn’t play well with Mobile Safari for iOS

Amazon's newly released Cloud Player for Web appears to be blocked in Apple's Mobile Safari for iOS devices.
Tablets Mobile

Sony Ericsson to allow Xperia bootloader unlocks, with strings attached

Sony Ericsson will allow open-source mobile developers to unlock the four soon-to-be-released Xperia phones using a tool built into the Android software development kit.
Mobile

Netflix, Miramax close to signing five-year deal worth more than $100 million

Miramax and Netflix are reportedly nearing a deal worth more than $100 million which could bring the studio's 700+ catalog of films to the online movie rental service.
Computing News

Inception, Harry Potter come to Facebook in expanded Warner Bros partnership

Warner Bros. expands its streaming movie rentals partnership with Facebook, bringing five new offerings -- including Inception and two Harry Potter titles -- to the social network.
Computing News

iOS 5 may be getting a fall release, following WWDC cloud reveal

Rumors suggest that Apple will hold iOS 5 back for a fall launch, with an official reveal coming at June's WWDC along with the first details of the company's plans for cloud-based services for its devices.
Tablets Mobile

Nintendo 3DS launches in North America, pre-orders double the Wii’s

Nintendo launches its 3DS handheld in North America today, with more than double the number of pre-orders than there were for its Wii console, which launched in late-2006.
Gaming News

HSN confirms Nook Store, Android 2.2, Flash, push e-mail for Nook Color

Android 2.2, Adobe Flash support, push e-mail and an app store will upgrade Barnes & Noble's Nook Color e-reader to tablet status with a mid-April software update.
Mobile

Android getting in-app purchases next week

Google kicks off developer testing for Android's in-app purchasing, with plans to launch the feature for the public sometime next week.
Mobile

Nook Color to get Nook Store for apps, probably Flash support as well

Barnes & Noble's Nook Color e-reader/tablet is getting a Nook Store for apps and (probably) Adobe Flash support in April.
Mobile

Yahoo! Search Direct offers real-time ‘as you type’ search updates

Yahoo! unveils real-time "as you type" web search enhancement with Search Direct, which offers a twist on the competing Google Instant service.
Computing News

AMD to retire the ATI brand

Advanced Micro Devices confirms plans to retire the ATI branding on graphics processor releases, citing a higher consumer awareness of AMD.
Computing News

Chrome 11 beta arrives, introduces HTML5 voice interface

On the heels of Google's Chrome 10 release earlier this month, the initial beta of Chrome 11 is now available for download with built-in support for the HTML5 speech input API.
Computing News

Kindle e-book lending service Lendle has its API access restored by Amazon

Amazon restores Lendle's API access after the socially-oriented e-book lending service agrees to disable its Kindle Book Sync feature.
Computing News

Firefox 4 downloads top IE9 launch as Android and Maemo release candidates arrive

Mozilla puts out a Firefox 4 Mobile release candidate as its newly released desktop browser is adopted by more people on launch day than Microsoft's IE9 has after one week.
Mobile

BlackBerry Playbook priced at $500 and up, pre-orders now open for April 19 release

Research In Motion confirms pricing and an April 19 release date for its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as pre-orders open at Best Buy.
Tablets Mobile

Steve Jobs ordered to answer questions in iTunes-related antitrust case

A federal judge has ordered Apple CEO Steve Jobs to submit to questioning relating to a 2004 iPod software update which rendered content purchased from competing digital music store Harmony inoperable on the device.
Mobile

T-Mobile issues official statement on future iPhone availability

T-Mobile issues an official statement on the Apple iPhone and whether or not it is coming to the service before the change of ownership to AT&T officially happens next year.
Mobile

Nexus S 4G announced, Sprint and Google Voice numbers interchangeable without porting

Google reveals the Nexus S 4G phone for Sprint, which offers an unprecedented level of integration with Google Voice, allowing customers to use a phone number from either service across a network of phones without having to port anything.
Computing News

Sprint issues statement on AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile

Sprint Nextel issues a statement responding to the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile, laying out concerns about how the move will have an adverse effect on "innovation and robust competition."
Mobile News

Paul stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reenact Star Wars

Paul writers and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reenact a memorable scene from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Or they ATTEMPT to, at any rate.
Entertainment News

Facebook to acquire mobile app platform Snaptu

Facebook is set to acquire the developer of the mobile app platform for Snaptu, which brings a range of social networking apps and interfaces to feature phones.
Computing News

Archos reveals upcoming Gen 9 tablets for summer 2011 release

Archos reveals plans to launch its Gen 9 series of tablets in June of this year with specs that put it in line with Apple's newly released iPad 2.
Tablets Mobile

Paramount to use BitTorrent to freely distribute horror film The Tunnel

Paramount Pictures partners with Distracted Media to distribute the Australian horror movie The Tunnel over BitTorrent as a free download alongside a May 19 DVD release.
Entertainment News
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Call of Duty: Black Ops, Mass Effect 2 win top honors at UK’s BAFTAs

Mass Effect 2 is named Best Game at the BAFTA Video Games Awards, though Heavy Rain is the night's biggest winner.
Gaming News

RIM: turn off JavaScript on your BlackBerry

Research In Motion issues a security advisory recommending that all BlackBerry users disable JavaScript in their device's web browsers following the reveal of an exploit at last week's Pwn2Own contest.
Mobile News

Microsoft touts 2.35 million IE9 downloads in first 24 hours

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 web browser release gets 2.35 million downloads in its first 24 hours of availability.
Computing News

Obama administration pushing online privacy bill of rights

Acting on recommendations issued in a December report from the Commerce Department, the Obama administration will push Congress today to establish a "privacy bill of rights" to protect the personal data of Internet users.
Computing News

iOS game Doodle Jump downloaded 10 million times, getting Kinect, iPad versions

iOS App Store game <i>Doodle Jump</i> soars past the 10 million downloads mark as its developer, Lima Sky, announces upcoming iPad and Xbox Live Arcade versions.
Tablets Mobile

Twitter celebrates fifth birthday with one billion tweets per week

Twitter celebrates turning five with a list of usage stats, among them the revelation that the microblogging service now receives an average of more than one billion tweets each week
Computing News

Sony Ericsson ad for Xperia Play creeps you out with severed thumbs

A new ad for Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play phone will give you nightmares and leave you with no thumbs.
Mobile News

Adobe Flash Player has ‘critical’ security issue, won’t be addressed until next week

Adobe discovers a "critical" security issue in all versions of Flash Player, plus Acrobat and Reader. A fix is planned for release next week.
Computing News

iPad 2 graphics processor beats the competition in benchmarking tests

Apple's iPad 2 showed dramatically improved graphic performances over the first-gen iPad and Motorola's Xoom tablet in a series of benchmarking tests.
Tablets Mobile

AT&T to implement monthly data caps for high-speed Internet service

AT&T announces a new pricing structure with data caps and overage fees for at-home high-speed Internet subscribers.
Computing News

Japan faces nuclear meltdowns following last week’s tsunami

Japan faces nuclear meltdown risks following last week's tsunami, caused by a 9.0 (upgraded from 8.9) earthquake off the country's eastern coast.
Web News

Lost city of Atlantis may have been found in southern Spain

Atantis, the fabled lost island detailed in the writings of Plato, may have been discovered buried deep beneath the mud flats of southern Spain after falling victim to an ancient tsunami.
Web News
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