Spotify iOS app update brings 320kbps music to mobiles

Enjoying your Spotify tracks on the go just got a little better, at least on iOS, where an app update to v0.4.23 gifts users "very high quality" 320kbps music streaming (for Premium subscribers) and syncing, up from the previous max of 160kbps. Enabling the higher quality streams — though heavy listeners

Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ Turns 1 on a Friday: What’s Your Favorite Memory?

A year ago, Rebecca Black’s unforgettable viral tune “Friday” first appeared on YouTube. Since then, the massively autotuned “Fri…

7 Marketing Lessons From RIM’s Failures

You remember, don’t you? The emails magically appeared while you weren’t looking. That blinking light turned us into addicts. And that key…

Foursquare adds NFC support for Android 4.0, wants to touch base

We knew the folk at Foursquare had been trying NFC out for a while, and Symbian’s had it since November, but now tap check-ins are available for Android 4.0. Okay, so that means it’s pretty much limited to Galaxy Nexus owners at the minute, but the chosen few can now share their Venue, Lists, Me pages,

Saudi Journalist Arrested After Tweets About Prophet Muhammad

Twenty-three-year-old Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari has been arrested in Malaysia after sending out a series of controversial tweets about t…

‘This Message Will Self-Destruct’: One Shar.es Erases Data After Transmission

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Google to Get Scary With Anne Rice

Google has been known to celebrate authors and encourage educators to write books. It even made finding authors of articles easier by improving…

Motorola Droid 4 advertises 16GB internal storage, only reports 8GB — here’s why

After the numerous leaks that preceded the Droid 4′s launch, you’d think we’d have a handle on every detail (read the review here) but some day one buyers have one more question. While the spec sheets indicate 16GB of internal storage, a few readers noticed their units only report 8GB. So why the variance

Facebook post causes man to shoot daughter’s computer: video

If you’re a teenager, you better be careful what you post on Facebook. That’s especially true if you have a father who works in IT. But there’s that one quirk about teenagers – no matter what common sense says, they think they know better. That is, until they’re taught a

GameStop confirms will have PlayStation Vita midnight launch

If you absolutely have to be among the first to pick up Sony’s newest game device, head to GameStop. The retailer will be offering midnight launch events at locations throughout the country. Select stores will open at 11:00 PM on Tuesday night, then as the clock strikes midnight will begin giving