RIM’s Playbook app sideloading ban will not happen

After a huge media kerfuffle over Research in Motion’s proposed ban on Android app sideloading, the man who stirred the controversy in the first place is claiming that his previous comments were blown out of proportion. The company’s vice president of developer relations Alec Saunders blamed

Blog Comments Could Help Catch a Killer

A woman named Betty Wheeler was killed in a hit-and-run incident while she was out walking in Waynesboro, Virginia last week.
On Tuesday, the…

Nokia To Offer Software Fix, $100 Credit In The Wake Of Lumia 900 Data Woes

Microsoft and Nokia have a lot riding on the success of their flagship Lumia 900 Windows Phone, but the usual new gadget honeymoon has been cut short for more than a few unsatisfied customers. Shortly after devices started going home with their new owners, reports of dead data connections began appearing

WWE Pushes The Social TV Envelope At Wrestlemania 28

WrestleMania has transformed itself from a small wrestling event to an international media spectacle. In its 28th incarnation, held at the beginning of this month, there were no signs of it stopping.

The WWE did something unique last year – it announced the main event for Wrestlemania over a year in

Lost Your Phone? The Government Wants to Find it For You

If you’re one of the many cellphone owners who’ve ever left their mobile device behind at a crowded restaurant, packed bar or city-c…

NPD estimate points to $200 cable bill by 2020

In a study that potentially seems too forward-thinking to be useful, analyst group NPD has determined that eight years from now, the average cable or satellite TV bill will be $200 per household. In 2011, it was $86. Of course, there are viable questions about whether or not cable as we know it will

Apple publishes support page for Flashback malware, is working on a fix

After the Flashback / Flashfake Mac trojan was exposed by Russian site Dr. Web, Apple has finally responded by publishing a support page about the issue and promising a fix. If you haven’t heard by now, the malware exploits a flaw in the Java Virtual Machine, which Oracle pushed a fix for back in February,

Nokia makes Lumia 900 free to all AT&T customers, now through April 21st

Now through April 21st, any AT&T customer who purchases a Lumia 900 will receive a $100 rebate from Nokia — effectively making the device free. The move is ostensibly a goodwill gesture from the Finnish manufacturer, which confirmed that a small number of early Lumia 900 handsets shipped from the factory

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Becomes a Movie Character

Emmy Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will play a detective tracking a young Julian Assange in an upcoming film that focuses on the WikiLeaks found…

Archos Child Pad arrives at FCC, escapes drool-free

If our eyes don’t deceive us, that’s the Archos Child Pad that just arrived at the FCC. Now, we know what you’re thinking: any proper test of this tablet would require someone gnawing on the corners and drooling on the screen, but c’mon — this is the FCC we’re talking about. Curiously, the test documents