Archive for March, 2011 - Page 13

If you don’t have a girlfriend, you can at least pretend to have one and interact with “her” on social networks. A new startup, Cloud Girlfriend, will help you climb up the social ladder with a pretend girlfriend who talks back.

With the popularity of tablets and smartphones, Linux isn’t behind with the times, as some popular mobile OSes are actually based on Linux. But how about desktop-bound Linux distributions? Are these touchscreen-friendly?

US Cellular likes to pride themselves as treating their customers just a little bit better than the other carriers, and they have a treat for those using the Samsung Mesmerize on their network – an update to Android 2.2. The Samsung Mesmerize is US Cellular’s variant of the Samsung Galaxy [...]

Google promised us “Google Music“, a music streaming service, last year at Google I/O 2010. And hackers even got the service to kinda work earlier this year on an early version of Honeycomb. But, we may be getting close to the real release of Google Music as CENT reports that [...]

Sprint will no longer be offering mail-in rebates! “Hey, does that mean they’re canceling rebates?” No! As opposed to forcing customers to go through the hassle of mailing in a rebate along with 500 different proofs of purchase, the company is moving to “instant savings” for phones they want to [...]

It’s been a big week for Netflix streaming news. And now, here’s something else! Netflix is close to signing a deal with Miramax. That’s according to sources “familiar with the deal” who have talked to the Wall Street Journal. Miramax is a movie studio that was, until recently, owned by [...]

Only the most hardcore of Back To The Future fans will know this, but the actress that played Jennifer Parker (Marty’s girlfriend) changed between the first and second movie. Actress Claudia Wells portrayed Jennifer in the first movie, but dropped out of the sequels after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. The [...]

The ad-free version of Angry Birds Rio will be released as an Android exclusive via the Amazon App Store. Soon, though, webOS and Symbian versions will also be available.

The marathon-gaming fundraising do-gooders over at Extra Lives are at it again, this time playing Minecraft for 36 hours straight in order to raise money for the relief effort in Japan. The marathon is set to run all weekend, ending at some point on Sunday, March 27 (there’s no exact [...]

If you have Time Warner Cable as a cable provider, you know that with internet, a couple of DVRs and the HD package – your monthly bill can get kinda pricey. But, I’ve never seen a bill from TWC as high as $16,000,000. One man did. Lt. Daniel DeVirgilio, an [...]