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Bad news afoot for those of you with Blackberry devices, especially the Blackberry PlayBook, who were hoping that Netflix might actually be making its way to the devices soon. Netflix, responding to a user question on its Twitter feed, basically dashed all your hopes for good, asserting that Netflix doesn’t [...]

As you already know if you’re a Google services user, Google will consolidate all its privacy policies, more than 60 of them, into a single document starting with March 1. Google has already been sued in the U.S. for this initiative and it’s facing an investigation from European regulators, but [...]

A few weeks ago a wave of protests swept various European countries following the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA in short, a document that is similar in a way to SOPA and PIPA when it comes to the freedoms and liberties Internet users have. The protests were successful [...]

While mobile data usage is a hot button issue even in normal times, as “unlimited” gets proven out to be something of a half-truth and grandfathering isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, when it all goes completely down, then the story gets even more fiery. And that’s just what’s [...]

It must be tough to be Google right now, as the company is taking direct and indirect hits from its competitors on a daily basis. We’re not going to talk about an Apple patent-based victory against an Android device maker today, but we’re going to look at Google’s recent Safari [...]

Streaming video, ladies and gentlemen, seems to be the route we’re all going. I personally can’t wait for the day in which we’ll be able to watch what we want, whenever we want, and with minimal commercial interruption. And that day may be just a very, very tiny bit closer [...]

It’s been a long time since Apple last did anything in the way of design with iTunes, but now some reports are emerging that suggest Apple’s got some plans for iTunes coming, and they’re going to restructure the whole thing.

At this point, it’s possibly only a surprise to people who’ve never actually used the internet before that the Apple App Store is an extremely popular service that serves up a huge number of downloads every day. But what you may not know is just how big the App Store [...]

Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise doesn’t need any more introductions. Whether you own a smartphone or not you surely heard, and probably played, at least a few levels of Angry Birds by now. And if you did, then you understand why the game is a huge success. Rovio first launched Angry [...]

You’ve got to give the folks at Philips due credit for sheer chutzpah, as they recently announced their upcoming HMP2000. See, the HMP2000 is a set top box that’s going to try and capitalize on their recent smart TV push, and let them play in a sandbox formerly occupied by [...]