Sprint will no longer offer its hotspot customers a 5GB for $30 per month data plan, a move that’s undoubtedly based on the influx of iPhone users loading down its network.
The company is now giving subscribers two new, more …
Call of Duty fans have voiced a lot of concern about the daring leap to the future that Activision is taking with the 2025 time setting for the next version of the series.
When Activision released the official reveal trailer …
Facebook Timeline, the company’s most recent take on the profile page that attempts to capture and highlight a person’s significant life events, is having a life-altering moment of its own.
The social network is testing a tweaked Timeline design, first …
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[Update: This article was written for business readers. Due to an outcry from the responsive design community after this was published, I added the word "web" to the term "adaptive design" to avoid confusion with progressive enhancement, and …
Attention high school graduates with dreams of becoming a doctor: That’s a bad idea. Instead, become a plumber. You’ll make more money. If you think that sounds crazy, that’s because it is. But that’s precisely the message from noted investor and Libertarian Peter Thiel, who sees education as a liability rather than an asset.
Every year, my family looks forward to Maker Faire, a family-friendly celebration of DIY mayhem, with eager anticipation. But when venture capitalists get involved in the maker movement, you know something new is afoot.
One such VC is Brad Feld, …
BioWare Austin, a division of Electronic Arts (EA), is cutting staff.
Two of the more interesting companies on the mobile-development landscape are announcing a new deal for developers today, and will be making great tools for location-based apps available for free.
If you’re into mobile development, Appcelerator and Geoloqi are probably …
As the rise in texting-related car accidents has shown, there’s a big demand for technology that allows drivers to be connected without distracting them from the road.
Nuance, makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking, may just have that solution. Its new …
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Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph has a thing for rental startups. Today he is joining the board of Getable — a company making tablet payments a reality for rentals.
“I do a fair amount of angel investing. It’s natural that I …
Verizon is launching a new video search platform called Viewdini that will aggregate videos from a variety of different services for use on mobile devices, the company’s CEO Dan Mead said during a panel today at The Cable Show event.…
After a failed launch Saturday, SpaceX successfully launched a private unmanned spaceship early this morning on a mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX hopes replace now-retired American Space Shuttles with missions to space. Eventually the private company hopes to …
How exactly will Apple fit a larger screen into its next iPhone? If the latest rumor is true, it’s by making the display (and resolution) taller.
Apple is reportedly testing prototype phones with 3.95-inch displays, which are taller, but remain …
Google has finally closed its much-talked-about $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google CEO Larry Page announced today on the company’s blog.
“Motorola is a great American tech company that has driven the mobile revolution, with a track record of …
Building up to the summer games in London, the Olympics has partnered with Foursquare to bring fans and athletes closer together, almost literally.
The partnership means that fans will start to see a new badge connected to Olympics venues, as …
A new competitor has entered the action camera arena, and it just may dethrone the king of that market, GoPro’s Hero2 camera.
Ion Worldwide is today launching the Ion Air Pro, a camera for adrenaline junkies that’s lighter than the …
Trion Worlds’ Defiance is one of the most ambitious transmedia projects, a story that stretches across multiple media, ever made. Debuting in April 2013, the online game world is being jointly developed in tandem with a science fiction TV show …
YoYo Games has retrofitted an existing game engine to create GameMaker: Studio, a cross-platform development tool. It allows developers to create games easily and cheaply with a single programming code base. And they can publish the games to the web, …
Machinima has raised a fat $35 round of funding led by search engine giant Google, the company confirmed yesterday.
News of Machinima’s new funding first surfaced earlier this month. Google’s involvement marks the first time the company has spent money …
Online game company RocketFrog wants to revitalize virtual gambling by offering real-world prizes to players.
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