Dean’s top 10 picks for the best of CES
It’s never easy to pick the top 10 new products and technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This year, there were more than 20,000 products from 2,700 vendors across 1.8 million square feet of space. I saw every one of them. That’s right…. Continue Reading
CES: Mattel revamps web sites and launches digital toys
Digital toys and web sites for kids have had a mixed history. But the future is so full of techno-savvy kids that toy makers are finding they have no choice but to move into the digital realm by providing better online entertainment as well as… Continue Reading
F-A-I-L: Official Scrabble Facebook apps still smaller than Scrabulous was
This summer, board game makers Hasbro and Mattel forced the popular Facebook gaming application Scrabulous to shut down, claiming that it violated the companies’ copyrights on the crossword board game Scrabble. But nearly half a year later, the official Scrabble applications that Hasbro and Mattel… Continue Reading
Hasbro sues Scrabulous makers, after EA Scrabble enters beta
Hasbro dropped the long-expected hammer on Scrabulous today. The company sued the creators of the popular Facebook Scrabble knock-off, alleging copyright infringement.
The toy maker, which owns the Scrabble board game brand in the U.S. and Canada, also asked Facebook to take down the popular application… Continue Reading
Can Scrabble fight Scrabulous on Facebook?
Electronic Arts has taken many months to get its official Hasbro-licensed version of Scrabble onto the Web at Pogo.com and Facebook, but it’s launching the Pogo.com version today and will have the Facebook version out later this month. In the meantime, an unlicensed version of… Continue Reading