Barnes & Noble calls its entry-level e-reader the Nook Simple Touch, and to compete with Kindle and the like, the company just dropped the Simple Touch’s price down to $79 from $99 on Sunday. That’s $10 more than the basic Kindle, but the Paper White has a touchscreen, while the Kindle does not. Not that long ago, Barnes & Noble [...]
When Lost creator J.J. Abrams took over the Star Trek franchise and rebooted it with 2009′s conservatively named Star Trek, he brought back a bloated franchise that hadn’t made much cultural headway in about a decade. Now the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness is imminent (May 17, 2013 is the release date) and the first trailer is on the web. It’s dramatic, explosive, [...]
14 years after its original release on the PC platform, classic role-playing game forefather Baldur’s Gate has finally arrived on Apple’s iPad. The game was delayed several days in by bugs discovered in Apple’s authentication process even after the Windows desktop version became available, but it’s now in the Apple App Store. As long as you have an iPad 2 or [...]
Spotify held a big press event in New York today to make a whole slew of major announcements, the most notable of which is that Spotify is on the cusp of finally launching an Rdio-like web-based player, after months of requiring you to download software to play music from its service. The web player will let you stream the music [...]
When Apple removed YouTube and Google Maps from the iOS 6 software update for the iPhone and iPad, people weren’t thrilled. But even though those apps aren’t packaged with iOS devices by default anymore, Google is slowly catching up by releasing downloadable versions in the Apple App Store. This week, a version of the iOS YouTube that supports both the [...]
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