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Legacy Locker: Your last Web 2.0 experience.

Posted Mar 11, 2009 - 08:01 am

A new service offers to send your online usernames and passwords to loved ones after you die.
Blizzard making $2.5 million/hour on virtual pet

Posted Apr 15, 2010 - 09:28 pm

If customer reports are to be trusted, Blizzard is selling 100,000 of their new $25 Celestial Mount every hour.
The suspicious timing of the latest round of Xbox 720 leaks

Posted Nov 20, 2012 - 09:30 am

Sometimes you have to wonder just how gullible game magazine and website authors think we are.
Netflix ranks US ISP connection speeds.

Posted Dec 12, 2012 - 09:30 am

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Samsung's Galaxy Tab Android tablet is now official

Posted Sep 16, 2010 - 09:06 pm

At a media event tonight, Samsung introduced us to the Galaxy Tab and confirmed a lot of details that'd already been leaked.
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- Android, Samsung
Motorola Xoom sells only 100,000 units. Whose fault is that?

Posted Apr 07, 2011 - 07:33 am

I guess one of the downsides to being first-to-market with a new revision of a mobile operating system is how exposed it makes you. That's a lesson Motorola is learning, as yesterday the tech blogs were filled with the news that only about 100,000 Motorola Xoom tablets have been sold so far.
Ouya Kickstarter campaign ends tonight. $99 pledge gets you a launch system

Posted Aug 08, 2012 - 08:30 am

I probably should've written about Ouya before today, but the truth is I've been conflicted about the project. In case you've missed the buzz, Ouya is a Kickstarter-funded, Android-based gaming console.
Now they're saying the Xbox 720 won't have an optical drive. Don't you believe it!

Posted Mar 12, 2012 - 09:30 am

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Is FreedomPop's free Internet offer too good to be true?

Posted Mar 07, 2013 - 09:30 am

FreedomPop added a new Home Internet service this week. I've been using their mobile version and, for the most part, their offer is legit.
Hulu Plus coming to Xbox, Epix coming to various devices

Posted Apr 28, 2011 - 08:04 am

We know that Hulu Plus is headed to the Xbox 360 sometime this spring, but Joystiq is narrowing that window down to this Friday.
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- Epix, hulu

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