Offbeat

In theory one of the benefits of buying your software digitally is getting it fast. In practice when the software is a 'full-sized' game that download can take quite a while. Sony is following in the footsteps of Steam with a work-around to get you into your new game as quickly as possible.

Back at SXSW streaming music service Rdio introduced a redesign to paying customers. Now free users have it, too.

The save icon is a floppy disk, now gone for years. Carbon copy for emails, and reel to reel tapes for voice mail icons. Why do we still use these?

Facebook may be enjoying its IPO roadshow at the moment, but out there lurks the company that will destroy the social networking giant.

On-demand car service provider Uber is offering on-demand Mariachi parties in San Francisco on Quatro de Mayo.

All of us have been in "PowerPoint Hell" at one time or another. A priest in Northern Ireland, however, has brought a whole new meaning to the term.

Pretty much any man-made flying contraption has to use wings, propellers, or a gas in some combination to achieve flight. Get ready to add "flipping inside-out" to the list.

Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame and his VC partners pledge half their personal earnings to charity.

Research has found that 11 percent of bachelors would rather get their hands on the recently released gadget than a new love interest.

In an update yesterday, game developer Warballoon explained what happened to the $36K they generated via Kickstarter. It's a cautionary tale about the cost of lawyers and gifts.

As the Web becomes increasingly social, more and more companies turn to Twitter to address problems that customers have with their products or services. After all, the last thing a company wants is for a Twitterer's minor problem to go viral across the Internet, just because the company didn't deal with the issue effectively when it had the chance.