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At the tail end of last week Sony found itself in the bullseye of gamer nerd rage again, this time because of a patent application uncovered by a forum user at NeoGAF.

I don't often cover Apple rumors these days; there are just so many of them, most of which turn out to be completely wrong. But this week we seem to be seeing some kind of consensus on at least one aspect of the next iPhone: a bigger screen.

It's hard to believe that E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is just two weeks away. Technically the show starts on June 5th, 2012 but June 4th is the day that Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts are all holding their press conferences.

Yesterday saw a lot of column inches devoted to NUads, a new advertising technology coming to us from Microsoft this spring. The basic gist of the system is that, by using Microsoft Kinect, advertisers can let viewers interact with TV ads.

A few months back, music streaming service Rdio launched a new interface for it's subscribers. As of yesterday evening free users will also have access to the new Rdio.

It'll be interesting to see how GoDaddy chief executive Bob Parsons handles the continued fallout from his recent "vacation" in Zimbabwe. Parsons is taking the kind of heat that in early February forced fashion icon Kenneth Cole to apologize after he lamely tried to use political violence in Egypt to hype his company's "spring collection."

Today Amazon launched its "Prime Instant Video" service. This is an additional feature added to Amazon's existing $79/year Prime service that offers free two-day shipping on many products.

In a future patch (firmware version 3.6), Sony is going to enable Playstation 3 game saves to be stored in the cloud. This information came to us via Kotaku last Friday.

iOS game developers are starting to move to Android, but the platform isn't nearly as homogeneous as iOS is, and Google recently cut the refund window from 24 hours to 15 minutes. That means some gamers are finding themselves with broken apps and no means to get their money back.

Last winter Android fans were all in a tizzy over the deluge of seemingly high quality Android tablets headed to market. Here we are in the midst of Holiday 2010 and...still there are (almost) no decent Android tablets! Are there any good choices? Will there be?

Last winter Android fans were all in a tizzy over the deluge of seemingly high quality Android tablets headed to market. Here we are in the midst of Holiday 2010 and...still there are (almost) no decent Android tablets! Are there any good choices? Will there be?

Hulu keeps improving the reach and value of its Hulu Plus service. This time it's a price drop, free trial offers and another streaming device supported. Of course there's still the issue of those pesky ads.