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Redbox Launching Video Game Rentals June 17th

Redbox Launching Video Game Rentals June 17th

Redbox already owns over 30% of the DVD rental market and now they’re ready to officially launch into video games.  Starting on June 17,2011 they’ll begin to offer video game rentals at over 21,000 location.  Games [...]

Flip Camcorders Are Dead, Long Live The Smartphone

Flip Camcorders Are Dead, Long Live The Smartphone

Say goodbye to Cisco’s line of Flip Camcorders.  Yesterday, the company announced that they would discontinue the production of their handy, pocket sized camcorders.  Their official statement is that  they “will exit aspects of its consumer [...]

Steve Jobs Official Biography Coming in 2012

Steve Jobs Official Biography Coming in 2012

Steve Jobs’ official, yes official, biography will hit retail shelves in early 2012.  It will be called iSteve: The Book of Jobs and will be published by Simon & Schuster.  What serparates this biography from past [...]

Dish Network Just Bought Blockbuster For $228 Million

Dish Network Just Bought Blockbuster For $228 Million

Dish Network just bought Blockbuster for $228 million in cash.  We can only assume that DirectTV is laughing their asses off, all the while scratching their heads. What the hell does Dish plan to do with [...]

Netflix Nabs Madmen, To Start Streaming April 27th

Netflix Nabs Madmen, To Start Streaming April 27th

For some reason we just couldn’t sign on to Jon Hamm’s performance in “The Town”.  But no matter, because Mad Men, the AMC TV show, will soon stream on Netflix.  The first four seasons will start [...]

Google’s Cloud Music Service Leaked, You Can Download It Now

Google’s Cloud Music Service Leaked, You Can Download It Now

Google ain’t taking the news of Amazon’s recently launched Cloud Music player sitting down. Today, a new version of Android’s Music app, analogous to that of the player found in Honeycomb, was accidentally leaked to developers. [...]

Netflix Caps Canadian Data Usage For Their Own Good, HD Streaming Is A Risk

Netflix Caps Canadian Data Usage For Their Own Good, HD Streaming Is A Risk

While broadband data caps have yet to hit all service providers it is a growing concerns, especially amongst Canadians.  As a result, Netflix today announced that “watching movies and TV shows streaming from Netflix will use [...]

Amazon Cloud Player Launches, Free Storage For Amazon MP3 Purchases And Limited Time 20GB Deal

Amazon Cloud Player Launches, Free Storage For Amazon MP3 Purchases And Limited Time 20GB Deal

We can’t tell you how long we’ve been hearing that Apple will soon launch a cloud based music service.  But who cares, because Amazon just launched their own, and there is no reason not to try [...]

120 Free WiFi HotSpots Coming To London’s Underground Before 2012 Olympics

120 Free WiFi HotSpots Coming To London’s Underground Before 2012 Olympics

Living in London has its fair share of problems, the which of least is their underground network of trains and stations.  But, as we’ve learned today, the city will soon roll out 120 FREE WiFi hotspots [...]

Netflix Streaming Takes A Hit, Starz Content Delayed By 90 Days

Netflix Streaming Takes A Hit, Starz Content Delayed By 90 Days

We’re huge, no strike that, massive fans of Netflix’s streaming service.  So large in fact that we dropped our cable company’s TV service in favor of the $8 a month service.  But now one of the [...]