I’m a huge horror movie and game fan, so when I saw that the Dark Meadow was going to be released on Android as a THD title, I was pretty excited. We’ve been playing with the game on both the Asus Transformer Prime and the HTC One X and have walked away pretty impressed with…
Taptu app update adds Retina support, better syncing
We’re big fans of the Taptu social news reader and the app just received an update which brings multiple new features. In particular, the app now has support for the iPad Retina Display and it also sports a variety of new features. If you’re not familiar with Taptu, it allows you to “DJ” the news.…
MetroPCS ends quarter with 9.5 million subscribers
While AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon get most of the attention, MetroPCS has quietly carved out a sizable share of the market with its no contract approach. The company added 132,000 subscribers for its first quarter and it now has roughly 9.5 million subscribers. MetroPCS reported revenues of $1.2 billion for the first quarter and…
Square to process $5 billion in payments this year
Square, the cool mobile payment platform, is growing increasingly by the day, as the company just released some impressive stats. According to a Bloomberg report, Square is now processing $5 billion in annual payments (or around $416 million in payments per month), which is up from $4 billion in annual payments in March. Not bad…
Man offers to legally change his name to score a WWDC ticket
Tickets for Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference opened up yesterday, and quickly sold out within 2 hours, even at $1,600 a pop. The tickets went on sale at 5:45 am PST, selling out at 7:45 and leaving West Coast developers hoping to attend WWDC in the dark. Making matters worse, Apple does not allow…
LinkedIn comes to the iPad
After two years of not being apart of the iPad ecosystem, LinkedIn, the wildly popular social network for professionals, has finally made its way to the world’s most dominate tablet. This move was long overdue, sparingly, it’s a no brainer as the company acknowledged that 22 percent of its active members have been visiting on…
Verizon’s summer and fall smartphone lineup leaked
Verizon Wireless’s roadmap for handsets coming out late summer and early fall this year has leaked. The folks over at BGR got exclusive information about most, if not all of Big Red’s flagship smartphone releases for the remainder of 2012, as these devices should put a huge grin on the faces of Verizon customers. Lets…
Apple will decline in the post-Jobs era
Guess what people? Apple will decline after Steve Jobs’ death. This according to a Forrester post that highlights the theory of Sociologist Max Weber. Weber wrote a book over 60 years ago called Theory of Social and Economic Organization. In this book, the author talks about a typology of organizations that are lead by three…
Parks Associates: Most mobile subscribers won’t pay $50 a month for data
Research firm Parks Associates conducted a study and found that nearly two-thirds of American’s are unwilling to pay $50 per month for mobile data. Though this finding is fairly obvious, it’s an important one for carriers to hear. Personally, I hate how expensive mobile data plans are becoming, when rates for in-home internet are dropping…
Dear Nintendo: Now that you’re not making money anymore, it’s time to join the mobile industry
Nintendo has just posted their first operating loss. For a company that’s been chugging along since 1889, that’s rough. But there’s still hope. The Nintendo brand and all the characters that they’ve created over the years are still loved throughout the world. That being said, times have changed, and people don’t buy $50 games for…









