If Buffy, Twilight, Trueblood and the collective Anne Rice novels have taught us anything, it’s that women dig vampires. To exploit the phenomenon, stay out of the sun and buy this couch. More »
Bad news: the first app to use in-app pricing in the App Store is a huge ripoff. Gokivo, is a $US1 turn-by-turn directions app. Want to actually use it? That’ll be $US1/minute, $US3/10 minutes or $US10/month. More »
This is bad. The prisoners have grabbed the keys. Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest producer of video games, is publicly threatening to abandon Sony’s PS3 and PSP platforms. More »
It’s been a while since a BlackBerry handset really stole the spotlight, with the new—and by all counts nice—BlackBerry Tour getting trampled underfoot by this month’s Palm and Apple news extravaganza. But appearances don’t do this situation justice: RIM is doing very well, reporting a 33% jump in profit this quarter, fuelled almost entirely by consumers, not businessfolk. [NYT]
We’ve seen other laptop stands with built in fans, but this one promises to only cool your computer’s hot spots. More »
From September, all new Sony Pictures Blu-ray discs will support MovieIQ, a service which grabs IMDB-esque data from the Internet to show during playback. How BD-Live hadn’t already been used to do something like this, I have no idea. More »
