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Nintendo's Epic Fail Grabbing Copyright From Its YouTube Fans

You might think that Nintendo, beleaguered by falling revenues, minuscule profit and the almost-but-not-quite-failed launch of the Wii U, already has enough problems to worry about.

Geek Pride Day Is May 25: Here's How To Celebrate

Ready to embrace another arbitrary holiday - or just looking for an excuse to slack off and eat cake? Who isn"t?


This Saturday, May 25, is internationally known as Geek Pride Day. But, Pi Day and Star Wars Day already happened, you might be thinking.

News Flash! Tablets Are Not Smartphones

You probably already knew this, but a new report from Forrester wants to emphasize this seemingly obvious point: Tablets are not simply larger touchscreen smartphones.

Shazam's New iPad App Is Designed For Watching TV With A Tablet, Too

Shazam, an app best known for identifying songs playing around you, is making a big move into identifying all kinds of media playing around you.

Google App Engine Cuts Prices By One-Quarter

Google is reducing Datastore prices by up to 25%, according to an announcement on their Cloud Platform Blog. This price change impacts both App Engines HRD and the new Cloud Datastore introduced last week at I/O.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Saves Companies Money - But Could Cost Users Big

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with. But according to a new study from Cisco, that not be the best way to think about BYOD.

Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings

What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March?


Mostly working on new versions of the product - like an iPad version of the app, which is coming out Thursday morning on Apple's App Stor

Making Android Pay For Developers: Checking Out The New Tools In Google Play

This post is the second in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which we explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face trying to make money from Android apps.

Android Dramatically Extends Lead With Open Source Developers

Despite Google Android's long market-share rise against Apple iOS, developers continued to stick with iOS as their first deployment target. While Android offered superior volume, that volume was fragmented between different versions of the OS and disparate hardware.

Square Storms Japan

Square, the mobile payment service that has been making strong inroads within the North American retail sector, has announced the availability of its service in Japan.