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We found out a few weeks ago that Rovio would be releasing Angry Birds cartoons. Now, today, the company added some more details to that news. According to a company announcement, "Rovio Entertainment is bringing its weekly Angry Birds Toons animated series to fans around the world, setting an industry first in launching a video distribution channel across all of
By now most of you have likely seen the viral video titled "How guys will use Google Glass", and if not, I have inserted it below. Now it seems that one public location has actually taken that seriously. A cafe in Seattle, Washington has announced a ban of Google Glass in advance of the device even being released. In successive
Last summer a Google security researcher announced he had found serious flaws in the Apple App Store. The company was serving up data over an unencrypted HTTP connection, leaving its customers open to attacks from anyone using the same public network. Six months later, the company finally flipped on the encryption. Elie Bursztein announced yesterday that "I am really happy that
SimCity has been mentioned quite a bit in blogs, news articles, and various forms of social media recently – for all the wrong reasons. EA, the makers of the game, have done an excellent job of finding ways to frustrate potential players. I haven't seen this much complaining about a game since the launch of Diablo III (which didn't have
Cars that suddenly start themselves might sound like something out of a novel by Stephen King. Its a creepy concept! Your car, a man made object that definitely is not sentient, somehow develops the ability to start itself and run its engine via unknown means. This is the type of thing one expects to see in scary movies, not in
You all know my long history on telling folks not to trust their most valuable asset their RSS feed to a third party. Tonight I once again cover the topic. I have a huge pile of tech news as well, I am headed back to Honolulu and will stream live The Morning Tech show on Sunday this weekend. Subscribe Today:
Perhaps we knew this day would come, but certainly not this soon. However, Adobe today released some statistics that claim that the day has come -- "Our latest Adobe Digital Index has revealed that global websites are now receiving more traffic from tablets than smartphones, with 8% and 7% of monthly page views respectably". In conducting the study, Adobe analyzed more than 100
Facebook introduced an update to News Feeds today. The idea behind News Feeds is to have a personal newspaper with all the content you are interested in one place. When it was first introduced according to Facebook, the News Feed was mostly text, with some images. Now News Feeds are primarily visual with images and videos becoming increasingly important. Facebook
While it has not been largely publicized, Amazon has a deal going on right now for Android customers and music lovers. The online retail giant is offering a trade-off -- buy an app and get a free song. The deal is not exactly temporary either. It began back on February 13, 2013 and will run through December 31, 2013. Customers need
Users of Evernote were recently sent an email that said that the company had decided to implement a password reset. It required 50 million users to reset their passwords. Why? The answer is the usual one when a company urges users to change their passwords – Evernote got hacked over the weekend. This explains the difficulties that my husband and
This morning Roku unveiled its brand new Roku 3 box. This is the first update to the Roku lineup in some time and there are quite a few changes with the Roku 3. The announcement calls it the "fastest, most powerful streaming player to-date". The new box, according to Roku's Jim Funk, is five times faster than previous versions. The
Memoto is a Swedish startup company that began as a Kickstarter project in 2012. They are the creators of the Memoto Lifelogging Camera. It is a tiny device that allows users to not only capture, but also share, whatever special moments of their life that they choose to. The idea was to make a camera that was small enough so
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