Redbox is known far and wide for its ubiquitous red kiosks, not to mention its $1-a-night DVD rental policy. But the video rental giant is—once again—tinkering with raising prices, with a new test in Portland, Ore. hiking the price for a night’s DVD rental to...
Here’s the thing when it comes to buying a new gadget: you’ll surely spot a better deal the moment you plunk down your cash, and yes—there’s always a newer, better model right around the corner. But now there’s a new online shopping service...
The president has had his own Twitter account for years, but until recently, our Commander in Chief left the actual tweeting to members of his communications staff. All that changed on Sunday, however, after POTUS fired off his first-ever, real-live tweet for...
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. It wasn’t all that long ago that Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the legendary BlackBerry, ruled the roost when it came to smartphones. But now RIM is hanging on for dear life, having suffered a one-two punch...
Those telltale Redbox DVD kiosks at your local supermarket aren’t just for movies anymore. Starting Friday—tomorrow—about 21,000 of the company’s 27,000 kiosks will be stocked with the latest Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 games, including such...
Apps, apps, and more apps—that’s what college students and their Mac-purchasing teachers can expect to get from Apple’s annual Back to School promotion. The deal kicks off today (Thursday, June 16) and runs through September 20, and any college student,...
Yep, this is getting a little nuts. Starting around 6 p.m. ET, the CIA.gov website slowly but surely ground to a halt, and the hacker group LulzSec—which just a day ago managed to sneak into the U.S. Senate website—is claiming responsibility. “Tango down –...
Picture this: a three-pound netbook with more than eight hours of battery life, but no hard drive. Instead, Google’s new line of cloud-based Chromebooks relies entirely on Google’s online services, such as Gmail, Google Documents, and Google Calendar, not...
A full 32 percent of streaming Netflix users—almost one in three—are mulling downgrading their cable or satellite TV service or cutting the cord altogether, according to a recent survey. Are you one of them? The new figures come courtesy of The Diffusion Group, which...
So says a recent report by the National Resources Defense Council, which found that pay-TV set-top boxes and digital-video recorders are costing U.S. consumers about $3 billion a year in energy bills. Why are DVRs and cable boxes so power hungry? Because most of them...
