Sure Steve & Co. has the App Store locked down to provide the best product experience possible — at least in their eyes. However, many popular websites offer mobile device compatible web apps that are now oftentimes on par, quality-wise, with native platform apps. Enter OpenAppMkt.com. A website, with an HTML app of their own, [...]

This is kind of surprising. A recent report, dubbed How libraries stack up: 2010 [PDF], by OCLC found that U.S. public libraries loan out 2.1 million videos every day. In contrast, according to the Hartford Courant, Netflix ships around 2 million DVDs, Redbox 1.4 million, and Blockbuster 1.2 million. The rise in popularity of [...]

I've been following Social TV development with great interesting, so it's fun to see new ways these services are bringing interactivity to passive TV watching. As of today, Miso users can check-in at QVC and earn points and receive a Q Shopper badge, as well as be privy to special daily discounts (I know foursquare [...]

It's been discovered that Research In Motion has taken ownership of the BlackPad.com domain. It was reported in April that RIM bought an unspecified number of 8.9-inch touchscreens from a supplier in China, which got the tablet rumor-mill going. Now it's anyone's guess if a BlackPad device is imminent — but it does seem more [...]

People following what Google TV is up to, and wondering how home users are going to interact with web content on their TVs, will be interested to know that Synaptics is on the case. The company has just announced that their working with Philips Home Control to integrate TouchPad technology into future remotes. The added tech [...]

Originally I was going to write a post on a cool new service called ZumoCast for Windows and Mac PCs that enables iPad owners to stream media files instantly from their home computer for playback without taking up any storage on their device. But then I got to thinking... there's something wrong here. 1. No one [...]

Talk about a device that you can't peg down into a particular category! If you ever wanted one box to handle all your home entertainment needs, the Monsoon Vulkano might just be it. The new set-top allows users to remotely watch live TV, change channels, view scheduled program listings, set recordings, stream/transfer recordings to mobile [...]

If the Magic Mouse isn't doing it for you, Apple is introducing the industrial strength Magic Trackpad. Apple says: "The Magic Trackpad brings the intuitive Multi-Touch gestures of Mac notebook trackpads to the desktop." Users will get full touch scrolling, pinch to zoom, swipe, rotate, etc. via the glass and aluminum Bluetooth peripheral. What's more, [...]