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GigaOM reports that Verizon has unleashed an iPad app that will allow FiOS subscribers to watch live TV on their tablet devices. Verizon is set to launch this new app early next year, assuming all content partners fall in line. This comes shortly after the announcement that Verizon will broadcast the first NFL game on 3D [...]

According to Digitimes, smartphone shipments for 2010 will top 280 million units. This is 57% higher than in 2009. This bumps smartphones up to 20.3% share of the overall handset market according to Digitimes Research analyst Luke Lin. What’s more interesting is Android’s growth.
Android’s share of the worldwide smartphone market has risen from less than [...]

At GDC Europe, Google’s new game developer advocate Mark DeLoura and Chrome developer advocate Michael Mahemoff talked about Google’s app store and gaming within the Chrome browser. The Web store for Chrome is set to launch in October with a goal of making it simple to distribute, find, and monetize browser-based games.
The store itself works [...]

The BlackBerry Torch was supposed to be a step in the right direction for Research In Motion (RIM), who has experienced a dip in revenue over the past year. Despite a Torch media event to create buzz for their latest device, it seems it won’t be RIM’s savior. According to analysts at RBC Capital Markets [...]

You read that right. Lycos, the search portal from about a decade ago, is apparently still alive and kicking. Today, they were sold by Daum Communications of Korea to Ybrant Digital of India for about $36 million. Daum initially purchased Lycos for $95 million back in 2004. Before that, in 2000, Lycos was acquired by [...]

The New York Times reports rapidly growing online television and video site may be gearing up for an Initial Public Offering. According to “people briefed on the matter,” the offering could value the company at around $2 billion.
According to those involved, who shall remain anonymous as talks get underway, Hulu executives have already been discussing [...]

TweetDeck for Android is awesome so far. Not only is it extremely nice to look at, but it carries much of the burden of your social media life. It covers Twitter (and multiple Twitter accounts), Facebook, Google Buzz, and Foursquare. It’s one thing to say that an application covers multiple services and completely another when [...]

Google Launches Chrome to Phone and Voice Actions At their mobile event yesterday, Google launched two features for mobile that aim to make life easier and illustrate the changing landscape of the web. Chrome to Phone and Voice Actions both enhance and extend your mobile device. Chrome to Phone makes it easy to shift things from [...]

Facebook is set to launch an official live streaming video channel called Facebook Live. Today at 3PM PST (6PM EST), actress America Ferrera will visit Facebook headquarters and use Facebook Live to talk about her new movie, “The Dry Land,” a Sundance Film Festival entry.
The new Facebook Live channel will incorporate Facebook’s real-time Live Feed [...]

Our phones are capable of doing so many things, many of which we haven’t a clue about because we haven’t worked that out yet. If we really sat down and thought about how hard it is to execute some of the simplest things on our phones, we might be amazed. In order to simplify how [...]

Twitter is set to release a set of buttons for web publishers that will make it easy for visitors to share content on Twitter. The buttons are simple to install, just copy/paste a single line of code. You can choose a Javascript version, an iFrame, or a custom setup. They come in 3 different sizes: [...]

After just announcing a partnership with Comcast called DVDsByMail, which gives Comcast customers a discount on renting Blockbuster’s 95,000 movie titles and TV shows through Blockbuster’s Netflix-like “by-mail” service, Blockbuster has just launched a game rental service that Gamefly should be worried about.
The landscape of the consumer entertainment industry seems to be constantly changing. Netflix [...]

Twitter recently began testing their User Streams API. This is the full real-time Twitter fire hose pointed directly in your face. If you follow a decent number of people, the batch method that Twitter now offers becomes quite annoying. While you’re looking at one tweet, 300 new ones instantly bury it. Don’t bother, you aren’t going [...]

In a deal that is sure to shake up the world of premium TV, Netflix has signed a deal that will give them exclusive access to stream Epix content on its pay service. Netflix may start streaming titles from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM on September 1st. The specifics haven’t yet been disclosed, but the LA [...]

The highly anticipated Motorola Droid 2 handset from Verizon may be coming sooner than you think. An Engadget reader from NC noticed his local Best Buy displaying Motorola Droid 2 dummy phones. The pricing information showed the phones running at $199 or $599 without a contract. This is pretty typical for phones of this caliber, [...]