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Nov

ESPN rebrands ScoreCenter to SportsCenter


ESPN is doing away with the ScoreCenter name for its mobile app. Going forward we should look for the more traditional-sounding SportsSenter brand. According to TechCrunch, this is part of a consolidation of other apps that began nearly a year and a half ago. The SportsCenter app will continue…

21
Nov

Verizon now offering Samsung Galaxy S 4 mini and Galaxy S III mini


Verizon, for reasons unknown, has added both the Samsung Galaxy S 4 mini and Galaxy S III mini to its roster today.  The Galaxy S 4 mini is $99.99 (after $50 mail-in-rebate debit card) and the Galaxy S III mini is $49.99 (after $50 mail-in-rebate debit card); both require new…

21
Nov

The Hunger Games gets official endless runner in Panem Run


Channel your inner Katniss Everdeen in this increasingly popular method of gameplay Reliance Games today announced that an official mobile game for the upcoming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is out today. Called Hunger Games: Panem Runa, it’s the same endless runner style of game…

21
Nov

4chan Founder’s ‘DrawQuest’ App Now Available for the iPhone [iOS Blog]


DrawQuest, a social drawing app from 4chan founder Chris Poole (aka moot), is now available for download on the iPhone. First released in February of this year, the app was originally available only on the iPad.
We’re pleased to announce that DrawQuest is now available for iPhone and…

21
Nov

LaCie Adds 2TB Option to Its ‘Rugged’ Thunderbolt/USB 3.0 Portable Drives [Mac Blog]


LaCie has added a new entry to its Rugged series of portable storage drives, bringing a two terabyte 5400RPM option to its Thunderbolt/USB3 series.
Last year, LaCie rolled out its first portable Thunderbolt drives with a maximum of 1TB hard drive capacity.

LaCie announced that its…

21
Nov

Apple Continues Work on Liquidmetal Alloys for Use in Future Products


Apple is investigating the use of Liquidmetal alloys to create various product parts using injection molding and 3D printing, according to five patent applications the company filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2012. (via Patently Apple…

21
Nov

Pogoplug’s new Safeplug anonymizes all your home’s web browsing for $49


It’s easy to worry about internet privacy these days, but it can be a pain to set up a Tor connection that keeps the snoops and thieves at bay. Pogoplug wants to simplify the process with its newly available Safeplug adapter. The peripheral connec…

21
Nov

SkyDrive gets camera backups on iOS, Facebook previews on the web (video)


Windows Phone owners have long had the option of backing up their photos to SkyDrive, but Microsoft hasn’t extended that courtesy to other platforms so far. The company must be feeling a little more generous today, as it just introduced automatic …

21
Nov

ESPN renames ScoreCenter app to SportsCenter, adds a wealth of personalization


Say goodbye to ESPN’s ScoreCenter app. Don’t worry though, the sports broadcast network has renamed the popular mobile software SportsCenter alongside a redesign. The refresh brings video highlights, social functionality and personalized content t…

21
Nov

How the internet ruined game consoles


The time it took for my brother to get our new Super Nintendo out of the box and connected to our television couldn’t have been more than five minutes. I’m pretty sure we used the same coaxial cable connector that the NES before it used, though it…