Pure Music's Spotify challenging subscription service has been on the horizon now for a couple of months. The service has now gone live, offering users in the UK unlimited music streaming for a very reasonable £4.99 a month. There is also of course an Android application that goes along with the service. That's half the cost of a Spotify premium subscription, which at first glance is incredibly tempting. There are a couple of differences between [...]

Recently, Google has been busy beefing up Latitude to make it more competitive with other location apps — and more fun to use. Location history was added recently, iOS users can post check-ins via Latitude, and now Google has begun rolling out location-based deals which are tied to the service. If you’re in the U.S., you can now score local savings at participating merchants by checking in with Latitude. Google will also be offering “status [...]

Burrito Bison is a pretty simple game, but if you’re into gummy bears you might find it addictive. As you may have guessed from the name, you’re a bison (not a burrito, though). In the course of your day-to-day grocery shopping, you’re abducted into a bag of gummy bears, and must now fend for yourself. At the beginning of each round you launch yourself onto the marching gummy (gummi?) bears, while you’re being watched by [...]

Last January, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnston’s big idea: to make the first interactive marine science textbook. Frustrated by the experience, Johnston set out to create open source software to publish the book himself. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/flow-digital-textbooks/ Taryn Manning Tatiana Zavialova Taylor Swift

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — There were many laughs and some tears, but mostly the crowd switched between adoring focus and roaring applause at the Sundance Film Festival screening of Stacy Peralta?s newest skateboarding documentary, The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography at Salt Lake?s Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. The Bones Brigade was the skateboarding team [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/01/stacy-peralta-bones-brigade-documentary/ Samantha Mathis Samantha Morton Samantha Mumba

Acoording to a report by Reuters, Apple?s generous customer service may be causing huge problems for victims of iPhone theft. The warranty plan is tied to the iPhone and not the person who owns the phone; this means anyone can take an iPhone to an Apple Store for service or replacement. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/d4Ze4_6UsWI/story01.htm Melissa Howard Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Rycroft

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has plans to host a new TV show called “The World Tomorrow.” The half-hour weekly episodes are scheduled to begin airing in mid-March on Russia’s English-language RT channel. It will reach some 60 million global viewers. Assange sees the series as a vehicle to discuss the issues of the day with the people who are shaping the future. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/74265.html T.A.T.u. Talisa Soto Tamala Jones

Lately I’ve found myself more frequently irritated and dissatisfied with my Mac than ever before. This is a weird feeling, made all the more powerful by the fact that Mac OS X Lion is the most useful operating system ever. With a simple two-fingered swipe on my Magic Mouse, I can flick my entire screen to a whole new desktop view, and with a swipe in the other direction, go back. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/74273.html Raquel Alessi [...]

In new the documentary Me @the Zoo, directors Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch examine the lives of young people through the eyes of Chris Crocker, whose “Leave Britney Alone!” YouTube defense of pop star Britney Spears in 2007 made him the kind of internet famous that’s only been possible in the last seven years. Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/01/me-the-zoo-sundance/ Monica Bellucci Monica Keena Monica Potter

Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft’s wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today’s installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Windows App Store, which will likely feature prominently in Windows 8. We’ve got our doubts about the authenticity of the image. In addition to showing several of the built-in games which already ship with Windows, Opera is listed — and a competing browser seems like an odd [...]