Tag: DOWNLOAD

Cell phone providers are scrambling to offer customers the speediest connection, and while every provider claims it's the fastest, PCMag recently decided to put our wireless overlords to the test. Using custom-designed software and people based in 18 U.S. cities, the magazine tested speeds from AT&T, Cricket, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint 3G and Sprint 4G to find out which was the fastest ...

Smartphone users today have access to an unimaginably wide array of mobile apps, providing solutions for even the most obscure of consumer demands. Yet, when it comes to global popularity, Facebook and Google seem to rule the roost. The Nielsen Company recently conducted a survey of more than 4,200 people who had downloaded an app in the 30 days prior to the study, and Facebook reigns as the ...

Mac users have been licking their chops in anticipation of Valve's Steam service for ages, and the online game download service finally went live today for Mac OS X users. According to Joystiq, Mac users can purchase 57 titles, including favorites like 'Portal,' 'The Dig' and 'Torchlight.' Over the coming weeks, Valve will release a new set of downloadable games each Wednesday. A new feature ...

Share In 2006, Bob St. Germain, of Dover, Massachusetts, renewed his family's wireless contract with Verizon. Little did he know, however, that the apparently innocuous decision would land him and his family in an epic, four-year dispute with the service provider. As it turned out, the terms of the new contract no longer allowed for free MP3 downloads, which were included as a promotional ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/twitter-forces-tweet-takedown-of-leaked-the-national-album/'; Jean Pierre Chigne, who runs his own music blog, recently published a post about 'High Violet,' the new album from The National that leaked last week. At the end of the post, he included a link to the album's Amazon pre-order page, as well as a link to MediaFire, where the song 'Afraid ...

Share What would you do if you picked up the phone and the voice on the other end said, "This is Steve Jobs from Apple?" Laugh, hang up, utter a choice word or two? All would be appropriate responses -- unless you happen to be 70-year-old Louie Sulcer. According to Rolling Stone, the grandfather from Woodstock, Georgia recently received a personal phone call from Jobs after he downloaded ...

For reasons we'll never totally understand, whenever Bono talks, people listen. Now, apparently bored with AIDS and world hunger, the Irish singer/humanitarian/know-it-all has turned his attention to another of the world's problems: illegal downloading. In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Bono tells the world how critical it is to better protect intellectual property online -- part of ...

When it comes to offering free digital music downloads, some previously antagonistic record labels might soon be singing a different tune. Who can you thank for this good fortune? Hulu -- yes, the free online video service -- or, at least, its advertising model. According to The New York Times, instead of paying for a song, users of FreeAllMusic.com will be able to download songs for free, so ...

Much like 'American Idol' in the U.S., Britain's 'The X Factor' is a phenomenon. While the winners might not endure (at least, we hope not), they're certainly selling plenty of records in the present. So what's the secret to stopping this vocal juggernaut and to bringing some credibility back to the charts? A guerrilla social networking campaign, of course. According to BBC News, Joe Morter, a ...

Back in July, a grad student from Providence named Joel Tenenbaum was ordered by a federal jury to pay four record companies $675,000 worth of damages for illegally downloading and sharing music, and to destroy all of his illegally obtained songs. In a memorandum (PDF) released on Monday, though, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner explained her reasoning for not ordering Tenenbaum to refrain from ...

While it won't work for all Flash videos (such as those from Hulu.com), the site vixy.net lets you quickly and freely download non-DRMed video from sources like YouTube. You can then easily upload the files to a phone or portable media player (e.g., iPod, Zune, etc). Simply copy the URL of the video you want to download, paste it into vixy.net, choose your preferred video format, and hit Start. ...

In their never-ending game of finger pointing, music executives have blamed everyone and everything under the sun for the industry's woes. But after learning about a new study from the U.K., the suits might have one less scapegoat, and a little more cause for concern. According to the Independent, a new poll commissioned by Demos, a U.K. think tank, found that people who admit to illegally ...

lose/lose from zach gage on Vimeo. Looking for a more exciting way to delete files from your computer other than simply dragging them into the trash bin? Game designer Zach Gage has created a space shooter that not only makes cleaning up your hard drive fun, but it makes the user ponder "choice and consequence, and by extension what it means to succeed or fail." Don't worry, 'Lose/Lose' isn't ...

Internet connection speeds are the modern day weather; conversations about upload speeds are just as common as comments about last night's thunderstorm. USA Today writes that a new report from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) reveals that broadband speeds are significantly faster in some areas than in others. The average download speed for the U.S., reports CWA, is 5.2 megabits per ...

It's time for a cyber celebration, folks. Mozilla's popular Firefox browser, which launched in 2002, reached the 1 billion download mark today, making the browser akin to McDonald's Big Mac in popularity. According to TechCrunch, Mozilla will mark the occasion by launching a new site, www.onebillionplusyou.com (going live on Monday), that will display photos and information about folks who love ...