Tag: TIME

Over the weekend, as the rest of the country leaped forward to daylight savings time, many iPhone users were once again stuck in the past. Though some devices adjusted to the time difference with seamless elegance, plenty of other users reported glitches with their iPhone clocks. Some simply failed to advance, while others actually fell backward by an hour, putting their owners a full two hours ...

Time Inc. announced today that, starting Friday, it will begin selling digital subscriptions to Sports Illustrated, both for Android-powered smartphones and tablets, and on the Web. An annual subscription to print and digital versions of the magazine will cost $48 per year, and a monthly subscription to the weekly magazine can be purchased for $4.99 (the same price as just one issue of the iPad ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Person of the Year by Time magazine. Yep, Mark Zuckerberg. Not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Not imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Not even the Chilean miners. Mark Zuckerberg. Time's Lev Grossman wrote that Zuckerberg received the honor "[f]or connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for ...

Looking for the perfect wristwatch to complement your LSD-laced lifestyle? Still searching for a Christmas gift for your chronically late delivery guy? Look no further than Tokyoflash's new 'Wasted' LED watch -- a crunchy chronometer designed to simulate a chemically heightened, psychedelic state of mind (or so we're told). Priced at $85, this USB-rechargeable watch features a sleek plastic ...

According to a new comScore study, Web surfers spent about 41.1 million minutes on Facebook during the month of August, roughly equivalent to 9.9-percent of all time spent online. That total put the social network slightly ahead of Google, where, last month, users spent 39.8 million minutes (or 9.6-percent of their time). After being leapfrogged by Facebook during the month of July, Yahoo! ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Time, Inc. launched its 'Sports Illustrated' iPad app just last month, but Apple's stringent regulatory policies -- specifically the confusing subscription plans and recurring payments -- are already a source of much consternation with the publishing giant. [From: All Things Digital] Vietnam has implemented online gaming ...

Putting together a list of the best or worst of anything is always an arduous task. Some will agree, most won't, and many will be downright enraged with your selection. But that's also kind of the point. With this in mind, then, Time recently took it upon itself to put together an unranked list of the 50 worst inventions of all time, ranging "from the zany, to the dangerous, to the just plain ...

Timekeeping has moved past the simple stopwatch and thumb, and this year's Winter Games makes no exception. According to Wired, over 650 Omega employees and volunteers ensure that times and measurements are as accurate as possible, and the timing company spent six years prepping for Vancouver, refining and setting up the complex network of clocks and cameras essential to the competition. (Check ...

Clearly this is a plot by a shadow government to keep Barack Obama from taking office as long as possible. First they added an extra day to 2008 back in February, now the last day of December is being dragged out by an extra second, giving President Bush just that much more time in office. An international group of time-keepers are adding the second to the end of December 31st, and they claim ...

An unusual time piece was unveiled at Corpus Christi College, which is part of England's Cambridge University. By unusual, we mean that the clock cost approximately two million dollars, took seven years you to make, and was unveiled by none other than Cambridge professor Stephen Hawking. The clock, designed by John Taylor, is nearly four feet across, is gold plated, and comes equipped with, ...

We're not sure how much of an authority on gaming Time magazine is, but given that it's a respected news outlet, we think it carries a certain amount of weight when it says that 'Halo 3' is the best game of the year. "In one of the greatest years video gaming has ever seen, 'Halo 3' is the very best of the bunch," says Time's Lev Grossman, who thought the latest installment of the third-person ...

Alas, the march of time never stops. Only now it just got a little bit harder to tell exactly what time it actually is. Well, for some of us, anyway. That's because AT&T is finally putting out to pasture its so-called "POPCORN" time service, the automated system you could call any time of day to hear the robotic pre-recorded voice of a woman tell you the current time. It was called 'POP' ...

The BlackBerry turns the average employee in to an e-mail zombie. Work comes home and that little bad boy rarely leaves its owner's side. Yet, Research in Motion, the company behind Blackberry, has released a survey that claims s BlackBerry actually saves a person an hour a day. And if a corporation is saying it, it must be true. So, how can CrackBerry addicts make use of this new found hour a ...