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Marvel brings back free comic book promotion

Craig Lloyd — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:39:20 +0000

Remember last month when Marvel introduced a new promotion where you could download 700 first-issue comic books for free? Well, it obviously didn’t turn out too well — Marvel’s servers were slammed from the overwhelming demand from comic book enthusiasts. However, the company brought the promotion back, and hopefully they came better prepared this time

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DC Comics revives Smallville, in digital form at first

Mark Raby — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:26:06 +0000

After a 10-year run on television, the Smallville series, which tells the coming-of-age story of a young Superman, will continue on with an 11th season. But this time you’ll have to turn away from your TV and onto your iPad, Android tablet, or other preferred method of reading digital comics. The new e-comic series will

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SG Comics Presents: Apple Store 2.0

Rue Liu — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:29:16 +0000

The much hyped Apple Store 2.0 10th anniversary retail revamp didn’t quite deliver the magic and revolution folks were anticipating. The top secret operation was rumored to bring NFC-enabled registers, interactive iPad 2 signage, and even some ginormous sale among other endless possibilities. And although the use of the iPad 2 as new interactive product

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SG Comics Presents: Apple Eats Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Rue Liu — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:00:01 +0000

Last week’s Google I/O kicked off the first keynote with an image on the big screen of an adorable Android robot ready to swallow an apple, bringing laughter to the crowd of 5000 attendees. This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen shots taken at the bitten apple logo, which being an inanimate and already

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SG Comics Presents: AT&T’s 4G Marketing

Rue Liu — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:42:31 +0000

Last week, we had the launch of two more ’4G’ devices on the AT&T network, the HP Veer 4G and the Samsung Infuse 4G, which sparked new complaints about the carrier’s marketing strategy. Back at CES earlier this year, AT&T had already downgraded the term 4G to their “evolved” 3G network, but this past week,

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SG Comics Presents: PlayStation Network Outage

Rue Liu — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:16:38 +0000

The PlayStation Network outage looks to be resolved soon with the latest response from Sony stating that services will start coming back this week. Many PSN subscribers were upset with the situation, both frustrated at Sony’s delay in response and at the hackers responsible. However, many couldn’t help but aim their anger at Sony, with

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SG Comics Presents: Cisco Flip Meeting

Rue Liu — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:00:36 +0000

Last week Cisco announced that it was shutting down its Flip video camera business that it bought just two years ago from Pure Digital for $590 million dollars. It was their bid to tackle the consumer market, a segment that is apparently beyond their expertise. There are many reasons behind their decision. The product had

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SG Comics Presents: Google & CNN Face Recognition Interview

Rue Liu — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:50:04 +0000

Last week we had an episode that seemed almost like an April Fools prank between Google and CNN. You would think that these two big shots wouldn’t run into such a PR problem. CNN may have been a little too enthusiastic on their reporting claiming Google was busy at work developing a facial recognition app,

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SG Comics Presents: AT&T and T-Mobile

Rue Liu — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:00:42 +0000

AT&T made a big announcement this past weekend—on a Sunday of all days. The carrier has committed to purchasing T-Mobile for $39 billion, a deal that will take 12 months to complete. The acquisition is said to help more quickly expand AT&T’s LTE network coverage. But merging the two largest GSM carriers in the US,

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SG Comics Presents: NYC Apple iPad Lines

Rue Liu — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:13:25 +0000

The Apple iPad 2 started selling last Friday, March 11th to massive lines at major flagship Apple Stores. One NYC woman was able to sell her first place spot in line for $900. This could become an interesting trend for future Apple product launches…

SG Comics Presents: ‘Winning’ News

Rue Liu — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:07:04 +0000

We had a flood of Apple news last week, but what seemed to be “winning” news in mainstream media was an awful lot of Charlie Sheen. After a slew of crazy and offensive antics over the past few weeks including anti-semitic slurs, hookers, drugs, and getting fired off of “Two and a Half Men,” the

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SG Comics Presents: Updates Gone Wrong

Rue Liu — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:44:57 +0000

Several devices are finally getting their updates for Android 2.2 Froyo that will be rolled out in batches over-the-air. But with all updates, there’s always a chance of firmware issues wrecking your phone. So be sure to backup first. Sprint last week announced that they would be rolling out Froyo updates for the Samsung Epic

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SG Comics Presents: Alpha Bird

Rue Liu — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:28:46 +0000

Twitter suspended UberTwitter and Twidroyd this past Friday for violations including trademark infringement and “changing the content of user’s Tweets in order to make money.” Although the suspension seemed to catch everyone by surprise, Twitter says that they’ve been warning Ubermedia–the company behind the two most popular 3rd-party Twitter apps–since April of last year. Considering

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SG Comics Presents: Survivor Mobile OS

Rue Liu — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:19:14 +0000

Mobile/tablet OS platforms are duking it out for survival as platform updates, new product launches, dubious alliances and speculations continue to brew. Android OS is increasingly dominating the marketplace, with Apple’s iOS attempting to regain momentum and stirring up the media with plenty of rumors. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Nokia’s Stephen Elop just made a

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SG Comics Presents: Verizon vs. AT&T

Rue Liu — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:10:47 +0000

With Verizon’s CDMA iPhone 4 already in some users’ hands, it’s full steam ahead for Apple’s smartphone. Figuring out whether AT&T or Verizon’s version is right for you, though, means you have to look where you’re going…

The Daily Slash: January 31 2011

Chris Burns — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:32:10 +0000

First let me tell you what you can have for free. Win a gigantic television, and there’s not much you’ve gotta do to grab it – SlashGear’s Final Football Matchup Toshiba TV GIVEAWAY! Next, have a peek at our Full Macworld Roundup including all of the Best in Show winners. Have yourself a read of

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SG Comics Presents: Angry Turds

Rue Liu — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:38:29 +0000

Game developers, Apps Genius Corp, recently released a new game called Angry Turds available now at the App Store. No joke, you get to be a monkey flinging poop, bananas, and coconuts at island invaders.