Who says corporate America doesn’t listen to the voices of the consumer? In response to consumer demand, Rovio announced via Facebook that Angry Birds plush toys are are gaining some new friends after the holiday season. Specifically, the birds themselves will be coming in new sizes. More importantly however, the Pigs will be joining the fray — big pigs, little pigs, and even pigs with cracked helmets. From the picture above we can also make out what looks...

Fans of the popular Flash-to-HTML crunching Skyfire browser on the iPhone (and many other platforms) will be happy to know that the Skyfire team is working on an iPad-specific version. At the time of writing, there aren’t many details to share. Ok, there aren’t any details to share. For a possible release date keep checking back. So far, my personal experience with Skyfire has been pretty good. The only hiccups were around launch day when the servers...

While Facebook was having their own play date with the media today, Twitter took it upon themselves to do some favors to the mobile world as well. Namely, the pretty pathetic Android Twitter app received a healthy update, bringing new features and a much more polished UI. The latest update weighs in at version 1.0.5 and goes something like this: Speed improvements Quote/Retweet option when hitting the retweet icon More streamlined timeline Tap a tweet to view...

Blunt? Perhaps. But it kinda-sorta feels like a Friday. What does that have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing. But that doesn’t matter. What does matter is not getting plastered by a truck when you’re rockin’ out to your beats and struttin’ your stuff through the city. It seems like a day doesn’t pass without some newspaper publicizing how some poor sap get his face reconstructed by a car because he couldn’t hear them coming,...

There’s always something liberating about sticking it to the man, whomever he may be. Going above and beyond false or real limitations feels good, plain and simple. On that note, after Apple showed off iMovie for iPhone, at least a few people were bummed that it wouldn’t run on anything except the iPhone 4. Choose for yourself if you’re going to believe Apple’s spin that “it doesn’t perform up to standards” on older 3GS hardware. ...