StyleHop, a new fashion startup launching today, is looking to help users pick out the best outfits of the season without having to wade through countless user reviews.
The site ranks outfits on a five star scale based on user input. But instead of using a Hot-Or-Notesque stream of outfits to gather ratings, StyleHop offers [...]

You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media.  It’s honestly quite difficult to top it every week. On the one hand, we bloviators have generally no compunctions re-using the [...]

There are only a few places around the world where the vice of art of consumerism is having a good day. Suffice it to say that the holiday season will be celebrated; it just won’t be full of so much…stuff. And maybe a bit less happiness to show for it, too.
So Scrooge wins this time [...]

The days of buying packaged software loaded onto CDs are numbered. Today, Microsoft quietly drove another nail into the coffin of packaged software by launching the Microsoft Store on the Web. After testing the software download store in Europe and Korea, Microsoft opened up its U.S. version today.
The store sells all [...]

Reuters - CDs come with booklets filled with liner notes, lyrics, photos and more. But a digital album or single comes with bupkis — an omission that started at the dawn of downloadable music.

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Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Apple, Shareware
It seems like the days of the family computer have come and gone already, and more and more people have their own individual computer to use. In my house, everyone over the age of 3 has one (plus a couple of extras), and keeping data synchronized amongst them [...]

Filed under: Audio, Google, Android
Buying music directly from the Amazon.com MP3 store is one of Android’s coolest features. Although it might not be the “killer feature” that some were hoping it would be, it offers a great way to get quality, DRM free music directly to your device. The only downside is that you have [...]

I don’t blame my fellow 20-something tech bambinos for striking the match that burned down our money-tree last week.  The VCs aren’t to blame either.
No, if you’re looking for an anthem for the web crash, Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” isn’t it.  Try instead, Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire. Better still, pick the [...]

Often, the court that hears your case can determine whether you win or lose. RealNetworks just improved its chances in a lawsuit against Hollywood studios over its recently launched RealDVD software. The software lets you rip DVDs to your computer so you can play movies from your hard drive or turn your PC [...]

This is a guest post written by Dave Sloan, Marketing Director of Avot Media. Avot Media is the innovator behind tipMotion, the high performance video transcoding and near-real-time streaming appliance enabling video delivery to Web-enabled mobile devices.
Social networking is quickly taking hold among mobile users. Juniper Research believes there will be as many as [...]