What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing…

It’s a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry— OK Go just ditched EMI —and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age. “Change or Die” may sound like hyperbole, or an idle threat, but for the…

Even if you don’t own a PlayStation 3 , Heavy Rain is a game you should know because it re-imagines both videogames and movies, combining them into a new genre of Choose Your Own Adventure digital narrative. (Very minor spoilers ahead.) This is not to say Heavy Rain is perfect…

This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17 year old brother. According to Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph , twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th birthday. Like most young adults, they logged onto Facebook to check their walls and inboxes for birthday greetings. Instead of…

When the clock runs out on Super Bowl XLIV tomorrow, the Gatorade that gets dumped on the winning coach’s head will be one of three new sports drinks that the beverage company has debuted in Miami over the past week, the culmination of a marketing blitz that has made heavy use of social media and…

Like other substance addicts, tech-crazed geeks live in a state of denial. Let’s face it, if you’re reading Gizmodo, you’re probably addicted to technology to some degree. But just how addicted are you? Take this simple test to find out. Answer each of the 50 questions below and give yourself…

Publishers joining Apple’s iBooks store are turning their back on Amazon and its vision of the flat $9.99 ebook. Apple forced the music industry to charge 99 cents per song, so why are they helping publishers set their own prices? To screw Amazon. The difference between Amazon and Apple is this: Amazon is very much …

We wrote recently about how Dan Woolley used a medical app on his iPhone to help save his life after being trapped in the rubble after the Haiti earthquake. That program, the American Heart Association’s Pocket First Aid & CPR app [iTunes link], saw its sales skyrocket after the media coverage of…

Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X’s user interface . Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here’s why. If you are talking hardware, you can speculate about many different features . But …

Scouring the App Store for the best games is a full time job. Luckily, it’s a job held by the guys over at Touch Arcade . Here are their picks for the best games—and only games—available on the iPhone. While the App Store had clearly been a huge success in 2008, the continued growth …