Author: Daniel Cross

Hollywood studios are set to fight it out for the chance to produce a new film based on Michael Jackson’s groundbreaking Thriller video and song. Kenny Ortega, the High School Musical director who oversaw plans for Jackson’s ill-fated comeback tour and the film that chronicled rehearsals...

As if he wasn’t already too busy with Gorillaz, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, and some little group called Blur, Damon Albarn has formed a new band. Albarn has “three-quarters finished” the debut of a new, as yet unnamed group, which features Flea, Tony Allen and...

The Chemical Brothers are planning to make a Dubstep album. Yes you heard right. As the underground seems to move on from the genre the Chemical Brothers think they should enter it. Yahoo.com...

In what looks like a very good fit, location-based service WorkSnug is partnering with Skype to help mobile workers locate Skype Access-supported WiFi locations in coffee shops using its augmented reality app for iPhone. TechCrunch.com...

Speculation around Sony’s plans to launch a PlayStation-branded gaming smartphone are at fever pitch, following a series of leaked photos of the device. mobile-ent.biz...

In a new outdoor campaign across the UK for British singer Cheryl Cole, who has a new album coming out and a concert tour, fans who check into the billboard will be taken to her Facebook page and get a chance to win two free tickets...

Facebook tried to buy Foursquare, it didn’t work so they started their own geolocation service – Places. Now FB is adding more –  a big new suite of mobile features that includes, enhancements to Facebook Places that let businesses easily automate “deals” for when users...

The iPad made up 95 percent of the global tablet market during the third quarter of 2010, according to analysts at Strategy Analytics, though that will change as more players get into the market...

It’s nearly impossible for Sony to create a Playstation or PSP phone offering the same controls and same games as either device. Instead, Sony seems to be pushing for a different kind of mobile gaming altogether, using tablets and phones as the hardware for a...

Apple has made the decision to ship the new MacBook Airs without the Adobe Flash plug-in, and in future all Macs will be made this way. In tests it turns out that having Flash installed can cut the notebooks’ battery life by one third. That’s...