Did you just brave the lines of a midnight launch party and snag yourself a PS Vita in the US? Good news ye early adopters, Sony's PlayStation.Blog.US has just announced that select free apps will be available today as part of today's PlayStation Store update. Currently, you'll find Netflix, LiveTweet and Flickr, but there's still nary of trace of Facebook or Foursquare among the bunch (nor any official word on release dates for that matter). We gave each app a download and quick spin prior to t...

With Ubuntu for Android, you can effectively carry a desktop computer inside your pocket. Image: CanonicalCramming a desktop environment onto a smartphone is a fun project that promises very little actual usefulness. Smartphone screens are too small for desktop OSes, and connecting a keyboard and mouse is usually out of the question. But now Canonical’s Ubuntu for Android takes a different approach, surfacing the desktop OS only when it actually makes sense.Canonical announced today that it will...

The end is nigh! For about 59 different Google ToS documents at least. After today, the new consolidated privacy policy will go into effect, which will also consolidate much of your data across Google's properties. That means this is your last chance to clear out El Goog's "you archives" before the great convergence of 2012. If you're not keen on Google sharing your information between its various products (though, you seemed to be okay with it being collected in the first place) today is the da...

Experiencing some issues downloading those expense reports via your Verizon LTE device this morning? You're not alone. We've received reports of data outages in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pennsylvania and Ohio. We've reached out to VZW to find out what the issue is, and as soon as and we know more we'll post it right here. For now, let us know if your LTE is letting you down in the comments below.

A still from the animated film Yellow Submarine.You Can’t Buy Me Love, but that doesn’t mean you can’t buy that track and other songs from John, Paul, George and Ringo as ringtones on iTunes.Twenty-seven Beatles hits are available as ringtones through iTunes starting today. Each ringtone costs $1.29, and favorites include “Love Me Do,” “Ticket to Ride,” and “Yellow Submarine.”In a world where the iPhone’s standard Marimba chime seems to be the ringtone de rigueur, you might think that Beatles ri...