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GeoDefense Swarm 1.0.5 (Mobile)

GeoDefense Swarm takes all the dizzying visuals, vexing challenges and addictive gameplay from the original, and changes the equation - instead of defeating creeps along a pre-defined path, geoDefense Swarm challenges you to use your creativity, building mazes for the creeps to navigate across obstacle-laden open levels.

Tags: Creep, Mobile, Critical Thought Games, GeoDefense Swarm, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-18

GeoDefense 1.1 (Mobile)

Something exciting and new in the Tower Defense genre! The geometric vector creeps are fast and intense. With 30 different maps, each its own puzzle, you'll have to work fast to keep up. Using exciting vectorized graphics, this highly kinetic games brings a whole new dimension to the Tower Defense....

Tags: Creep, Mobile, Critical Thought Games, Vector Creep, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-04-16

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Piracy and the Apple App Store

PiracyI'm curious as to how they discovered that 80%. I'm assuming (I know, bad idea) that they post the app on the app store (well, Apple does after reviewing it) and someone has to buy it in order to pirate it or is the App store itself broken into? If...

Tags: Games, piracy, game, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Apple's tablet UI patent unearthed

You really can't be serious...can you?From the looks of the graphic...the "touch screen" is going to be at least SIXTEEN INCHES wide.That makes it REAL convenient to carry around.That looks to beone awfully large tablet. I wonder if they will copy Microsoft's idea, and make a folding tablet?GraphicPatent application graphics...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Microsoft training materials teach Best Buy employees how Windows beats Linux

Just how many Linux machines are there at Best Buy?The last time I went in, I saw no Linux machines being sold at Best Buy.RE: Microsoft training materials teach Best Buy employees how Windows beats Linuxexactly ni Linux machines so why is MS trying so hard to push the GET...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, System76, training, Linux, Best Buy Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image files

Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image filesWow, lots of critical vulnerabilities in there!!I can't believe how many of these bugs allow for arbitrary code execution! Viewing an image file shouldn't result in arbitrary code execution.Oh well, at least they were fixed within nano seconds of the vulnerability popping...

Tags: Desktops, SECURITY, Patches, Apple Macintosh, Mac Attack, Apple Inc., vulnerability

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Critical Adobe Shockwave flaw affects millions

Critical Adobe Shockwave flaw affects millionsAnotherIt seems everytime I turn around now Adobe is having a critical flaw in one program or another. If it weren't for PDF files I think even acrobat would be gone.Windows Update...Microsoft should be working with Adobe to get this crap patched via Windows...

Tags: SECURITY, Patches, Adobe Shockwave flaw, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Shockwave, Shockwave, flaw

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

10 things you should look for in a netbook

Guest post: When you’re evaluating netbooks, you have to weigh the convenience of their small form factor against a variety of limitations. TechRepublic's Erik Eckel explains several key considerations that will help you find a suitable middle ground. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's 10 Things blog. ...

Tags: CPU, Netbook, CPU Detail, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-17

TWC defends tiered pricing, while one DSL provider is happy to pick up fleeing customers

TWC defends tiered pricing, while one DSL provider is happy to pick up fleeing customersThese caps in bandwidth usage are going to be a royal pain. And really I don't know why the online gaming community are not screaming about this yet. I am an avid gamer, and I would...

Tags: Pricing, Network technology, Broadband Internet, TWC, DSL company, DSL, pricing strategy, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu

This week, Comcast announced its OnDemand Online service, promising anywhere online access to Comcast programming (broadcast, basic and premium channels, etc.) for its customers. I sat down with Doug Sylvester, President and COO of TVN Entertainment, to talk about how Comcast's entry into the broadband video on-demand...

Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, TV, Cable, Programming, Hulu, TVN Entertainment, ZD, DS, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?

Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?they better get this rightif microsoft doesn't get this right, they will get an even more mud thrown at them and their image will be damaged beyond repair. vista has left a horrible taste in people mouth and crappy stores will only make it...

Tags: Operating systems, Monitors & displays, Advertising & Promotion, vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, photocopier

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin

Rearview madness and Wintel customer spinHyperthreading?Murph, could you explain the differences between real threading, the long abandoned hyperthreading used before multi-cores on intel chips and those new coolthreads?And maybe tell us why they are so desirable that you see intel go that way as well?Hyperthreading was essentially a poor-mans multicore...

Tags: Processors, Nicolas Carr, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., coolthread, HyperThreading, multi-core, Wintel

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy

On the surface, it would appear that a slowing economy might pave the way for increased Linux and Open Source software adoption by the unwashed masses, those who may want newer software than what their current XP system provides but don't want to pay the high...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Full Office functionality coming soon to the iPhone

Full Office functionality coming soon to the iPhoneBatteryApple can add all it wants to the iPhone but until something can be done about the horrbly short battery life other than frequent charging no business person in his/her right mind would consider it. Although I'm not a really heavy user...

Tags: Engineering, Microsoft Office, Apple iPhone, battery

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

New Facebook goes live, old Facebook dies

New Facebook goes live, old Facebook diesAlready used to it.What's the big deal? I'm already comfortable with the new interface... it's so very similar to the old I don't know what I'd even complain about...I'm just glad facebook pages don't look like all the crappy myspace pages.RE: New Facebook goes...

Tags: Social networking, WTF, NOW IT, Facebook, New Facebook, Friendster Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Virgin, RealMoney, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista

Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip VistaWhat's 7 going to have that Vista doesn't?If 7 is going to be a huge leap, then yes, I can see waiting for it to come out. But if it's the normal kind of leap that we're used to from...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-18