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Game innovations at GDC 09

Games enhanced by wind, vibration, and light, plus mind control and super-realistic motions. Check out the latest in game creation from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Tags: Innovation, Games, Personal Technology, News, game developers conference, gaming, xbox, ps3, wii, nintendo

Videos 2009-03-27

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Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Is NVIDIA dead?

RE: Is NVIDIA dead?Give me a break!Don't forget IntelThere have been rumors for some time that Intel was going to enter the discrete graphics card market, with cards designed to work with their processors and MB chipsets. Perhaps nVidia felt like the market is getting squeezed too much to...

Tags: Games, Video cards, NVidia Corp., game, graphics, Intel Corp., mid range

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google ink collaboration pact; Google Voice support on tap

Updated: Verizon Wireless and Google said Tuesday that they will partner to co-develop a bevy of Android-based devices. Verizon Wireless also said that it will tightly integrate its network with Google apps---including Google Voice. The terms of the deal Techmeme weren't disclosed, but the companies are looking...

Tags: Google Inc., Device, Collaboration, Partnership, Voice, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless, Android, Business Structures, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Adobe to acquire Omniture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'

Adobe Systems said Tuesday that it will acquire Omniture, which offers Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies, in a cash deal that's valued at about $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share of Omniture. That adds up to a premium of about 45 percent over Omniture's average closing price over the...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Verizon Wireless to developers: 'Our success is tied to you'

Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam pitched application developers on the company's strategy as it moves toward its 4G long-term evolution LTE network. Verizon Wireless, which put some meat on its developer plans, also said that its app marketplace will complement existing stores from platform partners. The goal: "Provide more applications than...

Tags: Developer, Verizon Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Wii MotionPlus

When Nintendo announced Wii MotionPlus at last year's E3 2008 press conference, it certainly raised a few eyebrows. First off, we wondered why this technology wasn't included in the original Wii remote to begin with. With the device debuting so late in the console's lifespan, would every game...

Tags: Games, trap door, Wii MotionPlus, Nintendo Wii, Wii Remote

Product reviews 2009-07-21

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

The Feds have been examining exclusive wireless carrier deals with handset makers---think AT&T and Apple---but the effort is a bit of a farce. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says it's laughable that the wireless industry is anticompetitive and the Feds don't have to worry about wrecking the wireless industry---Apple already has....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, Handset, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Customer Loyalty, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?

Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Dimdim's interactive tools: a game-changer in web conferencing

For what they are and what they do, services like GoToMeeting and WebEx have become critical business tools for conducting virtual meetings, especially during these days of scaled-back travel budgets. But there's always been some things about them that bothered me, notably having to run a third-party program on my...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Tool, Dimdim, Web Conferencing, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-15

WWDC 2009 live

It's that time again: the annual Apple World Wide Developer's Conference and its highly anticipated keynote address. Phil Schiller ran the show this year, and while he's no Steve Jobs most observers agree that he did a pretty good job. Highlights include a revamping of the MacBook Pro line, the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Video, Scott Forstall, iPhone OS 3.0, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Apple TV: Games and apps would be a tough way to gain traction

Like most 11-year-olds, my son loves playing video games on the Wii, the PlayStation and, yes, even on his iPod Touch. With that said, I don't know if he'd find anything appealing about playing the games he's downloaded from Apple's App Store on the living room big screen TV -...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple TV, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Gearing up for Apple's WWDC: Don't forget about the apps

There's always a lot of speculation leading up to Apple events - and this year's worldwide developer's conference, which kicks off Monday in San Francisco, is no exception. For some time now, the buzz around this year's WWDC has been around a larger screen iPod Touch think Tablet PC and...

Tags: WWDC, Apple Inc., App, Tablets, Apple Mac OS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Bring on Android for Ed Tech!

Bring on Android for Ed Tech!"but everybody uses Google."Sorry, Chris, but not everyone uses Google. From their very well documented spying, to their resource hogging desktop software, to their search engine that steers you to paid links and even malware infested sites, I have found Google to be a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., netbook, Ed Tech, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Bigfoot Network's Killer Xeno network interface cards are designed for online gamers

Bigfoot Networks targeted a niche, but growing, market segment when it released its network interface card NIC for gamers, appropriately called Killer, a couple of years back. Since then, gamers' demands for features like lag-free chatting have only increased, though so, too, has networking technology. So Bigfoot today announced at...

Tags: Network, Network Interface Card, Gamer, Bigfoot Network, Xeno Pro, Games, Networking, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Are iPhone 3.0 improvements enough to get you to buy an iPhone? They are for me

Are iPhone 3.0 improvements enough to get you to buy an iPhone? They are for mePeople like you keep saying that'user experience sucks' then never actually explain how or why.I guess it would be difficult, as I assume you have never used one. And it is much easier to...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3.0 improvement, iPhone 3.0, phone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blog

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blogNo Background apps...? Now they get to release the iPhone 4.0 service pack...with a new innovation... Multitasking! WOW. You mean like Windows Mobile and Blackberry have had forever? Just like the cut and paste nonsense.... Nice Service Pack...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Blogging, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3.0, live blog, Apple iPhone 3.0 event, MMS, blog

Discussion threads 2009-03-17