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The Hollywoodization of gaming

The Hollywoodization of gamingThat is probably true...But there is a distinction to be drawn. The market you're talking about appears mostly to be the console market. That is an entirely different animal than the PC. Independant developers are pretty rare in console and are going to be...

Tags: Games, Console gaming, Independant Developer, game, console

Discussion threads 2005-05-24

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The five products Apple must make

What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Keyboards, Games, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Apple, iPhone, video games, tablet, Jo Best, Silicon.com

News items 2008-10-09

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...

Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery

News items 2008-10-09

Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop (again)

There are now several quad-core mobile workstations for work, but Asus is laying claim to the first quad-core laptop designed purely for play. This week it announced that the G71 "Republic of Gamers," a 17-inch gaming laptop, now offers Intel's new 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300....

Tags: Game, ASUS, Quad-core, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower

A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones

In a recent piece for Daring Fireball Jon Gruber writes: background processing is the one factor that unites the four dock apps. Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod all continue running in the background; no other apps, including those from Apple, do... ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Application, Backgrounder Extension, Wiki, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source

What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...

Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Eight ways to track your portfolio on the iPhone

In case you haven't been paying attention, U.S. financial markets are in a tailspin (Dow and AAPL both down 4 6+% today). Securities continue on their relentless roller coaster ride that could make veteran stock brokers lose their lunch. If you'd like to stay more in touch...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Stock, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Analysis, Google Finance, Investment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!

Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!Wrong title, MurphIt should be "IT N00bs at large in Canada" or something along those lines :)Also funny they switched to a windows server. "Oh, we understand windows, cause we use it at home! let's try that! Oh no use! Oh no, what...

Tags: Operating systems, data-processing, Murph, Linux, big success, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'

Speaking to developers in London, Steve Ballmer says Microsoft will announce a cloud-based operating system within a month--with a catchy new name. Microsoft will launch an operating system for the 'cloud' in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London....

Tags: Application, Operating System, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Ballmer, Microsoft, cloud, developer

News items 2008-10-03

Semantic guardians for our computers?

Semantic guardians for our computers?ActuallyNo, I built my PC's using components I selected that were manufactured here on good ol' terra firma. I don't experience crashes since I use Linux and am not afflicted with malware issues.Also I selected the hardware components and matched them. Maybe I am just lucky......

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Processors, Semantic Guardians, programmer, computer

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room

Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

14 ways IT screws up projects

14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...

Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge

Responding to a crescendo of criticism from the developer community, which saw books canceled, long time fans lose enthusiasm, and some calls for defections to Android, Apple finally relented Wednesday: We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement NDA for released iPhone software. ... The NDA has created too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Android, Tools & Techniques, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-10-02

SAS invests big in green tech for Cary campus

If you've ever been for a visit to software developer SAS in North Carolina, you already know that they have one of the most unique corporate campuses of any high-tech company with daycare, multiple fitness centers and a dry-cleaning facility all right on site. (They've also got their own television...

Tags: Green Technology, Farm, SAS Institute, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

PackVol Standard (exe)

PackVol is an optimization software for Load Planning, designed to plan the best space utilization inside containers, to help you reduce your transportation costs. It is an innovative software, which has some unique features not found in other programs of its category. Thanks to its advanced optimizer, truly tridimensional, the...

Tags: Onthefly Software, PackVol, Transportation

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Apple drops developer NDA

Apple drops developer NDASmart moveThat will keep Microsoft, who will never release anything for the iPhone, from ripping Apple off; while at the same time appeasing it's dedicated developers.RE: Apple drops developer NDABah Apple is afraid of Android.

Tags: Apple Inc., NDA, developer

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Apple drops iPhone developer NDA

Apple drops iPhone developer NDAAbandoning the Titanic?I know three small outfits that have almost completely dropped development of iPhone projects to jump on Android now that there's a real product. I'm sure many others are sick and tired of Apple's perpetual chokehold and want to move to a better situation.Planned...

Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., NDA, iPhone developer

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

iPhone + Lotus Notes = Opportunity + Annoyance

Maybe you saw the IBM announcement or the NY Times blog posting on it. iPhone now can run iNotes, a lightweight application for access to Lotus Notes email, calendaring, and contacts. But why the complex equation? Let me break it down for you: iPhone. IBM Lotus...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-10-01