Friday, May 13, 2011

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Microsoft: Kinect titles to triple by year end, opens two more studios

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Microsoft is continuing to ride the Kinect train after reporting a great quarter due to the device. The [...] Related posts: Microsoft opens new studio focused on making ‘core’ Kinect games Kinect launch titles announced… Meh SOE cancels The Agency and closes three studios

Starhawk images leaked ahead of big reveal

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Its no secret that Lightbox Interactive is working on something big, as chronicled by studio president Dylan Jobe. It appears that the studio is getting ready [...] Related posts: Ex-Incognito boss reports progress of rumored Starhawk game Warkhawk dev drop hints about Starhawk, comments on PS3 memory Dead Space 2 first teaser trailer leaked accidently

How bin Laden emailed: with difficulty

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It’s difficult to email without an Internet connection. Unless you have a team of couriers willing to run around at your command. Osama bin Laden may be dead, or maybe not if you believe any of the conspiracy theories, but that doesn’t make him any less interesting of a subject. For example, how the hell [...]

iPod nano next: A spy’s best friend?

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Does the tiny, tiny touch screen iPod nano need a camera? Probably not, though the idea itself presents an interesting engineering problem and just having camera in such a small device carries with a certain level of cool — say, “cheesy snaps.” Taiwan’s Apple Pro (Google translation) is back with another [...] Related Posts: Will [...]

Google pits Android against Chrome

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Google, a company whose ability to focus is becoming more questionable by the day, used the two days of the Google I/O meet-up in San Francisco to flog two very different versions of the future. The search giant that wants to [...]

Marc Zuckerberg leaves Facebook

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As of yesterday morning, Mark S Zuckerberg was no longer a part of Facebook. Not only was the dismissal made without a moment’s warning, but the Facebook site itself no longer had any mention of Zuckerberg. It’s probably only fair at this stage to mention that Mark S Zuckerberg is a 48-year-old lawyer from Indianapolis. [...]

The Apprentice becomes the Apps-prentice

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Last night’s edition of the British version of The Apprentice featured the two teams being challenged to design and market mobile phone applications. Several lessons were learned, most notably that having a downright dreadful idea is not necessarily a barrier to [...]

Facebook, Google and privacy

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Google and Facebook, the two companies that have the most to gain by getting us to give them our data so that they can make money from it, have noticed that they are heading the same direction, which may start a war. Facebook's stake is pretty straightforward. They invent ways to lure you into giving [...]