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An Onslaught of Tablets Coming This Year

sypeimmes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:22:53 +0000

You think the iPad will be the only tablet we’ll talk about in 2010? Not even close. According to Arm’s worldwide mobile computing ODM manager Roy Chen, we can expect as many as 50 tablets before the year’s end

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Tweet Defense – Fight Zombies With the Power of Twitter

Chaignaffitte — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:39:12 +0000

We’ve seen many, many iterations of the popular tower defense games over the years, but this one has a special meaning for all you Twitter fans out there.

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Tweet Defense – Fight Zombies With the Power of Twitter

Boomerang’s Offerwall crowdsources the best offers for social games

Jalsidsabinia — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:14:29 +0000

Offers have been a scandalous thing in the social game business. Critics have accused offer providers — which let you pay for a virtual good in a social game by filling out a special offer in lieu of a credit card payment — of running scams on consumers. So the idea from Boomerang Networks is clever and simple: let the consumers decide which offers are best.

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Boomerang’s Offerwall crowdsources the best offers for social games

Watching its football game metrics, EA is learning from social game creators

Unicjoync — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:47:48 +0000

Electronic Arts said today that it has learned some revealing information by closely studying the habits of its video game customers. In fact, the company is mining so much data in its hardcore football games, it reminds me of the playbook of social game startups like Zynga, which constantly revise based on customer preferences.

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Watching its football game metrics, EA is learning from social game creators

The Yahoo Cycling Team Is Going To Love This New Google Maps Feature

mrbarsasas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:44:18 +0000

Yahoo is backing a cycling team . I don’t know why — but they’re doing it. And today their passion got a little boost: from Google

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Impressions: Civilization V or ‘I Wanna Hex You Up’

Orgargike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:30:00 +0000

We already told you that Sid Meier’s Civilization IV was finally getting a sequel with Civilization V later this year, and then we showed you the trailer that contained absolutely no gameplay. But now we’ve actually seen an early build of the game, and we can tell you how hexy it is. That’s right, forget about old Civilization games which only had four cardinal directions to choose from when moving your units; this installment ramps that up to to six

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Quote Of The Day: MySpace Co-President? “Hell, Yeah”

nugFeasse — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:18:24 +0000

Jon [Miller] came to us and said, `Would you like to be co-presidents?’ We said, `Hell yeah.’ We didn’t have to move our desks,” – Former MySpace Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn’s reaction to the abrupt firing of his boss and his promotion to co-president of MySpace. CrunchBase Information Jason Hirschhorn MySpace Information provided by CrunchBase

Storage SaaS vendor RainStor lands $7.5. million in new funding

Neizroorb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:45 +0000

RainStor , a SaaS provider of software for storing structured data in an enterprise or in the cloud, today said it raised $7.5 million in second round funding. The company’s latest product, RainStor 3.5, was introduced in December 2009 and coincided with the six year old UK-based company’s entrance into the U.S. market, a name change from Clearpace and the opening of an office in San Francisco.

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Storage SaaS vendor RainStor lands $7.5. million in new funding

Hands-on: Mafia II

liainowbammow — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

It seems like almost a year ago that I first saw Mafia II .

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Interview: Mafia II producer Denby Grace

TuriToids — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Three delays later, Mafia II looks like it’s finally (finally!) getting ready to launch. It’s been a long journey, and we spoke with 2K senior producer Denby Grace during GDC about the development time and what we can expect from the ambitious crime saga: We’ve been waiting a very long time for this game haven’t we? Denby Grace, senior producer: The reason for the delay is polish

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Roundup: Cisco intros super-router, Foursquare unveils biz tools and more

AdamSS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:56:55 +0000

Cisco unveils super-router — Cisco Systems today launched a new large-scale core router with enough bandwidth to allow every Chinese citizen to place a video call over the internet at the same time, according to PC World’s Tech Inciter .

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There is a new King of Kong

LeonNY — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Sorry, it’s not a sequel to King of Kong , the documentary that showed the battle between ruthless Billy Mitchell and nice guy Steve Wiebe to become the world’s best Donkey Kong player. This is a new guy on the scene, 35-year-old plastic surgeon Hank Chien, who’s just taken the world record in the game according to Twin Galaxies with 1,061,700 points after a two-and-a-half-hour session. Chien says he expects that the honor will keep him “pelvis-deep in cocaine and highly desirable to sexual partners for all of my days.” Or at least we bet he was thinking that.

EA Sports Active 2.0 to get heartbeat sensors and online sharing (video)

ETZachary — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:24 +0000

Heartbeat sensors took center stage in Electronic Arts’ preview of its sports game line-up this evening at the Game Developers Conference . EA Sports Active 2.0 will debut this fall with a new kind of heartbeat monitor that you strap around your arms and one of your thighs. It measures your heart rate and sense your motions while you’re exercising

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EA Sports Active 2.0 to get heartbeat sensors and online sharing (video)

Comscore Study: Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency

uttedyJex — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:44:20 +0000

A new study by Comscore will be released on Wednesday that may give hope to social gaming startups trying to monetize users.

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Google launchs cloud-computing based Apps Marketplace

Alikossa Modleskiaa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:15:49 +0000

Perhaps one of the companies most prolifically embracing cloud-computing based technology, Google has just launched its Apps Marketplace , that will integrate with the Google Apps ecosystem and deliver products and services directly from the “cloud”. During tonight’s Google Campfire One developer event, the Apps Marketplace went live with 50 applications available from third-party vendors, and Google has stated that it will charge 3rd-party developers $100 for selling their applications in the marketplace. The marketplace also supports OpenID to provide a single sign-on for developers, and customers are allowed access through OAuth, the open standard for authorizing users.

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Former Baltimore mayor’s telltale Xbox 360 now on eBay

AdamSS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Here’s a bit of backstory for those of you who don’t follow the hot Baltimore news scoops: Sheila Dixon, once mayor of Baltimore , became the former mayor Baltimore after being indicted for embezzlement earlier this year.

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All six major studios on board for HD movies on Playstation Network

QINoe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:52:29 +0000

The Playstation platform has been getting quite a bit of love these days, coming off just yesterday from an optimistic industry analyst report that it’ll become the reigning force in the console wars. Today, Sony announced some more news; it has signed up all six major studios to deliver HD movies (purchases and rentals) on the Playstation Network

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MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future [INTERVIEW]

Aseessinas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:44:17 +0000

We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to how closely Hirschhorn and Jones are working together to create a unified vision of the future for the lately struggling MySpace, whose former CEO Owen Van Natta exited the company after only 9 months in the hot seat.

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MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future [INTERVIEW]

Cisco ushers in “next-generation internet”, routing platform scales up to 332 Tbps/s [Video]

misterlikolipsus — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:36:07 +0000

After a momentous announcement yesterday that it would unveil something today that would “forever change the internet”, Cisco has introduced its internet changer, the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. Let’s just say that it won’t quite change your world, but it’ll deliver your slice of the internet quite a bit faster. “The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, with up to 322 Terabits per second, which enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.” So it’s faster, but only by three times the speed.

The Secrets to Blogging Success (Minus the Secrets)

outlinual — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:32:53 +0000

This is a post by Glen who writes about viral marketing at ViperChill. He’s had a lot of public success with blogging over the last 18 months so wants to share some of the things he’s learned. At 16, I built my first ever blog.

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Will Wright on the Wii’s toy-like sensibilities

Cloubcutt — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:30:00 +0000

Speaking to IndustryGamers in a pre-GDC interview, industry veteran Will Wright shared his thoughts on the Wii and where it fits in the current video game market. According to Wright, the Wii offers an experience that is “clearly different than the Xbox or the PlayStation.” Specifically, he stated that the Wii differs from its console brothers in that it doesn’t generally cater to long, in depth experiences

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We Need Your Input

ikolevc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:19:00 +0000

As part of our 2010 election coverage, we’re about to release a completely updated and redesigned TPMPollTracker , with comprehensive poll data, interactive poll graphs and composite poll averages of every contested (federal and gubernatorial) race and major political question in the country. We plan to release the final version around the end of this month

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Phonebooth Free: An Alternative to Google Voice for Small Businesses

hocrarozibcix — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:15:08 +0000

In November, Phonebooth.com released the beta version of Phonebooth OnDemand, which is a full-featured phone service that lives in the cloud, but can communicate with both cellular phones and IP desk and conference phones. Today, that service — which costs $20 a month per user — is becoming generally available.

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Phonebooth Free: An Alternative to Google Voice for Small Businesses

In The SXSW Location War, Loopt Hopes The Correct Weapon Is Events

tersansa psihhlosasa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:11:03 +0000

With SXSW starting Friday in Austin, Texas, every location-based service out there is right now finalizing updates that they hope will be the one that gets them used more than all the others. Loopt , is betting on events integration.

Learn Viral Marketing with ViperChill

mrbarsasas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:06:16 +0000

Viral marketing is the art of getting others to spread your message for free. Whether it’s a tell a friend script or some kind of contest, viral marketing is something every blogger should learn.

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Bandwidth.com’s free phone system helps your business sound professional

Soroptofe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:19 +0000

Internet phone company Bandwidth.com just announced a service that could be a boon to new companies that don’t have an office, much less a phone system — Phonebooth Free .

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Impressions: True Crime

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

click to enlarge After a five-year hiatus, free-roaming felony franchise True Crime is set to return (sans subtitle) in Fall 2010.

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RUSE date a trick after all, release moved to June 8

TeceEnund — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:00 +0000

R.U.S.E. is quite a crafty game. It turns out that the recently revealed June 3 release date was nothing but a smoke screen for the real date.

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PSA: Portal guns are for trained professionals only

ikolevc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000

You know, we always thought GLaDOS ran the Portal simulation just so she could discover the true value of friendship , but it may really have been in the name of public service. In the video after the break — created by Freddie Wong, who you probably recognize from his ridiculous (and hilarious) Guitar Hero video — we get a glimpse at the likely ramifications of improper Portal gun training and how a few apathetic “friends” can ruin one of the most exciting experiences ever.

EA Sports Active 2.0 coming this fall to Wii, PS3 and iPhone

Kagsmedeonend — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:50:00 +0000

EA Sports’ “Season Opener” event at GDC contained one major announcement for the developer’s bevy of franchises: EA Sports Active will receive the sequel treatment this Fall with EA Sports Active 2.0 (working title), an updated version of the exergame for the PS3, Wii, iPhone and iPod Touch platforms. The console versions of the game will come equipped with two motion sensors and a heart rate monitor the player can strap to their arms and legs. User information in this new game can be shared over an online social network, allowing fellow players to keep track of how frequently you’ve been skipping out on your demanding workout regimen

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Flip’s Twisted World team spins a dev diary

TeceEnund — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:40:00 +0000

Flip’s Twisted World is a rare third party game that sets to do something original for the Wii.

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Google: We’ll ‘probably never’ build enterprise-only apps

Awassytit — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:39:51 +0000

Towards the end of Google’s developer event launching its new Apps Marketplace , Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard offered some perspective on how the marketplace fits into Google’s broader strategy for business apps. For one thing, it means the company can build fewer apps. Girouard said his team is often asked when they’re going to roll out additional apps — something for customer relationship management, for example, or expense reports or project management.

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Street Fighter IV available on iPhone tonight

Marrrgarritasszzza — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:13:00 +0000

Finally, your morbid curiosity about what it would be like to play Street Fighter on an iPhone can be satiated. At a Capcom Fight Club event, Capcom launched Street Fighter I V for iPhone as fans watched — which made for probably the most exciting iPhone game launch of all time. It’s not showing up on the App Store just yet — Capcom said it may take a couple of hours for the Apple servers to catch up — but sometime tonight, you’ll be able to swipe, swipe, swipe until you finally pull off a Hadouken.

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Final, glistening Super Street Fighter IV character revealed

SedefoUff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:10:00 +0000

Capcom has revealed the final new character for Super Street Fighter IV , and he’s … well, he’s a giant dude covered in oil.

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What’s next for Google’s Apps Marketplace — contextual gadgets and more

outlinual — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:02:45 +0000

A few hours before Google officially announced its Apps Marketplace , I had a chance to interview someone at Google and a partner company about the news. They offered more details, and also hinted at where the marketplace is going from here.

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Google Apps Marketplace: Instantly Connect Your App To 25 Million Users, Profit.

ideollove — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:31 +0000

Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless you’re one of the big players, the likelihood you’re going to succeed is pretty small

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Hands-on: The Path of Go (XBLA)

LymnDymnencut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Ready to frustrate yourself forever ? Learn the game of Go

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Hands-on: The Path of Go (XBLA)

Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Finds A Place In The Google Apps Marketplace

hocrarozibcix — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:59:26 +0000

Zoho, a web-based productivity suite that was called a “fake Office” by a Microsoft VP, is announcing a significant partnership with Google today.

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Appboy Gets a New Design, iPhone App and Best Buy Partnership

Aliko Malinnis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:48:31 +0000

Back in October we wrote about Appboy , a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications

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MetaLab Accuses Mozilla Of Plagiarizing Its Design

yourpharmacystoreonline — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:39:52 +0000

Andrew Wilkinson of MetaLab Design has just written a blog post accusing Mozilla of plagiarizing the design of its FlightDeck editor. To make matters worse, Wilkinson says that MetaLabs actually bid on creating the design for FlightDeck months ago, but was turned down by Mozilla.

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Naughty Dog artists go Unleashed

NoitaNurohirl — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:00 +0000

If you’re an artist lucky enough to work on one of the biggest games of last year, what do you do when you’re done?

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True Crime

ambicamessy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:20:21 +0000

Re-entering the highly competitive crime-filled sandbox genre made famous by Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, Activision today showed live gameplay footage of its re-boot entrée, True Crime, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. Many thought the series dead after a disappointing critical and fiscal second effort in 2006 with the second in the series, True Crime: New York. But Activision tapped United Front Games (ModRacers), which–with former employees from Radical Games (The Incredible Hulk), EA’s Need for Speed franchise, and Rockstar Games (GTA)–has been in development with its own unique software tools to generate the third-person perspective, Hong Kong-based game.

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Google launches a store for business apps

OFJames — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:15:10 +0000

Google is recruiting allies in its effort to win customers for Google Apps, its bundle of online office software. The search giant just announced a new service called the Google Apps Marketplace. As the name suggests, it’s an online store where third-party developers can sell their applications to the 25 million users of Google Apps.

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Tweet Defense shambles to iPhone

allehipspoupe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:15:00 +0000

Defend your eyeballs against some screens Promethium Marketing — formerly the Gamerscore Blog crew — has released Tweet Defense on the iPhone, a tower defense title that rewards players with bonuses for linking up and using their Twitter account.

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Google Launches the Google Apps Marketplace

huddyBladly — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:05:19 +0000

Today at the Google’s Campfire One event at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Internet search giant is launching its new app store for business, known as the Google Apps Marketplace . Last week, we broke the story of today’s Google Apps Marketplace launch . We learned that it would be an app store integrated within Google Apps that would allow 3rd party developers to sell software directly to Google’s business consumers

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Live: Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One

likossa odleski — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:04:54 +0000

Tonight, Google is hosting one of their Campfire One events at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. They’re using the event to launch their new Google Apps Marketplace. This is the app store that business applications can use to reach the more than 25 million people and 2 million business that use Google Apps for their domains

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Battlestar Galactica MMO announced (don’t get too frakkin’ excited)

uttedyJex — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0000

This is the type of news that just hurts to report: Battlestar Galactica is becoming — wait for it — a browser-based MMO. We know! It’s painful, right?

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TGS organizers announce plan to expand for 2010

likossa odleski — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:40:00 +0000

Attendees of Tokyo Game Show 2010 will have more to see and do — or, perhaps, more to wish they could see and do while they’re in line for a Final Fantasy demo. CESA announced several new additions to the show, which takes place September 16-19.

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So Far Yet to Go

liainowbammow — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:39:55 +0000

The Dems have hit a bit of an ethics and scandal rough patch of late. But let’s be honest.

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So Far Yet to Go

Amazon Wields $25 Gift Certificates To Pacify Frustrated Comic Book Fans

Kagsmedeonend — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:36:44 +0000

Over the last few days, a strange situation has been brewing between Amazon and a sizable number of comic book fans.

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