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The HTC Rhyme
The HTC Rhyme is something of a delicate matter, as it is HTC's firstphone that is said to have been designed with a female audience in mind. Yet it comes in dull colours and looks quite a lot like every other HTC handset we’ve seen so far.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Sword & Sworcery: The Most Anticipated iPad Game You've Never Heard Of
Nostalgia runs deep in today’s indie game development scene, from Minecraft’s blocky textures to the old school platformer escapades of Super Meat Boy. And when a developer combines those comforting “jaggies” with a new and truly unique experience, that’s when gamers begin to drool.This recipe is what first drew us to Sword & Sworcery, a forthcoming iOS adventure game from Superbrothers, an “ambiguously pluralized art and design organization in Toronto.” The project was made in conjunction...
Sword & Sworcery: The Most Anticipated iPad Game You've Never Heard Of
Nostalgia runs deep in today’s indie game development scene, from Minecraft’s blocky textures to the old school platformer escapades of Super Meat Boy. And when a developer combines those comforting “jaggies” with a new and truly unique experience, that’s when gamers begin to drool.This recipe is what first drew us to Sword & Sworcery, a forthcoming iOS adventure game from Superbrothers, an “ambiguously pluralized art and design organization in Toronto.” The project was made in conjunction...
Search Is Google’s Castle, Everything Else Is A Moat
Google is moving in many directions—mobile, browsers, productivity apps, operating systems, social. At first glance, it may seem like it is trying ever so hard to move beyond its giant one-trick pony: search. What people keep forgetting is that it is a pretty good trick. Benchmark Capital VC Bill Gurley reminds us how good this trick is in an excellent post that looks at Google’s market expansion strategy not as one of a series of aggressive offensives, but rather a highly defensive...
Self-strengthening nanocomposite gets stronger from repeated stress | KurzweilAI
Researchers at Rice University have created a synthetic material that gets stronger from repeated stress, much like the body strengthens bones and muscles after repeated workouts, says Pulickel Ajayan, professor of mechanical engineering, materials science, and chemistry.The researchers tested the high-cycle fatigue properties of a polymer-based nanocomposite with carbon nanotube fillers by infiltrating a forest of vertically aligned, multiwalled nanotubes with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), an inert, rubbery polymer. Repeatedly stressing the material...
7 Tips for Launching a Successful Podcast
Brian Casel is a web designer and co-host of Freelance Jam, the live web show for independent professionals who build the web. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam.Podcasts are among the oldest types of syndicated content on the web. Yet the format remains a popular choice among content producers looking to connect with a wide audience. Audio podcasts were the norm for many years, but video has taken the podcasting world to new heights.In this article, I’ll to walk you through the steps necessary...
MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft — Scobleizer
I’ve been watching the death spiral MySpace is in for a while. Back in December I interviewed CEO Mike Jones onstage at LeWeb. Back then I thought maybe MySpace could pull it out, but since then I’ve learned the MySpace “plane” that’s in a death spiral has increased its velocity — in the wrong direction. Since talking with Mike in December I’ve been asking people involved what went wrong and two common themes have evolved: 1. Their bet on Microsoft technology doomed them for a variety of reasons. 2. Their bet on Los Angeles accentuated...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
AidSlut « Tales From the Hood
AidSlut 23 Mar You know what? Weeks like this one really make me feel dirty. You wanna know why? Well, in a word, Japan. Okay, it takes more than one word. I have nothing against Japan per se. Here’s my issue: The Japan Earthquake-and-subsequent-tsunami emergency response fundraising CF. I don’t know a single actual aid worker who is in favor of mounting an international disaster response effort in Japan. And I’m not just saying that – we do talk to each other, across agency lines, about this kind of thing....
If Movie Posters Were Honest
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Google Chrome's Experimental New Tab Page for Touch Screens
10 comments: gab_gagnon said... It looks like the LaunchPad in Mac OS X Lion... March 20, 2011 10:02 AM Prashant Rohilla said... Its good, but i would like a bit Icon Effect on this! March 20, 2011 11:49 AM Andy L said... Great feature. Very, very useful! March 20, 2011 12:24 PM David Knowles said... Looks cool. Hopefully they will bring back...
A Tale of Two Future Net TVs, From Apple and Microsoft | Fast Company
Recent moves by two of the biggest names in tech may be shedding light on their plans for digitally connected televisions. Can Apple and Microsoft succeed where Google and Yahoo have already been?Microsoft's interactive TV businessMicrosoft's Tom Gibbons, a member of the Windows Phone team since 2009, and previously head of Microsoft Hardware business (makers of some very successful keyboards and mice) has recently been repurposed. His job title inside MS is now "corporate vice president of...
Does Google's Magazine Make It a Media Company? | Fast Company
Is Google a media company after all? David Carr, MediaBistro, and others think so. The most recent piece of evidence in the effort to out Google as a media giant in search (and advertising) monster's clothing is a magazine that has been "quietly" launched in the U.K. this week. The magazine, called Think Quarterly, has chosen "data" to be the subject of its first themed issue. The issue, which you can see online here, is elegantly designed by a group called "The Church of London." There's a...
Leadership Hall of Fame: Richard Florida, Author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" | Fast Company
What was the impetus for you to write The Rise of the Creative Class? I'd been a professor and been interested in cities all my life. Since I was a little boy growing up in New Jersey, watching Newark decline. I saw the racial riots--they really troubled me. I was interested in why this city where my dad worked in a factory; the factory closed; the neighborhood we lived in went up in flames; there were tanks, armor vehicles on the street and the National Guard. I think that had a big impact...
The Location of Every Single Nuclear Plant in the World | Fast Company
As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis slowly comes under control, global attention is turning to broader existential questions about nuclear power. Despite providing 6% of the world's power without emissions and fatalities from their nuclear facilities, countries like Germany and China have announced slow-downs to their nuclear programs, and other countries may soon follow.How is this going to affect nuclear power around the world? If we wanted to turn off all the nuclear plants, how...
OMG, FYI, and LOL enter Oxford English Dictionary, foreshadow the apocalypse -- Engadget
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Lockheed Martin shows off Orion spacecraft, new secret lair -- Engadget
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iRobot debuts 'throwable' 110 FirstLook robot -- Engadget
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How the Web Has Changed Our Perception of Copyright Law
Kaiser Wahab is a Media, Venture, and Tech Attorney at the NY firm of Wahab & Medenica, who loves to counsel a biz with something to say and thanks his intern, Lauren Mack, for her work on this piece. Read more on his blog or follow him on Twitter @BizMediaLaw.There is no doubt that in 2011, copyright law isn’t what it was in 1976. The web (and mobile) have all forced the aging statute to evolve in ways that were never anticipated in a world of digital everything.Only late last year, the Obama...
Microsoft readies tool for managing iPads, iPhones and Android devices
Filed under: Software, iOSMicrosoft readies tool for managing iPads, iPhones and Android devices by Chris Ward (RSS feed) on Mar 24th 2011 at 9:15AM Just when you thought you were out, Microsoft pulls you back in. The Seattle-based giant is planning on getting its hooks into your iPad and iPhone. Well, sort of. Microsoft has just announced a first beta of a new piece of management software, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012, which will let users manage iPads and...
It's a cake, it's Angry Birds, it's an Angry Birds cake - Pocket-lint
24 March 2011 16:14 GMT / By Rik Henderson Tweet It just wouldn't be right if Pocket-lint let a finely crafted Angry Birds cake slip past without presenting it for the whole world to oggle at. After all, it's one of our basic food groups here on the Lint. And this is one of the finest�specimens�in AB bakery that we've seen to date. Created to celebrate Croatian radio DJ Tome's (@dj_tome) birthday, and tweeted about...
