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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Play Games Archive
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Fisher-Price iXL: E-book reader, music player, games, and more
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
Electronics for kids have always been a fascination of mine. When I first saw the iXL I immediately thought of the first and best piece of kids consumer electronics, the PXL-2000. Sadly, this device, the Fisher-Price iXL, has no camera - there are two little eyes on it that are actually light sensors - but it has a bright, crisp screen and can play games, MP3s, and you can even paint over photos or color things in like a coloring book.
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Microsoft to kill Xbox Live support for original Xbox games on April 15
Posted on February 5, 2010 | No CommentsMicrosoft will kill Xbox Live support for orignial Xbox games. Rumor has is that this is being done to increase the numbers of friends you can have on Xbox (360) Live. Right now it's at 100 people—a limit imposed by old Xbox architecture—, but clearly you need more.
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Separate Keitai: Meet Japan’s sexiest new handset (videos)
Posted on February 5, 2010 | No CommentsFor years, Japan was the innovation leader in the cell phone industry, until South Korea and the US started catching up rapidly. If you look back at what Nippon's mighty carriers have released in the past few months, you mainly see super-powerful handsets with large OLED screens, 12MP cameras, Blu-ray recorder connectivity, double digital TV tuners, etc. But the form factor never really changes, as the majority of Japanese consumers still demands clamshell phones with jog dials enabling them to conveniently thumb-text emails. But if a country churns out 100 different handsets per year, there have to be some exceptions. And the most notable exception (that now has been priced and dated) is Fujitsu's F-04B featuring the world's first separable two-module body.
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OLED board game pieces promise to take Carcassonne into the far future
Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
My buddy Lou tells this story: he was with his girlfriend at the time and he got a call from a couple they knew. They couple invited them over for "boardgames and wine" and Lou said "Sure." Then his girlfriend told him that they were not going over for boardgames and wine because, in that couple's special code, "boardgames and wine" as some sort of weird partner swapping game involving lots of booze.
Anyway, a professor at Queen's University in Ontario, Roel Vertegaal, showed off a concept board game that uses OLEDs on each piece, allowing you to play games like Settlers of Catan and Candyland with interactive aspects built right into the pieces.
Click through for a video.
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Yeah, Google, good luck trying to boss China around
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsWhat more can be said of this Google-China feud? Google wants to run its local search engine, google.cn, there without having to deal with Chinese censorship. China is like, really? Why should we give a damn what you want, Google? Google phones have been delayed, bitter words have been exchanged, and now Google's other, non-search activities in China may be threatened by its saber-rattling, to use a metaphor that's not really relevant. Here's a new one: Google v. China could be seen as yet another chapter in the expected United States of America v. China feud, one that could determine which country will be the top dog this century.
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The App Store Forgets It’s Not The Android Market, Temporarily Sells NES Emulator
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsAs stringent (and arguably overzealous) as Apple’s App review policy is, things still slip through the cracks from time to time. I mean, who can forget the infamous baby shaking simulator slip-up? The latest bit of contraband to hit the App Store isn’t nearly as offensive – that is, unless you’re Nintendo. Earlier today, an application [...] -
Survey: Boys want to play video games with President Obama, girls with Miley Cyrus
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsRight now, if I could play a round of Multiplayer Game 2: The Sequel with anyone in the whole world, it'd probably be either Manuel Zelaya or The Situation from Jersey Shore. Zelaya because I'd could ask, “So what's it like to be the first South American leader in a really long time to be illegally ousted in a coup?” Then I'd tell The Situation, “Hey, you're terrific. Let's do 800 sit-ups then pump our fists in the air to the latest episode of A State of Trance.”
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ODROID portable Android gaming machine sells through initial dev units
Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
Perhaps someday you'll buy an Android device to use primarily for gaming. It could happen! Pictured above is the ODROID, a gaming-focused portable running Android and packing a powerful 833MHz Cortex A8 CPU.
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UberNES may be the greatest screen saver since Johnny Castaway
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Be still my beating heart. The UberNES Nintendo Screen Saver displays a grid of multiple working NES games when your computer is idle. Leave it be, and you’ll see all the various demos running at once. Hit the spacebar and you can actually start playing the games.
Tears of joy, my friends. Tears of joy.
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Square Enix doesn’t think too highly of all this motion control nonsesne
Posted on September 21, 2009 | No CommentsIt's been about three years since the Nintendo Wii was first released here in the good ol' USA. Its number one claim to fame, motion control, sure isn't unique anymore, what with Project Natal for the Xbox 360, and whatever Sony's improved motion control thing is called coming out fairly soon. But are these motion control deals mere gimmicks (I think so, just based on how I play game; the public may well think differently), or something more? “Gimmicks!” yelled Square Enix's Yoichi Wada.
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Just don’t care? Well we totally care about these Modern Warfare 2, Forza 3 Xbox 360 bundles.
Posted on September 17, 2009 | No CommentsThere's two new Xbox 360 bundles that you ought to be made aware of. One, which was announced a few days ago (we're sorta short staffed this week), is the Modern Warfare 2 bundle. It includes a MW2 branded Xbox, a 250GB hard drive (ooh!), and two wireless controllers. Oh, and a copy of the game. Total price: $399.
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Samsung Instinct HD coming to Sprint September 27
Posted on September 16, 2009 | No CommentsSprint may not be the number one mobile carrier, but it sure does seem to be picking up the slack in the handset department recently. The Now Network is expected to get yet another new mobile in the form of the Samsung Instinct HD. Looks like the rumor we noted back in August about a September [...] -
Activision mulling plug-and-play Guitar Hero TV games in the future
Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
If you really think about it, it makes sense that future installments of Guitar Hero and other games like that could basically come packaged like those Jakks Pacific plug-and-play TV games. It’d eliminate the need for a console altogether. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick realizes this, and says that his company is considering the possibilities.
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8-bit porn: the women of Leisure Suit Larry
Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
Leisure Suit Larry was one of those game franchises I always saw on the shelf at the local computer games store but never bought. I picked up the box and oggled at the titilating pictures on the back, but I never traded my hard-earned cash for the soft-core bonanza that the games offered. I like to think I'm a better man, as a result. Lots of people must've bought the game, though, because they released something like eleventy billion different installments. That's a lot of 16-color skin to admire.
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WTF: College student faces up to 10 years in prison for modding game consoles
Posted on August 3, 2009 | No CommentsThis is just ridiculous. Doesn’t the federal government have better things to do than track down college kids who mod their game consoles? Seriously. Matt Crippen, a 27-year-old CSU-Fullerton student has been indicted on two counts of violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. He faces up to 10 years in prison for modding his (and [...]