Archive for December 1st, 2010
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Microsoft announced yet another round of Dream.Build.Play for year 2011."Dream.Build.Play is a competition where you can create and submit your XNA Game Studio 4.0 game for Xbox 360 to win prizes, including the chance to have your game featured on Xbox LIVE Arcade."Registration will open in late February 2011.So start dreaming
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StatCounter Global Stats claims that the "BlackBerry OS at 34.3%, effectively trumped Apple's iOS, which recorded 33% in Nov."BlackBerry's US lead isn't replicated in terms of worldwide share, according to StatCounter data. Globally, Symbian OS leads with 31.9% followed by iOS 21.9%, BlackBerry OS
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Windows Azure Platform Management Portal allows you to manage all your Azure platform resources from a single location -- including SQL Azure database. One of the nuances of using the Portal, is that you need to set the pop-up blocker in IE to accept pop-up in this site so that the database manager could be
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Dec
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With December 1st, the festivity season comes in full swoop, and also it makes the begining of the snow fall. If your blog is hosted on WordPress.com, here's an easy way to add the snow flakes on your blog:To make it snow on your site:Go to your site's dashboard.Navigate to Appearance -> Extras.Check the box next
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Dec
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Apple has posted a new iPad commercial on its website called "iPad is amazing", aimed at showcasing the new features of iOS 4.2.Everything's in there: AirPlay, AirPrint (although limited to some HP printers), multitasking and the usual selection of apps.
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DoubleTwist has been labeled 'iTunes for Android' for some time but the app's new AirSync feature gives it a leg up on the competition. It has upped the ante by offering comprehensive media syncing over Wi-Fi connections via its new app called "AirSync", which eliminates the need for cables.
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Dec
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Microsoft's offering a great deal on Xbox LIVE Arcade during December. "Just purchase two qualifying games from Arcade between Dec'1-20 and receive 400 Microsoft Points-FREE!"Eligible Arcade Games: Comic Jumper, Super Meat Boy, LIMBO, Plants vs. Zombies, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Castlevania Harmony of Despair, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Monday Night Combat, Blacklight: Tango
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comScore today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 29 days of the Nov-Dec'10 holiday season -- "holiday season-to-date, $13.55 billion has been spent online, marking a 13% increase versus the corresponding days last year. Cyber Monday reached $1.028 billion in online spending, up 16% vs. year ago, representing the heaviest online spending day
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Dec
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Google's in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new service will allow users to read copyrighted books from Google Book Search."The long-delayed venture -- Google executives had said they hoped to
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Dec
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The YouTube Players team announced of implementing "Stage Video API" into the YouTube.com.Adobe's recently launched Flash Player 10.2 beta release supports a new, more efficient video display mechanism known as "Stage Video API." The full details of how and why Stage Video speeds up video display can be found in Adobe's technical documentation.The Players Team
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Dec
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Project Sunburst is the latest Crackdown title and brilliantly uses real-time backdrops from Bing Maps, based on your location, to provide an endless array of gameplay environments.The game uses the Windpws Phone 7 geo-tagging functionality to pin-point where you are, and you can build bases to defend against the "freaks" in real locations.
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Amit Singhal on Google blog responded to the recent New York Times article: "By treating your customers badly, one merchant told the paper, you can generate complaints and negative reviews that translate to more links to your site; which, in turn, make it more prominent in search engines. The main premise of the article was
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With December, YouTube brings its "New Year Countdown," a special destination page presented by HTC, spotlighting 31 of the year's most memorable videos."Special effects maestro freddiew kicks off the Countdown with a bang, courtesy of his eye-popping Flower Warfare video. To find out which videos made the shortlist, you'll have to
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Dec
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Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports a technology called "Network Controlled Fast Dormancy," which makes the network and the handset work together to create the best conditions for smartphones to work quickly, yet have a long battery life and minimize network congestion."Smartphones connect constantly to network, often
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Dec
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NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which every year counts down to Christmas Eve and tracks Santa's whereabouts as he delivers presents across the globe. Today, kick-off of this year's countdown on the NORAD website, where kids can play holiday-themed games (a new one is released each day) and get updates from the North Pole
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