The revenge of the $9.99 iPhone apps (3)
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When Apple’s App Store first launched back in July there was a wide range of prices for individual applications. While many were free, quite a few of the early games were $5 or $10. But as time has passed, there’s definitely been a trend of the paid apps to move towards $0.99, which seems to be a magic price point for high sales. But $0.99-an-app isn’t much of a way for developers to make a ...
Aurora Feint II: The Arena brings asynchronous online multi-player gaming to the iPhone » VentureBeat (3)
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Since the launch of the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch in July, there have apparently only been two games that have racked up over 2,000 reviews while maintaining a 4-star or above average (out of 5 stars): Tap Tap Revenge and Aurora Feint: The Beginning, says Aurora Feint investor and chairman Peter Relan. What that means is that a lot of people have really enjoyed these games, and in Aurora Feint’s ...
Apple releases the iPhone 2.2 update. It’s a big one (11)
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The signs were all pointing to a tomorrow launch of the 2.2 software update for the iPhone — Apple jumped the gun. (Though I guess technically it is November 21st on the east coast of the U.S.) The update is available now through iTunes and it’s actually larger than the big 2.1 software update that Apple pushed out back in September (246.4 megabytes versus 237.8 megabytes). In terms of what’s included, it’s pretty much what ...
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Alex said:
"Perhaps more important to people is what’s not included: There’s still no cut & paste functionality, still no MMS functions, still no voice dialing, still no Adobe Flash support, still no way to run apps in the background (and no mention of the ever-upcoming Push Notification system) and still no GPS turn-by-turn directions."Pretty much. But the rest of this is great.
Nokia researchers show off the mobile experiences of the future (6)
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Nokia Research showed off a bunch of next-generation technologies today at its research lab in Palo Alto, Calif. Among the goodies coming our way are real-time traffic updates, phones that can tell us what we’re looking at, and devices that morph their forms from watch to tablet to phone as needed. This show-and-tell comes at an interesting junction in Nokia’s history. The Finnish cell phone maker is in the midst of transformation as it begins ...
Another report points to tomorrow for the iPhone 2.2 update (1)
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Tomorrow, we’ll know for sure if the rumored November 21 launch date for the iPhone 2.2 software update is legitimate. But another report surfacing today also points to that date as likely for the launch of the new software, according to AppleInsider. Specifically, the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information has issued a release about an exploit it has uncovered on the iPhone. The exploit allows the device to be forced to dial any number, including ...
Blogter szubjektív (3)
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Résztvettem már 1-2 megújulási folyamatban. Az egyik éppen olyan jelentősségű volt, mint amilyen most a Blogteren zajlik, azaz teljes átalakulás kívül-belül. A szó lehető legszorosabb értelmében éjjel-nappal dolgoztunk szájmonnal, ő a programozói részét, én meg az ezen kívüli feladatokat végeztem. De elszámoltuk magunkat. Nem úgy, nem annyi idő alatt és nem olyan dolgok történtek az átalakulás utolsónak szánt estéjén, mint ahogy azt mi terveztük. Aztán 5 órakor úgy döntöttünk, hogy akkor nem ma lesz az ...
Etherpad Tracks Group Editing or Coding with Colors [Online Documents] (15)
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Etherpad, a collaborative-minded text editor forged by a group of ex-Google employees, focuses on making documents live and easy to collaborate on. That means that, at this point, the interface is pretty much straight text on numbered lines, but two or more people can work on a document in real time using a single URL to share, with different colors highlighting their work, a chat function for explanation, and revision-minded saving. For JavaScript coders and ...
Toprural deja de invertir en Adwords (1)
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Cuando en 2005 lanzamos Toprural en Francia, decidimos apoyar este lanzamiento con una ambiciosa campaña de publicidad on-line. Tras unos meses de prueba con Adwords, Overture (ahora Yahoo Search Marketing) y Miva decidimos concentrar toda nuestra inversión en Adwords, que nos daba una meyor rentabilidad que los demás. Desde diciembre 2005 hasta julio 2008 hasta mediados del 2008 estuvimos invirtiendo hasta 200.000 € anuales en Adwords para promocionar Toprural en búsquedas en francés. Esta inversión ...
Lively no more - In July we launched Lively in Google Labs ... (The Official Google Blog) (5)
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The Official Google Blog: Lively no more — In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products …
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Bruce Boughton said:
Most. Inevitable. Thing. Ever.
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Hari K Gottipati said:
Note this : "It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams". Is Google cutting down the research/experimental projects? I never heard before that they want to move the staff to focus on other core products, particularly from research projects. Sure some thing is going on inside Googleplex. Can we expect layoffs? If Google also announces layoffs, we will be in deep trouble!!
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Josh said:
TFG. Now we can get back to organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.
Are You a People Pleaser? (Or an Approval Whore?) (1)
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It was the last day of the Great Big Dreams retreat. We were sitting in a circle. I was talking about decisions and commitment. We had spent many hours over our three days together getting clear about intention. I said that in my experience, intention begins the movement and the shift. But at some point you have to ground your intention with decisions and commitment and action. Jeannie, a vibrant woman with wild curly hair ...
Rolando, one of the best looking iPhone games, plays even better (2)
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I’ve been excited about an iPhone game named Rolando ever since a video of it spread throughout the internet back in July right before the launch of the iPhone 3G (and App Store). The developers had hoped to release it in August, but that came and went, and the buzz largely subsided. But today I got a chance to play the basically completed version of the game — it’s even better than the original demo ...
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Joseph Young said:
Will $9.99 games survive on the iPhone when free is flooding the market? I'm very interested in playing the game and can't wait for it to come out. Don't know if everyone feels this way.
An artificial beach 300 meters from the real thing (1)
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Filed under: Surfing, JapanThere's an absolutely amazing beach in Japan, filled with white sand, blue water, and a lapping wave. But this beach did not exist before 1993. It's known as the Ocean Dome, the most popular artificial beach in an arena that's quickly becoming fashionable. There's now artificial beaches in Monaco, Paris, Rotterdam, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore.The heated beach can accommodate 10,000 tourists, even though it's competing with plenty of other attractions on ...
Analog chip firm Quantance raises $12 million to speed up cell phone data (2)
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High-speed data networks on cell phones, such as the iPhone, are anything but high speed. But Quantance, a chip maker that has just raised $12 million in funding, has a solution that could triple data speeds in future phones at very little cost. If this works out, our cell phones could wind up being faster than our computers at acccessing the web. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company is an analog chip design company with a ...
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Saket said:
Analog circuits FTW!
Κάντε στην άκρη! περνά το Σύμφωνο Ελεύθερης Συμβίωσης (1)
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Αναρωτιεμαι γιατί τόσος θόρυβος για ένα νομοσχέδιο καταδικασμένο εξαρχής να αποτύχει. Βάζω στοίχημα ότι θα εξαφανιστεί από αδράνεια. Εκτός αν χρησιμοποιηθεί για συνάψεις δανείων από ελεύθερα ζευγάρια -ετεροφύλων φυσικά. Οι ομοφυλόφιλοι ζουν στο πεζοδρόμιο του περιθωρίου έτσι κι αλλιώς.Α! σε κάποιες άλλες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες (π.χ. Μ. Βρεττανία) τα ζευγάρια (αλλά και οι συγκάτοικοι γενικώς, με ή και χωρίς ειδικό Σύμφωνο) μπορούν να δανειστούν χρήματα από τράπεζα για απόκτηση κατοικίας και κοινών αγαθών. Υπάρχουν και δικηγόροι ...
Begich Will Be Alaska's First U.S. Senate Democrat Since Gravel (11)
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Democrat Mark Begich will win the Alaska Senate race. With 14,626 of the roughly 24,000 ballots left to count today, Begich's lead over Republican Ted Stevens is now, 2,374. The remaining results are expected to arrive later this afternoon. Stevens would have to win by a margin of over 25% of the outstanding ballots to tie Begich. That would require something of a Gravelanche.Currently, Begich leads by 0.77%, which is outside the free 0.5% recount ...
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Chung said:
sanity prevails!
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Barry said:
FiveThirtyEight.com is calling the Alaska Senate race for Begich.
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Shannon said:
yeah good news, one fewer criminal in the US Senate, a bit more support for President Obama
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RJO said:
So even as a criminal you can only JUST lose as a Republican in Alaska. Explains their gov.
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danweasel said:
Hooray for Alaskans (barely) choosing not to send a convicted felon back to the Senate?
