Monthly Archives: September 2011

∞ Shadowgun third-person combat game coming to iOS on Sep. 28

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Madfinger Games announced Tuesday that Shadowgun is slated for a September 28 release. The game is a third-person tactical combat shooter featuring remarkable console-quality graphics. Shadowgun is a futuristic shooter set in the year 2350. The game follows the adventures … Continued

∞ EA includes teen girl in NHL 12 roster

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The Globe and Mail: Starting this week, 14-year-old Lexi Peters will be stick handling past men twice her size as she plays in the starting lineup for the Buffalo Sabres. Or the Vancouver Canucks. Or any NHL team the 90-pound … Continued

∞ China a top priority for Apple

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John Paczkowski: Apple’s decision to make China top priority in its global expansion is proving increasingly prescient. The company’s four Chinese outlets are already among the most heavily trafficked Apple stores in the world. And they generate blockbuster sales and … Continued

∞ Pixelmator [Sponsor]

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. With tons … Continued

∞ New QNX BlackBerry has no email or calendar

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Gizmodo: BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably … Continued

∞ Arrington 'decided' to leave TechCrunch

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AllThingsD: He was replaced by longtime TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld. The company’s statement said that the high-profile blogger had “decided” to move on, which was adecided understatement, given the negotiations between the pair sometimes approximated a cage match. “You can’t fire … Continued

∞ Bob Seger comes to iTunes, finally

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Detroit Free Press: “It’s probably the best delivery system ever invented, but the industry gave up a lot of quality to have that system,” [Seger manager Ed 'Punch'] Andrews said. “At some point, if this is what everybody is accepting, … Continued

∞ Dropping 'the' when describing products

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Geoffrey A. Fowler And Yukari Iwatani Kane for WSJ: Nintendo Co.’s website shows gamers “what Wii is all about.” As far back as 1984, Apple Inc. said in a commercial that it would “introduce Macintosh.” Today, an Apple video enthuses: … Continued

∞ Greg Price on mixing Ozzy Osbourne

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Greg Price on Waves Live: Today, I want to share with you the first steps I take in all projects I start. My first go-to tools are the Q10 Paragraphic EQ, SSL 4000 Collection, and the Renaissance plugins. These tools … Continued

∞ AT&T responds to Justice Department

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Smartphone Boss: “Without this merger, AT&T will continue to experience capacity constraints, millions of customers will be deprived of faster and higher quality service, and innovation and infrastructure will be stunted. If this transaction does not close due to Plaintiff’s … Continued

∞ CBS axes 'What's Trending' after Jobs death report debacle

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Hollywood Reporter: CBSNews.com has severed its relationship with the host of a web show who sent out an erroneous Tweet yesterday saying that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had died. The offending Tweet was sent from the Twitter account of What’s Trending, a web … Continued

∞ RIM: Mac users not wanted

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BlackBerry App World: This web page uses ActiveX controls that work only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. To ensure that BlackBerry App World is correctly downloaded to your BlackBerry, this site is not designed to work with any other Internet browsers. … Continued

∞ Adobe Creative Developer Tour 2011

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The Adobe Creative Suite provides many opportunities for partners to provide not only software and solutions based on Adobe technology but also consulting, contract development and integration services. The key themes for the Creative Developer Event are: Extensibility – Efficiently … Continued

∞ Apple ranks highest in J.D. Power customer satisfaction

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For a sixth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction. Apple achieves a score of 838 and performs well in all factors, particularly in ease of operation and features. HTC (801) follows Apple in the … Continued

∞ The sounds of AmpKit

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[audio src="http://cdn.loopinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/ampkit.mp3"] Agile Partners released a major new version of its amp and effects modeling software for iPhone and iPad on Wednesday. As a long time owner of the app, I downloaded AmpKit 1.2 and checked it out. Clearly, being … Continued

∞ Atari founder wants one-year high school

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IndustryGamers: Atari founder and gaming guru Nolan Bushnell believes that educational video games area potential form of synergy that could revolutionize the educational system in the United States.  Bushnell remains confident enough to proclaim that if implemented correctly, the average high … Continued