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Real-time strategy to become more social, complex?

December 4, 2009

Electronic Arts (EA) is already preparing the Command & Conquer (C&C) franchise for the future vehicle for software proliferation: digital distribution. Kotaku, meanwhile, says that some fans are skeptical: News of the transition was sending fears of a Facebook-ized, watered-down C&C among some series fans. And yet C&C always was watered down, offering little more [...]

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Why do you need Flash on your iPhone?

November 4, 2009

People love to complain, and we think half of it is due to laziness. Or incompetence. And with the iPhone, it’s no different. Take MMS for example: thousands claimed it was silly for the iPhone not to support it, but we disagreed. MMS is an outdated technology for which there are plenty of modern-day solutions, [...]

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iPhone as computer, revisited.

August 7, 2009

When the iPhone came out, we were one of the few who didn’t parade around the idea that it was the cell-phone Messiah. Heck, the iPhone didn’t do much that our Danger Sidekick didn’t, though the user experience was admittedly cleaner. But with iPhone OS 2.0 and the realization of an open AppStore (with some [...]

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Apple to advance iPhone gaming, not join console fray.

August 6, 2009

Despite Apple’s sordid foray into the video gaming market with the ill-fated Pippin, TUAW’s Mike Schramm believes that Apple is willing to give console gaming another go. His speculation is based in large part on a piece by Erik Sherman at BNET, in which Sherman notes various patents Apple filed, and various individuals Apple hired, [...]

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Twitter’s simplicity outweighs Facebook’s complexity.

May 9, 2009

A day doesn’t go by when we log into Facebook and don’t get frustrated with its user-interface. Arguably, what drove us from MySpace into Facebook’s arms is the same thing that makes us use Twitter instead of Facebook’s status update. MG Siegler at TechCrunch put the issue simply: The number one reason I started using [...]

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Open wi-fi: an ethical and legal quandary.

April 15, 2009

When questioning the legal implications of open wi-fi network usage, Computer Technology Review (CTR) posted a fair summary of the issue last month. CTR noted that relevant laws in this area aren’t really that relevant at all, since they predate wi-fi usage and were established instead to combat blackhats from gaining unauthorized access to computer [...]

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