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Rapid Mobile Media, an Edinburgh, UK-based developer of mobile application and software platforms, has recently announced the release of its ThinkPhone series of products, which is designed to bring interactive Web applications to mobile phones. The ThinkPhone family includes ThinkPhone Design, ThinkPhone Direct and ... |
2 October 2008
06:06 GMT |
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The latest advances in the microprocessors industry have allowed manufacturers to design and produce chips that feature more than one core. In terms of power efficiency and processing power, this step marks the end of single-core CPUs and permits IT makers to reach new levels of performance and speed. The benefits of... |
29 September 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Midway was a great publisher that, with the likes of Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man franchises under the belt, was doing really well in the 1990s. But ever since the takeover of the company by the Redstone family, a wealthy group of people from the United States, in 2005, things haven't been going so well anymore... |
23 September 2008
02:22 GMT |
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The latest Firefox 3.1 nightly-built comes with a new JIT compiler for SpiderMonkey, Gecko's JavaScript engine. The compiler is part of a project called TraceMonkey, which aims at bringing significant improvements in JavaScript performance. The tests so far show major speed boost in JavaScript functions.TraceMon... |
25 August 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Google has released two APIs to enhance geo-location. One is AJAX-based and the other one makes use of the Gears browser extension. This enables web and mobile developers to easily distribute content or to authenticate users based on location.The AJAX API determines the location of a user based on their IP address. I... |
25 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Forget about Windows Vista, and even Vista SP1, Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client is slowly taking center stage. And even with Microsoft struggling to keep the limelight on Vista, Windows 7 is bound to attract increasing focus and to push its precursor to the background, a move that Vista never mana... |
19 August 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Guided by a "point and click" approach to development of Web 2.0 applications, WaveMaker released on Monday the Visual Ajax Studio 4.0. This is a development tool that requires close to no Ajax-specific programming knowledge. The platform provides the basic features under a GNU AGPL version 3 license and additional f... |
19 August 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released the source code for the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) under the GPL Classpath Exception. The company took this step in order to combat the fragmentation trends in the mobile development world and to enable developers to create user interfaces that would behave the sam... |
15 August 2008
08:15 GMT |
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Yesterday, Sun Microsystems made available a beta version of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5. The new version of the open source development platform features IDE-wide QuickSearch, support for PHP, Groovy and Grails, imports from Eclipse and JavaScript debugging. It also adds a lot of enhancemen... |
14 August 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Blizzard has some pretty exciting project for us, but there's just a small problem about them: we have no idea when we're going to get our hands on these exciting projects. We wanted Starcraft II, we got it - no release date, though. We wanted Diablo III, we got it - no release date, though. And the same th... |
4 August 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Game engine creators Trinigy, the ones behind the recently released Vision Engine 7, announced that Ubisoft's Blue Byte studio (those who brought us the great titles in the Settlers series) having signed a deal which would allow them to use the engine for upcoming titles. Unfortunately, no details regarding the ... |
10 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Christopher Kline, 2K Boston technical director and BioShock parent is one of those guys who, we all agree, knows a lot of stuff about games. However, as strange as it might sound, he doesn't believe that in today's games world there is any chance left for mid-budget developing and that the industry is turn... |
7 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Lots of discussions regarding the future of the PlayStation Portable were started by different people during the previous weeks and the general rule of thumb is that Sony's handheld is going down and needs to be saved. However, this news we're bringing you today has nothing to do with the rescue plan of the... |
10 June 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Without checking any official stats, I can say that most of the MMOs we have today come from or can only be found in Japan and other Asian markets. And they keep coming, which is not bad at all. Especially when things turn out to be quite funny, as it happens with Tatsumaki: Land of War, the game developed by Eyes Ou... |
3 June 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Although THQ has extended an offer to develop the game Toy Story 3 for Disney, the multimedia giant turned down the offer and decided that the game would be developed by Disney Interactive Studios, its in-house development studio. THQ CEO Brian Farrell declared: "We would have loved to keep the business, but when you... |
21 February 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Microsoft's Popfly project went live in 2007. Debuted into alpha stage at the beginning of the past year, Popfly evolved rapidly into beta and went live to all users in October 2007. In beta stage Popfly came to the table with a revamped graphical user interface and a range of enhancements across the board, incl... |
18 February 2008
06:57 GMT |
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There are times when it seems that good things happen and this is one of them. Didn't you love all (or at least some) of these titles: Halo, Battlefield, Spider-Man, Midnight Club 2 or Viva Pinata: Party Animals? Of course you did, so did we! The good news is that some of the designers who worked for the develop... |
12 February 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Visual Studio 2008 is the latest iteration of Microsoft's suite of development produced under the Visual Studio umbrella. Developers will be able to tap a comprehensive resource of tools, but also a plethora of features and functionality covering everything from debugging to databases, designed to enable the bui... |
30 January 2008
08:49 GMT |
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There's no such thing as perfect symmetry. Indeed, our genes encode for a biological program that should make us develop in a perfectly symmetric organism. But the body has to fight from the very start to achieve the perfect condition, called homeostasis. In this fight, there are many 'obstacles', such... |
13 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Nokia just announced closing of a deal with STMicroelectronics in order to deepen their collaboration. The two companies announced their intention on collaborating on the 8th of August, this year and seem to have stuck to the promise.As a result of the new agreement, approximately 185 highly-skilled engineers and oth... |
5 November 2007
10:04 GMT |
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As developing a whole new computer hardware technology can be very expensive and even producing large quantities of hardware parts screams for big funding, more and more companies are forming joint ventures in order to split costs, risks and profits. A brand new partnership is now in the making as Sony announced that... |
2 October 2007
10:29 GMT |
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It looks like the days of glory for USB 2.0 and FireWire B are coming to an end as Intel Corporation and a number of other major computer hardware manufacturing companies are pushing ahead a new standard for connecting devices to a host computer system, the USB 3.0. This new interconnect standard should offer a huge ... |
19 September 2007
10:45 GMT |
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The leading online media company in China, SINA, announced today that it has joined Nokia, as a sponsor, in its Mobile Rules! Multyplayer Competition which has the purpose of discovering new talents in mobile game developing. This way, SINA is not only helping the global search for new talents but will also bring a n... |
18 September 2007
09:20 GMT |
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You may have heard about cats with "wings", two-headed tortoises, snakes, piglets and even humans, extra-limbed lambs, pigs, deer, cows or humans, but this is far odder: a footed shark. This is extremely weird as sharks do not have and never had feet in their whole evolution. Maybe one day, the Great White will be ru... |
15 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Ericsson has just partnered with the British Midlands Development Corporation in order to open a new research and development facility in British Midlands. This comes as one more step forward made by the Swedish company towards expanding their service area and bringing their solutions on a new market.As part of the n... |
13 August 2007
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Nokia has just announced that it plans to renew the chipset strategy they have been using until now. The Finnish company will introduce a licensing and multisourcing model meant to bring the company to a new competitive level on the handset production market.Nokia already holds a privileged place in the mobile phone ... |
8 August 2007
03:03 GMT |
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On Monday, Intel launched its "Mobile and Internet Linux Project" Web site in an effort to consolidate a number of existing and new Intel projects to improve the Linux kernel and open-source software components. Intel's chief Linux and open-source specialist, Dirk Hohndel said, as cited by the news site ZDNet, t... |
17 July 2007
02:34 GMT |
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This year's edition of the Mobile Game Seminar is preparing for its line-up series of events. Speakers will conduct sessions on programming, production and game design along with debates trying to reach most convenient solutions.Attendees of the Mobile Games Seminar will have the chance of discussing with indust... |
12 July 2007
09:33 GMT |
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Planning, debugging, writing declarative content (HTML/CSS), scripting and monitoring network traffic are all aspects and tasks inherent with the web developing process. John Hrvatin, Internet Explorer Program Manager has posted a list of seven web development tools designed to streamline creation and enable increase... |
25 June 2007
09:52 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has decided to expand their current company position, by launching a new research and development center in Chennai, India. This is the result of continuous collaboration that the Swedish company has been conducting from the beginning of the year with this region in India.Mobile telecommunication has t... |
21 June 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Only at the middle of year 2007 is Nokia thinking a few steps ahead and planning its company structure for next year. The Finnish company is considering a new structure for reaching the most efficient business activity.As part of this opportunities seeking, three main units will replace Nokia's business group an... |
20 June 2007
02:48 GMT |
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You have probably seen, or at least heard of some movies that depict the never-ending theme of robots and their rebellion against humans, inferior beings, taking over the world, stuff like that. You'd probably think that after all these movies, people are terrified by robots and the thought that they might try ... |
11 June 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered about the development process over at the Redmond Company? What it took so that Microsoft came up with Windows Vista? Well, that question remains unanswered for now; however, Bruce Evans, a Build Engineer at Microsoft has delivered an insight into the company's inner workings so to speak. ... |
31 May 2007
12:17 GMT |
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Scientists come with increasing evidence that human sex is not determined by sex chromosomes but by genes placed on those chromosomes. This may explain the numerous cases of ambiguous genitalia in humans and why an individual's genitals might not match the reproductive organs inside. "What really matters is what... |
22 May 2007
17:31 GMT |
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Tira Wireless announced the upcoming launch of Tira Jump 2007. This latest release of Tira Wireless' technology platform is designed to accelerate the time it takes developers and publishers of mobile content to get new titles to market. New features provide significant productivity breakthroughs in Java Platfor... |
25 April 2007
08:45 GMT |
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Nokia announced the availability of an enhanced version of its Carbide.c development tools for Symbian OS. Announced at the Nokia Applications Summit & S60 Summit 2007, the Carbide.c tool enhancements provide significant new functionality with device navigation utilities and time-saving project build tools, meant... |
25 April 2007
06:37 GMT |
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All the so-called intelligent mammals, from cats and elephants to monkeys, dolphins and humans present a highly folded surface of the brain. The functional meaning of these folds is a huge puzzle in neuroscience. A team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has found a method to detect h... |
11 April 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Have you noticed that many plants grow in spiral?The pineapple, for example, can have 8 scale spirals headed into one direction and 5 or 13 headed towards the other direction. If you look at the seeds of the sunflower, you will see at least 55, respectively 89, spirals crossing each other. The cauliflower also displa... |
19 March 2007
11:26 GMT |
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Nokia launched the SNAP Mobile Compliance Testing Program, a groundbreaking initiative that will help ensure that all SNAP Mobile connected games offer people a consistent game-playing experience. The two-part program includes free initial testing tools for developers to establish a higher standard for connected mobi... |
6 March 2007
10:06 GMT |
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