1. Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up 7 hours ago   permalink

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Stewart Butterfield and his friends are back at it with a new company. CNET's Daniel Terdiman was given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch :   Tiny Speck Uncovers Glitch, A New Flash-Based Massively Multiplayer Game

Jason Kottke / Kottke.org :   Glitch is the new Game Neverending

Tonie van Ringelestijn / B R I G H T :   Kruising van World of Warcraft en Facebook Tris Hussey / the Isle :   Tiny Speck Brings Forth Glitch–Something New in Social Gaming?

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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News In depth with Tiny Speck's Glitch   —  The new online social MMO from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck puts players through a wide variety of paces. Quests, egg growing and clouds on a string are just a part of it. Alice / Wonderland :    Glitch: the new game from Stewart Butterfield and friends Jason Kottke / Kottke.org :    Glitch is the new Game Neverending

Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW) Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one   —  Filed under: Gaming , Multimedia , Apple , iPhone , App Store , SDK , iPod touch Game Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there ...

2. Google launches Nexus One phone support 10 hours ago   permalink

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Customers suffering shipping and technical issues with the new Android phone now have more resources than online support forums.

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Paul Fang / SlashGear :   Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners, 48NEXUS

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Www.computerworld.com Google reduces its Nexus One termination fee   —  IDG News Service - Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less to cancel service on the smartphone. Geeknews / Geek News Central :    GNC-2010-02-09 #550 Big Studio Surprise! The Tao of Mac :    Android

Www.tmonews.com Google Customer Service Number Now Live   —  After taking quite a beating in the blogosphere after the initial launch of the Nexus One, Google has officially launched phone support. That’s right; 888-48-NEXUS (63987) will get you customer service from Google, open daily from 7AM to 10PM EST. That’s right, from Google. Read those words, stop, close your mouth and let the wow factor hit ... TechBlog :    Linkpost | News / DSLreports :    Google Lowers Nexus One ETF, Launches Phone Support - Google's moving to tackle major early complaints... USATODAY.com Tech Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract   —  Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone ... News / DSLreports :    Tuesday Morning Links - Ubergizmo Google Phone Support Available For Nexus One   —  Stressed out that you can’t really talk to a human being regarding your Google Nexus One woes? Well, it seems that Google is now offering phone support at 888-48NEXUS (63987). The support line is operational from 7am to 10pm PST. But before you get too hyped up on this, it seems that the downside is that this support line seems to be ... Latest SciTech Headlines Google vs. Apple - Phones and Tablets   —  If you believe this comment is offensive or violates the CBSNews.com Terms of Use, you can report it below (this will not automatically remove the comment). Once reported, our staff will be notified and the comment will be reviewed. Casey Chan / Android Central Google's Phone Support Line for Nexus One is Live   —  Looks like Google's Phone Support for the Nexus One just went live. You can ask for help regarding your Nexus One's problems by calling 1 (888) 48-NEXUS which is 1-888-486-3987 in simple numeric form. The line is open from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM PST so hopefully you can get some answers to your questions, solutions to your problems, or just a nice ... 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Tricia Duryee / MocoNews After Federal Inquiries, Google Cuts Early Nexus One Termination Fee   —  Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) has lowered its “equipment recovery fee” to $150 from $350 when customers drop its Nexus One phone before their contract with T-Mobile USA officially expires. The change occurs just after the FCC formally sent letters to various operators and Google about wireless early termination fees. In this case, the Google ... Arnold Zafra / 901am Google is Catching Up Fast with Palm’s Market Share Even Without the Nexus One   —  The latest report by comScore on December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share shows some interesting trend among current top mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone OS platforms. The report was based on the share of current mobile subscribers with age ranging from 13 and older. Motorola was the top mobile OEM from ... 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3. P-plate carnage: Death on Facebook first 14 hours ago   permalink

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A waste of young lives ... police examine the crash scene / Pic: Daniel Shaw Source: The Daily Telegraph WHEN Angela and Maryanne Vourlis woke up yesterday, their 20th birthday, they logged on to Facebook expecting to read well wishes and greetings from friends.

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4. GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 15 hours ago   permalink

Linuxtoday.com

"Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn’t use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525.

5. Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat 8 hours ago   permalink

JENNA WORTHAM / NYT

Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.

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David Kaplan / PaidContent :   Zagat Books A Table With Foursquare; Restaurant Maven Reaches For Mobile App's Cool Factor

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6. Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference? 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.businessinsider.com

Apple may finally announce a new MacBook Pro lineup tomorrow, perhaps including new, faster Intel chips, as the Macworld conference gets underway in San Francisco.

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LTD / Mac Forums Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study   —  *Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study* By Slash Lane Published: 07:55 AM EST A strong holiday ... Macworld Apple releases Aperture 3   —  Apple released Aperture 3 on Tuesday. The program is now 64-bit capable and offers "200 new features." Technology News Apple releases Aperture 3 photo software   —  Apple Inc. on Tuesday released Aperture 3, its latest professional photography software package. (AAPL) The Seattle Times ComScore: Apple gains US smart phone share   —  Apple Inc.'s iPhone gained a percentage point of U.S. smart phone market share while BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Inc. lost a point in the last three months of 2009, according to research group comScore Inc. 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F-Secure Antivirus Research Team (mailto:weblog\ / F-Secure Antivirus Research An Apple a Day   —  We were recently asked some questions about Mac security. Mikko's comments can be read at CNET . Also in Apple news, iPhone/iPod touch OS 3.1.3 has been released and there are security fixes . ( Not that it's mentioned during the update .) And speaking of iPhones, they're vulnerable to remote attack on SSL . Updated to add : Here's another ... Webmaster / The Mac Observer TMO Appearances: TMO’s Bryan Chaffin and the Atomic Love Bombs Perform During Macworld Expo   —  The Mac Observer's Bryan Chaffin also happens to be a member of the Atomic Love Bombs, and the band will be performing at a special concert during Macworld Expo 2010 to raise funds for Haiti earthquake victims. The concert will be at the Red Devil Lounge on Friday, February 12, and starts at 8PM pacific time.

7. Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight 11 hours ago   permalink

MOTOKO RICH / NYT

Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.

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Mike Madison / Madisonian.net :   All About Books Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider :   Google Caving On Its Bookstore Terms

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8. Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome 9 hours ago   permalink

JOHN TIERNEY / NYT

A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.

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Andy Beal / Andy Beal :   Please Email This Article; Researchers Say You’ll Feel Better

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Romenesko People prefer e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes   —  New York Times They also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney .

9. ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 Graphics Brings a Big Visual Experience to Small Form Factor PCs 5 hours ago   permalink

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The newest addition to the AMD graphics family strengthens the world's only complete line-up of award-winning DirectX® 11 capable graphics cards, delivering exceptional HD multimedia and gaming performance at a mainstream price

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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog :   Yet another DirectX 11 Graphics Card from AMD!

Chris Davies / SlashGear :   ATI Radeon HD 5570 launched, reviewed: $80 low-profile DirectX 11

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Reviews Tom ATI Radeon HD 5570: Reasonable Gaming Performance For $80?   —  AMD rounds out its DirectX 11-capable lineup with an entry-level gaming card sporting all of the Radeon HD 5000-series' value-adds. Does the Radeon HD 5570 represent the perfect combination of low-price, gaming performance, and features? DirectX - Radeon - ATI Technologies - Advanced Micro Devices - Zune HD Chris Davies / SlashGear :    ATI Radeon HD 5570 launched, reviewed: $80 low-profile DirectX 11

MacNN ATI Radeon HD 5570 gives DX11 to small form factor PCs   —  AMD this morning launched its second new video chipset in just a matter of days and this time targeted a comparatively untapped mini PC category. The Radeon HD 5570 is a major step up in performance from the 5450 with 400 stream processors versus 80 but still occupies a single card slot and is relatively short, making it ideal for small form ...

The Tech Report Nvidia brings Optimus switchable graphics to notebooks   —  Switchable graphics is the best way to squeeze decent gaming performance and great battery life from the same notebook, but it's never been able to deliver graphics power on demand seamlessly. Nvidia's Optimus switchable tech promises to do better, and we've tested a system to find out whether it... The Tech Report Radeon HD 5570 launches at $79-85   —  After outing the Radeon HD 5670 in January and the Radeon HD 5450 last week, AMD has now added a third sub-$100 graphics card to its DirectX 11 lineup. The new Radeon HD 5570 fits squarely between its two siblings with a $79-85 suggested price range, and it... Warp2Search.net ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review   —  « Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Case Review · ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review · Sapphire HD 5570 1GB Review » Bit-tech.net Article Feed Radeon HD 5450 Review: HTPC Heaven?   —  A £40 graphics card? Surely that's as useful as a chocolate teapot? We take a look at AMD's latest and cheapest Radeon from the HD 5000 series, the HD5450, see how it stacks up against integrated graphics and find out in what situations it might be a great buy. Warp2Search.net Sapphire Radeon HD5570 1GB DDR3 Review   —  The Sapphire Radeon 5570 is a low-power budget graphics card, marketed in the $80 range to consumers who are interested in some light gaming, and indeed the card is more capable than the lowly 5450 in terms of gaming performance. At this price range, the Nvidia GeForce GT 240 is the 5570's closest competitor. Question is: Can the 5570 continue ... Auto-Graphics / Library Technology Guides automation update Auto-Graphics' AGent Iluminar user Interface experiences widespread adoption   —  (January 13, 2010). Auto-Graphics announced the successful implementation of AGent Iluminar, the company's next generation user interface, across numerous AGent customer sites. Since the successful completion of beta testing and full production launch of AGent Iluminar in July, 2009, Auto-Graphics has fully deployed AGent Iluminar for two ... Editor / Neowin.net TechSpot: ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review   —  It's self-evident how AMD has kept us busy over the last few months, showing us new generation GPUs aiming at all possible price points. From the performance-oriented HD 5850/5870, to the mainstream HD 5770 and the extreme dual-GPU powered HD 5970. The budget models had to wait a bit longer. ... Kristopher / DailyTech News Feed ATI Launches Radeon HD 5570, Continues to Drive DX11 Volume   —  ATI, the graphics division of AMD, launched the lowest priced DirectX 11 video card last week. The Radeon HD 5450 using the Cedar chip can be purchased starting at $50, while the Radeon HD 5670 using the Redwood XT chip starts just below $100. There are supposedly "hundreds of thousands" of Redwood and Cedar chips that have been shipped to AIBs, ...

10. Motorola Hi all-- we know you are frustrated with the lack of details regarding Android software upgrades and we ... 10 hours ago   permalink

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Motorola Hi all-- we know you are frustrated with the lack of details regarding Android software upgrades and we sincerely apologize for not being able to share info sooner. We're happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to DROID will start to roll out this week, and we will have more information to share on other device upgrades later ...this week as ...

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Today :   Motorola Droid Goes Android 2.1 This Week

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Ubergizmo Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to go beyond Android 1.6   —  Sony Ericsson has confirmed that their Android-powered Xperia X10 will be getting a newer version of Android sometime after its launch, although the exact time frame has yet to be announced. It will bolt through the stable doors with Android 1.6, and hopefully we'll see a jump to Android 2.1 sooner rather than later. It does make us wonder why ...

Chris Ziegler / Engadget German firm claims huge boost in Android app performance, battery life with new virtual machine   —  At the core of Anrdoid lies a little bundle of code known as the Dalvik virtual machine, a runtime environment for Java apps that's specifically optimized for hardware with limited memory and processor power -- you know, the kind of situation you find in your average smartphone. The relative success of the Android Market suggests that Dalvik's ... Paul Foster / BloggingStocks Options Update: Research in Motion Volatility Low; Shares in Four-Month Trading Range   —  Filed under: Motorola (MOT) , Research in Motion (RIMM) , Options Research in Motion ( RIMM ) closed $66.67. RIMM is expected to report Q4 EPS on March 30. March option implied volatility is at 40, June is at 43, versus its 26-week average of 48 according to Track Data, suggesting decreasing price movement. Motorola ( MOT ) closed at $6.57. ... Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider Android Closes In On Palm In Marketshare   —  New data from comScore shows Google's Android doubled its US marketshare from September to December, and is now closing in on Palm. According to comScore, Google has 5.2% of the smartphone platform share, while Palm has just 6.1%. Google finally found its way onto Verizon in the fourth quarter of last year, which helped boost its share. Palm ... Electronista Inbrics to unveil Android MID next week   —  The Korean company Inbrics is set to launch its Android-based M1 MID next week at Mobile World Congress. Despite its MID designation, the device also works as a standard 3G phone. The form-factor is also close to many smartphones, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen. Standard specs include an 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 ... Newlaunches.com Kenwood C-IP313 Mini Hi-Fi plays nice with CD-R/RW, USBs, Memory cards and iPod   —  iPod accessories are still going really strong and it seems like any company that launches a new product that doesn’t have an iPod or iPhone accommodation is not going to do well. So enter the Kenwood C-IP313 which is a CD reader slash Card reader slash iPod dock slash AM/FM radio slash USB supported Mini Hi-Fi player. The sleek looking player ... Relais International / Library Technology Guides automation update Relais International announces D2D - Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution   —  (January 11, 2010). D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets may include subscription databases and other options such as Google Books, WorldCat, and Amazon. The key to D2D is to optimize the user's ability to discover items of interest and get immediate ... Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop Broadcom Says All Wireless Chips Now Support Android   —  Today Broadcom made a slew of announcements regarding its portfolio of wireless chips. Its combo and single wireless chip solutions now all support the Android platform. Broadcom notes that it will bring Bluetooth 3.0+HS and Wi-Fi Direct to Android ... (follow link to read) Selena Narayanasamy / Search Engine Journal Google to Break the Language Barrier With Android Translator   —  Google has (possibly) done it again! Word on the street says that Google engineers are working on a translator for the Android smart phone that will translate one language to another- almost completely in real time. Now, there's a few problems in the past that have appeared when trying to do anything involving voice translation. First off, the ... F-Secure Antivirus Research Team (mailto:weblog\ / F-Secure Antivirus Research Is the lack of iPad Flash support for security?   —  We've received some questions regarding Apple's iPad , and whether or not the lack of Adobe Flash support is for security reasons. Well, no, we don't think so. True, Adobe Flash has been exploitable in the past, and it will undoubtedly be so again, but we think it's more a matter of practicality and not security. Flash is processor, battery, and ... Editor / Java.net blogs Continuous Blog Is Live   —  The Hudson team has launched Continuous Blog , the official Hudson weblog. R. Tyler Ballance introduced the blog in his Welcome to Continuous Blog! inaugural message: Hello and welcome to "Continuous Blog", the official Hudson weblog! If you don't mind me saying so, I think its arrival is long overdue. Since Hudson started in November of 2006, ...

11. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be present Holiday 2010 3 hours ago   permalink

Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq

Or, it'll be a Holiday 2010 present , depending on how heavily you drop those hints and how desirable you find Ghost Recon: Future Soldier 's "cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes." Developed by the GRAW veterans at Ubisoft Paris, Future Soldier promises to "go beyond the ...

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Tom / Eurogamer News: New Ghost Recon also on PC and PS3   —  Future Soldier not a 360 exclusive. Ubisoft's freshly-unveiled Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will also appear on PC and PS3. Both console versions will launch simultaneously, tweeted Ubisoft's Kimi Matsuzaki this afternoon. Fellow community bod Aymeric Evennou added: "To those who wondered, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will also release on PS3: ...

Computer And Video Games Ghost Recon: Future Soldier breaks cover   —  New Clancy entry out this year with public beta. Ubisoft has just announced Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the new game in the Tom Clancy shooter series. Click here to read the full article Editor / Extremetech You Can Game with a $79 Video Card   —  You shouldn't expect the moon with AMD's new ATI Radeon HD 5570, but it provides modest gaming rewards and some cutting-edge technologies at a very reasonable price. Augie Ray / The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals Google, Gmail, Relevance Filtering & the Future of Social Media   —  �Is the Social Media world about to change on�Tuesday? Probably not, but all eyes will be on Mountain View tomorrow when Google announces their latest venture into the social sphere , reportedly a social add-on to Gmail. Let me begin by saying that I know absolutely nothing about what Google has up its sleeve, but let's speculate.� Why?� Because ... Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk Future of News meet-ups in Brighton and Birmingham   —  Inspired by the first UK Future of News meet-ups in London, a couple of regional nests have been formed, with the Brighton and West Midlands groups holding their inaugural meetings last night. Tweets from the West Midlands (#fonwm) here Meet-up group at this link Tweets from Brighton (#bfong) here Meet-up group at this link My colleague Laura ... Tom / Eurogamer News: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier revealed   —  Due this autumn, beta in summer. Ubisoft's big reveal has turned out to be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, a new instalment in the tactical shooter series that's due for release this autumn. The name may ring a bell, as Ubisoft filed a trademark to protect the title last December. A press release promises "cutting-edge technology, prototype high- ... MAKE Turning a motor into a sensor with the Peppermill   —  Tom Igoe got his hands on a Peppermill circuit board, and took it out for a spin: Nicolas Villar sent me a sample of the PepperMill, a new sensor board he and Steve Hodges designed at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. It's a nifty little board. You attach a DC motor and the board can an output voltage when the motor is turned, and analog ...

12. Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1 7 hours ago   permalink

Matt buchanan / Gizmodo

The good news first: Adobe's promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile —and desktops in the "first half" of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it'll come over the air. The bad part? Well it's bad for Android, anyway: You're gonna need Android 2.1. At least. Because it provides some ...

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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo Microsoft Blames Your Laptop—Not Windows 7—For Battery Issues   —  After upgrading to Windows 7 , some users saw a new warning message suggesting that they need to replace their laptops' batteries. Some screamed "bug," some shouted "conspiracy,' but Microsoft denies that anything's wrong. In an entry on Microsoft's MSDN blog, Windows division President Steven Sinofsky explains that the warning message is a new ...

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13. Free Trial 1 hour ago   permalink

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To get a fully functional copy of Aperture 3 for your Mac, enter your name and email address below. You’ll receive an email with a link to download Aperture 3 and a serial number for activation. The free trial will expire 30 days after you open the application for the first time.

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14. GuruPlug Server - PLUS 3 hours ago   permalink

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Drawing under 5 Watts of power, this little palm-sized powerhouse can handle all your biggest tasks while still saving about 96% on energy costs when compared to the average 175 Watt desktop computer.

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15. Atlona© 2003-2010 3 hours ago   permalink

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The Atlona AT-HDVieW is designed to take video and audio signal from PC or Laptop and upscale it to digital HDMI output of wide-range HDTV and PC resolutions, up to 1080p. The AT-HDVieW is a plug and play device, it will automatically sense the native resolution of the display and scale the computer's output to match it. The converter will ...

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16. Fancy schmancy Tomb Raider art book 4 hours ago   permalink

Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq

The Art of Tomb Raider is looking like a must-have hard-edged coffee table book for any fan of the series and its curvy protagonist. Published by Dreams and Visions Press, the 568-page book actually comes in two volumes, with the first covering "every significant piece of Tomb Raider art" through Angel of Darkness , and the second featuring ...

17. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate 5 hours ago   permalink

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The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, February 8th, with general availability on February 10th.

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Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman SmallestDotNet Update - Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API   —  A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable" you'll often get a link to a 200 meg download. That download is the complete offline thing ...

Paul Krill / Infoworld News Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 release candidate   —  Microsoft has taken another step toward releasing its Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform, offering a release candidate (RC) for the paired technologies on Monday. Vik20000in / ASP.NET Visual Studio 2010 RC released for MSDN Subscriber   —  Hi, Today Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010) RC for MSDN Subscriber. It will be available for the General people on RC on 10th February. If you are an MSDN subscriber you can go ahead and download the bits right now from the link below. The early feedback on Twitter seems ... Editor / Neowin.net Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC released to MSDN subscribers   —  Microsoft said on Monday that it had shipped a Release Candidate (RC) copy of its development software Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio is a development environment that allows developers to create�GUI applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed... JasonBuffington / TechNet Blogs Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate – now available   —  I could say a lot of fluffy marketing stuff, but the most important thing to say is – COME AND GET IT ! We are very excited to announce that the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available for public download. Download the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 If you would like to see more about what the RC looks like, please watch our webcast ... One Microsoft Way Etc: Microsoft has posted the Release Candidate builds of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 on MSDN. The RC builds will be available to the public on Wednesday.   —  Microsoft has posted the Release Candidate builds of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 on MSDN. The RC builds will be available to the public on Wednesday. Read More: MSDN , Somasegar's Weblog Patrick Smacchia / CodeBetter.Com VS 2010 RC1 available on MSDN   —  ... and this RC1 will go public in 3 days. I had access to the Release Candidate 1 limited community editions for a month, and I can say that hopefully, overall stability, performance and memory consumption have been greatly enhanced. As many, I was pretty angry with VS2010 beta2 performance and stability and it is good to see that MS engineers ... Tim Anderson Visual Studio 2010 RC arrives with go-live license   —  Microsoft has made the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 available for download to MSDN subscribers. From tomorrow (10th February) the same release will be available to everyone. There is a go-live license so you can use this in production if you wish, though if the full release comes in April as planned, it hardly ...continue reading ... Eric Nelson / Geekswithblogs.net Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available   —  Stonking good news. The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to all MSDN Subscribers. It will be available to my dad (who is not an MSDN Subscriber) on Wednesday (Feb 10, 2010). Even better, my dad (and you) can take advantage of the go-live license to deploy code into a production environment. If you ... Aaron Kowall / Geekswithblogs.net VS2010 and .Net 4.0 RC available now on MSDN, Wed for public.   —  You can now get your hands on the Release Candidate version of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 if you are an MSDN subscriber. MS also announced that it will make the RC available to all on Wed Feb 10. Upgrade for VS2010 and .Net 4 is an uninstall/reinstall operation. The RC release also includes an updated TFS 2010.  If you are upgrading from ... Jeev / ASP.NET Visual Studio 2010 RC is out   —  Visual Studio Release Candidate is out. See the post from Scott Guthrie. If you are interested in finding out what are the changes from VS 2008 or .NET 3.5; I strongly suggest that you check out this series of blog posts Another post from Mike Taulty listing out what is new Barbara Esbin / The Progress Demystification of Net Neutrality   —  "Demystifying Net Neutrality" was the topic of a February 4th Webinar hosted by The Diffusion Group and VideoNuze, which is now available on the VideoNuze website . As a presenter, I endeavored to shed light on the controversial topic, along with Chris Riley of Free Press and two moderators, Will Richmond and Colin Dixon. While we may not have ...

18. AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops 15 hours ago   permalink

Arstechnica.com

SAN FRANCISCO—The "Llano" processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU—instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an "application processor unit," or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11- ...

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Joanna Stern / Engadget NVIDIA Optimus automates graphics switching, promises the best of both worlds   —  We've always thought switchable graphics made a lot of sense on laptops, and NVIDIA's new Optimus tech looks like it's going to bring it mainstream in a serious way -- there's no more manually toggling between the powerful discrete GPU and the power-saving integrated chip. More than just automatically switching off the discrete GPU when the ...

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19. Panasonic TH-P54VT2 takes plasma HDTVs into 3D territory 7 hours ago   permalink

Vladislav Savov / Engadget

Finally making the transition from the trade show floor to retail shelving are Panasonic's famed Viera 3D plasma HDTVs. The company has just announced it will be launching two 1080p panels on April 23 in Japan, priced at ¥530,000 ($5,932) for the 54-inch P54VT2 and ¥430,000 ($4,813) for its smaller sibling, the P50VT2 (pictured after the ...

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20. Ubisoft: EndWar sequel on hold 3 hours ago   permalink

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The news, as presented in EndWar voice-command style: -- VG247 , report, EndWar sequel , halted. -- Ubisoft, elaborate, "on the backburner." -- Joystiq, clarify, "on the backburner?" *END TRANSMISSION* Ubisoft: EndWar sequel on hold originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | ...