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 Prior to the public announcement on Friday, Intel was kept in the dark with regards to Nokia?s plans to relegate MeeGo to a glorified R&D project, sources with knowledge of the situation tell TechCrunch Europe. The U.S. chip maker, it appears, was caught off guard as were many media outlets and analysts - this publication aside - with the news that Nokia has forged a long term partnership with Microsoft that will see the handset maker adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform. Intel, which along with Nokia is developing the MeeGo operating system, is said to be extremely concerned now that Nokia will inevitably reduce its engineering commitment, which it desperately needs, and where this leaves plans to get its Atom chip into smartphones and other mobile devices. We?ve also learned that Nokia?s first MeeGo device, originally scheduled to be announced late last year, has been sent back to the drawing board by operators.  Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/baZTRhn-Njc/ MICROSOFT MILLICOM INTL CELLULAR MOBILE TELESYSTEMS NANYA TECHNOLOGY NII HOLDINGS The guys at Future Games of London have just released Hungry Shark 3 for iPhone. The Hungry Shark series is one of my favorite games for iOS (you can read my review of Hungry Shark Trilogy for iPad here). Hungry Shark 3 pits Hungry Shark against shark finners, mad scientists and leaking oil rigs. The latest edition of the Hungry Shark series also adds full HD support for Retina Displays, more than 25 new types of food (fish, crabs and people) and Game Center support. Hungry Shark 3 for iPhone is a steal at 99 cents, but for our loyal TUAW readers, Future Games of London has given us five copies of Hungry Shark 3 for iPhone to give away for free. To enter the drawing, simply leave a comment for this post. As always, the official rules are below: - Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsSource: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/10/tuaw-giveaway-hungry-shark-3-for-iphone/ DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS DIRECTV GROUP ELPIDA MEMORY EMC FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SVCS  Here?s a fascinating privacy debate for y?all to chew on this Friday afternoon. A public official in Australia was sacked after it was discovered that he had searched for ?knockers? on his work-provided computer. The computer had been running monitoring software, Spector360, that took screenshots every 30 seconds, so it found him looking for ?knockers? even though he had deleted his browser history. Here?s where it gets complicated. The public official was browsing from his home and was not browsing during work hours. ?Me time,? in other words. The question is: should employees be fired for what they do with work-provided equipment if they?re not doing so on company time, let alone at the company?s offices? Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/11/should-employees-be-fired-for-using-their-job-provided-laptops-to-look-up-porn/ HEWLETT PACKARD CO HEARTLAND PAYMENT SYSTEMS GOOGLE GOOGLE FORMFACTOR  Sushi Cat was one of the most addictive Time Wasters I played last year, both on my desktop and my iPod touch. Now, thanks to the the crew at Armor Games, there's now a sequel to the cat vs. sushi Pachinko-style madness. Sushi Cat 2 is every bit as addictive as the original, and it's also got some fun new tweaks. One thing I noticed right off is that your plus-size kitty no longer gets wedged between two objects. He'll automatically scale down slightly to slip through after a few seconds. Another addition is golden sushi, which you can gobble up to earn new costumes for Sushi Cat. Wardrobe options include a pirate, ninja, clown, and even the elephant (which you won't unlock until late in the game). There's still power-up sushi to eat, too, which enable things like soy sauce bombs, supermarket sweep mode, and pinball flippers (in true Pachinko fashion). Like the original, Sushi Cat 2 also allows you to save your progress -- so you're free to quickly close that private browsing session at work and return to your game later on. Play Sushi Cat 2 Sushi Cat 2 is a fantastically fun feline feeding frenzy follow-up originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/09/sushi-cat-2-is-a-fantastically-fun-feline-feeding-frenzy-follow/ EMS TECHNOLOGIES EMC ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC ARTS This is the second CorelDRAW tutorial in a series of four. Last week we looked at how to make a Polaroid-like image, and this week I'd like to show you how to vectorize a simple logo. I use the Android logo in the video, but you can do this with pretty much any logo other simple graphic. There are many reasons why you might like to vectorize an existing logo. Perhaps you need to modify it, integrate it into a larger design, or generate a high-res printout. As you can see in the video, there's not much you can do with the low-res Android logo Google gives you. If your bitmap logo is large enough, you might be able to use CorelDRAW's auto-trace capabilities and simply generate a good vector outline of it. However, since the bitmap I selected was so small (and simple), I opted to use a completely manual tracing method - I just recreated the Android logo using a few simple shapes. Rather than wax poetic about what the video contains, if you're curious to see the Android logo dissected and recreated in full vector glory, just watch the video after the jump. Continue reading CorelDRAW tutorial: Trace, vectorize and modify a simple logo (video) CorelDRAW tutorial: Trace, vectorize and modify a simple logo (video) originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/25/coreldraw-tutorial-trace-vectorize-and-modify-a-simple-logo-video/ GRUPO IUSACELL HARRIS HCL TECHNOLOGIES HEWLETTPACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER  You rarely notice haptics, but when it comes to human-computer interaction, they can make or break a device. That's why Immersion (the leader in haptic feedback - basically little high-speed motors in phones and other devices that add a vibrational component to on-screen interaction) just announced a way to create amazing haptics for almost all Android phones. Their MOTIV platform offers programmers and carriers a new way to add vibrational feedback to phones. For example, instead of a curt buzz when something explodes on screen, you can add special "macro" vibrations that turn the motor on and off at various frequencies, recreating the vibrations associated with an explosion. It's a bit hard to describe, but think of an audio editor for buzzing motors.  Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QlXPXcGN6vc/ TIBCO SOFTWARE THQ 
It's not exactly a new thing, but the Washington Post reported on the latest episode of a child spending hundreds -- actually $1,400 -- on in-app purchases. In this case, the 8-year-old was buying Smurfberries to decorate the Smurfs' Village app. You can spend up to $99.99 for a single in-app purchase of the berries. Apple provided the family a refund after the mother received the bill. The article points out that these sorts of purchases are being blamed on Apple since there is a 15-minute window (after authorizing a previous App Store buy) where a password is not needed to make another purchase. Yes, Apple should add the option to require a password no matter how much time has passed or have parental controls be the default setting on an app, but a child could still potentially figure out a password and toggle the option off. In the end, it is up to the parents to make sure that the child's access to in-app purchases on any device is restricted. Do not give your password to your child, or link your App Store account to a credit card with a very small credit line that cuts off when it reaches its limit. Apple is not the only company out there to have in-app or in-line purchases. You can get Facebook credits for its games just as easily -- however, since Facebook's terms of service forbid young children from using the social network, presumably the Farmville players have a bit more adult judgement to help them avoid unexpected costs. [via Switched] Smurf it all to smurf! In-app purchases ring up $1,400 in charges originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | CommentsSource: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/09/smurf-it-all-to-smurf-in-app-purchases-ring-up-1-400-in-charge/ SI INTERNATIONAL SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC GAMES SANDISK SALESFORCE COM  So... you've got a cute pet rabbit, and rabbits like carrots. That makes Carrot rabbit heaven, if there is such a thing: The game takes place on a long, lush lawn, with a line of carrots stretching into the distance, as far as the eye can see. Mmmm, carrots. But of course, this wouldn't be much of a game if you were just running along, eating carrot after carrot. That wouldn't be very challenging. That's where the dogs come in: For every carrot, you have a puppy running back and forth across the screen. If your bunny hits a dog, it's going to blink (and that, as we all know, means "ouch"). If it hits too many dogs, you lose. But your bunny can't move left or right, and it can't even move faster or stop! So what do you do? You leash the dogs, of course. Basically, when you click a dog and drag it, a leash appears and the dogs is drawn to wherever you drag. There's a bit of a lag due to the leash being elastic, but if you're fast enough, you can keep the dogs from touching the rabbit. There are also neat power-ups: You may notice my bunny has a rotor in the screenshot; the rotor lets it fly smoothly over the dogs, and it still somehow manages to eat the carrots. Of course, it doesn't last forever, and eventually the bunny lands and you have to keep leashing the dogs. All in all, a very cute game, with a lovely soundtrack to boot. Carrot is a soothing time-waster featuring bunnies and puppies originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/21/carrot-is-a-soothing-time-waster-featuring-bunnies-and-puppies/ TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITED TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES  After exactly two years of development and with over 10,000 new packages, version 6 of the wunderkind jack of all trades, Debian, has been released. This release, along with support for i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc, mips, mipsel, ia64, s390 and armel architectures, also features a technical preview of Debian ported to the FreeBSD kernel, dubbed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Along with the usual slew of updated software packages (no GNOME 3 though!), Debian 6 also reaffirms its role as the One OS to Run Them All with the addition of some 10,000 new packages, bringing the total number of software packages in Debian up to more than 29,000. If you want some idea of just how broad Debian's coverage is, check out the new Debian Pure Blends. Bearded purists will be interested to hear that the Debian 6 kernel is, for the first time, completely free. The problematic non-free firmware files have been moved into a non-free area of the Debian archive, and will have to be explicitly included if you want to use them. Finally, alongside GNOME, Debian 6 ships with KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce and LXDE desktop environments. There's also a KDE Plasma Netbook shell that makes Debian a lot more usable on small form-factor devices. The best way to download Debian 6 is with BitTorrent, but there are HTTP and FTP sources too. If you're enjoying a particularly slow Sunday morning, read the complete release notes... Debian 6 Squeeze, the universal operating system, finally released originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/06/debian-6-squeeze-the-universal-operating-system-finally-releas/ IMS HEALTH IMATION IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS IDT IBASIS |
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