Jake West and Vince Zampella, former President and CEO of Infinity Ward respectively, have begun legal proceedings over their firings at Activision. more »
CommentsBetween now and March 9th AT&T customers can win a free trip to the Final Four. Customers can win the trip by texting the keyword for the participating school to 51234. Pitt and OSU fans will use 94253.
Your text will enter you in the contest and sign you up for scores an updates for the respective team. Not all schools are participating. See the table below from the AT&T announcement for keywords and text the keyword to 51234 or for Pitt and OSU fans text it to 94253.
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HTC announced today that they would push the reach of the beloved Desire smart phone even further. HTC will how offer, exclusively with Telstra Corp, their HTC Desire in Australia.
According to HTC, Telstra is Australia’s largest and fastest 3g network. The Desire will be available in April and pricing has not yet been announced.
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CommentsBody modders rejoice! Touch interfaces may soon be coming to your tattoo if Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research engineers advance their concept of Skinput. So far, the team has developed an external sensor that detects acoustic vibrations on the human body, and have paired this input with a projected user interface. This is an interesting field of conceptual R&D, as there could be more far reaching and tantalizing applications with convergent developments in bio-materials engineering and thin film displays.
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NASA Finds Moon Ice, Evian Reviews Pricing Forecast
NASA apparently just found radar evidence from an instrument aboard Indian satellite Chandrayaan 1 that suggests 600 million metric tons of ice are chilling at the Moon’s lunar north pole. Before you start getting excited at the concept of pitching some aerogel domes and seeking your fortune mining helium-3, you still might want to consider the fact that it still costs about $10,000 USD per pound to put something into orbit. Nevertheless, this discovery greatly increases the Moon’s real estate value and will likely contribute to the eventual geopolitical headache over lunar property rights.
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The most intersting news from Activision’s Call of Duty announcement is probably about Sledgehammer. Sledgehammer games, that is. Sledgehammer will be the company producing the spin-off action-advendure version of Call Of Duty. more »
CommentsBreaking news: Activision has fired both the CEO and President of Infinity Ward, makers of the Call of Duty franchise. more »
CommentsEPA NAMES PANASONIC HOME & ENVIRONMENT COMPANY2010 ENERGY STAR® PARTNER OF THE YEAR
Panasonic earns award for protecting the environment through manufacturing energy-efficient products.
Secaucus, NJ (March 1, 2010) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Panasonic Home & Environment Company as a 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for its outstanding contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by manufacturing energy-efficient products and helping to educate consumers about those products. Panasonic’s accomplishments will be recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 2010. more »
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If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what McGuyver would do if he really needed to get his internuttin’ on, look no further.
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Call for Entries: Third Annual AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge SM
Submit Your Most Innovative Mobile E-Learning Application for a Chance to Win a $10,000 Scholarship
Dallas, Texas, March 1, 2010
AT&T* today launched its 2010 AT&T Big Mobile on Campus ChallengeSM, a national higher education contest that invites students to design the next generation e-learning mobile application. The contest provides students with the opportunity to create an innovative application that will enhance the educational process, garner their school national recognition, and make its way into multiple mobile devices operating across multiple platforms.
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