After Windows Phone 7 Series’ grand unveiling at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress last month, Microsoft has circled back over the last several days during GDC and its own MIX10 conference to fill in many of the holes in this story — in particular, details around the app development ecosystem and how third parties can take full advantage of it have been focal points. Of course, it makes sense: a modern smartphone is only as good as its software catalog, and Redmond’s clearly keen to show that it knows how very true that is
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Windows Phone 7 Series: the complete guide
3D television is a hard sell, with little content and higher costs for the newest gear to give you an Avatar-like experience in your home. But retailers and manufacturers are starting that hard sell anyway. “This is a breakthrough moment, a defining moment for the industry.” Those are strong words, and they’ve probably been said about a great many things, but this week it was Panasonic Consumer Electronic’s Senior Vice President Bob Perry who made the bold statement about the new dimension in television
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The circus tent sales pitch begins for 3DTV sets and Blu-ray players
Gaikai , the games on demand company founded by game veteran David Perry, has lined up financing for an ambitious expansion of its server capacity needs. Perry (pictured, center) said in an interview last week at the Game Developers Conference that Triplepoint Capital will provide enough financing to enable Gaikai to lease a worldwide network of servers for its games-on-demand technology
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Gaikai lines up financing for cloud-based gaming services
Peter Molyneux , founder of Microsoft’s Lionhead Studios , is an elder statesman of the video game business. His next big game is Fable III , coming this fall to the Xbox 360.
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Hoping to turn Chicago into the technology epicenter of the Midwest, the founders of bulk and discount buying site Groupon have launched a new fund called Lightbank to provide seed funding to startups locating in or near the city. Right now, the plan is to give out $10 million every year for the next decade.
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Groupon founders launch $100M ‘Lightbank’ fund to seed Chicago startups
Filed under: iPad Is it too early to think about pre-ordering an iPad? The WSJ’s Smart Money website looks at the options for early adopters, and comes to the surprising and novel conclusion that it costs more to buy early . I’m not sure there’s a polite way to put this, so with all due respect to Smart Money, let me say: Well, of course.
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I’m OK, You’re OK: It’s cool to be an early iPad adopter
A new Google Labs project merges two breakthroughs into one. Public Data Explorer brings together a set of databases — health statistics, crime stats, oil prices, economic metrics — with a browser-based technology that lets researchers and presenters create charts that move
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Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer
Let’s face it: anything that a human can do a robot can do better.
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M3 robots used to research human development, melt hearts (video)
