Archive for September, 2011 - Page 10

WiFi Signals May Be Used To Spy On Your Movements Inside Your House

A High-Tech Snoop May Be Able To Use WiFi To track Your Movements From Outside Your House
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

In a high-tech world like we live in, there are many ways spies and snoops can keep a bead on you. Is you life interesting enough to elicit such dubious actions as spying and snooping? For the high-tech snoop, almost any tool can be used for their deeds. What if [...]

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Tweets Could Become Part Of Historical Record

Andy Carvin's Tweets Will Be Added To The Library Of Congress' Twitter Archive
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

Twitter is one of those platforms that seem to be directed toward real-time consumption. As people write their tweets, people follow them as they are published making them expressions of the moment. If those tweets are archived, can they tell people years from now what we were thinking during those [...]

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Evernote Update Adds Smoother Lines & Cropping To Skitch Feature

Evernote Updates Skitch Feature Improving Line Smoothness & Adding Cropping
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

The Evernote team has been quite busy in the last few months. Lets see, they bought and integrated Skitch, they released the Skitch Android app, they’ve improved the Evernote iOS and Mac apps, and even released an app for the BlackBerry Playbook. Now they are hard at work improving the [...]

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iPad 2 vs Kindle Fire – Who’s Killing Who in the Tablet Business

Amazon Didn’t Necessarily Announce the Kindle Fire as an iPad 2 Alternative; Their Offspring to Become Fierce Rivals?
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

Amazon announced the Kindle Fire today, an Android tablet that looks nothing like any of the current Android tablets out there, and a device that was never supposed to become an iPad killer per se. Amazon is adopting a different strategy apparently, even if that means taking an initial loss [...]

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Interceptor Entertainment Shelves Duke Nukem 3D Remake

Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded Fan Project Shelved Despite Being Given The Go-Ahead From Gearbox Software
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

Late last year, it was revealed that Interceptor Entertainment was given the go-ahead with their planned remake of Duke Nukem 3D from none other than Gearbox Software, the current owner of the Duke Nukem IP. That’s a pretty big boost when it comes to fan remakes – normally these fan [...]

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Heavy Rain Creator Blasts US Marketing Departments

Heavy Rain Creator David Cage Blames Marketing Departments For His Games Struggling In The US
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

Video games are a very fickle and ever-changing genre of entertainment. What’s in now might be all but extinct in another five or ten years, and gamers around the world have an almost rabid loyalty to their favorite genres and series. This is what makes innovation so difficult to pull [...]

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Google-Motorola Deal Further Investigated by Department of Justice

DoJ Wants More Information on Proposed Google Motorola Purchase; Deal in Jeopardy?
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

A short while ago Google decided to overbid for Motorola in order to get its hands on an impressive collection of patents, not to mention the possibility of building its own Android hardware, a move that would put it into a better position of fighting rivals in the mobile business.

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Man Steals 54 Copies Of Madden 2012 From Walmart Store

Man Walks Off With 54 Copies Of Madden 2012 In Walmart Store Theft, Police Still Haven't Been Able To Track Him Down
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

Normally, when we write about some kind of video game theft here at TFTS, it’s about a guy who steals Xbox 360s from kids with cancer, or tunnels through an adjoining suite to rip off a GameStop store. You know, sensational stuff that normal human beings wouldn’t normally do.

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FIFA Soccer 12 for the Mac Released

Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

Soccer (or football, if you must) fans with Mac computers, rejoice! Electronic Arts and TransGaming are bringing the FIFA Soccer 12 game to the Mac platform for the first time. FIFA Soccer 12 has a list of new features that makes it different from its predecessors. If you’d like to [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus / Prime & Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Almost Confirmed by CTIA Invite

Samsung Issues Press Invitation for Upcoming October 11 Unpacked Event, It’s a “Google Episode”
Filed by on Wednesday, 28. September 2011

We heard a few days ago that Samsung has scheduled a special media event for the next CTIA edition, on October 11, and we immediately assumed the company will introduce the only flagship mobile device left to launch this year, the Galaxy Nexus / Nexus Prime.

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