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ARM Showcases Technology for Expanding the Mobile Gaming Experience at … – Business Wire (press release)
Google makes Android more friendly to game developers and players – Polygon
Steam Family Sharing Now Available to All Users – SegmentNext
SegmentNextSteam Family Sharing Program, the feature that allows users to share their Steam Library among multiple users and PCs is now out of Beta Phase and available to all Steam users. Players who share computers…
Another Miami tower planned to top 1000 feet – MiamiHerald.com
Another Miami tower planned to top 1000 feetMiamiHerald.comThe high-rise boom in downtown Miami has fired up again. And so has the race to the heavens. Three big developers are scrambling to erect the first clutch…
IBM seeks mobile apps for Watson – San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco ChronicleIBM Corp. is encouraging software developers to build applications on its artificial-intelligence system Watson, looking to data analytics to help reverse falling revenue. IBM will host a mobile developer challenge that urges programmers…
IBM’s Rometty makes developers an offer: the Watson mobile app challenge – PCWorld
PCWorldIBM CEO Ginni Rometty took to the Mobile World Congress stage Wednesday to announce a global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by its Watson supercomputer platform. Watson is…
Mass transit dominates sold-out talk on Nashville’s development future – Nashville Business Journal (blog)
Mass transit dominates sold-out talk on Nashville’s development futureNashville Business Journal (blog)Greater Nashville is expected to see an influx of one million new residents to Nashville over the next 25 years. At the Nashville Business…
Apple Buys App-Testing Company Burstly as Acquisitions Increase – Businessweek
BusinessweekApple Inc. (AAPL:US), speeding up the pace of acquisitions, bought Burstly Inc., a software company that helps developers create smartphone and tablet applications. The deal, first reported by TechCrunch, was confirmed today by Kristin Huguet,…
Google asks Internet eyewear fans not to be Glassholes’ – Business Recorder
Business Recorderimage SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Tuesday gave early adopters of its Internet-connected eyewear a bit of advice: don’t be “Glassholes.” It was the final suggestion in a recommended code of conduct posted online for…
Why Is Walmart Paying Chris Christie’s Pals? – Daily Beast
Why Is Walmart Paying Chris Christie’s Pals?Daily BeastIn 2010, the developers came back with another proposal that was again rejected, this time by the administration of new governor Chris Christie, who had been enthusiastically endorsed…
Lofty Los Angeles office tower launched with record concrete pour – Reuters
ReutersRising 73 stories into the Los Angeles skyline, the New Grand Wilshire tower will measure 1,100 feet (335 meters) high, including a spire affixed to the top of the building, in a design that developers…
Miami historic preservation board moves to protect Tequesta site – MiamiHerald.com
MiamiHerald.comMiami’s historic preservation board on Friday roundly rejected a developer’s plan to carve out and display a prehistoric remnant of a recently uncovered Tequesta village in downtown Miami, and instead set the stage for potentially…
Robots Based on the Behavior of Termites – Guardian Liberty Voice
Guardian Liberty VoiceAdvances in modern robotics have helped develop robots that are based on the pattern of how termites behave in a colony. Developers believe that the new technology will help researchers work in areas…
Native American Site Leaves Miami in Quandary – ABC News
Native American Site Leaves Miami in QuandaryABC NewsIn Miami, a major prehistoric Native American village has been discovered at a downtown site where developers plan to construct a movie theater, condos and hotel building. The…
Microsoft Challenges Apple, Google on Tablets – NEWS.GNOM.ES
NEWS.GNOM.ESMicrosoft will announce efforts to boost its flagship Windows software during its Build developers conference in April, but the company faces a challenge gaining a new generation of users on the growing tablet market competing…
Oakland News: Merry Christmas, Oakland!
This Oakland News is just a hearty “Merry Christmas!” to the people who make up one of the greatest cities in the entire World. What’s amazing about Oakland is that it steadfastly holds on to…
5 things you need to know on Friday – USA TODAY
USA TODAYJapan robot chats with astronaut on space station. The first humanoid robot in space made small talk with a Japanese astronaut and said it had no problem with zero-gravity on the International Space Station….
Apple reveals top app downloads of 2013: Candy wins – USA TODAY
USA TODAYLOS ANGELES — You weren’t the only ones addicted to a mobile confection in 2013. Candy Crush Saga, the smash hit game that millions played on subways, waiting at the bank or hanging around…
Oakland News: Mayor Quan’s Boondoggle Radio Deal For Re-Election; Coliseum City Stupidity
UPDATE: Oakland News: Mayor Quan’s Woodminster Wheelchair Problem In “White v. Oakland” UPDATE: Oakland A’s Move To San Jose Rejected By Major League Baseball. This Oakland News entry may, no will, tick someone off. To…
Google Glass: A Thank You To Sarah Price And Answer To Her Question
Who had Google Glass, or looked like they had it, in 2012? The question comes because Sarah Price, of the Google Glass team was kind enough to respond back to my blog post ranting on…
Yahoo! Hack USA Has Interesting Winners: AirLeap, Foldr, Note, Quest, FlickrPedia
Yahoo! Hack USA, which drew about 300 down to the Yahoo! Developers Group-produced event in Sunnyvale, was held last weekend, and without the controversy that plagued the TechCrunch Hackathon (where a group made an app…
Anne Gust Brown To Run For Mayor Of Oakland: Hot Rumor
Anne Gust Brown, the First Lady of California and an Oakland resident with her husband, California Governor and former Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown is going to run for mayor of Oakland herself – or…
Social Media Games: Are The Curtains Closing?
Are the curtains closing on social media games? With over 10 million active players daily, Sim Social was one of EA’s (Electronic Arts) most successful social games in 2011. Recently, EA announced that it was shutting down…
Would Apple’s Steve Jobs Hire Kevin Lynch, The Adobe Flash Guru?
Steve Jobs is no longer of this Earth, and while your response may be ‘He never was, even when he was here,’ the bottom line is Mr. Jobs is no longer around to scream about…
IGDA Party Confusion: YetiZen CEO Wrongly Blamed For Wargaming’s Sexy Party
IGDA Party confusion is at play in the controversy surrounding the San Francisco Ruby Sky Party where sexily-dressed female dancer models performed, upsetting a number of women attendees of the event, and causing some to…
Oakland City Auditor’s Report A Racist Attack On Black Councilmembers
UPDATE: Courtney Ruby rumored to be gearing up to run for Mayor of Oakland. The Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby has presided over the preparation of a report entitled “Non‐Interference in Administrative Affairs, Performance Audit,…
Google Play Privacy Notice Is In The Device TOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WY5CTt8k04 There’s a lot of noise about Google Play and what one developer, Dan Nolan, called a “privacy problem” – it’s not that at all. But before this blogger explains why it’s not an issue,…
Pete’s Harbor Owner Paula Uccelli Victim Of Bullying After Selling Property
All 70-year-old Paula Uccelli wants to do is get out of the business of running a harbor her late husband established and called Pete’s Harbor. She and Pete Uccelli ran the harbor for 60 years…
Sonny Dykes: New Head Coach Brings Airraid Offense To Cal Football
Sonny Dykes as Cal’s next head coach may have some Cal Alumns scratching their heads, but this Old Blue is very happy with the decision to bring the architect of the nations #1 offense to…
Pantech USA’s BURST Android Offered By AT&T For 99 Cents; Has Problems
Pantech USA offers a neat looking but not well-designed-to-use Android-based smartphone called BURST that AT&T’s offering for 99 cents and has a set of annoying problems. This blogger’s Mother was the recipient of one of…
California Transportation Commission Staff Threatens $242 Million For Oakland Army Base
The Oakland Army Base Project that was approved by the Oakland City Council via a first vote on the enabling ordinance, is not out of the woods and on to breaking ground. According to a…
CES 2012: Sanho, Fitness Tech, iBike, iDevices, Soundmatters, Featured
CES 2012 starts Sunday for this blogger, and here’s a list of just some of the vendors that will be covered at the largest convention in The World: Sanho – Booth #4606 – North Hall:…
Healthcare Mingle Jingle – Healthcare and Technology: Discussing the Future
Healthcare and IT are both really keen and simultaneously reluctant bedfellows. It is well known that there is a huge push towards the use of IT and electronic data in healthcare, highlighted by the push…
Oakland Mayor Leads: Lionel Wilson Promotes Oakland
For the many who never knew Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson, who was Oakland’s last three-term Mayor, and its first African American Mayor, serving from 1977 to 1991, when he lost to Elihu Harris. During his…
Dreamforce: In SF SalesForce.com Needs Consultants, In ATL, Job Fair Draws Thousands
At Dreamforce San Francisco, SalesForce.com’s effort to teach Salesforce users and developers about the benefits of cloud computing that’s underway at Moscone Center, Salesforce Senior Vice President of Worldwide Partners and Solutions Denzil Samuels used…
