A new report from Wells Fargo Securities suggests that IT spending is stable and will rise a bit in 2012.
09/15/2011
Case-Mate accidently leaks iPhone 5 case - 4S model confirmed?
Tango video calling demoed on Mango-based HTC Titan (video)
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Feature: The dreams in which I'm dying: Ars reviews Gears of War 3
Gears of War 3 begins as the series did five years ago—with series protagonist Marcus Fenix in a jail cell. This time, though, we find out why Fenix was imprisoned. Gears 3 completes the story that began back in 2006, and it does so definitively. Not everyone will survive.
Endings are important, and how a game ends can change how you look at the entire experience that took you to that point, or even about the whole series of games that came before. The final scenes we share with these characters are telling, and the question the game asks is important: when you give everything, what do you do with all the nothing left to you?
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Daily iPhone App: WordFoto
WordFoto is a photo app that will assemble a picture for you using both a source picture and any words you happen to throw in the text field. Basically, you put a picture and some words into the app, and the app's crazy algorithm spits out a picture assembled out of different variations of the two or three words you punched in. It's an interesting mix of images -- a little simple, honestly, since all of the pictures look about the same. But if you need a really interesting illustration or have a really great picture/word match, you can make some graphics that can be pretty striking.
The app itself is US$1.99 on the App Store right now, and it's got a ton of nice features, including custom styles for your photos in addition to the standard presets, the ability to crop and save your outputted photos, and of course you can share them out on email or Facebook as well.
The app's being updated as well, with new styles and features all the time. WordFoto is a fun way to make some interesting art. It's a little simple, but used in a subtle and careful way, it can make some really powerful graphics for you.
Daily iPhone App: WordFoto originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Federal courts jack up fees for online access by 25 percent
The federal courts announced on Tuesday that they would be increasing fees for accessing public court records by 25 percent, from 8¢ per page to 10¢ per page. Most Americans have never heard of PACER, the website the federal courts use to distribute judicial records. But for thousands of journalists, academics, and practicing attorneys, news of the fee hike produced a collective groan.
The courts emphasize that they haven't raised PACER fees since 2005, when they increased the fee from 7¢ to 8¢ per page. But with rising usage, revenues had been growing anyway. With the new increase, PACER revenues will likely exceed $100 million per year.
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09/14/2011
Daily iPhone App: Samurai Bloodshow
Sega recently introduced Samauri Bloodshow to the App Store. It's a weird mix of strategy and action. It's a samurai game, of course, so you're controlling samurai warriors in feudal Japan. And the actual game mechanic is sort of Plants vs. Zombies or tower defense-inspired -- you place troops out on a board, where they stand in place until enemies show up, at which point they cut them down as quickly as possible.
But the mechanic of how you lay the troops down is the weird thing -- there's a sort of collectible card game feel to it. As you level up through the game (and you can play multiple difficulties on each level), you earn cards that get added to your deck, and it's those cards that actually summon the samurai. It's an interesting mechanic, but it's a little out of place, and unfortunately, the game's translation issues make things a little confusing.
That said, there's plenty of content to play with here, with over 100 levels to go through, lots of cards to find and collect, and full Game Center integration as well. Samurai Bloodshow is US$4.99 on the App Store right now.
Daily iPhone App: Samurai Bloodshow originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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What media companies can learn from Walmart
What drove Walmart to acquire OneRiot and make it part of Walmart Labs is the same thing plenty of other companies -- particularly media entities -- should be interested in: namely, making sense of all the data that is coming in from users on social networks.
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