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Ludology or narratology? These are the two generally accepted approaches to thinking about games. Though not incompatible, these two branches of knowledge nonetheless contend for pre-eminence among video game designer priorities. The first emphasizes play, the second story. In literary theory, ...
Facebook is having a tough month. First, it was revealed that the company hired a PR firm to portray competitor Google in a negative light, and now it is facing an even worse scenario: government regulation. The Social Networking Privacy Act, introduced into the California Senate, would force any so...
Facebook and other Internet sites have joined forces to oppose the Social Networking Privacy Act, pending California legislation that would require them to change the way they handle user privacy online. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Skype, Match.com, eHarmony and Yahoo are among the companies that sig...
Take a moment to visualize a physician traveling home in a cab from a long day. Stuck in traffic, our hypothetical physician sees this as the perfect time to catch up on email and or to do non-care-related administrative tasks. At the end of the cab ride, he or she puts the phone down to pay the d...
At 8:56 a.m. EDT Monday morning, 19 years after its first launch on May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour left NASA's Kennedy Space Center for its 25th and final flight. This is also the second-to-last shuttle mission for NASA, which is sunsetting the program due to budget cuts. The very last shu...
Samsung Electronics will demonstrate the first 10.1-inch tablet with a WQXGA PenTile screen at the SID Display Week symposium, to be held in Los Angeles May 17 to 19. The display offers a resolution of 2,560 by 1,600 pixels. The screen's resolution translates to 300 dpi, not too far behind the 326 d...
Last week was a really interesting week. Google brought out its Windows-killer product, the Chrome OS, to generally good reviews -- but most of the folks I know who have covered the desktop for years are convinced it will fail. Google also brought out a home automation product and announced a roboti...
Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3 for the Windows, Linux;, Mac OS X and Android platforms. This latest update offers better security and user privacy protection, makes it easier for end users to manage their Flash Player settings and provides new desktop video and audio capabilities for enterpris...
The online music storage and streaming field is heating up, with Amazon having launched its own service recently and Apple reportedly readying its own. Recently Google put out its own cloud music service, Google Music, though it didn't arrive without its share of rough spots. Currently, users can up...
Say you're a real estate agent, and you want to show a new listing to your client. You don't want to just email a link to information about the house, however; you want to personalize it somehow. Like, perhaps, with a video of yourself describing and selling the good points of that property to your...
Google revealed on Wednesday a Chrome OS-based notebook, a device it's been talking about for several months. Called "Chromebooks," the laptops will initially be available from Samsung and Acer June 15 through Amazon and Best Buy. The devices were unveiled at Google I/O, the Internet search giant's ...
You may think you know the shortest, quickest route to work, but wait till Google get its hands on your steering wheel. Smart technology may save you gas you didn't even know you were wasting. Ford is working with Google to harness the power of cloud computing and analytics in order to design techn...
Microsoft has announced that it would hold a VIP preview of the next major release of its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system May 24 in New York City. This release is expected to be the one that's been discussed under the code name "Mango." The "Mango" update will contain several important updat...
Every now and then -- or possibly a great deal more often -- the FBI will plant a car-tracking device on someone's automobile to track their movements. How do we know this? Occasionally, these devices are found by the persons being monitored. Some incidents have found their way into the court system...
The phrase "In the beginning was the Word" may soon take on a whole new meaning for cellphone users, if work being done by a researcher at South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University pans out.The scientist, Sang-Woo Kim, has been working on converting sound into electricity. Among other things, the techno...
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