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Tame Viruses May Help Increase Battery Capacity Hospi: Meet Panasonic?s Awesome Healthcare Robot (Video) Contest: J-List Wants You To Have A Happy J-Christmas Live Long And Prosper With This R2-D2 Mug The Great Holiday iPad Case Round-Up IBASIS HYPERCOM HEWLETT PACKARD CO Wish you knew in an instant what time your favorite team is playing? Game Time‘s patented Schedule Watch comes pre-loaded with game date, time, location and opponent for your favorite team or any team in your sport. Update it for $10/year by downloading new schedules to your PC, then syncing with the supplied USB cable. [...] VIEWSONIC VERISIGN VERIFONE HOLDINGS Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Impending Wikileaks Release Could Be ?Embarrassing? To Foreign Governments Smartfish Whirl Mini Signals The End Of The Tired Wrist Era Gran Turismo 5 Review Round-up: Yeah It?s Good (But *How* Good?) Visiting Sports Authority On Black Friday? Don?t forget Your FourSquare Death/Star (Episode 1): The [...] TAKETWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SYNTEL SYNTAXBRILLIAN Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear: Five Days of Festivus Contest: Win $500 To Spend On Presents TDK?s Retro-Futuristic Boomboxes Look Sweet Gift Guide: The 10 Worst Toys Of The Season If This Model Train Was Much Bigger, They?d Just Call It A Train Nooka?s Zub Zayu, Another Tasteful Abstact Wristwatch Five [...] AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL Today we’re going to take a quick look at Edge from Mobigame. This is a puzzle game with arcade elements. It requires good timing and quick reflexes in addition to regular puzzle solving skills. Edge is a puzzle game with 46 levels and 18 different background tunes. 46 levels might not sound like a lot, [...] IBASIS HYPERCOM HEWLETT PACKARD CO First off, Saunavihta Vortex is pretty creepy. I mean, it's not really kid-friendly. But having said that, it's can be lots of fun for teens and adults. Basically, you control the fate of a ragdoll. You need to somehow get the ragdoll into a flaming pit. When the ragdoll gets there and stays there for three seconds, you pass the level. To get the doll there, you need to launch, batter and roll it across the level in all sorts of creative ways. The level is composed of contraptions built of white and black bars. The white bars disappear when you click them. So if you have a "swing" that stays put thanks to a delicate balance between a white bar and a black bar, as soon as the white bar goes, that swing is going to move. You can zoom out using SPACE to see more of the level; by default, you're zoomed in quite close. The closer zoom level is useful for getting the timing right when it's important, and zooming out helps you figure out the general direction. A beautiful game with a unique atmosphere. Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters Saunavihta Vortex is a creepy physics Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments INVENTEC KDDI KLATENCOR XtremeMac has been crankin' out iPod docks for years, and now former CEO Gary Bart has launched Stem Innovation, a company dedicated exclusively to iOS accessories. For its first trick, Bart and company have introduced TimeCommand which (as its name implies) goes beyond the whole dock thing and comes across as a control station for the bedroom. Among its many charms are iPhone / iPod / iPad compatibility, the ability to control your mood lighting (including a dimmer and a "wake by light" feature), battery backup (don't miss work, even if the power goes out), an app with Internet Radio playback, and something called Stem:Sonic iQ digital signal processing. Available now at the Apple store for $100. TimeCommand dock turns your iPad into a very pricey dimmer switch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  iLounge |  Stem Innovation | Email this | CommentsFISERV GOOGLE GRUPO IUSACELL You have to go to great lengths these days to distinguish your iPod dock from the teeming horde, but that's exactly what Speakal did here. To state the obvious, it's a pig, wearing sunglasses, and filled with stereo components. The beast has four-watt stereo drivers for eyes, a down-firing 15 watt subwoofer in the belly, controls in the snout, and ports in the tail region. There's also an internal lithium ion battery good for up to eight untethered hours on a charge. We're not sure what would possess you to buy the hog, especially for its $150 asking price, but it could be just the item you've been looking for to bolster your eccentric reputation... or ward off particularly annoyed fowl. Speakal's Cool iPig blasts iPod tunes with extra badassitude originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink DVICE | Speakal | Email this | Comments 
 ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL Microsoft (and just about every other big computing company) is bullish on the cloud, and the Redmond company announced a massive migration win yesterday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be moving around 120,000 users to Microsoft Online Services. It's a nice feather in the cap of Microsoft, which only earlier this month received its Authorization to Operate from the Fed. Microsoft V.P. Curt Kolcun believes the USDA deal will get the ball rolling, saying "Nearly every federal agency trusts their productivity needs to Microsoft Office, Exchange, and SharePoint today." He continued, "From a momentum perspective, I think this announcement is going to be a phenomenal catalyst to drive more interest from the federal CIO community to think about moving their full messaging suite applications to the cloud with Microsoft." ... And so the battle for the cloud continues. Your move, Google! Microsoft scores 120,000 USDA users in massive cloud win originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SVCS FISERV GOOGLE In this week's app roundup: Infinity Blade, unsheathed; zombies, murked creatively; all the frustrations of Jenga; miniaturized; the great songs of ABBA, sung splendidly; planes, safely directed to landing strips with other air traffic control people and more! More »     SYKES ENTERPRISES INORATED SYBASE SUN MICROSYSTEMS It was bound to happen sooner or later: an unholy marriage between an iPhone (or second gen or later iPod touch) and a radar detector. As seems most fitting, the peeps at Cobra are behind this one, and we must say that if this is your thing, the premise is pretty interesting: the handset, running a free app from the company, connects to the iCobra fuzz buster via Bluetooth and alerts the driver to things like cameras, commonly identified speed traps, rough intersections, and more. Suggested retail is $170, but we've seen it making the rounds for the $100 mark. Race your way to your favorite e-tailer to see for yourself. Cobra brings radar detection to the iPhone and reckless endangerment to the app store originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink iLounge | Cobra | Email this | Comments 
 QLOGIC PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS When Lee reviewed the original Blosics time-waster back in 2009, he concluded the review with the words "I just wish there were more levels, but I'll be heading back for another round." Well, it seems like Lee's wish has been granted, with the Blosics 2 Level Pack. Gameplay is exactly like the original: You shoot cannon balls out of a certain area of the screen, trying to make a tower of bricks topple. When the bricks fall into the abyss you gain points, but every ball you shoot also costs you points. You also have four different balls sizes - the larger the ball, the more expensive (and powerful) it is. It comes down to figuring the most effective trajectory and tactic for toppling the tower. The are 30 user-generated levels, and it's very addictive. I made it all the way to level 15 before the need to perform some actual work caught up with me. Very engaging. Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters Blosics 2 Level Pack is an awesome user-generated Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ELECTRONIC ARTS ECLIPSYS EASTMAN KODAK CO First off, Saunavihta Vortex is pretty creepy. I mean, it's not really kid-friendly. But having said that, it's can be lots of fun for teens and adults. Basically, you control the fate of a ragdoll. You need to somehow get the ragdoll into a flaming pit. When the ragdoll gets there and stays there for three seconds, you pass the level. To get the doll there, you need to launch, batter and roll it across the level in all sorts of creative ways. The level is composed of contraptions built of white and black bars. The white bars disappear when you click them. So if you have a "swing" that stays put thanks to a delicate balance between a white bar and a black bar, as soon as the white bar goes, that swing is going to move. You can zoom out using SPACE to see more of the level; by default, you're zoomed in quite close. The closer zoom level is useful for getting the timing right when it's important, and zooming out helps you figure out the general direction. A beautiful game with a unique atmosphere. Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters Saunavihta Vortex is a creepy physics Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments QIMONDA QUALCOMM QUANTA COMPUTER |
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