GameBuilder Studio is a cross-platform tool for creating games. Anyone from a professional game developer to a wannabe can bring their ideas to life using the GameBuilder visual editor. The focus is on building sophisticated casual games and the system allows you to deploy these games across multiple screens, including your mobile devices and the [...]
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Cisco Kills the Flip Camcorder Cisco bought Pure Digital, the company behind the Flip, for $590 million two years ago. On Tuesday, Cisco announced they would be shutting down that whole division and laying off 550 people. Nobody really knows what happened, but most tech folks immediately jumped on the fact that most smartphones these [...]
Internet Week New York take place in the first week of June. It’s actually a festival which creates a “critical mass of web-focused events that raises the profile of NYC’s industry as a whole, as well as the partners who participate.” They are allowing panel submissions for the main AOL stage, which will be streamed [...]
Starting Thursday, the Oprah Winfrey Network and Oprah.com will claim an official “Oprah” section on Flipboard, the iPad app that turns your social stream into a magazine. Based on her Twitter feed, the Oprah section will include content from print sources like O, The Oprah Magazine and OWN, in addition to videos counting down her farewell [...]
At the Mix 11 conference Tuesday, Microsoft surprised attendees by introducing the Internet Explorer 10 platform preview. This comes just weeks after the launch of Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch said during his keynote at Mix 11 that IE10 builds on the native HTML5 support in IE9, which will lead to long-term adoption of [...]
In a paper published by Christopher Soghoian, a doctoral candidate at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, he warns that Police and other agencies have “enthusiastically embraced” requesting information from entities like Sprint, Facebook, and, AOL. While law enforcement makes “tens of thousands of requests” for your personal information, there are no [...]
The folks at HopStop have been busy adding several new features and enhancements to make the navigational service better. HopStop offers free transit and walking directions for cities across the U.S. and Canada. Recent updates to the web interface include: Faster Results – Due to several behind-the-scenes technical enhancements, we now present you with direction [...]
Adobe has announced a set of development tools today that will allow developers to code once and deploy everywhere. This new software will allow users to develop, test and deploy mobile applications on devices running Android, BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS. Developers have been able to use Adobe products for more than seven years to build [...]
The Blacks at Microsoft (BAM) employee network is offering a $5,000 scholarship for the 2011/12 academic year to outstanding high school seniors pursuing careers in technology. The scholarship is renewable, so the recipient will receive $5,000 annually for up to four years as long as they continue to meet the criteria. There are 2 scholarships [...]
Got Milk? Details on Kevin Rose’s New Company Weeks after leaving Digg, Kevin Rose released details about his new company: Milk. Rose and a team of five other coders will set out to solve specific old-industry problems related to using the mobile Internet. Rather than following the trends for incubators in Silicon Valley, Milk is [...]
This year marks the first that HBCUs will be included in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. We covered this earlier this year, but there is a burning question surrounding this event: Why, exactly, is this the first time that HBCUs are participating in a competition which has been held annually for the last eight years? Last [...]
Google has announced that their Check-in service based on Latitude, launched in Austin last month at SXSW, is now available across the US. This means you can use the Google Latitude app to check-in at locations across the US and unlock deals based on your status. The way it works is pretty simple: Check in. [...]
Drum Circle Kids is an app for iPad that allows your child to create unique jam sessions by tapping on five colorfully animated drummers. By toggling the drummers on and off, you can create dozens of possible sound combinations. You can also explore the scenery to discover ambient sounds hidden there. In the learn section, [...]
Global human rights organization, Breakthrough, has launched a new Facebook game called 2049. Players actively explore “how the choices and challenges Americans now face will shape the future of the country, its democratic values and how we define ourselves as a nation.” America 2049 is the first Facebook game to integrate the social networking platform [...]
WSJ reports that Google is looking to revamp YouTube in order to ride the trend of televisions that allow viewers to watch online video. Primarily, the goal is to compete with broadcast and cable television by enticing users to stay on the site longer and attracting advertisers. The site is planning a series of changes to [...]
