Facebook’s fantasy games cost more than time

Seriously? You’d do that? You’d totally provide your personal information to yet another third-party application in trade for “free” coins to use in that virtual sharecrop you’ve got going over on Facebook? Do you really want a pig that bad?

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For disabled, video games can be a lifesaver

Nissa Ludwig used to be musician and a dancer and a performer. But ever since a progressive metabolic disorder made it difficult to walk, “Rock Band” is as close as she gets to the stage.

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Experimental games highlighted at game conference

Not every video game creator was musing about how to sell more hardware or craft more realistic virtual weaponry at the this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives. Several impresarios were more interested in pushing the limits of the interactive medium with their ideas.

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iPhone lifts profile of on-the-go games

Sometime next month a little company called Secret Exit is going to release an unusual game for the iPhone — a game in which the entire goal is to wrap lengths of rope around variously shaped wooden sculptures — an elephant, a dog, a snake, a rhinoceros.

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Android apps you won't find on the iPhone

Two months after the first Android phone was released, there are more than 400 free programs from which to choose and the promise of more handsets coming that use the open-source operating system.

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More smartphones will have "app stores"

Apple, with its one-stop App Store for the iPhone, made downloading programs like games and utilities for the device easy by using the phone itself. Google is doing the same thing with the new Android Market for Android phones, and next March, Research In Motion will start its own application store for BlackBerrys.

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Intel unveils new chip design to challenge AMD

Intel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it slipped into a severe financial slump.

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Do we really need E3?

LOS ANGELES — E3 has seen better days. Or, at least, bigger ones.

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Job losses confirm economy's troubles

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I heart indie games — and you should too

No matter how many millions of dollars are spent, no matter how many months and sometimes years are spent … when the latest and supposedly greatest video games land on store shelves these days, I frequently find myself struggling to summon the kind of frothy-mouthed enthusiasm that the marketing campaigns pushing these games assure me I’m supposed to feel.

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Are bite-sized games the next big thing?

"Defend Your Castle" isn't the kind of game you'd ever find sitting on a store shelf next to the likes of "Grand Theft Auto IV" or "Halo 3."

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Is iPhone the future of cell-phone gaming?

Last week, Apple got into the mobile-game business.

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MySpace Third-Party Apps Hold Onto Users

MySpace users will be able to add games, e-mail services and other features from outside developers without ever leaving the site under a new program the popular online community will fully launch next month.

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MySpace to Further Open to Developers

The online community MySpace is introducing tools for developing games, media-sharing features and other programs that better integrate with the Internet's leading social-networking site.

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Apple Extends Web Browser to Windows

Apple Inc. has set the stage for yet another rivalry with Microsoft Corp. by launching a Windows version of its Safari Internet browser and inviting developers to create Web-based programs for its upcoming iPhone.

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Apple Extends Web Browser to Windows

Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs on Monday, pitting it against Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.

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Facebook Opens Site to Other Companies

Facebook Inc. is encouraging other companies to sell products and create software for use on the popular social networking site, hoping to expand into an all-purpose destination on the Web.

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Apple Completes Switch to Intel Chips

Apple Computer Inc. completed its switch to Intel Corp. microprocessors and previewed its next-generation operating system Monday, shifting attention — for the moment — from the company's troubles surrounding the mishandling of stock options.

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Intel Unveils Details of New Chip Design

Hoping to leap ahead of smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. unveiled details of a next-generation computer chip design that it claims will perform better — and consume less power — than its current offerings.

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A veil of white dust covers the organ, the pulpit and the pews at the Grand Lutheran Church in Fort Lauderdale, a house of God bought by developers who planned to raze it for townhouses.

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State Sen. Darrell Steinberg's quiet reshuffling of 150 years of California water policy to bail out Southern California developers and giant agricultural interests to the south threatens the future of this region.

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WASHINGTON — Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of peo …

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Microsoft is really shifting development of Natal games into high gear, if a job posting for Natal development positions is to be believed.

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LOYALTON – Dave Goicoechea often tells people he's "just a farmer."

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Nintendo is to begin a new DSiWare initiative to attract indie developers to the channel, in a move that sounds similar to Sony's just-announced PSP Minis incentive for the updated PSN.

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Brace yourself for the vanishing menu bar because Mozilla has published an official feature list for Firefox 3.6 in the form of a guide for programmers who need to know about the changes.

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Mozilla has introduced a new pilot program for Firefox developers to make a little money off add-ons they've created. Developers now have the option to place a "contribution" button on their add-on page, which lets users donate any amount they wish via PayPal.

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But third-party developers can still feel free to use it as long as it's used in a reputable manner. What's less okay is using the word "Twitter" and copying the design.

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Florida defines dense urban area as one person per acre, clear path for more overbuilding...

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Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux Thursday--but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress.

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St. Petersburg columnist Howard Troxler says Gov. Charlie Crist sold the state of Florida right down the river when he signed the bill that eliminated most growth management rules in Florida.

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Special interests win, growth management loses

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We've reported in the past on how Apple has not only been late on payments to iPhone app developers, but has also neglected to pay some developers for their app sales at the store entirely. We thought that perhaps our post might call Apple's attention to the problem.

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MySpace announced Monday a twofold partnership with Microsoft: first, a MySpace mobile application for Windows Mobile phones, and second, support for Microsoft's Silverlight technology in the News Corp.-owned social network's developer platform.

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Major changes proposed to "gut" Florida's growth management system.

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28 Adobe Air Apps for Designers and Developers

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Get ready to turn in your wireless axe, microphone and drum kit for a turntable and a pair of headphones.

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Android-powered G1 phone is an enticing platform for app developers as the Android source code is open and so this encourages developers to continue developing apps for it.

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Lugaru shows why game developers should support Mac OSX and Linux

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With a record amount of commercial real-estate debt coming due, some of the country's biggest property developers have become the latest to go hat-in-hand to the government for assistance.

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We've seen a number of Facebook Connect-related announcements over the past couple days, including Movable Type and Disqus, that make it easier for websites to implement the portable identity service.

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Apple - strict and controlling?

With the recent release of Google's iPod Mobile application which features groundbreaking voice recognition for search technology not being launched until Monday, two days after the expected release, some important questions need to be asked.

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The Independent Commission Against Corruption has recommended 11 individuals be prosecuted for 139 criminal offences for corruption offences in a scandal it said was without precedent.

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Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone.

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