Friday, May 20, 2011

Microsoft Makes Verizon Play With WinPho 7 Trophy

Microsoft Makes Verizon Play With WinPho 7 Trophy

Microsoft Makes Verizon Play With WinPho 7 Trophy

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:44 AM PDT

Verizon Wireless announced Thursday that it will release its first Windows 7 smartphone, the HTC Trophy 7, for sale online May 26. Windows Phone 7 devices are the only smartphones that let owners play games with Xbox Live subscribers, Verizon said. This is the another smartphone in Verizon's lineup emphasizing its gaming capabilities in Verizon Wireless's lineup. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play hits retail shelves May 26. Putting the focus on gaming, Verizon Wireless announced that consumers who buy an HTC Trophy 7 before July 15 will get a free Xbox 360 console game.

Lone Wanderers: No Warmth of the Sun for Some Planets

Posted: 19 May 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Roaming planets, untied to a solar system or stellar orbit, were recently found by a team of astronomers, according to a report in Nature. The team of researchers led by David Bennett from Notre Dame University and Takahiro Sumi of Osaka University used gravitational microlensing observing programs to spot the planets. The original goal was to look for unknown masses in the galaxy's composition that they believed could be brown dwarfs or other material, Bennett, who has been working on some of the observations since 1990, told TechNewsWorld.

The School of Gaming, Part 2: Techno-Barbarism or Essence of Humanity?

Posted: 19 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Many popular video games get a lot of bad publicity for their seeming emphasis on violence and the random techno-barbarism of advanced warfare. But there does exist true humanity at the heart of video games. The basic elements that make most video games fun and engaging involve game "mechanics" that prompt a corresponding "dynamic": Points/credits = reward; levels = influence and status; challenges = achievement; leaderboards = competition; virtual goods = self-expression.

The New Digitally Driven Generation of Artists

Posted: 19 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Our world has gone digital, so it makes sense that the worlds created by artists are going digital as well. A new generation of artists is blending creativity, art and technology in innovative and unpredictable ways -- a process of testing limits and pushing boundaries that artists have always done. "For me, art has always been about making technical experiments, and my art is the result of that process," kinetic light sculptor and scientific artist Paul Friedlander.

Should Microsoft Be Losing Sleep Over Chrome OS?

Posted: 19 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

So Google's Chromebooks finally made their long-awaited debut last week, complete with interesting leasing options for the business, government and educational markets. As Samsung and Acer put the finishing touches on their devices, the question on many tongues now is how these new machines will fit into the already-competitive mobile computing market. Over at ZDNet, in fact, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols went so far as to suggest that Google's new devices are "a Windows killer," and his sentiment has been widely echoed throughout the blogosphere.
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