| Title | Description |
| Underdog Mickelson Favored To Win First U.S. Open And Ticket Prices At 3-Year High |
With Tiger again atop the world golf rankings, the golf ticket market is hot. U.S. Open tickets at Marion Country Club are up over 64% compared to last year and 61% compared to 2011. More then Tiger, it’s the course itself that has made this the most expensive U.S. Open in the last three years. |
| Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Misses The Big Picture |
Samsung turned the heads of camera geeks and tech journalists last week when it announced the Galaxy S4 Zoom, an Android-powered 16MP phone with a 10x optical zoom lens. If you've ever tried the digital zoom feature on your smartphone, only to end up with a pixelated mess, then you get this camera's appeal right away. Indeed, until camera makers finally came to terms with the smartphone's destruction of the point-and-shoot camera market, they insisted that a compelling advantage of the compact camera was the ability to zoom the lens. |
| Your Brand Promise Can Create Or Destroy Customer Loyalty |
Guest post by Sree Hameed, Senior Strategic Market Advisor, Invensys – Software Business |
| Why Oddworld is Coming to Every Platform Except Xbox |
There's no need to go through yet another laundry list of the Xbox One's potential problems, but there is one that's getting overlooked in favor of the larger issues of price and DRM. It's the way Microsoft is limiting indie game development on the Xbox One. |
| Can Google Fly Its Internet Balloons Wherever It Wants? |
The Internet is abuzz with news of the first public flight tests in New Zealand of Google’s Project Loon, which aims to provide Internet access to underserved areas using a network of high-altitude balloons. As Google explained in a June 14 blog post:
We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides Internet access to the earth below. It’s very early days, but we’ve built a system that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, to beam Internet access to the ground at speeds similar to today’s 3G networks or faster. As a result, we hope balloons could become an option for connecting rural, remote, and underserved areas, and for helping with communications after natural disasters. The idea may sound a bit crazy—and that’s part of the reason we’re calling it Project Loon—but there’s solid science behind it.
Whether Project Loon’s vision makes technical sense is a worthy question. But even if it passes technical muster, the prospect of using globe-circling high-altitude balloons as communications platforms raises complex legal issues regarding airspace access and control. |
| 'Patent Trolls' Destroy Value And Innovation (Am I Dreaming?) |
The U.S. patent system is one of best in the world, but it needs help. Curbing patent abuse will make our system better and our innovation stronger. Here's why. |
| How Fracking Killed Nuclear Power |
• Cheap Gas, Not Wind, Spurred Exelon To Cancel Nuclear Upgrades, Exec Says |
| Dow, ConocoPhillips Spar Over LNG Exports |
Manufacturers need five years to ramp up domestic plants being built to take advantage of America's glut of cheap shale gas, according to a Dow Chemical executive, and the country should be careful not to undercut them by depleting that supply with exports. |
| Google Loon: Google's Second Most Important Project |
Google's latest "moonshot" project is Project Loon, a phalanx of balloons that sail in the stratosphere like low level satellites. The objective is to bring broadband capability to less developed parts of the world, an ambition Google is also pursuing through its White Spaces project. |
| Lesson 1: How We Can All Be Great Developers |
Ajit Jaokar is best known as a luminary of the mobile world – he runs the next generation telco program at Oxford University and has been a regular Mobile World Congress speaker as well as a member of the World Economic Forum's Future of the Internet Council. We met in London’s Paddington station recently to discuss Feynlabs, Ajit’s developer/programming start-up. Here’s the basic proposition. |
| Inside The World's Biggest Consumer 3D Printing Factory |
Shapeways has built the world's most productive 3D-printing-as-a-service facility in the world--in Queens, of all places. |
| Samsung Debuts The New Galaxy S IV |
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| The Samsung Galaxy S4 Review - Application Support And Final Thoughts |
One month later, what do I think of the Samsung Galaxy S4? I've been reviewing the South Korean company's flagship Android handset during May and June as a narrative review. You can read about my first moments with the handset, the built in applications, the imaging capabilities, and Samsung's additional applications from previous weeks. Now it's time to look at the Galaxy S4 as a whole and decide just how good a smartphone it actually is. |
| Sony PlayStation 4 Launch Edition Already Sold Out At Amazon |
Gamers are speaking with their wallets following E3 2013, a show that was dominated by Sony PlayStation 4 in the next gen battle. Amazon has already sold out of the $400 PlayStation 4 launch edition of the next gen console, which will be available on day one of Sony’s launch. |
| The Evil Within: A Return To Pure Survival Horror? |
Recording was not allowed during the presentation of Bethesda Softworks’ The Evil Within (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One) at E3 2013. This is a bit of a tragedy because as with many survival horror titles, showing is much better than telling. Game developer Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) brings dark visions to life in this new title that looks to bring things back to the “pure” survival horror games of yesteryear on consoles, a genre that has recently experienced somewhat of a cult revival on PC thanks to titles like Amnesia: The Dark Descent. |
| Tiny Brains Captures Casual and Core Audiences |
We had a chance to take a close look at Spearhead Games’ Tiny Brains (PC, PSN, PS4) at E3 2013. It’s a physics-based co-operative action puzzler that feels like the evolution of the party game genre. Games like Mario Party provide the charm and the mini-games, but Tiny Brains somehow manages to provide an enjoyable experience for a wide variety of demographics. |
| Natural Gas Grid Is Key Enabler For U.S. Energy Security, Says DoD Study |
The natural gas distribution system can significantly enhance energy security at domestic military installations during electric grid failures, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). |
| Were Xbox One E3 Demos Running On NVIDIA Hardware? It Doesn't Matter, And Here's Why |
It wouldn't be E3 week (or any other week in the video game industry) without some controversy. |
| Google Launches Audacious, Disruptive, Internet In The Sky |
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's affordable Internet access for everyone! Just as U.S. telecom giants were getting used to the idea of competing with Google for high-speed broadband customers, the Internet giant has launched a balloon-based broadside that could ultimately change how communications is delivered around the world. On Friday, |
| U.S. Sustains Support For Small Modular Nuclear Reactors |
Despite the political fallout from the Fukushima crisis, the U.S. Department of Energy remains committed to commercializing small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technologies. |
| Psstt! Want An E-Cat LENR Generator? For Free? |
Hydro Fusion, a licensee of Leonardo Corp.'s E-Cat, is looking for a first customer. The cost? Zero. |
| SuperGrid: A Discussion With Energy Expert Roy Morrison |
Roy Morrison, Photograph Courtesy of Roy Morrison Roy Morrison is a writer and energy consultant with over 30 years experience. He is Director of the Office for Sustainability at Southern New Hampshire University, focused upon energy renewables and efficiency. He was the author of the first law in the nation (the |
| Apple Loop: Cook Unveils Mission Statement, iOS 7 Gets Colorful, New iPhone In The Fall |
Keeping you in the loop about some of the things that happened around Apple this week. Designed by Apple in Cupertino. For those of us who attended the Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, it wasn’t the new operating systems, updated MacBook Air or Mac Pro preview that stood out. It |
| Zynga Moves Into The Mobile MOBA Space With Solstice Arena |
Zynga’s take on the mobile MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), Solstice Arena (iOS), went live during E3 2013. It features a 3v3 free-to-play structure and gameplay that strips down the MOBA to core player vs. player elements in a compact synchronous session. While other attempts at bringing the MOBA to life exist on mobile devices, there are design features in this title that set it apart from the rest of the pack. Quite frankly, Solstice Arena does an excellent job at bringing the core elements of the MOBA to a mobile platform. |
| Sony PlayStation 4 Launch Edition Already Sold Out At Amazon |
Gamers are speaking with their wallets following E3 2013, a show that was dominated by Sony PlayStation 4 in the next gen battle. Amazon has already sold out of the $400 PlayStation 4 launch edition of the next gen console, which will be available on day one of Sony’s launch. Sony is still selling PS4 as a $400 Standard Edition, but is not guaranteeing when gamers will receive that version this fall. |
| PlayStation 4 Hardware |
PlayStation 4 hardware reveal at E3 2013 |
| Were Xbox One E3 Demos Running On NVIDIA Hardware? It Doesn't Matter, And Here's Why |
It wouldn't be E3 week (or any other week in the video game industry) without some controversy. The latest alleged nail in Microsoft's Xbox One coffin comes in the form of this image from CinemaBlend, showing an Xbox One demo running with a newer NVIDIA dedicated GPU. That's not entirely accurate; the game had actually crashed to a Windows 7 desktop. |
| Microsoft Reveals The Xbox One |
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| Stunning Photos Of Google's Massive Data Centers |
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