Chevrolet + Xbox + Wp7 In Video

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Check it out since it’s coming soon enough to combined your car, video games and phone.   This is part of an ad campaign (more here) which notes “One proof of concept being explored involves a mobile brand experience, in which consumers can add a local Chevrolet promotion event to their calendar to go test-drive … Read more

Flash 10.1 Available Now For Android WP7 and All (But iPhone)

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And here we thought WP7 availability was months off…here’s part of the press release: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web … Read more

Shortcut To Screen Off

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Sometimes it’s nice to turn off your phones backlight but not let it go into sleep mode. By doing this, it lets background events continue without draining your battery by having the screen on. If you’re using a GPS app, for example, it can continue to track you. Another example is using Active sync where … Read more

Powermote: WP7 remote control for PowerPoint

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Earlier this month we previewed an app from Clarity Consulting that acts as a remote control for Power Point. Well today they’ve given us a new video and new detail no how it works. Turns out that the interaction between Power Point and the phone is through Microsoft’s Push Notifications so the phone sends a … Read more

Toshiba Libretto W100. I definitely want one.

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So it may not be the Courier everyone was hoping for but this thing is all sorts of awesome looking.  Toshiba has been running their ultra-mobile Libretto line for quite a few years now and they’ve typically occupied price points north of 1,000$ and with this being limited production/prototype sort of model don’t expect any less.  Planned to launch for their 25th anniversary late this summer the W100 is going to be rocking side by side 7 inch multi-touch screens with Windows 7 Home Premium.  It’s also packing a 1.2GHz Intel U5400 processor with 2GB of DDR3 and 62GB of solid state sweetness.  Haptic feedback on a virtual keyboard included, although I’ll be looking into a nice pen/capacative stylus I can carry around for One Note and other such handwriting recognition awesomeness.  More info and video links after the break.

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Parrot AR.Drone coming in September

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For those of you not as familiar with the world of video games, last week was the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. I was able to attend on behalf of Xbox 360 Digest, and found an interesting mobile-related device at the show. While I guess this could be considered nothing more than an expensive toy, The Parrot AR.Drone is quite possibly the best RC device I have ever used. The lightweight quadricopter is controlled via WiFi on an iOS device (iPod Touch or iPhone) and will be available this September for $299. For more information on the device, check out Parrot.com or read the full PR after the break.

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News for June 21 2010

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Hello, Hello! Another Monday is here, time for the start of another glorious work week!  I’ve got a couple news reviews coming for you this week of the Apple iPod nano 5th and another GPS unit, but this one though is the first one I’ve seen that lets you play videos! it’s kind of like a portable media player with GPS functionality built-in, it’s actually kind of cool. Over the weekend I added another of my ‘Quick-Look’ video to the YouTube account, this one is of the Kyocera S2300 phone, and when I get some time, I’ll be posting another look at a phone camera… But for now though I’ve got the news for you from sites around the world… And over there to the right is our newsgirl bringing us the news… 

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Frozen Bubble Coming To WP7 via XNA

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The game Frozen Bubble is being ported to XNA to get it over to Windows Phone 7. If you’ve never played it, it looks like Snood – which I love:) The developer notes: I am currently porting Frozen Bubble from perl to C# XNA. My goal is to have the game up and running under … Read more

Online Chess for Windows Phone 7

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Some people were concerned that WP7 wouldn’t have a lot of multiplayer real time games. The reasons is because MS did not provide some developer tools for this. MS provided turn by turn games (like  chess) but not real time multiplayer games where both players play simultaneously. Anyway, here’s a clip of a multiplayer online chess … Read more