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Xbox Live premieres its first movie
— In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers. Getting it distributed is even harder. — So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …
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Google updates Play Music app, announces European availability
— Google Play Music launched last year, beginning its life known simply as Google Music, growing up quickly since its humble private beta beginning. The app and web service officially launched in late 2011 and have grown quickly since then.
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Just under half of US wireless services now owned by foreign multinationals
— With Softbank's majority stake acquisition of Sprint Nextel Corporation, the amount of foreign interest in the United States wireless market is greatly expanded. On the other side of the coin …
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Firefox 16 is available — get it NOW!
— Ahead of its official unveiling, Mozilla has made Firefox 16 FINAL available for download. The latest version provides little in the way of major new features, and in some ways is more noteworthy for the features missing from this release …
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Leap, the ‘pocket Kinect’ for PC attracts 26,000 interested developers
— In May, San Francisco startup Leap Motion announced Leap, its pocket-sized 3D sensor designed to bring Kinect-like controls to notebook computers. At the time, the company said there would be “thousands” …
| Tim Conneally / BetaNews: |
Microsoft rolls out SmartGlass SDK to first crop of devs
— Microsoft on Thursday released the Xbox SmartGlass Software Development Kit (SDK) to partners that have agreements to develop Xbox games and entertainment applications for the Xbox 360. — The device-agnostic SmartGlass application …
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Firefox 13 arrives with major new features — get it NOW!
— Ahead of its official release, Mozilla has uploaded Firefox 13 FINAL to its servers, the latest version of its open-source, cross-platform web browser. Version 13 will be officially unveiled on June 5, when it should also become available …
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Curtains for LightSquared? NTIA says GPS interference is unfixable
— LightSquared, the aspiring 4G wireless network built in the “L band” of spectrum has been under fire from the GPS industry for the last year over the interference the experimental network was shown to create for GPS receivers.
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Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace
— The importance of the Nokia Ace to Microsoft's mobile plans is apparent as sources tell BetaNews of a major marketing push for the smartphone in the second quarter of this year. The Ace will launch in late March, sources confirm …
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.