Ngmoco acquires Freeverse for $25M, plans free
iPhone games

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iPhone game developer ngmoco has acquired Freeverse, another leading game producer. Ngmoco CEO Neil ...

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Ngmoco acquires Freeverse, plans free iPhone
games

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iPhone game developer ngmoco has acquired Freeverse, another leading game producer. Ngmoco CEO Neil ...

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Gull1hack : Yet Another iPhone 3GS Untethered
Jailbreak Claim

post from iHackintosh on 22 February 2010 11:35:45 PM. © iHackintosh

We just found another iPhone 3GS untethered jailbreak claim from Gull1hack team. Source isn?t reliable and they don?t have any track record for previous developments. We can?t verify or confirm their claim at the moment, but their video demo looks[...]

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Analysis shows advantage of iPhone LCD over Nexus
One AMOLED

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2010 10:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Despite a number of reviews suggesting the Nexus One's AMOLED display is superior to LCDs used on mo...

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Amazon, Microsoft in cross-licensing deal with
Kindle

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2010 10:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Amazon and Microsoft tonight agreed to a cross-licensing deal for each other's patents. The deal gi...

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How John Dowdell Wants Apple to Talk

post from Daring Fireball on 22 February 2010 10:15:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Here’s how John Dowdell of Adobe “would prefer Apple communicate”:

Get your CEO to either talk, or not. Put some skin in the game, put your rep on the line with attributed statements. The lack of confirmation, denial, or clarification from Apple PR about rumored quotes from The Great Man is telling.

What a great idea. Respond to every rumored quote attributed to Steve Jobs with a confirmation, denial, or clarification. I’m sure Apple will get right on that.

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Flash Player Content, Mouse Events, and Touch
Input

post from Daring Fireball on 22 February 2010 10:03:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Mike Chambers, responding to [this piece at Roughly Drafted][rd], shows that the only mouse events Flash Player doesn’t have on touchscreens are those for right and middle buttons, and scroll wheels. Hover and mousemove events do work. The problem, though, for a hypothetic Flash plugin that renders pages within web pages (as on traditional desktop browsers), is how to tell whether a tap-and-drag within a Flash element is supposed to scroll the entire web page or be passed as a mouse movement event to the Flash element. It can’t do both, and it can’t read the user’s mind. (You can see these problems with straight HTML in MobileSafari today — it’s cumbersome to scroll a <textarea> field within a web page because a single finger tap-and-drag within the <textarea> control still scrolls the entire page, not the text content inside the control.) This is one reason why, when you play a movie embedded in a web page on MobileSafari, it always switches you to a full-screen movie player view. Perhaps you could do that with a mobile browser Flash plugin, but except for Flash content that was designed to fit on a small screen, how do you allow the user to both scroll/pan the content and pass mousemove and hover events to the underlying content? I’m interested to see how the upcoming Android Flash Player solves this.

It’s not so much that you can’t use mouse-centric UIs on a touchscreen, but that they’re inherently awkward.

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-touch-input/

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HippoRemote Pro 2.0 adds Twitter plug-in,
improvements

RoboHippo has released an update to its HippoRemote Pro iPhone app. The utility features a virtual k...

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Flash, Google, VP8, and the Future of Internet
Video

Jason Garrett-Glaser, currently lead developer of x264, on the state of Internet video. Thoughtful, detailed, insightful analysis.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX480/470 set to launch March 26

NVIDIA will officially launch the GeForce GTX480 and GTX470 graphics cards next month at the upcomin...

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