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August 2011

Glowfish, new iPhone/iPad game from Dallas-based MumboJumbo, getting good early reviews

The folks at Dallas-based MumboJumbo sent me an email to brag a bit on their new game, Glowfish, pointing out that Metacritic ranks it among the top iOS games released in August. There’s a free demo for Windows XP, Vista and 7 that you can download here from MumboJumbo’s site, as well as a free [...]

Samsung unveils hotly-anticipated Galaxy S II smartphone for Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T

No Verizon Wireless (although apparently a near-identical phone is in store for that carrier), but the other big three carriers are all getting in on the Android phone goodness with the Galaxy S II. Interestingly, it looks like T-Mobile and Sprint are going with a 4.52-inch screen for their versions, while AT&T is stepping down [...]

HP to give TouchPad at least one more software update

Cnet reports that Hewlett-Packard has committed to least one more update for its discontinued tablet: “We expect that HP TouchPad owners can look forward to an over-the-air update that will enhance the platform and add functionality and a growing applications catalog,” an HP spokesperson told CNET today in response to an e-mail query. HP would [...]

Video: Watching these two computer "chatbots" talk to each other is the funniest thing you’ll see all day

Background here, if you care. Otherwise, just sit back and chortle. Via Engadget. ———————— Follow me on Twitter!

Report: AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless investing $100 million in joint venture to use phones as digital wallets

Bloomberg reports this morning that T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Dallas-based AT&T have agreed to invest 0 million in their joint venture called Isis (which I’ve written about before). From today’s Bloomberg piece: The investment sets up a showdown between the venture, known as Isis, and rivals like a mobile-payment service from Google Inc. The amount [...]

It happens to the best of us: Mark Cuban’s Twitter account gets hacked

My favorite part is all the people who mindlessly retweeted this: Or maybe he really is trying to help us all get serious about losing weight. ———————— Follow me on Twitter!

"BarCraft" event in Denton this Sunday; watch live StarCraft 2 tournament play on big screens in a sports bar

The Wall Street Journal had a fun story a few days ago about a trend of sports bar owners turning over their screens once a week to live broadcasts of StarCraft 2 tournament matches. So I went to see if we have anything similar going on in the Dallas area. And it turns out we [...]

My iPod Touch takes a dive and the screen cracks, I take back all the nice things I said about Steve Jobs

Joooooooooooooooobbbbbss! ———————— Follow me on Twitter!

GameStop pulls all copies of PC game Deus Ex: Human Revolution from shelves in OnLive coupon controversy

I told you this was going to be a mess. Quick recap: On Tuesday, Square Enix released the new video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. With the PC version (and only with the PC version), Square Enix included a coupon to get free access to the OnLive version [...]

Fort Worth-based RadioShack on September 9 gets exclusive white HTC EVO 3D from Sprint

It’s the same hardware as the existing black and red model, but in sci-fi white and silver. I actually had a chance to see and hold a white EVO 3D this week. It’s very slick. Incidentally, RadioShack told me it sells more EVO 3Ds in the Dallas/Fort Worth market than in any other market in [...]