African-American Video Game Writers and Social Media: Jamin Brophy-Warren
Black Web 2.0 conducted an email interview with Jamin Brophy-Warren, the CEO and editor of Kill Screen Magazine. Kill Screen exists to challenge the notion that “gamers don’t read” and provides a well designed and high-quality print product that seeks to become the Rolling Stone of gaming. Jamin also writes for the Wall Street Journal, [...]
Read MoreBooks Everywhere and Anywhere With Kobo
The Kobo ereader is a device and platform the follows you on whichever device is in your presence. You could have a desktop computer, tablet, laptop or even a smartphone and all of your e-books will be waiting for you. Even the bookmarks will transfer to the mobile device of your choice. Kobo refers to this as being “device-neutral”. Born into the Borders books family, the Kobo device is a nice sized, lightweight (eight ounces) e-reader that gives you six inches of display screen for comfortable reading. Find out more info inside.
Read MoreAndroid Apps Caught Sharing Private Data
Using a specialized software program called TaintDroid, researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have discovered some popular Android apps sharing private user data. TainDroid uses “dynamic taint analysis to detect and report when applications are sending potentially sensitive information to remote servers.” Researchers chose 30 popular free Android applications at random [...]
Read MoreMichael Jackson: The Video Game
M. Jack fans your time is now. According to MichaelJackson.com, the King of Pop’s long-awaited new video game is available for pre-order. Titled “Michael Jackson The Experience.” the game will feature a combination of dancing and singing, sort of like a Dance Dance Revolution/Singstar Karoake mashup. Created by Ubisoft, the developer behind the worldwide hit series Assassin’s [...]
Read MoreWindows Live Essentials Launches Today, But WordPress.com May Only See 1% of 30M Users
According to Neowin, Microsoft will release the final version of Windows Live Essentials today. This comes about a month after an update to the beta on August 17th. Windows Live Essentials includes applications like Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail, Messenger, Writer, Sync, and Family Safety. This final release offers deeper integration with Windows 7 using [...]
Read MoreiEat: Food Ordering Apps for the iPhone
Life can get so busy that even ordering food can be too time consuming. You have to look up the number for the restaurant, deal with the common “Can you please hold?” question, explain your order multiple times, and then hope that you have enough cash to pay for your order. If you have an [...]
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