Daily Crunch: Floor Tour Edition

A Visit To The Indie Games Pavilion At E3 Videos And Gallery: Nintendo?s Booth, Wii U, And New 3DS Games Mad Catz And Tritton Say Their Warhead Is The Ultimate Wireless 360 Headset 15 Minutes Of Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Gameplay Voting Now Open For Linux Foundation T-Shirt Contest

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/09/daily-crunch-floor-tour/

Joshua Heinlein Markus Wigger Alexander Berner Oliver Büdenbender

Tablet buzz blog Apps Review on RedBall3

It’s the classic storyline: a man and a girl are in love. Just when they want to get married, BAM! The bad guy swoops in and steals the girl. Luckily, the good guy knows how to save his girl and does just that. Picture this in your mind and now apply it to little balls. [...]

Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/tablet-buzz-blog-apps-review-on-redball3/

Ingrid Schur Emily Trautmann Charlotte Kadelbach Hugo Ruß

First Firefox 6 build next week, Firefox 7 by May, and aurora channel introduced

Firefox 5, 6, 7 and release channels
Mozilla's Engineering Project Manager, Christian Legnitto, has detailed the release schedule for Firefox 5, 6 and 7. If all goes to plan, Firefox 6.0a1 will be released next week, April 12, and Firefox 7.0a1 in the middle of May. The final build of Firefox 5 should be released on June 21, exactly three months after the release of Firefox 4.

Along with the faster 6-week release cadence, Firefox's new Chrome-like release channels have also been given names and anticipated update frequencies. The most notable change is the introduction of a new alpha channel -- which is analogous to Chrome Canary -- that will be called 'aurora' and will update nightly. Aurora will be where fixes and features are tested, and either approved for Beta, or backed out to Central. Aurora will have a new icon, too.

The Nightly (mozilla-central) channel will remain unchanged in name and frequency, but it will gain a new 'nightly icon.' The Beta (mozilla-beta) channel will remain as-is, with new builds rolling out weekly. The Release (mozilla-release) channel will also remain as-is, with security and stability updates coming every 6 to 12 weeks.

It should be noted that the names (including 'aurora') are not necessarily final, but it's unlikely that they'll change. We're also awaiting the arrival of the new 'channel switching' technology, which should arrive in the next few days -- in time for the release of Firefox 6 aurora!

First Firefox 6 build next week, Firefox 7 by May, and aurora channel introduced originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/07/first-firefox-6-build-next-week-firefox-7-by-may-and-aurora-ch/

Hanna Wohlrab Henrik Brenner Karla Reusch Wilhelm Klassen

Even Seesmic Bails On Blackberry. Who?s Next?

Seesmic might have the sweetest Twitter app for Blackberry, but the Blackberry's appeal isn't sweet enough. Seesmic is discontinuing support for its Blackberry app on June 30. Research in Motion, the company that makes the Blackberry, is going through a rough spot right now. But things must be pretty bad if Seesmic bailing. This is Seesmic, folks! They'll build an app for any platform, even Windows Phone 7.

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Rosemarie Ramsauer Jörn Domenighini Marion Dallmeyer Hanna Wohlrab

Sigma Design's 'ultra thin' TV box design promises HD in a tiny package

It's not much bigger than many of the wall warts currently filling outlets in your power strip, but this reference design from Sigma Designs could be your next cable box. With HomePlug networking, Z-Wave RF remote control technology and the ability to process multiple 1080p streams at once built in, it only needs to be plugged in to the wall (and connected to a TV via HDMI) to get to work. connect to the network and pull in video from the internet, feeds from an IPTV provider like U-Verse (or Comcast eventually), or multiroom streams from a connected DVR. At its heart is the SMP8670 chip unveiled at CES that's optimized for XBMC, Adobe AIR and Flash which could make it an ideal extender for someone like TiVo or Boxee, if Sigma can get them to bite on the concept. Until then, all we can show you are a few pics of the bare internals in the gallery and a press release after the break.

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Sigma Design's 'ultra thin' TV box design promises HD in a tiny package originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jörn Domenighini Marion Dallmeyer Hanna Wohlrab Henrik Brenner

myTouch 4G Slide Sighting?

Yes, yet another Android Phone that is soon to hit the streets. However, I like the design of this one. And word is the keyboard is quite good, but it is heavier than the G2 (which is quite weighty). It seems that it will be running Sense UI, with some myTouch tweaks here and there. [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/06/21/mytouch-4g-slide-sighting/

Laura Ungricht Edith Berner Lea Linden Kevin Fickenscher

Boomshine is a soothing-yet-frustrating time waster

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One click; just one single well-aimed click. That's all you get in Boomshine.

That single click triggers a chain reaction; circles start exploding, and other circles colliding with the shockwaves explode as well, creating their own shockwaves, which then catch other circles.

It's been done before, yes, but this one is a great iteration. The soundtrack is mellow, with lots of piano and some nice percussion (not electronic - it sounds like drums).

At each level you need to make a certain number of circles explode to go on to the next level. I got up to level 12, where you get 60 circles and need to make 55 of them explode. And then I kept trying and trying, but simply couldn't get it. I did get to 54 circles a couple of times, but as they say, you don't get points for trying.

There's no time limit, so you can carefully study the pattern of motion and place your click at the exact right place to create the best chain reaction. I've found that clicking near the middle of the screen works quite well, especially if the balls are slowly moving in that direction. By the time the first shockwave dies off, the oncoming balls usually hit it and the chain reaction continues.

What level did you reach? Screenshots please!

Boomshine is a soothing-yet-frustrating time waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/16/boomshine-is-a-soothing-yet-frustrating-time-waster/

Emma Knebel Jason Randow Benjamin Schötz Johannes Liebl

19-Year Old Alleged LulzSec Ringleader Arrested in England (Updated) [Hackers]

British police dealing with digital crime have apprehended a 19-year-old in Essex, England, accused of participating in LulzSec's recent rash of bold online assaults. This would mark the first time an actual human's been nabbed since the Lulz riot started. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/IOGO0O6Z-8s/alleged-lulzsec-hacker-arrested-in-england

Maike Beetz Fiona Henschel Joshua Heinlein Markus Wigger