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First Piece of Mozilla’s Web Apps Project Arrives, But Can it Outfox Chrome?

At great long last, Mozilla has revealed the first developer release of their Web Apps Project, which aims to build the infrastructure for an open web app ecosystem. Back in May of 2010, Google announced plans for what would become the Chrome Web Store. Mozilla responded immediately with plans for its own web store, now known as the Web Apps Project. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Google was first to th

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6 Successful SXSW Startup Launch Stories

2 As part of this year’s SXSWi, Mashable presents the Mashable SXSWi House, featuring private events, open houses, meet-and-greet opportunities and two nights of parties. Learn more here and register for public events on Eventbrite.Startups vie for a chance to be part of the SXSW Accelerator competition for the opportunity it brings — 41% of the companies that have participated in the first two c

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N64oid brings Nintendo 64 emulation to Android devices

There's not exactly a shortage of video game emulators for Android devices, but there has been one notable, 64-bit exception. That's finally been rectified with the just-released N64oid application, however, which finally brings emulation of Nintendo 64 games to the platform -- and, like the other emulators from developer Yongzh, it's conveniently available right in the Android Market (for $5.99)

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What Demand Media Plans To Do With New Acquisition CoveritLive

2 Demand Media is infamous for the search-optimized content that appears on its sites, including eHow.com, Trails.com and Livestrong.com. But these sites are not the sole focus of Demand’s recently publicized acquisition of live-blogging platform CoveritLive, says Demand Media CMO Dave Panos.CoveritLive is set to release a game component next week that will allow third-party sites to interact wit

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4 Hot Social Gaming Trends to Watch

2 Prita Uppal is the founder and CEO of YooMee Games, a social competition platform that brings tournaments and cash prizes to skill-based games across websites, social networks and mobile apps.More than 18,000 interactive gaming industry pros came to San Francisco for the Game Developers’ Conference this week, an annual event that draws programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio prof

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Announcing Mashable & Gowalla’s SXSW 2011 Partnership

2 Like Mashable, Gowalla is about connecting with others, discovering new things and finding inspiration to explore.That’s why we’re thrilled to announce we’ll be teaming up with the location-based service to enhance the SXSW 2011 experience. Attendees can collect custom passport stamps and earn exclusive pins for checking into the Mashable SXSWi House, the Mashable Geek Games and panels featurin

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Untapped Opportunity: Exploring the Arab Video Game Market

Mahmoud Khasawneh is the founder and CEO of Quirkat, a games development company based in the UAE with studios in Jordan. He is also the IGDA Middle East Chapter Leader.As the games industry in the Middle East has grown and evolved over the past decade, video game development and game localization aimed at the Middle Eastern market remains a tremendous opportunity. At first glance, the complexi

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Customizable Mascots Promote 2012 Olympics

With just 511 days to go until the games start, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is trying to get the word out via social media.To get the conversations started, the organization has rolled out a feature on its website where consumers can make their own Olympic mascot and then share them on Facebook and Twitter. The mascot maker is based on the designs of Wenlock and Mandeville, the

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This is a FREAKING Disaster… And It’s Happening Right NOW!

8 A few weeks ago I warned you that the US Dollar was about to collapse.   At that time, many investors scoffed at the idea. After all, the Euro is in much worse shape than the US Dollar, right?   Wrong.     As you can see, the US Dollar has taken out its long-term mutli-year trendline. This is an absolute freaking disaster. It is literally a chart version of “GAME OVER” for the greenback.

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What Should Mashable Ask Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley at SXSWi?

I will be interviewing Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s CEO and co-founder, on the big stage at SXSW Interactive. The featured Q&A will take place on Monday, March 14, at 12:30 p.m. CT at the Austin Convention Center.I’m going to start the conversation with questions about the changing face of game-dynamics and how that fits into Foursquare’s growing role as a location platform, as much as a m

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Old Navy Picks Game Developer Contest Winner

Old Navy has chosen a winner in a contest looking for the game developer who best integrates the brand into a social game or community: Breakout Band.Breakout Band‘s developers got $15,000 and exposure from Old Navy for including a feature in the game that lets users create their own Old Navy-themed song inspired by Old Navy Records’ debut songs “Super C-U-T-E” and “Welcome to the Ankle Show.”

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Inside One Man’s Kickstarter Quest to Build True Artificial Life

2 Virtual worlds have long been populated by creatures that interact, reproduce, compete, evolve and die. But by and large, they do so because their behavior is programmed by developers. These efforts can produce complex virtual ecosystems, but they’re not quite the digital reflections of what happens in nature.Life in the real world is “programmed” by DNA, but its form and behavior are determine

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How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition?

16 At Wednesday’s iPad 2 event, Apple took some time to revel in the success of the original iPad. The company moved nearly 15 million iPad units in 2010. Moreover, Apple absolutely dominates the emerging tablet space, holding 90% of the market.Of course, with iPad 2, things are a bit different. Apple no longer has the luxury of being the only game in town as competitors from across the consumer e

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Augmented Reality Online Shopping: Not the Right Fit

4 Modern women dream of the day when they can buy a super cute dress or practical pair of pants online that will fit perfectly on arrival.That day is not yet here, but two new products from Zugara and FaceCake Marketing, presented at the DEMO Spring conference, combine augmented reality with online shopping, hoping to take womankind one giant visual leap forward. Regrettably, they also fall short

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Google Pulls 21 Apps In Android Malware Scare

10 Google has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the Android Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user’s device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user’s knowledge.Although Google has swiftly removed the apps after being notified (by the ever-vigilant Android Police bloggers), the apps in q

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Virtual Ping Pong Tournament Pits Media Giants Against Each Other for Charity

Beer and ping pong and Xbox Kinect — you don’t need a heck of a lot more to make for an epic Saturday. But those factors all combined to pit media giants including The New York Times, Gawker.TV, Aol Thrillist, and Foursquare in a tournament to support charity.The tournament, BackSpin 2011, was a way to bring together the NY tech community and raise money for Child’s Play, a non-profit that provide

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How MTV Is Marrying Digital Design & Social Good

The building for frog design in New York’s Greenwich Village sits in an innocuous patch of offices just by the Holland Tunnel. Inside and seven floors up, however, is a bustling hive of designers and creatives thinking in broad strokes and typing details on their sundry Macs. Off the large, open workroom is a small, dark alcove filled with sticky notes, charts and candy: the hard work of MTV’s

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6 Mobile Games That Beat Playing on a Console

4 The Social Gaming Development Series is supported by Level 3 Communications, an international provider of fiber-based communications services. Level 3 is committed to carrying digital media from anywhere to anywhere, in whatever format needed.The kinds of games available on your mobile device have come a long way. A decade and a half ago, the state of the art was Snake, the game that came pre-l

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Gold is Already Predicting the Next Fed Chairman

8  Gold is acting fishy.   Indeed, while emerging markets are generally going up in flames (literally) Gold hasn’t done much of anything since October 2010. Heck, we haven’t even retested the previous highs despite all the turmoil.   It’s odd, Gold should be above $1,500 per ounce by now given what’s going on in the world. By all counts demand for the precious metal is increasing dramatically. 

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Smashing Email Newsletter Turns One Year Old: Comment and Win!

48   As most of you may already know, every second Tuesday of a month we send out an email newsletter to our subscribers (over 50,000 at the moment). Every newsletter issue contains exclusive, short articles that present recent design techniques, freebies as well as useful resources and tools. We work hard to make every issue special and useful, interesting and entertaining, and therefore your feed

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Internet Explorer 9 expected on March 14th, definitely released by March 24th

The IE9 Release Candidate came out on February 10th, so you might think it's about time it stepped its game up to a final release and Microsoft seems to be of the same mind. Download Squad reports insider sources have pinpointed the South by Southwest gathering in Austin, Texas, this month as the launch platform for the non-beta, non-RC Internet Explorer 9, with a direct download becoming availab

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One in Three Mobile Phone Owners Is a Regular Mobile Gamer

A new survey from casual gaming company PopCap shows that an incredibly high percentage of adults in the U.K. and U.S. is into mobile gaming.This stat may be due in part to the uptick in smartphone adoption. According to a separate Nielsen survey, 31% of U.S. mobile users now own smartphones, and a Pew survey shows nearly half of cellphone users download and use mobile apps, too.In PopCap‘s res

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Futuristic Kiosk Spits Out Cash for Recycled Electronics

4 Imagine stopping by your neighborhood retailer, offloading an old cell phone or laptop via an in-store kiosk and picking up cash for your device, just as you would get cash for coins through Coinstar or rent and return a RedBox DVD.It’s a futuristic idea with tangible value that startup ecoATM is already making a reality.ecoATM, a San Diego-based startup, has roughly 15 kiosks scattered through

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Website Uses Dictator Game for (Mostly) Charity

2 There aren’t a ton of websites out there based on complicated thought games that are based on experimental economics. Part of that may have to do with the difficulty of turning thought experiments into viable websites. But what if that game could net you cash on a regular basis?The Moral Experiment, a website developed by John Bushell, is part pyramid scheme (although he reasonably argues again

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Forrester: E-Commerce To Reach Nearly $300 Billion in U.S. by 2015

2 After a healthy 12.6% increase to $176.2 billion in 2010, U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach $278.9 billion in 2015.Online shopping will continue to cannibalize in-store shopping as consumers become more familiar and begin, in many cases, to prefer the convenience of online shopping, Forrester says.Increased Internet connectivity via devices like smartphones, tablets and game consol

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Zynga’s FrontierVille To Hype Premiere of Johnny Depp’s New Film

Rango, the Johnny Depp-voiced chameleon whose self-titled movie is set to hit theaters this weekend, will have a cameo in Zynga’s FrontierVille to help promote the release.Starting today, FrontierVille players will be challenged to find Rango, ask their friends for 10 water buckets and view the trailer for the film. If they complete that mission, players get a Rango statue to add to their homes

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Google CEO: Mobile Growing Faster Than “All Our Predictions”

14 Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google’s internal predictions, with YouTube seeing 200 million mobile playbacks a day, CEO Eric Schmidt said in his keynote at the Internet Advertising Bureau’s Annual Leadership meeting keynote.As proof of mobile’s growth, Schmidt cited some statistics related to this year’s Super Bowl advertisers: The number of mobile searches for Chrysler, for instance,

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