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1. Elf Command This time management game has players trying to deliver items like peppermints, trees, gifts, and other holiday-appropriate items out of the factory with the help of robot elves. Santa’s upgraded his facilities, apparently. There are two conveyor … Continue reading →

When Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson in Jobs’s recent biography that he had “cracked” the secret to controlling an Apple TV set, most people assumed he was talking about Siri, the voice assistant in the iPhone 4S. But a new … Continue reading →

Two new PlayStation games are blurring the line between music software and video games. Sound Shapes, for the soon-to-be-released PlayStation Vita is like a Super Mario — if all of your actions in the classic game painted its unique soundtrack. … Continue reading →

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: EventGrabber Quick Pitch: EventGrabber matches … Continue reading →

Daniel Alves is the design director for the small business web design division at the digital marketing and web design company 352 Media Group. The navigation bar is the most important design element on a website. Not only does it … Continue reading →

Today may be the day we finally learn the fate of HP’s webOS, the operating system that powers Palm mobile phones and HP’s ill-fated TouchPad tablet. According to one report, HP CEO Meg Whitman has called for an all-hands meeting … Continue reading →

The online project Cowbird is a place where storytellers can keep audio-visual diaries, write stories and collaborate with others in documenting “sagas” taking place in the world, like the Occupy movement. Artist and programmer Jonathan Harris’s labor of love, Cowbird … Continue reading →

Every so often you experience a year in which everything in the marketing world changes because of rapid innovation in digital and in social media. This wasn’t one of those years. Instead, 2011 will likely be remembered as a year … Continue reading →

Apple released the list of its best and most popular apps on Thursday. The App Store Rewind features 20 categories from Travel to Games, and names the top five apps of each category. This year the Rewind separated iPhone and … Continue reading →

Samsung is developing an 11.6-inch tablet with a 2560×1600 pixel display, which might put the display of Apple’s next generation iPad to shame, Boy Genius Report claims, citing a “trusted source.” The tablet will reportedly run Android 4.0 with a … Continue reading →