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| Phosphor intros new line of curved E-Ink watches
May 18, 2009 at 8:45 pm
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|   Yes, e-books and phones are awesome -- but there are plenty of other applications for E-Ink tech out there, and Phosphor has been selling its analog / digital combo E-Ink wristwatches for a while now. The company's now adding to that stable with a line of curved-display models available in your choice of leather, rubber, and stainless steel bracelets and one of two faces; one can be toggled between a large digit and graphical view of the time, while the other offers an always-on monthly calendar and a smaller time display up top... |
| Why is Apple Rejecting PhoneGap-Built iPhone Apps?
May 18, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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|   PhoneGap is a very interesting development platform for mobile applications that lets developers build apps that work for multiple devices, including the iPhone, using only HTML and Javascript. That means far more people are able to develop mobile applications. Recently, though, Apple has been rejecting apps built with PhoneGap from its app store. The company's reasons don't seem clear and developers want to know what's going on. We discuss three possible explanations below, but ultimately the problem appears to come down to the tight control that Apple maintains over the app store and iPhone. |
| Fox Television Tries To Crowdsource Cartoons Through Aniboom
May 18, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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|   Fox Television, the proud home of The Simpsons and Family Guy, is looking for another cartoon franchise to add to its roster. But rather than searching in Hollywood, it is crowdsourcing cartoon ideas on the Web. In a contest hosted on animation site Aniboom, professional and amateur animators alike will be able to submit a two- to four-minute animated video online for a chance at cash prizes and a shot at producing a full-length pilot for TV. |
| ISB Corp assimilates Android into STB
May 18, 2009 at 8:15 pm
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|  Netbooks and digital picture frames aren't the only new territory Google's Android can be found exploring. ISB Corp is tinkering with the platform as a way of powering a set-top box. A reference board powered by TI's OMAP 3530 processor was on display last week, strutting its video playback and web browsing capabilities at the 12th Embedded Systems Expo in Tokyo, and there the company said it was in the process of optimizing the software for a smooth HD video experience... |
| Nightglow Offers Tabbed Browsing For The iPhone, But It's A Resource Hog
May 18, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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|  Over the past few years, tabs have become one of those must-have features in a web browser. The mobile web is a bit different obviously, because the screen is so small, but some mobile browsers like mobile Safari give you the option to have multiple windows in which to browse. But let's be honest, multiple windows are a pain, we want tabs. And with Nightglow, a new browser for the iPhone, you can get them. |
| Leaked: RunKeeper To Get A New Logo, Website Overhaul
May 18, 2009 at 8:13 pm
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|   We only just opened the MobileCrunch Tips Line, and the stories are already pouring in. Keep'em coming, guys. According to a source close to the matter, popular iPhone fitness app RunKeeper will soon be seeing a rebranding and website overhaul. We've obtained a screenshot showing most of the major changes, all of which seem to be visual at this point - but if nothing else, at least it'll look pretty while you're trying to de-fat yourself. |
| Search Week: May 18, 2009
May 18, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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|  Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and drill into the Search Engine Land members library to find other stories in that area. Because some stories are listed in more than one category, you may see them repeated. |
| Hearst, True Ventures Invest $1.5 Million In Casual Gamer VoxPop
May 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|   Pop culture-focused casual games firm VoxPop.TV has raised $1.5 million in a second round of funding. Hearst Interactive Media led the round, along with participation from previous backer True Ventures; the S.F.-based startup has raised roughly $3.5 million in total since 2007. It plans to use the new funding to build out its game development platform. |
| Tawker Sends Comment Reply Notifications for This Site via Email
May 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|   You spend minutes crafting the perfect comment for each post, but we don't give you any heads up when someone replies @you. It hardly seems fair, does it? With Tawker, comment reply notifications are yours. Lifehacker reader Brian Bailey noticed our ungainly attempt to offer our readers comment reply notifications a few weeks ago and decided to take pity on us; the result is Tawker, a simple email notification system that fires off an email alert to your inbox whenever someone replies to one of your comments. |
| Craigslist and S.C. Attorney General Step Up Rhetoric
May 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|  The battle over adult ads on Craigslist is escalating — at least in South Carolina. On May 5, the Palmetto State's Attorney General Henry McMaster threatened to prosecute executives from the online classifieds site, if ads on the site play a role in a prostitution case in South Carolina. Then last week, Craigslist announced steps to introduce a new review system for every single adult services listing on the site. It did this after consulting with the attorneys general from several states, who complained the site had become a preferred way for prostitutes to advertise their services. |
| Obama turns to California for new emissions standards
May 18, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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|   President Barack Obama is getting ready to announce new, stringent vehicle-emission standards for the whole U.S. Combining California's tough policies with Transportation Department recommendations, he will call for a 30 percent increase in car and truck fuel efficiency by 2016 - an announcement that will probably go out tomorrow. |
| Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue
May 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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|  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of Twitter, which could create a revenue stream for the company. He said Twitter plans to introduce some of these tools by year end. |
| Meebo Brings IM to Social Sites; Social Sites Bring 10M Users to Meebo
May 18, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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|   Web-based IM and chat provider Meebo is on a roll with their Community IM product that brings instant messaging to existing community and content sites. Last month, the product went live on teen social network myYearbook, and this afternoon, it's being deployed on Sonico, one of the largest social networks in Latin America.
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| Sophos punts anti-virus for Klingons
May 18, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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|  Sophos is now offering anti-virus protection for Klingon speakers. According to the company, you can use Klingon Anti-Virus from Sophos to "quickly perform an on-demand scan and find viruses, spyware, adware, zero-day threats, Betazoid sub-ether porn diallers, and Tribbles that your existing protection might have missed." |
| Devs begin testing iPhone push notifications in AP News app
May 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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|   As Apple fans around the world eagerly await WWDC, a new iPhone model and perhaps most importantly iPhone OS 3.0, developers just got the call they've been waiting for. During the course of the next seven days, various devs will be testing iPhone OS push notifications in the upcoming version of the AP News app... |
| Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution
May 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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|  Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, scaling, and traffic control using cloud resources. "Monitoring cloud assets, scaling capacity automatically, and balancing traffic efficiently have been among the most requested Amazon EC2 features from our customers," said Peter DeSantis, General Manager of Amazon EC2... |
| Obama administration reins in FBI's NSL-related gag orders
May 18, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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The Obama administration's decision not to ask the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision will force the FBI to justify to a judge the gag orders that it routinely puts on the targets of its national security letters. |
| Cisco joins the race for a leaner, cheaper smart grid
May 18, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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|  Cisco Systems threw its hat into the increasingly crowded smart grid ring today, laying out a more defined strategy and projecting that this market could soon be worth up to $20 billion a year. The core of its plan is two fold: to partner with utilities to lower costs at every stage of the energy distribution process, and to upgrade grid infrastructure to reduce outages and improve security. |
| Bookeen outs pocket-sized Cybook Opus e-book reader
May 18, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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|  Details are not totally clear at this point, but Bookeen recently teased its newest e-book reader offering -- the Cybook Opus -- during a presentation. At 200 DPI, the teensy 5.3-ouncer will have one of the higher resolutions we've seen on a reader, and it will supposedly be controllable by just one hand. We hear that It'll also have 1GB of onboard storage, and boast PDF support, but that's all we know spec-wise for now. There's no word on pricing or availability for this miniscule paper-slayer, but we'll let you know as soon as we do. [Warning: read link is a PDF] |
| Remains of the Day: Windows 7 Virtual Wi-Fi Sounds Like Heaven Edition
May 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  Napster gets desperate for your attention, Windows 7's new Wi-Fi technology could bathe us all in glorious mesh Wi-Fi, and your "secret questions" are way too easily answered. |
| Slim PS3 update: mysterious Chinese firm issues a cease and desist... to Engadget
May 18, 2009 at 3:23 pm
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| Touchpanel Laboratories shows off touchscreen with 9-point detection
May 18, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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|  It's not exactly as impressive as a touch panel with unlimited points of input, but this new resistive touch panel with 9-point detection from Touchpanel Laboratories is still a cut above most and, better still, it seems to actually be ready to head into production. |
| T-Mobile USA delays Android 1.5 rollout by a few days
May 18, 2009 at 3:13 pm
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|  We knew it was too good to be true, eternal curmudgeonly pessimists that we are -- and sure enough, T-Mobile USA has put the kibosh on the start of its Android 1...
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| NEC Japan announces its SuperSpeed USB 3.0 controller
May 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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|  Have you got that USB 3.0 cable on your hope chest, just killing time until your SuperSpeed dreams become a reality? Well, that day is almost at hand: NEC has just announced details for the first USB 3.0 controller. The µPD720200 chip is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 and USB 2.0, with the company making samples available this June at $15 a pop (including Windows drivers). Look forward to seeing peripherals hit the streets soon after. Until then? Like the rest of us, you'll just have to keep on keepin' on. |
| RedLaser for iPhone scans for bargains
May 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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|   I wouldn't have thought it was possible to get an iPhone to capture barcodes clearly, but Occipital has done it with a new iPhone app called RedLaser [App Store]. Why capture barcodes? One good use is to find better prices for a product. Scan a product in the store, then RedLaser captures the barcode and does a quick Google or Amazon search to give you quick price comparisons. |
| Report: Mint Considers Selling Anonymized Data from its Users
May 18, 2009 at 3:06 pm
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|  According to a report from Bloomberg today, Mint.com's CEO Aaron Patzer is considering to sell anonymized data about the service's users. Mint, the online personal finance aggregator, obviously sits on a lot of very interesting data, some of which the company has shared on its blog now and then. Given that this was just a short interview, the details about this plan are more than vague, and it would be interesting to know what kind of data Mint might be planning to sell. What is clear, though, is that Mint will have to be very careful if it doesn't want to scare away its customers. |
| Microsoft-led Forum Yields Tools for OOXML Interoperability
May 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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|  A German organization plans to build a tool to help developers test whether software they're developing can support documents compatible with the latest version of the Open Office XML (OOXML) standard. In an interoperability meeting hosted by Microsoft in London Monday, Fraunhofer FOKUS, a German research institute, said it would develop a document test library and a validation tool that will help developers verify if software they're building is conformant to the standard, said Doug Mahugh, the lead standards professional for the Microsoft Office Interoperability team. |
| Microsoft, Linux Join Forces in Software Law Debate
May 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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| In an unusual twist, Microsoft and Linux have joined forces in a legal tussle. The companies jointly sent a letter expressing their common disagreement with advice regarding software law that a group plans to send to judges. The American Law Institute (ALI), an association that develops documents meant to help guide judges as they make decisions on complicated legal subjects, is presenting a final draft of its guidelines for software contracts on Tuesday during its annual meeting. The document has been in the works since 2004 and if it is approved it will be published. |
| Greenhouse Capital goes back to the well for first fund
May 18, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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|  Instead of launching a second fund, Greenhouse Capital Partners has decided to reopen its $12 million first fund to raise even more, reports VentureWire. Based in Sausalito, Calif., the firm typically backs seed-stage cleantech startups. It had hoped to raise $100 million when it set out last year, but had its dreams dashed when the downturn set in. |
| Did Google Let The Search Cat Out Of The Bag?
May 18, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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|  Shortly after announcing last week's "Search Options," Google offered a peek behind the scenes of its decision-making process and how the company arrived at the current version of Search Options. But they did reveal a little too much in the process? Google Operating System did a close examination into one of the screenshots Google shared showing designs that weren't used: |
| Google Keeps Gaining Search Share
May 18, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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|  Google remains well above its peers in domestic search share and total query volume, according to metrics giant comScore, which released its April 2009 U.S. Search Engine rankings today. The search giant snagged 64.2 percent of U.S. searches in April 2009, a rise of 0.5 percent from March - with those gains coming at the expense of just about every other major search site. Only the Ask Network managed to keep its search share steady. |
| Cheaper iPhone Plans from AT&T?
May 18, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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|  Victor Lin wants an iPhone, but he's put off by the price. The smartphone costs at least $199 up front, and if he wants unlimited Web and e-mail access in addition to calling, he'll need to pay an additional $70 a month. "I like the idea of having a full-featured Web browser," says Lin, a 43-year-old San Francisco software engineer. "However, I think the monthly fee is a little bit too high." |
| fbFund Finalist List Shows the Future of Facebook is Facebook Connect
May 18, 2009 at 2:53 pm
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|  We already knew that this year's fbFund – Facebook's incubator program that invests in startups building apps on the platform – would be focused on companies using Facebook Connect.
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| Gnip Adds Facebook Data To Its API Mashup
May 18, 2009 at 2:44 pm
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|  Gnip, a platform that helps move data around from one social network to the next, is now integrated with Facebook so that the platform can access data via Facebook's recently launched open API stream. Gnip lets data consumers (services like Plaxo that take data from other services, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, Delicious, etc... |
| Venture capitalists worry: Are we stunting companies?
May 18, 2009 at 2:44 pm
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|  Chris Shipley and I hosted a breakfast last week with 16 leading Silicon Valley investors about the state of the start-up community.
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| Epicor ERP Project Sparks Customer Lawsuit
May 18, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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| A stone-and-tile company is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor over a system it says never worked as intended or promised, according to documents filed last month in U.S. District Court in Connecticut. Ferazzoli Imports of New England, based in Middletown, Connecticut, is alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment, negligent misrepresentation, fraud and violations of a state trade law. It is seeking attorneys' fees along with unspecified damages. |
| What's Funny As Hell About The Supposed AT&T iPhone Plan Price Cut
May 18, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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|  Facing criticism that even the minimum iPhone monthly bill is too high for many consumers, AT&T is reportedly thinking about cutting its prices. The big rumored change is that AT&T would apparently offer a limited data package for $20-a-month, a $10-a-month reduction over the current all-you-can-eat plan. This makes me laugh because AT&T clearly thinks consumers are stupid. |
| Oil co. Terralliance finds funds despite risky business
May 18, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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|  Oil and gas exploration company Terralliance has raised an undisclosed amount of funding mostly from existing investors, despite reports that it squandered almost $300 million in capital on questionable purchases - Russian jets not least among them - before laying off more than half of its employees. |
| Appro Pulls CPUs, GPUs Together for Server Cluster
May 18, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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| Appro's new HyperPower Cluster, announced Monday, mixes the processing power of CPUs and graphics processing units to tackle high-performance computing tasks. The server cluster is designed to break up and simultaneously execute thousands of threads and tasks across servers with Intel CPU cores and Nvidia GPU cores. |
| Cisco's Chambers Sees Hope After Recession
May 18, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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| The current recession is almost the opposite of the 2001 downturn for Cisco Systems because of permanent cost-cutting and the company's move into new technologies and markets, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Monday. Revenue and profit for the technology bellwether fell in its latest quarterly results, announced earlier this month, but Chambers said at that time he saw some hints that the economy is bottoming out. He is also hopeful about Cisco's prospects when business picks up. |
| Prototype OCZ Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD splayed, scoped out
May 18, 2009 at 9:05 am
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|  Mmm, PCI-Express-based SSD storage. Be honest, is there anything more delicious? The camera-wielding cats over at Hot Hardware managed to climb behind the scenes at OCZ Technology and snap a bevy of shots of the outfit's highly anticipated Z-Drive in prototype form, and while the device doesn't look all that different than the press shots we peeked last month, there seems to be some ways yet to go before this bad boy's available for purchase... |
| Chinese screw sex theme park
May 18, 2009 at 8:37 am
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| The good burghers of Chongqing will not now be able to enjoy the delights of China's first sex theme park, since the powers that be have demolished it before it even opened its legs for business. According to the BBC, "Love Land" would have wowed the crowds with "giant genitalia, naked bodies and an exhibition on the history of sex" and, most promisingly, "a giant rotating statue of the lower part of a nearly naked woman". |
| Apple Takes Over NYT Homepage Again
May 18, 2009 at 8:35 am
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|   Apple (AAPL) has another massive roadblock on the New York Times homepage today. This campaign even has a small element in the left navigation column -- the "Hair Growth Academy" dummy ad -- which Apple's John Hodgman and Justin Long interact with from across the page. They're cleverly getting close to the whole homepage being a preroll video ad. |
| Boeing to build prototype pulsed-microwave robomissile
May 18, 2009 at 8:32 am
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| Intriguing news from the worlds of electropulse circuitry-zapper bombs and microwave raygun blasters, as US megacorp Boeing announces that it will build a "high power microwave (HPM) airborne demonstrator". According to Boeing, the company's "Phantom Works" advanced projects facility will develop a special prototype aircraft to carry microwave energy weapon tech developed by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). This will be a tech demonstrator effort for AFRL's Counter-electronics High power microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP). |
| Firefox Mobile (Fennec) Alpha Up for Windows Mobile Testing
May 18, 2009 at 8:30 am
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|  Windows Mobile 6: Fennec, Firefox's mobile browser, inches closer to a widespread beta with the release of an alpha tested on an HTC Touch Pro, but available for download on any Windows Mobile 6 device. We've previously seen a "milestone release" of Fennec for the Touch Pro and select Nokia devices, but this alpha includes much more of what someone would actually want out of a mobile Firefox—namely, add-on support, much better memory management, and a CSS-based interface that allows for wider compatability. |
| London cops extend virtual justice trial
May 18, 2009 at 8:25 am
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| A pilot of virtual courts which use video conferencing technology to put suspects on trial without leaving the police stations is being extended. Fifteen London police stations will now be linked to Camberwell Green Magistrates Court by secure video communication and a secure document transfer system. The original trial ran for 12 weeks in 2007 also using Camberwell Magistrates' Court. |
| US Cellular's battery swap program puts a new charge in your handset, for free
May 18, 2009 at 8:25 am
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|  Ever dreamt of keeping a phone so long that the original battery went kaput? And, during that same dream, did your loving, compassionate carrier decide to bless you with a second battery for free? No need to keep dozing, as regional operator US Cellular has decided to show up the big boys by introducing its Battery Swap program... |
| A look at three new Gameloft iPhone games
May 18, 2009 at 8:23 am
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|  I have been in love with Gameloft games on the iPhone since I bought my first one last year. Not only do their games have great graphics, they also have great controls and game play. Gameloft has recently released several new iPhone/iPod touch games, and I'm going to give you a first look at three of them: Terminator Salvation, Assassin's Creed, and Let's Golf. |
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