OnLive has already given Microsoft loving iPad owners a hefty, gratis helping of Windows 7, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been building a paywall. What’s behind the freshly dried brick and mortar? OnLive Desktop Plus, an optional, subscription based upgrade that touts new features for users who are willing to pay a fee
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OnLive Desktop launches ‘Plus’ subscriptions, puts IE in your iPad
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The official Twitter app has just received an update on iOS and Android , bringing new features to both platforms, plus an “optimized” Ice Cream Sandwich experience as seen above. The app is also currently available on Amazon’s Appstore for the Kindle Fire now, and the company says it will pop up in the Barnes & Noble Nook Store February 23rd. For both Android and IOS the app has brought back / added a swipe gesture to reply to, reweet or favorite something without leaving your timeline, plus a notification on the Find Friends feature that it will be uploading their address book to Twitter’s server — a welcome change after the Path fiasco .
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Twitter’s Android and iOS app get updates; out on Kindle Fire now, Nook soon
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The Daily got a lot of folks hopes up earlier today with a rumor that Office would soon be making an appearance on the iPad, but Microsoft is now throwing a bit of cold water on that news. While it’s not exactly an outright denial that such an app is coming, a Microsoft spokesperson has now told The New York Times’ Bits website that “The Daily story is based on inaccurate rumors and speculation,” adding only that it has “no further comment” at this time.
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Microsoft says Office for iPad story is based on ‘inaccurate rumors and speculation’
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology.
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Switched On: Think form factors, not PCs
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Last year CBS and Turner Sports brought every game of the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament home in HD on four cable channels, and streaming for free to PCs and iOS devices . While the broadcast plans remain the same this year, if you want to stream the 41 games broadcast on cable networks then you’ll need to subscribe to an affiliated TV provider (all the major guys except Time Warner) and log into the TNT, TBS, or TruTV website on your Windows PC or Mac
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March Madness streams to more platforms in 2012, but not everything is free
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As recovering amateur musicians, some of us still fancy well-made mobile recording gear from time to time. The ability to simultaneously record guitar and vocals using an iPhone 4S is what made the GuitarJack Model 2, in particular, catch our eye. We’ve taken iPad recording accessories for a spin in the past, but the compact stature of this kit, along with its ability to transform a smartphone into a 4-track recorder seemed quite compelling indeed
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GuitarJack Model 2 review
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So, have you been following the iPad dispute in China ? Wondering exactly who or what this Proview company is and what they’re doing with a trademark on the iPad name? Well, wonder no more friends.
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Introducing the original iPAD, Proview’s late ’90s iMac-like desktop
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Remember that first shot across Apple’s bow that HTC fired way back May of 2010? No
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ITC closes the book on HTC’s first complaint against Apple, still working on its sequels
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Love it or hate it, Apple had a pretty stellar 2011. According to crunched numbers from Asymco, between its iPhone , iPad and iPod touch , the Cupertino outfit sold some 156 million iOS devices in 2011, marking a grand total of 316 million in the mobile OS’ short history. What’s most interesting here, however, is the fact that last year’s digits alone have completely blown past the 122 million units daddy Mac has managed in its 28 years of existence
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Visualized: iOS 2011 sales smoke 28 years of Mac
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Tower defense games have been done in damn near every way possible: on consoles, mobile apps, and online flash-based games. However, there’s a new Kickstarter project, called Doodle Defense, that’s putting a new spin on that simple gaming idea using some open source algorithms, a whiteboard, computer, Kinect and a projector. The game works by projecting the battlefield and bad guys on the whiteboard, while users can draw in obstacles using a black marker and towers of varied attack abilities in red, green, and blue.
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Doodle Defense game uses Kinect to turn white boards into displays, dry-erase markers into weapons
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