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Friday, 29th July 2011

Audiosurf Turns Up the Volume on Social Gaming

Forget Guitar Hero. Much more is possible in the world of musical gaming. Audiosurf has created what Alec Meer from PC Gamer UK calls "A near-religious musical gaming experience." It's a racing game that uses audio files of your choice to generate 3-D courses. The whole mood, even the speed of the ride, is determined by the songs you choose. You…

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Msgboy Makes All Your Favorite Websites a Push Experience

Push me, pull me, real time web: we've now got enough options available to us when choosing how to consume our favorite web content that we may as well start mixing things up a bit, no? Push delivery technology company Superfeedr today released a new Chrome browser plug-in called Msgboy. (The first 200 people to use this link can get it…

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Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl's Keynote from NodeConf

We covered Node.js creator Ryan Dahl's keynote this year at NodeConf, and he's since posted the text of the talk. But if you prefer video, you can now watch it on Blip.tv. Since Dahl's talk, Node.js sponsor Joyent and Microsoft have partnered to bring Node.js to Windows, and the first version with Windows support has been released.

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Apple No. 1 Smartphone Vendor

Apple is now the largest supplier of smartphones across the globe, according to reports from research firms IDC and Strategy Analytics on second quarter device sales. Apple sold 20.3 million iPhones in the second quarter to jump Nokia to take the top spot with 18.5% of global market share. Samsung also overtook Nokia with 19.2 million smartphones…

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Couchbase Releases Developer Preview for CouchDB/Membase Combination

When Membase and CouchOne merged earlier this year to form Couchbase, the newly formed company promised to release a merged version of the NoSQL database servers the company sponsors: Apache CouchDB and Membase. Today Couchbase made good on that promise with the release of the first developer preview for Couchbase Server 2.0, which combines the…

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