Xconomy – iPhone, schmy-Phone. While games and other applications developed for Apple’s iPhone have been all the rage for the last few days, there’s another sector worth keeping an eye on: social-network gaming, or games made for online platforms like Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo, which typically need to be played on a desktop or laptop. VentureBeat is [...] read more

FASTforward Blog – Can machines understand the feelings expressed in text? Social media (including blogs, discussion groups, private emails, etc) and mainstream press (web pages, newswires, announcements, etc) are full of quirky, subtle cues about people’s attitudes and opinions. Harvesting this information has proven to be valuable for tracking companies’ reputations, playing financial markets, analyzing customer loyalty, [...] read more

Geeks are Sexy Technology News – Just a quick post to warn Playstation 3 owners to wait a bit before updating their console to the latest firmware. It seems that quite a few users on the official Playstation forum are reporting that the new 2.4 firmware bricked their unit. On some cases, people are writing that the SIXAXIS controller refuses to [...] read more