Cell stations along the East Coast were knocked offline in the wake of Hurricane Irene, leading to wireless outages across the region.
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Over the weekend at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) Kim Swift, one of the designers that brought us Portal, showed off what is to be the follow up physics-based puzzle game called Quantum Conundrum. You play as a young boy at your uncles house, who happens to be a mad scientist. Along the way you find a glove that lets you jump dimensions. One of these dimensions is the “Fluffy” dimension where everything is made of cotton candy. It seems interesting, looking forward to the demo.
A typical scenario later in the game will have you puzzling over how to use a whole variety of “dimensions” to solve a puzzle. In
Dell’s cloud computing strategy and portfolio of services took a big step forward today with the announcement at VMworld 2011 of its first public cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Services.
In partnership with VMware, Dell will offer public, private, and hybrid cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service for mid-sized and large enterprises. The press release from Dell describes options at each level:
Public – Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service is an enterprise-class, secure offer of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) hosted in a secure Dell datacenter. T
Microsoft have possibly shown off a Windows 8-based tablet at TechEd with a report from IT consultant Alan Burchill, an attendant at Tech Ed in New Zealand. Burchill says that Microsoft would be giving out these tablets to attendees at an “upcoming Microsoft event,” but since the news has gone live, it has disappeared unfortunately. 
Microsoft have of course, not commented on the story, but considering Windows 8 is going from strength to strength, it is not that out of the question. Microsoft also said during TechEd that there are quad-core, Windows 7-based slates coming later this year which are set to sport a 10-inch HD screen, be capable of 1080p playback and have an impressive eight hours of battery life. < Read more…
Games on Facebook are mostly a collection of new properties, like “FarmVille” and “CityVille,” which didn’t exist before becoming popular time-sinks on the world’s largest social network. A start-up called Kabam is trying to change that with a new game based on “The Godfather” that’s the most high-profile effort yet to blend an iconic Hollywood movie series with Facebook.
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Kabam has cut a deal with Paramount Pictures to license “The Godfather” for a Facebook game it has begun testing called “The Godfather: Five Families.” The companies aren’t disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
The game, expected to be released to the public in the fall, allows players to work their way up from low-level members of 1930s-era gangs into mafia kingpins by stealing money, burning down buildings and committing other crimes that would make the Corleone family proud. Players can use the social