Western Digital on Wednesday announced a new line of 2.5-inch solid state drives (SSDs) that use a SATA 3GBps interface. The SiliconEdge Blue SSD is a consumer focused drive meant for use in both portable and desktop computers

Tower Defense EVO is the massively addictive, action-packed strategy game that will challenge and excite you to the core. Choose your tower, playing level and battleground then get busy protecting your base. If you die while defending it, well that’s the price of honor and doing what’s right. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website Share this on del.icio.us Digg [...]

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If I ran AT&T, I would leave the subject of whether or not the network could handle the iPad's extra 3G traffic demands completely out of the picture, saying something like "we hope so," or "we'll wait and see on how popular it is." But Randall Stephenson, AT&T CEO, seems to be tempting fate.

First, he promised that AT&T could handle any demand placed on its network by Apple's iPad, and now he's suggesting that it won't be that bad anyway. In a Reuters article, Stephenson suggests that the iPad will be a "Wi-Fi driven product," and that "there's not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription."

That may in fact be true, and while I'm almost willing to offer him the benefit of the doubt that the majority of browsing on the iPad will be done via Wi-Fi, I also doubt that those who elect to go with 3G won't be using the heck out of it. Maybe AT&T thinks the extra charges from the non-subscription usage will shore up the network, but it certainly sounds to me like Stephenson isn't too worried about AT&T's 3G networks, and from both our experiences with them on the iPhone and the expected popularity of the iPad, he probably should be.

Then again, maybe he's got to say that it won't be a problem -- suggesting that AT&T might not be able to keep up with service demands probably isn't the best thing for the CEO of the company to do. But it sounds like AT&T is underestimating, publicly at least, the kind of 3G network traffic the iPad will bring.

TUAWAT&T: iPad will be a "Wi-Fi driven product," 3G won't be an issue originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bulkypix si appresta a lanciare su AppStore un nuovo platform game in 2D: Maestro Green Groove.

Si tratta di un gioco dalle ambientazioni esotiche e nel quale dobbiamo portare in salvo tutti i pulcini, raccogliendo le note musicali ed evitando gli oscacoli.

Il gioco sarà ufficialmente presentato durante il GDC di San Francisco (8-13 marzo)

When it comes to an app that can find a concert, let you share your thoughts with other concert-goers (through Twitter), and search based on your location, SuperGlued shows a lot of promise. But the app didn't always work quite right in our tests.

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TUAWloha, everyone.

It's time for another chapter in the ongoing technical soap opera known as TUAW TV Live. This afternoon's show, beginning at 5 PM, has content to dazzle and amaze you. To avoid any broadcast nightmares this week, Steve will be doing the show solo in order to keep things simple.

As noted in an earlier post, today's topics include, but are not limited to:

• iPad availability (when and how many)
• A couple of Mac application demos
• Some fun videos
• A hands-on look at the LaCie Network Space 2 NAS
• Discussion of the topics you want to talk about in the chat tool

We now return you to our previously scheduled show, already in progress. Click the Read More link to view the show and interact with the chat tool.

TUAW(Not) live from New York -- it's TUAW TV Live! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Alors qu'Apple a attaqué HTC, on en parlait hier, c'est Google, non directement cité dans l'affaire, qui répond via TechCrunch !

La réponse est courte mais sans appel : "“We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it”", à savoir : "nous ne sommes pas impliqué dans la plainte, nous soutenons notre système d'exploitation Android et les partenaires qui nous ont aidé à le développer".

TechCrunch rappelle à juste titre que c'est un mois après que Google ait offert le multi-touch à tous les Nexus One, alors que le multi-touch n'était pas disponible sur les machines US, que la plainte arrive. Google est clairement visé par la plainte, mais n'est pas cité, bizarrement.

On attend la réaction d'HTC !

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Since moving to LA, I haven't quite had to deal with the potholes that Spring in Chicago usually brings (not that roads are any better out here, but at least they don't have to deal with all of the freezing and thawing). But despite the yearly flat tires and ruined alignments, Chicago hasn't gone quite as far as Boston, where the city government has developed not one but two apps to enable its citizens to report on potholes and other city issues.

Citizens Connect is an app developed late last year by the city that enables locals to report graffiti, potholes, broken streetlights, and other urban issues in the Boston area, and now they're working on a new app, nicknamed BUMP (for Boston Urban Mechanic Profiler), that will automatically transmit road conditions to a central database using the iPhone's accelerometer and data connection. That seems tough to do with all of the extra noise that must come from an accelerometer, but they are working with a researcher from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, so maybe they will be able to pull it off. Interesting to see metropolitan areas like this using newer technology to keep an eye on what's up in their city. Of course, actually fixing the potholes will take a little more work, but knowing what's wrong is helpful.

TUAWBoston creates app to report road problems originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, you can so backup your iDisk with Time Machine.

Last week, gamers discovered some "evidence" that Valve may bring its Steam service to the Mac. On Wednesday, Macworld obtained a screenshot that all but confirms it.