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"Ingress, the Alternate/Augmented Reality (AR) game from Google's Niantic Labs, is a major evolution of mobile gaming. Apparently, it's also a good way to get arrested. According to a post on Reddit (I know, I know - but stay with me on this), an Ingress player in Ohio was detained by police for his in-game actions. Specifically, he was "hacking a portal" near a police station. His phone had technical difficulties, which led him to linger by the portal/police station for a bit, catching the eye of local law enforcement and leading to the detention. After the original post, other Ingress players responded with similar stories. One aroused suspicions by wandering around an empty parking lot at night. Another, trying to hack a portal next to an air traffic control station, had to run from the local sheriff. A third was called in for questioning after hacking a portal outside of a "high-traffic drug area.""

Last year Burt's Bees created an interactive billboard featuring thousands of tear-off product coupons to promote a new line of hydration cream. Originally placed in Minneapolis, the billboard has since been donated to the urban gardening students at Durham School of the Arts in North Carolina. Repurposed as a rain catching system, the billboard captures more than 6,300 gallons of rain water each year for use in the school's community garden.

"Catch the Flash" game in Vienna. 50 runners over 90 minutes with participants chasing the runners trying to capture them on camera. The runners wore jackets with numbers that illuminated with the flash

"News and magazine apps are a segment where the momentum is likely to shift towards the Web within the next two to three years," noted senior analyst Aapo Markkanen. "Since news and media content already account for a large share of smartphone usage and are likely to play an even bigger role in later adopters' usage, changes in this segment alone will make subscribers on average download fewer native apps." The next wave of smartphone owners in mature markets like the U.S., Western Europe and Asia will download fewer apps than the first one-third of mobile consumers who bought smartphones, according to the report on mobile app storefronts. At the same time, ABI expects that in the games and utilities categories, the mobile Web will probably never catch up with native apps, due to the difficulty in matching the user experience. ABI's outlook on the future of apps appears at odds with a separate report released Tuesday by Strategy Analytics, which maintains that the emergence of HTML5 won't put much of a dent in the app economy. Instead, it predicts the Web programming language will lead to the spread of hybrid apps that combine HTML5 with native APIs (application programming interface) to harness the best of native and open standards.

Talk about perspective. Art collective Boa Mistura in Brazil took on a project to brighten some neighborhoods. They painted narrow passageways with bright colors and uplifting words that mean beauty, love, pride, and more - the catch is the words can only be seen from a certain perspective when the person is at the top of the passageway.

Pretty sad, but I never realized how close AT&T was to VZW in terms of subs. I also didn't realize that Sprint and T-mobile each have around 50 million subs. It would take much for either of them to "catch-up" since there already 50% of the way there.

facebook places and now the acquisition of hot potato... facebook may offer check-ins to products, shows, etc. like hot potato does they will probably shut hot potato down and just use their manpower to further develop facebook

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the nyc store is keeping its doors open till 2 a.m. seems to be working out for them... may catch on to other retailers daily 8.4

Cost Cutters, a bargain hair salon, put hidden cameras and mics on clients and sent them out to document the compliments hey received.