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Microsoft also emphasized the multi-screen experience at a press conference where they further showcased the abilities of Xbox SmartGlass, a companion app that transforms mobile phones or tablets into second screens that interact with the Xbox360 for enhanced entertainment. Indeed, the company is encouraging users to experience games, movies, and television in an entirely new way, offering facts, trivia, and strategic tips to assist in the mastery of game completion. Viewers of this season's Game of Thrones will be able to use SmartGlass to peruse interactive maps, read about characters, and view exclusive behind-the-scenes content.

"two aspects easy to agree on: mobile commerce will come to define our lives, and the consumer will be the long-term winner."

Pew Internet's Future of the Internet presentation from the World Future Society conference 2010. The presentation covers a few of the trends they've seen from 2000 to 2009/10 and then walks through the results of their annual "Future of the Internet" Delphi project - interviewing experts on tech, society, etc., about the plausibility of different Internet scenarios over the next 10 years.

Billionaire Richard Branson has had the golden touch with many businesses in the Virgin Group. Now his company hopes to work its magic again with an all-new Virgin Games online gaming tournament business. The company is announcing today it has made an investment in the online game tournament site Worldgaming.com and is rebranding it as Virgin Games. Branson's move, which will be highlighted by his appearance at a press conference during the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles today, shows that video games are gaining importance in the larger entertainment and media market.

interesting article about the "ultimate professors of popular culture"- trendspotters :-)

Conference examining startup failures - interesting stories and lessons

 Researchers from MIT unveiled the fastest 3-D holographic video to date at a conference in San Francisco January 23, filming a graduate student dressed as Princess Leia and projecting her as a postcard-sized hologram in real time.

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re its debut at the famous TED conference in March. "It wants to use camera phones to create a new kind of photograph," according to TechCrunch. The startup says it wants to "bring the real world to the flat Web," by capturing places instead of just a rectangular image. "It sounds like it could be a sort of panoramic photo, possibly with an augmented reality layer on top, but at this point the company isn't talking."

The number of AT&T's iPhone customers leaving for Verizon Wireless since the rival operator started selling the smartphone last month has been "within expectations," said AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega at an investor conference yesterday.

"We are not looking to do business today with the garage developer," Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Gamasutra at the recent Game Developers Conference.

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