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And let's throw a third question in there: Will we see this in the U.S.?
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Samsung Galaxy Note commercial asks same question as us: Phone or tablet?
Jersey 'Housewives' reveal: 'We're all crazy'
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The drama continued during part two of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reunion special.
By Ree Hines
You?ve got to hand it to ?Real Housewives of New Jersey? star Caroline Manzo. During the first part of Bravo?s reunion special, she summed up the drama as ?a whirlwind of stupid.? And?in Sunday night?s second part, Manzo once again worked her magic with words, quietly dubbing all of the Garden State gals ?crazy.?
While Teresa Guidice continued to explain why she was right and everyone else ? especially sister-in-law Melissa Gorgas ? was wrong, this time in regard to a lack of family face time on Christmas Eve, Manzo muttered her take on the situation.
?We?re all bad. OK?? she said. ?We?re all bad. We?re all crazy. Why are we here??
Of course, the commentary was lost on Guidice, who never paused to hear what Manzo or anyone else?said.
What did you think of the second half of the reunion special? Are you Team Guidice or Team Everyone Else? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.
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In Flex We Trust ? Tech Talk Gaming: Battlefield 3 Review!!
There has been a lot of talk about this franchise recently, the commercial featuring 99 problems actually had a few non- gamer females recognize and ask me about the game. With Modern Warfare 3 around the corner can BF3 steal some fans from the most popular FPS? Check out the review of the PC version after the jump.
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Let?s sit down for a few minutes and talk about Battlefield 3.
Let?s step outside of the hype, the constant back and forth between fans of the series and fans of, you know, that series. Let?s leave the baggage attached by EA?s masochistic desire to sidle right up against that game, and we can ignore that beta too. I know it?s hard. But let?s do it anyway.
Instead, let?s talk about what we?ve been told is DICE?s most ambitious, biggest game ever. And let?s talk about how Battlefield 3 is simultaneously disappointing in that respect, and brilliant in others, and why that might be OK anyway ? maybe even great.
It might be hard to see it initially. Multiplayer is Battlefield 3?s sharp edge, but the singleplayer is the point of its blade. DICE and EA have shown it repeatedly, and you can see why ? it shows well. Everything is put together like DICE expected you to look at it. Characters move naturally, the lighting is beautiful, and explosions are often scary in scope and impact. It sounds like a proper warzone, with the most terrifyingly authentic audio I?ve heard in a game.
But it?s not much fun.
Battlefield 3?s campaign isn?t just a straight line, it?s tactically linear. Firefights almost always unfold the same way. This is partly due to enemy AI that often seems stuck to a six foot leash from where they initially appear, but it goes deeper than that. For all the talk of destruction and immersion, Battlefield 3?s campaign is a step backward from the manic calamity of Bad Company 2. There?s no more blowing holes through walls to make an alternate route. Environmental destruction is cosmetic or scripted.
None of that is a death sentence ? Modern Warfare drew the blueprint for the modern linear shooter, and it still managed to be fast, fun, and exciting. But Modern Warfare always gave you something to do, and enemies that were fun to shoot. Battlefield 3 is clearly referencing that blueprint, but it fails in this regard. There aren?t that many enemies to shoot, and DICE has made up for that by allowing them to fire through geometry with pinpoint accuracy. It leads to a lot of trial by death and memorization. It?s not fun.
Battlefield 3?s does occasionally do something cool. A jet sequence made the de rigeur death-from-above sequence exciting again. As the FA-18 was catapulted off the deck, I felt a hint of that twinge of panic that hits me during take-off in real life. I forgot my sidekick disappointment as I turned my head left and right in a panic trying to spot the fighter aircraft trying to kill us. The sniper sequence later on was panicky and desperate and exciting? until I failed the mission several times trying to figure out exactly what Battlefield 3 expected me to do.
These and a couple of other moments are light peeking out from the depths of the campaign?s otherwise mediocre trappings. Amidst all the bombast and wub-wub ambient/mild-dubstep underpinnings of the soundtrack (which I liked quite a bit), Battlefield 3?s campaign never quite figures out what it wants to do, and it frequently goes for emotional resonance that it doesn?t earn. The quicktime events don?t really accomplish anything. Story moments that should be shocking struck me as exploitative.
Then there?s the co-operative campaign, such as it is, which suffers from all of the same design issues of the main game. There are six scenarios that are laid out roughly like campaign content without the exposition, which means it?s often even more unclear what you?re supposed to be doing, or what the stakes are. The enemy AI remains as murderously un-fun to fight as it is in the singleplayer campaign. Theoretically, things should be more fun with a friend, but I found it doubly frustrating.
Taking only the campaign and the co-op into consideration, Battlefield 3 is a mess. It feels like a developer way outside of their comfort zone, trying to catch someone else?s lightning in their bottle. It lacks any identity or soul.
Battlefield 3 finds that identity and soul in its multiplayer.
Battlefield 3 marks DICE?s attempt to marry the scope and scale of Battlefield 2 with the destruction and close quarters dynamics of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and it mostly works. My biggest complaint is the size of the maps (at least in the PC version). The really huge maps have giant buffer zones on either side of the main areas of interest, which served mainly to delay respawning players from immediately jumping back into the fray. Perhaps those areas exist for the re-introduced warplanes to have space to maneuver and be useful, but having to run (or even drive) three or four hundred meters before I could even see the action wasn?t fun.
That out of the way, Battlefield 3 is the most fun I?ve had playing a shooter online since Bad Company 2. The class based play allows for players to select a role and succeed in it outside of the basic ?kill more guys than guys kill you? model. If you can step out of an obsession with the mythical kill/death ratio, you can die again and again and still have fun. Maybe you?ll be a tank commander? or maybe you?ll be the guy fixing it, making sure your team?s tank ace can keep the pressure on indefinitely.
It?s telling that Battlefield 3?s multiplayer emphasis remains objective based game types Rush and Conquest. Both feel distinctive. Rush?s alternating attack or defend mentality against entrenched positions makes for a very distinct experience for either side, every game, making for interesting tactical play. Conquest?s constantly shifting possession makes for a more frantic experience. Both of them are a ton of fun, and every map plays completely differently from one mode to the other, which gives the feeling of twice as many maps to play on. Operation Metro, the map that players had access to in the Battlefield 3 beta on all three platforms, is an exercise in frustration in Rush. But it?s a fantastic map in Conquest.
There is less destruction than I had hoped, though. It?s not Bad Company 2, and levels won?t start out intact and end looking like the surface of the moon the way they often did in that game. You might get a little wistful when you find walls you can?t put a rocket through, but you?ll probably get over it after the first couple of hours.
Diving into Battlefield 3?s more robust team deathmatch modes seems like a waste of time with the work DICE put into re-balancing classes. Their decision to give Medics the Assault class?s weapon set means health is being laid down on the front lines, sustaining forward momentum, while making the machine-gun wielding troops the beacon of ammo resupplies forces consideration of resources and tactical retreats. Suppression is a great addition, and another way to be useful.
There are some minor things that I think will become issues later on; Recon players have entirely too much ammunition, and engineers feel woefully underprepared for enemy armor. Meanwhile, planes make too short work of opposing tanks and troop carriers, which can lead to bizarre stalemates on some maps.
But the feel of Battlefield 3?s multiplayer combat is unmatched. Forget the beta ? there?s been subtle changes and fixes to damage models and netcode. Combat in Battlefield 3 is now closer to what it was in Bad Company 2, with an emphasis on tactical decision making and smart shooting over twitch reflexes (though there is some of that). The reintroduction of prone to the series allows for more fluid strategic movement, as running across an open space and diving to your belly is a totally viable option during some firefights. It?s another of those Battlefield Moments. You can?t get it until you play it, but once you do, every game will have at least one.
Finally, I suppose I?d be remiss in skipping over Battlelog. You will use it; you don?t have a choice. When you launch Battlefield 3 through Origin, it actually launches your default browser, which prompts you to log into Battlelog, where you?ll install a browser plugin, which will let you navigate your full Battlefield 3 ExperienceTM.
Put simply, I like the robust stat tracking of Battlelog. It updates instantly, and it has all of the numerical data and unlock info you could want. Of course, it lacks heatmaps or game summaries, and also, the notion of using a third party browser to navigate Battlefield is bizarre, especially given that Origin runs in an overlay on top of Battlefield 3. Even more bizarre, your Origin friends aren?t automatically your Battlelog friends. You have to search for friends and add them manually. Also, if you want to switch from campaign to multiplayer, you?ll have to quit the game, and launch the other game mode from Battlelog. I won?t mark Battlefield 3 down for it, but it?s not a great user experience all the time.
In a way, your choice should be simple. If solo play is your primary motivator, then it?s hard to recommend Battlefield 3 as anything more than an audio-visual treat. The times where Battlefield 3 does its damnedest to go toe-to-toe with Call of Duty are the times it stumbles the hardest. But when DICE is doing what it?s always done best, Battlefield 3 is a uniquely mesmerizing multiplayer game with a seemingly endless number of ways to feel like a success. It?s not revolutionary, but it?s the best Battlefield game, and that?s saying a lot.
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Source: http://www.inflexwetrust.com/2011/10/24/tech-talk-gaming-battlefield-3-review/
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Lindsay Lohan Cuts Ties With Manager, Reality
Lindsay Lohan is looking for a fresh start.
She's cleaning more than soiled linens at the morgue - she's cleaning house, kicking her business manager Lou Taylor to the curb, according to reports.
Taylor, who also manages Britney Spears, "didn't have the time to manage her," according to LiLo's peeps, and she wants someone to put more effort in.
She could start by making their job a little easier. Just saying.
Lookin' good, Lindsay Lohan. Lookin'. Good.
According to sources, LiLo felt her finances (Taylor's responsibility) were starting to slip through the cracks ... her not having much in the way of work can't help.
Whatever the reason, word was getting back to the star that her balances were not being handled in a timely manner, in part because Taylor is based in Tennessee.
Lohan's rep, Steve Honig, says the split was amicable and she and Taylor remain friends. Maybe she can arrange a nice parting gift cupcake delivery ...
[Photo: WENN.com]
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/lindsay-lohan-cuts-ties-with-manager-reality/
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Monday, October 24, 2011
3 Neat iPhone Apps Designed to Entertain (Mashable)
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Each weekend, Mashable handpicks a few startups that we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.
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Here we've selected three iPhone applications for your weekend enjoyment and entertainment.
Roamz is a location-based application that will guide you to nearby happening places and activities, based around your interests and the social media activities of your friends. Mynd, meanwhile, will be your personal entertainment curator and point you in the direction of the best gaming, reading and television apps based on your tastes. And DimSong will delight you with music that moves as you do.
[More from Mashable: Lemon Makes Lemonade Out of Your Electronic & Paper Receipts]
Roamz: An iPhone Tour Guide
Quick Pitch: Roamz is a location-based app that helps you find out what is happening around you.
Genius Idea: Interest-based place and event recommendations surfaced via social media.
Mashable's Take: What's happening around you? It seems like a fairly simple enough question to answer, especially considering the bevy of location-based applications and services on the market. And yet, more often than not, the answer is harder to come by then it should be.
Enter Roamz, an iPhone application that culls information from your Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter accounts, and takes into account your expressed interests, to surface hot tips and pictures on nearby (or afar) local events and attractions you might like. Of course, you're also encouraged to use the app to share local happenings -- the startup calls these "Roamz moments" -- with other users as you discover them.
Roamz, which launched earlier this week, is not the perfect anecdote for the what-to-do conundrum (yet), but it's a step in the right direction.
Mynd: Your Personal Entertainment iPhone App Assistant
Quick Pitch: Mynd wants to be your personal entertainment curator.
Genius Idea: Find, rate and share the best entertainment apps on your iPhone.
Mashable's Take: You've got more than 500,000 iOS applications to choose from on the App Store. Clearly, finding games, books, or television and movie apps best suited to your tastes can be a daunting, if not impossible, task. Mynd to the rescue.
Mynd, from Seattle-based mobile development studio Liquify Digital, is an iPhone application that curates and recommends games, books, music and film applications just for you. The app uses a combination of machine learning techniques to make its picks and gets more sophisticated every time you interact with it.
DimSong: Interact With Music
Quick Pitch: DimSong is a reactive and adaptive app that creates customized remixes of music based on your input, movement and surroundings.
Genius Idea: Music remixed by your movement.
Mashable's Take: If you've ever wished for a dynamic music listening experience that matches your mood or tempo, consider taking DimSong for a musical spin on your iPhone.
The iPhone application, built by VenLabs, provides an always in-flux and funky listening experience that oscillates with movement, touch or light.
In shake mode, tracks automatically pick up intensity as you dance or flail about. Switch to light mode and your iPhone's camera will adjust audio based on the amount of light in the room. Or go in to touch mode to manually mix music with the on-screen slider.
Right now, DimSong is limited in track selection, but the application will eventually work with songs from your favorite artists.
Image courtesy of Flickr, Kristopher Wilson
Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark, a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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Video: Oracle to Buy RightNow for $1.5B
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"Paranormal 3" breaks records at weekend box office (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Horror movie "Paranormal Activity 3" jolted awake a sleepy movie box office with an estimated $80 million in global ticket sales over the weekend.
The third installment of the low-budget haunted house movies topped domestic charts with $54 million from U.S. and Canadian theaters, the highest-grossing domestic debut for a horror film and a record for an October release.
The movie added $26 million from international markets over the weekend, distributor Paramount Pictures said on Sunday.
Like the first two films in the series, "Paranormal 3" was released just before Halloween and produced on a budget tiny by Hollywood standards. The latest movie, the most expensive of the trio, cost $5 million to make.
The film opened with after-midnight showings on Thursday night and easily beat the studio's forecast for a domestic debut of around $35 million. The movie is a prequel about two young sisters and their creepy encounters with an invisible presence in their home, all recorded by surveillance cameras.
A largely positive response from critics helped bring in an older-than-25 crowd in addition to the teenagers and young adults who usually flock to horror flicks, said Don Harris, Paramount's president of domestic distribution.
"This is the best of the series. It was well-reviewed," Harris said, adding that "people like to be scared in a Hitchcock-ian way. This isn't a bloody franchise."
The film's strong performance boosted a sluggish box office that has limped along sharply below last year for several weekends this fall following a record summer. This weekend's top 12 films grossed 45 percent more than last weekend's, although 6 percent less than the same weekend a year ago, according to figures from Hollywood.com Box Office.
Robot boxing movie "Real Steel," the domestic box-office champ the past two weekends, slipped to second place with $11.3 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters. The film, starring Hugh Jackman as a father who bonds with his son as they restore a battle-ready robot, has earned $153.3 million globally through its first three weekends of release.
A remake of 1980s dance classic "Footloose" finished third on the domestic charts with $10.9 million, dropping just 30 percent from its debut weekend and earning a total of $30.9 million to date.
'MUSKETEERS' STRUGGLE
New release "The Three Musketeers," a 3D action version of the classic novel about a sword-fighting trio, finished in fourth place with a weaker-than-expected $8.8 million. Critics were not enthused with the film, with just 28 percent giving a positive review on movie website Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences polled by survey firm CinemaScore gave the film a B rating on average.
Overseas, the movie has grossed $64.4 million for a combined global total standing at $73.2 million.
Comedy "Johnny English Reborn" debuted in the North American market at eighth place with a dismal $3.8 million. But the film starring British "Mr. Bean" actor Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling secret agent has already chalked up success overseas, pulling in $104.5 million in international markets since its release five weeks ago.
Fifth place domestically went to George Clooney's political thriller "The Ides of March," which brought in $4.9 million during its third weekend of release. Clooney has directed, co-written and co-starred in the film about a primary fight between two presidential candidates.
Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc, released "Paranormal Activity 3" and "Footloose." Summit Entertainment distributed "The Three Musketeers." Walt Disney Co released "Real Steel," which was produced by DreamWorks. "Johnny English Reborn" was released by Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp, and Sony Corp unit Columbia Pictures released "The Ides of March."
(Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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