Apple’s Game Center will allow players to connect with other players around the world and discover the wonders of all games iOS well together. Similarly, the platform Windows 7 will soon launch phone with Xbox Live integration, which makes the operating system an attractive proposition for fans and game developers.

offering Android games has so far been relatively low. Shunned by the big game developers, for various reasons, the Android Market Table sparkling lack of quality titles that lights up on the App Store. Of course, there are lots of games available for Android, but only if you’re tired genres like Robo Defense, Whack-a-mole, Reversi and Minesweeper.

Game List

According to a report mplayer, only 17% of Android users the trouble to get games on their phone. Compare that with 64% of users who browse iOS for games, and it is clear that Android is simply not flicking switches players.

However, despite all this, there is certainly hope for the games on Android. In fact, I’m almost ready to stake my professional reputation by claiming that Android will eventually exceed the number IOS platform mobile games.

Please note my use of the word “almost” here because there are many things that must fall into place for that, and I do not know what happens in the mind of Mr. Google. Android is what to do if she wants to break the market of mobile gaming:
Get more big developers on board

Slowly but surely, more mobile game developers, who have been so prolific in the App Store, show show interest in Android.

Maybe this is down to tactics rather desperate Google corrupt would-be developers Nexus One free phones at the conference this year Games Developers. Or perhaps the fact that Android is now the most popular smartphone in the United States OS and is selling over 200,000 handsets per day in the world. Yeah, it will be.

Mobile giant games Gameloft has released 11 of its key titles for Android, including Assassin’s Creed People, Real Football, Let’s golf. Gameloft took the step of releasing demo versions of all these games, which has been sorely lacking major Android games in the past.

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off during Ping music-related media event of the company on September 1, 10 seems to iTunes include the ability to search for accounts of users of Facebook for potential friends. When Ping was actually available, however, the option to search Facebook mysteriously disappeared for few users seemed to have access.

According to Mr. Jobs, Apple and Facebook discussed the possibility of collaborating, but Apple finally left the negotiations on the “onerous conditions that we could not accept.”

Now it seems that Apple went ahead with its plan to include research in Ping Facebook friend, to be blocked once the service was launched, according to unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Once Apple realized Ping was blocked access encoders Facebooks API functionality from iTunes.

For its part, Facebook seems open to work on an agreement with Apple. “Facebook and Apple have cooperated successfully in the past to provide large social experiences and we look forward to doing so in the future,” the company said.

Since the two companies appear to have different ideas about what constitutes an acceptable agreement, it may be some time before Facebook and Apple reached agreement on a deal.

Indeed, the iPod Touch is a leading candidate to become your solution smartphone without contract, thanks to VoIP applications like Skype and line 2, and call management web application Google Voice, but some critical missing pieces into iPod Touch back to the glory of data only.

First, consider how the features of the iPod Touch are more news by telephone, as before. Besides the iPod touch are important additions to his forehead and rear-facing cameras. These allow users to take pictures without dragging a digital camera – a phone function before signing smartphones has come – and make video calls on human contact.

With the camera comes two important characteristics: Speakers and a microphone. Although the previous iPod needed an external headset buttons for VoIP applications, Skype conversations can now be conducted by loudspeaker.

This brings me to the first flaw in the iPod Touch as a replacement iPhone. The speakers are nice, but without a real listener – the speaker silent other, pointing directly into your ear – iPod Touch are calling everyone’s business. Your only solution is to synchronize a Bluetooth headset for phone calls private.

More GigaOM Kevin points TOFEL another couple of major drawbacks. He noted that the camera facing the back of the iPod touch is smaller than the iPhone, shooting a mere 960-by-720 resolution, which corresponds to approximately 0.7 million pixels. It’s worse than any iPhone, ever. More importantly, note the TOEFL, the iPod Touch has no 3G radio, so you do not subscribe to a data plan from him and no GPS, based on triangulation Wi-Fi instead .

I think you can circumvent the problems of data with a mobile access point, such as hotspot without a contract for Virgin Mobile, but it’s just another device to carry around in addition to the phone and a Bluetooth headset.

If you do not mind carrying three gadgets in your pockets all the time, more power to your smartphone alternative geeked-out with the iPod Touch. The rest of us should expect something else, and pray that when it happens, unlimited mobile data plans are not completely dead

Tesla: Reading in the Light of Wireless Power at Pike’s Peak, Colorado, 1899

JP Morgan, JD Rockefeller and Henry Ford

With the discovery of electricity, everybody expected that all cars would be electric and run on rechargeable batteries. Tesla had gone one step further and actually produced a working automobile that ran on electricity taken from the surrounding ether like an antenna picks up radio waves. This would revolutionize travel just like his AC induction motor had fundamentally altered the industrial world. John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford were not pleased with Tesla’s wireless power travel solutions. No gasoline engine meant no oil monopoly for the Rockefellers. Their Standard Oil Company was losing its key market of home lighting to Thomas Alva Edison’s electric light bulb. The legendary investor and banker JP Morgan did not like the idea of wireless energy based travel — road, air or sea — because where would one put the meter to charge? He favored the joint solution of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and Ford’s modern car based on the internal combustion engine for its clear income stream!

Wireless Power Road Travel

Observers at the time say that Nikola Tesla had an electric Pierce Arrow luxury car back in the 1930s, although there’s some material published by rivals to discredit the project. This was no ordinary battery driven car because this car took its power from the ether, just like an automobile antenna picks up radio waves. The internal combustion engine was replaced with an 80 horse power electric motor. The power source was a black box of radio tubes in the glove compartment. The box had an antenna sticking out. Tesla would play with some tuners and tune in the right frequency to get power delivered through the air to his car. The car ran almost silently. He was sending the energy from the power plant wirelessly!

The “energy receiver” — gravitational energy converter — had been built by Tesla himself. It was installed in front of the dashboard. Among other things, the converter contained 12 vacuum tubes. A heavy antenna came out of the converter. The motor achieved a maximum of 1800 rpm. Tesla said it was fairly hot when operating, and therefore a cooling fan was required. For the rest, he said there was enough power in the converter to illuminate an entire house, besides running the car engine. The car was tested for a week, reaching a top speed of 90 miles per hour effortlessly. Its performance data were at least comparable to those of an automobile using gasoline.

An article published in the New York Daily News, April 1934, titled “Tesla’s Wireless Power Dream Nears Reality” mentioned the planned “test run of a motor car over a stretch… from [Boise City, Oklahoma] to Farley, New Mexico” using wireless transmission of electrical energy to power the vehicle. The equipment was assembled by “two Californians” and is described as “including a high-powered radio transmitter with big coils and a short antenna.” Several newspapers reported testing. When asked where the power came from, Tesla replied, “From the ether all around us!”

Wireless Power Air Travel

In the article “Nikola Tesla Tells How We May Fly Eight Miles High at 1,000 Miles an Hour” published in the Reconstruction, July 1919, Tesla spoke about a possible technological revolution in the transmission of propulsive power to aircraft “through the air”:

For years I have advocated my system of wireless transmission of power which is now perfectly practicable and I am looking confidently to its adoption and further development. In the system I have developed, distance is of absolutely no consequence. That is to say, a Zeppelin vessel would receive the same power whether it was 12,000 miles away or immediately above the power plant. The application of wireless power for aerial propulsion will do away with a great deal of complication and waste, and it is difficult to imagine that a more perfect means will ever be found to transport human beings to great distances economically. The power supply is virtually unlimited, as any number of power plants can be operated together, supplying energy to airships just as trains running on tracks are now supplied with electrical energy through rails or wires.

“The transmission of power by wireless will do away with the present necessity for carrying fuel on the airplane or airship. The motors of the plane or airship will be energized by this transmitted power, and there will be no such thing as a limitation on their radius of action, since they can pick up power at any point on the globe.”

Wireless Power Sea Travel

In the article “Faster Liners is Tesla’s Dream” published in the New York Sun, June 1935, Tesla spoke about the transmission of propulsive power to ships at sea “through the stratosphere.”

“The principles of this high tension power, generated by shore plants and transmitted through the upper reaches of the air, illuminating the sky, turning night into day and at the same time supplying power, have occupied Dr Tesla’s attention on and off now for the past thirty-five years…”

“There is a method of conveying great power to ships at sea which would be able to propel them across oceans at high speed… the principle is this. A ray of great ionizing power is used to give to the atmosphere great powers of conduction. A high tension current of 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 volts is then passed along the ray to the upper strata of the air, which strata can be broken down very readily and will conduct electricity very well.”

“A ship would have to have equipment for producing a similar ionizing ray. The current which has passed through the stratosphere will strike this ray, travel down it and pass into the engines which propel the ship.”

Edison, Tesla and Westinghouse

Before coming to the US in 1884, Tesla worked for about a year for the French branch of the Edison Electric Light Company. At that time, the most important “inventor” in the world was named Thomas Alva Edison, the so-called wizard of Menlo Park. Edison was credited with the invention of the Direct Current (DC) dynamo and the electric light bulb. The US manager of the French branch of the Edison Company advised Tesla to seek his fortune in the New World. Almost immediately after entering the US, Tesla went to work for Edison. The Edison Company was totally locked into Direct Current (DC) and wanted nothing to do with Tesla’s Alternating Current (AC). DC had very severe limitations, and was not practicable for long distance electrical transmission. In alliance with Rockefeller and JP Morgan, Edison fought Tesla’s system with hellish fury. Tesla quit the Edison Company. In 1888, Tesla held a lecture before the US Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York City. This lecture brought his alternating current system before the world at last. An inventor and industrialist named George Westinghouse brought Tesla’s AC system to the world. When linked to Tesla’s polyphase method of generating and transmitting electricity, this motor became the foundation stone on which the modern electrical power industry is built. In 1895, the Westinghouse Company and Nicola Tesla built the first hydroelectric alternating current system at Niagara Falls.

The War of the Currents

By 1897, the War of the Currents between AC and DC or between Westinghouse and Edison continued unabated. In 1895, Tesla’s laboratory in New York City was totally destroyed by fire with Tesla miraculously escaping death. Huge mergers took place between JP Morgan and Rockefeller controlled companies like Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric to form the present day General Electric company. This new General Electric tried to take over Westinghouse and force them to abandon AC.

Wireless Power Transmission

In 1899, in Pike’s Peak, Colorado, Tesla demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting electricity through the earth without the use of wires. He transmitted 100 million volts of high-frequency electric power wirelessly over a distance of 26 miles at which he lit up a bank of 200 light bulbs and ran one electric motor! With a souped up version of his Tesla coil, Tesla claimed that only 5% of the transmitted energy was lost in the process. A Tesla coil is a special transformer that can take the 110 or 240 volts electricity and convert it rapidly to a great deal of high-voltage, high-frequency, low-amperage power. The high-frequency output of even a small Tesla coil can light up fluorescent tubes held several feet away without any wire connections.

Wireless transmission of electricity to all parts of the earth was the main objective of Tesla in the famous Pike’s Peak experiment. Tesla discovered that the earth was a very good conductor of electricity and that he could set the earth in electrical oscillation just like the mechanical oscillation that almost caused an earthquake in Manhattan. Power was supplied to the primary coil by the local power station. The secondary coil was grounded to the earth, producing waves which travelled to the opposite side of the world. The returning waves were discharged through the atmosphere. When Tesla had demonstrated the feasibility of his wireless power system, he rushed back to New York to begin construction on a transmitter located at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, New York with the financial backing of JP Morgan.

Wardenclyffe Transmitter

In 1901, Nikola Tesla began construction of his now legendary Wardenclyffe Tower, a mammoth multi-stage Tesla Coil structure rising to 187 feet in height. The advertised purpose of this colossal tower was as a radio signaling station, but Tesla had secretly hoped to demonstrate that this facility could transmit power around the globe — without wires. In the article “The Future of the Wireless Art” which appeared in Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, 1908, Tesla made the following statement regarding the Wardenclyffe project on which he was then working:

“As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind. More important than this, however, will be the transmission of power, without wires, which will be shown on a scale large enough to carry conviction. These few indications will be sufficient to show that the wireless art offers greater possibilities than any invention or discovery heretofore made, and if the conditions are favourable, we can expect with certitude that in the next few years wonders will be wrought by its application.”

In the end, Tesla was never able to complete the Wardenclyffe plant because JP Morgan withdrew his support, although he was able to conduct some performance tests. JP Morgan quickly grew cool to wireless power technology upon discovering that there was no practical way to meter the electrical power delivered. An interesting feature of Tesla’s World System for global communications, had it gone into full operation, would have been its capacity to provide small but usable quantities of electrical power at the location of the receiving circuits. He predicted that further advances would have permitted the wireless transmission of industrial amounts of electrical energy with minimal losses to any point on the earth’s surface. Had he been able to complete the prototype station on Long Island and use it to demonstrate the feasibility of wireless power transmission then a plan would have been implemented for the construction of a pilot plant for this larger system at Niagara Falls, site of the world’s first commercial three phase AC power plant.

Conclusion

Although there is some skepticism surrounding Tesla’s work in wireless power, there is no doubt that he was a towering figure responsible for many key advances that enable the modern electric world. Shouldn’t we revisit applications of Tesla’s wireless power solutions? As we find ourselves surrounded by 21st century intractable challenges, there is a need to reconsider some of his seminal thinking in wireless power generation and transmission. We need to incorporate those ideas, systems and solutions into the innovation which humanity collectively seeks for the age beyond oil. Unless we are able to increase energy efficiency during transmission and utilize the power already generated, it is difficult to envisage how we may slowly begin to wean ourselves away from massive oil dependency. There can be no doubt that there are some vital answers lurking in the closet marked Tesla. This time around, with modern computing technology solutions at our disposal, wireless power might make even more commercial sense whilst reducing our dependence on oil at the same time.

DK Matai: Wireless Power: Has The Time Come? via

In a video posted just one week after Bush signed-up to join the site, the former president alerts his supporters that while he “may be done with politics,” he’s “not done with policy.”

For Bush, life after the White House includes raising money for earthquake relief in Haiti alongside his presidential predecessor Bill Clinton, time spent writing his forthcoming memoir, and work related to the establishment of the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, which is currently under development.

“Serving as president was the honor of a lifetime, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity to represent the nation I love,” Bush said of his new post-presidential life, before joking, “Retirement isn’t so bad, either.”

George W. Bush Facebook ‘Inaugural Address’: Former President Says ‘Retirement Isn’t So Bad’ (VIDEO) via

Twitter users first reported the Netflix outage about an hour ago, and tweets continue to flow about the issue.

TeriMeasdale: Woaa Netflix is down. What do I do now? Shut down?

BarbInNebraska: Oh no, Netflix is down! We can’t watch any ‘watch it now’ movies.

thetylerhayes: Netflix iPad app shut me down: “Sorry, site is down, but Netflix-ready devices still work.” E.g. An iPad? Lame. http://post.ly/j6Lb

Netflix currently reads, “We’re sorry, the Netflix website is temporarily unavailable.” It continues:

Our engineers are working hard to bring the site back up as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and, again, we apologize for the inconvenience. If you need further assistance, please call us at 1-866-636-3079.

The last major Netflix outage was in February. See tweets in real-time about this latest issue below.

Netflix DOWN: Website ‘Temporarily Unavailable’ via

The world’s largest online social network and the National PTA will work together to build a program to provide information and support about such issues as cyberbullying, good online citizenship and Internet security.

Because the partnership is just starting, officials do not have much detail on what kinds of resources they plan to offer through their respective websites and through other means. But Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the plan is not just to educate kids about being on Facebook, but about being online.

He said “the sooner we can get instilling responsible behavior, the better.”

The PTA will reach out to local parent-teacher groups to promote the program, while Facebook plans to do the same on its site.

Anne Collier, co-director of Connectsafely.org, a forum about online safety issues, said the deal combining Facebook’s broad reach and the PTA’s relationship with schools and parents “makes a lot of sense.”

“Citizenship online and offline needs to be a part of the child’s life,” she said. “It needs to be taught at school and at home – it’s not just a digital thing.”

Child safety advocate Parry Aftab also welcomed the program, and said it’s important for parents not to be scared of technology but to use it to their advantage to communicate with their kids.

“It’s not about turning it off any more, it’s not about scare tactics,” Aftab said. “It’s all about teaching our kids the skills they need to survive in this digital world.”

Facebook, PTA Partner To Promote Internet Safety via

“I had a dream last night that we were making out. But you were wearing a diaper.”

Now, I have no idea how the girl who was sent this message reacted, but if I got something like this I would probably be flattered with a healthy dose of revulsion. Diapers? What kind of weird fetish is that?

Of course you want guys to be thinking about you when you’re not together, but having weird dreams about you in creepy outfits or positions can be off-putting. No need to overshare there, buddy. Good rule of thumb: if you think it sounds creepy when you say it out loud, don’t send it as a text message to a girl. That being said, a dream is not a real fantasy, but something your subconscious cooks up. If it’s true that he really did see a girl in a diaper in his dream, it could represent something else, like “childish or babyish attitudes/actions,” according to one dream dictionary I consulted. “You may be too dependent on others,” the dictionary cautioned. So, he may not make the best boyfriend.

But just because this guy doesn’t have any filter on his text messaging fingers and might be a little immature, that doesn’t mean he’s a bad guy. If you like a guy and he sends you something weird like this, I would recommend sending back something like, “Um, what?” Giving him the gentle hint that you don’t like to get notes like this but don’t mind him generally is probably a good plan of action. Or, you can just write him off as a weirdo. They can’t all be winners.

The article was originally published on Crushable.com.

Amanda Ernst: Dating By Text — How To Handle An Overshare Text via

In other words, here’s what this mess looks like from space.

The image won’t tell you everything about the spill, of course. According to NASA:

Photo-like satellite images are not a perfect tool for detecting oil on the surface of water. Outside of the sunglint area (the part of the satellite image where the mirror-like reflection of the Sun is blurred into a wide, washed out strip by waves), the oil may be imperceptible against the dark background of the water. Scientists and disaster responders in the Gulf are combining photo-like satellite images and aircraft and shipboard observations with weather and ocean current models to predict the spread of oil.

Updated images are being added to NASA’s website twice daily. This one from Wednesday shows the slick off the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.

Gulf Oil Spill From Space: NASA Satellite Image Shows Extent Of Spill (PHOTO) via

Then there was the dark side. Some, not many, but enough to make the experience less enjoyable, displayed anger and hostility. (And these are ones that made it past the moderators!) Discourse became harangues, and personal attacks too often followed disagreement. Which brought me to wonder whether or not the anonymity which pervades the Internet is a good or bad thing? I have seen insulting comments on other blogs as well, and I am fairly confident that what is being said would never be spoken face to face or with both speakers identified. Comments on something as innocent as a piece of music or musician can bring vicious personal exchanges between the parties. Anonymity allows for brave as well as cowardly statements to be made that might not be made if the true identity of the speaker were disclosed, but such bravery is not often the case.

It is too easy to be mean and sarcastic sitting behind a fictitious name. (I was informed that someone who was berating me was actually using three different names. I initially thought it was a groundswell of condemnation.) The New York Times will not publish a letter to the editor unless the name and address of the writer can be verified. I recognize that no such requirement is possible in this vast Internet world. Fictitious names and identities would be too easy to create.

But the Internet comments seem to be a microcosm of what is occurring in the country. Everything is divided: one is liberal or conservative, pro-life or pro-choice, right or wrong, friend or foe, for or against, a fan of Glenn Beck or Rachel Maddow. President Obama was chided for style over substance as a candidate and now is criticized for choosing substance over style in regard to the oil spill. Republicans vote “no” when Democrats vote “yes”. There does not seem to be any willingness to listen, understand and accept another viewpoint. Politeness and respect for contrary views, moderation and compromise seem to have vanished from the public square. I expect someone to say if you can’t take the heat get out of the blogoshpere. But it isn’t the heat that bothers me, it’s the fire. Most of us blog for our own pleasure without compensation. The world would survive easily without our literary contributions. But as long as we persist, requesting respect and good manners does not seem too much to ask. My idol (even if it was Orrin Hatch) is the person who said: “Can’t we disagree without being disagreeable?”

Judge H. Lee Sarokin: Does Anonymity on the Internet Breed Bravery or Cowardice? via