Is the Gaming Industry Moving Online Too Fast?

RyanDJ writes with his reaction to the Sony PSN outage, wondering if our rush to online services and digital distribution for games is a bit too enthusiastic. "I love technology, I just want it to slow down. I know I sound like an angry old 'get off my lawn' kind of guy right now, but until my 8-bit Nintendo dies from plastic corrosion and age, it will continue to play any game I find just as it was supposed to. Online dedicated games, one day, will lose servers. System crashes, such as the Sony problem, will cause interruptions. I feel if we don't slow down, stabilize the current technology and ensure its safety, find ways to guarantee that items bought are permanently owned even without a physical copy, we might see a company such as Nintendo saying that online isn't worth it!"

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Verizon's Super Fast 4G Hotspot Is Here

Verizon's first 4G wifi hotspot is available now.

The device is made by Samsung, and will pump Verizon's speedy 4G data speeds to up to five wifi-enabled devices. It will also offer 3G speeds if you use it in an area where 4G isn't available yet.

It's priced to sell, too. You can get it for just $99.99 with a two-year contract from Verizon. Service plans start at $50 per month for 5 GB of data. For $80 per month you get 10 GB of data.

That may seem like a hefty monthly fee, but it's the same price as Verizon's 3G plans. The only difference is that you can't go any lower than the 5 GB per month plan.

We've heard great things about Verizon's 4G network, and the company says its expanding to over 100 cities this year.

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Wow, The BlackBerry PlayBook Looks FAST (RIMM)

Here's another video of RIM's forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in action. It sure does look fast.

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Comment on First Hands-On Impressions of Verizon 4G: It’s Fast! by Scoopster

Mac users can get on LTE now -- they will just need to buy a Cradlepoint (or similar) mobile router to use ... thus setting up LTE-MiFi.

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Help Fast Company Find the Most Influential Women In Tech 2011 (Fast Company Now)

... so that we can find it) A check-in (on services like Miso and GetGlue, but also on Foursquare and Gowalla, etc. -- again using #wt11. keep in mind, these may be a little harder for us to find as their data isn't necessarily open to listening tools). Be sure to include as much of the following information as possible: name, title, and why you're nominating the person. A link to their...

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Fast, Simple Map Mashup Creation and Social Sharing with TargetMap

Here’s details of a cool, new, open community mashup creation service from TargetMaps – the @TargetMap crew sent us a tip off this morning via Twitter. The service enables rapid creation of online map mashups, facilitates simple sharing and community collaboration and even offers a paid for option (nominal fee) for those who want to [...]

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Mapbiquity, Makes Map creation and sharing fast and easy!

Here’s a tip off about a cool, new web service that enables anyone to easily and quickly create, embed, and share a map. Using the service the user creates an account, then you can upload your own data (like a SHP file) – I grabbed some free, public, open data from the Vancouver OpenData sharing [...]

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Fast Growth is the Fast Lane to Failure

Growing your business isn’t always the better option — very often staying small is the most viable alternative because growth can lead to lots of problems.