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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Devil's Rope: Barbed wire snags Route 66 travelers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;39's like a huge ball of twine, only much more pointy.(Credit:Amanda Kooser/CNET)MCLEAN, Texas--Most people don't think twice about barbed wire, unless they happen to be cattle ranchers, farmers, or junkyard owners. You don't have to be any of those to step into the Devil's Rope Museum on Route 66 here in McLean, Texas, and immerse yourself in the history and lore of the pointy fencing material.I'll admit that at first, I thought the idea of a museum dedicated to barbed wire was pretty weird and possibly a little dull. How many types of barbed wire can there really be As it turns out, thousands. Some of them have some real personality to them, too. One looks like a series of miniature spurs. Another comes in a cheerful shade of red. Some look like wicked ribbons. Festive, but dangerous.A pointed look at barbed wire (photos)  One surprise is the level of ingenuity surrounding the cult of barbed wire. Do-it-yourselfers have adapted the material into sculptures, crows have woven it into nests, and inventors have dedicated countless hours to one-upping each other on barbed wire design and technology. Barbed wire should make it onto every serious maker's materials list. The idea for barbed wire first popped up in the mid-1800s. An endless stream of innovations and adaptions have radiated out ever since. It's not all strings of wire at the Devil's Rope. You can ogle post hole diggers, cattle brands, decorative fence toppers, salesman samples, barbed wire art, and fence-making machines that could double as medieval torture devices.Related links&amp;149' Geek's guide to Route 66, part 1&amp;149' Cadillac Ranch: Texas-size lawn ornaments&amp;149' Route 66: Build your own giant Blue Whale&amp;149' Route 66 Muffler Men: Collect them allI was seriously considering starting up my own barbed wire collection by the time I made it into the gift shop. Like many offbeat and obsessive hobbies, it can add up. Certain pieces of rare barbed wire fetch hundreds of dollars among collectors. One thing is certain: I will never look at barbed wire the same way again. Drop me a line if you happen to have a spare 18-inch strand of &quot;Spur Rowel&quot; wire laying around. I need a centerpiece for my collection.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Software update to boost Kinect's camera]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Microsoft is said to be working on a software update to Kinect's camera system that will improve the console add-on's capabilities at detecting more subtle human gestures. Eurogamer, which is sourcing the report, says that the update centers around increasing the camera resolution in the Kinect's depth sensor from 320x240 to 640x480, a move Eurogamer says would enable the Kinect to potentially pick up things like finger and wrist movements.The Kinect system is currently able to pick up and track 48 points on each player's body, though Microsoft's algorithms treat the hands as a single, solid pointing device within the system's natural user interface. This has led developers like the Microsoft-owned Rare to add extra &quot;across the body&quot; follow-through movements to its Kinect Sports title to emulate ball spin in its bowling mini-game.As part of the rumored update, Microsoft engineers are said to be working to increase the throughput of theXbox 360's USB connections, up from a reported 15-16MB per second to what will be closer to the ports' 35MB/s limit. Compression of the Kinect's signal is also said to be getting rejiggered in order to trim down how much data needs to get piped through. This is especially important given that an increased resolution of the image signal lends itself to a much larger stream than the current version.Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Besides the possibility of improved visual acuity, a larger video stream could improve a number of other Xbox features, including the quality of textures captured by the camera within games, and the VideoKinect chat application that is enabled once the Kinect hardware is plugged in. This could also end up being a nice business hook for the hardware, given Microsoft's plans to make the Kinect compatible with its Lync communications service, as it outlined in the tool's launch announcement last month. Eurogamer is not providing any timeline of when the software update would be released. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CityVille Hits 6 Million Daily Active Users In 8&nbsp'Days]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>perewooni</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Zynga&amp;'s newest game, CityVille, is the fastest growing game in the company&amp;'s history.  But we already knew that.  It had nearly 300,000 players in the first 24 hours, and 3 million daily active users in its first week.  But it&amp;'s growth ramp keeps on going crazy.  Now, not quite two days after it hit the 3-million user mark, it is already at 6 million daily active users, we&amp;'ve learned from the company.  To put that in perspective, that is four times faster than it took FrontierVille to get to 6 million daily active users, and more than five time faster than it took FarmVille.Time It Took To Get To 6 Million Daily Active UsersFarmVille: 46 daysFrontierVille: 32 daysCityVille: 8 daysHow did CityVille, a social city-building game, grow so fast  It was the first time Zynga did an international launch in five languages (English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian), with a big marketing push and localized games in different countries.  It also leveraged Zynga&amp;'s other existing games to kickstart CityVille.  With Zynga, every new game seems bigger than the last.  It&amp;'s kind of scary.CrunchBase InformationZyngaInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple&'s App Store crosses 10B downloads]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple said today that its App Store has now crossed 10 billion downloads of both free and paid apps.The 10 billionth app was Paper Glider, downloaded by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, in the United Kingdom. She won a $10,000 iTunes gift card. We&amp;'ll see if she ever pays for another app.It&amp;'s a pretty big milestone for Apple, and it shows that rivals such as Google Android and Palm have a long way to go to catch up with Apple, which has shipped more than 160 million iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad).Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said there were 7 billion apps downloaded in the last year alone. And the App Store has only been open for 2.5 years. Anyone got a guess for how soon Apple hits 100 billion apps downloadedApple now has more than 350,000 apps available, with more than 60,000 native iPad apps.Previous Story: Week in review: Eighth grader tops Angry Birds in the App StorePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: App Store, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod TouchCompanies: ApplePeople: Phil Schiller          Tags: App Store, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod TouchCompanies: ApplePeople: Phil SchillerDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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