Time to Unshackle the Bonds of Apathy and Demand Leadership

Posted on February 5th, 2008 in Politics by Muse

Today CIA director Michael Hayden admitted “waterboarding” interrogation had been used on three high-profile al-Qaeda detainees.  Waterboarding simulates drowning and, in the minds of the sane, is a form of torture.

Is torture ever justified?  A difficult question I will not debate here.  What I will discuss is the nature of honesty and the role of just people, particularly our leadership and the news media, in the context of abuse of power.

Mobile Game Revenues Predicted to Surge

Posted on February 5th, 2008 in Mobile Ubiquity by Muse

A new Juniper Research report predicts the North America mobile phone game market will grow from under $800 million in 2007 to over $3 billion by 2012. While this growth is attributed to several factors, key amongst them are:

2008 - Where Are Your Mobile Games?

Posted on February 4th, 2008 in Mobile Ubiquity by Muse

Some changes happen rapidly while others flow and ebb with glacial speed. As we enter 2008, one of the standard predictions is that this year is the demise of carrier portal domination and the rise of off-carrier deck sites and free choice. It would sound promising, except that this claim has been raised for each of the last 5 years.

Certainly, you can find games off-portal. Over 1.25 million free mobile phone games are downloaded each month from MobileRated, a leading off-carrier deck mobile entertainment site. Other companies are moderately successful selling games directly, but their revenues are dwarfed by that obtained on the carrier decks. The reasons remain the same too.

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