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Take a look at the newest Tech Game consoleSAN FRANCISCO–Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.

Its too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever.

OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system–seven years in the works–that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels. The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.

The system will also stream games directly to a TV via a small plug-in device, and players can use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with it.

via YouTube – Onlive Demo TEST.

The ability to innovate faster and in new ways will always be critical to achieving high performance. But given the new dynamics of a fast-changing and less predictable global economy, a number of competitive assumptions are changing. One of the most important changes: The new business environment will favor those companies able to execute innovations faster, and to move their organizations forward more nimbly.

via Creating an agile organization.

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA: London and San Francisco, 15 February 2010 – The Symbian Foundation today unveiled the Symbian^3 S^3 platform, the first entirely open source release following the platform’s transition to an open source license on 4 February, 2010, which was the largest of its kind in history.

via Symbian announces Symbian^3 and immediately gives it away | Symbian.

YouTube – Objectified trailer.

A peek at the upcoming design documentary “Objectified”, by Gary Hustwit, the director of “Helvetica”. The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” by El Ten Eleven.

Objectified premieres at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com

NEW YORK, NY — Jan. 11, 2010 — Zodiac Interactive, an Emmy award–winning developer of software for interactive television, announced today the next version of its iTV framework, PowerUp 2.5™, a cross–platform software that unifies and enables advanced iTV applications across multiple set–tops, including legacy boxes. The latest iteration of Zodiac’s core framework, PowerUp 2.5, allows mobile and internet devices and applications to integrate and work directly with the set–top.

via Zodiac Interactive – Zodiac Interactive Announces PowerUp™ 2.5 to Allow Interaction Between the Cable Set-top and.

TEI’10 is the fourth international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. It is being held January 25-27, 2010 at the MIT Media Lab.

The work presented at TEI addresses HCI issues, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can finally bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, hands-on studios, posters, art installations and performances.

To learn more about submitting work to TEI’10, please see participation.

TEI is sponsored by the ACM SIGCHI

via TEI 10 | Program / Index.

YouTube – Winds of Change, Kodak is back!.

SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.

Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model – NYTimes.com.

Toshiba: Space Chair – The Making Of… – Video – Creativity Online.

The L-shaped multi touch table is equipped with four computers each operating one of the four screens embedded in the table top.

via MESO – Audi Efficiency Exhibit.

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

via Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman.

Flights from Virgin America | Virgin Flights.

The first three TV of Tomorrow Shows were praised by sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and attendees not only as true experts’ conferences that attracted a veritable “who’s who” of the interactive TV industry, but as offering a thoroughly unique and enjoyable experience. We are working hard to ensure that the TV of Tomorrow Show 2010–which is already attracting an array of high-powered speakers and which will feature a line-up of fascinating entertainments–is even better.

via NEWS | InteractiveTV Today.

MyAlltop enables you to create a “personal, online magazine rack” of your favorite websites and blogs. You can create a personal collection from over 32,000 information sources—

Alltop, all the top stories.

Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face | Video on TED.com.

via The Last Campaign: How Experiences Are Becoming the New Advertising – Advertising Age – DigitalNext.