Monthly Archives: February 2010

Microsoft Focused on Azure, Zune Smartphone Rumors This Week

By: Nicholas Kolakowski
Microsoft experienced a cloud-centric week with Windows Azure, which is now generally available in 21 countries and no longer available for free. Microsoft hopes that the cloud-based platform and its application-building tools for developers will allow it to gain market share in the cloud computing arena, where it faces strong competition from the [...]

Internet Overuse Invites Depression, Study Says

Paul McNamara, Network World
According to a BBC report: “There is a strong link between heavy Internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said. The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were ‘Internet addicts,’ and many of these were depressed.”
And I’ll bet a lot of them drink too much and can [...]

Onslaught from Space Review

by Meghann Myers, Macworld.com
Onslaught from Space looks very much like something you would’ve played in a video arcade 20 years ago, and that’s exactly what developer Jake O’Brien had in mind.

Retro Flavor: Despite the clever use of the iPhone platform’s controls, Onslaught from Space still plays like a retro game.