On February 18, 2009, the first new episodic content for Grand Theft Auto IV finally arrived.  The downloadable content (DLC), titled “The Lost and Damned,” costs a whopping 20 dollars!  Is Rockstar giving you your money’s worth?
 
The DLC includes approximately 20 new missions, totaling around 10 additional hours of game play.  Several new side tasks are also included, such as optional missions that involve gang wars and bike racing.  The bike racing is particularly fun, especially if you enjoyed the game “Road Rash,” which involved hitting people with a bats …

Docomo, one of Japan’s leading manufacturers of mobile devices, has recently begun to research the use of E-paper in cellular phones.  E-paper, developed by SiPix Imaging, is “paper which uses small chambers, called microcups, that are filled with white particles and a colored liquid, allowing the E-paper to display two colors.”  This technology allows for the creation of an e-paper keypad that can change its layout based on the user’s current requirements.  For example, a keypad could be programmed to display both western text as well as Japanese characters, depending …

A recap of the IST Professional Expo for 2008!

Joe Lewis recounts his visit to Google’s campus as a part of the Penn State Google Online Marketing Challenge team that took first place in North America!

Chrome is developer jargon for the parts of your web browser that reside outside of the actual page that you are viewing. This includes the back and forward buttons, the status bar displayed below the page, and the address bar. When Google set out to build their new browser, they wanted to change the way that people interact with the internet, and especially web applications. This meant getting the browser out of the user’s way, so that he or she could focus on the task at hand, rather than the tool being used to perform the task. Choosing to name their browser Chrome, therefore, was ironic, as one of the major interface improvements that is presented in the software is that it features much less chrome than its competitors. …