Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Sweden 3G coverage is tops
September 6, 2011 – 9:57 am | No Comment
Sweden 3G coverage is tops Are you sick and tired of your smartphone dropping 3G signals from time to time? Well, do you blame your mobile carrier or your handset? Folks living in Sweden need not fret about dropped signals though – it seems that 99.6% of the country’s population is capable of accessing 3G wireless broadband coverage, at least that is what a report by the Swedish Post & Telecom Agency (PTS) claims. Sweden is now working on rolling out 4G wireless broadband (LTE) in the ...
AdMob To Stop Serving Ads To Mobile Web, Google Pushes Developers To Use AdSense
September 4, 2011 – 1:17 pm | No Comment
AdMob To Stop Serving Ads To Mobile Web, Google Pushes Developers To Use AdSense When Google bought mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million in 2009, the company was clearly trying to capitalize on the growing mobile advertising market. Mobile advertising, both on apps and the mobile web, is a natural extension of Google’s display and search ad business. Of course, as the integration has taken place over the last year, certain AdMob features have been axed because  they didn’t fit with the overall strategy or  for redundancy. For example, Google ended AdMob’s cross-promotion download exchange a few months ago. And ...
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 @ Ubergizmo
September 4, 2011 – 1:17 pm | No Comment
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HTC Titan and Radar announced
September 4, 2011 – 4:45 am | No Comment
HTC Titan and Radar announced HTC did not get to where they are today by playing it risky, putting all of their eggs in a single basket. Before they became the Android smartphone producing juggernaut that they are today, they used to spread the risk with some Windows Mobile handsets, and the same applies in the Android generation with the announcement of a couple of Windows Phone 7 smartphones, otherwise known as the HTC Titan and HTC Radar.The HTC Titan will be ...
Dijit 2.6: TV Remote Control on iOS Now with Youtube
September 3, 2011 – 9:38 am | No Comment
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Google Acquires Digital Coupons/Incentives Platform Zave Networks To Bulk Up Commerce
September 3, 2011 – 12:11 am | No Comment
Google Acquires Digital Coupons/Incentives Platform Zave Networks To Bulk Up Commerce Since 2006, Zave Networks has been working on digitizing coupons and loyalty rewards programs with products like Zavers . With the rise of smartphones, the market has been exploding. Today, Zave Networks takes their cause to a much bigger potential audience: Google has just acquired them. As they have announced on their site , “When we had the opportunity to join Google, we felt it was the perfect fit for our company and the perfect opportunity to rapidly drive the deployment and use of our platform to ...
Toshiba reveals AT200 tablet at IFA 2011
September 2, 2011 – 7:47 pm | No Comment
Toshiba reveals AT200 tablet at IFA 2011 In addition to the Acer Aspire Ultrabook S3 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 there are other good products presented at the IFA 2011, such as the AT200 tablet revelaed by Toshiba.The new Toshiba AT200 tablet features a TI OMAP 4430 dual-core processor running at 1.2GHz, as well as 1GB of memory RAM and a flash storage that can go up to 64GB. Its touchscreen display measures 10.1-inches and has a resolution of ...
Sprint: AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Would Destroy Jobs, Here’s A Study To Prove It (Update)
September 1, 2011 – 10:49 am | No Comment
Sprint: AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Would Destroy Jobs, Here’s A Study To Prove It (Update) It’s no surprise whatsoever that Sprint isn’t down with the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, and with good reason. There’s no telling just how severe the effects of this deal may be on Sprint, but we know for sure that it won’t be good. So with no other option, the carrier has campaigned against the merger since day one. We’ve seen statement after statement, release after release… but this time Sprint is taking a new approach. Today Sprint threw their weight behind a study which debunks claims made by AT&T ...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 now official
September 1, 2011 – 10:48 am | No Comment
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