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First look at Lifesort, next gen file management for the desktop and the cloud

Lifesortis a new Dutch startup aiming to bridge the gap between the desktop and the cloud with a file organisation system that is the same whether you use it on your computer, your phone or in a browser. We’ve been given a preview of the service and we’re certainly intrigued. Launching first for Windows, the app sits on the left-hand side of the desktop and acts as an alternative to the standard Explorer....

First look at Ridley Scott’s YouTube movie

Remember the video Ridley Scott was producing for YouTube? Today we get a first look at the results. Last summer, YouTubeannouncedthat legendary Hollywood figure Ridley Scott would be producing ‘Life In A Day’, a movie consisting entirely of user-submitted video clips from around the world, capturing snapshots of life around the world on 24 July 2010. Now Google’s video service has shared the first in a series of clips of the movie, which will get its premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on 27 January....

First Major MENA Investment in 2011 Focused on Social Gaming

Interactive Venture (IV) Holdings has recently completed two rounds of funding for Jordanian startups Wizards Productions & Gate2Play both geared towards the online social gaming industry in the Middle East. This marks the first major investment in the region for 2011 which could be the year for Social Gaming to explode in the Middle East. Announced in apress release,IV Holdingspart of Accelerator Technology Holdings (ATH) announced their recent investment in Gate2Play a company that’s currently enabling payment and support solutions for micro-transaction based businesses....

First shots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich show hot new look

Leaked images of Google’s upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich update to Android,announced in May at Google I/O, have surfaced on two different Android blogs,Android PoliceandRootZWiki. The images show a revamped interface which features transparency, an app shortcut button that looks to switch between multiple apps and a revamped notification bar. The images show off Ice Cream Sandwich running on a Google Nexus S phone and show a kernel version number of 2....

First Snapdragon 8 benchmarks show Qualcomm’s CPU still trails Apple

Another year, another Qualcomm flagship chip that’s sure to power the majority of Android phones in the coming year. This time around though, the company decided to do things a little differently, renaming its flagship processor with the ostensibly simpler Snapdragon 8 (Gen 1) moniker and talking up gains in the processor’s performance. Alas, it still seems Qualcomm is trailing well behind Apple when it comes to raw CPU performance, at least according to a few early benchmarks....