Mobile Miscellany: week of August 27th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, MetroPCS welcomed the Coolpad Quattro 4G into its stable and we also caught wind of a redesigned Huawei Mercury for Cricket. These stories

Blood Infection Treatments to be Discovered Using Crowdsourcing [VIDEO]

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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII announced by Square Enix

Square Enix isn’t quite finished with the Final Fantasy XIII series yet, as the publisher has announced another yet another installment. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is its name, and if focuses on – surpise! – Lightning, who has been a major character throughout the first two

Wolfram Alpha lets you stalk yourself on Facebook, reminds you how noisy you are

You know Facebook’s got dirt on you, it’s one of modern life’s unavoidable trade offs. Now though, thanks to Wolfram Alpha, you can data-mine yourself — something its creator has been doing for years — and get a true sense of exactly what the social network knows about you. You’ll first have to head

Airplane Seat to Provide Custom-Controlled Climate

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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes gets first gameplay trailer

Konami and Kojima Productions were on hand at PAX to show off the latest Metal Gear Solid title, Ground Zeroes. The companies gave the audience a 15-minute demo of the game, and have since put 11 minutes of that demo up on the Internet. In it, we get to see the Fox Engine in action, [...]

Samsung Galaxy Note II accessories get colorful showing at IFA

If you thought the fabulous accessory lineup that came with the Samsung Galaxy S III was about to stop with the smartphone, you were wrong. There’s a whole load of Galaxy Note II covers, protectors, and pens you can grab for the next-generation Galaxy Note phablet, and they’re being shown

How Machines Will Use Social Networks To Gain Identity, Develop Relationships And Make Friends

Activity streams and social networks now represent a fundamental aspect of the modern application. We use activity streams on Twitter to converse in 140 characters or less. We use the "like" gesture on Facebook to show approval for an update to a friend’s activity stream.

In the enterprise, Salesforce.com

5 Games You Should Play This Weekend

1. Bastion for iPad

Bastion is an indie action-adventure game released for the XBox 360 and PC in 2011. It garnered several awards, including the Game Critics Award for Best Downloadable Game at E3. Now its unique design is available for $4.99 on the iPad. [iTunes Link]

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Things to Consider Before Asking Friends and Family to Invest In Your Venture

Editor’s Note: Charles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital, focusing on consumer Internet companies. He was previously a founding executive at TellMe Networks and at @Home.

Friends and family can be an essential source of funding for fledgling entrepreneurs. Sometimes, they are the only