Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
Earlier this week, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft unveiled “Windows Phone 7 Series“. This new phone, which Microsoft is targeting to unleash by the 2010 holiday season, will take a stab at the iPhone and its market by providing a completely new user experience (a Zune HD like experience) extensive integration with …
Written by: Mahdi Gharavi
Well folks, here it is. We are in the lovely State Theatre in Falls Church, VA, and BlogPotomac has officially started. Keep up with what’s going on here, and search the hashtag #blogpotomac on Twitter. Our event emcees are Shonali Burke, Principal of Shonali Burke Consulting, and DC Hughes, Photojournalist/Multimedia Producer for Lemur News Images …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
. . . MetroStar Systems is pleased to announce that our X-Life Games project has now surpassed 2,000 registered gamers from all around the world! Our registered gamers represent 99 different countries and many more different cultures. Here’s a list of the Top 5 countries and gamers representing X-Life Games: Egypt 438 Indonesia 323 …
Written by: Derek Yale
Today, X-Life Games launches the “Who Am I?” Poetry Contest. The contest encourages you to use poetry to describe yourself on a global level while sharing ideas of tolerance and respect for other cultures, societies, and environments around the world. “X-Life Games has been such a fun and educational experience thus far for everybody involved, …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
This morning, ZDNet’s Between The Lines Blog wrote a blog post, “Tech startup creates State Dept.-approved educational games for Middle East“, about MetroStar Systems’ free mobile games project X-Life Games. We welcome your comments letting us know your thoughts on the article and the overall concept of the game. You can also join in the …
Written by: Derek Yale
Today Smart Planet blogger and ZDNet’s gadget guru Andrew Nusca wrote a great article about X-Life Games called “With video games, public diplomacy by mobile phone” which appears in the Smart Takes Business Blog. The article highlights the the core game concept, exploring it’s objectives and how it aims “to bridge cultures, one pixel at …
Written by: Derek Yale
Check out this new video from X-life Games: X-Life went out to Washington D.C. to ask “What would you do with an X-tra Life?” People had some pretty creative and interesting answers! Become Part of the X-Life Games Community and leave a comment or your thoughts on the Facebook fan page. Follow @xlifegames on Twitter: …
Written by: Jenni Hubacher
Check out the planned list of Comic-Con panel coverage for an idea of what you can expect from the show! There’s plenty to see at Comic-Con, and they’re going to bring the very best of it to you in the form of full-panel write-ups. MetroStar Systems employee, Neal Hallford, will be giving a panel discussion about …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
MetroStar Systems is pleased to announce that our X-Life Games project has surpassed 1,000 registered gamers from all around the world. As of today, we have 1,112 gamers registered from 85 different countries! Surprisingly, Egypt has the most X-Life gamers at 226. Here’s a list of the top 5 countries representing X-Life Games: Egypt 226 …
Written by: Mahdi Gharavi
Back up and running here in beautiful, mountainous, and cloudy Salt Lake City, Utah. Ready to go for our second day of eLearningDevCon. Thanks for joining us! Again, some info about the company: Conference URL: http://www.elearndevcon.com/ Twitter handle: @elearningdevcon Twitter hashtag: #devcon09 Conference Sponsor: http://www.rapidintake.com/ Today’s first session: Panel: The Future of Mobile Learning Moderated …