For nearly 9 years, Gen. Musharraf was our double-gaming, unreliable (and certainly undemocratic) "ally" in our enterprise to mop up what Rumsfeld- Franks & Co. failed with grave consequences to mop up inside Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11.
The iPad has more than double the gaming sessions of the iPod touch, but still less than half those on the iPhone.
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, renowned interviewer Charlie Rose is sitting down with DST co-founder and CEO Yuri Milner to talk about Facebook's dominance (he introduces the concept of "Zuckerberg's Law: Every 12-18 months the amount of information being shared between people is doubling"), social gaming, and more.
Powered by NVIDIA's ION processor as well as Intel's Atom processor, the nettop also has the graphics horsepower to double as a gaming console.
Before that, Shumaker ran sales and marketing for 4INFO and she was a general manager at Double Fusion, a gaming advertising startup.
For me, this is very nearly it: the laptop that can double as a gaming and editing powerhouse, with user-input friendliness which also makes it a productivity machine.
The controller also doubles as a gaming controller for Android TV-compatible games.
It is a set-top box with media streaming capabilities, performing a similar service as Google's Chromecast media streaming stick, but also doubles as a gaming device with wireless joypad and compatibility with Android games, similar to the ill-fated Android console Ouya.
Microsoft already generates significant revenues from cloud-based services, and doubling down on gaming will open the door to broader adoption by consumers and a bigger piece of the market.
"But for a game that criticizes games and gaming culture, releasing Actual Sunlight has only made me double-down on my engagement with that culture.
