And Adobe introduced its media player, a potential competitor to Microsoft's tool for playing audio and film clips on personal computers.Sweet for SallieA consortium of private-equity funds and banks said it would buy Sallie Mae, which provides loans to American students, for $25 billion.
Kinect has been around since 2010, but among the hardcore it's often seen as a gimmick - a tool for playing dancing games rather than first-person shooters.
At any rate, this isn't some script-kiddie tool for playing pirated games, though it will surely be used for that eventually.
ACESPADE -- www.acespade.com: Offers customizable tools for simulating and playing all the major games.
The very presence of their free workshop underscores the crucial and sometimes controversial role these tools for mobility play in the Games.
A company that saw the potential in the iPad as a tool for work, not just play, is PlanGrid, a construction management software application that's like a Google Docs for blueprints.
Even large enterprises that have a thing for custom development have started appreciating the need for tools that play nice with their incumbent IT landscape — and many SDK providers have matured to address that need.
The memo pads strewn about chaotically are considered critical tools for those who play, since they track weeks of picked and winning numbers even though these past drawings have no effect on future results.
Our survey data suggests that WormBase, the central resource for data, metadata and related computational tools for worm researchers, plays a significant role in facilitating the C. elegans research commons.
While Generation Y loved sports and adventure, Generation Z sees sports as a health tool, not for play.
