Like consumers, game developers increasingly going mobile

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The business of making games is very much alive and well. But increasingly, the energy is moving away from AAA titles and console games to mobile apps built by a growing army of developers. But don’t take my word for it, check out one of the premier game development events, the Games Developers Conference, held every year in San Francisco. Through its voluntary post-show surveys, the conference found that 43 percent of attendees in 2010 said they were involved in mobile development projects for …

Companies get SaaS-y with business intelligence

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In what is probably not a shocker, new research shows more companies are turning to SaaS-based business intelligence over traditional on-premises BI. Business intelligence, or analytics software from such companies as SAP(s SAP) (which bought BusinessObjects for this purpose), MicroStrategy (s mstr) or Oracle(s orcl)  (which bought Hyperion)  helps companies make sense of their data — to visualize what’s happening with sales or marketing pushes, for example, and to make sales forecasts. But now those …