Modern Warfare 3 Hauls In $400 Million Overnight, The Biggest Gaming Launch Ever

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 beat the previous one-day video game sales record, bringing in $400 million in the United States and the UK after it was on sale for one day. Activision-Blizzard said today it sold more than 6.5 million copies of the game after it went on sale on Tuesday.

The last Call of Duty game, Black Ops, brought in $360 million on its first day last year. Modern Warfare 2 brought in $310 million. Rival Battlefield 3, published by Electronic Arts, sold 5 million copies in its first week on sale — bringing in around $300 million.

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Mobile Tool to Authenticate Citizen-Media Reports

Computer scientists at Duke University have built a prototype of a new system, called YouProve, that tracks changes in images or audio captured with mobile phones.
YouProve is an add-on to the Android operating system that records significant alterations of media files, like adding content or pixelizing a license plate. It could be useful for someone participating in a rally who wants to preserve someone’s anonymity by blurring his face before publishing a photo on a site like CNN iReport.
YouProve creates a “fidelity certificate” detailing how the image has been altered. It posts that certificate along with the edited image online. Read more here

Adobe Halts Flash for Mobile Devices

Software developer Adobe is reported to be throwing in the towel when it comes to getting multimedia platform Flash to run on mobile devices. The company is halting development on future mobile versions of Flash for Android and Research In Motion's PlayBook, among other mobile operating systems. The move would be a major blow to Android device makers, who have long touted Flash compatibility as a key competitive advantage over Apple's iPhone and iPad.

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No Relationship Between Clicks And Sales

Nielsen reiterated this week that it has found virtually no relationship between clicks and brand metrics, or offline sales.

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News organizations can finally create Google+ pages

Google+ has launched brand pages for businesses, finally enabling news organizations and other businesses, institutions or products to engage with people on the social network.

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Starbucks Augmented Reality for the Holidays

Here’s How You Make a Documentary Only Using HTML5 and WebGL Graphics

One Millionth Tower is part of Highrise, a series of mini-documentaries about the history of high rise towers and their effect on society. What sets this one apart from the others is that it was made using HTML5 technologies such as WebGL and Javascript.