Here's hoping one of the companies can take cell-phone gaming beyond "Tetris" clones and solitaire card-playing.
That gives extra impetus for technology of the sort being tested in Far Solitaire.
Most especially for requiring vast amounts of memory to be able to anything more than play solitaire.
Which we assume means they'll be used for games of Solitaire and BitTorrent downloads of patriotic anthems.
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Cornish sailor Sam Goodchild is preparing to compete in the Solitaire du Figaro.
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Jane Seymour, who played Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die, said award recognition was not Bond's priority.
Far Solitaire is powered by a conventional diesel-electric system consisting of three engines connected to generators that run electric motors.
The new Solitaire experience will be cross-platform as well, allowing players to continue their game from any device at any time.
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Another game, Fairway Solitaire, was shared between Windows Phone, Xbox 360 and Windows 8, allowing for the kind of pick-up-and-play dynamic promoted by SmartGlass.
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Users can designate which apps count as productive (like Excel or coding software), which are unproductive (like Facebook or solitaire) and which are neutral.
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Think about what solitaire did for the PC, what games like Farmville did for Facebook and what Word With Friends did for smartphone adoption.
The al-Hilli family had arrived on holiday at the nearby Le Solitaire du Lac campsite in Saint-Jorioz on Monday and had been due to leave at the end of the week.
The Solitaire du Figaro is one of a series of solo races, which Mr Goodchild hopes will give him the experience needed to reach his ultimate goal of the 2016 global race.
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Or you can program your computer screen, on which you're playing your 17th game of solitaire, to display an Excel spreadsheet at the press of a key if you see the boss approaching.
The frenzy over Pomellato reached a fever pitch outside of Italy in 2001 with the advent of the Nudo, a weighty gold ring with a huge faceted colored stone set like a diamond solitaire.
Borge Nakken, who is in charge of technology and development at Farstad, expects Far Solitaire to use about 40% less fuel than a conventional vessel of the same size that is carrying out similar tasks.
Jack was texting, and I had barely gotten through my second game of solitaire, when Rich came back to say my car was ready and wanted to know if I wanted to wait for the complimentary wash.
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After a series of what-would you-do-if questions, replete with game-show invoking bells and whistles, users are matched with an ideal mate avatar and corresponding Tacori engagement ring suggestion (mine was ivy-leaguer Jack Calloway on bended knee with a square-cut diamond solitaire).
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New features demoed for the first time today include a configurable home screen launcher, accelerometer integration in Google Maps' Street View, Pacman (which we can only assume will become the Solitaire of Android), and a new unlock UI for touchscreen-based devices.
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One of the most popular solitaire games, Tomb Raider, does this by putting the player in control of a comely adventuress who must both act out a role in a story involving a search for treasure and engage in more straightforward video-game fighting.
The platform depends on a custom, minimalist core that refuses to run any software that isn't baked in and has no code outside of its main purposes: there'll be no water supply shutdowns after the night watch plays Solitaire from an infected drive.
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