http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:20:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/indiagames-to-launch-new-cricket-gaming-iphone-app http://tech.peekbase.com/indiagames-to-launch-new-cricket-gaming-iphone-app#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:00:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/indiagames-to-launch-new-cricket-gaming-iphone-app December 24th, 2009 One of India’s most popular gaming platforms Indiagames is launching a nifty new Cricket iPhone app, called Cricket T20 Fever. Cricket is hugely popular in India and the new app will be a feature rich gaming app that will aim to simulate the experience of playing the sport and competing against other ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/curse-raises-6-million-as-it-looks-to-become-the-ultimate-gaming-resource/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/nvidia-ion-2-coming-in-early-2010-compatible-with-pine-trail http://tech.peekbase.com/nvidia-ion-2-coming-in-early-2010-compatible-with-pine-trail#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:00:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/nvidia-ion-2-coming-in-early-2010-compatible-with-pine-trail December 22nd, 2009 Well, here we go: NVIDIA just gave us the heads-up that its next-gen of Ion (which we’ll be calling Ion 2 until it gets a proper name) will be Pine Trail-compatible and arriving in Q1 of 2010. That’s good news, seeing as the Pine Trail-based Eee PC 1005PE we just reviewed didn’t ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/peregrine-gaming-glove-modeled-calibrated-and-demoed-on-video/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/the-colossus-my-favorite-company-i-met-in-south-america http://tech.peekbase.com/the-colossus-my-favorite-company-i-met-in-south-america#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:40:04 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/the-colossus-my-favorite-company-i-met-in-south-america December 18th, 2009 ?I just emailed you a video. You have to watch it now,? I said to Paul Carr, my resident TechCrunch partner-in-crime. ?Why are you sending me a video about?.farm equipment?? ?Just watch it.? ?Oh my God! What is it doing to that tree!?? ?Turn up the volume. You have to hear the music.? I probably could just ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/the-colossus-my-favorite-company-i-met-in-south-america/feed 0