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Twitch Plays Pokemon – the live stream that famously took the internet by storm in the last two weeks – has begun playing Pokemon Crystal. Yesterday, the creator informed fans and followers of the stream that a new adventure was about to begin after defeating the Elite Four and Blue in Pokemon Red. But who knows what events lie in store this time – will a shiny Pokemon be defeated, or will the chosen starter Totodile be doomed to the same fate as poor Charmeleon and released by accident? Let’s hope not. You can catch all the latest action in the stream, here.

While my days of working in the design field are long over, a few projects I’m working on this year might get me back into using Adobe Creative Cloud. While there are some tools (Pages $20) that will meet most users’ needs for page layout, I think InDesign is still the gold standard for this task. With a few of these projects in mind, I started looking at Creative Cloud a little closer.

The Creative Cloud is not an inexpensive proposition. While the pricing plans are full of options, it’s fair to say a membership will run you between $50-75 a month, with the $75 price requiring no annual commitment. There is also an individual app price available. That said, these are pro-level tools and are priced accordingly. What is nice, though, is now that Adobe has moved the suite to the cloud, they are rolling out updates much…

Remember back in the day, when the big industry hoo-ha was the incessant debate over HTML5 web apps versus native mobile apps? Seems like a lifetime ago, right? Well, the next incarnation is now upon us, and yes, folks, it includes the word that’s all the rage: “responsive.”

Put another way, a question that seems to be coming up time and again with our clients is “Should we invest our resources into ensuring our website is responsive to mobile and tablet devices, or should we pour that budget into native apps instead?”

Our answer is simple: It’s probably crucial to do both.

After all, mobile users tend to fall into either the heavy mobile web user camp, or the all-day apps consumer, so selecting one channel over another potentially alienates a large portion of your mobile audience.But what happens when a company really must choose between doing one mobile channel well, or…

It has been two years since the FCC sent the bitter 2012 Valentine to broadband aspirant LightSquared (“Sorry Phil, but it could harm GPS”), all but dashing any hope the company may have had of proceeding with its plan. The almost-daily LightSquared news since has been dominated by bankruptcy proceedings, resignations, abandoned alliances, debt deals, financial chest thumping, and some rather obtuse lawsuits – but little if nothing at all about the relative merits of the original plan. Has the relevancy of the original plan been lost in the drama?

The relentless engines of LTE expansion and spectrum-crunch-defying innovation have plowed ahead while the LightSquared saga has stalled. The other day I overheard a comment prompted by the recent news that Dish was dropping its bid for LightSquared’s spectrum (for now). An acquaintance lamented the latest twist: “I guess we will never see rural broadband” (one of the promises offered…