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ARAB TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012
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Technology
Facebook speeds up iPhone app
Microsoft revamps logo
ahead of big launches
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 24,
(Agencies): Microsoft on Thursday
unveiled a new corporate logo for the
first time in 25 years as the US tech
giant geared up for a series of big
product launches.
It features a symbol made up of
four separate colored squares — rem-
iniscent of the old Windows logo fea-
turing wavy squares — next to the
name of the company. The previous
logo was simply the italicized name.
“Today’s new Microsoft logo is the
first time the company has accompa-
nied its logo with a symbol,” a
spokeswoman said.
The move comes with Microsoft
ramping up the buzz for its Windows
8 operating platform and its first
tablet computer, called Surface. The
company is also making an aggres- A new Microsoft logo is seen on a
sive effort to gain ground in the wall of a newly opened Microsoft
store in Boston, Aug 23, 2012.
This video game image released by Nintendo shows a scene from ‘New Super Mario Bros 2.’ (AP) smartphone market. (AP)
“It’s been 25 years since we’ve
Time to give 3DS 2nd look with ‘NSMB2’ updated the Microsoft logo and now
is the perfect time for a change,” said called it slow. Facebook Inc. is
Microsoft brand strategy manager addressing those gripes, with the
Jeff Hansen. launch of a new, faster version of the
Mario’s latest gold rush doesn’t pan out “This is an incredibly exciting year
for Microsoft as we prepare to release
new versions of nearly all of our
products. From Windows 8 to
app for Apple’s iPhone and iPad on
Thursday. Rather than add a slew of
new features, the company said it
rebuilt the application from scratch to
By Lou Kesten collection of cleverly designed, two- race through three randomly chosen you get your dual screens – one a Windows Phone 8 to Xbox services make it speedier and less clunky.
dimensional environments for Mario levels, collecting as much gold as pos- touch screen, the other a three-dimen- to the next version of Office, you will At a recent demonstration at the
to scamper through, dodging monsters sible. You can then challenge other sional graphics display – but they’re company’s Menlo Park, California,
W henever video-game companies
stretch out popular franchises
for financial reasons rather than cre-
and collecting treasures. The usual
power-ups – flowers that let Mario
humans to beat your score using the
3DS’ StreetPass function. There’s also
both about 90 percent larger.
That’s a huge difference to a gamer
see a common look and feel across
these products providing a familiar
and seamless experience on PCs,
headquarters, the new iPhone app
opened about twice as fast as the older
shoot fireballs, a raccoon suit that lets a multiplayer mode in which Mario phones, tablets and TVs. version. Photos and comments also
ative ones, disenchanted customers like me with vision problems. My eyes load faster. Users can now “like” com-
call it a “money grab.” It’s a charge him jump farther – are available in and his brother, Luigi, collaborate to usually get tired after about 10 minutes “This wave of new releases is not
only a reimagining of our most popu- ments on photos, which wasn’t possi-
Nintendo has largely been immune to, convenient locations. And most of the collect double the loot. Both players of looking at the original model’s 3.53- ble with the previous mobile app.
even though its most popular charac- levels include alternate pathways, so need a 3DS and a copy of the game, inch-diagonal 3-D display. The XL’s lar products, but also represents a
new era for Microsoft, so our logo Mick Johnson, mobile product
ter, Mario, has starred in hundreds of there’s motivation to return after and you need to be in the same room to 4.88-inch screen means I don’t need to manager at Facebook, said program-
games. you’ve conquered them. team up. should evolve to visually accentuate
squint as much, so I can play for about this new beginning.” The logo also mers removed some lesser-used fea-
That changes with “New Super But while I enjoyed my time in Despite the “New” in its title, the half an hour without needing a break. tures, such as a way to view the app
Mario’s latest world, I couldn’t help latest Mario game is more of a look includes the name Microsoft in the
Mario Bros. 2” (Nintendo, for the As a game reviewer, that’s a blessing Segoe font that is used in products horizontally, to help speed it up.
3DS, $39.99), which takes the whole feeling like I’d been there before. The back to the 1980s, when we were all when I’m facing a deadline, but I think and marketing communications, The mobile arena presents
money-grab concept quite literally. major new power-up is a golden block enjoying his antics on the original you civilians will like it, too. along with the new squares. Facebook with its biggest challenge –
The whole point of the game is to grab that screws onto Mario’s head, creat- Nintendo Entertainment System. The entire package is still reason- “The symbol is important in a and its biggest opportunity. That’s
money – namely, the sparkling gold ing a trail of coins. The familiar POW Nostalgia aside, it just doesn’t offer the ably compact, fitting into an adult-size world of digital motion,” Hansen where its user base is growing the
coins that have littered almost every blocks now turn obstacles into, well, innovations and rewards of last fall’s said. “The symbol’s squares of color most. At the end of June, Facebook
jeans pocket – though not exactly com- had 543 million users who accessed it
Mario release since the mid-1980s. It’s coins. And hoops scattered across the “Super Mario 3D Land.” Two stars out fortably. If you resisted the 3DS when are intended to express the compa-
an oddly mercenary approach to skies deliver ... more coins. Some sort of four. ny’s diverse portfolio of products.” with a phone or tablet computer, up
it came out last year, now’s a good 67 percent from 325 million a year
Nintendo’s lovable little plumber, and of prize awaits if you collect 1 million The release of “NSMB2” coincides time to give it a second look. (AP) ❑ ❑ ❑
of the things, but I only made it to with the arrival of Nintendo’s newest earlier. Its overall user base grew 29
the result is one of the least inspired
❑ ❑ ❑ What was the biggest complaint percent over the same time period, to
outings in his storied history. 10,000. hand-held game device: the 3DS XL 955 million.
Follow Lou Kesten on Twitter at about Facebook’s iPhone app? Users
That’s not to say this is a bad game. And then there’s Coin Rush, in ($200), an extra-large version of the
It’s exactly what you would expect: a which Mario has one life with which to 3DS machine introduced last year. So http://twitter.com/lkesten
Cinema
From Last day of Ramadan to Wednesday 29/08/2012
Teta Rahiba (2D-Digital) Marina 1 14:15, 19:15 (Daily) (Allu Arjun, Lleana)
(Mohammad Hindi, Emme Samir Ghanem) Avenues 10 12:30 (Sat to Thu) Ajial 3 15:30, 21:30(Daily)
Sharqia 1 11:45 (Sat to Thu)
15:00, 17:30, 20:00,
22:30, 00:45 (Daily)
How to find us Metro 2 16:45 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon)
Sharqia 2 15:30, 20:00, 22:15 (Daily) 19:45 (Daily)
00:30 (Daily)
360° 7 14:00, 16:30, 19:00, 21:30, 1. 360° Zahra’a Area, South Surra, 6th Ring Road, corner of King Faisal Highway
00:05 18 Vayasu: (2D-Digital) (Tamil)
Muhalab 1 12:15 (Sat to Thu)
14:30 (Daily)
Al-Kout 4 12:15 (Sat to Thu) 2. Ajial Ajial Complex, Fahaheel
17:30, 22:00 (Daily) (Johnny, Gayathri)
Muhalab 3 15:45, 20:15, 22:30, 00:45
(Daily)
Bairaq 3 16:45, 21:15 3. Al Bairaq Between Jaber Al Ali East & Al Agalia West Ajial 2 15:30, 18:30, 21:30 (Daily)
Fanar 3 14:00, 18:30 (Daily)
Fanar 4 12:45 (Sat to Thu)
For Greater Glory: The True Story 4. Al Fanar Al Fanar Complex, Salem Al Mubarak Street, near Sultan Center, Salmiya Eppadi Manasukkul Vandhai
15:00, 17:15, 19:30, 21:45, of Cristiada (2D-Digital) (Tamil)
00:15 (Daily) (Andy Garcia, Oscar Isac) 5. Al Kout Al-Kout Complex, at the end of the Coastal Road, Fahaheel (Tanvi Vyas, Vishwa)
Marina 3 18:00, 20:15, 22:30, 00:45 360° 2 11:30 (Sat to Thu) Metro 1 16:45 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon)
(Daily) 14:30, 17:30, 20:30 (Daily) 6. Al Muhalab Al Muhalab Complex, Behind Hawalli Clinic, Hawalli
19:45 (Daily)
Avenues 1 12:45 (Sat to Thu) 23:30 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon)
15:00, 17:15, 21:45, 00:05 360° 14 15:30, 22:00 (Daily) 7. Al Sharqiya Arabian Gulf Street, Souq Sharq, near the Amiri Hospital
(Daily) Al-Kout 4 12:00 (Sat to Thu) IMAX
19:30 (Wed to Mon) 17:00, 22:00 (Daily) 8. Granada Abraq Khaitan, off the Old Airport Road Imax film programme at The Scientific
Avenues 5 12:45 (Sat to Thu) Bairaq 3 11:30 (Sat to Thu) Center from Aug 19 to Aug 25.
16:15, 21:15 (Daily) 9. Laila Gallery Salem Al Mubarak Street, near Sultan Center, Salmiya
15:00, 17:15, 19:30, 21:45
00:05 (Daily) Sunday
Brave (3D-Digital) 10. Marina Marina Mall, Between Salem Al Mubarak Street & Arabian Gulf Street, Salmiya To The Arctic 3D 2:30pm, 3:30pm,
Avenues 11 11:30 (Sat to Thu)
13:45, 16:00, 18:15, 20:30 (Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly) 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm,
11. Metro Metro Complex, Farwaniya, near Crowne Plaza Hotel & Farwaniya Garden 8:30pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
22:45 (Daily) Sharqia 1 19:00 (Daily)
01:00 Sharqia 2 11:00, 13:15 (Sat to Thu) 12. Plaza Salem Al Mubarak Street, near Sultan Center, Salmiya
360° 5 12:00 (Sat to Thu) 17:45 (Daily) Monday
14:15, 16:30, 18:45, 21:00 Muhalab 3 11:15, 13:30, 18:00 (Daily) 13. The Avenues The Avenues Mall, Al Reggai near Al Rai, 5th Ring Road & Ghazali Road Intersection To The Arctic 3D 10:30am, 11:30am,
23:15 (Daily) Fanar 5 11:15 (Sat to Thu) 12:30pm, 1:30pm 2:30pm,
360° 7 13:15 (Sat to Thu) 13:30 (Daily) 14. The Scientific Center Opp Holiday Inn, Salmiya, Gulf Road 3:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm,
15:30, 17:45, 20:00, 22:15 18:30 (Thu to Tue) 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm,
(Daily) Fanar 18:30 (SPS Wed for NBK)
IMAX 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
00:30 (Daily) Marina 1 17:00 (Daily)
360° 10 11:30, 13:45, 16:00 18:15 Marina 3 11:15 (Sat to Thu) NB: Friday no show before 1:30 pm Tuesday
20:30, 22:45, 01:00 13:30, 15:45 (Daily) On Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday no show before 3.30 pm and after 11.15 pm in Sharq, Mohalab, To The Arctic 3D 10:30am, 11:30am,
360° 11 11:30 (Sat to Thu) Avenues 1 19:45 (Tue SPS for KNPC) Fanar, Marina, Al Kout, Bairaq, 360 and Avenues. 12:30pm, 1:30pm 2:30pm,
13:45, 16:00, 18:15, 20:30, Avenues 6 13:00 (Sat to Thu) On Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday no show before 5:30 pm in Plaza, Laila, Ajial, Metro and 3:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm,
22:45 (Daily) 15:15, 17:30, 19:45, 22:00, Granada. 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm,
01:00 (Daily) 00:15 (Daily) Regular show KD3:000; 3D-Digital — KD3.500; VIP show — KD6.000. ‘On Monday, price is KD1.500 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
360° 12 12:30 (Sat to Thu) 360° 3 11:45 (Sat to Thu)
except Digital movies.
14:45, 17:00, 21:30 (Daily) 14:00, 16:15, 18:30, 20:45, Movies inquiries and Fax Back hotline 1803456 Wednesday
23:45 (Daily) 23:00, 01:15 (Daily) Space Junk 3D 10:30am, 9:30pm
19:15 (Wed to Mon) Al-Kout 2 11:00 (Sat to Thu) To The Arctic 3D 11:30am, 4:30pm,
19:15 (SPS for NBK) 15:30, 17:45 (Daily) Bairaq 2 18:45 23:15 Metro 2 17:45 (Sun, Tue, Wed) 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 10:30pm
Al-Kout 1 12:30 (Sat to Thu) Bairaq 1 11:15 (Sat to Thu) Plaza 17:45, 23:15 (Daily) (Daily) Born to be Wild 3D 12:30pm
15:00, 17:15, 19:30, 21:45 13:30, 15:45, 18:00 (Daily) Laila 19:45 (Daily) 360° 9 13:30, 16:45, 20:00, 23:15 Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (Hindi) The Last Reef 3D 6:30pm
(Daily) Plaza 15:30 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon) Ajial 4 23:00 (Daily) (Daily) (Bomman Irani, Farah Khan)
00:05 Laila 17:30 (Daily) Marina 1 00:05 (Daily) 360° 13 11:15 (Sat to Thu) Thursday
Bairaq 1 20:15, 22:30, 00:45 (Daily) Ajial 3 15:30 (Daily) 14:30, 17:45 (Daily) Ajial 4 20:45 (Daily) To The Arctic 3D 10:30am, 12:30pm,
Bairaq 3 12:00 (Sat to Thu) Ajial 4 16:30 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon) The Dark Knight Rises 21:00 (Tue to Sun) 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm
Ajial 2 15:30 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon) (2D-Digital) 21:00 (SPS for NBK) Ek Tha Tiger: (2D-Digital) (Hindi) The Last Reef 3D 11:30am, 11:30pm
20:00 (Daily) The Expendables 2 (Christian Bale, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 360° 14 12:15 (Sat to Thu) (Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif) Born to be Wild 3D 4:30pm
(Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham) Sharqia 3 12:30 (Sat to Thu) 18:45 (Daily) Fanar 5 15:45 (Daily) Space Junk 3D 7:30pm
Interview with a Hitman Sharqia 3 19:15, 00:45 (Daily) 16:00, 21:30 (Daily) Al-Kout 3 11:15 (Sat to Thu) 21:00, 23:45
(2D-Digital) Muhalab 2 11:00 (Sat to Thu) Muhalab 2 13:15 (Sat to Thu) 14:30, 17:45, 21:00 (Daily) Avenues 7 12:30 (Sat to Thu) Friday
(Luke Goss, Caroline Tillette) 00:15 (Daily) 15:15, 18:00, 20:45 (Daily) Space Junk 3D 2:30pm, 8:30pm
16:30, 22:00 (Daily) 18:45, 00:15 (Daily)
Sharqia 1 14:15 , 00:050 (Daily) Fanar 1 11:30 (Sat to Thu) Fanar 2 11:00 (Sat to Thu) Bairaq 2 12:15 (Sat to Thu) 23:30 (Daily) To The Arctic 3D 3:30pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm,
Muhalab 1 16:45, 21:45 (Daily) 13:45, 18:00, 22:30 (Daily) 14:15, 17:30, 20:45 (Daily) 15:30, 18:45, 21:00 (Daily) 360° 6 13:30, 16:15, 19:00, 21:45, 9:30pm, 10:30pm
Fanar 1 16:00, 20:15 (Daily) 00:45 (Daily) 00:05 (Daily) 00:15 (Daily) 00:30 (Daily) The Last Reef 3D 4:30pm
Fanar 3 11:45 (Sat to Thu) Marina 1 12:00 (Sat to Thu) Marina 2 12:00 (Sat to Thu) Plaza 20:00 (Daily) Ajial 1 15:45, 18:45, 21:45 (Daily) Born to be Wild 3D 6:30pm
23:00 (Daily) 22:00 (Daily) 00:15 am 17:45, 21:00, 00:15 (Daily) Laila 22:00 (Daily)
Avenues 2 12:00 (Sat to Thu) Marina 2 15:30 (Daily) Avenues 3 11:15 (Sat to Thu) Ajial 3 00:05 (Thu to Tue) Sudigadu (Telugu) Saturday
14:15, 16:30, 18:45, 21:00 Avenues 9 11:45 (Sat to Thu) 13:30, 14:30, 16:45, 17:45 Ajial 4 17:30 (Daily) (Allari Naresh, Monal Gajjar) To The Arctic 3D 10:30am, 12:30pm,
23:15, 01:15 (Daily) 14:00, 16:15, 18:30, 20:45, 20:00, 21:00, 23:15, 00:15 2:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm,
360° 7 13:15, 15:30, 17:45, 20:00 Metro 1 15:30, 18:30, 21:30
23:00 (Daily) (Daily) The Amazing Spider-Man Metro 2 22:45 (Daily)
6:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm
22:15, 00:30 01:15 (Daily) 21:00 (Tue to Sun) (3D-Digital) Journey to Mecca 11:30am
Al-Kout 4 14:45, 19:45, 00:45 (Daily) 360° 1 13:00 (Sat to Thu) 21:00 (Sps for KNPC) (Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone) Born to be Wild 3D 1:30pm, 10:30pm
Bairaq 3 16:45, 21:15 (Daily) Devudu Chesina Manushulu Space Junk 3D 4:30pm
15:15, 17:30, 19:45 (Daily) 00:15 (Daily) 360° 4 12:15 (Sat to Thu) (Telugu)
Bairaq 3 14:15, 19:00, 00:05 (Daily) 22:00 (Fri to Wed) Avenues 4 11:15 (Sat to Thu) The Last Reef 3D 7:30pm
15:00, 17:45, 20:30, 23:15 (Ravi Teja, Lleana)
Ajial 1 00:30 (Thu to Tue) 22:00 (SPS for NBK) 14:30, 17:45 (Daily) (Daily)
00:15 (Daily) 21:00 (Tue to Sun) Metro 2 00:30 (Thu to Tue) Metro 1 22:45 (Daily) Notes: All films are in Arabic. For English,
Just Crazy Enough 360° 14 13:00 21:00 (SP Show) Metro 2 15:30 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon) headsets are available upon request. “Fires of
(2D-Digital) 360° 15 12:00 (Sat to Thu) 00:15 (Daily) 18:30, 21:30 (Daily) Kuwait” is in English. Arabic headsets are
(Chris Kattan, Brooke Anna Leedy) Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Ajial 3 18:30 (Daily)
14:15, 16:30, 18:’45, 21:00 Avenues 8 13:30, 16:45, 23:15 (Daily) available upon request. Film schedule is sub-
Wanted
Sharqia 1 16:15, 21:15 (Daily) 23:15 (Daily) 20:00 (Wed to Mon) ject to changes without notice.
Muhalab 1 18:45, 23:45 (Daily) Al-Kout 2 13:15 (Sat to Thu) 19:45 (SPS for KNPC) (Ben Stiller, Chris Rock) For information call 1 848 888 or visit
Fanar 3 16:15, 20:45, 01:00 (Daily) 20:00, 22:15, 00:30 (Daily) 360° 8 13:30, 15:30, 16:45, 20:00, Laila 15:30 (Thu, Fri, Sat, Mon) Julai (Telugu) www.tsck.org.kw
