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• Mario Kart Wii Hits US On April 27 [Mario Kart]

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Mario Kart Wii’s arriving in the US in Spring 2008, you say? Little vague there, Nintendo. Need something more concrete. Oh, what’s that? It’s launching on April 27, 2008? Much better.

• BioShock 2 confirmed for Q4 2009

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Take-Two announced today that 2k Marin is slated to release the sequel to BioShock, which has sold 2 million copies since August, in time for the holidays in 2009. That is all.Pre

• Verizon greenlights 100Gbps network

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Verizon is kicking its major network routes up to 100Gbps early next year.It’s looking at upgrading it’s backbone after successful trails last year over a short piece of network (s

• Review: AT

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Palm Centro for ATT is one of the better smartphones on the market today for first-time buyers, or so-called “casual smartphone users”. Its low price, familiar form factor and full

• Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac gets an update today

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** This update fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.I’m currently downloading the 1

• SANYO claims ’smallest and lightest’ LCD projector

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Behold! Either the woman in the photo is nine feet tall or I present to you the new champion of tiny projectors! The LP-XW60 weighs just 3.5 pounds and features a 400:1 contrast ratio w

• How Bluetooth Works

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** What do you do when you need your computer to “talk” to your cell phone? Bluetooth allows any sort of electronic equipment to connect without wires, cables or any direct action from you

• What are the best video games that were never made?

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Game over. For serious gamers, there’s nothing worse than finding out an eagerly anticipated video game has been scrapped. Is your favorite game that never was on our list?

• How E-mail Works

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The advent of electronic mail revived the lost art of letter writing. Learn all about the system that routes billions of messages each day and keeps you connected — it’s simpler than y

• How did the Internet start?

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Can you remember a time before online shopping, e-mail and your daily RSS news feed? The Internet is an integral part of our daily lives. But what does Sputnik have to do with it?

• Mario Kart Wii snakes into stores April 27

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Nintendo Wii, DrivingNintendo has announced that its frantic shell-flinging racer, Mario Kart Wii, will see its long-awaited US release on April 27th. The game will inc

• Kojima working on next project

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3Konami president Fumiaki Tanaka tells Japan’s Nikkei BP that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima’s next project is outside the Metal Gear u

• Starcraft II: Zerg video and info dump

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Mac, PC, StrategyThe Queen of Blades’ return in StarCraft II slowly approaches — very, very, slowly approaches. Following the release of the Zerg race trailer in Korea

• Square Enix commits to simultaneous worldwide releases

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: RPGs, BusinessIf you listen closely to the lifestream you can hear Square Enix’s legions of fans singing in unison as company president Yoichi Wada recently confirmed a

• Web services allow for easy Brawl stage sharing

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Hacks, Nintendo Wii, Fighting
  Sure, the Super Smash Bros. Brawl stage editor is a great way to extend the value of the game, but it’s only really valuable if you and your

• Mass Effect 2’s Side-Quests Won’t Be So Sucky [Bioware]

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Mass Effect’s world was a great one. Thing is, if you weren’t plowing through the main story arc, the whole thing felt a little…empty. Especially the game’s cookie-cutter side-quests,

• New Metal Gear Solid 4 Screens To Look At [Konami]

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** While Kojima has already apparently moved on to other things, we haven’t! Check out these new Metal Gear Solid 4 screenies. Looks like aqua green is the new brown! The game is out June

• Dawn Of War 2 To Be Unveiled Next Month? [Rumor]

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Kind of a prick-tease, I know, but it’s Warhammer, so I’ll play along. Next month’s issue of PC Gamer looks like it’ll be revealing the first real info on Relic’s Dawn of War sequel, wh

• GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** mikesd81 writes “Wired is running a story about GoDaddy shutting down a police watchdog site called RateMyCop. However, GoDaddy can’t seem to give a consistent answer as for why. From t

• BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** smallfries writes “After a long battle with Linux users in the UK, the BBC was forced into releasing a flash version of the iPlayer streaming service to fulfill their obligations to lic

• Tivo On Board With YouTube’s New API

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** impuLsive writes “YouTube has announced they’re rolling out a brand new API. The API will allow you to integrate YouTube into a website, allowing for features like: uploading videos, ad

• Ads With Your Name On Them

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** eldavojohn writes “The NYTimes is running an interesting blog piece on the answers Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo,

• Google Now Selling SEO Services Via Performics

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** As we reported yesterday, Google has now successfully acquired DoubleClick after receiving EU approval for the deal. While the focus has been rightly on display advertising, many have m

• Yahoo To Join OpenSocial in April, Microsoft Groans.

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Following previous reports that Yahoo is talking to Google about joining OpenSocial, we are now hearing that the decision has been made and that it will be announced in April. OpenSocia

• 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You
  (TechWeb)
  

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** TechWeb - One of the best ways to get publicity and generate buzz is to get bloggers to write about what you’re doing. Boing Boing co-author Cory Doctorow provides some tips on making i

• New Tools From YouTube Turn Any Website Into a Video Sharing Hub

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The video sharing site YouTube is letting website developers use its video platform to create independent, branded sites for sharing clips. YouTube handles the video encoding and server

• Indian Blackberry network to be shut down unless RIM allows government snooping

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: CellphonesUh-oh, Indian Blackberry users — better get ready for some major disconnection anxiety. Apparently the Indian government is demanding that RIM either allow it to

• Bio-electronic implant seeks to restore partial sight

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe’ve seen initiatives all over the globe created in an attempt to beat blindness, but researchers based at MIT are feeling fairly confident that their dev

• 68% of Americans suffer disconnection anxiety, should probably go outside

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSure, we’ll admit to a certain unhealthy super-fun fascination with gadgetry, but a new study out this month by the Solutions Research Group says that over

• WSJ: Strong PS3 projections makes Sony stock a “bargain”

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, BusinessJust as every cloud has a silver lining, every drop in stock value hides within it an opportunity for profit. At l

• UT3 Sells 1 Million Copies, Better Late Than Never [Sales]

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Things weren’t looking good for Epic’s once-powerful franchise, Unreal Tournament. The release of UT3 met slow sales during a November when new IPs were dominating the charts as the hol

• Violence and Visual Unification in LEGO Universe [Lego Universe]

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The official LEGO Universe website just put up an interview with Phillip Atencio, one of the upcoming massively multiplayer game’s art directors.There’s a lot of material in the in

• Future iPhone To Use Intel Moorestown Processor?

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Inquirer posts what it claims is more evidence that Apple is planning to adopt Intel’s Moorestown architecture for a future iPhone model.DigiTimes was first to make such a claim

• Apple to Track iPhone Gaming High Scores?

  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** With on-stage demos of EA’s Spore and Sega’s Super Monkey Ball (demo video) at their iPhone Software Development Kit event, Apple seems to be serious about mobile gaming on the iPhone.

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