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• Japan snaps up 100,000,000 DS games
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Sales

  In what is yet another statistical landmark for the DS in its homeland, the data gatherers at Media Create have revealed that Japanese consumers have purchas

• Pictures of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Screens

  More delightful media has emerged from the Namco Bandai Editors’ Day event! We’ve updated our gallery with new English screens (and one inexplicable Japane

• Google tops profit target, stock jumps
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Internet leader Google Inc said on Thursday it saw no impact from a weakening U.S. economy as it posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and waved off fears of an onlin
• Google’s 1Q profit climbs 30 pct and tops analyst views
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Google Inc. tweaked its online advertising formula and accelerated its growth outside the United States to produce a first-quarter profit that surpassed analysts’ predictions, alle
• AMD posts 1Q loss, meets Wall Street’s lowered expectations
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s first-quarter loss matched Wall Street’s lowered expectations, with the slumping chip maker hurt by its inability to unload older products and economi
• IGN Insiders Offered Chance At MGO Keys [Metal Gear Online]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Are you a North American member of the IGN Insider’s program or Founders’ Club who doesn’t have a beta key for Metal Gear Online? Well you’re in luck, as IGN is releasing three waves of
• Spectral Force 3 - The Prettiest U.S. Xbox 360 SRPG [Gallery]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Ladies and gentlemen, what you
• Google News adds quotations
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google is extracting quotations for politicians and celebrities from news sources and featuring them at the top of the Google News results page for certain searches.

  For instance, a

• Nintendo Takes March, 360
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Nintendo atop the monthly NPD hardware charts? You do. Not. Say. Nintendo consoles again kicked the collective asses of the competition, with the Wii coming in at
• Caption contest: WiMAX hits store shelves in Bosnia
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Networking

  Sometimes, you want more than just wide-area broadband. Sometimes you want the downy softness that only “WiMAX” can bring. We’re not totally sure what this is

• Google CEO says “Nice to be working with Yahoo”
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Google Inc’s top executive said on Thursday the company was excited to be testing out a partnership to run at least some of rival Yahoo Inc’s Web search advertising sales.
• Microsoft says Xbox sales beat Sony PS3 in March
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it sold 262,000 Xbox 360 game consoles in the United States in March, regaining its lead over Sony Corp’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 as supply cons
• Nintendo’s Official Mario Kart Launch Event [Events]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Oh yeah, there’s another game launching at the end of this month! Sure, GTA IV overwhelming, but we’re just as excited for the imminent release of Mario Kart Wii the Sunday after next,
• Beginner’s Guide to Photography - Photonhead.com
• Windows Mobile 7 Could Be Too Little Too Late, But Might Come On Microsoft Hardware [Windows Mobile 7]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** You may not remember this because the news came out during CES, but back in January there was a gigantic leak of Windows Mobile 7 details, including an Alaskan Senator’s dump truck full
• New Monster Hunter quest gives you the opportunity to catch birds
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Monster HunterNope, this isn’t a new quest in Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G about finding more cat slaves (your minds are getting dirty in the gutter!), also known as
• Chinavasion comes through with 7-inch Wii LCD monitor
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Displays, Gaming

  If you’ve exhausted all of your resources and still can’t seem to whip up your very own Wii Laptop, Chinavasion’s out to make sure you have the second (

• Microsoft buys Farecast for $115 million
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft

  Microsoft has purchased Farecast, a travel pricing/comparison/booking service that competes with similar web services like Travelocity,

• Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions for Your Travel Time [Google Maps]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Hot on the heels of Windows Live Maps’ traffic-based directions, Google Maps unleashes its own traffic predictions. To use it, just click the Traffic button on the top of a map and then
• Working together to fight malware
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Posted by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Google Security Team

  We recently began a series of posts related to online security that focus on how we secure information (with posts like these)

• Red Hat to focus on enterprise market, not consumer Linux
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: OS Updates, LinuxOnce upon a time when you mentioned Linux to non-Linux users, the first thing they thought of was Red Hat. That’s because the company was one of the first
• The Time Machine Screensaver
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Design, Fun, Macintosh, Freeware

  Sure, you make fun of the chintzy Time Machine animation when you’re out to sushi with your geek friends, but secretly you adore it. Whe

• Taboo Firefox extension saves your tabs for later
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Productivity, Web services, Mozilla, Search

  Are you sick of having multiple tabs open at one time because you have numerous items that you want to read or research? The

• Google publicly launches Website Optimizer
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services, Google

  Google has taken the beta label off yet another project that is significantly younger than Gmail, which remains in beta. Google

• Famitsu publisher backtracks on E3 DS prediction
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Nintendo DSWe weren’t that surprised when Nintendo denied any knowledge of the existence of a new DS model hinted at by Famitsu publisher Hirokazu Hamamura last week. We we
• Microsoft UK rolling out Halo 3-sized campaign for GTA IV
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
  It should come as no surprise that the impending Grand Theft Auto IV is going to have a marketing campaign that rivals the absolute onslaught th
• March NPD: Wii, Smash Bros. on top, software sales surge
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
  If this is how Nintendo does before the predicted Wii Fit-exacerbated short
• Google Opens Optimizer as Yahoo Offers Traffic Analysis
  (NewsFactor)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - It’s a busy time in the world of Web analytics. On Wednesday at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, Google announced its free Website Optimizer is available to anyone.
• Screen Grabs: giant Linksys WiFi router is The Internet
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: NetworkingScreen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadg
• Google Stock Soars in After-market Trading
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - Shares of popular search engine Google soared in after market trading and could portend a close above US$500 for the first…
• Microsoft: “The Battle For The Core User Is Sort Of Over” [Microsoft]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Ah, here’s what was missing from their post-NPD gloat: fightin’ words. Speaking with Next-Gen, Xbox group product manager Aaron Greenberg has been talking all kinds of shit about how Mi
• Use of Touch Screens Soaring in Mobiles, UMPCs Next
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - The use of touch screens on mobile phones is already soaring, and the introduction of a new line of small computing devices…
• Nintendo Responds To March NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** March was a big month for Nintendo. Then again, every month is a big month for Nintendo. Not only did they once again take the
• Sony Responds To March NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Bit of an up-and-down month for Sony. The fact the PS3 couldn’t quite repeat last month’s performance, and slid back behind the 360, must sting in some sensitive places at Sony HQ, but
• New bionic limbs to be controlled via brain-mounted sensors
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Misc. GadgetsResearchers at Osaka University are redefining “thought-controlled” limbs. Hailed as the first endeavor to dabble in the world of bionic phalanges by requiring
• Brando’s Wii Multi-Axis Racing System: a few notches above awful
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

  We know, there’s only so much you can do to a foam donut to make it, well, more than a foam donut, but Brando’s trying its best to one-up the competi

• Dell ‘Crystal’ display reviewed, save your money
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Maximum PC took a look at Dell’s new 22-inch “Crystal” display and found it to be a bit lacking. It carries a $1,200 price tag, which is apparently “more marketing hype than functionali
• Pageflakes Acquisition Confirmed
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The personalized start page is dead. Long live the personalized start page. Pageflakes, a nice-looking but perennial also-ran in the world of start-page startups, has been officially ac
• Use of touch screens soaring in mobiles, UMPCs next
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - The use of touch screens on mobile phones is already soaring, and the introduction of a new line of small computing devices designed to connect people to the Internet is als
• How to Solve the Rubik Cube in Six-Seconds Flat [Friday Guide]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** We are very big fans of Rubik’s Magic Cube, even while none most of us have not solved it yet. Not even trying this one, really. Until today. Why I didn’t think about this before, I don
• Clicky - Web Analytics Tool for Your Website
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Copyright Feed Content - OnlineTechTips - Aseem Kishore 18254532AKMK

  If you are a blogger or a website administrator, you may already be familiar with the term “web analytics”. Acco

• Interactive windows dare you to catch a Scion tC RS 4.0
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: TransportationOh sure, we’ve most certainly seen window-based advertising used to lure the untrained eye to any manner of wares, but Scion’s latest iteration certainly take
• iGoogle - Easy to customize home page
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Copyright Feed Content - OnlineTechTips - Aseem Kishore 18254532AKMK

  Google is familiar to most of us. As the years progress onward, this leading Internet search provider is branchi

• Midway continues to infuriate with Noob.com
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I suspect this will just be a social network for gamers, but Midway’s Noob.com just released another clue: a coded message and a blurry picture. I’m trying to crack this with a substitu
• Zune will tear us apart: Joy Division Zune coming soon
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Ian Curtis and the Sunshine Band will get their own Zune-gasmic treatment with a new, Joy Division-stuffed player featuring art from the album Unknown Pleasures. It will be launched on
• Scientists Build Worlds Smallest Transistor: Just One Atom Thick [Graphene]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Just the other day we were banging on about graphene, the new “wonder material” based on graphite, and now a British team has used it to craft the world’s smallest transistor. It’s just
• ‘Gran Turismo 5 Prologue’ thrills despite slim options
  (USATODAY.com)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** USATODAY.com - The latest release of Gran Turismo is missing quite a bit under the hood. Instead of waiting to unveil a full version of the hit racing series for PlayStation 3, develope
• MYSTERY 360 UPDATE - Where’s the 360’s Spring … [Xbox 360]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** MYSTERY 360 UPDATE - Where’s the 360’s Spring dashboard update? That’s a very good question. One Microsoft aren’t answering at the moment, but what they are doing is laying some groundw
• Nintendo takes console sales… again
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Fine. The Wii is great. I concede that the Wii is the best platform out there because a) the 360 is too old and b) the PSP and PS3 have no good games. The NPD numbers:

  Nintendo Wii:

• Apple fixes Windows installer to make Safari “new software” and not “OMG LIFE-THREATENING UPDATE TO WINDOWS CLICK NOW!”
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Apple has improved its update system to mark Safari as new software and not an update to iTunes. This comes after many complained of having to install Safari after updating iTunes. This
• Metal Gear Solid 4 Rated By ESRB [PS3]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Let’s cut to the chase:

  Title: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
  Rating: M
  Content: Blood, Crude Humor, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
  Platforms: PlayStation

• Can A Wii Game Really Look This Good? [Clips]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** High Voltage Software are trying to find a publisher for The Conduit, an FPS they’ve got in development for the Wii. The game looks - for a Wii game - gorgeous, but its premise - an ali
• Zelda Team Working on New Games [Shigeru Miyamoto]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Don’t forget. Nintendo doesn’t just make Wii Fit and Brain Age. It makes other games, too. Games like The Legend of Zelda. About which, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto says:

  I think we’d

• New Xbox 360 update doesn’t do anything
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360

  The next time you fire up your 360 you’ll be prompted to do a system update and we hope you’re sitting down when it happens, because after it’s comple

• Call Of Duty 4 Sells 9 Million [Call Of Duty 4]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Bonus NPD news! Activision
• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The obvious first question one asks the AT
• U.S. video game sales rise 57 percent in May
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 57 percent in March from a year earlier, industry data showed on Thursday, evidence that the industry has so far been immun
• XBOX LIVE GOING DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE - Just … [Xbox Live]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** XBOX LIVE GOING DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE - Just a friendly reminder that Xbox Live will be down for eight hours this coming Monday, April 21, for “routine maintenance”. The outage will run
• OWC reveals 500GB Mercury On-The-Go portable HDD
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Storage

  OWC’s Mercury On-The-Go family of pocket-lovin’ hard drives has been around for quite some time, but the group is getting an all new leader courtesy of the recen

• Review: Avoid snarl of USB cables with Eye-Fi photo reader
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - My home computer desk hosts a snarl of USB cables for the various cameras, MP3 players and other peripherals I’ve bought over the years.
• Day in pictures
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Striking images from around the world
• Carter calls Gaza blockade a crime and atrocity
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** CAIRO (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity on Thursday and said U.S. attempts to undermine the Islamist movement Hamas had
• Action urged to keep net neutral
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** US regulators are told to do more to ensure that net firms respect the founding principles of the net.
• Paypal to block ‘unsafe browsers’
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Paypal says it will block “unsafe browsers” as part of wider anti-phishing efforts.
• LG said to be prepping 16:9 LCD panels for low-cost laptops
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops16:9 LCD panels designed for computer use aren’t exactly all that uncommon, but this latest batch announced by LG will likely generate a bit more interest than most,
• NPD: Nintendo on top with hardware, games
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News

  Well, we’re all familiar with this sight. Nintendo is on top again, with the NPD numbers for March reporting that the Nintendo kicked ass with the Wii and, you gues

• Fallout 3 Fights Violence With Violence [Bethesda]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** As a series, Fallout has always celebrated a dark, often humorous world punctuated by brief moments of brutality. But how do you find the balance when the series enters a 3D world? Beth
• IBM Buys Storage Vendor Diligent Technologies
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - In the latest of a long line of data and storage-related buys, IBM said Friday it has acquired Diligent Technologies for an…
• VC Friday: Phantasy Star III: Virtual Console update of Doom
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Virtual ConsoleUp on the chopping block this Friday is the red-headed step-child of early Phantasy Star games, Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom. Considered the
• Eee PC-like Deep Blue H1 mini laptop hits the Philippines
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops

  There’s certainly no shortage of Eee PC competitors these days, and it looks like another one recently snuck its way into the Philippines, where Blue Digital’s d

• Ballmer: Vista is a ‘Work in Progress’ [Microsoft]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Microsoft CEO and sweat machine Steve Ballmer recently called Vista a “work in progress,” acknowledging some of the mistakes Microsoft made in rolling out the latest version of Windows
• Spider-Man : Web of Shadows Wii Trailer
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** This is the Trailer of the upcoming Nintendo Wii game Spider-Man : Web of Shadows, also comming for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, and Nintendo DS

  Tags: Nintendo,

• Oil prices continue upward march
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Oil prices cross $116 a barrel for the first time after militants in Nigeria claim an attack on an oil pipeline.
• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - As part of its effort to recast itself as an innovative retailer, AT
• Quake rattles American Midwest
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude shakes buildings across the Midwest, but there are no reports of injuries.
• Video: Hands-on Samsung’s 10 megapixel / 720p NV24HD shooter
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Digital Cameras

  Samsung and pretty much everyone else is taking a long hard look at their clumsy UIs as consumer electronics continue to commodify. We’ve certainly seen

• Lightning Review: Verizon XV6900 (aka HTC Touch) [Lightning Review]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Gadget: Verizon XV6900, their version of Sprint’s Touch by HTC, which is a pretty compact Windows Mobile 6 smartphone overlayed with HTC’s custom TouchFLO for finger touchiness.The
• Miyamoto: Zelda team back in action
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, InterviewsIt’s Shigeru Miyamoto speaking, so really we could have pulled any quote from Jeremy Parish’s 1UP interview and stuck it in the title, or just said “MIYAMOT
• Apple, Orange looking to lower iPhone price to spur sales in France
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Word on the street is that Apple and Orange (oh dear!) are negotiating an iPhone price cut. The French wireless provider wants to rework its contract with Apple so that it gets a bigger
• NiGHTS Gameflying out the door for $23
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, SalesFor an indeterminate period, Gamefly has marked the price of used copies of NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams down to $22.99. If you were ever curious about trying out S
• Euro VC Gets Phantasy Star III [Vc Update]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** A nifty little update for the European Wii Virtual Console comes in the form of Sega’s Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom for the Genesis. Considered by many to be the weakest in th
• A new look for Google Video
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Posted by Bindu Reddy, Group Product Manager

  Last year, we shared our vision for Google Video and announced a renewed focus on organizing all the web’s video. We have a lot of new f

• Rumor: T-Mobile 3G network rolling out in May
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** If TmoNews is to be trusted than it looks like NYC will be the first to tap into T-Mobile’s 3G network while Seattle is in the bottom quarter. That sucks when your company is based ther
• Customize Your Outlook Today Pane with Cut-and-Paste HTML [Microsoft Outlook Tip]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Your plain vanilla “Outlook Today” screen could be doing a whole lot more for you, especially if you aren’t afraid of a little HTML or can get handy with a free page creator. Even if ha
• Avoid Ten Typos (Almost) Everybody Makes [Writing]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Being on top of your grammar is a skill that takes years of practice to refine into unthinking craft, but even the most word-minded among us can trip up when it comes how keyboards tran
• Decorum: Using cellphones on public transportation?
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** All in favor of banning, outright, the use of cellphones on buses and trains and airplanes raise your hand.

  You hand better be raised. Mine is touching the sky.

  The AP has a sho

• Visual Search Engine Coming to iPhone in June [Magic]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Evolution Robotics ViPR visual search technology is coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR allows to take a photo of any movie, CD or book, send it to a server, and automagically get an e
• 9 million answer Call of Duty 4, DLC breaks records
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Business

  Oscar, Mike, Golf! Infinity Ward announced today that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has sold

• Army of Two gets SSC Challenge pack April 24
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action

  We were a little lukewarm on Army of Two as a complete package, but the best part of the game was easily playing through w

• PS3 Laptop charity auction — bid here!
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming, Laptops

  It’s time to pull out your pocketbooks because the charity auction you’ve been waiting for is going down right now. Up for grabs: the absurdly rare, one

• Google Docs: Your Online Office?
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - New features for Google’s online apps offer a Web-based alternative to traditional software.
• Google shares soar 20 percent to record 1-day gain
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Google Inc.’s stock soared 20 percent Friday, restoring $28 billion in shareholder wealth as Wall Street renewed its love affair with the Internet search leader after weeks of worr
• Obama keeps rolling as Clinton running out of time
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a tough six-week stretch of campaign gaffes, roaring controversies and heightened scrutiny, Barack Obama’s presidential bid appears as strong as ever — and
• Intel’s Skulltrail QX9775 hits 6GHz, manages not to spontaneously combust
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Desktops

  Yeah, we’ve seen other mad scientists take way more antiquated chips to higher figures on the GHz scale, but can that cyogenically cooled P4 handle all those SS

• Google WHOIS OneBox
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google shows a special OneBox when you search for “whois”, followed by a domain name: for example, [whois google.com]. The OneBox shows the date when a certain domain was created and da
• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** ATT says that without heavy investments in hardware and networking from companies like itself, the Internet will be a series of clogged tubes by 2010. While that’s perhaps hyperbole on
• Microsoft Wants You to Pay Monthly Subscription for Office and Services You Won’t Use [Microsoft]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Microsoft is testing a new bundle of fun codenamed “Albany” which rolls Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and some other Live services into a package
• Apple Modifies Software Update for Windows
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** CNet reports that Apple has responded to the criticism of pushing Safari to all Windows users via Software Update.

  The practice received some criticism since the “update” appeared fo

• Mandatory, yet contentless Xbox Live update imminent
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Other than some under-the-hood code to prepare for the big spring update, there are “no other changes or enhancements in this update…in other words no new features.” And what of the v
• Atom-sized transistor is world’s smallest
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Made from graphene, scientists in the UK have created the world’s smallest transistor. Size? Oh, say, about the size of an atom.

  The transistor, which could totally change the way

• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 lands in Toshiba Satellite P305, ASUS M50 laptops
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: LaptopsAMD wasn’t exactly all that specific about exactly when its new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series graphics chips would actually find their way into some laptops whe
• Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition To Reach Everything And Everyone [Announcements]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Bethesda has gone ahead and officially confirmed the Collector’s Edition of Fallout 3 that leaked last week. But they added a good-news-cherry-on-top to fans. The Collector’s Edition wi
• The 3G iPhone may look ‘radically different’
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Most of you are probably sick of all this “3G iPhone is coming, no wait it’s not no wait it is!” but the (UK) Times has some new info the whet your appetite. In reporting on the difficu
• HotKeyBind Sets Keyboard Shortcuts for Any Windows Task [Featured Windows Download]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows only: Free, open source application HotKeyBind creates keyboard shortcuts for common Windows actions, from launching applications and opening files to searching the web and shut
• PlayStation 3 Mod Is A Well-Executed, Horrible, Horrible Idea [Mods]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Who wants more storage? Everybody, that’s who. What’s the best way to get it? Just swap out the hard drive because Sony lets you Mod your PS3! One tweaker built this external enclosure
• T-Mobile’s 3G Network Rolling Out May in NYC, Coincides With 3G HTC Touch Dual? [T-Mobile]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** We’ve been waiting for 3G on T-Mobile longer than we’ve been waiting for The Police to get back together, and it looks like May will be the month that all this patience finally pays off
• Papyrus e-book concept takes aim at students
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Handhelds

  You don’t have to look very far to find e-book concepts these days, but this so-called Papyrus device from the folks at Greener Grass aims a bit higher than mo

• AMD’s Shanghai proffers 12 cores, HyperTransport 3.0
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Desktops

  If your interest in processor speeds doesn’t extend much beyond “is it fast?” then these juicy tidbits likely aren’t for you. That said, AMD is certainly gettin

• Salesforce.com promotes development in the cloud
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS (software-as-a-service) is a successful business model, the company hopes to lead the way in cloud computing.
• Amazon.com CEO promotes Kindle reader in shareholder letter
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle has arrived. Again.
• NES Controller Car Engine Mod [Mods]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Now here’s a car engine that is sure to provide hours of family fun entertainment! Kotakuite Zooie sends us this photo of a Toyota that reflects the owner’s driving love of the original
• Microsoft to kill Hotmail Outlook Express support
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Microsoft

  If you use Outlook Express to manage your Hotmail account, Microsoft wants you to download Windows Live Mail instead. Come June 30th, Microso

• Kojima’s ideal MGS4 bites off more than PS3 can chew
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3

  We weren’t surprised to read in this month’s Edge Magazine that Metal Gear Solid series creator, Hideo Kojima, isn’t entirely satisfied with his lates

• Repair an Old NES System for a Few Dollars [Weekend Project]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Few families made it through the 1980s with collecting one or more Nintendo Entertainment Systems, but many of them sit unusable today, no matter how hard you blow into them. Wired’s Ch
• Study says 300,000 U.S. troops suffer mental problems
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an

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