links for 2008-05-08
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Hey, you there, with the unlocked iPhone. I bet you’re feeling pretty good about it, satisfied you’re totally getting over on the Death Star. But have you ever thought about the little(
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows only: We know it’s kind of pathetic to get all excited about something as mundane as a service packyet here we are, hearts all a-patter because XP SP3 and Vista SP1 have been un
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** If you wanted to post your Google Talk ID on a site and display an icon that shows your status, it’s quite easy. Google offers a chatback feature for anonymous conversations with the vi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Rumors, AccessoriesWe hope you haven’t already put in a preorder for Hori’s upcoming DS Lite Charge Stand! When we last previewed this accessory, Play Asia had put up a pro
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Storage
We’ve been wondering where Samsung’s 500GB SpinPoint M6 laptop drive has been hiding, and it turns out that it’s just been vacationing in France. No word on when
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told supporters in Indiana, “Tonight it’s your victory” after CBS News projected that she had won the state’s primary, keeping alive
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Grand Theft Auto IV broke records in its debut week in the UK, with sales watchers Chart Track calling the “biggest All Formats” number one title ever, with 926,000 units solid in just
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops
It looks like ultraportable laptops are the new generic PMPs, and we couldn’t be happier about it — especially if we keep seeing units like the Yinlips Micro PC
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Hands up who’s bought a new HDD for their 360. Anyone? Anyone? No, didn’t think so. $180 for a 120GB hard drive isn’t pricey, it’s taking the piss. So just why, exactly, do they cost so
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Besides supporting the latest iPhone OS version, beta 5 doesn’t do a whole lot else besides throwing in small tweaks to the UI, tweaks to the developers tools and some bug fixes. No big
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton split crucial presidential contests in Indiana and North Carolina on Tuesday, pushing Obama closer to securing the Democratic nom
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
The US smartphone market may continue to be d
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - It is unlikely that SAP will offer full-blown, on-demand versions of its Business One or All-in-One enterprise resource…
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: NewsDespite us getting excited about a Prince of Persia prequel back in October, it looks like we’re left out to dry on the new Prince of Persia game that was recently conf
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Om writes about a report that AT
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** EA and BioWare are employing SecuROM for the PC release of Mass Effect, a copy protection scheme you may recall from its universally loathed inclusion in 2K’s BioShock. The Mass Effect
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, Strategy, MMO, Business
Blizzard has launched a new online store, selling games (both digital and off the grid), books, collectibles, limited appare -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Social news site Digg is launching a new version of its comment system soon. The current iteration, which has received both ire and admiration from users, is changing for the better wit
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Video GamesFor young kids, whimsical bed-stand lamps are vital survival tools, necessary for keeping the monsters that dwell in dark corners at bay. That seems to be the pu
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Wearables
The SolarAid really isn’t much different than your average hearing aid in function — it enables hearing-impaired individuals to get a better listen at the wor
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** TechWeb - Key games such as “Madden” football, “NBA Live,” and “FIFA” soccer are expected to come out in special versions for the game console soon.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Smartphone blog TamsPPC say they received an email from Palm regarding developer submissions for two devices codenamed Zeppelin and Skywriter.They suggest the Skywriter could be a Palm
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: SalesNext week is going to be hard on your wallet. Circuit City is going to be having a big sale, according to DVDTalk, and our favorite Wii game is going to be available f
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Note to anyone developing an RSS reader: If you don’t support OPML, we’re not interested. While adding feeds for your fa
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** American internet connected Wiis are blinking! The Nintendo Channel has just gone live. Here, let’s let Nintendo describe it:
Nintendo Channel is an interactive guide to what’s new i
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Philips Xenium phones are generally known for their long-life battery performances but if these photos are in fact real, then the designers are venturing into new iPhone, Diamond touchs
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Monday, May 12 is the day you can all get your hands on the $549 Asus Eee 900 in the US, but it’s been on pre-order, from all the usual suspects, since last Monday. Just thought you sho
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** BANGKOK (Reuters) - About 1 million people were left homeless by the devastating cyclone that hit Myanmar and about 5,000 sq km (1,930 sq miles) remain underwater in the Irrawaddy delta
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn’t pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Shown off at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February, the Samsung i200 was launched today, with a view to going on sale in Europe next month. Boasting HSDPA and EDGE/GPR
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - BT Group signaled its return to the mobile market on Wednesday by launching a Blackberry-style smart-phone as part of its broadband deal for users to surf the Web and make cal
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Worried that Fallout 3 may be a little too dumbed down for your tastes, PC fans? Course you are. The same allegations were levelled against Oblivion, if I remember correctly. Bethesda w
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Do I have to be anymore descriptive than the title? This is brilliant. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? Or maybe someone has and I’ve been living in a home with windows that re
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The deal to combine Sprint Nextel’s and Clearwire’s fledgling WiMax businesses that was rumored last March is finally expected to go through. Comcast and Intel are supposed to put in $1
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Other than Time Warner’s single-city foray into monthly data caps, consumption-based billing has mostly been little ISPs with little monopolies, and given the market, we thought it’d st
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - If the new products we’ve seen in the last few weeks are anything to go by, we’re in for a great year gadget-wise.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Malcolm Gladwell (smart guy, puffy hair) has a feature in this week’s
The New Yorker about the history of simultaneous invention, the best example being Alexander Graham Bell and Elish -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** When Adobe launched Photoshop Express at the end of March, it indicated that Flickr support would be next on the agenda, and today the company can cross that item off its to-do list. Wi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Video
In case you can’t tell all the Wii shooters apart, Castle of Shikigami III isone of the few that comes on a disc, and
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: NewsGot a Wii? Then boot up the Wii Shop and download the just-released Nintendo Channel so you can get your DS demos! The new channel also features several videos, includi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Over in Japan, Sony has just launched a fairly well-spec’d digiframe that’s certainly worthy of attention. The VGF-CP1 packs a 7-inch 800 x 480
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops
Toshiba’s been cranking out a pretty steady stream of laptops since the year began, and it’s making sure no slacking goes on in May. Revealed today, the 13.3-inc
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Like many of you, my first FPS gaming experience was Doom. It was on an old 486 with the “turbo” button engaged. It was maybe five frames a second and looked like shit, but back then it
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Wii’s Nintendo Channel is now live. It’s a channel that basically has instant access to downloads of game demos, promotional videos, and other content from Nintendo and its partners
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Trying to boost the output of its research labs, Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to get more help from scientists in universities.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: CellphonesJust a day after we heard that Vodafone was taking the iPhone on a world tour, in comes word that Apple’s darling will be headed to Latin America via America Movi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Apparently those of you who’ve been waiting for the PC version of the popular console game Mass Effect will have to make sure your DSL bill is paid up, as the game requires an online co
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** This is an interesting story in light of the discussion yesterday about the fate of the intellectual property of failed startups. Email startup Xobni, which recently turned down a $20 m
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Sony seems to be uncomfortable with the current HDD configuration of the PS3 or so it seems according to David Reeves, the SCEE head honcho. They did reduce the price of the PS3 by swit
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Parallels Desktop for Mac will be made available as part of the Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: WiiWareSince the game was announced, we’ve heard sources cite Nintendo’s Dr. Mario WiiWare game (bundled with Brain Age 2’s Virus Buster minigame) with two different titles
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Anyone into computer gaming knows NVIDIA is one of the biggest names in video cards today, but imagine being new to PC gaming, knowing nothing at all about video hardware, and wandering
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google wants to usher in the world of wireless broadband so much that it is willing to spend vast sums to make it happen. It bid more than $4.6 billion in the recent FCC spectrum auctio
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I’ve always wondered why the HDD for the Xbox 360 was so expensive and just assumed it was a proprietary matter because Microsoft likes to do that sort of thing, but I never bothered
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Computers
In early May of 1998, Apple launched a computer that was said to “deliver the things consumers care about most - the excitement of the Internet and the simplic
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming
2008 was predicted to be a big year for the PS3, and it looks like things are going according to plan: Sony announced today that European PS3 sales had topped the
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** A recent video tour of the BlackBerry 9000 shows off the few new features in OS 4.6, including launching streaming video in the BlackBerry Media Player, geotagging right from the camera
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business
A television advertisement created by UK retailer PC World promoting the PS3 has been yanked from the airwaves. GI.biz reports the Advertisi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The long-running dispute between AMD and Intel, in which the former alleges anti-trust violations by the latter, has a new wrinkle. A key point in the battle is coming up, and AMD has r
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here’s how. There’s now a website that runs a little te
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Yesterday we wished happy birthday to the iMac, the personal computer from ten years ago that more or less saved Apple, leading the way to change the computer industry as well as the m
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Nikon’s strict naming conventions seem to have betrayed them. When they release a battery grip, they include the model number it’s for in the name. So the D200’s battery grip is the MB-
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Not a whole lot of substance here, but Electronic Arts today confirmed their continuing support of E3 by announcing their official show press conference.
The publisher plans on taki
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Office, OpenOffice.org, Open Source, Beta
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is due out in September. But if you just can’t wait that long, today the develope
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC, Business
BioWare technical producer Derek French lit up the Mass Effect forums this past week announcing that both their game and (on page 2) fellow Electronic Arts ti -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** There are other methods of backing up your cellphone contacts, but integrating that capability into a cellphone charger makes a lot of sense from a convenience standpoint. Plus, throwin
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google Reader added an option to increase/decrease font size for all the posts: press = to magnify text and - to decrease its size. Unfortunately, Google Reader doesn’t save your prefer
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones
For those that need to be in the know about the very latest supposedly-leaked 3G iPhone shots that hit the web this week, we’ve got you covered — but we’re n
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Screens, Imports
Matrix Software has been in the press most recently for their work on the remakes of Final Fantasies III and IV. Before that, they had their own origina
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Well, look at that. Everyone remembers the Glyde, right? Maybe you remember it as the u940 or the CDMA variant of the F700 that we broke last year? Anyway, it looks like the Glyde is ge
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - Consumers wanting a touch-screen, Web-browsing, 3G-capable phone don’t have to wait for the rumored 3G iPhone. HTC’s new Touch Diamond matches — some would say “copies” –
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - It’s hard to believe Google Inc. actually looked vulnerable just two months ago. The Internet search leader’s stock had plummeted 45 percent from its peak. And its two biggest riva
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Fan stuffWe’re at that point in the year when time just seems to fly by, so Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift will be out before you know it. That doesn’t make
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Peripherals
For those of you who did not preorder Wii Fit and think it won’t be a problem picking the bundle up on release date through walk-in at your local retai
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Now that Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes appear to be fading, some Democrats are talking about the possibility of Barack Obama taking Clinton on as
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News
Not a new complaint, this one. Previously, both analysts and developers have suggested that Nintendo’s first-party software is too strong to compete with, and now T
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** We may not know if they’re going to E3, never mind that the ESA says they’re not, but at least we know something. Today id Software announced that they have begun production on Doom 4 a
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Control Running Programs is a free Windows utility that (are you read for this?) controls your running programs. We love it when we find an
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Action, First Person Shooters
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Although they have an in-house engine for the Battlefield series (Frostbite), EA DICE has gone with Epic’s mega-popula
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Web services, web 2.0
It seems like every day a new company comes along with a service that lets you send huge files over email. Or rather, they let yo
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** For those of you not able to poke about on your Wii during the day, I’ve gone ahead and created this little video walkthrough of what to expect once you get back to your boxy little con
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video, Transportation
Our experiences with Microsoft’s Sync in Ford cars has been mostly a comedy of voice-recognition errors (we’ll never forge
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The New York Times reports on NBC’s recent decision to publish their television shows on Microsoft’s video store for use on their Zune media player. NBC was once a content provider for
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Storage
Not sure if we missed the memo, but apparently May 7th is the unofficial day of camouflaged technology. Shortly after Mobiado revealed a rugged Camo handset for
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Yesterday, NBC jumped aboard Starship Zune after its protracted breakup with iTunes. It’s clear whyand going with NBC’s pricing was only part of it. Saul at the NYTimes says that Micros
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Wii’s “Nintendo Channel” just went live, giving you a way to both watch trailers of current and upcoming Nintendo games, and feed Nintendo information on what games you play. What’s
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp sees profits triple, driven by ad revenues from the firm’s TV channels.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I have no idea if the guy doing all the product pitching works for any of the companies mentioned in any of the videos, but he is freaking hilarious. I can’t stop laughing. The Gatorade
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Developing new habits can jumpstart our creativity and even help us grow new brain cells, reports the New York Times. Research by authors Dawna Markova and M. J. Ryan suggests that stre
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Harvard Law School just became the first law school to commit to open access (free publication with copy/share friendly licenses) in all its journals:
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: FeaturesEach week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq, a column on legal issues as they relate to video games:
A few weeks ago, a copyright issue was
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Mac OS X only: Browse your Del.icio.us bookmarks like never before with freeware beta application Delish. URLs weren’t mean to be viewed as text, according to the minds behind Delish, s
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