links for 2008-05-14
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Apple’s latest Mac OS X 10.5.3 build (9D29) was released to developers last week. The ongoing developer seeds addressed a number of new bug fixes while we await the final code for relea
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops
This new “in the wild” shot of 3K Computers’ upcoming Eee PC killer just pretty much confirms what we already knew: it’s a piece of crap. Lucky for us, it’s now
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The search giant Google is the latest company to launch a service aimed at making the web more social.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** One Column Themes
R3volution Continued
R3colution Continued is a one column theme. Clicking on the menu image will show you a hidden content area which you can manage using a wi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I had forgot to mention these two things in the rush to post my love letter to the BlackBerry Bold, so I’ll post them now before I head off to bed, along with this video clip I recorded
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** How much of your scarce, precious internal memory will the new WiiWare games take up? About thiiiiiiiiisssss much. Oh, can’t see my “one that got away” fishing-arms size comparison? The
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** You know how the mobile carriers charge you a couple cents to SMS a few characters’ worth of text over their network? When you add it up, you’re paying about a zillion bucks a meg for t
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Any Star Trek fan knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make traveling the “final frontier” as simple as turning on your computer.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
We’ve got some news that’ll make a PC gamer or two weep: the Wall St. Journal is reporting that as of next month Dell will be dropping four models of XP
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is killing its four big balls XPS gaming machines (not the entire XPS line, like the standard notebooks, which are selling really well) to
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Twelve companies pitched to the crowd at the Where 2.0 conference Monday night. Each had only five minutes each to make their case. A full rundown of the companies is on the official La
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoQuick, what’s the best way to dress up an otherwise dry piece on how companies can register non-traditional trademarks? If you answered “menti
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Nokia Maps on Ovi
Planning trips on your Nokia smartphone is about to get a lot easier. Today at Where 2.0, the Finnish cell phone manufacturer announced Maps on Ovi, a Web component
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** If NPD sales results can be epic, then this Thursday’s expected sales data from the research group will be epic. Microsoft and Sony went head to head with near identical versions of Gra
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google launches a new beta version of Google Reader for the iPhone. Visit google.com/reader/i/ to check it out on your handset or in your browser. [via]
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microso
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Investor’s Business Daily - Shares of Research In Motion hit an all-time high on Monday as the company unveiled a new cell phone it hopes will dissuade business customers from buying Ap
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** With Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As a King one of the flagship titles for the highly-anticipated WiiWare launch, it’s interesting to hear co-creators Fumiaki
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: DesktopsNot like this is the first time we’ve seen a finalized product look noticeably worse than the concept preceding it, but it’s a shame ASUS’ Eee PC desktop won’t be n
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** There have been many Digg clones over the years. Some, including Mixx, have gained traction and even taken some disgruntled users away from Digg. In light of Digg’s second town hall mee
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** When you have been rouging it where showers are hard to come by, you will be happy to to have a Universal Shower Diffuser close at hand. Basically,the device attaches to the top of a st
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken announced in a blog entry today that he will be stepping down in June to build his own tech site from scratch. McCracken gained notoriety last M
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** DesignObserver’s put together a great book/slideshow/Flickr group of beautiful table of contents pages from various books:
In this book, we have gathered together thirty Table of Con -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Audio/Video, Video Games
Last year, top-notch first-person shooter ‘BioShock’ dazzled the gaming media with its engaging storyline and incredibly rich environment. It wa
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** A newly published patent application from Nikon has revealed plans for an new viewfinder technology involving a small display screen that can be viewed within the optical viewfinder. Th
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
We’ve just received an official statement from AT
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Health weblog SmarterFitter knows how difficult it can be to buy healthy food once you hit the supermarket, so they’ve created a couple of grocery list templates designed to help you st
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Virtual Console, Mods
This seems like an excellent use of a vintage PC: building a dedicated NES emulator. It’s basically the same idea as the homemade MAME cabinet, but
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cell Phones
Granted, we haven’t heard anything thus far about which carrier would be offering up the recently-made-official BlackBerry Bold, but we can’t say we’re too s
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Apologies if you’ve seen this before, but it says “New trailer” on YouTube and was added today, so who am I to argue? This movie looks awesome, by the way.
It’ll be out on July 25th
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming
Nintendo just brought WiiWare to the States, which means you can finally download original games to the console — not just the classics available on the Virtual
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Go figure the wireless giant ATT would have the first exclusive deal on the recently-launched BlackBerry Bold. An ATT rep has kindly reminded me that they’ll be the first U.S. carrier t
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Firefox and Internet Explorer only: The Surf Canyon browser extension embeds extra search results at Google, Yahoo, and MSN. With Surf Canyon installed, search the web with your favorit
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Reviews, WiiWare
Click to see more screens from Defend Your Castle
The browser game that many of you have tried at one time or another has been revamped for Wii and la -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Visual search and image recognition is one of the holy grails of consumer Internet technologies. Picitup is jumping into the deep end of this space by announcing the launch of its publi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Here’s something I didn’t cover in my Emulation Orientation a few weeks back, though I did mention NESticle. A couple guys have decided the most noble job for a venerable 486 is to run
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Microsoft has unveiled a plan under which a somewhat crippled version of XP will be made available to the makers of low-cost PCs like the Eee PC and XO laptop. I’m not sure how I feel a
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cameras, ComputersHere’s a funny little story we saw in the Journal News: Last month, an Apple Store employee had a party in her White Plains, New York apartment. According
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** This is a new video of the Nintendo Wii game Tales of Symphonia 2
Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Tales of Symphonia 2
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Browser Tips, web 2.0
Last year two services launched, giving bloggers easy access to threaded comments, spam control, avatars, and other
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** RIM has finally made the new version of its messaging phone, the Bold, official. No exact release date yet, but the press release does mention that the Bold should be available “around
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Keyboard secrets. Students used to trade them in college like a more sophisticated version of baseball cards. Microsoft Word has long been suspected of keeping an immense log of shortc
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
DriveSpacio is a free Windows utility for examinging hard drive usage. When you first boot the program you’ll get a list of each hard drive
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cell Phones
Our brethren over at Engadget Chinese had the chance to size-up HTC’s new Windows Mobile 6.1 Touch Diamond with Apple’s iPhone this morning in Taiwan. We hav
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones
The industrious Boy Genius has apparently unearthed more juicy tidbits about that rumored BlackBerry touchscreen device. Word from BG is that the new iPhone-i
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** These are some new magazine Scans of the Nintendo Wii game Super Mario Stadium Baseball
Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Super Mario Stadium Baseball
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** We all love fruit but they’re not exactly cheap and usually demand to be eaten sooner than later, otherwise the ravages of time wreak havoc on them. Blue is a concept fruit bowl that
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co has struck a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12.6 billion, seeking to boost its technology services business to better compete agai
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Laptops
Just in case you’ve been holding out, we want you to know that Dell’s budget-friendly 17-incher, the Vostro 1710, is now available for your purchasing pleasure.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could ta
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** BG, we have nothing but love for you. But sometimes, we get treated by certain companies that shall not be named as if we broke as many rumors as you that, in some way, we were as dang
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** While yes, the Blackberry Bold is a pretty slick looking update to the hallowed Blackberry line, it still sports a physical keyboard
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Microsoft announced today record sales of Mac Office 2008 which was launched at Macworld San Francisco:
“The response has been amazing
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** After using a 500GB Time Capsule for Time Machine backups for awhile, I noticed increasing duration of the backups. Mainly the prepare and post-processing phases, and transfer of large
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** LeMatin.ch (French) reports that based on a source in Swisscom, Switzerland will be getting the iPhone this summer.
By itself, this news is not that surprising, as there have been a
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** As is the norm, ATT will be the first carrier to sell the BlackBerry Bold from RIM.
“ATT will be the only U.S. carrier to offer the [Bold] when we begin selling it later this year.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Ubuntu Unleashed blog has an excellent guide to the ins and outs of the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw), a new feature in Ubuntu Linux 8.04, or Hardy Heron, that makes it easy to contr
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: GamingWe think we’ve already got a handle on the various chipset revisions planned for Microsoft’s too-beautiful-for-this-world Xbox 360*, but it looks like that planned 45
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Symbian, Palm, Browser Tips, BlackBerry, Mobile Minute
Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour
Uploaded by operasoftwareA little over a month after releasing a public
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Handhelds
Intel’s been making a lot of noise about MIDs for a while now, but we’re going to guarantee that the entire category flops if this first wave of pricing info i
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows Vista implements a great new way to use your Optical media, and that is the Live file system. The Live File System essentially allows you to use regular CDs and DVDs as you woul
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Beta, web 2.0
Microsoft has launched a public beta of its WorldWide Telescope software. Basically, WorldWide Telescope is like Go
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360
Fable 2 is “content complete” with a measly 5,000 bugs to squash before it’s completely complete, reports NeoGAF poster “Vinterbird” (aka Mikkel Vinther -
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Web services, Apple, Google, iPhone, Beta
Monday Google unveiled yet another beta site. Google Reader is now formatted for the iPhone. iPhone users tired of pi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said…
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites.
But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Microsoft, Social Software, BlackBerry, web 2.0
RIM and Microsoft have announced a deal that will officially bring Windows Live Services — spec
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones
We’re already big fans of the Touch Diamond’s sleek black aesthetic, and it looks like the design language is going to carryover to the official accessories,
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google is holding its third Campfire One event tonight, this time to discuss the details of Friend Connect with developers.
Friend Connect is a new data portability initiative for s
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Lin
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Wii has changed the way video games are played. Learn more about the Wii at HowStuffWorks.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Nintendo Wii
There’s a little bit of confusion regarding next Tuesday’s WiiWare launch in Europe and what games will be available. Although Next-Gen reports that eight t
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - The latest version of the community-supported branch of Red Hat Linux offers new features and an improved UI.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Online classifieds leader Craigslist.com filed a countersuit on Tuesday against business rival eBay Inc, alleging eBay had used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal corpo
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** TGDaily has a very interesting rumor about the Xbox 360 getting not just upgrade parts, but an entire redesign based on upcoming hardware. After the next 65nm chip upgrade, the next 45n
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Army of Two, Burnout Paradise and the continued strength of Rock Band drove Electronic Arts to $1.127 billion in sales for the fiscal fourth quarter, an 84 percent increase over the sam
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - Apple is selling more Macintosh computers than ever before — and that’s having unexpected benefits for Microsoft. Sales of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac are triple the vol
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - Building on the success of its Wii game console, Nintendo has launched WiiWare, a software service for games. Wii owners who have their machines hooked up to an Internet co
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Round 1 of the Android Developer Challenge has come to a close and 46 of the 50 winners have been made public (the remaining four opted not to disclose their work). For your convenience
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Wireless
We knew it was coming, but Philadelphia’s citywide WiFi is now officially being turned off, and Earthlink is planning on pulling down all of its access points.
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Back in March we learned that 3M would partner with a “leading consumer electronics company” in an attempt to be the first to market with a mini mobile projector. After months of specul
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Like “enormous beasts of steel?” Atlus announced Zoids Assault, which it says contains many such beasts, headed exclusively for Xbox 360 on August 26th.
Described as a demonstration
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: NewsJapan just loves that Wii, as news breaks today of the console enjoying a very successful life in the country. Over 6 million units have been sold, which breaks down to
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** All the craziness going on with XP’s SP3 and AMD processors is complex, but Microsoft wants you to know it’s not their fault, it’s HP’s fault, among others.
It turns out that the OE
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: DisplaysFor those of you waiting with bated breath for Dell’s gargantuan 3008WFP 20-inch LCD to return from technical-issue-town, your prayers have been answered. The monst
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Losing the audio feed during “Monday Night Football” may seem like a crisis for some sports fan, but it’s nothing compared to losing the signal that monitors a critically ill hospi
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The New York Times is bringing its e-reader desktop application to the Mac soon. The company unveiled its latest efforts last night, with a slew of screenshots. The Times’ First Look po
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Computers, iPhone
On June 9th, Steve Jobs will be speaking at WWDC. Plans are vague right now, but we understand he will give two lectures on Sudoku, a shirt-folding sem
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The rumor of Sony giving PS3 a video download service at E3 just got bumped up again by a small ad video floating around the net. The screencap shows 13 icons, but Cartoon Network, NBC,
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Rumors, Video
Yesterday, DS Fanboy reported on the rumor that Platinum Games, the company started by ex-Clover Studio members (and Capcom luminaries) Atsushi Inaba, Hid
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Computer World decided to trial the three major 3G networks to see who was king. Dongles from ATT, Verizon and Sprint were used with a Lenovo X300 across 500 data points in eight differ
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** On Tuesday, Opera sewed up a short beta run of Opera Mini 4.1. After a mere month and a half, the Norwegian software company declared the cell phone browser build stable enough to insti
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The HTC Touch Diamond is pretty classy already, but this desktop cradle/desktop dock gives it a nice house on your desk for it to sleep and dock. From the looks of it, it’s even got ear
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Media “discovery” site StumbleUpon announced Tuesday that its video service, Stumble Video, has a host of new content available: content sites College Humor, Funny or Die, and VBS.tv, a
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Earlier this morning Ashcraft attended a press event in Japan for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, where Kojima himself played through the game for about 40 minutes. Game Video
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: InterviewsWith development on Viva Piata: Pocket Paradise now wrapped up, IGN got some face time with producer Paul Machacek to discuss numerous aspects of the project, fro
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google Street View now blurs some faces in Manhattan.(Credit: Google)
BURLINGAME, Calif.–Google has begun testing face-blurring technology for its Street View service, responding
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Computerworld took Verizon, Sprint and AT
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, WiiWare
Nintendo has released a list of eight games described as “launch window” titles ahead of WiiWare’s debut in Europe on May 20th. Included are four games tha
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** This is the most horrifying ad ever. It’s for the Playstation 3. You don’t want to see it, trust me. Look, I won’t even tease it, I’ll tell you what it is so you don’t have to look at i
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, TroubleshootingWho doesn’t love defragmenting? Here at Download Squad, we defragment everything we can get our hands on: hard drives, registri
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Windows, FreewareFotosizer is a free batch image resizer for Windows. The tagline for Fotosizer is “batch image resizing made easy,” and we couldn’t agree
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Monster Hunter
While American gamers are still busy playing Grand Theft Auto IV (we still are!), the Japanese have embraced a wholly different kind of game. Monster Hunt
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