“So far Nintendo have done a very credible job in keeping information regarding the Wii to a minimum. Well all that has just changed! An anonymous Wii developer has sent to us slurry of information regarding Nintendo’s next-gen console, all that’s left now is a confirmed release date and price to complete the puzzle…” (Read full article here)
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“AOL plans to announce on Monday it will test launch a new Internet video service in an attempt to demonstrate how much it has learned from mistakes that cost the once reigning king of the online world its leading position. The new service, AOL Video, aims to be the one-stop shop for online videos and will let users search for videos across the Web, upload their own, or buy or watch for free thousands of TV shows from any one of 45 video-on-demand channels on nearly any device…” (Read full article here)
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“Opera Software is making plans to steal market share from Microsoft. Though a launch date for Opera 10 hasn’t yet been set, Opera is hoping the updated application will lure users away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 by building on Opera 9’s use of small Web applications called widgets…” (Read full article here)
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“SanDisk Corp., the world’s largest maker of memory cards for portable electronics, agreed to buy M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. for about $1.3 billion in stock to add storage products for mobile phones…” (Read full article here)
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“The digital lifestyle is a marketing ploy. Nothing more, nothing less. It is defined by services that aren’t needed, cost too much, and rely on technologies that are naïve, over-architected and underdeveloped…” (Read full article here)
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“‘I came over here because I wanted to kill people.’ Over a mess-tent dinner of turkey cutlets, the bony-faced 21-year-old private from West Texas looked right at me as he talked about killing Iraqis with casual indifference…” (Read full article here)
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“Lenovo Group is about to add AMD chips to its ThinkCentre line, making it the first top-tier PC maker to tout AMD-based desktops to large customers in the United States…” (Read full article here)
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“It took two vice cops to take out those pirates. After three weeks at No. 1 and $358.4 million in tickets sold, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest took in $20.5 million this weekend, landing in second place behind Miami Vice…” (Read full article here)
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“Journalists, publishers, and developers alike all love to gripe about E3, the annual trade show that takes place every May in Los Angeles. The crowds, cost, and noise are just a few complaints you’ll read in just about anyone’s coverage of the show. Despite its many issues, the show is still an invaluable way to disseminate information on the videogame industry. Or at least it was. Several media outlets, including Gamespot and Next-Gen.biz are reporting that E3 is poised to be at best downsized, and at worst eliminated…” (Read full article here)
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“If there’s one thing all commercial game developers can agree on, it’s that piracy hurts their bottom line. Hence it’s no surprise that developers are starting to consider new distribution methods aimed at curbing piracy. Online distribution systems such as Steam and “EA Downloader” tie game code to a user’s credentials, ostensibly stopping piracy. However, as the developers at Ritual Entertainment recently learned, these systems are not impregnable…” (Read full article here)
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“Google News editors make a choice which sources to include. Sometimes, they find the sites themselves, and at other times, you can simply ask them and see if they take your site. Google News does not have a policy against blogs anymore…” (Read full article here)
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“The same technology that police say a Kingston man used to lure young girls into performing online sex acts was used to catch him, Ontario Provincial Police revealed yesterday. Police allege the man chatted with teens on the Internet, hacked into their email accounts, got their buddy lists, and contacted those people posing as their friends, said Det. Sgt. Frank Goldschmidt of the OPP’s child pornography section…” (Read full article here)
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