Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Top 40 best PC games of all time – 2010

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The PC is the longest surviving video game platform in existence. With its [...] Related posts: Top 40 best PS3 games of all time – 2010 Top 20 video games to play in 2010 Top 10 PC games the PS3, Xbox 360 need

Verizon iPhone to be LTE, arrive Dec 26

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Is there finally a reason for Americans to celebrate Boxing Day? Honestly, the likelihood of this particular rumor being true is, well, just about zero. Nevertheless, it’s Monday, there isn’t much out there to report and just the idea itself is really interesting, especially for those of us living in provincial Verizon backwaters. [...] Related [...]

Hands on with iTunes Ping Playlist

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Another feature that just should have been in there from the start. Seriously, what was Apple thinking when it rolled out a social network for music that was almost completely devoid social? Nevertheless, a few first day hiccups aside, Cupertino seems to have done a pretty good job in bringing this particular function [...] Related [...]

Top 10 Twitter trends – #Hindsight2010

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Twitter has become the first port of call for people to discuss things happening around the world. So its top trends are a good indication of the year we’ve just experienced. The end of 2010 is almost upon us, and [...] Related posts: Twitter launches Twitter trends and search Twitter eyeing ‘Promoted Trends’ advertising effort [...]

European agency names 10 biggest mobile security risks

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The European Union’s IT security agency has put together a list of what it considers the 10 biggest risks to smartphone users. But it notes that such handsets also have features that can enhance security. According to the [...]

Microsoft talks up Forza 4 against GT5

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Move over Gran Turismo 5, Forza 4 is coming through. And Microsoft is already talking the game up in no uncertain terms. Now that Gran Turismo 5 is with us, finally, we can all look forward to the next [...] Related posts: Forza fans angry over Microsoft’s ploy to cushion Gran Turismo 5 sales As [...]

Call of Duty: Black Ops sells 8.4 million

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Is it any wonder Activision releases a new Call of Duty game every year? After all, it’s not as though sales are dropping every 12 months. In fact, they’re rising on an annual basis. Call of Duty: Black [...] Related posts: Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks all-time day 1 record No Wii ‘Call of [...]

Patent court to Microsoft co-founder: Try again

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has come up against an unusual legal barrier in his attempts to sue what seems like most of the online business community: Nobody’s really sure what he’s talking about. As we reported in August, Allen is suing AOL, [...] Related posts: Word patent case heads to Supreme Court Microsoft co-founder sues, [...]

WikiLeakers target Amazon UK, others

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Supporters of the WikiLeaks site, which is increasingly being seen as a rogue entity as the U.S. applies pressure to countries and companies, are still on the offensive, trying to attack what they see as 'enemy' Web sites. Although there was [...] Related posts: PayPal freezes out Wikileaks Dutch police arrest pro-WikiLeaks hacker WikiLeaks nearly [...]

The iPhone is still the hot tip

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Throughout its life to date, the iPhone has been the THE smartphone to have, even now when it is sandwiched between RIM, the one-time king, and the legions of Android phones on the attack. Somewhere, RIM took a wrong [...] Related Posts: iPhone with iOS4.2 tops the smartphone market What’s up with iPhone vs. Android? [...]

Why the Mac Store will grow the cloud

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The logic is a little roundabout, but an excellent case can be made for OS X following iOS4 into the app store model as a good thing for Mac developers, and thus for OS X users as well. [...] Related Posts: Apple N.C. data center for cloud computing? Lala may take iTunes into the cloud [...]

Canadian court could kill hyperlinks

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There’s a stereotype that senior judges are stuffy figures with little grasp on modern technology. Anyone involved in Canadian websites had better start praying that stereotype proves inaccurate. Canada’s Supreme Court is hearing a defamation case in which the point of law under contention [...] Related posts: Canadian geek comedians play non-stop for charity, shaming [...]

ACS:Law fails in court, judge critical

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Rounding out a bad year for ACS:Law is the throwing out of its case against eight alleged file-sharers. And the judge couldn’t really have been any more critical of the company. ACS:Law is the infamous and heavily-criticized British law firm [...] Related posts: US District Court judge dismisses suit attacking Google’s search rankings British juror [...]

The Snore Sleep Inspector may be the perfect stocking stuffer–for yourself

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The Snore Sleep Inspector is a real app that you [...] Related posts: Apple iPad can affect sleep patterns Scientist invents computerized pillow to stop snoring Are we now married to our mobiles?