Saturday, December 18, 2010

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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – first direct-feed gameplay

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One of the biggest announcements at the Spike VGAs is around Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The game [...] Related posts: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception unveiled Uncharted 3 gameplay on the Jimmy Fallon Show Gamers love Uncharted 2 Demo – insane total gameplay time

Bulletstorm to come with access to Gears of War 3 beta

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Bulletstorm is Epic's latest IP developed by People Can Fly. The [...] Related posts: Cliffy B. on BulletStorm taking advantage of PS3 hardware and Blu-ray Microsoft leverages Halo: Reach beta to boost ODST sales Gears of War: EPIC boss wants his mom to play Gears

Mac App Store, iWork ’11 to arrive together

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This seemed to be a fairly safe bet before today and all but a sure thing now. With boxed retail copies increasingly difficult to find as the days tick closer to Thursday, January 6, it’s becoming abundantly clear that new product is coming and soon. iWork ’09 is all but sold [...] Related Posts: Where’s [...]

EA: Nintendo should drop Wii price to $99

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Is it time for Nintendo to drop the price of the Wii to $99? The CEO of Electronics Arts thinks so. $199 is considered the magic price for games consoles. Once the hardware hits this price it will [...] Related posts: Why it is likely Sony will drop the PS3 price Tuesday Rumor: PS3 price [...]

PS3, Xbox 360, Wii usage stats

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Nielsen has released a study revealing how people use their console of choice. And it appears the PS3 is used mainly for things other than gaming. Amazingly. Games consoles are legitimate entertainment and media hubs these days, offering so much [...] Related posts: PS3 and Xbox 360 get equal usage according to study Console usage: [...]

iPhone, iPad at center of insider trading flap

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Apple's iPhone and iPad found themselves at the center of an investigation, one which culminated in arrests this week, of insider trading activities at several high-tech manufacturing companies. Three employees of these high-tech companies, and one sales executive [...] Related Posts: Will the iPhone lead the iPad to victory? What’s behind today’s iPhone Dev Center [...]

Smartphone survey shows sexual stereotype shattered

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Stereotypes have it that men are more into gadgets then women are, and that women like talking to friends more than men do. Now it appears the latter stereotype may have overcome the former. A new survey suggests young American [...]

Apple iPad to lead tablet market through 2011

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It is fairly clear that none of the tablets that would like to compete with Apple's iPad are really doing anything like that yet, and there is some expert opinion that the situation will not markedly change in [...] Related Posts: Apple iPad set to dominate in 2011, too Can anyone beat Apple’s iPad lead? [...]

Microsoft Security Essentials gets second edition

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Microsoft has released the second edition of its free Security Essentials software. It includes changes both visible and under the hood. The biggest change is the introduction of a heuristic engine. That’s a technique designed to combat the way the [...] Related posts: Free Microsoft Security Essentials available for download Microsoft Security Essentials proves its [...]

MasterCard will cut off piracy sites, too

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In its newly found role of judge, jury, and executioner, debuted with the WikiLeaks case, Mastercard has decided that it will also stop aiding and abetting music and video pirate sites. No offense intended, but a degree in corporate [...] Related posts: Supreme court refuses porno piracy appeal Judge lowers $2 million music piracy fine [...]

A Facebook, iPad user at 103-years-old

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All grandparents are awesome, that is an undeniable fact of life. But some are more awesome than others, and Lillian Lowe ranks highly in my opinion. How old is the oldest person you are friends with on Facebook? I’m guessing [...] Related posts: 104-year-old Ivy Bean – the oldest Twitter user in the world The [...]

Wireless chips help track flu outbreaks

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Researchers at Stanford University are using a way to track viruses through a wireless network. And the virus in question? The flu. The project was an attempt to more accurately record the pattern of interactions between people in a busy place, in this case [...] Related posts: Bluetooth being used to track the movements of [...]

Yahoo! shutting down multiple products, inc. Del.icio.us, Altavista, MyBlogLog

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A good way for a Web company to annoy people is for it to buy up a promising product or service, fail to nurture it, and then eventually kill it off completely. Well done, Yahoo! Yahoo! is [...] Related posts: Yahoo shutting down MyBlogLog next month Yahoo and Google securing ad revenue, shutting Microsoft out [...]