Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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EA: Sony PS3 has “almost-impossible-to-supersede” head start

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been doing quite well in the States lately with sales picking up in the last six [...] Related posts: Xbox 360 head Greenberg mean spirited with Sony PS3? Red Dead Redemption visuals head-to-head on PS3 and Xbox 360 Next-gen Xbox 360 may get Blu-Ray drive and start price war with PS3

Tap Tap Revenge 4 arrives

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One of the most popular and addictive, not to mention profitable iOS game franchises has gotten a major rewrite and restocked with a plenitude of A-list music. What can the community of millions that play it expect? Step inside for the full monty on what’s new in this dynamic title. Tapulous, now a [...] Related [...]

Wii beats PS3, Xbox as ‘Greatest Toy’

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Channel 4 in the U.K. recently aired a program listing the 100 Greatest Toys of all time. Four consoles featured on the list, as did one games character. The Wii finished in fourth place, being the highest placed [...] Related posts: PS3 Greatest Hits – Games include MotorStorm, Resistance & Warhawk The Greatest Game Review [...]

Naughty Dog: PS3 means “no limits”

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Maybe more developers should align themselves to just one console, because according to Uncharted developer Naughty Dog, there is a definite upside. The majority of games are now multiplatform, with developers choosing to expand their potential audiences in order to [...] Related posts: Ninja Theory: Naughty Dog “best console developers in the world at the [...]

Jobs number 4 on wealth creation list

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Add yet another feather to the Apple CEO’s war bonnet, though it’s perhaps a little surprising that he top the list. What isn’t surprising is the fact that only two of the Top 10 actually sell physical products at least some of which are manufactured here. Chief Executive magazine has taken a [...] Related Posts: [...]

British judge approves Twitter in court

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Journalists can now officially use Twitter to give live updates on court cases in the U.K., after the Lord Chief Justice ruled doing so was unlikely to cause any harm. The rules of courtrooms haven’t exactly changed with the times, [...] Related posts: Juror’s Twitter use in court may cause mistrial British juror holds Facebook [...]

Buying guide: What new smartphone to buy in 2011

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Unless you have already bought a smartphone in the holiday frenzy, you might be looking forward to getting yourself a new smartphone after the first of the year. Which phones should you be looking at? There is a Big Three out there right now in the [...]

Windows pulls Office Genuine Advantage checks

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Microsoft has withdrawn an anti-piracy measure commonly dubbed nagware. The company has, in a very low-key manner, ditched the Office Genuine Advantage scheme. The scheme affected Office users who wanted to download Microsoft’s add-on material for the software, notably templates. When doing so, the [...] Related posts: Windows Genuine Advantage case dismissed Recent WGA failure [...]

Could Nokia save Windows Phone 7?

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For all its cellphone success, the smartphone boom doesn’t look like great news for Nokia. Microsoft has a smartphone system it thinks is great, but others aren’t so sure. Put those two points together and, some are rumoring, you’ve got a great business tie-up. [...]

iPhone (and Android) are sharing your data

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The Wall Street Journal, still digging into privacy matters surrounding the internet, find now that a lot of apps on the iPhone as well as those on the Android platform are sharing user data without asking. Facebook and Mark [...] Related Posts: Android user data? It’s free for the asking… Munchy, munchy: Android users are [...]

Google TV may be as botched as the Nexus One

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Those nice folks at Google, whether they are evil or not, may be a little marketing-impaired. Their Google TV plans have run afoul of the networks and users, and may be almost as botched as the [...] Related posts: Nexus One ad on Google homepage Big plans for Google Nexus smartphone Google to halt direct [...]

More hints that Apple might try to out-map Google

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If you were to trip the light fantastic through Apple's open job listings (no, not Jobs) list, you might get the impression that they are getting really serious about jumping hip-deep into the mapping business. The hints [...] Related Posts: Will Apple drop Google? Steve Jobs and Google head to head again Steve Jobs hints [...]

British government’s “opt-in” porn plan looks doomed

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A senior British government minister has proposed a system by which all pornographic websites would be blocked to British users unless they specifically “opted in.” But the suggestion has met with a combination of political criticism and technical dismissal. In an interview with [...] Related posts: British government changes mind: illegal downloaders could still lose [...]

After a series of successes JAXA misses the mark

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has had several successful [...] Related posts: Now you can see Mars in 3D! NASA says next Mars mission delayed two years Netbooks – Arrington misses the point, Intel the plot