Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Boy racks up over $1,470 in Xbox Live charges

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A 11-year-old boy racked up over $1,470 in charges on his mother's debit card through [...] Related posts: Console thief caught via Xbox Live Delisted Xbox Live Arcade games to remain downloadable Xbox Live fraud threatens Live dominance

Killzone 3 tournament at Walmart during midnight launch – Feb. 21

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Sony is looking to launch Killzone 3 in a big way [...] Related posts: Starcraft on PS3, get Killzone 2 at midnight and Ninja Blade coming soon ICO and Shadow of Colossus outed by Walmart No Killzone 2 ads: Sony yet to learn lesson

Mac App Store: The end of boxed software

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For better and worse, there has never been a brick n’ mortar retail software trade in the Apple mobile space. From day one, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been digital only. Now, the mothership is preparing to all but empty the Apple Store of retail package software for the Mac. A combination [...] Related [...]

Emergency Alert System to get Presidential test

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The president is going to issue an emergency alert to be broadcast to the nation. But don’t panic — it’s just a test. The Federal Communications Commission has approved the final step in the bureaucratic process that will allow such a test to be [...] Related posts: Offshore hackers issue fake Amber Alert High-Tech satellite [...]

Google receives record number of applications – 75,000 people for 6,000 jobs

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Do you want a job at Google? Then you’d better join the back of the extremely long queue that has formed. Google takes on thousands of new staff each year; in 2007 it [...] Related posts: Naked people on Google Earth! Google Street View is not privacy-infringing – receives green light in UK Google unveils [...]

AOL spends $315M on Huffington Post

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Just when you think that AOL has gone down for the last time, their name is back in the papers. This time it was announced, just after the Super Bowl, that AOL had purchased the Huffington Post. It begins to [...] Related posts: Arianna Huffington derides bloggers and the idea of paying them Arianna Huffington [...]

Verizon iPhone: It’s here!

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Fedex arrived at my front door this fine morning at just 11am. The normally friendly driver had better things to do than chitchat and was pulling out of the driveway before the screen door closed, leaving me beaming at the door and the chill 35 degree air rushing in. What’s new and exciting [...] Related [...]