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| Devices for the deviceless There are an estimated half of a billion people in the world who surf the Net every day yet don't own a computer. They depend on the public PCs available in cybercafes, which in many cities and countries remain the centers of personal computing. Cloud computing is ideally suited to these so-called cybernomads, as it can provide them with, in essence, a computer to call their own - a virtual deskto [..] |
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Apple starts Black Friday sales ?round the world  Black Friday is almost upon us and many of you are going to be scouring your areas for some of the best deals found all year. Yesterday, we told you about the price cuts and discounts that Apple distributors are offering and it looks like it will be quite an event at the Apple Store. [...] [..] |
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Steve Ballmer hatin? on Google Android  Steve Ballmer needs to slow his roll! While on tour in the U.K. for the Professional Developers Conference, Ballmer saw it fit to take a little jab at Android and reaffirm Microsoft’s status in the mobile world. One would think that he learned his lesson when he laughed at the iPhone when it was first [...] [..] |
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| Nokia Cuts 600, Trims Research Center (NOK) Layoffs come to Nokia (NOK), the world's biggest cellphone maker: The Finnish company will cut some 600 jobs, especially in sales and marketing. Nokia will also cut back at its long-term R&D center, where it "plans to sharpen its fo [..] |
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| Google Kills Its Second Life-like Lively [Virtual Death] When Google launched Lively, its web-based, browser-embeddable, Second Life-esque virtual world chat space, we said we'd "check back in with it soon" and "dig deeper to see what Google has in store." That was a lie. We never had any intention of fir [..] |
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| Dutch Kid Mugged At Knifepoint For Virtual Goods A Dutch court confirms the obvious: virtual goods, such as Facebook gifts or World of Warcraft gold, are real goods. And if you steal them, it's theft.
The novel legal finding comes after two punk kids in the [..] |
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| MapleStory Expands With Crimsonwood Keep [Expansionism] Nexon America has unveiled a massive expansion to the world of MapleStory in the Crimsonwood Keep expansion, which allows players to venture through the newly expanded Phantom Forest on the continent of Masteria, into the new areas found around the Crimsonwood Mounta [..] |
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| EA Beats Estimates On Revenue, EPS (ERTS) The world's dominant video game company turns in an nice Q4, beating revenue and EPS estimates. EA (ERTS) actually posted a net loss but there were one-time costs related to the accounting of deferred net revenue.
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| EVE Online Convenes Real-World Elected Council [Eve Online]
Iceland. It's where all the cool kids go to have a summit. Reagan and Gorbachev rapped about nukes there in 1985; 20 years later, the Supreme Metal Council condemned the overuse of the devil horns hand-signal. And now something billing itself as EVE Online's [..] |
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| Emergency Rate Cut But Stocks Fade * Rate cuts helpful but not enough, says Roubini* World stocks, commodities smashed* UK bails out banks, Hong Kong slashes rates* Bankrupt states storm Washington for bailouts* Silver lining: Stocks finally close to fair value
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| Warcraft Movie Still Seeking Screenwriter [World Of Warcraft] You'd think that a film with a built-in audience of 11 million people would get off the ground sooner, but not the World of Warcraft movie. Like any Blizzard project, they're taking their own sweet time. Speaking with MTV Multiplayer during last week's Wrath of the Lich King launch in Ne [..] |
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| Making the Case for Games Journalism [Journalism] Game journalism is a pretty maligned corner of the journalism world as a whole — sometimes for good reason, but as Gus Mastrapa argues, we're not really deserving of the broad brush we get painted with. Why, he even points to Kotaku as a 'sure sign that we've arrived'! Games [..] |
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| Revised Fallout 3 Edition Drugs "Justified By Context" [Fallout 3] For the rest of the world, Fallout 3's being released as intended. Nothing to worry about. But in Australia, as you're aware by now, the game's had to see some changes, thanks to the Office of Film & Literature Classification's strong stance against in-game drug use (Midway's last Blitz game was refuse [..] |
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