Microsoft Kinect official UK launch date announced
Posted at 1:57 am
The European launch date of the much awaited addition to the Xbox 360’s arsenal has finally been announced. Mark November 10, 2010 on your calendars as this is the day that Nintendo Wii’s game sensors will meet its match on European shores.
With the staggering lead in the race of Nintendo Wii against its competitors, Microsoft [...]
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Twitter bug allows more than 140 characters
Posted at 3:21 am
It is common knowledge for Twitter users that a tweet can only have 140 characters on it.
But au contraire, a recent Twitter bug shows that users can post up to 3,000 characters, maybe even more.
The bug was reported in the Twitter Development Talk Google Group by forumer Chris White. He posted a step-by-step procedure of [...]
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The Force Will Be with You in New iPad and iPhone App
Posted at 4:50 am
Fans of Star Wars will surely be jumping in giddy fervor as the Star Wars: Battle for Hoth makes a grand entrance to the iPhone and the iPad.
The iPhone and iPad app is a tower defense game that will put your strategy and reflexes to the test.
Your goal in Star Wars: Battle for Hoth [...]
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Pop cap pulls out Michael Jackson resembling Dancing Zombie
Posted at 11:32 pm
“Any resemblance between Dancing Zombie and persons living or dead is purely coincidental” — that’s not what the estate of Michael Jackson thinks and the King of Pop’s dearly departed demands PopCap to remove the back-up dancer summoning zombie out of Plants vs. Zom ies.
The undead version caricature of the King of Pop was in [...]
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There’s a zombie on your Xbox Live Arcade
Posted at 6:03 am
“There’s a zombie on your lawn; you don’t want zombies on your lawn,” sang the sunflower on the credits of the hit Pop Cap game, Plants vs. Zombies. The sunflower has got it all wrong as zombies visiting the lawn, or pool, or even the roof has been one of the biggest hits to casual [...]
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180 E-books Sold for every 100 Hardcovers
Posted at 12:04 pm
E-books have outselled the hardbacks. Last month, a hundred and eighty e-books were sold for every 100 non-digital books. During the second quarter of this year, 143 e-books were sold for every 100 hardcovers. This data coming from Amazon, the online retailer and owner of the Kindle e-reader, clearly exhibits what any online business analyst [...]
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Slow sales for Microsoft Office 2010
Posted at 10:48 pm
The release of Microsoft Office 2010 did not make too much of a bang, probably because the market was too busy oogling at their iPhone 4’s to notice the entrance of the industry titan. But even when the glitz and glamour and hype towards the iPhone has faded, can Microsoft Office 2010 still capture the [...]
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Bing’s next marketing strategy: Hollywood
Posted at 3:00 pm
With Bing’s cashback feature getting less support from merchants than expected, the company is set on another strategy for the search engine Yahoo! to claim its previous glory — before Google played king in the search engine game.
But rather than go down without a fight, Yahoo is hell-bent in getting what they think is rightfully [...]
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PC Gamers: Fighter Jet Pilots Trapped in 60 Yr. Old Chain Smoker’s Body
Posted at 7:14 am
In an attempt to determine whether PC gaming may be considered as a sport, Dr Dominic Micklewright, from the University of Essex conducted a series of physical and psychological tests on professional PC gamers to compare their performance to professional athletes.
Professional computer gamers sometimes earn tens of thousands of pounds yearly, from prizes and sponsorship. [...]
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Facebook becomes a hero to mother and kids
Posted at 6:08 pm
Is there anything that facebook can’t do? Aside from the fact that it has become the most visited website, trumping Google’s well established lead. But aside from playing the role of consumer favorite, it plays the role of a hero to a mother and her kidnapped kids.
A mother from Southern California was able to locate [...]
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