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By Mark Raby
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Gut Reaction - We all know Steven Spielberg for his masterpieces in film, E.T. and Jurassic Park to name a few. His branching out to Saturday morning-style cartoons was also a success, and with an intriguing video game now under his belt it seems there is nothing he can't do. However, if his first game is any indication, I'm not sure if his work in the latter category will play out quite as momentously. |
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By Wolfgang Gruener
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Microsoft continues its practice to announce Office service packs that
are scheduled to become available via Microsoft Update automatic
distribution at least 30 days in advance. SP1 for Office 2007 has been
released in December of last year and is now ready to be distributed
via the company’s Automatic Update service.
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After Sony refused to pay the licensing fees requested by the Formula 1 car racing association, England-based Codemasters has stepped up and nabbed the former Sony-exclusive license. Codemasters has gained the global rights to the racing label, promising to bring Formula 1-branded games to consoles, PC, and handheld gaming platforms.
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Despite Sony's PS3 console being outsold by the Xbox 360 by more than two to one in the US, it managed to grab a healthy amount of the Grand Theft Auto IV sales. GTA IV broke game records around the world when it came out a few weeks ago, selling 3.6 million copies in the first day and six million copies by the end of the week.
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By Christian Zibreg, Wolfgang Gruener
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Apple has a history of not being the most environmentally-friendly
company out there and with more and more eyes focusing on climate
factors that include, for example, a company’s carbon footprint, the
Silicon Valley darling may feel under increasing public pressure in the
future. The latest to criticize Apple’s environmental efforts is
ClimateCounts.org, which hands Apple the worst climate scorecard in a
ranking of twelve leading electronics and computer companies.
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More than 140 million Vista licenses have now been sold, which averages out to around three copies every second since it went on sale last January. "That's a very rapid sales rate," said Bill Gates in a news conference, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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By Humphrey Cheung
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A pair of Harvard researchers say violent video
games don’t turn children into killers. According to a newly published
book, ‘Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video
Games and What Parents Can Do’, psychologists Lawrence Kutner and
Cheryl Olson dispel common myths about violent games. In their
two-year study, they found that there was no data to support any
causation between games and real-life violence.
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By Humphrey Cheung
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With Grand Theft Auto 4 selling like hotcakes and making over $500
million in the first week, a Republican and Democrat have introduced a
bill that would make it a bit harder for teenagers to buy mature
games. Republican Representative Lee Terry from Nebraska and Democrat
Representative Jim Matheson from Utah introduced the Video Games
Ratings Enforcement Act which would require retailers to check IDs and
not selling ‘Mature’ or ‘Adults Only’-rated games to anyone under
18-years-old. |
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By Christian Zibreg, Wolfgang Gruener
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We are still scratching our heads over Apple's $278 million acquisition
of chip developer P.A. Semi. Following a rather strange wave of
opinions that Apple wants to develop its own iPhone processor, there is
now the first real piece to a puzzle that, perhaps, one day will reveal
what advantage Apple sees in P. A. Semi. |
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Microsoft has started a new initiative that it hopes will make mobile phones more affordable for people in developing countries, in a move similar to the highly publicized "One Laptop Per Child" program. The company already has a shell of a project called Fone+, which has been moving at a snail's pace since it was first unveiled a few years ago. However, with the technologies for under-priveleged countries coming back to the spotlight, it decided to move Fone+ forward with a vengeance.
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By Theo Valich
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The vision of upgradeable graphic cards goes back to the late 1990s,
when Micron Technology was experimenting with removable sockets. In
2006, both MSI and Gigabyte showcased upgradeable graphic cards, but
their concepts, which were based on GeForce Go MXM boards, never took
off. Earlier this year, Asus introduced a single board with three MXM
slots for ATI Mobility Radeon 3850 or 3870 cards (upgradeable with
future parts), and has now unveiled its single-MXM product.
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The National Association of Broadcasters, which has voice numerous concerns about people not being informed of next year's digital TV switch, is now calling on George W. Bush to help inform citizens. The organization's CEO David Rehr has sent a letter to the White House, highlighting the fact that the digital TV switch is less than 300 days away.
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By Humphrey Cheung
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Comcast wants to put the brake on its top downloaders and is mulling
a monthly transfer cap and overage charges. According to Broadband
Reports, the cable Internet company plans on imposing a 250 GB soft cap
on transfers and would charge $15 for every 10 GB excess. Customers
would get a free pass on one month’s overage in a 12-month period.
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By Theo Valich
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The MPAA just scored a major anti-piracy victory against TorrentSpy,
which once was one of the major BitTorrent indexing Website. The
umbrella organization for movie industry won record damages in the
amount of $110 million.
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By Wolfgang Gruener
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced that it
has taken delivery of its “Bluefire” supercomputer, a new system that
is powered by 4.7 GHz IBM Power6 processors to provide new insights in
weather forecasting and climate change research.
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