Archive for February 12, 2007

Nintendo VP on corp. differences: Nobody got shot for Wii

errin Kaplan, discussed the different approaches used by Sony and Nintendo during their coincidentally timed launches. Kaplan says, “Well, we didn’t have anyone in line that got shot waiting for our system. So there’s one sign of the different approaches between our two companies…”

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NES Cartridge Selling for $1200

Nintendo World Championship 1990 game cartridge up on eBay.

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FBI Shuts Down Site That Provided A Loop Hole For US Poker Players

It seems that the government is cracking down on sites that help US players to bypass the current online poker ban. It’s a pity they haven’t taken down the Google cache of the page ;-).

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Apple Announce Awesome New Retail Store in Melbourne, Australia

This huge new Apple Store will be part of a $200 million redevelopment in Melbourne, Australia. It features a glass atrium ceiling, and will be adjacent to a hotel and shopping complex connected by a clear, circular-panel walkway.

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The Laptop That Saved a Soldier

We have heard of U.S. soldiers taking a bullet for a fellow soldier, but now a new friend took a bullet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq.

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The Laptop That Saved a Soldier

We have heard of U.S. soldiers taking a bullet for a fellow soldier, but now a new friend took a bullet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq.

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More details on Firefox 3 planned features

During this and last week Mozilla developers and drivers had a run of meetings to discuss Product Requirement Document (PRD, a list of what Firefox 3 should include) released some weeks ago.

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Vista Successor “Vienna” Planned For Late 2009

Now that Microsoft has freed Windows Vista from the shackles of a five year development process, the company is attempting to the wow starts now us by revealing that it plans to have its next major operating system ready within the next two-and-a-half years.

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VMWare Video Hints At Full DirectX Virtualization In OS X

Mac users, listen up: a video has appeared on YouTube that shows an internal beta version of VMWare running Windows games at full speed from within Mac OS X. Accompanying this intriguing video is a blog post from Regis Duchesne, a developer at VMWare.

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ShareTV.org: TV-torrents Made Easy

The goal of shareTV is to make finding the latest, and best seeded TV-episodes as easy as possible, even for people who are new to BitTorrent.

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The Xbox 360 Cake- Best Birthday Cake Ever!

“Not only did his fiance’ get him a 360, a copy of Gears of War and a “backup” controller for his birthday, she also went the extra mile and made this themed cake to go along with. While it may not be the most technically perfect cake we’ve seen, it certainly gets points for best original use of candy”

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iPod Background Finally Possible

Over at iPodwizard we have discovered how to add a background to your iPod using the Apple Firmware.

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