Archive for April 9, 2008

Hands on With GTA Multiplayer: City of Chaos

Kotaku get a hands on with GTA IVs multiplayer mode.

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More GTA IV Multiplayer Screenshots

brb…going to freeze myself until april 29th

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Google’s US Search Market Dominance Hits All Time High

Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today finding that Google’s marketshare in US searches rose last month to an all time high of 67% of searches performed. Yahoo! Search (20%), MSN Search (5.25%) and Ask.com (4%) trail far behind.

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Xbox 360 Version Of Wii Remote In Development Since Summer |

Microsoft making the Wii Obsolete?

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iPhone Developer pink screen of death strikes

The iPhone/iPod touch lockdown files for 1.2/2.0 struck this morning stranding hundreds of developers without access to their development units. Until Apple issues a new firmware beta, devs are stranded

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New PS3 Ads Are Gorgeous and Scary At the Same Time [PICS]

It’s a shame that these Dali-inspired adverts, made by the Chilean advertising agency BBDO Chile, probably won’t be put into circulation outside of South America. But that’s also a good thing. We can’t help but feel that while these images (second one after the break) look absolutely stunning, there’s also something innately unsettling about them.

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New style MacBook and MacBook Pro’s coming soon.

Apple Inc.’s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks will be the last of their breed, as both product families are destined for major design changes upon their next refresh, AppleInsider has learned.

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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing

A group of researchers have found that Comcast has rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, in their area, which is interfering with a wide range of applications, including web browsers and email clients.

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What should the next iPhone have?

What will the next version of the iPhone have that the current one doesn’t? With a recent shortage of the phones in U.S. stores, and indications that a new model may be released within the next few months, it’s natural to pose the questions.

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Apple says AirPort Disk use with Time Machine is unsupported

Okay, the Time Machine / AirPort Extreme situation is now officially ridiculous. TidBITS’s Glenn Fleishmann is reporting that Apple’s confirmed to him that the Extreme is unsupported for use with Time Machine, even though the latest batch of updates enable AirPort Disks to show up in the Time Machine disk-selection box.

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Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 faster on Mac OS X than Safari 3.1

Previous benchmark tests that I’d carried out on my Mac mini had shown that Safari 3.1 was the fastest browser for the Mac OS X. Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 changes that.

Using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test my testing shows that Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 holds a 7% lead over Safari 3.1.

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The great Google News conspiracy?

“A reader has got in touch to point out the strangeness of today’s UK Google News seems weirdly devoid of any mention of the Olympic torch protests that took place yesterday.” - is the big G censoring Olympic stories to please China?

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