Giant publisher Electronic Arts has great expectations for its upcoming innovative title Spore, comparing its long term potential with the ever-popular Sims series. The DS, PC and Mac title, set for release on Friday September 5th, comes from the man…
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The battle to keep QuebecTorrent open against a legal attack by the CRIA and 30 other media organizations, is over. The site has complied with a permanent injunction handed down by the Superior Court of Quebec. The recording industry has dropped its claim for $200,000 damages.
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In anticipation of all the revelations we’ll be seeing soon, we’ve compiled our own Xbox-centric predictions and have set them up on our very own bingo card. So play along with us and download the card!
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During their annual summit meeting in Japan, the G8 members agreed to get the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) ready for implementation by the end of the year. The agreement, pushed by multimillion dollar companies, will open the doors to a digital police state, much to the pleasure of the MPAA and RIAA.
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“People were actually queuing outside the Telstra shop, despite the fact that Telstra’s iPhone plans include as little as 5MB data. We’re not casting any judgment on these people, we’re just suggesting that they might have had special dispensation to arrive at work late next door (Telstra headquarters).”
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Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later. Also use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home - a free download from the App Store.
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Steve Jobs said that the Apple App Store will launch with “more than 500″ applications Thursday night for the iPhone and iPod touch. Of these, 25% will be free and 90% will cost $9.99 or less.
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Once again, digging through Apple’s XML files has revealed the url to the iPhone 2.0 Firmware that is presently available on Apple’s servers. The firmware image has a filename of:
iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
This build is slightly higher than the one of the latest iPhone beta.
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Third-party manufacturers speak out in big investigation: Hush-hush deal for exclusive chips and licensing fees of up to 10 percent per gadget is making basic products like iPhone video cable cost up to 10 times more! “If we didn’t have to pay Apple for the dock and auth chip, we could have made a much better speaker the same price,” says a source.
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Mininova has just launched their new bookmarking feature for registered users. One of the benefits of your mininova bookmarks page is that generates a personalized RSS feed which allows you to automatically add bookmarked torrents to your BitTorrent client.
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Yesterday Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!
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Our major national telco is offering 200mb of data with not even 30mins of calls included per month for $89.00 (~$85 USD/CAD), if you want 1gb, then be prepared to pay well over $100 on the same call plan! Oh, and excess data? only $2.00 per mb…
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