For the last several months, we’ve been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on. We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher.
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Firefox 3 has only recently shipped but the first public milestone for its successor is fast approaching. The Mozilla team is expecting that the code freeeze for alpha 1 of Firefox 3.1, code named Shiretoko, will be next Monday and that alpha 1 be available for early adopter testing on July 25.
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When does “making available” mean “not making anything available whatsoever?” When you have set your P2P client’s settings to not upload a single byte (you dirty leecher, you) but you’re targeted anyway by a company that claims it has proof that you made its files available. Such a thing has happened in Germany.
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256 players in squads of eight, fighting across an online battlefield. Coming sometime after 2008.
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One of the new features of iDisk, an easy file sharing method for files outside the Public folder, got delayed at the last minute before MobileMe went live.
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Unveiling the new Home, Sony revealed that video rentals and purchases are finally coming to the PS3. Video will be fully integrated into the PlayStation Store and you can transfer them to your PSP via USB, and have them on multiple devices at once. Tonight!
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Finally, some good economic news: Chip giant Intel says demand for technology products remains solid. Intel, (INTC) the No. 1 semiconductor maker, kicked off the tech earnings season Tuesday with record second-quarter revenue. Revenue of $9.5 billion rose 9% from $8.7 billion a year ago.
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Maybe it’s because he knew I’d be returning from a stressful vacation and wanted to ease me back into work with a simpleton assignment—maybe not. Either way, my editor asked if, upon my return, I could weigh in on whether the iPod touch 2.0 update was worth the $10 Apple asks for it.
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Macs garnered an 8.5 percent share of the U.S. PC market during the second quarter of the year, pushing Apple past Acer in the national rankings and into third place overall, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market research firm Gartner.
It’s easy to just forget this year’s Nintendo conference, pretend it never happened, or ignore it entirely. That won’t change the fact that by and large, it was a miserable trainwreck of failure and easily the company’s worst in history. What went wrong? Oh, about a thousand things, really, but nobody has time to relive it. So here’s the run down.
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The FCC’s proposal to punish America’s largest cable company for blocking internet traffic is a major victory for net neutrality.
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Don Mattrick explains why Microsoft blocked the planned announcement of a new Bungie Halo game.
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