Inside the World of Blizzard
Its recent merger with Activision created the biggest player in video games. But Blizzard is much more than its mega-hit World of Warcraft
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Archive for August 23, 2008
Register To Vote On Your Xbox 360?!
A leading gaming and entertainment platform just became a leading platform for change. Microsoft Corp. and Rock the Vote today announced a groundbreaking partnership that will allow Xbox 360 owners to register to vote, participate in presidential polls and voice their opinions to the presidential candidates. It will
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Microsoft granted patent for…Page Up, Page Down
If patenting the obvious is considered something of an art form in the world of IT, then Microsoft is undoubtedly an old master. The Page Up Page Down patent it has been granted would seem to confirm this…
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Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost
Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update of the open-source web browser.
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Death Of Print: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web
Each tale ends the same way: A promising start, shuttered amid fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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China Blocks iTunes After Tibet Album Goes on Sale
Customers in China of Apple Inc.’s iTunes online music store were unable to download songs this week, and an activist group said Beijing was trying to block access to a new Tibet-themed album.
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