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StarCraft 2 gets its first patch, moves to version 1.01

Starcraft 2’s patch 1.01 was just released, so next time you start up the game you’ll be receiving an update. This minor patch, made live less than a week after the game was made available to the public, does not appear to fix the menu overheating issue, rather it addresses two minor problems with the [...]
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Private airplane suite includes bed, armchair and gadgets

Talk about travelling in style. Singapore Airlines is known for its luxurious first class travel which includes 35-inch wide, upholstered leather-trimmed seats that recline into a fully flat-bed. Now the airline is kicking up first class travel another notch. The airline now plans to offer suites aboard its A380 aircraft. The suite features a full length [...]
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Twitter introduces Suggestions For You

No one can deny that Twitter is huge, over a hundred million users means there’s going to be someone for everyone to follow and chat with. The problem is, because Twitter is so big it’s hard to identify all the people you may want to follow. The Twitter team has realized this and have come up [...]
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Seagate GoFlex TV video hands-on

Geek.com’s review of the GoFlex TV–Seagate’s HD media player that turns your boring flat panel into a smart, internet-connected TV–went live earlier this month, but in case you were looking for some video of the GoFlex, here it is. The video was believed to have been lost to the sands of time, but rather it [...]
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8 future Gmail features/changes revealed with a single image

An image uploaded to the Chromium OS bug tracker shows a pre-release version of Gmail sporting a number of new features and changes to the layout. In total, we’ve spotted 8 differences compared to the Gmail we all use today. Here’s the list of differences we can see in the image (there may be more): Three new [...]
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Steve Ballmer envies iPad, says tablets are

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a room full of Wall Street analysts that Apple has done a swell job with iPad and stressed his company is hard at work to make Windows 7 tablet computing a reality. According to a transcript by CNET, Microsoft sees that tablets are maturing beyond the niche market. Praising Apple’s [...]
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Defcon hackers release Android rootkit, total control of smartphone possible

The annual Defcon conference usually brings with it a handful of suprises and cool hacks/devices. We’ve already seen the best conference badge design, but now we’re seeing a rather worrying release for anyone owning an Android smartphone. In a bid to highlight a security flaw in the Android OS, two attendees have released a rootkit that [...]
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iPad owners 'are rich and self-centred'

iPad owners are rich, self-centred and unkind, a survey has suggested.
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Irish online display advertising performs strongly

Irish online display advertising bucked the general advertising malaise and performed strongly during 2009, as reported by the first IAB Ireland (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) online adspend study.
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Online video shows Bold 9780 with BlackBerry 6 OS

A website dedicated to BlackBerry users, driphter.com, has posted a hands-on review of the BlackBerry Bold 9780. While a video review of a new BlackBerry model is always interesting, the one offered by driphter.com has received considerable interest since it also shows the BlackBerry running the new BlackBerry 6 operating system. Hardware wise it seems [...]
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Why StarCraft 2 has no LAN play (video)

Back in June 2009 we learned that StarCraft 2 would not have LAN play. If you want multiplayer you can do it through Battle.net, end of story. For most people that’s fine, for some (still a large number given the number of units SC2 will sell) it’s not enough. You can probably guess which camp the [...]
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Richard Garriott wins NCSoft lawsuit and $28 million

MMO Tabula Rasa promised so much, but ended up being a failure that was shutdown pretty swiftly. With Richard Garriott at the helm, and NCSoft handling running the game, it looked like a perfect match. The fallout from that relationship has been quite costly, though. When Garriott left NCSoft we all thought it was voluntary. A [...]
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Taito

Shmups in arcades remain popular if you happen to still have a local arcade, or live in Japan. Depending on the age of the game they either use an old 4:3 screen or a new widescreen LCD display with the gameplay setup to suit either format. But with Taito’s latest Darius shmup the arcade cabinet [...]
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HTC EVO 4G to get Android 2.2 update next week

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Happy sysadmin appreciation day!

The last Friday in July is a very special day, and one of the most under-celebrated days of the years: Sysadmin day! Yes, today marks the 11th annual celebration of systems administrators everywhere. It’s a day when you should stop and appreciate the people that keep those servers running and those backups fresh, not shake [...]
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Stealth launches paperback novel-size mini PC

Stealth.com has this month introduced its smallest, and what must be one of the tiniest PCs you can currently buy. It’s called the LPC-100 and measures just 102 x 155 x 37mm. Here’s the spec breakdown: Up to Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 @ 2.5GHz Up to 4GB RAM in 2 SO-DIMM slots Onboard Intel 4500MHD graphics chip (128MB [...]
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Facebook IPO may not happen until 2012

Bloomberg is reporting that Facebook
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Tactics Ogre screenshots and trailer appear

Last week we learned that Square Enix was in the midst of updating the SNES game Tactics Ogre for a re-release on the PSP. Now screenshots and a first trailer have appeared. The trailer is a bit of a let down due to the fact it contains no gameplay footage whatsoever: The screenshots on the other hand, [...]
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Verizon Wireless launches Samsung Intensity II

Verizon Wireless announced this week that it has launched the sequel to the Samsung Intensity, a handset simply known as the Samsung Intensity II. Some highlights of the phone include a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 1.2 megapixel infrared camera with night vision, a music player and one-touch access to social networking sites. The social [...]
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Sprint sees subscriber growth and improved customer services

Things are looking up for Sprint Nextel. In the face of crushing competition from Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the wireless company has had one of its best quarters in more than five years for year-over-year quarterly growth for postpaid gross subscriber additions. The company netted 111,000 subscribers in the quarter led by the introduction of [...]
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New iMacs expected to boost all-in-one PC sales

Apple’s iMac has stood as a prime example of all-in-one desktop design since its inception. When the current iMac design, which hides the entire computer behind the display, debuted rivals ridiculed Apple. Today, all major PC vendors keep all-in-ones in their lineup, but that hasn’t diminished the iMac’s popularity. Quite to the contrary, Apple may be [...]
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StarCraft 2 BSoD

Just because you are defending a planet from the Zerg onslaught doesn’t mean your computers are going to be perfectly stable. Yes, Blizzard went there–they built a BSoD into StarCraft 2’s Xel’Naga Temple, which isn’t exactly the best sign for the future… especially considering that the error happened to Xel’Naga (an ancient and highly advanced [...]
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Google Earth gets real time weather

Google Earth can now display real-time weather – including rainstorms and blizzards – for some regions around the world. Version 5.2 of the popular global mapping product delivers the real-time effects, allowing users to keep tabs on the progress of tropical storms or check out the current weather at their favourite weekend getaway before they embark [...]
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Bungie releases new Halo: Reach campaign trailer

It's just two months until Bungie's highly anticipated Halo: Reach hits store shelves. To get Halo fans even more hyped than they already are, Bungie has released a new trailer titled "The Battle Begins" that details the game's campaign.
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Windows 7 shows double digit power savings compared to XP

If your company is looking for ROI around a Windows 7 deployment the guys over at Ars Technica may have just given you a significant one. The website reports that Mindteck has performed a comparison between Windows XP and Windows 7 when it comes to power consumption. Their findings show that Windows 7’s projected annual [...]
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Apple: Revolutionary Mac OS X 10.7 feature to

There has been a lot of talk lately about Apple neglecting its core business – Macs and Mac OS X – supposedly because the company is too busy selling mobile devices powered by iOS, namely iPhone 4 and iPad. But rest assured, the Mac isn’t going anywhere. It’s still the #1 revenue generator and now [...]
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Redbox to offer Blu-ray rentals for $1.50

If you thought that Redbox’s $1 per night DVD rentals were a good deal, get ready for another one. Those Redbox kiosks are about to start offering Blu-ray discs too, and for just $1.50 per night. It may be 50% more than a DVD rental, but when you’re only talking an extra 50 cents there’s not [...]
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3DS price and release date announcement on September 29

The Nintendo 3DS handheld has been on our radar ever since details were announced back in March. Then we heard it would be released in the Spring of next year. We’ve even seen the first game footage for the handheld, but no firm price or release date. That is all set to change on September 29 [...]
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Virtual game teaches middle schoolers to resist sexual peer pressure

Using more than $430,000 of federal tax dollars, University of Central Florida is creating a virtual game using live motion-capturing and life-size avatars to teach middle school-aged girls how to resist sexual advances.
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Google Me to compete with Facebook on social gaming front

Not content with being an also-ran, Google is plotting a full-scale assault on Facebook with a rumored social networking service to be focused on popular online games. The news came amid Disney’s acquisition of Playdom for a cool $763 million. The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is in talks with major game makers about porting [...]
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Project: MyWorld

Realtime Worlds, the developer who most recently released the MMO All Points Bulletin, has been working on another very different game for several years as a background project. It’s called Project: MyWorld and is described as Realtime’s best guess as to what Nintendo would have created if it built Google Earth. MyWorld is a representation of [...]
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YouTube videos can now be 15 minutes long

Google has just announced an increase in the length of videos you can upload to YouTube. It was 10 minutes, now it’s 50% longer at 15 minutes. Google is reacting to its number one requested feature for YouTube, which of course is the ability to upload longer videos. To encourage longer videos using the full 15 minutes [...]
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Microsoft reveals new Office for Mac 2011 features

Six months after the official announcement and a couple of leaked interface shots later, Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit took the wraps off some of the new features in Office for Mac 2011, the first major Office revision in three years. The first in a series of behind-the-scenes looks at Office for Mac 2011 offers a quick overview [...]
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Quick look: Metroid: The Other M

Allow us to introduce you to the newest member of the Metroid family, the spiritual successor (and the actual successor) to Super Metroid. First few minutes of the game: First boss battle: Quick take: Based on about 15 minutes of play, it’s a lot of fun. Coming from someone who is a big fan of Metroid and Super Metroid but [...]
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Android wallpaper app beams users

A data theft app for Android smartphones disguised as an innocent wallpaper program sucks your address book, text messages, login credentials, and other personal information into the cloud in China. Apparently this malicious software has been downloaded millions of times, suggesting that personal information for a lot of Android users might have been potentially compromised. According [...]
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StarCraft II menu screens are overheating PCs

This week many (most?) PC gamers have sat down with a shiny new copy of StarCraft II to play. They’ve got a decent set of hardware, graphics settings as high as possible, and a solid Net connection for multiplayer gaming. One problem, while navigating through the menu screens getting ready to play, your machine overheats. Don’t [...]
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PlayStation 3, Vaio, and Bravia fuel Sony

The sun is finally shining on Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony, which reported its third positive quarter in a row thanks to the strong PlayStation 3, Vaio, and Bravia sales. Sony on Wednesday reported earnings for its fiscal 2010 first quarter ended June 30, 2010, and the results exceeded expectations and the company’s own forecast. Sales [...]
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Russian geek puts your CPU collection to shame

The picture above says pretty much everything about this chip geek’s “humble” CPU collection. It includes over a thousand processors, featuring a number of Soviet-era ones which were the way to go before Intel took over (at least in Russia). A list is available in case you are curious about the specifics. The jaw-dropping collections includes [...]
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Copia e-reader undercuts the new Kindle by $40

Considering a new, WiFi-only Kindle because of the price drop? Can’t blame you–at $139 it looks like a great deal compared to the $189 price tag introduced earlier this month. If you were buying on price alone though, you might want to check out the Copia e-reader, which we’ve just learned will sell for $99 [...]
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Android tablet from LG coming this Christmas

LG Electronics is joining the tablet party and it’s bringing along its buddy Google. Despite the fact that LG Electronics previously announced plans to debut its Android-powered device by the end of the year, the company didn’t commit to an exact launch date. It appears the tablet project is shaping up well because the company said [...]
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