Loading ...Lunar festival proves too much for one gamer
More gaming social implications today, after the China Daily reveals the sad death of a Chinese man who spent almost all of the recent seven-day lunar festival gaming, and died at the end of his prolonged session. Reports suggest the unnamed 26 year-old weighed 150kg, and collapsed dead [...]
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Sony’s new Cyber-Shot cameras are expected to hit store shelves in March, April, and May.
Sony introduced new Cyber-Shot digital point-and-shoot cameras on Tuesday. The new cameras are expected to hit store shelves in March, April and May for prices between US$300 to $500 depending on features. Look for them soon at Sony’s Web site .
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Maxis’ groundbreaking simulation series adding US DSs to its platform population; mayors can cut the ribbon this summer.
Before Will Wright concocted the PC juggernaut The Sims, his previous masterpiece was the metropolis-building SimCity. The franchise has evolved onto several systems since its debut on the PC in 1989 and was recently announced for release in [...]
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Some widely used applications haven’t been certified for use with Windows Vista, they may, nonetheless, work.
Although some widely used applications from top software vendors haven’t been certified for use with Windows Vista, they may nonetheless work with Microsoft Windows Vista.
Major applications from Symantec, Adobe Systems, Apple, and IBM aren’t included on an official Microsoft list [...]
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Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, and Elisa announced today that they will carry out a pilot of Nokia’s new N-Gage mobile gaming service. The pilot will start in February 2007 and run until mid 2007.
“The core of the Nokia games strategy is to make it easy for people to find, buy and play [...]
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Apple conceded Monday it will be forced to delay the release of its Apple TV wireless media hub until the middle of next month.
“Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin shipments mid-March,” Apple spokeswoman Lynn Fox told Reuters in an email.
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PC maker Dell has announced that it has commenced a program that will result in the sale and distribution of a range of computers with pre-installed Linux distributions instead of Microsoft Windows. Dell has indicated that Novell’s Suse Linux will be first cab off the rank.
According to Dell, the company’s decision to move forward has [...]
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BitTorrent.com the website previously know as the place to download pirated software and movies has gone legit.
BitTorrent.com still offers free movies, videos and software however, you are no longer allowed to download copyrighted material for free. The site has gone legit and now requires you to rent copyrighted feature films such as “Crank” for a [...]
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Since the release of Google Apps, there has been much speculation as to whether Google will become a threat to Microsoft’s office software monopoly.
There are reportedly several major corporations which are adopting Google Apps within their organization. Does this mean that these companies will eliminate Microsoft Office software from their networks entirely? No way. At [...]
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