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This week has been filled with games that are worth your time and money. Classically trained gamers will enjoy the newly multiplayer-enhanced New Super Mario Bros. Wii, while Left 4 Dead 2 is a great entry into the co-operative gaming space, and the God of War Collection is a ...
Gaming
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Square Enix
Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In a comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes.
The wiki crops up in many companies' internal discussions about ...
Software
Ubuntu
What would a week in Apple be if it didn't involve some developer drama, Google, and Psystar? That's all included in this week's top Apple news, as well as a few major software tidbits and rumors about Apple building more first-party iPhone games. Read on:
Respected ...
iPhone
Apple
Psystar
iPhone
App Store
Mac OS X
Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:
Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down : Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
Windows Mobile
Office 2010
MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host ...
Online
MPAA
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and ...
Other
Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That's exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission's Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested ...
Other
The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the patent infringement claim and Microsoft's claims against Mullor, Ancora's founder and former Microsoft employee. All claims between the three parties have been resolved; they ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
College isn't cheap these days, even if you're attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has just announced that it's offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college ...
Hardware
Mac
Microsoft
Office 2008
Apple
PowerPoint
Almost two-thirds of adults have broadband connections at home, but that's a long way from the ultimate goal: universal adoption of high speed Internet throughout the United States. Depending on which study you believe, we're everything from number 11 to 24 in international broadband ...
Other
This week, Google released an update to Google Chrome Frame . Version 4.0.245.1 is available and all users should be updated automatically, according to Google Chrome Releases . The release fixes issues where the plugin would not follow redirects properly, where network requests would ...
Online
Microsoft
Chrome
After Internet Explorer 9 was officially announced this week and a few tidbits on the release were shared by Microsoft, we had the opportunity to talk to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, to prod him for a little more information.
The overriding theme for ...
Online
Microsoft
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Unless you were hiding under a rock for most of the day yesterday, you're aware by now that Google held a press event at which the search giant pulled back the curtain on ChromeOS, the OS that's really a browser (and is based on the browser that's really an OS). The ...
Online
Chrome
The Younger Dryas period was an era of extinctions and ecosystem change that occurred just prior to the end of the last ice age. It's also a hot area of research right now, with some researchers suggesting that a comet or meteor struck the earth over North America, killing off megafauna ...
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When it comes to role-playing games, there isn't a bigger name than Square-Enix. PopCap Games enjoys a similar reputation, albeit in the casual games market. When the company behind the Final Fantasy series and the developer responsible for titles like Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies ...
Gaming
Square Enix
PopCap
Yesterday at 11:30am, the Queen made her way to Parliament in a coach, entered the robing room to receive her crown, then followed someone known as the "Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod" to the door of the House of Commons. The Gentlemen Usher banged thrice ...
Online
Camino—the Gecko-based browser with native Cocoa interface and more seamless Mac OS X integration—has finally landed an official 2.0 release. The browser uses a much newer version of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (the same one used in Firefox) along with updated tabs and ...
Online
Mozilla
Firefox
Apple
Mac OS X
The smart grid is rapidly becoming a reality in the US, as utilities have been installing networked monitoring and control equipment, both in their own facilities and in their customers' homes. The pace of these installations should accelerate due to recent ...
Other
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BlueBeat.com's attempt to sell remastered Beatles tracks online for
a quarter each. It's so odd that the federal judge overseeing a music industry lawsuit against the site ...
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BlueBeat Beatles tracks gone for good after judge's beatdown
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It has been 100 years since the Geiger-Marsden experiment
upended
humanity's longstanding view of the atom as a nice, relatively
homogeneous
particle. When the alpha particles shot at gold foil targets bounced off at odd angles, it shocked everyone
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