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Nintendo DS Gets First-Person Shooter Game
The Nintendo DS isn't a platform I normally associate with graphics-intensive gaming. But Graffiti Entertainment showed its C.O.R.E game at the E for All Expo in Los Angeles this weekend, and it looked impressive given the platform it was...
Adobe Makes You the Housekeeper
People often say that Adobe's Photoshop image editor is way too cluttered--that it has so many tools strewn about, buried in menus or hidden in palettes, that you can't find what you're looking for. Well, with its soon-to-be-introduced Configurator tool,...
Rate Hike for Digital Music Averted: iTunes Stays Open
Monday Apple all but threatened to close up iTunes pending a decision by the Copyright Royalty Board as to whether to raise digital music distribution royalty fees or not. And while it may have been an empty threat, we...
Windows XP Death Date May Be Extended - Again!
For all the money Microsoft has spent pimping out Windows Vista, they certainly can't seem to let XP go. The Register reports that Microsoft has yet again extended the deadline for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to produce machines equipped with...
Hollywood Director Asks Fans to Fake Out File Swappers
The world of BitTorrent mixed with Hollywood this week, and it turns out that's never a good combo. Saw director Darren Bousman may have tried to encourage his fans to upload fake soundtracks of his new movie to BitTorrent...
Why Nokia's 'Tube' Is the iPhone's Biggest Threat
The iPhone is still king of the smartphone, but Apple's future dominance is in serious question with a flurry of new competitors. Nokia is the latest to threaten the iPhone's dominance with its just released touchsceen phone the 5800...
Obama and iPhone: How Technology is Changing the Campaign
Barack Obama is bringing a new high-tech twist to the presidential race. The Democratic team has unveiled an iPhone app that lets voters stay connected to the campaign and locate contacts in key battleground states. iPhone Features Political preferences...
Google's Chrome Losing Ground
One month after a much-hyped jump into the business of browsers, Google's Chrome hasn't quite set the world on fire. Chrome's market share has already begun to decline from the 1 percent it sponged during week one down to its...
Google's Redesigned Blog Search
Google has relaunched Google Blog Search with its own memetracker. A memetracker takes all the latest blog posts about popular news and issues and aggregates them to make browsing the latest topics much easier. Google's new page lists a variety...
How Will Apple's NDA Removal Impact iPhone Owners?
Apple has lifted strict rules governing its iPhone NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) policy yesterday relenting on its traditionally tight code of silence surrounding product development. IPhone developers rejoiced at the lifted restriction seeing Apple's NDA requirement as silly -...
Wells Fargo Launches a Virtual Vault
With its 20-ton manganese door and armored nickel-steel walls, the vault in the basement of the Wells Fargo building in San Francisco's financial district was designed to withstand earthquakes and would-be thieves. But while it's probably still a good place...
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