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Kotaku:
Sony Blackballs Kotaku — Earlier today we posted a rumor story on the site about a possible announcement of a new technology coming to Sony's Playstation 3. — The Playstation Home, we reported, would be an intriguing blending of the Mii and achievements, allowing gamers to create …
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Rumor: Sony To Unveil PlayStation Home — We just received a very interesting tip that, while juicy and quite believable, we're labeling as rumor for now. As you are probably well aware, GDC executive director Jamil Moledina set Sony's Phil Harrison up for the spike yesterday …
Kotaku:
Sony and Kotaku Make-Up — Silent Hill Movie Sequel Confirmed? — Ain't It Cool News reporter Quint got a chance to speak with actress Laurie Holden—she played police officer Cybil Bennett in the original film—who revealed that producers were "going forward with a sequel" …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Should Sue Wired — Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart. I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. And because Wired isn't just reporting Digg news …
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Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
I Bought Votes on Digg — It was Tuesday, 1:22 a.m. on the West Coast, and influential news recommendation site Digg was hopping. A new story about a blog dedicated to showing photographs of crowds had just gotten enough diggs to make the "popular" list on the tech/design page, and several people were commenting on it.
Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
Wired is going too far against Digg — I agree with Mike at TechCrunch wholeheartedly over the fact that Wired is going way too far in their negativity towards Digg. — Wired is owned by Condé Nast, a company that also owns Digg's competitor Reddit.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Wizzard Media acquires Libsyn — An announcement was made by Wizzard Media that will impact thousands of podcasters like us MobileTechRoundupers. The company announced it has acquired Liberated Syndication, known to podcasters as Libsyn. The Wizzard announcement states their intent …
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Nicole / Inside Windows Live Messenger:
The i'm Initiative and new secret emoticon — The i'm Initiative is the most exciting piece of news I have had to share with Messenger users since I started working on Messenger over 3 years ago and there has been tons of exciting news over the last 3 years.
Windows portal:
Vista Brute Force Keygen — Thanks to Computer User to report this way and to Snooza to prepare the pack! This method is a brute force attempt at determining a usable key. — This has been reported to work!......look at the following user comments!!! — zapp2 wrote: This WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS
Rick Merritt / EE Times:
AMD tips quad-core performance — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known as Clovertown. — The news marked the first performance numbers AMD …
Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
Beginner Developer Learning Center launched — Today, we launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) - a centralized learning environment specifically targeted at beginning programmers. — Since we released the Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions, we have had over 10 million downloads of the same.
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts — Scott Sigler writes science-fiction horror novels, the kind one fan called "steel-tipped boot on your throat, speed-metal fiction." Mr. Sigler has written four such books, though not many people have actually read them.
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
On Buries and Blocking — Hi All - — Just wanted to post real quick about some stories I've seen in the blogosphere regarding an alleged 'bury brigade' on Digg and on the Digg site blocking process. — For the same reason that we don't expose all of our back-end methodologies …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
YouTube Videos Reveal Google Adsense Clicks Data — As you probably know, Google is testing a new Adsense Ad format that streams video directly from YouTube.com. The first such campaign is for GMail Theater Videos run by Google itself. — If Google is planning to roll-out such ads to a bigger audience …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Lenovo recalls 205,000 notebook batteries — Lenovo has issued a worldwide recall of 205,000 notebook batteries. Are you affected? — The recall comes after four customers complained that their batteries had overheated after being dropped, incidents that caused minor eye irritation …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January, says firm — Sales of Apple Inc.'s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Crest Securities.
The Age:
Australian state bans YouTube from schools to curb bullying — An Australian state has banned the online video website YouTube from government schools in a crackdown on cyber-bullying, a minister said Thursday. — Victoria, Australia's second most populous state, has banned …
