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Summer Guide 2011: Great Outdoors Rollerblading in Central Park appeals most to teenagers who now need another hangout since the ice rinks are all gone, as well as Brooklyn types who are increasingly replacing bicycles with blades on Bedford Avenue. Read more on New York Press Ubisoft Unveils Diverse E3 Lineup and Kicks Off...
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Service project will clean up Bridal Veil Falls The Living Planet Aquarium and Provo City are rolling up their sleeves Saturday to lead a team of volunteers as they clean up the surrounding areas of Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. “This is our first Utah County event,” said one of the Living Planet...
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Sony Profit Forecast Misses Estimates After Quake, Hacking Sony Corp. forecast lower profit than analysts estimated this fiscal year as the company seeks to recover from Japan’s record earthquake and copes with a string of hacker attacks. Read more on BusinessWeek Tattoo Artist Turns Home into Workspace Editor’s Note: Young people are coming up...
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Game Music Composers Unite For Japanese Relief Album Seventeen noted game music composers from around the world will contribute original tracks to a compilation album sold for the Japanese earthquake relief, including Nintendo legends Koji Kondo and Hip Tanaka. Composer Akira Yamaoka, best known for his work on the Silent Hill soundtracks, has teamed...
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Sony projects profit will fall billion Number of the day $ 2 billion That’s how much lower Sony ‘s operating profit will be this fiscal year because of Japan’s earthquake and the hacker attack that shut down the PlayStation online gaming site. Three months… Read more on San Francisco Chronicle Big Verizon Phone Launch...
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Bolt hopes bigger muscles lead to faster times The world’s fastest man Usain Bolt revealed Tuesday he has put on some muscle in an attempt to stay ahead of the chasing pack. Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News SouthPeak Interactive Corporation Reports Fiscal 2011 Third Quarter Financial Results SouthPeak Interactive Corporation , today...
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2K Sports benches NHL sim for 2011 Take-Two label confirms it will not come to market with a new pro hockey title on consoles, including the Wii, this year. Read more on GameSpot Cooking Mama 4 spicing up 3DS this fall New installment in Majesco’s minigame compilation franchise out later this year; Camping Mama:...
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PlayStation 3 in ChinaJoy 2006 Image by Klaith Zhang Joystick of PlayStation 3 IT Downtime Costs .5 Billion In Lost Revenue Still, 56% of enterprises in North America and 30% in Europe don’t have a good disaster recovery plan, says a CA Technologies survey of 200 companies. Read more on InformationWeek Sony to Resume...
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Greek Sony BMG Site Hacked, Details Posted Online In yet another attack on Sony property, a hacker has taken information from the Greek Sony BMG site and posted it online, including real names and email addresses of registered users. As reported by security site Sophos, the hacker, under the alias b4d_vipera, used an automated...
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Sony expects worst sales quarter in 11 years Electronics giant set to announce ¥73bn (£554m) operating loss for the period, Guardian analysis suggests Analysis by the Guardian suggests that the Japanese electronics giant Sony’s fourth quarter ending in March was one of its worst sales quarters in 11 years and that it will announce...
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Ballmer: Windows 8 Coming in 2012 Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has officially confirmed today, during a developer conference in Tokyo, that the next version of Windows will be called Windows 8 and will debut in 2012. More details on Windows 8 could emerge at the upcoming D: All Things Digital conference, where Steven Sinofsky,...
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Playstation pack 2 package 1 Image by South Carolina State Library This is how the Playstation Pack 2 will look when you receive it. Notice the Dance Dance Revolution pad is on top of the first piece of foam. This is how it should look when you receive it and when it is ready...
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Violin vs. football: Deciding or indulging a child’s endeavors Is it fair to make our children do things they might not love? How much of a childs time should be governed by choice? Read more on Deseret News Big in Japan May 9-15: Dragon Quest Monsters 2 Joker Professional Square Enix role-playing game spin-off...
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playstation 3 Image by jontintinjordan a silver and a black PlayStation 3, together with the DualShock 2 controller, and beefy guard Ask LH: What Is UPnP And How Do I Use It To Stream Media To My TV? Dear Lifehacker, I’m tired of transferring my movies and TV shows to my PlayStation 3′s hard...
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Yep, Looks Like Sony’s Been Hacked Again Sorry Sony wonks, heave a collective sigh, shoulders slumped, heads down, and brace for more bad news: Sony’s been hacked again. Read more on PC World via Yahoo! News New Exploit in PSN, Sony Takes Change-password Sites Offline Sony just restarted its Playstation Network, after the massive...
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Senior Sports and Arts Festival 2011 final results Bingo: Joe Feist , three bingos; Virginia Miller, two bingos. Read more on Billings Gazette Fitness trainer touts Xbox motion control The Kinect system attaches to an Xbox. It’s not a game changer for online fitness trainer Josh Neumann, but he believes a new motion control...
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Playstation 3 Image by justinbaeder The next-gen console from Sony, due out in June 2006. See specs here. Sony’s Stringer Defends PSN Response Parts of Sony’s PlayStation Network are finally back up and running after being down for almost a month, but that doesn’t mean the questions are over. Sony CEO Howard Stringer testily...
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Playstation Pack 1 package 2 Image by South Carolina State Library This is how the Playstation Pack 1 will look when the two Guitar Hero guitars and the top piece of foam is removed. Notice the actual Playstation sits in it’s own piece of foam, next to an extra piece of foam. This is...
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CGSociety Launch ‘NVArt 6 – Moving Innovation’ NVIDIA and the CGSociety have launched ‘Moving Innovation’, the sixth NVArt competition, which challenges digital artists to explore the future of portable technology. Read more on PRWeb via Yahoo! News Android leads market HUA HIN, Thailand – Smartphone sales surged 85% in the first quarter compared with...
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GameStop Breaks Out of the Box By Increasing Digital Revenues 53 Percent in the First Quarter It’s not just the game publishers and console-makers that are seeing a transition to digital — it’s also the retailers. GameStop, which has more than 6,000 physical locations, said today its digital revenues jumped 53 percent in the...
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