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In an interesting interview last week with the San Jose Mercury News, EA’s CEO, John Riccitiello said although his company is doing quite well in the video game space, it committed a major blunder earlier on in this generation and now it’s trying to play catch-up.
Regardless [...]

Geoff Iddison, CEO of parent company Jagex, tells me that one other benefit of the graphical jump is that players are now able to play the game in full screen. Previously, they had to view it in a window within their Web browser, which he says killed some of the immersion. Users who are feeling [...]

The blog also includes a word of caution about baseband, the chip that controls the connection between the phone and the mobile-phone network:

Think of it like a cable modem or other peripheral that is attached to your home PC that needs occasional updates. When a software update is released and presented to you within iTunes, [...]

In its response to that question, Yahoo said, “Yahoo has a long history of providing clear notice to our users via our Privacy Policy and is always exploring additional avenues for enhanced notice.”

Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, called Yahoo’s description of the benefits of targeted ads “disingenuous and self-serving.”

The [...]

In fact, BusinessWeek reported that Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business unit (and the person who had been on-stage at E3 and committed to winning the generation), said that he doubted the Xbox could catch up to the Wii at this point.

“The fact that the Xbox 360 is now cheaper than [...]

“It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up,” the Associated Press article quoted Salinger as saying.
We all know already that climate change will affect everything from food prices to cute baby polar bears.
An Associated Press report details the findings from climate scientist Jim Salinger, who [...]

But regardless, her lack of association for 12 years with Demo, and Shipley’s post stating McAlister wasn’t speaking for Demo should have nipped this whole situation in the bud, long before Arrington got up in arms about it.

But on Sunday, after a blogger named Alexander Muse republished Calacanis’ e-mail on his own site, Muse got [...]

As you might expect, this is a pretty no-frills drive. It has…get ready…an LED indicator! And it’s driverless! Hey, for $16.99, don’t expect the thing to be spitting out Pez.
(Credit:
SuperMediaStore.com)
It wasn’t too long ago that a 4GB flash drive for under 20 bucks was worth crowing about, but now you can get an A-DATA 8GB [...]