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Celebrities make 'Spore' creatures
News Among the well-known and maybe not quite so well-known among the group recruited by EA are Spider Man and X-Men co-creator Stan Lee; I Kissed a Girl pop star Katy Perry; Carlos Santana; baseball pitcher Curt Schilling; actor Elijah Wood; Digg...
Tags: celebrities, youtube, views, creatures
3 September 2008, 10:07
Safe sex ringtone sings 'Condom, condom!'
News Embarrassing for the man holding the phone? Ever heard a safe-sex promo sung in multipart harmony? Have a listen to the 'condom a cappella' ringtone. Just launched in India -- where approximately 2.5 million people are living with HIV -- it's part...
20 August 2008, 8:46
BBC lifts lid on iPlayer user habits
News The BBC also claims to have identified the typical user for iPlayer -- a 40-year-old man in full-time employment, with a partner but no children. The BBC has lifted the lid on its online on-demand TV service iPlayer to reveal how people are using...
Tags: linux, cent, research, bbc
7 August 2008, 9:37
Photos: Top 10 new species
News Tecticornia bibenda is called the 'Michelin Man' plant and is one of many new species noted during environmental impact studies for mining companies. Thousands of species were discovered or 'newly described' in the past year, according to the...
Tags: ray, international, university, pink
7 July 2008, 9:42
Ending an era with Bill Gates' best quotes
News I wish I wasn't [the richest man in the world]. Here's CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com's pick of the best: The early days… There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. Did he honestly believe that?
Tags: industry, speech, magazine, cnet news
27 June 2008, 9:00
Photos: Google's Android software on display
News More options on the home screen show a Pac-Man game and a YouTube application. Pac-Man in action. This is a view of the home screen, demonstrated by Steve Horowitz, Android's engineering director. Credit: Stephen Shankland/News.com
Tags: man, contact, engineering, maps
29 May 2008, 9:11
Cracking open the Atari 2600
News I never owned one of these consoles -- I was an Intellivision II man. Here, we look at the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. Introduced all the way back in October 1977, it is one of the more fondly remembered video game consoles.
Tags: credit, ports, output, channel
23 May 2008, 11:04
News.blog: Can Bill Gates kill the mouse and keyboard?
News For his part, Gates appears confident this is the future direction of man-machine relations. It wasn't exactly Minority Report, but Bill Gates' technology demonstration at Microsoft's CEO Summit on Wednesday may be remembered years from now as a...
15 May 2008, 9:29
Photos: Iron Man suits up in CGI
News Paramount's forthcoming film, Iron Man, which is scheduled to be released on Friday, uses a mixture of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and real costume design to craft the suit worn by Robert Downey Jr in the film.
Tags: film, car, man, character
2 May 2008, 9:23
UK crime spree at GTA IV midnight launch
News According to the BBC, a 23-year-old man was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant as he passed a queue outside the Gamestation. Midnight launches aren't always the gaming industry's proudest moments.
Tags: store, line, industry, man
1 May 2008, 9:54
Photos: Mayhem abounds in 'Grand Theft Auto IV'
News Gamers will play the character of illegal immigrant Niko Bellic as he tries to make ends meet as a car thief and hit man for the various warring crime syndicates. The population of Liberty City takes another dip as Rockstar Games releases its next...
30 April 2008, 9:33
'Grand Theft Auto IV' launches amid great expectation
News Not a bad tally, considering it had unseated summer box-office spectacle Spider-man 3's record-setting $151m domestic opening-weekend haul from earlier in the year. With Take-Two now reportedly measuring out global preorder demand at 6 million...
Tags: base, rate, copies, xbox
29 April 2008, 9:28
News.blog: P2P identity thief sentenced
News A Seattle man has been sentenced to four years in prison in a case that prosecutors said was the first federal case against someone using file-sharing software to steal identities. Gregory Kopiloff, 35, was sentenced to 51 months in prison on...
Tags: case, programs, identity, peer
18 March 2008, 9:28
News.blog: iPhone SDK downloads hit 100,000
News Intuit (TurboTax), Namco Networks (Pac-Man and Galaga), Despite some early problems managing the flood of developers seeking access to the iPhone software development kit, Apple reported 100,000 developers have downloaded the kit as of Sunday.
Tags: apple, developers, problems, event
13 March 2008, 9:06
Company trials films on flash
News To prove his point, he transferred Spider-Man from a portable hard drive to an iPod touch. Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: four years ago, he set out to his local DVD store to rent a movie. First, he stopped at the cashpoint to get some...
Tags: bandwidth, stores, hard drive, titles
4 March 2008, 9:07


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