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FSTechBlog: It's that simple, with the power of the retweet if you ask a question of your Twitter followers and they pass it along to their followers, who pass it along to theirs - well, you can see that just about anything can be accomplished.
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FSBlog: Of course whenever you power up a cherished retro game that you haven't experienced in more than a decade you're taking a moderate risk. Some games withstand the test of time, while others clearly feel dated and uninspired. Of the above mentioned games the ones that seemed to stand out the most were the party games such as Mario Kart, Super Bomberman, and the games that still possess decent play control (compared to today's standards) such as Road Road and Knights of the Round.
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Reuters: It happened in EVE Online, where more than 300,000 subscribers pay $15 a month to play. They gain wealth through hard work, manipulating the market, or killing rivals in a distant future where humans have colonized the stars in an online game similar to World of Warcraft and Second Life.
EBank, EVE's largest player-run financial institution which has thousands of depositors, is at the center of the scandal.
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FastCompany: This is the first-ever hovering air vehicle to use flapping wings while carrying its own power source. The hope is that the hummingbird will be useful for indoor and outdoor surveillance, as well as dropping off listening devices and other super-spy cargo.
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SkyAndTelescope.com: Nine of the top ten light-polluting metropolitan areas are in North America. Sorting by white squares (rather than red and white combined), Tokyo just slides onto the list in the #10 spot. But Tokyo is by far the world's most populous metropolitan area, almost equal to New York and L.A. combined. No city in Europe even makes the top
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FastCompany: In this season of Transformers and G.I. Joe, and with Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Each week we'll supply the title for an upcoming–and completely fake–Hollywood movie. You supply the plot synopsis, then reveal the hidden text below to see what Rooftop Comedy came up with.
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GlobeAndMail: The plans to "spy-chip" your fridge belong to Procter & Gamble, which has a second patent pending to track consumers in-store. American telecommunications giant BellSouth has a patent pending on the garbage-picking. NCR is behind the shopping cart ads and also holds a patent on "automated monitoring of shoppers" at grocery stores. As for Viagra, like OxyContin, its manufacturers are already tagging bulk bottles at the pharmacy (packs of Diovan, an antihypertensive, are actually tagged individually).
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News Release: Firefox 3.5 has rapidly gained over 2% of the US browser market since its launch Tuesday according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. This brings Firefox’s usage of the US browser market to 31.8% according to StatCounter Global Stats.
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Ars Technica:Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday. The new version of the popular open source web browser has attracted considerable attention and is already seeing rapid adoption. It was downloaded over 5 million times during the first 24 hours. This falls short of the record-setting 8 million downloads that Firefox 3 had during its first day, but it still reflects the intense enthusiasm of the browser's fans.
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ZDNet: Almost half of all Apple iPhone users have already installed the free iPhone Software 3.0 update released last week — 6 million customers, according to Apple on Monday.
But iPod touch customers? Facing a $10 upgrade fee, the vast majority are saying, “No thanks.”
About 15 percent of the 40 million multitouch devices sold by Apple are running Apple iPhone Software 3.0. According to new statistics by AdMob — whose ad network is used by many iPhone developers who want to monetize their free apps — 44 percent of iPhone users were already running iPhone Software 3.0 by June 27.
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