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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Square Enix already talks about Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XIII is not even out in the US yet, yet publisher Square Enix has already begun talking about what direction the game’s sequel’s sequel will take. The company has already apparently begun brainstorming about what kind of game Final Fantasy XV is going to be.

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Quake 3 frags Android OS at 25fps

A talented programmer known as thunderbird2k has successfully ported Quake 3 to the Android OS.

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Source:Quake 3 frags Android OS at 25fps

Italy could break the Internet

Italy could shoot itself in the foot and seriously harm freedom of speech and the Internet according to Google, which recently saw three top execs convicted in absentee for content hosted briefly on YouTube which had nothing to do them.

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Microsoft DCMA slapdown backfires

Redmond has reared its ugly head and roared, slamming government document tipster site Cryptome with a DMCA notice and getting the site taken down by its hosting provider, Network Solutions, all because it dared to post Microsoft’s boring and standard surveillance compliance policy.

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Source:Microsoft DCMA slapdown backfires

Never-ending iTunes sales tally hits 10 billion

That means that, on average, more than 46 songs have been purchased on iTunes every single second, since the store launched on April 28, 2003.

Apple had been keeping a tally of sales leading up to the big 10 billion mark on a special website, where it now has the number typed out in a large banner, as well as a list of the 20 all-time top-selling songs.

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Microsoft takes down massive botnet

Microsoft has been granted a license to kill by a federal judge, allowing it to take down the massive Waledac botnet.

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Tweeters twitter on… and on…

It hardly bears thinking about – there are now 50 million tweets a day, according to Twitter. That’s 600 per second.

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Apple allows bikini beach frolicking to resume

Apple has graciously returned a banned swimwear shopping application to the virtual shelves of its hallowed iPhone store.



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FTC ticks off dozens of firms over security breaches

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned almost 100 organisations that they’re making personal information about their customers available to all and sundry.

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Google doesn't make you dumb, say experts

It would be pretty evil to make your customers stupid. So Google must be relieved that the latest expert survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that, in this at least, it seems to be living up to its mission statement.

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Source:Google doesn't make you dumb, say experts