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Wouldn't it be great if you could play your favorite NES, Commodore 64, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, TurboGrafx 16 and other classic console and arcade games for a few dollars—on a single system? Savvy gamers already are with Wii's Virtual Console, the online store for retro gaming downloads.
With upward of 300 old-school hits, there's a lot to choose from. But if you total all games for the nine included platforms, you'll quickly realize there's also a lot unaccounted for. So we’ve rounded up the missing favorites we’d like to see on the service: the top 5 most wanted Virtual Console games.
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Hey Twitter, the widow of the president of Nigeria asked me to tell you that she’s got 12 Million dollars for you if you stop screwing with fake celebrities on your service!
If the meteoric rise, banishment and quiet return of Twitter’s best and most popular fake Christopher Walken (@ClusterWalken nee @cwalken) taught us anything it’s this: “Gullible” isn’t in the dictionary.
Who, these days, thinks that only celebrities are speedy enough to register their user names on the Internet's hottest new sites? If you’re among them, would you please quit using the Web? Maybe then companies like Twitter won't have an excuse to ban the hilarious fake celebs merrily tweeting away, and generally improving the Twitter-sphere-o-highway-net.
Do you (or Twitter) really believe that Edgar Allan Poe is rap-tap-tapping away on his iPhone from his rotting coffin in Baltimore? Is @TheWaltWhitman actually, “a legendary [BLEEP]ing poet ” who’s, “come back from the grave to expound upon your magnificent asses”? And for the love of @god, who do you think is tweeting behind … well you get the picture?
Fakers can, after all, only steal an identity if the gaping audience at large is dull enough to believe that @cwalken, the guy who’s dropping absurd Zen koans like, “It's partially my fault that the cat answers to ‘Martin.’ I believe his name is actually ‘Pookie’ but I won't call a cat that,” really is Christopher Walken.
And it’s not just ‘Net newbies so ready, willing and able to swallow a fake load of hooey. Take the exploits of clever Twitter troll Matt Cherette. He recently raked the exposed nerves of sensitive Twitter fanboys and inadvertently punked E!’s alleged comedienne Chelsea Handler by posing as celebrity mom Dina Lohan on an extended rant regarding the unfairness of Twitter’s 140 character limit.
Hopefully, the new bio for the recently re-emerged fake Christopher Walken will ensure that Twitter’s most gifted user – real or poseur — won’t get booted again. (@ClusterWalken: “This is a parody. You'd have to work for Twitter not to see that.”) Still, most of the best fake celebrities haven’t been forced (yet?) into posting full declaration bios.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) decided to delay the launch of its GOCE satellite on Monday because of a technical glitch at its Russian Launch site. ESA's spokesman told Reuters, "The doors of the launch service tower did not open," Engineers hope to fix the problem so the launch can be attempted again today (Tuesday) within the small window that will put the device in its correct orbit.
GOCE is ESA's most advanced Earth observation satellite to date and will will give scientists new insights into how the interior of the planet is structured and how the oceans move. This will be particularly useful when researching climate change as GOCE can give extremely accurate measurements of ocean circulation and sea level change crucial to understanding hope our planet is changing.
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A British company has launched a new games download service that "does for games what iTunes does for music," Awomo lets users start playing games before the software has finished downloading, slashing the waiting time between clicking a download link to actual game play.
At the moment downloading games lags a long way behind downloading music because of the prohibitive file sizes involved but new technologies such as fiber optic cabling should help to change this.
Awomo boss Roger Walkden explains, "What Awomo does is take the core files used to play the game, which is enough to get you up and running, and then download the rest of the content in the background,"
So a of a game that weighs in at 7.2GB, users will only need to download 652MB before they can start playing. Not all games can work like this and developers admit that5 it will take a while to work out if a game is suitable for the service. However Walkden claims We're on the cusp of a digitally downloaded gaming future."A British company has launched a new games download service that "does for games... more
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It seems that watching TV with your eyes closed wont be that far off.
Scientists have developed a contact lens that will allow you to watch TV,just like you would with normal contacts.
The only side affects is that the lens would be slightly tinted.
The only pain you would get if from shelling out just over €400 for these things.
Check out the link for more infoIt seems that watching TV with your eyes closed wont be that far off.
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The day of the Jeep is over
The U.S. army is rolling out 4,000 small electric cars and trucks on 40 small military installations in the United States.
The army is leasing the environmentally-friendly vehicles, replacing those that are powered by gasoline.
The military says there are plans to replace thousands more non-combat vehicles in the future.
“It will be offset multiple times by the reduction and consumption of 11.5 million gallons of gasoline over the six-year life of these vehicles,” Secretary of the Army Pete Geren said. “And this acquisition of 4,000 NEVs will allow the Army to meet 42 percent of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act requirement for a two percent annual petroleum consumption reduction through 2015.”The day of the Jeep is over
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Fortune) -- Glenn Lurie knows Silicon Valley better than most telecom industry types. As AT&T's point man on the iPhone, he was the guy who camped out in Cupertino and hashed out the blockbuster iPhone launch with Apple. The next big game in his sights? The netbook.
That's right, the netbook, that shrunken, low-priced laptop that lately has been a rare bright spot in the moribund PC industry. To hear Lurie tell it, AT&T's next hit phone might not be a phone at all, but a netbook with built-in Internet access that works anywhere you can get a cell signal.
Get ready for the clincher: Sign up for a two-year contract, and you might get your new PC for $99 or less.
The upshot is that the "free phone" phenomenon that helped make handsets ubiquitous in the U.S. isn't just for phones anymore. The first signs of change came this past holiday season when, working with AT&T (T, Fortune 500), Radio Shack offered a $99 deal on an Acer netbook, a promotion that went "extremely well," Lurie says. "That Acer one's a great example of how partnerships are going to work. That was Radio Shack coming to us saying, 'We've got an idea. Can you help us?' "
As president of AT&T's new Emerging Devices division, Lurie hopes to do a lot more of those deals. His mission is to get just about everything except phones connected to AT&T's broadband network -- laptops, GPS devices, cars, games, medical equipment, "all the way to dog collars," he quips.
It's only January, but he's off to a fast start. At the annual Consumer Electronics Show gadgetfest earlier this month, Lurie teamed with Sony (SNE) and Dell (DELL, Fortune 500) to announce that a new Sony camera will use AT&T's wireless network to automatically upload photos, and Dell will discount its $449 Inspiron Mini 9 netbook to $99 when buyers sign up for an AT&T data plan. (Of course, there's a catch: The price gets to $99 only after a $349 mail-in rebate, so you've got to front the money and trust the fickle Rebate Fairy to follow through.)Fortune) -- Glenn Lurie knows Silicon Valley better than most telecom industry types.... more
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LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft's excitable CEO Steve Ballmer showed off Windows 7 -- the slick, fast, user-friendly successor to the much-maligned Windows Vista -- and said it will be available as a public beta on Friday.
Unveiled by an intense Ballmer during his keynote address on the eve of CES 2009, Windows 7 will offer better performance on underpowered machines such as netbooks, support for multitouch interfaces, and simplified home networking.
Ballmer said that this would be the "best version of Windows ever" and pointed out features that implicitly acknowledged the problems with Windows Vista.
"We are putting in all the right ingredients -- simplicity, reliability and speed -- and working hard to get it right and to get it ready," said Ballmer.
Ballmer's keynote is his first at the big, prestigious CES show since the departure of Microsoft founder Bill Gates a year ago. He showed no signs of stage fright, bounding onstage in a maroon pullover, rubbing his hands together and grinning eagerly.
Microsoft is also eager to get Windows 7 into people's hands given the negative reaction to Windows Vista, which was widely panned. Released in 2007, Vista annoyed many customers with its hunger for computing resources and its seemingly incessant security notifications. Those notifications were such a defining characteristic of Vista that they were even satirized in Apple commercials. Despite the criticisms, Microsoft sold 20 million copies of Vista in the first month, and there are now an estimated 300 million users of Vista worldwide.
According to Ballmer, Windows 7 will be available to developers immediately, and to the general public on Friday, January 9. It will be a free download from Microsoft's site.
Windows 7 has been widely anticipated since developers got the first glimpse of it at a Microsoft conference earlier this year. Microsoft promises that the new OS will have faster startup and shutdown times, fewer security alerts, and will provide better power management leading to improved battery life on laptops.LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft's excitable CEO Steve Ballmer showed off Windows 7 -- the... more
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From mainframes to minicomputers and then PCs, each new computing generation has displaced its predecessor by reaching a broader audience and costing far less. And each time, the dominant company in one generation loses control in the next
That’s why the PC industry’s commanding chip maker, Intel, might do well to be alarmed by the computer chips being designed by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones. An engineer at Qualcomm’s gleaming corporate campus here demonstrated a palm-sized circuit board capable of displaying high-definition video. What was striking about the demonstration was not the quality of the video images, which is now commonplace. Rather it was that the microprocessor chip, called Snapdragon, drives the display with less than half the power of a similar chip recently introduced by Intel. Qualcomm designers say it will also cost less.
As the PC shrinks in size, it is on a collision course with the multifunction cellphone. Many expect the resulting impact to transform both devices and all the companies that make them. The new smartphones, always-on portable Internet devices that are part cellphone, part computer, change the rules of the game in computing because computing speed — at which Intel excelled — is no longer the most important factor. For a cellphone relying on a small battery, how efficiently a chip uses power becomes more important.
The new mobile world represents a special challenge for Intel, which until four years ago ignored the issue of increasing power consumption in its flagship X86 chips, which have been the PC industry standard for almost three decades.
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Yeah, apparently that's about $50-$100 Million in revenue.
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Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch customers have downloaded some 300 million software apps since Apple started selling them in July. We estimate that Apple has booked $50 million to $100 million in revenue so from those sales.
Regardless, it's couch change for Apple, which topped $32 billion in sales last fiscal year.
More important is that Apple's app platform is still far ahead of its competition. And we think it's doing its real job, too: Helping Apple sell more iPhones and iPod touches, which are worth much, much more to Apple's top and bottom lines.
How'd we get $50 million to $100 million?
* Apple has told the WSJ that "most" iPhone downloads are free apps. We don't know how many those are, so let's assume they're about two-thirds of the downloads.
* That suggests that 100 million downloads (of 300 million) were paid apps.
* Apple recently published the top 10 most-downloaded paid apps. Their average price is about $2.80. We'll round that up to $3.
* That suggests Apple's gross revenue from paid apps is $300 million.
* Apple takes a 30% cut, and gives 70% to developers. That's $90 million for Apple, which we'll round up to $100 million for simplicity's sake.
* But this may be overstate the reality. In August, Steve Jobs told the WSJ that Apple made $30 million in gross sales for the first 60 million app downloads. Five times that (300 million downloads at that same rate) is $150 million, of which Apple would get 30%, or $45 million. We'll round that up to $50 million.Yeah, apparently that's about $50-$100 Million in revenue.
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Bill Gates has started a mysterious new company, called bgC3, possibly to be focused on creating catalyst business ideas to spin off to Microsoft, the Gates Foundation or elsewhere. Little is known about the company, which doesn't appear to have a public web page, but a fair number of details have been ferreted out by the Seattle area tech reporters Todd Bishop, Eric Engleman and John Cook.Bill Gates has started a mysterious new company, called bgC3, possibly to be focused... more
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At the request of the largest music publishing association in the States, the NMPA (National Music Publisher’s Association), the 3-judge panel will convene in Washington to rule on whether the royalty payments made to recording artists by digital media providers, such as Apple, should be raised.At the request of the largest music publishing association in the States, the NMPA... more
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Apparently not content with just being the biggest cell phone company in the world, Nokia is now reportedly working on a movie download service that would deliver fresh flicks directly to your multimedia phone.
The Nokia Music Store has already launched in a few select markets and it hasn’t exactly been met with a huge level of success, but the Finnish phonemaker is hoping that movies will be the key to our hearts (and our wallets).
More on Nokia movie downloads: http://www.mymoviedownload.net
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Later today Google will enter the browser marketplace and you will be able to download what looks like a ground breaking new web browser called 'Google Chrome'.
It appears to have some very nice features and if Chromes multiple process architecture can beat the way Firefox hangs on some web pages, and it doesn't suffer from the flood of memory leaks that Firefox does then I'm all for it.
View screenshots and downloads here:
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Peter Gabriel has backed this great site that makes music, video, tv and film recomendations based on your preference.. Really cool - check it outPeter Gabriel has backed this great site that makes music, video, tv and film... more
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A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store a hundred times more information.
Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less to produce.
Devices which use the new technology would require much less power, would run on a single battery charge for "weeks at a time", and would last for decades.
So-called 'racetrack' memory uses the 'spin' of an electron to store data, and can operate far more quickly than regular hard drives.
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