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Article | 8/12/2007 Capcom confirms 2D graphics for Street Fighter 4
First announced in October, Street Fighter IV will feature 3D rendered characters and environments played in a 2D perspective to maintain a classic St...
Article | 8/12/2007 Downloadable content coming to Wii next year?
RedOctane says it's working to release downloadable songs for Guitar Hero III on Wii -- what would be a first for the console that lacks large storage...
Article | 7/12/2007 World of Warcraft helps boy survive moose attack
According to Nettavisen (via Wired), 12-year-old Hans JA¸rgen Olsen and his sister encountered a troubled moose while walking in the forest near their...
Article | 7/12/2007 Bungie has 'no plans' to work with Sony or Nintendo
Although the option remains for the now-independent Halo developer, company execs say they're sticking with Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Article | 10/12/2007 Don King Prizefighter announced for Xbox 360, Wii, DS
2K Sports on Sunday announced Don King Presents: Prizefighter for Xbox 360, Wii, and DS set for release in spring 2008. Sadly, PS3 owners will not be ...
Article | 10/12/2007 Take-Two future in jeopardy due to GTA 4 delay
The <a href="http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=127288">delay of Grand Theft Auto 4</a> on PS3 and Xbox 360 did more than upset millions of ga...
Article | 10/12/2007 IBM system to scan streets at Beijing Olympics, NYC
When the 2008 Olympic Games kick off in Beijing next year, organizers will be using a sophisticated computer system to scan video images of city stree...
Article | 6/12/2007 China to produce 40% of mobile phones in '07
Roughly 500 million of the world's mobile phones, or more than 40 percent of the global total, were or will be produced in China this year, according ...
Article | 11/12/2007 Exploit menaces media players from Microsoft, AOL
Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft and AOL, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (cod...
Article | 11/12/2007 Mobile Linux group releases first specification
While Google's Linux mobile phone platform, Android, has been stealing the spotlight, another longer-standing mobile Linux group is also moving ahead....
Article | 10/12/2007 Phishers hook data on visitors to Oak Ridge Labs
In yet another example showing that clueless consumers aren't the only ones who fall victim to computer scams, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory yeste...
Article | 10/12/2007 Texas Attorney General sues two sites for children's privacy violations
Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott has sued two Web sites that cater to children for failing to take adequate measures to protect their identities an...
Article | 10/12/2007 Glory hunter hacks MySpace pages of Timberlake, Hilary Duff
Several celebrity MySpace.com sites were defaced Wednesday by someone hoping to impress a hacker crew, a security researcher said Friday, a motivation...
Article | 10/12/2007 Corporations form group to create blogging best practices
Executives from 12 large companies, including The Coca-Cola Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Kaiser Permanente, General Motors and Dell, have jointly formed a ...
Article | 10/12/2007 Ruby on Rails 2.0 released for Web apps
Version 2.0 of Ruby on Rails, the popular open source Web application development framework, was released this morning, said the developer of the fram...
Article | 10/12/2007 Dell's Latitude XT convertible laptop ready to ship
Dell's much-awaited Latitude XT tablet PC is ready to ship, according to a document posted on the company's Web site.
Article | 10/12/2007 Research firm: Google Docs tops online rivals on visitors
Google's Google Docs software has cemented its position as the leading suite of online office applications, based on unique-visitors statistics releas...
Article | 10/12/2007 Attorney wants judge to reduce jury award in RIAA case
The attorney for a woman recently ordered by a Minnesota jury to pay US$222,000 (AU$253,108.86) in damages for violating music copyrights said Thursda...
Article | 10/12/2007 Microsoft Vista's IPv6 raises new security concerns
Members of the Internet engineering community have raised several new security concerns about Teredo, a mechanism for sending IPv6 traffic over IPv4 n...
Article | 10/12/2007 Blogger presses Gates for IE8 answers
Bill Gates was surprised to hear that Microsoft's secrecy over the next version of its browser has alienated Web developers, a Web standards advocate ...

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