Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4 break 1 million on PS3

Both Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4 have broken the 1 million barrier on the PS3 this week, becoming the first and second (or second and first?) third party games to do so on the PS3. Most likely, Pro Evolution Soccer will be joining them fairly soon.

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Google Android Prototype In the Wild

Here's the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator

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Sony to Sell 11 Million PS3s By Fiscal Year End

It looks like all that was wrong with the PS3 was the price, because despite a very slow start, Sony has announced that their console will reach worldwide sales numbers of 11 million units by the end of this fiscal year (March 31st, 2008). Alright, it's time to place your bets again: how will the console wars end?

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How to peel an egg

Just have a look at the clip ;)!!

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I Have 4 PS3's

Trumps "3 PS3 guy". This guys has four!

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See Five Thousand Years of Faith in 90 seconds

An interactive timeline....

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5 Things I learned about Personal Growth by Moving

Sometimes it takes a major change in your life before you realize how much value your life has as it stands right now!

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Microsoft to Release .NET Framework Source Code in v3.5

Microsoft will begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries ASP.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, XML, and WPF. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

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Is Organic Too Expensive? How Much is Organic worth?

When I marketed Organic food to few consumers, they nodded in agreement about the goodness and health benefits. But the one question that I squirmed at was, “I heard its expensive, what’s the difference?”. At the end of the day it all boils down to the economics

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Is Steve Jobs Sick Of The Cell Phone Industry Already?

Job's keynote, riddled with anti industry comments, topped it all off with a big middle finger to AT&T by introducing the iPod touch. We're with you man.

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Productivity enhancers for Thunderbird

As with Firefox, you can extend Thunderbird's functionality by installing extensions. Mozilla's official extension repository has quite a few nifty tools on offer, and which ones you choose to install depends entirely on your needs. There are, however, a few extensions that you might find indispensable no matter how you use Thunderbird.

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Five Facts About Google Phone

Is Google Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google’s entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks over who are intimately familiar with the effort and outlined his findings in an article for The Boston Globe.

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Haze Only on PS3, canned for Xbox 360 and PC

Ubisoft has told GameSpot that First Radical’s sci-fi first-person shooter Haze is now being planned solely for Sony’s PlayStation 3 platform.

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Homes in Finland get 100 Mbps internet connection

TeliaSonera Finland and Vuosaaren Kiinteistöt have agreed that Vuosaari’s all approximately 3,000 rental flats will be provided with fibre optic based broadband connections enabling transmission rates of up to 100 Mbps. The connections will be provided during the year 2007.

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PS3 gains 1080p PVR services: record TV shows, watch on PS3/PSP

PlayTV will allow users to watch, pause and record live TV. PlayTV can also record individual shows, or entire series to the PS3 hard drive. The videos can then be watched from the PS3, or can be transferred to the PSP to watch on the go.

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20 Great Tools to Keep Your Life Organized

It’s the ultimate quest of anyone trying to become more organized or productive: the ultimate organizing tool. And while that perfect tool may be different for each person, depending on your needs, the following list should have something perfect for just about anyone.

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Ron Paul wins NH straw poll

Just like Alabama poll, he won it in a landslide with a huge lead over Romney who took 2nd

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Linux Hardware Support Better Than Windows

Something I often hear from people that talk about Linux on the desktop is this: people want to be able to go to the store, buy hardware, and be confident that it will Just Work.I would like to point out that things are rarely this simple on Windows. And, in fact, things are often simpler on Linux these days.

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DIRECTV plugs into broadband over power line

"...DIRECTV and Current Group announced that the satellite TV company's customers will be able to get broadband over power line (BPL) Internet and VoIP service bundled with their TV packages."

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Ron Paul comes in 5th w/ 9%

Straw poll results

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BBC Corrupted by Microsoft! Take back the BBC, Tuesday, August 14!

Today the BBC made it official -- they have been corrupted by Microsoft. With today's launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has failed in its most basic of duties and handed over to Microsoft sole control of the on-line distribution of BBC programming. From today, you will need to own a Microsoft operating system to view BBC programming on the web.

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Survey: Men Happiest With Smart Wives

Men in search of true happiness should steer clear of bimbos and dumb blondes: research shows men are happiest if they marry smart women

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Michael Bloomberg: "The U.S. is in trouble."

Mayor Bloomberg is decrying the state of the 2008 presidential race, faulting the major party candidates for offering shallow, simplistic prescriptions, and scolding the press for failing to demand more from those seeking the White House. "The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?"



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Sid Meier Loves the PS3

"Remember: The PlayStation 3 is light years ahead of this technology. As with any new platform, it's going to be a challenge and take designers some time to come to grips with the hardware. But believe me, you'll be amazed by the possibilities," said the creator of Civilization and Railroad Tycoon.



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Buy a loft in metro Detroit, get a free Land Rover! [PIC]

Think the housing bubble burst was bad for you? Job losses at Detroit automakers have hurt housing sales bad enough that in downtown Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, they're giving away a free 2-year lease on a Land Rover or free mortgage payments for one year with the purchase of a loft.



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Google launches antitrust complaint against Vista's desktop search

A confidential Google complaint against Microsoft has just come to light, alleging that the behavior of Vista's background indexer interferes with Google Desktop Search. Drama ensues.



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Ars Technica takes a field trip: the Creation Museum

Ars Technica goes to look at the new Creation Museum to see what the fuss is about.



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How the Presidents Stack Up - A Graphical Look at Approval Ratings

this takes you from Truman through Bush. It ws updated in 2006 so... It's rather surprising.



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MSNBC's Tucker Carlson Invites Ron Raul to Give "Freedom Tutorial"

VIDEO and article of Ron Paul making sense on real issues. Covers constitutional liberties and what it means to be free.



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HOWTO: Send Email To Cellphones

A handy list of services and SMS gateways that allow you to send email to almost any cell provider (US).



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Google Gears (BETA): Enabling Offline Web Applications

"Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:"



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Firefox Reaches 25%

People are switching to Firefox fast as ever, while IE's share drops every day!



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Ubuntu 7.04 Wins a "100 Best Products of 2007 Award" from PC World

"LONDON, May 23, 2007 – Ubuntu 7.04, commercially sponsored by Canonical Ltd., was honored by PC World with a 100 Best Products of 2007 Award. The article is available now on PCWorld.com, and will also be featured in the July 2007 issue of PC World, which hits newsstands June 12."



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Microsoft inadvertently grants patent immunity to *all Linux users*

In a stunning discovery, Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, reveals that the much vaunted MS/Novell "vouchers" have a fatal flaw: There is no expiration date. Confused? Read on and see how the upcoming GPL 3 may grant patent immunity to not just Novell users, but ALL Linux users.



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Rates of Non-Theism around the World

"25% of those in Australia do not believe in God...as many as 44% of those in Britain...44% in France...64% in Sweden...48% in Denmark...24% in Russia...31% Norway...28% in Finland...42% in the Netherlands...18% in Austria...34% in Bulgaria...61% in the Czech Republic...35% in Slovenia...32% in Hungary...49% in Estonia......6% in the United States"



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Who's Digging You?

Who are you digging, and who is digging you? I've written a little script using Digg's new API to show who is digging whom and to browse around the giant Digg social network.



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Eight Google Apps in Your Future

Google office is finally taking shape. Web Worker Daily makes some guesses at what you might find in Google Apps in the future. So far it adds up to eight new apps in the near future.



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McCain To Critics Of 'Bomb, Bomb Iran': 'Get A Life'

John McCain yesterday told critics of his "bomb, bomb Iran" song to "Lighten up and get a life.” It's yet another flip flop. When Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) botched a joke about military service last fall, McCain was among Kerry’s first and most vocal critics. McCain repeatedly said that even if Kerry was joking, he should still apologize.



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$185 Gaming CPU's: AMD 5600+ Versus Intel E6300

With AMD slashing processor prices we figured that now was a great time to take a look at gaming performance on a pair $185 desktop processors. With enthusiasts and gamers waiting to see realistic gaming performance numbers we tested six games at various resolutions of 1024x1768, 1600x1200 and 1920x1600 to show you what's up. This is a must read!



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Libertarianism is a Revolutionary Movement

Rockwell: Any media that get our message out are thrilling, especially the media that are not highly controlled by government. The government made a mistake with the internet, from its own point of view. It controlled radio, television, and much of the print media by default. But the web took off before the government got its hooks in it.



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Google Launches StumbleUpon Competitor

On the same day that the news breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon for $40ish million, Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality into their Toolbar.



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Geek to Live: Sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts to your desktop

With GCalDaemon (a beta, open source project) running, you can view and update your Google Calendar from any desktop calendar program - even if you're offline. Additionally, you can access your Gmail contacts list in a desktop email program or address book like Thunderbird or Outlook Express.



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Google to add Power Point style presentations to Google Docs

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed there will be a presentation layer for Google Docs & Spreadsheets. While Google has web-based applications for word processing and spreadsheet management, the addition of a Power Point-style presentation application could be the final step in turning Google's online office suite into a serious Microsoft Office



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3 Steps to Creating Ringtones with Ubuntu

Using only Open Source Software on Ubuntu. Don't get suckered into free ringtone offers that charge $20 a month - just make your own for Free.



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Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation

It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like...



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Ubuntu Feisty Parties all over the World

Come and join Ubuntu parties all over the Globe! April 19, 2007 is the tentative date for Ubuntu 7.04. Many parties will be on this date, or you can pick your own date! Go ahead and put down your favorite pub, park or cafe and celebrate getting Feisty out of the door! The schedule of already "Confirmed Parties" are here



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Michael Dell uses Ubuntu!

Lately I have been blogging that I am an Ubuntu Fan and use both Ubuntu and Mac. The story was that after 20 years of struggling with Microsoft, after a major crash of my Lenovo that left me without access to my data for five days I was ready for something new. I experimented both with Mac and Ubuntu and liked both for different reasons and now I u



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Shuttleworth tips Ubuntu 'Gutsy Gibbon' plans

With the release of the next Ubuntu -- version 7.04, aka "Feisty Fawn" -- only days away, Mark Shuttleworth, the distribution's leader, announced plans for the next version: "Gutsy Gibbon."



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Candidate says US going bankrupt

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul, campaigning in Iowa, says US very near bankruptcy



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Mark Shuttleworth: DRM doesn’t work

There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again.DRM is one of them.



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Metal Gear Solid 4 Remains PS3 Exclusive, Kojima Says

Kojima says no truth to the rumors started by 360 fanboys and he says the PS3 compares to the theater while the 360 is a dvd and the wii is a tv channel, barbie or spongebob with your wii, anyone.



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Google Launches Free 411 Service

Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today - a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7 billion/year market.



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AMAZING Ratchet and Clank PS3 Screenshots!!!

24 new screenshots of Insomniac's upcoming platformer Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction. Insomniac is using streaming textures seen in something like Gears of War which they didn't use in Resistance so everything in Ratchet and Clank is bright and looks amazing!



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How Fat is Your Country?

I am surprised by some of the ones at the top, but not the one at the very top.In your comment, tell what your country's ranking is.



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Blu-Ray is out selling HD-DVD 70% TO 30%

News from the front in the format wars: just two weeks after its release, 100,000 copies of the Blu-ray edition of Casino Royale have shipped, the first time any high-definition DVD title has hit that benchmark. This is where people start kicking the word "milestone" around because this comes just nine months .......................................



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Why can't you e-file to the IRS for free? Ask Intuit and HR Block

The IRS recommends that taxpayers file electronically, but it refuses to set up its own Web portal to receive the filings because of pressure from the tax-preparation industry.



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Why I think you should spend £425 on a Sony PS3

Here are 9 Reasons why you should spend £425 on a Sony PS3. An example is Price of games - Sony are charging £39.99 for games, the exact same price as Wii titles, but the graphics are far superior on the PS3, as anyone can admit. Xbox 360 games are ten quid more at £49.99, a huge amount for titles also available on the PS3.



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Playstation 3 is Folding Up a Storm, Now Accounts for 3/4 of all TFLOPS!

"Today I glanced at the leader board, which breaks out the calculations by platform, updated hourly, and realized that the PS3 has taken the program to a completely new level, now accounting for 666 of the total 920 TeraFlops (72%!) of total distributed computing power. And it's probably increased since I checked. How crazy!"



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Funny things people actually said in court, word for word. Hilarious!

Q: What is your date of birth? A: July fifteen. Q: What year? A: Every year.



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Ubuntu - Command Not Found

You have just tried to open some program note installed in your machine, amazingly, the machine answers you with a simple command line on how to install it. Dream? Or just open-source evolving?



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YouTube to Present Video Awards

Step aside, MTV. Next week, YouTube will present awards for best user-generated videos of 2006. Starting Monday, YouTube members can browse through videos and rank their favorite short-form videos.



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Phil Harrison: PS3 Demand Is Unprecedented

Here's the latest from Sony's spin machine... "Talk to the people who run GameStop, talk to the people who run BestBuy, and they'll tell you that the demand is unprecedented and that they give us kudos for managing to keep a very sophisticated supply chain moving."



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Yahoo Tracking Your Google AdSense Data & MORE

Yahoo has a widget called MyBlogLog which (they recently purchased for 10 million dollars). People were a little mystified why Yahoo would pay so much for a widget. Turns out they are using it to track Adsense data to get a edge. (video included)



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TigerDirect: 2GB Flash Drive For $1.99 After Rebates, $171.98 After 30 Days

TigerDirect.com sold Chudacek a 2GB flash drive for $1.99, without warning that after thirty days, the price would skyrocket to an astounding $171.38. Included with the drive "[for] a limited-time only [the] opportunity to try [CA] Internet Security Suite 2007." We have warned against rebates...



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10 must have programs for a new Ubuntu user.

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Google Lays the Smack Down on Microsoft

Google announces plans to sell an expanded version of Google Apps (docs&spreadsheets, email, web publishing) and become a more direct competitor to Microsoft office.



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PS3: a skeptic converts after spending time with the system

Much of the press online about the PS3 has been negative, but this is the story of one person whose views of the PS3 changed once he sat down and actually played the system.



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‘Christian’ Pediatrician Turns Away Child Because of Parent’s Tatoos

So you can be self-righteous all you’d like. It’s one of the freedoms that makes this country great. But to claim that you’re refusing to help someone because you follow the teachings of Jesus Christ is like saying that you’re going to volunteer at the Jewish community center because you follow the teachings of Hitler.



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How Identity Thieves Clone Your Credit Cards

This is why you should always pay cash when eating out. A waitress uses a special device to extract data from the credit card’s magnetic strip — includes name, address, etc. It only takes minutes to prep, and seconds to steal.



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Please Digg: Net Neutrality Law Introduced in Maryland - Diggers Speak Up!

"Not content to wait for Congress to act, a group of Maryland state legislators is backing a smaller-scale attempt at putting a Net neutrality mandate in place." Any diggers living in Maryland please email, write, or call your representatives!



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First Look: Firefox 3 Alpha 2

Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited.



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