Thursday, June 30, 2011

Microsoft’s European Data Fair Game For Patriot Act

Just like the majority of people asking themselves this question, we were pretty sure about the answer from the start. “Can Microsoft guarantee that EU-stored data, held in EU based datacenters, will not leave the European Economic Area under any circumstances — even under a request by the Patriot Act?”, inquired an intrepid attendee at the Office 365 launch. The answer was more candid than anyone could have expected.(...)Original Story Microsoft’s European Data Fair Game For

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Molyneux: Fable The Journey “Amazing”, Industry Rolls Eyes

Probably only matched for hyperbole by Apple’s CEO, only with the difference that Steve can occasionally back his up, Lionhead err… hed Peter Molyneux is up to his old tricks. Man, you’d think he’d have at least remembered that damn acorn. Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats and don’t forget to count the instances of “amazing” as P. T. Molyneux does his thing.(...)Original Story Molyneux: Fable The Journey “Amazing”, Industry Rolls Eyes©

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Shuttle H3 6700G Compact And Powerful Gaming System

Shuttle the manufactures of small footprint computers and barebone systems has this week launched its new Shuttle H3 6700G Gaming System which can be customised to suit your exact requirements starting from $1,035.The Shuttle H3 6700G was first show cased at E3 earlier this year and has been designed to provide a small yet powerful gaming system which can be powered by a second generation Intel Core i7 2600K processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 graphics card, and up to 16GB DDR3 memory if

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HP’s TouchPad Gets Reviewed

HP’s first webOS tablet will go on sale shortly, the HP TouchPad, and many of us, myself included have been wondering what the HP TouchPad would actually be like, and whether it would be able to compete with the Apple iPad and the various Android Honeycomb tablets available on the market.Hardware wise, the HP TouchPad features a a 9.7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, there is also a dual core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor and 512MB of RAM.(...)Original Story

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

World Of Warcraft Now Free To Play Up To Level 20

It’s probably better that I’ve never played one solitary iota of World of Warcraft, as my valued memories would now undoubtedly be irremediably cheapened, sullied and trodden upon by the unwashed boots of the hobnailed masses. Or at least that’s what I imagine would happen if I wasn’t a card-carrying member of the hoi polloi myself. I certainly experienced a tiny irrational sense of betrayal when Team Fortress 2 went F2P a few days ago, and Valve didn’t even charge

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Respawn’s New Game Revealed, But Not Really

This was supposed to be a bit of news about former Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West’s latest project in collaboration with EA. Only it really isn’t. It’s not much of anything actually. Just a blurry screenshot that tells us that a. they’re working on a game, which we already knew and b. it’s going to have grass and mountains in it, maybe. Which is reassuring in its own way, we suppose, just not in the way Respawn probably wanted. In fact, we

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DyzPlastic Heroes And Villans Android Collectibles Announced

We have already featureds the previous versions of the Android collectibles from the guys at DyzPlastics, and now they are releasing a new range of Android collectible mascots called Heroes and Villans.There will be four different versions available, and they will debut at the 2011 Interntaional Comic-Con in San Diego, and will only be available in a limited number, with one design being made available each day from Wednesday the 20th of July at Comic-Con.(...)Original Story DyzPlastic Heroes

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