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| | Take-Two, the owner of the Grand Theft Auto series franchise, has received an offer to buy it from gigantic rival Electronic Arts. This is already the second time in a month that Electronic Arts has made an attempt to buy Take-Two. Electronic Arts will buy Take-Two at about $2 billion or $26 a share. |
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| | Microsoft vows not to bundle Windows with IE in Europe |
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| | Microsoft has vowed not to bundle its Windows operating system with Internet Explorer in all its offerings in Europe. This, after a European coalition of five Microsoft competitiors - Oracle, RealNetworks, Sun Microsystems, Nokia and IBM - have lodged a complaint against Microsoft before the European Commission regarding this. Microsoft has likewise vowed that its Outlook email platform will be compatible with other operating systems that are commonly used in Europe. |
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| | The top free downloadable games of 2008 |
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| | The following are my choice for the top free downloadable games of 2008 - World Wind (featuring free satellite imagery) and Stellarium (this is ideal for your first grader in pinpointing to him or her the exact location of stars and other planetary-like objects in the sky). |
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| | A breakthrough breath analyzer |
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| | A new laser-based breath analyzer can now detect diseases by simply intercepting compounds emitted from an exhaling person. Aside from carbon dioxide, people also breathe out 1,000 other compounds depending on the disease that they carry. People having liver problems bail out methylamine, people having kidney failure breathe out ammonia; people who are diabetic also exhale acetone, people who have asthma breathe out nitric oxide and people who have potential lung cancer have high levels of carbon monoxide coming out of their respiratory system. The study is being spearheaded at the University of Colorado at Boulder physics department. |
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| | Wal-Mart to carry Blu-ray only |
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| | Blu-ray has carried a big boost when Wal-Mart has decided to carry Blu-ray DVD copies only on its shelves in all 4,000 stores nationwide. Between Blu-ray and its only competitor, HD DVD, five studios are carrying exclusive Blu-ray formats on its DVD copies – Warner Bros., MGM, Fox, Sony Pictures and The Walt Disney Co. |
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| | Valentines e-card sales surge |
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| | Sales of Valentines Day e-card has surged. And the barometer here is the increase of trafficof the websites sellng e-cards. Hallmark, 123Greetings.com and egreetings.com have all reported that it takes 12 seconds or longer to get to their web pages to purchase e-cards.Man, folks are madly in love in 2008. |
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| | Yahoo! in the middle of News Corp.-Microsoft tug-of-war |
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| | It all started when News Corp. acquired social network MySpace in 2005 and Microsoft acquired rival Facebook some two years later. Now, News Corp. and Microsoft are into another potential faceoff - the acquisition of Internet giant gem Yahoo! According to reports, the whole frenzy is just like an auction - with Yahoo! just waiting on the sidelines and waiting for the highest bidder - News Corp. or Microsoft? |
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| | Senate and House versions of wiretapping bill set to be reconciled |
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| | As President Bush has ratified the wiretapping bill to be urgent, the House and the Senate have agreed to extend the implementation period of the previous wiretapping Act. Even as both legislative chambers have scrambled to pass the bill and hand it over to the President's desk ASAP, the Senate has decided to insert a new provision in the newer bill - giving telecommunications companies legal assistance whenever it is sued for civil damages of millions of dollars by its consumer who was wiretapped. This sure is a big boost to the telecoms industry. |
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| | Physical therapy patients try Wiihabilitation |
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| | There may be a new term which will enter the Guinness Book of World Records next year. It’s called Wiihabilitation. It’s the using of Wii’s remote controls to trigger back nerves in the fingers, arms and shoulders of the person who is paralyzed. This scheme is already being in used in physical rehabilitation centers nationwide. |
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| | Technology Oscars given |
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| | The winners for this year’s technical Oscars include ILM’s particle flow simulation technology known as the semi-Lagrangian effect which makes water scenes in movies look more realistic. Other winners include the creation of a pint-sized gas machine used in creating gas clouds as well as makeup artist Christien Tensley for his work in No Country for Old Men by using adhesives to make actors appear bloody and bruised in the film. |
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