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• Beautiful gaming, Zen Bound comes to Apple iPhone
  

  Enter an entire "different" award winning gaming experience

• Norway pushes to boot Microsoft's IE6 browser off the Web
  

  Companies have lagged behind home users in upgrading browsers

• Prince of Persia, Shaun White Snowboarding coming to Mac
  

  Ubisoft and TransGaming expand gaming partnership

• Skype calls' immunity to police phone tapping threatened
  

  National Security Agency concerned by Skype use

• Gordon Ramsay comes to Macs as Hell's Kitchen game released
  

  Go through a culinary bootcamp, preparing and serving meals

• DRAM maker ProMOS battles for survival
  

  DRAM makers globally have suffered from a chip glut

• Adobe flaw heightens risk of encountering malicious PDFs
  

  Hackers are exploiting the flaw according to Symantec

• Nintendo DSi slimline gaming hits Europe in April
  

  Includes Internet access, photo sharing and a motion-detecting camera

• Researcher: Laptop face-recognition tech easy to hack
  

  Lenovo, Toshiba and Asus systems all feature such technology

• Conficker worm gets an evil twin
  

  New variant, dubbed Conficker B++ spotted on Thursday

• Scientists claim big leap in nanoscale storage
  

  Scientists achieved a storage density of 10Tb (125GB) per square inch

• UK computer waste being dumped in Africa claims Greenpeace
  

  Illegal recycling exposed in undercover operation

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Blogs

>> Friday, 20 Feb 2009

Ngmoco teaches old dog simulator new tricks with iPhone pets

By Chris Holt

For its latest iPhone diversion, developer Ngmoco aims to give iPhone and iPod touch owners all the joys of having their very own pet with almost none of the housebreaking.

>> Thursday, 19 Feb 2009

So long Zavvi and thanks for all the box sets

This week another high-profile high-street store closed its doors for the last time as Zavvi, the CD, DVD and games retailer shut up shop.

Mozilla, Skype support DMCA jailbreaking exemption

By Dan Moren

Following up on Apple’s objection to a proposed DMCA exemption for jailbreaking cell phones, two major software vendors, the Mozilla Corporation and Skype Communications, have filed their own papers in support of the proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

>> Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009

The future of CDs

By Kirk McElhearn

I’ve got lots of CDs. Thousands of them. But when I look at the wall of discs in my home-office, I see the past; I see dinosaurs and dodos. For when I buy a CD, the first thing I do is slip it into my Mac Pro and rip it in iTunes. Then I file it on my wall.

The Kindle: It's not an iPhone

By Scott McNulty

Ever since Amazon announced the Kindle 2 in the US, pundits and journalists have seemingly made a cottage industry out of doing two things: 1) explaining that, since it isn’t an iPhone, it will fail and 2) listing the features it needs in order for Amazon to convert those selfsame pundits to Kindle lovin’ fools.

Android Market now accepting paid apps, could improve Apple apps store

By Dan Moren

Google's Android platform has been positioned as the major competitor to the iPhone and last Friday's announcement that paid applications can now be submitted to the Android Market moves the platform one step closer to parity with the iPhone.

>> Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009

What if Apple never updates the iMac?

I’m serious. What if Apple has decided that the iMac that is currently on sale is the final update to the range. That’s yer lot kids… buy them until there’s no more left.

>> Monday, 16 Feb 2009

Morrissey and why music still matters

A few weeks ago, the latest long player from Morrissey, late of The Smiths, one of the four bands that ever really mattered, leaked on the Internet.

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