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Director Ridley Scott will produce YouTube's Life in a Day film project.
Arts

YouTube, Ridley Scott embark on global film experiment

Online giant invites people from all over the world to record moments in their life on July 24

Shameless summer fun

A movie that shakes, splashes and smells

For mindless summer fun, how about a film in ‘4-D’?

Children who spend many hours a day glued to the TV or playing computer video games may be harming their ability to concentrate and focus on tasks in school, researchers suggest.

Excess TV, gaming tied to poor attention in kids

Problems in classroom tied to how much time students spend in front of screen entertainment, study finds

Sociable

Twidows, it’s not cheating … exactly

Our partners may not understand, but tweeters get a lot of, um, satisfaction connecting with others

'Climategate' probe mostly vindicates scientists

Inquiry chides scientists for failing to share data, but says no evidence of dishonesty after more than 1,000 e-mails posted to Internet last year

Apple says developer booted from app store

Company cites 'fraudulent purchases' as reason for ban

Telemarketing

Do-not-call list gets dismal results, senator finds

Of $73,000 in fines levied, the CRTC has collected just $250 from offending companies

Germany takes legal steps against Facebook

Social networking site could be fined for saving private information of individuals who don't use the site

Borders launches e-bookstore

Company aims to control 17% of e-book market a year from now

Rogers nabs naming rights on Telus’s turf

Vancouver’s GM Place to be known as Rogers Arena

TheStreet.com

Microsoft should pay a fat dividend

Steve Ballmer should run it an old-fashioned bank, expanding conservatively and with a generous payout

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Facebook goes Gaga, Prince goes blah blah

While one artist’s star rises online, the other declares the whole Internet thing dead. I wonder who’ll sell more albums.

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Hunting Canada’s first wireless customer

Ideas thrown out around a pub table don’t always work out a nicely as this one

Victor Surerus demonstrates how he used his first cell phone, purchased in 1985 for roughly $1800. Globe on Technology
Controller Freak
Crackdown 2 delivers double the monotony, twice the bugs

Ruffian Games’ pointless, repetitive, and glitchy semi-sequel is a game best avoided

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The phone wars
Microsoft calling. Anyone there?

The Kin debacle reflects the company’s struggle to deliver what the younger generation of technology-obsessed consumers wants.

Two Microsoft Corp. Kin phones are shown in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The Kins are geared toward social networking-obsessed teens and twenty-somethings that want a cool, affordable handset without feeling the need for additional apps like Apple's iPhone offers.
Retail ranter takes the lead as G20 protest videos go viral

Furious man screaming at locked doors of the Eaton Centre has become an amusing symbol of the weekend's violent protests in Toronto

Angry protester outside Toronto's Eaton Centre
Hot Apps
PlanCast app will keep your calendar stacked

Brodie Beta also looks at a couple of Android media players

Identity
The un-Googling of Mick Gzowski

A writer burned by a moment in the political spotlight seeks an online image makeover: Can search results be sanitized?

Viral
The earth moved and all I got was this lousy button

Every time something dramatic happens, the Internet picks up a new trick. This one required PayPal

Leah McLaren
Stop the Internet, I want to get off

Our digital-era brains, inundated with a constant stream of information, are on hyperactive overdrive

Music
Allegro Wi-Fi radio takes your tunes to the air

Although it isn’t the most attractive device, the $189 pricetag and good sound quality make it worth a listen

Gaming
A game that goes to 'infinity and beyond'

Toy Story 3 has been successfully – but loosely – adapted for the game console

There?s a movie-based story mode in the new game, but it?s augmented by a Toy Box area that allows unstructured play with Woody and Buzz Lightyear and a host of virtual toys.
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Dear Web junky: focus. Come on, foooocuuuus

Here’s a challenge: See if you can get through this entire article without checking your e-mail, your text messages or Google