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<em>Rock Band 3</em> Officially Announced For Holiday 2010

Slashdot - 2 hours 27 min ago
An anonymous reader writes "Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, due for release Holiday 2010. 'The company is pursuing the game in spite of an industry-weakening decline in the once-booming genre of peripheral-equipped music games. Although the franchise has generated over $1 billion to date, the category in general saw sales contract by as much as half throughout 2009. MTV Games parent Viacom also saw Rock Band declines drag on its balance sheet in its last fiscal quarter, and expressed a need to refocus away from pricey peripherals in favor of software. It also said that due to royalties it would need to be more "selective" about track listings, and that it needs more support from the music industry in that department.'"

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Palm pops out plug-in dev kit

The Register - 3 hours 1 min ago
WebOs goes native

Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.…

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Sharp preps Freeview HD set-top kit

The Register - 3 hours 17 min ago
Connect-your-own-storage DVR too

Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It's also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make it a doddle to transfer taped programmes to a PC.…

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NY chef offers mam cheese canapes

The Register - 3 hours 24 min ago
Wife is 100% free range and foie gras fed

A New York chef is offering samples of cheese made from his wife's breast milk with the promise that it's "100 per cent organic, free range and foie gras fed".…

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Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State

Slashdot - 3 hours 33 min ago
daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"

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Brown promises Budget in a fortnight

The Register - 3 hours 56 min ago
Warns of more bumps ahead

Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.…

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Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe

The Register - 4 hours 22 min ago
Kiss and don't tell

Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…

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Google goes cycling

The Register - 4 hours 41 min ago
Turn left here and jump that red light

Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.…

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Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked

Slashdot - 5 hours 3 min ago
An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."

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Google Nexus One Android smartphone

The Register - 5 hours 50 min ago
Hard to resist

Review  The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it’s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Android handsets so far.…

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Exploring Security in the virtualised world

The Register - 5 hours 50 min ago
Practical Matters discussed live

Live right now!  If virtualisation is creeping across your organisation you’ve presumably ticked some of the security boxes, right? Well, whether you have or not, you may still want to tune in to our webcast at 10am today: Virtualisation and Security: Practical Matters.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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Slick Deals - 5 hours 52 min ago
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The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language

Slashdot - 6 hours 31 min ago
Mirk writes "Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.' The Reinvigorated Programmer argues that the world is full of excellent programmers who cut their teeth on BASIC, and suggests it could even be because they started out with BASIC."

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Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists

The Register - 6 hours 50 min ago
Feds cuff JihadJane

A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.…

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Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch

The Register - 6 hours 50 min ago
Dual-node MS2 cluster

Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.…

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Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple

The Register - 7 hours 50 min ago
The non-iPad iPad clone

The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…

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UK pol touts canine chip implants

The Register - 7 hours 50 min ago
Doggies digitized for your protection

Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pony up for dog-attack insurance.…

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