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Posted April 17, 2013, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
So-net, a Sony-owned Internet service provider, is busy rolling out 2 Gbps fiber-based Internet to Japan's Tokyo-area residents. Named "Nuro", the company's blazingly fast service is double the speed of Google Fiber and claims to be the fastest in the…
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Posted February 19, 2013, 11:31 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Purchasing a copy of Mac Office 2011 Home & Student (single license) will now set you back about $140, or about $20 more than last year's retail prices. It's well-known that some wines improve with age. Unlike a finely crafted…
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Posted October 26, 2012, 2:51 AM by Kate Cox | Filed in TechSpot, Gaming
WoW Mists of Pandaria expansion is huge. One one end, it starts at level one, with a new starting area for the new Pandaren race. On the other end, it raises the level cap from 85 to 90 and adds an enormous amount of end-game zones.

Mists of Pandaria is best looked at from two different perspectives. One: how is it for the new player? And two: how is it for the experienced player? If someone's been in a holding pattern at level 85 for years, what does Mists of Pandaria offer to that player, and how do its many changes improve or diminish the World of Warcraft experience?
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Posted February 10, 2011, 9:41 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
The group of modders that got impatient with Blizzard and decided to create World of StarCraft are still at it. The project has simply been reborn under the name StarCraft Universe (SCU). The focus is still the same: recreating multiplayer…
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Posted January 19, 2011, 5:48 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming With Video
Update: Activision Blizzard has sent a cease and desist notice to YouTube in order to remove the videos showing off the mod. According to various sources, Blizzard's intention is not to stop the project itself, but to protect their properties…
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Posted January 10, 2011, 12:44 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
Activision Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the third expansion for the most popular subscription-based MMORPG available, has become the fastest-selling PC game of all time in terms of first-month sales. Based on internal company records and reports…
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Posted December 13, 2010, 2:15 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
Activision Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the third expansion for the most popular subscription-based MMORPG available, has become the fastest-selling PC game of all time in terms of first-day sales. Based on internal company records and reports…
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Posted November 21, 2010, 2:18 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
World's first ice touchscreen virtually burns It brings a whole new meaning to freeze frame. A team at Nokia in Finland has created one of the unlikeliest computer displays yet - the world's first ice touchscreen. It is not a…
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Posted November 16, 2010, 1:58 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Nabeel Suleiman (also known as Abdul Kareem), from Egypt, is the world's longest imprisoned blogger. After being incarcerated for over four years (1470 days to be exact), he has now been released. The news comes directly from his supporters as…
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Posted October 12, 2010, 7:53 PM by Mike Fischer | Filed in Gaming
The preparations for World of Warcraft's upcoming Cataclysm expansion are going live today with the launch of the 4.0.1 content patch. While not including Goblins or Worgen yet, today's patch does feature some major design overhauls and brings in-game systems…
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