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  • Tetris Clears More Than 100 Million Mobile Downloads
    By on January 23, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    According to early word from EA Mobile and Tetris rights holder Blue Planet Software, mobile users have racked up more than 100,000,000 downloads. That’s paid downloads. Tetris is the best-selling mobile game of all time.

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  • PS3 Sells More Than 1m as FF XIII Hits Number 1
    By on December 31, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Final Fantasy XIII breaks Nintendo domination to take the top spot worldwide this week (with just a Japanese release so far) as PS3 hardware increases 50% in the weekly data for 13th to 19th Dec 09

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  • Facebook’s FarmVille is More Popular Than Twitter
    By on December 6, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Facebook revealed just how many people log on each day and the stats are pretty mind-blowing. The company also noted that one of its apps, ‘Farmville’, is more popular than its major rival in the social-networking world – Twitter.

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  • TIME: Microsoft’s Natal better innovation than AIDS vaccine
    By on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Microsoft’s Project Natal better invention than the AIDS vaccine and teleportation, apparently.

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  • Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems
    By on November 5, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Trinity writes “Researchers from VUPEN have discovered critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave, a technology installed on over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution by tricking a user into visiting a web page using Internet Explorer or even Mozilla Firefox. Version 11.5.1.601 as well as earlier ones are affected. The vendor recommends upgrading to version 11.5.1.602.” Especially sobering when (more…)

  • Alcohol is worse for you than Ecstasy, experts say
    By on October 29, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    It was found that alcohol should rank fifth, behind only cocaine, heroin, barbiturates and methadone, while tobacco should rank ninth, ahead of cannabis, LSD and Ecstasy.

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  • Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought
    By on October 6, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    eldavojohn writes “Previous estimates are now thought to skimp on the entropy of the observable universe. The researchers contend that super-massive black holes are the largest contributor of entropy. Since they contribute two orders of magnitude more than previously thought, the total of all the observable universe is correspondingly higher. The paper highlights (in gruesome detail) new issues that arise with these new calculations — like estimating (more…)

  • 2012 to be ‘cosier’ than Beijing
    By on September 4, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Boris Johnson says the London 2012 Olympics will deliver a better spectator experience than Beijing for half the money.

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