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Pigs Fly! Duke Nukem Forever To Ship in 2011
It took a completely different developer to get the game on track, but it looks like Borderlands developer Gearbox is going to make Duke Nukem Forever a reality at last.



Duke Nukem Forever - Gearbox - Duke Nukem - 3D Realms - Borderlands
Hands-On With iOS 4.1 GM
Now that I?ve been using the GM release for the past 24 hours, I can safely say- iOS 4.1 on iPhone (including the 3G) is the most solid, responsive iOS release to date. With some cool new features to boot.



iPhone - iPhone 3G - IPhone OS - Handhelds - Smartphones
Is Consumer Watchdog Losing Credibility With its Google Feud?
The consumer advocacy group's anti-Google commercial seems to alarmist rather than raising privacy awareness.



Google - Consumer Watchdog - Searching - Search Engines - Eric E. Schmidt
Mobee Announces Inductive Charger for Magic Mouse
Considering the Magic Mouse's ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ) futuristic, gesture-controlled appeal, replacing its dead AA batteries with new ones might...



AppleMagicMouse - AA battery - Mouse - Rodent - MagicMouse
Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post to Walls
A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload service that allowed him to spam thousands of users.



Facebook - Spam - E-mail - Social network - Apple
Social Brings Native Facebook Experience to IPad
Since Facebook has yet to release a native iPad app--or give any real indication that one is in the works--third parties have capitalized on the opportunity to...



Facebook - IPad - Online Communities - Social Networking - Since Facebook
HP Buys 3Par, Apple Rolls out New Gear
Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around...



Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Apple - HP - Hardware
School Uses Anti-bullying App After Suicide
A Massachusetts high school is using specialized software for reporting bullying incidents after a student's suicide.



Bullying - High school - Suicide - Massachusetts - Violence and Abuse
Twitter Users Still Flock to the Website, Which Stinks
Twitter now has more than 145 million registered users and many of them still use Twitter's under-whelming Website as a primary access point.



Twitter - Social network - Online Communities - IPhone - Trending and Popularity
Toshiba Recall Signals Larger Trend for Hot Laptops
Toshiba is the latest to recall laptops that pose a fire hazard or risk of injury--highlighting the growing concern of excessive heat generated from cramming more processing power into smaller portable computers.



Toshiba - Laptop - Hardware - U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Notebooks and Laptops
Nigerian Advance-fee Scammer Gets 12 Years
A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.



Advance-fee fraud - Fraud - Humor - Nigeria - Business
Linux Distributions Update for Web Flaw
A widely used program for Web spidering can be hijacked for malicious purposes.



Operating system - Linux distribution - Linux - Distributions - Directories
A Look at the New Apple TV, iPod Touch and Nano
Apple has just announced their annual changes to the company's media devices: this year, the iPod Touch, Nano and Apple TV have all been revamped. Nate Ralph takes a look.



Apple - iPod Touch - iPod - AppleTV - ipodnano
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Firefox Pushes Ahead on Android with Fennec Alpha Browser
Built-in Firefox Sync and improved responsiveness get Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser off to a good start.



Fennec - Mozilla Foundation - Firefox - Android - Nokia N900

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Ubuntu 'Maverick Meerkat' erects own App Store
Beta mongoose flaunts new face

Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.?

Love Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.?

Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden??

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.?

An Oz primary school head is taking a bit of stick after insisting that kiddies should not follow the exact letter of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.?

In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.?

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.?

Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.?

Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautiful game, but their opponents will be clad in a new strip created by former Joy Division designer Peter Saville.?

Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.?

Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.?

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Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York?s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.?

The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 jobs as the federal government winds down the 2010 census and lays off temporary workers hired to count heads.?

Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.?

German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.?