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+ - Wii sales plummet-> 1

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nomadic

on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @11:48AM

nomadic writes "A nintendo executive has admitted that Wii sales have "stalled," falling 34.5% during the first half of its fiscal year, and blamed it the fact that "games of high demand could not be continuously released and the good mood has chilled.""
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+ - SPAM: Is There A Future For Mature Games On Wii? 0

Submitted by digitalfever on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @07:57AM

digitalfever (1208022) writes "Logically, the audience for a wide range of games and interactive experiences should be rather big, but based on the evidence so far, either that's not true — or publishers have been hedging the wrong bets. No one has conclusively proved the case for (or against) the viability of mature games on Wii, but 2009 was a litmus test on a number of fronts, including the DS. The results aren't encouraging."
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+ - Symantec: Vista UAC Prompts Cannot be Trusted

Submitted by

ambr00sio

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @02:04PM

ambr00sio writes "Symantec researcher Ollie Whitehouse has is warning that the UAC prompts in Windows Vista cannot be trusted to provide the end user with reliable warnings. In one potential attack scenario, Whitehouse showed how UAC privilege elevation prompts can look like it's coming from Microsoft Windows — when in fact the user is being asked to authorize admin rights for malicious code. Also see Slashdot's previous coverage of UAC design and implementation flaws."