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lbalbalba writes:
Andrew Garfield has signed on to play the character of Peter Parker in Spider Man 4. The Brit has been cast to replace Tobey Maguire.
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Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook after satirical images of the prophet Muhammad and the country's leaders were uploaded. One man has been arrested and charged with "spreading malice and insulting the country's leaders" with the images. Officials said the ban was temporary and access to the site would be restored once the images were removed. It comes after Pakistan invoked a similar ban over "blasphemous content".
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lbalbalba writes:
Electronic Arts Inc. is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work.
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lbalbalba writes:
European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Oracle Corp.'s $7.4-billion US takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing concerns that the takeover could hurt competition in the database market.
Sources: Forbes, CBC News
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lbalbalba writes:
This morning, Nintendo announced the third upgrade to the DS family, the DSi LL (or DSi XL), will be released in Japan on November 21, one year after the DSi debuted, for ¥20,000 (approx. $220). The LL's main improvement is the size of its screens, which have been increased from 3.25" to 4.2" with a moderate increase to the size of the chassis. The device also includes a much bigger stylus, which looks to be the size of a ballpoint pen, and battery life has reportedly been increased to five hours at maximum screen brightness.
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lbalbalba writes:
A Dutch court ruled today that The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works. The list is to be provided by BREIN (similair to RIAA in Holland), and is similar to the earlier ruling against Mininova. The defendants are given three months to comply, if not, they will face penalties of 5,000 euros ($7,500) per person, per day.
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lbalbalba writes:
For the last few hours, YouTube has been experiencing serious technical difficulties. Whenever you try to watch a video, you get the message 'YouTube is down for maintenance and will be back shortly' instead.
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lbalbalba writes:
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, or $50 a share. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters. http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0908/31/index.htm
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lbalbalba writes:
For about 30 minutes now, the servers of GMail seem to be down or at least unavailable. Both the web based interface and my IMAP client are unable to connect to the GMail servers. I wonder how soon Google will pick this up and fix it, and how widespread it is ?
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lbalbalba writes:
Google seems to have made some sort of mistake, as all search results now give you the warning message "Warning — visiting this web site may harm your computer!". It happens on all of google's country's servers. and the message appearch on all search results.
