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Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - WoW initiates Realm Splits

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gfxone
gfxone writes: "Blizzard announced that due to some realms having high populations, heavy latency and servers having to be restarted constantly since launching Burning Crusade that they will be initiating a voluntary realm split. They also state that if not enough players take advantage of these free character moves, it may become necessary to split the population of a realm between two new realms, by performing the process of a mandatory Realm Split. This action would be a non voluntary choice given to players via an in-game message at the character-selection screen which will prompt all affected players to choose between one of the two new realms being created. The player will be able to make this decision (or change his or her decision) up until the realm-split process has been completed. The realm that the player chooses will be the destination for all characters that the player plays on that realm. If a realm is not chosen by the player, each character will be individually relocated to one of the two new realms based on a priority system. The system will first determine whether the character is in a guild and move the character based on the destination of the guild's leader. If the character is not in a guild, the system will then check if the character is part of an arena team and move the character accordingly. If these conditions do not apply, Blizzard will make the decision for the character(s). Read the full story here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topi cId=69006972&sid=1"
Wii

Submission + - Wii Laptop?

Submitted by
PHPNerd
PHPNerd writes: "Now you can take your Wii with you anywhere! Engadget is featuring an article about how someone has created a Wii Laptop. Detailed Instructions on how to build your own are soon to follow. The article lists the laptops specs, has details photos, and even a video of it in action. Car rides and plane trips just got a lot more interesting."
Wireless (Apple)

Submission + - Are Consumers Ready (To Pay) For the iPhone?

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AndyComp
AndyComp writes: "Are Consumers Ready (To Pay) For the iPhone? "Even among the diehard segment of iPod shoppers who said they are very likely to buy an iPhone, only 6% said they would pay over $400." The iPhone has gotten a lot of hype since it debuted, but what will happen when it hits stores? This post reports who'll be willing to pay the high price, switch to Cingular, and several other interesting stats."
Spam

Submission + - Anatomy of pump'n'dump SPAM

Submitted by giorgiofr
giorgiofr writes: Laura Frieder and Jonathan Zittrain have analized pump'n'dump spam activity in their paper "Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity". Unbelievably, it appears that spammers are able to achieve a 5% gain on pumped stock before dumping it, along with a dramatic increase in transaction volume of the stock. Paper summary, full paper.
Wii

Submission + - Wii Sports Experiment

Submitted by
rgriscom
rgriscom writes: "A man known as "heysuburbia" has conducted an experiment monitoring the physical changes resulting from 6 weeks of Wii Sports training. He consistently played 30 minutes of Wii sports every day and recorded the changes in his weight, BMI, calories burned, body fat %, and heart rate. The results are surprising. This opens a new door for Nintendo to market the Wii towards gamers who want to get fit, and anyone else who just wants some exercise without leaving the house."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Virgin America to use Open Source games for IFE

Submitted by
Palal
Palal writes: "On it's new website, Virgin America writes about some of the in-flight amenities that it would offer if the Department of Transportation allows it to operate. One of the interesting things on the list is "The Red System". Besides RJ-45 sockets, WiFi and touch-screen In-Flight Entertainment system (IFE), the Airline is promising to have games. "games — a batch of open source games and an upcoming public invitation for savvy ground-based Linux game designers to try their hand designing games and in-flight applications for the Red System." Now all they need is DOT's approval."
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Apple posts $1 billion quarterly profit

Submitted by pospisil
pospisil writes: Apple has just announced a record net profit of $1 billion for the quarter ending December 30, according to this report. This compares to a profit of $565 million for the same quarter a year earlier. The company shipped 1,606,000 Mac computers and 21,066,000 iPod media players during the quarter, which represents 28 percent growth in Macs and 50 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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