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Submission + - Nintendo announces 3D successor of Nintendo DS

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @04:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: Nintendo has released a press release with the title "Launch of New Portable Game Machine" promoting their new handheld game console "Nintendo 3DS" (temporary name), which doesn't require any sort of special glasses.

It will be backwards-compatible with DS and DSi games.

Press release in English here: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2010/100323e.pdf

Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 5, Informative) 619

by jbird1785 on Friday November 20, 2009 @12:45PM (#30172658) Attached to: Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation

"If you want people to use less electricity charge" We all saw how well this worked when gas prices hit $4. People are not willing to drive less or even willing to drive sanely.

"Motorists drove 112 billion fewer miles during the 13-month period between November 1, 2007 and November 30, 2008 compared with the year-prior period, the U.S. Department of Transportation said"
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/news/economy/gas_use/?postversion=2009012215

Submission + - GMail experiences serious outage (google.com)

Submitted by

JacobSteelsmith

on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @04:35PM

JacobSteelsmith writes: "As I type this, GMail is experiencing a major outage. The application status page says there is a problem with GMail affecting a majority of it's users. It states a resolution is expected within the next 1.2 hours (no, not a typo on my part). However, email can still be accessed via POP or IMAP, but not, it appears, through an Android device such as the G1."

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