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Microsoft’s Halo 3 video game set an opening day U.S. sales record of $US170 million, outdoing any video game or movie debut and [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Less than 24 hours after die-hard fans finally got their hands on a copy of “Halo 3,” blogs brimmed with reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching the video game disks.
Microsoft Corp., which owns the studio that makes “Halo 3,” responded quickly on its Xbox website with details for a replacement program. Customers can fill [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets, The Net on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
iPod nano
4GB - choice of one colour
8GB - choice of five colours
Rating: 4/5
Here’s a prediction: in precisely 91 days’ time, many people will be peeling back the wrapping paper on a Christmas present to reveal a perspex rectangular box about the size of two decks of playing cards.
Inside they will find a compact device in [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets, The Net on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Damian Isla is a computer game engineer. But he’s also the brains behind a horde of evil Brutes set upon the destruction of humanity.
Today the much-hyped Halo 3 computer game, produced by Microsoft subsidiary Bungie Studios, will be launched. As gaming moves to the centre of youth culture, it’s a generation’s equivalent to a new [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets, The Net on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
X360
Classification: M
Rating: 4.5/5
Dazzling with explosive multiplayer action, an intense solo campaign and all-new, high-definition graphics, the blockbuster Halo trilogy comes to a close in this fittingly epic finale. Master Chief - still suited up in his distinctive green armour - is as enigmatic as ever, though a few new gadgets expand his repertoire in battle.
If [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets, The Net on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
A COMPUTER game about a rebel group of humans fighting back against evil aliens who have taken control of the Earth could this week become the biggest phenomenon in entertainment history.
Microsoft - the creator of Halo 3 - is confident worldwide sales could top $300 million by the end of its release day on Tuesday.
Australian [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal computers are infected with malicious software. Such programs, generally classified as malware, attack companies along with consumers.
Some are keyloggers, recording every key stroke that the user enters — sending valuable bank account information, passwords and credit card numbers to hackers.
And other malware programs turn PCs [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
China is worse hit by computer hackers than any Western nation, a Chinese military expert was quoted as saying Saturday in an apparent response to claims it was the source of attacks on US systems.
Unlike other countries, however, China does not point the finger of blame, Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military [...]
Posted in Digress, The Net on Sep 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Bill Gates might still be the richest, but the growing clout of Google is evident in Forbes magazine’s latest list of the wealthiest Americans.
According to the magazine, Gates is the richest person in America for the 14th year in a row.
Gates’ fortune grew by $US6 billion in the past year to $US59 billion, Forbes said.
Gates [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of US adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the web.
A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel OK without going on the web, to [...]