News: Lifestyle

• Virtual worlds: Warcraft graphics improve, for a price
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
  Aug 29 2008
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  Virtual worlds Second Life and World of Warcraft (WoW) seem to be compared against each other on a regular basis, and have some crossover when it comes to userbase. However, in light of recent...

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• Picture This: McCain's VP pick beats Obama's speech on Google Hot Trends
  Ian Lamont
  Aug 29 2008
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  The morning after a major speech by the Democrat's presidential nominee, I expected Google's Hot Trends to be filled with Obama-related search terms, as people who missed the speech searched for...

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• Dolly lives: the Internet tries and fails to kill another celebrity
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
  Aug 26 2008
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    The rumor mills of the Web never stop trying to kill celebrities. Periodically, 'news' of a celebrity death hits social networks like Digg and Twitter and starts a wildfire of false...

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• Sony Ericsson adds DRM free music to mobile content store
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Aug 25 2008
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  Sony Ericsson relaunched its mobile content store PlayNow on Monday, renaming it PlayNow Arena and promoting music without the DRM (digital rights management) technology some stores use to prevent...

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• Virtual world economy drives developing world economy
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
  Aug 22 2008
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  The BBC has suddenly caught on to the growing industry of gold-farming, where MMO players pay others, often located in a call-center type of operation in a developing nation, to level-up characters...

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• Net Views: There's no shame in charging for a Web service
  Net Views
  Aug 21 2008
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  "Look, it's a business. It can charge what it wants. I happen to agree that the free version is too bare-bones -- why not limit the number of Jotts per month, rather than the function? -- but...

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• Picture This: Apple wants you to help sell iPods using Facebook
  Jordan Golson
  Aug 21 2008
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  Apple has had a significant presence on Facebook for a long time and counts more than 500,000 "fans" on its "Apple Students" Facebook Fan page. A year ago, the Guardian UK...

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• Hulu pushes more than 100 million streams in July, starts advertising
  Jordan Golson
  Aug 20 2008
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  Online video venture Hulu streamed 105 million videos in July according to Nielsen's VideoCensus. Hulu, a joint NBC Universal-News Corp. operation, hosts high-quality free streaming movies, TV shows...

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• Net Views: Gaming loses its sense of humor
  Net Views
  Aug 20 2008
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  "It was first-person shooters like Quake that opened up the door to gaming as a legitimate moneymaking art form. Once people figured out how to make games in three dimensions, the partywagon was...

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• Java Game Tome showcases Java games
  Peter Cohen
  Aug 19 2008
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  Noble Master Games on Tuesday announced a new Web site called the Java Game Tome. It focuses on highlighting games that have been written in the Java programming language. The Java Game Tome...

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