New York Attorney General to Sue Tagged.com

ew York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has charged that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million internet users worldwide – by sending emails that raided their private accounts. He plans to sue the social networking website for deceptive marketing and invasion of privacy.

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TweetCraft: A WoW In-Game Twitter Client

TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft and a Microsoft Coding4Fun Project. With it, you can send/receive Tweets, upload screenshots, and even AutoTweet in-game achievements!

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World of Warcraft First; Second Life Second

Nielsen Games released its March 2009 data for top console usage and PC game titles with Playstation 2 and the role-playing game World Of Warcraft again topping their respective lists.
Top 10 PC Game Titles: March 2009
RANK Game Publisher Avg. Min Per Week
1 World of Warcraft Blizzard Entertainment 653
2 Second Life Linden Lab 760
3 Dark Messiah [...]

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Runescape Is Number One Online Game: MySpace Top of The Websites

Habbo, which see more than 11 million unique users each month, today released its annual Global Habbo Youth Survey Brand Update. The study, says Habbo, explores teens’ connection and interests toward individual brands and highlights their preferences in categories including consumer electronics, music, sportswear, and games. On the game/virtual worlds front, Runescape maintained its number [...]

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Project Natal for XBox Unveiled

Microsoft has unveiled for the first time to the public their “Project Natal.” This is the code name for a revolutionary new way to play with no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak, you [...]

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Duke Nukem Forever – Well, Maybe Less Than That!

In 1997, the computer gaming company 3D Realms announced its new, upcoming game, Duke Nukem Forever. Based on the popular first-person-shooter format, the game promised to be a fun-filled, action-packed extravaganza of dark humor and bloody mayhem.

Sadly, the bloody mayhem came in the form of a bloodless winding up of the [...]

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WWF Use Augmented Reality To Highlight Wildlife’s Fate

The WWF – that’s World Wildlife Federation and not the World Wrestling Federation – has opened up a new campaign aimed at getting China’s young people to be more aware of the fate of wild animals.
“We developed the world’s first mobile application where a virtual bear interacts with real environment, in real time. Through your [...]

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Google’s “Chrome” Browser To Air On TV Ads

Rather than rely on its internet presence as the world’s largest search engine to promote its new browser, Google is turning to TV promotion. The official Google blog for May 8th 2009 has the following:
“So today, we’re pleased to announce that we’re using Google TV Ads to run our Chrome ad on various television networks [...]

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World’s Luckiest Man Gets Island Job

A British man has been appointed the new caretaker of an Australian tropical island, a six-month position described as “the best job in the world.”
Ben Southall, 34, a charity fundraiser from Petersfield, Hampshire, emerged from a field of over 34,000 applicants.

His new job requires Mr Southall to live and report from [...]

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Ooh, That Smell – Can You Smell That Smell?

Among the biggest time savers for living in a virtual worlds are that there is no need to wash your clothes nor attend to personal hygiene. In fact, having a bathroom in your virtual home is merely an affectation.
However, researchers at the University of Birmingham in England are among the pioneers seeking to add that [...]

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