Epic brings 3D to Unreal Engine… wait, what?
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The Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco is underway, so folks should be opening the spigot on gaming-related news this week. Nvidia was among the first companies to get into the act with an announcement this morning. They’re working with Epic to bring 3D support to Unreal Engine 3, that…
13Week in review: Game on for Sony
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Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.
8Tech finds its place at SXSWi (roundup)
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As the Web generation descends on the South by Southwest Interactive show in Austin, several location-based start-ups try to put themselves on the map.
8Friday hiatus: CNET News Daily Podcast
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There will be no News podcast today.
8When malware strikes via bad ads on good sites
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Who is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms?
8Plastic Logic Que e-reader delayed till summer
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Plastic Logic’s Que proReader was supposed to come out in April. Now it’s been pushed back till summer. With the iPad’s arrival next month, that may spell doom for this once highly anticipated e-reader.
8Google ponders split decision on China
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Google appears close to deciding its future in China and might be eyeing a resolution that lets it stay in the country in some fashion even if it shuts down its search engine.
8Colleges embrace MP4 technology for delivering instruction
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Four universities are giving students the chance to complete certificate and degree programs by downloading class material to mobile devices like iPhones and iPods in a distance-learning initiative that could be one day be commonplace in higher education.
2Digital Direction International’s HELP Math for ELL and Special Needs Recognized as a CODiE Award Finalist
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Carbondale, Colorado – March 10, 2010 – Digital Directions International (DDI) is pleased to announce that their HELP Math for ELL and Special Needs program has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious CODiE Award in the Best Instructional Solution for Special Needs Students category. The 25th Annual CODiE awards, sponsored [...]New Premier Mounts 2010 Full-Line Product Catalog Now Available
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ANAHEIM, CALIF. (March 11, 2010) – A revamped design featuring dozens of new products and a remarkably easy to use format make the 2010 edition of the Premier Mounts full-line product catalog a valuable resource for anyone designing A/V systems or installing projectors or flat-panel monitors. With more than 225 pages of [...]ARIZONA VIRTUAL ACADEMY DESIGNATED AS 2010 CENTER OF EXCELLENCE WINNER
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Elluminate Award Recognizes Best Practices, Creativity in Technology, Educational Methods
Phoenix, AZ, Mar. 11, 2010 — Elluminate, Inc., the leading provider of online collaboration tools serving seven million teachers and students in 170 countries, named Arizona Virtual Academy (AZVA) a 2010 Center of Excellence winner and named AZVA’s K-8 Principal, Nichole McCauley, an [...]DIGITAL EDUCATION GROUP LAUNCHES TECHNOLOGY CONTEST FOR K-12 TEACHERS
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Academic consulting firm wants to know how free technologies are being used in today’s classrooms; will share results with educators.
Washington D.C. (February 16, 2010) – The Digital Education Group (DEG)—a new academic consulting firm specializing in 21st century classroom technology—opened its ‘Innovative Technology in the Classroom Contest 1.0′ to all K-12 teachers [...]GroupCast d/b/a SchoolReach Dismissed from TechRadium Patent Suit
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ST. LOUIS, MO., March 11, 2010 – GroupCast, LLC and GroupCast d/b/a SchoolReach Instant Parent Contact have been dismissed from the patent infringement lawsuit filed in Texas by TechRadium, Inc. on August 4, 2009 against it and ten other defendants. GroupCast’s position remains that its products, including SchoolReach, do not infringe any [...]America Chooses The Snowy Day as Campaign Book for Jumpstart’s Read for the Record 2010
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Reading Events to be Held on Thursday, October 7, 2010 in Schools and Communities Across the Country
Boston, MA – March 11, 2010 – Thousands of American’s have shown their ongoing commitment to ending the crisis in early literacy by picking up their cell phones and voting for Jumpstart’s Read for the Record’s [...]MSI Donates Computers to Help Virginia Tech Students Form the First Ever Linux Laptop Orchestra
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CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – March 11, 2010 – MSI Computer, recently donated a number of MSI Wind U100 Netbooks to the Virginia Tech Music Department to help create the first ever Linux-based laptop orchestra. The diverse group is made up of theater arts, political science, engineering, biology and math majors and [...]Girl Scout Day Shortbread
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Girl Scout Day
How soon is now? Pre-order timing for iPad confirmed, 5:30AM PT
VR-Zone shares rumor: Dual-GF100 to release later?
Dual-Fermi Nvidia card not coming anytime soon
Expreview reports Inno3D ready to ship GeForce GTX 480 / 470
ATI has announced its Open Stereo 3D…
13JooJoo tablet has silly name, Ion graphics
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Engadget has been scouring filings with the FCC again, and the site has come across evidence that Fusion Garage’s upcoming JooJoo tablet features an Nvidia Ion chipset alongside an Atom N270 CPU. The PureVideo HD decode block built into the Ion’s GPU can accelerate HD video playback…
13Critics: Obama’s ed policies no better than Bush’s
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When it comes to education policy, President Obama is repeating the most grievous errors of his predecessor, charge a trio of venerable education policy analysts, including one—Diane Ravitch—best known for her past support of conservative positions on testing, accountability, and choice.
23D prices not too steep
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Website: Rapid TV News
Samsung’s latest range of TVs will go on sale in the US at the end of March.
Indeed, some models are already available, and will be in key European markets very shortly.
We know their prices, and the 3D sets will not be cheap.
Samsung’s debut into the 3D set market is [...]SES Astra says HD quality suffers when bit-rate is cut
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Website: Rapid TV News
This time next week SES Astra will unveil its latest data as to the number of homes viewing one or other of its satellites.
The numbers will be good, but the number of HD channels now being offered in Europe is near-spectacular.
But Astra admits there are complaints about too many [...]LG offers 3D TV prices
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LG is the next TV producer out of the trap to deliver details and prices of its range of 3D televisions, destined for the UK.
There will be a late launch for the LG LD920, as the company estimate this one will be ready for late summer.
However, the LG LX9900 3D TV [...]Five devalued by RTL
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It has to be a sign of the times when a terrestrial TV broadcaster like Five can have its value literally cut in half overnight, but that is what happened when the owner of Five, the RTL Group, reported figures that were a lot worse than anticipated.
Five ended the year with a [...]Elgato Netstream sharing TV at home
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The TV tuner made by Elgato has always been a good piece of kit but the latest addition to the range, the Elgato Netstream, is not a USB device that has to be plugged into a computer as it plugs straight into the home’s broadband router.
Once connected to the TV aerial and [...]TV.com agrees deal with Five
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Following in the steps of the other broadcasters, Five has announced the signing of a deal with the CBS owned and run TV.com on-demand TV service.
This will be TV.com’s first deal with a UK based broadcaster and should there be more deals in the pipeline with other broadcasters, TV.com will have the [...]Sony producing a 3D camera
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As if the talk of 3D television, laptops, film and games is not enough it seems that Sony is working on building a new camera for the home user that uses 3D technology, and with that announcement it seems that 3D is definitely here to stay.
It is not the fad that [...]Sky 3D Channel to be universal
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When BSkyB first announced it would be bringing out a 3D TV Channel, it was feared that with the different formats available it would never work, but this is BSkyB and the broadcaster is not going to let a little thing like formats get in the way.
Now it seems that the first [...]Dell Mini 5 comes with VoD
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One of the ways to keep customers happy is to offer them more, preferably without charging too much for it either.
One company that is good at doing this is Dell, and in order to attract new customers the company is offering the new Dell Mini 5 tablet computer with a special deal [...]Motion control comes to the PS3 with Sony’s PlayStation Move
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Sony has officially unveiled its motion controller for the PlayStation 3 game console. The wand-style PlayStation Move made its debut at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and Sony says it’ll be available for purchase this fall. Expect to pay less than $100 for a Playstation…
13A quick look at XFX’s Radeon HD 5830
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In our Radeon HD 5830 preview, we tested a sample card from AMD that wasn’t really representative of the final retail products. One of the cards we talked about in the review was XFX’s version of the 5830. XFX’s card looked to be one of the most promising offerings…
13Mario Day Shortbread
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Mario Day
Engadget reports Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is ‘looking forward’
to court date with Intel, sees no reason to settle (video)
Ars Technica reports HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers
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13Ubisoft DRM authentication servers go down
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That whole "forcing users to be online to play" copy protection scheme Ubisoft premiered recently seems to be having a rough start. After forcing players to retrace progress in the release version of Assassin’s Creed II, the new DRM scheme has now prevented folks from, well, actually playing both…
13Wearing your Stickybit on your sleeve, or elsewhere
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One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can “tag” with anything.
8Chasing Groupon, LivingSocial raises $25 million
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Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding.
8BBC iPlayer tunes into Humax Foxsat STB
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Owners of the Humax Foxsat HD and the Foxsat HDR Freesat set top boxes will be able to access the highly desirable BBC iPlayer through the red button on the remote control.
However before the viewer can use this service a little bit of planning will be needed, as the set top box [...]Sharp prepares for Freeview launch
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Sharp will be releasing the first versions of its new Freeview HD set top boxes towards the end of April.
Naturally, one of these machines will be a personal video recorder (PVR) but unusually it will offer a USB port as an additional storage connection.
The Sharp TU T1UR, which comes with three [...]West gets the switchover countdown
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Households in the West TV region that are still watching television via an analogue signal have only two weeks to switchover to a digital TV service or face missing out initially on BBC 2 and, after BBC 2 is switched off, the entire analogue signal will soon be switched off.
This will affect [...]PM is red carded by the BBC
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With the prospect of a General Election brewing the leaders of the main political parties have to get themselves in front of as many people as possible.
This can make a lot of difference to how the voters see these leaders and ultimately could affect the outcome of the election.
So what better [...]Microsoft launches VoD service
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Microsoft officially launched the MSN Video Player today.
This is a service said to rival that of the BBC iPlayer but in reality these are two different services altogether.
The BBC iPlayer offers the user a catch up service of programmes that have been shown during the previous week, but the MSN Video [...]YouTube views increase by 50%
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Music on YouTube has been a big hit in the US, with viewings for the month of January increasing by fifty per cent according to the US-based tracker service comScore.
The figures throw up some interesting facts about the market, with 173.3 million internet user watching a staggering 32.4 billion videos.
YouTube is the [...]Samsung 3D TVs launching soon
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Samsung will be launching its version of the 3D television by the end of the month in the UK.
The Korea-based firm confirmed the launch of the televisions and Blu-ray devices well in time for the start of the UK’s only 3D Channel from BSkyB.
The company has joined forces with the DreamWorks Studio [...]UK pay TV subscriptions increase
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Once again, spending on digital television services has increased.
To the end of 2009 the figure for subscription based services was £4.6 billion, which shows an increase of 6.4 per cent.
According to Future Source Consulting, in total a staggering £19.7 billion was spent on media products, with pay TV taking around a quarter [...]S4C failing to get enough viewers
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It may be funded by the TV Licence but the regional channel for Wales S4C, effectively Channel Four for Wales, showed around two hundred programmes last month and because this channel is directed at the Welsh, it is easy to think that the viewing figures would be pretty substantial.
However, according to the [...]Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too
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The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application
8GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of gameplay
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roundup This week’s Game Developers Conference brings together designers, programmers, publishers, and others for the latest from the world of video play.
8Android phones get Opera Mini 5 beta
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Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup.
8LGBT researcher calls for action to combat cyberbullying (podcast)
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The co-author of a study on cyberbullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth says more than half of LGBT youth had experienced cyberbulling within the past 30 days.
8Intel debuts six-core gaming chip
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Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.
8Report: Time for next stage of sustainable business
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Activist investor group urges companies to track their use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow.
8Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme processor
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Intel’s dominance with the Nehalem Core i7s has been nearly complete, yet a replacement will soon arrive in the form of Gulftown, a six-core monster with 12MB of cache. How good is it? Should it replace your Pentium 4? Your Core 2 Quad Q6600? We investigate.
13Sony announces Playstation Move
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Sony unveils their first motion controller for the Playstation 3.
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