Super Mario Bros., Nintendo’s highly successful game franchise reached a milestone, as it celebrated its 25th year in the electronic gaming industry. Super Mario Bros. became well known in the 80’s and was a staple on Nintendo’s biggest selling console that time, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Characters like Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Yoshi, and [...]

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Facebook’s location-based service was recently integrated in Japan, making them the first Asian country with the geo-location feature. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, first announced the release of Facebook Places last August. It is a service that lets users disclose information about their current location, share location with friends and tag them in [...]

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Security software manufacturer ArcSight is scheduled to be part of Hewlett Packard to the tune of $1.5 billion. ArcSight is a company that creates and develops software that supervises on corporate network systems, tracing and detecting infiltration of hackers that pose threats in the network’s security. Hewlett Packard knows the importance of this factor and [...]

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Microblogging and social networking website Twitter has reached a milestone by having 145 million registered users and 300,000 applications. Often regarded as the “SMS of the Internet,” this website was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, together with his co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. After a span of four years, this social networking site [...]

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AOL bought mobile application company Rally Up to participate in the growing mobile market industry. AOL’s move is a sign that the company will include new apps and products that was previously released on mobile devices. Rally Up will be the helping hand for AOL’s intentions of increasing the internet service company’s mobile market participation. [...]

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Virtualization software providers VMware purchased two companies, Integrien and TriCipher, announced at VMworld on Tuesday. VMware acquired these companies to strengthen their company. Details about the agreements were not disclosed. The deals will be expected to close by the third quarter of this year. TriCipher’s technology will be used by VMware to be integrated into [...]

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The Israeli has a good start up with this Gigya, they help other companies to easily distribute their widgets. They released their latest figures on the recent holiday season. The most notable was December 23 that set a new record for the total number of widgets installs in just a single day, the widgets installed [...]

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A young girl was kidnapped over the weekend and a police helped to save the girl. Google Street View this may be a bad rap for those conspiracy theorists and overzealous privacy watchdogs. The case is something that makes them confused because a woman allegedly kidnapped her granddaughter. Athol Police Officer Todd Neale was able [...]

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MixedInk launches its services to the public. The idea is from Digg and popular wiki sites that creates a single unique document, they are the document creation tool that will be ideals for those who want to work in a group far larger than they could normally do or encounter in their workplace. The inauguration [...]

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If Dell has their Inspiron Mini 12 now Samsung will unveil their new 12 inch netbook model to U.S. and there will be still many more to come from the company. But still Intel is not happy about the news. The truth is the whole Netbook market is making them nervous. Even though they power [...]

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