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Craig posted at Cult of Mac about Tim Langdell’s continuing attempts to sue anyone who uses the word ‘Edge’ (which, last we heard, was an English word) in a videogame context and now, apparently, to prevent anyone making any kind of game involving a sphere. In passing, Craig mentioned the characteristic use of an axonometric projection in marble-rolling titles, ‘commonly referred to as “isometric” continue

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Like, media, or whatever

on 14 July 2009

Morgan Stanley, the global financial services people, have released a report on ‘How Teenagers Consume Media’. Cue fusty attempt by middle-aged guys in suits to get wit da yout, but no: this one’s written by a genuine teenager. continue

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Puh? Meh

on 1 July 2009

Ricoh, best known for the kind of office machines bought by people who still call things ‘office machines’, has launched a cloud archive service called quanp. continue

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on 30 June 2009

The trouble about making TV for geeks is that geeks insist on you getting stuff right. continue

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So Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who appealed after being told to pay $220,000 for illegally sharing a couple of dozen music tracks via P2P, now faces an increased award of $1.92 million. continue

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So the Sunday Times is the latest paper thinking seriously about charging for its online edition. continue

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Phorm, the targeted advertising technology that everyone’s been rather suspicious of since BT trialled it on live user data without telling its users first, has launched a website responding to its critics. continue

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Apple has taken down an iApp depicting a crying baby that would shut up if you shook it. Let’s all have a moral panic! continue

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‘Their world was perfect. Their future promising.’ You know this kind of voiceover isn’t going anywhere good. continue

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‘Intel Calls A Bottom For Battered PC Market’, reports the Wall Street Journal. Having issued projections in January along the lines of ‘eek!’, the chip maker didn’t do so badly in Q1 after all continue

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