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Comcast bans heavy Internet user for one year
SEATTLE — Andre Vrignaud couldn’t connect to the Internet this week. When he walked down to the basement of his Seattle home to check his connections, he saw the blinking blue lights of doom on his modem. “I was irritated,” he said. Vrignaud’s Internet provider, Comcast, had cut off his service for a full year because he had exceeded his data limit twice in the past few months. So, not only is …

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Section 8: Prejudice Coming to PSN July 26
Skydiving shooter Section 8: Prejudice finally has a release date for its PlayStation version, and it’ll be with us before the end of the month.

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Digital Kids: Summer camp teaches kids how to create iPhone apps, video games and more
Founded by the company internalDrive in Silicon Valley, iD Tech Camps are week-long sessions for beginner to advanced students at 60 universities throughout the nation. Students can sign up for a particular course, where they can create iPhone apps, robots, video games, websites, C++ and Java programs, movies and more.

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Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Review [PlayStation 3 Xbox 360]
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon has lots of explosions and destruction, but not quite enough variety to keep things moving.

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Police Report: Cash, liquor stolen from Laurel Lane home
These are incidents reported by the Naperville Police Department. Where charges have been filed, the reports include when and where the suspect was stopped or taken into custody and the nature of the charges.Friday, May 27Misrepresentation of age by minor: Around 11 p.m. on 0-99 block Jefferson Avenue, unknown male used fake ID in attempt to enter liquor establishment.Tuesday, July 5Burglary …

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News: Space Invaders movie optioned
Asteroids producer on board. People are trying to make a Space Invaders movie. Producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Odd Lot Entertainments Gigi Pritzker have optioned the rights from Japanese publisher Taito and are after a writer to come up with a story, The Hollywood Reporter said. Good luck with that, guys. Read more…

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Is Android Microsoft’s next cash cow?
This story ran in the print edition of The Seattle Times on July 8, 2011. -Sharon Pian Chan In the hunt for the next billion-dollar business, Microsoft may have discovered one in mobile software. It costs Microsoft nothing to produce and sell, and it’s not Windows Phone. It’s Android, the wildly popular — and free — mobile-phone software made by competitor Google. In the past nine months …

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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North trailer pays homage to the movies
While the primary focus of The Lord of the Rings books and film was on the members and adventures of the Fellowship of the Ring, that was only one small piece of the massive story that J.R.R. Tolkien dreamed up but only hinted at. And while those glory-hungry hobbits were busy smoking their shire weed, and the adults were off donning their fancy armor hanging out with trees, another war was …

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itablet Bluetooth Thumb Keyboard review
Testing out the Bluetooth connection with an iMac, we found it easy to hook up the itablet . There’s a dedicated button that puts the device on the lookout for nearby Bluetooth devices, and the two promptly found each other with a minimum of fuss.

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Illegal bottle rockets believed cause of Rohnert Park fire
Illegal bottle rockets were the likely cause of a fire that torched a Rohnert Park apartment complex, causing more than $1 million in damage.

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Robbery victims believe thieves know the family
Robbie Simmer is at camp with no idea of the crushing news that awaits him.

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Wistron patent deal hints at Chrome OS tablet
Microsoft has entered into a patent-licensing agreement with Wistron that for the first time covers Google’s Chrome OS as well as Android.

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Summer Post: Beach Levels in Gaming
Summer. The sun shining down, the cool breeze offering a moment of relief from the heat, and the sounds of the waves crashing gently against the shore, retreating to the ocean to repeat the cycle anew. Who could guess that such a relaxing, pristine setting in real life could also be one of the best locales a video game could offer. In no particular order, here are a few games that gave some …

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IBM Creates New Memory Technology 100 Times Faster Than Flash
IBM just revealed its new phase-change memory (PCM) tech that could drastically change computing and gaming. IBM says that PCM is able to write and retrieve data 100 times faster than Flash memory. It also lasts much longer, surviving 10 million write cycles compared to the 3,000 cycles of Flash that the average consumer can use. This kind of advancement should be super expensive, right …

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Microsoft Winning The Downloadable Race
While it may not come as a surprise to everyone, the Xbox 360 is leading the digital charge with most downloaded games. Don’t chalk this up to the PSN outage, however, as these figures are primarily taken from last year. In 2010 XBLA moved twice as many games as Sony’s PSN, and trounced Nintendo with seven times the downloads. The NPD Group reports that downloadable games sales between 360, Wii …

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