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Apple's New iPad Making Waves in Video Game Market

A woman holds up an iPad with the iTunes U app after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York in this January 19, 2012, file photo.
Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) faster and sharper-looking new iPad is drawing the notice of the traditional video game industry, as developers are envisioning games for it that have more in common with the visceral 3D shooter Call of Duty than FarmVille.
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Unreal Engine 3 Runs on Adobe Flash Player [VIDEO]

The Unreal Engine, a fabled gaming engine originally developed in 1998 for the first-person shooter game Unreal, is known for its high degree of portability and has become frequently used by independent game developers as the backbone on which they power their games. Adobe Flash, a multimedia platform for web pages, is known for the exact opposite: Flash games, to this point, have been primarily 2D and, as Steve Jobs pointed out, are typically unstable.
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Pwn2Own: Hackers Exploit Google Chrome, Apple Safari

Google's Chrome browser was the first to be hacked at the annual Pwn2Own competition held at CanSecWest Security Conference in Vancouver. The competition, in its fifth year, has garnered lots of attention over the past few weeks, especially after Google disowned the contest, deciding instead to hold a rival competition at the conference titled Pwnium.
Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook's "fMC" global event for marketers in New York City

Facebook Suffers Technical Difficulties in Europe, Asia

World’s No. 1 social networking site Facebook was unavailable for almost 2 hours in Europe and parts of Asia on Wednesday morning. Facebook referred to it as “technical difficulties” and was able to fix it quickly.
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OSCE urges Tajiks to end shutdown of Facebook, sites

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged Tajikistan to end a local shutdown of Facebook and several Russian-language sites that had published material critical of the nation's veteran leader.
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg delivers a keynote address at Facebook's ''fMC'' global event for marketers in New York City, February 29, 2012.

Facebook Adds 25 more Underwriters for IPO

Facebook Inc added 25 banks to help underwrite the company's initial public offering, meaning most of Wall Street will have a role in the share sale, according to an amended IPO filing on Wednesday.
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The PC Is Over: Former Top Microsoft Exec

Ray Ozzie, the man who succeeded Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp's tech visionary, believes the world has moved past the personal computer, potentially leaving behind the world's largest software company.
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iPad 3 Release: Apple to Unveil HD Ecosystem at Launch Event

Today is the big day for Apple fans, and for all of those following the news about an iPad 3, or, more likely, an iPad HD. Apple is expected to unveil, among other things, a next-gen iPad and a next-gen Apple TV. Both products are parts of Apple's new ecosystem of iDevices, which are all centered around one thing: HD.
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Facebook goes down in parts of Europe

Facebook Inc, the world's biggest social networking site, said its service was unavailable in some European countries on Wednesday morning because of technical problems.
Despite the advent of mobile payments, Apple has been reluctant to move into the space, leaving that work to others like PayPal and Square. But with this newly-granted patent, it looks like Apple will take NFC into its own hands with the "iWallet.&qu

Apple iPhone 5 Release Features: Why the 'iWallet' Will Crush All NFC Rivals

Apple won a major patent for its iWallet technology on Tuesday, which is a digital system that uses Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology to complete credit card transactions directly on your phone. The iWallet could be the killer app promised in Apple's next-gen smartphone, presumably called the iPhone 5.
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Chevrolet Volt Car of the Year as production halt looms

Just as the assembly lines making them prepared for a five-week shutdown due to slack demand, General Motors Co's Chevrolet Volt and Ampera plug-in electric hybrid cars were named European Car of the Year at the Geneva Auto Show.

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