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A new controversy is swirling around technology giant Microsoft, and it has nothing to do with its Windows operating system, browser software, antitrust investigations, anti-piracy measures, video games, portable media players, or its stance towards patents and open source software. Instead, the company is quickly trying to apologize for intentionally altering a photo used on its business productivity Web sites to change a man's… Read More

Paranoid cell users: you can safely return your phones to your pockets now. After speculation this week that a Korean man’s death may have been caused by an exploding cell phone in his pocket, authorities have discovered a much more likely cause for punctured and punctured heart and lungs – a massive piece of quarry equipment. According to the Associated Press, a doctor who examined the body determined that the damage… Read More

The Beijing News has reported that an unnamed man has dropped dead after a three-day Internet gaming session.   It happened on Saturday in the cityof Guangzhou, in the south of China. The man, said to be around 30 years old, collapsed in an Internet café and was rushed to hospital. According to the newspaper, exhaustion was deemed thelikely cause and "police have ruled out the possibility of suicide.”   There’s… Read More

If you don’t remember Pac-Man, the chances are you weren’t around in the 1980s. It was the biggest video game of the era, but now there’s a chance to enjoy an entirely new Pac-Manexperience.   Microsoft has introduced Pac-Man 21st Century Championship Edition for its Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade platforms. The new gamewas introduced on Tuesday during the finals of the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship in New York. The… Read More

Activision has set loose the official video-game tie-in for the latest installment of the Spider-Man movie franchise—and it's aptly titled Spider-Man 3. Activision is leaving no stone un-turned with this release, rolling out Spider-Man 3 titles for a variety of major game platforms, including all the so-called next-gen systems (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii) plus the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS handheld system. “The… Read More

Game developer Namco today said they were bringing an original kart racing game featuring Pac-Man characters to multiple gaming platforms. The game, to be called Pac-Man World Rally, is being developed by Smart Bomb Interactive and will be released in summer 2006. Pac-Man World Rally, Namco said, puts players behind the wheel as Pac-Man or one of 14 other characters from the Pac-Man world. Gamers, across the game's multiple levels,… Read More

“A healthy 30-year-old man developed a serious lung disease after being exposed to a type of metal oxide used to coat the screens. Doctors at Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo found tiny deposits of the compound in the man's lungs, according to a report in the European Respiratory Journal. But British consumers have been assured buying the televisions poses no risk. “ Read more at BBC News Found VIA Engadget

“Spider-Man 2: The Game,” licensed by Activision, was developed by Ryan C. Gordon, who has previously worked with Aspyr Media, Inc. on “Shrek 2: The Game.” “Spider-Man 2: The Game,” the follow-up to 2002′s hit Spider-Man videogame, places the gamer into the web-slinging, web-swinging world of the Manhattan metropolis. Gamers become Peter Parker's alter ego, Spider-Man, soaring through a highly… Read More