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Steam has hit 13 million users which contribute 7 billion player minutes per month. Congratulations, Valve. Not only has the company transformed Steam from a glorified patch downloader to a premiere content delivery service, and now has 13 million users to boot. According to numbers released by Valve, 13 million active users now contribute to the "7 billion player minutes a month" gamed on Steam.
Interestingly on the same day of the Adelaide zombie event some American zombies invaded a San Fransisco Apple store gnawing on computers among other zombie behavior. A horde of decaying zombies invaded San Francisco's downtown Apple store on Friday evening, hunting for brains, terrifying the customers, and gnawing on iMacs. I've placed some photos here. I'm pleased to report that the zombies ultimately decided human brains were tastier than plastic iMacs, although it wasn't for lack of effort in trying to vary what must be a monotonous diet.
The EMI DRM free music is set to hit iTunes this week due to the wish to release the entire catalog at once. Apple is prepared to launch its DRM-free catalog of music from EMI this week, according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores. The seeming delay for introducing the new tier of content has been primarily attributed to a desire to offer the entire catalog at once in the unprotected format rather than a gradual rollout.
Steve Ballmer is visiting Australia meeting with some of Microsofts major partners and discussing the development of technology here. Yesterday, Mr Ballmer visited Parliament House to meet with Prime Minister John Howard, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd, and a bevy of other ministers and shadow ministers to discuss technology trends. He signed a joint agreement with the Department of Defence "reaffirming the strong relationship between the two organisations", Microsoft said in a statement.
A court in Finland has ruled that breaking "ineffective" copy protection is permissible hence ruling CSS (the DRM on regular DVDs) to be broken without legal ramifications. The Helsinki District Court has dealt another blow to CSS, the copy-protection scheme used in commercial DVDs. In a ruling issued today, the court found that CSS is "ineffective" as a form of DRM and that the two defendants cited for violating Finnish copyright law were not guilty.
A second astronaut has been fired in wake of the bizarre NASA love triangle. William Oefelein, 42, who admitted to an affair with fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak that began when both were married, is being sent back to the U.S. Navy effective June 1, a NASA Johnson Space Agency spokesman said. He was told Wednesday.
The OLPC project is asking open source developers to create open source educational games for the machine. I certainly hope they get some sort of zombie shooter mathematical learning game on that thing! The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project is asking software coders to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the XO laptop, continuing its push toward a September launch date. OLPC on Thursday offered a laptop prize for software teams who create new games during a three-day "game jam" scheduled to begin June 8 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts.
People are going insane over the upcoming Apple iPhone including claiming to see one in the wild and detect one browsing their website. It looks like someone at Apple has started more openly testing the Apple iPhone across web sites, including MacRumors.com. One reader tipped us off that they had come across iPhone browser identification strings in the Apache logs of their eBay images. According to their submitted logs, the browser identifies itself as: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3
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