WebbAlert - November 25, 2008

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The U.S. Army plans to spend $50 million on video game
technologies to train soldiers. Also, new recruits must now beat
Call of Duty 4 on Veteran difficulty in order to pass basic
training.(That second part might not be official military
policy.)

If unsubstantiated claims received from zero official sources are
to be trusted, Google has been dishing out hundreds of layoffs on
the sly for months now. Such dealings could end up affecting
10,000 hypothetical employees.


Well, we can all finally get some rest now that Facebook and
Twitter have given up all that buyout talk. In the end, it looks
like the deal fell through due to disagreements over price. Oh,
and Facebook couldn't propose the bid in under 140
characters.


Microsoft has acquired the exclusive distribution rights for the
second season of the hit web show "The Guild." It's sort of an
odd combination - Microsoft, the Internet and nerds - but I guess
it could work.


The era of the personal computer is over. The era of the personal
supercomputer has begun...in an electronics shop in London.


The great thing about robots is that they can do stuff on their
own, like absolutely destroy you in Guitar Hero. Well, at least
there will be good tunes when civilization crumbles.


Samsung may or may not have created a mobile device equipped with
a foldable OLED display. However, there is a video of it in
action, and when has a video on the Internet ever lied to
us?





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