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The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced a new academic scholarship in honor of Mark Beaumont, former COO of Capcom® North America and Europe who passed away suddenly on February 23, 2010. The endowment was established by the AIAS Foundation to support students in pursuit of careers in the interactive entertainment and animation business. The AIAS will award four yearly $2,500 scholarships to students attending accredited universities

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Announces Academic Scholarship in Tribute to Mark Beaumont

Mobile tour searches for local ‘Game-Changers’ on the court and in the community Burger King Corp. brings its first-ever BK® NEXT BEST MOVE national mobile tour to the Savannah area on March 16, 2010, to find “game-changers” both on the basketball court and in the community. Local ballers can show off their best moves for a chance to compete for $10,000 and to be featured in a basketball lifestyle magazine and Web site.

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The 2010 BK NEXT BEST MOVE National Tour Hits Savannah on March 16

Panasonic LUMIX G2 Features a 3-Inch Touch-Screen, Allowing for Quick and Intuitive Setting Changes, such as Focus, with a Single Touch technology Panasonic today announces the LUMIX DMC-G2, the world’s first digital interchangeable lens system camera with a movable LCD that allows for touch-control, and the successor to the award-winning and revolutionary LUMIX G1, which was the world’s first Micro Four Thirds digital camera. The intuitive touch-control shooting elevates the camera’s operability, letting the user adjust auto focus (AF) simply by touching the subject on the large 3.0-inch 460,000-dot high-resolution LCD. The LUMIX G2, also shoots 720p High Definition video using the AVCHD Lite format, and joins the LUMIX G10, also introduced today, as the latest models in the LUMIX G Micro System

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LUMIX DMC-G2, World’s First Interchangeable Lens System Camera With Touch-Control Movable LCD

Pre-Order on March 12 Apple® today announced that its magical, revolutionary and interactive iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April

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iPad Available in US on April 3

Digital 3-D projection is fantastic and the way forward for a prosperous future of 3-D, but despite all the huffing and puffing of the Avatar PR machine, 3-D film consumption at home is still 99.9% an anaglyph business. In recent weeks, anaglyph family member ColorCode 3D has been the main format chosen for 3-D TV broadcast in the US and the UK.

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3-D Film formats beyond Real-D, Dolby3D and Xpand 3-D

And now a warning from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: on February 2, 2010, this land officially becomes ZOMBIELAND as the number one grossing 3d animation zombie movie in history takes over the nation on Blu-ray, DVD and PSP. Woody Harrelson (2012, Natural Born Killers), Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, The Village), Emma Stone (The House Bunny, Superbad) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Signs) star in this action-packed horror comedy about an unlikely band of heroes who team up to survive in a world overrun by ravenous zombies! Speaking of ravenous, ZOMBIELAND features enough outrageous laughs and terrifying thrills to satisfy the most hungry horror and comedy fans. Plus, the Blu-ray and DVD come loaded with killer bonus features fans will devour, including deleted scenes; commentary with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, Director Ruben Fleischer and Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick; the making-of featurettes “In Search of Zombieland,” and “Zombieland is Your Land;” visual effects progression scenes; trailers and more! Bonus features exclusive to the Blu-ray Disc include a Digital Copy of the film for PSP, PC and iTunes, as well as the “Beyond the Graveyard” Picture-in-Picture Track – featuring behind-the-scenes footage, storyboards, animatics and more – and movieIQ, which allows viewers to immediately access continuously updated information on the cast & crew and explore relevant trivia such as production facts and soundtrack information all tied to scenes within the movie via BD-Live.

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Zombieland on Blu-ray and DVD, Planet Hulk on Blu-ray and DVD, Plus More

IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron’s 3D animation wonder Avatar, which has received Golden Globe(R) awards for Best Picture and Best Director, has passed the $150 million mark at IMAX(R) theatres worldwide during the weekend from Friday, January 29, 2010 through Sunday, January 31, 2010. During its seventh weekend, the film grossed $6.02 million from 179 IMAX theatres domestically, representing approximately 21% of the film’s total domestic three-day weekend gross of $29.3 million on less than 2% of the screens

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James Cameron’s Avatar Passes $150 Million Milestone in IMAX Theatres

As the New Orleans Saints make their Super Bowl debut, so does Electronic Arts. On Super Bowl Sunday, two days before the video game hits store shelves, EA will introduce football fans to Dante’s Inferno, a third-person action-adventure videogame, with the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial

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EA Readies First Super Bowl Commercial Play With Dante’s Inferno

Multi-protocol chat client Trillian follows up its resurgence last year with a long-rumored Mac version. Trillian for Mac is an unstable alpha, lacking many of the features that make Trillian Astra appealing on Windows, but even so it offers users a good idea of what’s to come from Cerulean Studios.

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Trillian for Mac arrives as an alpha

We reviewed the latest version of AVG Free back in October 2009 , and found it to be a decent successor to the previous version, 8.5. AVG Free 9 is currently the most popular app on Download.com by a long shot , and this version bolsters its security offerings with the integrated LinkScanner and free identity protection for users in the United States.

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AVG Free 9 gives free ID protection

Apple issued a patch on Tuesday for the iPhone and iPod Touch that plugs five holes, including several that could allow an attacker to take control of the device remotely. Three of the vulnerabilities could allow someone to run code remotely, if an iPhone or iPod Touch user opened malicious audio or image files, or accessed a malicious FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server, Apple said.

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Apple patch plugs iPhone, iPod Touch holes

(Credit: Apple, Inc.) Apple has released iTunes 9.0.3, which addresses a number of bugs found in previous versions of iTunes 9. The update provides a number of important bug fixes, including: iTunes no longer ignores your ” Remember password for purchases ” setting. Addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod

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Greasemonkey scripts are an easy way to create single-serving enhancements for Firefox, and now they work natively on Google Chrome, too. Google Chrome 4 and above now natively supports many Greasemonkey scripts. (Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) In a blog post Monday , Aaron Boodman, the developer of the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, announced that Chrome version 4 and later will support most of the JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts without any additional tweaking necessary.

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Greasemonkey comes to Chrome

Firefox usage remained level and Google’s Chrome continued to pull ahead of Apple’s Safari, but the most notable change in January’s browser usage statistics is that the reviled Internet Explorer 6 no longer is the most common. According to Net Applications’ monthly usage share figures , No. 1 IE and No.

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Tide turns against IE 6 as usage drops

It’s time for the United Kingdom government to scrap Internet Explorer 6, upgrading away from the browser introduced in 2001 and the problems it brings now, according to a petition submitted Monday. “We the undersigned petition the prime minister to encourage government departments to upgrade away from Internet Explorer 6,” according to the petition , submitted by Dan Frydman, a managing director of online publishing contractor Inigo

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Petition urges U.K. government to dump IE 6

Exhibit powered by new energy-efficient IBM Smarter Data Center IBM ( IBM) today unveiled a new experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the animation mogul Walt Disney World® Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet. The exhibit is powered by a new Smarter Data Center, providing a real-life demonstration of optimized computing that reduces energy costs by up to 25 percent. SmarterPlanet presented by IBM offers visitors to the park a “behind-the-scenes” glimpse of how technology is helping solve the world’s most complex problems – from reducing road traffic and city crime to improving food safety and local water supplies

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IBM Works with Walt Disney Imagineering to Create a New Smarter Planet Exhibit

Meet Kenny Twist and the DNA girl. They are the stars of a new animation film, “Cell Side Story,” developed by students at Atkins Academic and Technology High School in cooperation with Wake Forest University and other community partners. “Cell Side Story” is a love story featuring male and female animated characters that dramatize what happens within cells

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New Musical ‘Cell Side Story’ Puts Science on Stage

Beloved Bugs Bunny on Broadway Concert Series Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with Global Premiere of New Sequel Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced today that Bugs Bunny on Broadway, the record-setting orchestra-and-film concert that reinvented a new genre of symphony orchestra concert when it debuted in 1990, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2010 with a rechristened and newly-created concert sequel, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony.

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Warner Brothers Strikes a Chord with Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

Technology from World’s Leading 3D Entertainment Brand Promises Plug-and-Play 3D animation Console Gaming Experience RealD, the world’s leading 3D technology provider for cinema and professional applications, announced today that Ubisoft, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing), has licensed and integrated the company’s proprietary stereoscopic RealD Format into James Cameron’s Avatar™: The Game. The RealD Format allows for a seamless direct connection between the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system or PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and 3D-enabled TVs with integrated RealD technology for an unsurpassed 3D gaming experience. “RealD technology is proven for delivering some of the highest quality 3D images in cinema and professional uses,” stated Patrick Naud, Executive Producer on James Cameron’s Avatar™: The Game, at Ubisoft Montreal

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Ubisoft and 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising Integrate Stereoscopic RealD Format Into James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game

Playful Pups, Bunny Cheerleaders and Hamsters Flying a Blimp For the sixth consecutive year, Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl” television animation program — started in 2005 as an alternative to the Super Bowl — has earned the American Humane Association’s “No Animals Were Harmed”® end-credit disclaimer. This year’s “players” include 43 puppies and 20 kittens providing halftime entertainment. New to this year’s lineup are bunny cheerleaders and hamsters flying a blimp.

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‘No Animals Were Harmed’ in ‘Puppy Bowl VI’