Wii Sports not as cool it seemed

It turns out that Wii sports; Bundled with the Wii is not as cool as you might have thought.
For example in baseball to throw a curve ball, you first select it on the D-Pad and then make a standard throwing motion. instead of doing the actual movement and in tennis you do not control anything except the swing of your player's racket. The movement of these Mii-alike athletes is all done automatically by the game. This is all disappointing in a game that's supposed to show you Nintendo's bold new direction with the Wii.
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Video of the Wii interface

Wii Update

Adam Sessler from G4TV checks out what the Wii will be launching with.

Sony Commercial on Why the Playstation 3's Cell Processor is Important

Nintendo Adds 4 More Wii Experience Videos To Wii.com

Watch how this Japanese family of four learns to play Wii Baseball. As usual, Nintendo found some random people and put them in a room with a TV and gave them the controllers with no explanation at all. As Iwata predicted, people *will* say "WOW!" just like the little boy did at 0:26.
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The other 3 videos can be found from the gallery page - individually linked here for convenience.
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Firefox 2.0 Released Today

While Release Candidate 3 may have thrown a last minute spanner in the works it now appears that all is once again well in Mozilla central with today’s official launch of Firefox 2.0.
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PlayStation 3 Net Service & Launch Titles Unveiled

Despite the Xbox 360’s 12 month head start on the PS3 arguably its biggest asset in the console wars was paved by its predecessor: the establishment of a truly powerful online service. Now Sony – rather belatedly – has detailed how it intends to fight back.
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Panasonic’s 103 inch Plasma Starts Production

The TH-103PF9 is the largest in the plasma in the world. It ’s a full HD screen with a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 and offering up 2.07 million pixels. Just to put this truly stunning panel into perspective, it’s the equivalent of four 51in panels or 16, 26in TVs!
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WoW Character Transfer Error Empties Bank Accounts

Paid character transfer hasn't worked for the last 8 days, but it was only today Blizzard pulled the page. Blizzard, aware of serious issue, warns not to keep on trying to finalize the transfer, as it would always fail but would charge your account for each failed attempt. Dozens of people complain that their bank accounts have been drained..
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nVidia Proclaims New Notebook King

nVidia has busted out the GeForce Go 7950 GTX which it claims (and consequently probably is) the fastest mobile graphics card in the world. The downside is the company has mysteriously decided to keep all specifications under its hat for the time.
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Google Nabs YouTube For $1.65bn

The homogenisation of the Internet continues this week after wildly successful video sharing start-up YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65bn.
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Encrypt your Instant Messenger program

Whenever you talk online with your instant messaging (IM) client of choice, your conversations can be, and in all probability are, recorded, monitored, and read. Any data which travels over a network can be viewed using programs known as packet sniffers, with some specially crafted programs..
There is however a way to protect yourself against this:
Encrypting your conversations.. It's an easy and necessary step to take, and free 3rd party products are available for most IM's.
Here's a list with some of them.
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If you use an IM not natively supporting encryption, and not shown on this list; Google is your friend

How safe is a hard drive really for storage of all your data?

This and how to recover your data if your harddrive dies is unveiled in this short film..
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RC2 Firefox & Vista Launched

It’s a time for nearlies this week with both Firefox 2.0 (awaited with some anticipation) and Windows Vista (awaited with some trepidation) almost out the door.
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Now Fujitsu Recalls 300k Batteries

Back in August when Sony announced there would be No More Battery Recalls you have to wonder just what it was smoking. Since this ill-founded statement Toshiba and Lenovo have hauled back close to a million Sony batteries while Dell asked us for a further 100,000 and now here’s Fujitsu…
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