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[11 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 26 views]
A peek at Unreal Engine on Palm Web OS

While at the Game Developers Conference, we just got a peek at Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 running on a Palm Pre Plus. It’s the same technical demo that’s been shown off on the iPhone, both at CES back in January and on Wednesday at Epic’s talk about changes it had to make in order to get the engine running on Apple’s iPhone OS.
According to Epic Games’ Vice President Mark Rein, with whom CNET spoke earlier on Thursday, Palm was only given a test version of the Unreal Development Kit …

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[11 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 58 views]
Diana Jenkins posts £300,000 bail to free Ejup Ganic

Diana Jenkins, who lives in Malibu, put up the money to have Ejup Ganic released as he fights extradition to Serbia on war crimes charges.
The High Court agreed to give him bail a week after he was held at Heathrow airport on suspicion of being involved in the massacre of 40 Yugoslav soldiers in 1992.
His release from Wandsworth prison was secured after the intervention of Mrs Jenkins who left Bosnia as penniless refugee.
She is married to Roger Jenkins, a British banker, who negotiated a £7 billion investment from Qatar to save …

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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 32 views]
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni ‘both having affairs’

The suggestion that the couple were both committing adultery first emerged on Twitter, the microblogging website. It was followed by a report in the Sunday newspaper le Journal du Dimanche.
The first ‘tweet’ claimed that Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had become romantically involved with Benjamin Biolay, a musician and a winner at France’s recent Victoires de la Musique awards.
It then claimed that the jilted Mr Sarkozy had swiftly found solace in the arms of his 40-year-old ecology minister Chantal Jouanno, also a French karate champion.
French web magazine suchablog.com alleged that Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had …

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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 19 views]
On `Idol,’ Bowersox shines, 3 sink in judges’ eyes

If the “American Idol” judges hold sway over viewers, contestants Katie Stevens, Paige Miles and Katelyn Epperly should be nervous about making it into the top 12.
The three received uniformly negative comments from the judging panel after performing Tuesday night, while the other five female singers all hit high notes.
Stevens’ version of “Breakaway” sounded close to karaoke, Randy Jackson said, while fellow judge Kara DioGuardi suggested that the 17-year-old from Middlebury, Conn., does not know herself as an artist yet.
Epperly, 19, of West Des Moines, Iowa, seemed like she was …

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[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 29 views]
A-listers, Olympians mingle at Oscar after-parties

With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.
The snowboarder was one of a group of Olympic athletes who mingled with A-listers at the parties Sunday, sometimes eliciting “oohs” and “ahhs” from the movie stars themselves.
At Vanity Fair’s bash at West Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel, a string of celebrities, including Lenny Kravitz and Jon Voight, sought out White. Even Olympic-winning speed skater Apolo …