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There’s been so much push for digital, downloadable content lately that we’ve almost forgotten about our old friend, the compact disc. Even though CD sales are plummeting each time our little planet makes another obit around that bright, flaming thing in the sky, the big boys don’t seem to be willing to throw in the towel just quite yet .

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UMG to lower U.S. CD prices

You may recall the minor hullabaloo around the time of the iPad launch that Chinese company Great Long Brother had released a tablet well before Apples that shares a certain distinctive design. They threatened to sue Apple for mimicking their own P88, though it’d be clear to a purblind marmoset that the P88 was mimicking the iPhone. Well, things have taken a turn for the absurd

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Copy our tablet for your iPad, will you? Well how do you like… this?

Bad news for the XP diehards out there, hard drive manufacturers are tired of supporting you, and the next generation of controller technology is not going to work properly with DOS and Windows XP users.

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Hard drive design leaving XP behind

It has been suggested that the album is dead. That’s a bit hasty, I think; such an established musical tool can only be detonated when both the patron and the artist turn the key. What people are seeing is that the patrons (i.e

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In a world of tracks, Pink Floyd fights for the album

Just so you know, I’m not making light of warfare — it’s just that virtual training like this, while valuable, does remind one simultaneously of Modern Warfare and Ender’s Game . Of course, as this article notes , the current generation of potential soldiers has grown up in a digital age and expects a little Xbox with their ammo box.

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360-degree virtual combat room is like Iraq: The Arcade Game

Gunnar Optiks , makers of advanced lenses to ease eye strain for computer users, is teaming up with Carl Zeiss to bring a whole new class of “optics” to you. Not a whole lot of details at this point, other than Zeiss coatings and tints “will be used on the Gunnar Optiks lenses to change the lenses to suit specific digital viewing environments.” Maybe this means a new line of clear lenses, suitable for use in color-sensitive environments like graphic design, are coming soon.

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Gunnar Optiks joining forces with Carl Zeiss to make new lenses

Short version: A very slick, but rather small mousepad well-suited to those of you who like hard, slidey surfaces to mouse on. If that sounds good, maybe you should try winning it! Woo! Features: Two mousing surfaces in one! One side is low traction, the other is… lower traction Grippy corners keep mousepad in place Removable gel wrist rest MSRP: $34.99 Pros: Very slippery if you’re into that Compact, if you like that Gel wrist rest is useful, again, if you like that Cons: The cons are pretty much the same as the pros Full review: This mousepad has a lot of “matters of taste” about it

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Review: Razer Vespula double-sided mousepad (and giveaway)

As a guy who likes his image quality, I have to say I am shocked, shocked at this ridiculous trend. I think the manufacturers of TVs and Blu-ray players are preying on consumers’ ignorance with the whole upscaling thing. Sure, it’s good to have a little sharpening algorithm in there so edges don’t get too blurry when you blow it up, but honestly

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Mitsubishi now wants to upscale your HD to 4K

Foursquare is growing fast. Real fast. Traffic may be up as much as threefold over the past two months. But how are people actually using it?

The main Foursquare account tweeted out stats today that give a nice breakdown of usage. It’s just over a seven day span, but given that the service is now finally on platforms such as BlackBerry, is probably a good sample.

As you may expect, the iPhone still dominates, with 67% of usage. Coming in second with 13% is Android, which was the second native app Foursquare launched. In third is the just-launched BlackBerry version with 11%. In fourth is the mobile web, which has 7%. Palm is in fifth with 1.5%, and SMS comes in last with less than 1%.

A few interesting things to note: When the service launched just about a year ago at the SXSW festival, it was iPhone and mobile web only. Whoever wrote the tweet on the Foursquare account added “still?!?” when noting the mobile web’s 7% usage, so clearly they think there are better options out there. And with the just unveiled Windows Mobile client, there are now apps for all the big platforms except for Nokia (which is also in the works).

Also interesting is that SMS is in last place on this list with less than 1%. Foursquare is similar to co-founder Dennis Crowley’s last startup, Dodgeball, which sold to Google in 2006 — but the difference is that Dodgeball heavily relied on SMS. It’s interesting that Foursquare is seeing the growth it is in spite of this lack of SMS usage. SMS was a big reason why Twitter exploded, and it still is a major part of the service in other countries. That’s something Foursquare might want to consider as it continues to expand.

Who didn’t see this coming? Waterloo University, a fine institution of higher learning, in Canada, has found that 30 percent of incoming freshman cannot pass a “simple” English test

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Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.