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Happy Birthday, Dreamcast!, Video Games Pay Bands Better Than Albums

by Leila Brillson on September 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM



Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines...
  • 9/9/09 is a big day for geeks, with an Apple keynote, Beatles-mania, and C-A-T-S forbidden on the Net. But it's also the Sega Dreamcast's 10th birthday, so dust off the old console and reminisce about Sega's last hardware gasp. [From: CNET and Engadget]
  • The influential, sophisticated, and all-too-stuffy restaurant and hotel guide Zagat is losing ground to user-generated services like Chowhound and Yelp. That's no surprise, seeing as the maroon book has made only hesitant steps to head online. [From: NYPost.com]
  • Opposition to Google's pending book project has stopped hollering copyright infringement and has started to focus on privacy issues, instead, citing the 'digital dossier' that Google will keep to document what's being read. [From: Wired.com]
  • In a sensible and obvious move, the National Travel Safety Board (the group that promotes safe driving practices) has banned its own people from using cell phones while driving when on the job. [From: USAToday.com]
  • Mozilla released a 'road map' of the next year, documenting new projects and indicating that a shinier, multi-touch-supported Firefox 4.0 will be released at the end of 2010. [From: Infoworld]
  • Here's an interesting factoid in the wake of 'The Beatles: Rock Band'-mania: Back in the day, a record deal signified a band's hitting it big, but today, video game appearances are much more profitable. [From: The Business Insider]

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