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In the dog-eat-dog game console market, it's not about who starts first. It is as clear as can be: Nintendo is stuck in the past, Sony is confused about the present, and Microsoft is preparing for the future. While the Xbox 360 may not be the console with the highest potential out there, Microsoft is playing an incredibly smart game against its rivals that will get bloody later this year. Here are three reasons why Nintendo and Sony are in trouble in the console market and why Microsoft will come out on top. Three years ago, I wrote a lengthy...
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Mozelle Johnston Elementary School students soon will use a video game system during physical education classes. PE teacher Karen Wilson on Tuesday received a $1,967 grant from the Longview ISD Foundation to buy three Nintendo Wii systems with Wii Sports and Wii Fit packages. “I wrote the grant for the Wiis so the kids could experience the Wii generation,” Wilson said. “We’ll be able to do activities that we normally couldn’t because of time or restrictions. We don’t have the facilities to play tennis or Alpine skiing, but now students will be able to experience that. Plus, regular classroom teachers...
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Jury Awards $16 Million To Family In Fatal Radio Prank October 29, 2009 A Sacramento jury today awarded $16 million to the family of a woman who died during a 2007 radio station contest gone awry. The Sacramento County Superior Court jury concluded that Entercom Sacramento, which operates KDND-FM (107.9) "The End," was negligent after ignoring several warnings that a morning show contest could have fatal consequences, according to KTXL-TV (Channel 40) in Sacramento. Jennifer Strange, a mother of three from suburban Rancho Cordova, died of apparent water intoxication hours after a failed attempt to win a Nintendo Wii video...
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A Sacramento jury set an eye-popping standard Thursday on the cost of radio station contests that kill and the resulting loss of a mother's love and a wife's companionship. The tab for Entercom Sacramento LLC came to $16,577,118 in the water-intoxication death of Jennifer Lea Strange in a contest put on by radio station KDND "The End" (107.9 FM). Such was the award rendered by a Sacramento Superior Court jury of seven men and five women in the trial to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Strange's survivors. The 28-year-old woman died Jan. 12, 2007, after she...
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One of the most popular video gaming crazes has sparked its very own category of high-tech injuries. The Wii is a fun way to get in a workout and some good quality family time The game is also a great way to make a fool of yourself in front of a group of people. But you can get hurt if you don't know when to say "when" with your Wii... For the young or just young at heart, Wii is the workout happening in living rooms across the country. Noel Blair got hooked on bowling. "Almost daily, I was doing...
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The headline is not from the Onion. Tampa Bay Online reports:With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame.While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up...
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The games console, which simulates sport and other physical activities like dancing and guitar hero, could potentially improve symptoms of the degenerative illness, experts say. As well as helping with coordination and reflexes - Parkinson's impairs motor skills - medics think that the Wii has other benefits as well...such as lifting depression and increasing energy levels in patients. Doctors at the Medical College of Georgia piloted an eight-week study where they asked 20 Parkinson's sufferers to spend an hour the Wii three times a week for four weeks. The patients, all in a stage of the disease where both body...
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When Obama visited the Queen of England, what'd he give her? An iPod. Not an awesome, customized iPod, though to his credit he did personalize the contents with a "rare songbook signed by Richard Rodgers" and pictures of the Queen from an earlier visit to America. That, and the Queen pretty much gave him the same — a framed picture of herself. Video game producer THQ took a look at all that and decide to one-up them all (not that it was too hard). The company sent Queen Elizabeth II a gold-plated Wii console with a matching Wiimote and nunchuck,...
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