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It seems that Call of Duty: Black Ops is enough of a reason to commit armed robbery, as two thieves with semiautomatic weapons held up a local GameStop store and stole 100 copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Activision's upcoming shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is set to be one of the best selling games of all time, and will attract a lot of people, given the impressive features it will have, and because of the popularity of the previous game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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In a response to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative, the MPAA has submitted a list of “notorious markets” for pirated goods located outside the United States. Among them are some of the world’s leading torrent sites including BTjunkie, Demonoid, isoHunt, KickAssTorrents and The Pirate Bay. Usenet service UseNext makes an appearance alongside file-hosters MegaUpload and RapidShare.
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On Monday, mobile phone carriers AT&T and T-Mobile will make available for purchase their first Windows Phone 7-based handsets, just as announced officially last month. AT&T will bring to shelves two such phones, the Samsung Focus and HTC Surround, while T-Mobile will put on sale the HTC HD7.

The launch marks a new beginning for Microsoft on the smartphone market in the US, as the new Windows Phone 7 platform is radically different than the older Windows Mobile OS.
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Facebook has long been a one-way valve. You put data in so you can connect with friends, and then you can’t get it out and use it the way you would like to, even as the company is trying to corner the market on your identity.
And Thursday night Google called out its rival on such data-portability hypocrisy: It banned the huge social network from allowing its users to connect their Gmail contacts to see who among them are also on Facebook to get the friending frenzy started.
Previously a Facebook user could give the social network permission to look through their Google contacts for e-mail addresses via Google’s Contact API. Facebook would match them up with user profiles to suggest people to befriend. And if those people weren’t on Facebook, you could send them an invite by e-mail to join—which is exactly how a social network goes viral.
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UK Record label drops effort to sue tens of thousands of people suspected of illegally sharing copyrighted copies of its albums.
The Ministry of Sound says it has halted plans to sue more than 25,000 people it accuses of illegal file-sharing.
Ministry of Sound CEO Lohan Presencer blames the decision on the fact that “less than 20% of the names remain and BT (the UK ISP that the 25,000 accused are customers of) costs have soared from a few thousand pounds to several hundred thousand pounds.”
“It makes no economic sense to continue with this application,” he added.
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