They come from numerous sources: from players logging in through their console (Xbox, Wii, etc) to play the game, using apps on their phone to look at their teams and make trades, and logging in through the Web to check out the options market.
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Unlike some Web-based phenoms, the location check-in service Foursquare has an obvious potential business model: local ads based on your geographic location, perhaps coupled with inferred interests from your previous check-ins.
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At last check, the company had about 60 employees in the Web division and was looking to hire more.
Hilariously, it appears that the co-founder of Microsoft didn't provide his lawyers with basic scanning technology, because the PDF of the exhibits they uploaded to the court's web site is just epically bad -- check out everything they say infringes in the gallery below.
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The latest generation offers e-mail and basic Web browsing so that busy users can stay in touch with the office, check flight times and get the latest stock quotes wherever they are.
Some have unplugged their web connection and found that SimCity can last for 20 minutes before it needs to check in with back-end servers.
The announcement on Thursday follows the launch of NHS Direct Online earlier this week, which lets web users check medical symptoms and receive advice and boasted one and a half million hits in its first day of existence.
Check out the First Night Web site to see if there's a First Night in a town near you.
According to an ongoing investigation by the Washington Post, who initiated the McColo shutdown, the Srizbi bots have been programmed with a mathematical formula that in the event of a shutdown generate a random but unique web address to check for updates.
Some shoppers visit a mall or big-box location to check out merchandise and then find lower prices on the Web, sometimes while using smartphones right in the store's aisles.
This collection of web tool lets you reorder or delete content, rearrange magazines and check how often others have shared items in your magazines.
Thanks to its simplicity, gOS Cloud boots in mere seconds, allowing people to check their e-mail and perform other simple web tasks without having to boot a full operating system.
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