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Govt orders blocking of illegal mobile sims in 14 days

Govt orders blocking of illegal mobile sims in 14 days ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik Sunday directed the mobile phone companies to block the remaining unregistered mobile sims in the next 14 days.

The Sims 3 Q&A

Electronic Arts have today released a Question and Answer session discussing the PC exclusive release of The Sims 3. It's not stated exactly who was asking or answering the questions, but as a piece of PR bumf it's fairly revealing. The entire Question & Answer session follows below, ad-verbatim...

THE SIMS LABEL ANNOUNCES WINIFRED PHILLIPS AS THE COMPOSER OF THE ORIGINAL SCORE FOR SIMANIMALS

REDWOOD CITY, CA— November 20, 2008— Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that award-winning composer Winifred Phillips will score the theme music for the newest IP in The Sims™ family, SimAnimals™. Winner of four Game Audio Network Guild Awards, Phillips has been repeatedly recognized for her contributions to videogames, TV and radio. Most recently she was nominated for a Hollywood Music Award for her work on Speed Racer: The Videogame. Now, her talents will be used to make the forest come alive in SimAnimals!

Electronic Arts Closing Casual Label

Electronic Arts has announced that they’ll be closing their Casual Label, and merging it with the Sims Label to form the new Sims and Casual Label, reports GamesIndustry.biz. The merging of the two labels comes after the recent departure of Kathy Vrabeck as president of EA Casual. Vrabeck, who joined EA after serving as president of publishing for EA’s biggest competitor, Activision, cited only "personal reasons" for her departure.

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Electronic Arts Creates New Sims and Casual Label

The casual game market is an extremely big one, and gaming companies are trying everything they can to attract the vast number of casual gamers who tend to like simpler titles and easier to play games.

Tip: BlackBerry Bold - Swapping Out SIMs a Little Too Easy

Changing out SIM cards is really easy with the RIM’s new BlackBerry Bold model, a little too easy. You see, the back of the smartphone slips off entirely too readily.

Govt orders blocking of illegal mobile sims in 14 days

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Secrets spilled from one in five mobile devices

Research sponsored by Sims Lifecycle Services has shown that organisations are still disposing of their gadgets without removing personal information. The findings, achieved when researchers screened a collection of second-hand phones and PDAs bought from on-line auction sites to determine what sensitive information they contained, come at a time when identity and data loss figure prominently in the media.

Smart: mobile phone gaming in RP growing

By Pepper Laforteza Electronic Arts, Inc.– renowned for developing interactive entertainment software, such as the Sims and NBA Live—and I-Play Online Games Incor ...More

National Geographic discovers videogames

By Pepper Laforteza Electronic Arts, Inc.– renowned for developing interactive entertainment software, such as the Sims and NBA Live—and I-Play Online Games Incor ...More

iPhone SimCity nearly finished

Feted games designer Will Wright is more widely known these days for his recent hits with The Sims series and this year's mind-bogglingly deep Spore.

Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM

In September, we discussed a class-action suit filed against Electronic Arts over the DRM in Spore. Now, two new class-action suits have been filed that target the SecuROM software included in a free trial of the Spore Creature Creator (PDF) and in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage (PDF). If this sort of legal reprisal continues to catch on, EA could be seeing quite a few class-action suits in the future. One of the suits accuses: "The inclusion of undisclosed, secretly installed DRM protection measures with a program that was freely distributed constitutes a major violation of computer owners' absolute right to control what does and what does not get loaded onto their computers, and how their computers shall be used ... [SecuROM] cannot be completely uninstalled.

Unlocked G1 phones still upgrade-compatible

If you've bought a contract-free G1 phone, you can insert nearly any T-Mobile SIM and start using it right away. If you want to use your G1 with another carrier, such as AT&T in the US, you'll need to unlock. Unlocking your phone allows you to use it with SIM cards from other GSM carriers. These carriers include AT&T and a few minor players in the United States plus gadzoodles of carriers around the world. An unlocked and activated G1 works with SIMs from existing US iPhone or Blackberry accounts.


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