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Revamped Games Coming To Facebook
The Oregon Trail & Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego will be getting new looks and will be hitting Facebook in February. The Oregon Trail will be released early February and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego will be release February 9.


Sony To Make Games For Android Phones
Sony plans on facing off with 2 market giants; on the mobile phone game front is Apple with a chokehold on mobile games, and on the handheld games front is Nintendo. Sony revealed a game store for games it will develop for Android phones and a new handheld gaming device codenamed NGP. The NGP will connect to 3G networks, include a touch screen on the backside and won't have the UMD discs previously used by the PSP.


Virgin Gets Rid Of Unlimited Plan
Come February 15, Virgin will put a cap of 5GB on its $40 unlimited Broadband2Go MiFi plan. If that 5GB threshold has been crossed then speeds will be significantly dropped to 256kbps or lower for the remainder of the month. Before switching to a cheaper plan you need to know that customers who have switched to a cheaper plan will not be able to switch back to the $40 plan.


IT Retirement Wave Still Coming Younger IT Professionals Prep to Ride The Wave
Despite the current economic situation of the past 3 years, aging IT professionals are still expected to retire. Several state CIOs expect between 20-30 percent of state government's workforce will retire leaving positions needing to be filled by the younger generation of IT professionals. Chad Grant a policy analyst for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) estimates that state government workers will retire before federal workers due to the state workers slightly older age. 


VodaFone Ordered To Shut Down Service In Egypt
The Egyptian government order mobile phone services to shut down their services in select areas due to massive protests going on in the country against the Egyptian President's authoritarian style presidency. The internet has also been "turned off" to prevent protesters from communicating via twitter and facebook.


50% of Federal Web Sites Fail DNS Security Test
A new study has been released that half of the federal government's websites are vulnerable to common DNS attacks because they haven't implemented a new authentication mechanism called DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) that was mandated way back in 2008 by the Office of Management and Budget. The deadline to dploy DNSSEC was December 31, 2009. 


Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming
The Fedora Project will have the first distro of Linux to use Consistent Network Device Naming, which "changes the network device naming scheme from ethX to a physical location-based name for easy identification and use." 


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