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Two of rock & roll’s biggest powerhouses—mega-platinum recording artists MÖTLEY CRÜE and revolutionary music video game ROCK BAND—are joining forces to make history. Harmonix and MTV Games announced today that Mötley Crüe will be the first group to release a brand-new song as a playable track in the innovative ROCK BAND game. The highly anticipated new track, “Saints of Los Angeles,” released on Mötley Records, will be available for download for $0.99 beginning on April 15th via Xbox Live Marketplace (80 Microsoft Points) and on April 17th via the PLAYSTATION®Store.

Release date:  Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace)
Thursday, April 17, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store)

Track:
Mötley Crüe “Saints of Los Angeles”

***(this track utilizes the original master recording)***

Price:  $0.99 (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360®) per track for a limited time

Locations:  Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION®Store

Today Kingston introduced a secure USB flash drive, so secure the Goverment approves it!

“We are very excited that our DataTraveler BlackBox met all federal requirements established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),” said Mark Akoubian, Flash memory product manager, Kingston®. “This certification, along with other enhanced security features makes the DT BlackBox an ideal way to store and transport confidential documents with the utmost confidence that the data is secure.”

I guess with declining movie rentals and an online rental service that has mainly been a bust, Blockbuster wants to remain in business by buying Circuit City the struggling electronics retail Giant.

Blockbuster has said they are offering 6 to 8 dollars per share, that is nearly 55% higher than the $3.90 the Circuit City Stock price was last week, and to think a year ago it was in the 20 dollar range.

The CEO for Blockbuster told C|net that a merger would create a new blockbuster and this new blockbuster would be the most convenient source for media entertainment.

Social Networking Websites are so much trouble now a days, especially if you have kids. Being a parent of two kids and the aunt to a few nieces and nephews I know how important it is to have an eye on what they are doing.

My teenage neices and nephews have MySpace pages which is ok, but recently I have started to notice is; a lot of men and women ages 20 – 45 want to be their friends for some reason. Maybe because they are pedophiles.

Because of these bad apples on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, a lot of people including myself block these social networking websites on their home network, and with free services such as OpenDNS making it so easy to do even the most novice of computer users are doing it themselves.

Last week AMD announced it would be cutting 1,650 jobs approximately 10% of their workforce.

Well it would seem that the cutting of jobs has begun and the first cut was AMD CTO Phil Hester (prior to AMD he worked for IBM). although officially he resigned we all know after the Barcelona Debacle; his resignation letter was probably written by Hector Ruiz, or maybe not.

HP has another 30% off coupon which will allow you to save on your next HP Notebook Purchase.

For example if you buy an HP Pavilion dv2700t: 14.1” BrightView Display, Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0 GHz), 3GB memory, 320GB HDD, Lightscribe DVD+/-RW, 802.11n wireless, Webcam, Fingerprint reader, Vista Home Premium, Norton Internet Security 24 month, Hi capacity 6 cell battery.  The price will be $1323 - 30% savings $396 = $927. Nearly 400 USD in savings.

The Coupon Code is NB3098. Sadly only the first 1800 people to use the coupon will beable to take advantage of it.

Thanks to HP we are giving away one HP Elite Autofocus 3 MP webcam! You can check our a review on the camera here.

All you have to do is reply to this entry and tell us why you should get it. Tell us what you would use it for and why you want it. We will read all of the entrys and chose the best one.

Submit your reason before April 18th and we will announce the winner on May 1st.

carry on...HardwareGeeks is not responsible if this image causes years of therapy… ;D

Today Adobe has made available a new Adobe Media Player.

Adobe Media Player is sure to compete with Microsoft Media Player and Real Player. Adobe also announced Adobe TV and has partnered up with various such as CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondeNet, and Scripps Networks to provide content.

“With Adobe Media Player, we’re bringing viewers and content owners closer together, with an experience that doesn’t constrain them by platform or proprietary software application,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “It’s a merger of TV Guide and DVR for Internet video content. Some great shows, like The Hills from MTV and CSI from CBS, is already available to view and more will be coming soon.”