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Bowling, he say 'no' Speaking online today, Infinity Ward designer Rob Bowling has said that there will not be a pre-release demo of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 before the game hits stores.Speaking in a new Twitter update, Bowling revealed the news: 'No plan for a Demo before launch. The entire team is focused on polish all the way up to ship of the full game.'With the game's launch drawing nearer, speculation had been rife amid the community that a demo of the FPS for consoles at least could soon be offered.However, it appears Infinity Ward aren't diverting their attention from the final product until it is well and truly out the door.

Oxfam launches an emergency appeal for £9.5m to reach millions starving in Ethiopia and other East African countries.

Cirque de Soleil Founder to Head into Space in Two Days

FOXTEL will launch 30 new channels and give away digital video recorders next month as part of a $50 million revamp.

Microsoft is set to launch its new anti-malware service, Security Essentials. The utility is designed to help protect systems against viruses, spyware or other maliciously crafted software. Following the same basic structure as third-party antivirus software, Microsoft's program runs in the background and alerts users as potential threats arise....

Palm on Monday announced that it is set to launch webOS 1.2, an update to the Pre firmware. The Palm Synergy service has been expanded to support LinkedIn contact syncing, with profiles presented in the Pre contacts. The e-mail function now allows users to filter the results in the current folder by typing in a search term. While navigating the Internet, files can be downloaded directly from within the browser....

Chris Brown will make his musical comeback next month.

He is in some senses the real winner of the German election. While Angela Merkel was savouring her re-election today and starting to form a centre-right coalition, Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic party was basking in his sudden emergence as kingmaker, a role likely to propel him to foreign minister in Germany's next government.Westerwelle, 47, the first openly gay leader of a mainstream party, is credited with securing his pro-business FDP its best performance in six decades and sweeping them back into power for the first time in 11 years. Even though the coalition is not expected to be finalised until 27 October, Westerwelle wasted no time setting out his priorities.Before talks had begun, he launched into what could be one of several sticking points between the FDP and Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), by declaring he wanted to get rid of the last US nuclear arms on German soil.The Christian Democrats see the 20 weapons as a necessary deterrent and want them to stay

The organisation behind a plan to race rocket-powered planes has lost its lease on land at its intended headquarters in New Mexico

Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalization Officer, says Cisco's new converged building systems unit will become the umbrella for solutions Cisco is building for cities around the world. newsroom.cisco.com >> Ads by Pheedo