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Designer saddened by series' declineStar Fox is still a big name in the West, but the hit series isn't so popular in Japan - with Nintendo's veteran designer Shigeru Miyamoto puzzled by this.'I'm a big fan of the Star Fox games. Every time we make a Star Fox game I'm hoping people will enjoy it as much as I do. Of course the goal every time is to try and make it more and more fun but, at least in Japan, the people that purchase the Star Fox games has decreased over the years,' the industry legend tells MTV.'But we still try to make them more fun and hopefully people will see the appeal in those games.'Would you like to see a new Star Fox emerge, players?

Hugh Pickens writes 'The Washington Post reports that US newspaper circulation has hit its lowest level in seven decades, as papers across the country lost 10.6 percent of their paying readers from April through September, compared with a year earlier. Online, newspapers are still a success — but only in readership, not in profit. Ads on newspaper Internet sites sell for pennies on the dollar compared with ads in their ink-on-paper cousins. 'Newspapers have ceased to be a mass medium by any stretch of the imagination,' says Alan D. Mutter, a former journalist and cable television executive who now consults and writes a blog called Reflections of a Newsosaur. According to Mutter only 13 percent of Americans, or about 39 million, now buy a daily newspaper, down from 31 percent in 1940. 'Publishers who think their businesses are going to live or die according to the number of bellybuttons they can deliver probably will see their businesses die,' writes Mutter. 'The smart ones will g

With past efforts to get opera to work in the confines of this venue having had limited success, it is a measure of the strength of Cape Town Opera's cast that they made such a good fist of it, writes Richard Fairman

Leading Egyptians Ramy Ashour and Amr Shabana will be hoping to contest their third successive final in Kuwait.

Setting up Google Voice voice mail online. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) On Tuesday, Google took another step toward bringing Google Voice to the masses, fulfilling the wishes of those who are curious enough to try Google's brand of visual voice mail, but either too jealous of their mobile number to give it up for a Google Voice number, or too weary to go through the hassle of training family and friends on a new number. Google now lets you access some key features in the Google Voice service using the number you've always had, and no longer forces you to sign up for a new Google Voice phone number. How? Google Voice can now take advantage of what's called conditional call forwarding. I tried out the new feature today with success, and have some tips to share. With Google Voice in charge of your missed calls, callers are directed to your Google Voice in-box instead of to the voice mail box that your carrier operates. There, friends can leave a message after hea

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced a partnership with the Imagine America Foundation, an associated foundation of the Career College Association, to bring online education opportunities to military veterans in an effort to help them acquire skills needed for success as they move into civilian careers.

The billionaire philanthropists want Americans to see success and do more.

[ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]If you want to lose weight--really lose it and keep it off--look around your house. How many TV sets are there? And is there an exercise bike or any other similar equipment? The answers could predict the success of your weight loss quest, according to a report in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. [More]

LILLE, France, October 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A 'backing track' is the instrumental version of a song that accompanies the singer. Thanks to the success of having 20,000 available songs, the karaoke version website (http://www.karaoke-version.com/) now offers the 'Custom Backing Track', a state of the art service for the creation of downloadable mp3 accompaniments.

President Predicts Success in Achieving Overhaul of Health Care System