This collection of classics and their updates is a frustrating mix of old-school fun and dumb design choices.

I attended a Brocade File Area Networking (FAN) event and this is a report of what the audience of prospective and existing Brocade customers heard. (You can read about the origination of the FAN term here.)

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Moviehole says Nathan Fillion ( Serenity , "Firefly") has joined Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. in Universal's Chilled in Miami , directed by Jonas Elmer.

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The trailer for Breaking Upwards which will debut at SXSW 2009.

Breaking Upwards follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up.The film blurs the line between documentary and narrative by casting real life couple (and filmmakers) Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, Breaking Upwards follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?

Gas Powered Games, developers of Supreme Commander and Dungeon Siege, are planning to show off the "next big thing" on February 15.

This comes from Chris Taylor, who updated his personal facebook page with a message saying: "Another busy day, can't wait to announce our next big thing on the 15th... I hate keeping secrets. :)"

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Artist: Corinne Bailey Rae Review: With a 2006 debut that showed off her fluttery, Billie Holiday-inflected wine-bar soul, Corinne Bailey Rae gave a boost to the U.K. export industry in women singer-songwriters, earning Grammy nods and an A-list career. Then her husband died of an overdose. Her latest is both reckoning and rebirth. "So young for death," she sings, smearing her girlish coo into gray-scale abstractions and deep emotions. Fragile arrangements — guitar, auto-harp, orchestra — suggest indie rock ("Are You... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Liam Neeson may be in his mid-50s and best known for playing Oskar Schindler, but the guy definitely can kick some serious ass. Neeson is unexpectedly but thoroughly credible as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in this terse but tough thriller from the writers of Léon: The Professional and the Transporter trilogy (Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen). Tired of Bryan's always-away-from-home exploits on behalf of "the company," wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) left him years ago, took their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), and married a sickeningly wealthy businessman. On the eve of Kim's 17th birthday, a remorseful, retired, and far from rich Bryan has left behind his world-trotting ways and moved into a crappy apartment near his ex's Los Angeles mansion, hoping to make up for lost time by reconnecting with his kid. Far from a suave James Bond type, Bryan is a sympathetically forlorn father without any female companionship, steady means of support, or apparent future prospects. A self-described

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Granted, we've no idea what it takes to really push the efficiency level of a solar cell, but we're getting pretty bored with these incremental improvements year after year. If you'll recall, the record for solar cell efficiency sat at 40.7 percent in 2006, and that was raised to an amazing 40.8 percent last August. Today, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have announced an all new milestone: 41.1 percent efficiency. According to team head Frank Dimroth, the crew is simply "elated by this breakthrough." Meanwhile, the rest of planet Earth is suddenly depressed by the thought of perishing from old age before this data point ever breaks the big five-oh.

[Via Gizmag]

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Several tech and gaming sites are reporting that chips are in production for the successor to Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console and they pack some serious GPU horsepower.

The debut music video from electronic artist The Polish Ambassador. Laugh, cry, dance. http://www.thepolishambassador.com

Runtime: 4 min 27 sec