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Byte size news: There's always some who ruin it for everyone.

By Lindsay Harvey
Northern Advocate·
29 Sep, 2010 03:00 PM3 mins to read

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In the case of the England cricket team, it's players Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas who made the muck-up, and now their teammates will suffer the Twitter-monitoring consequences.
England Cricket Board managing director Hugh Morris told the BBC that officials were drawing up rules aimed at preventing a repeat of the
kind of incidents that landed the two players in hot water.
Pietersen was fined for tweeting his views on being left out of the one-day squad and Mascarenhas also had to cough up for getting stuck into the national selector.
Contracts could carry a clause about the rules of using Twitter in the future.
"Twitter is potentially a really good medium for players to get closer to supporters, fans of the England team, people who look at them as role models, but with that freedom of speech comes responsibility and it needs to be used in that way," Morris said.
Gamers get their moon-groove on
Mastering the King of Pop's signature moves could soon be made easier for moonwalking wannabes, with the launch of the first Michael Jackson video game later this year.
The game is being developed by French video game company Ubisoft and will teach players how to dance like M.J.
More than 200 people are working on getting the game out and it will be available for Nintendo Wii consoles.
The game apparently gives players points for dancing like Jackson after hundreds of hours of video were studied by the makers.
Realising not everyone has the rhythm of the master, though, some moves have had to be modified to make them easier for your average home-gamer.
The game is set to be released in November in the United States and will eventually also be available for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
3D TV leaves US consumers cold
3D televisions may be the most newfangled gadget to hit our shores, but in the US there are already reports being done into why people don't like them.
One of the main reasons American consumers say they're turned off is that the special glasses 3D viewers must wear make it hard to multi-task.
High costs and a lack of 3D-compatible programmes on television are also making Americans think twice, according to one survey.
Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and LG are all rolling out sets, but 89 per cent of those questioned for the "Focusing on the 3DTV Experience" report felt 3D glasses stopped them from doing other activities while the TV was on.
More than half said the glasses were a "hassle", and 57 per cent said they were "not likely" to buy a 3D TV set for that reason, the survey found.
Of those surveyed, 77 per cent said they thought the technology was best-suited to special events like sports or movies, rather than everyday viewing.

Got any news, gadgets or queries? Contact lindsay.harvey@apn.co.nz

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