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Is it just me or does it feel like pretty much every movie from here on out is going 3-D, given the huge success of “Avatar” in the theaters? BoomTown is stocking up on the migraine medicine right now. In any case, here’s the latest trailer for the upcoming Disney (DIS) movie, set for a holiday release, which is actually a sequel to a 1982 film, “Tron,” starring Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges. At the time, the much misunderstood film was–in its way–innovative and groundbreaking. Bridges is back for this one too, by the way, having been trapped in the Tron computer program all this time. It must have been a Microsoft (MSFT) Windows software program if he was that stuck! Here’s the video of the new trailer:

There’s been more innovation in the Internet search business in the past year than the prior three years, as Microsoft challenged its dominant rival Google in the market, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said. Bloomberg News Steve Ballmer earlier this month Ballmer said the boost in innovation has occurred because of “old-fashioned competition” in the search market, renewed last June when Microsoft introduced its Bing search engine. Ballmer said Microsoft is seeking to improve its roughly 11% market share in the U.S. search market. Ballmer made the comments in a speech to computer science students at the University of Washington, where he spent most of his time emphasizing how seriously Microsoft is taking “cloud computing,” a trend towards online applications. “For the cloud, we’re all in,” he said. The Microsoft CEO praised one prominent example of a cloud computing application made by a competitor, Apple’s iPhone App Store, on which that company has done a “very nice job,” Ballmer said.

Major League Baseball’s excellent At Bat iPhone app is back for another season, this time at its most expensive price ever: $14.99. And so far, the app is tearing up the charts, despite its price tag. At Bat 2010 is already the no. 8 most popular paid app on iTunes. Read the rest of this story

Traveling all the time but the work never slows?

Here’s a weird video of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone trying to promote Twitter in 2006. He’s trying to be funny, acting like some sort of crazy professor. The thing is, he does a horrible jobs explaining Twitter, which at the time was spelled Twttr. Back then, vowels were the enemy. We would have no idea what the heck Twttr was from watching this video. via Mashable Read the rest of this story