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Disney’s new TRON serial doesn’t kick off until next month, but the entire first episode has gone live to hold us over until then.

The plot is not quite revolutionary, in fact I couldn’t stop thinking about Batman Beyond through the entire exposition, but it doesn’t need to be. The show has style to spare.

The animation is beautiful, the characters well-developed – especially for a half-hour pilot – and the voice performances are beyond expectation. The dynamic of Bruce Boxleitner, our TRON, and Elijah Wood, as Beck, the young program training to take TRON’s place as the savior of The Grid, is outstanding.

Yes, the story is a bit trite, and the show is filled to the brim with flick tropes, but with the talent, beauty, and sheer fun of the show, it won’t take long for it to find its legs, and really get going strong. I’m looking

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Iron Man 3 is on the way, Thor 2 has a greenlight, and Captain America 2 has been confirmed. But now that we’re living in a post-Avengers world, what else is on the Marvel movie horizon?

Its official: is a hit. It recorded the biggest opening weekend of all time with a staggering $207.4 million take in 3 days. Counting the international numbers, as of today, both domestically and internationally, the movie has made $702.1 million and should clear a billion dollars, probably within the next two weeks at most.

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Small and medium-sized businesses are spending more money on IT, including adopting tablets, cloud services and virtualization to a greater extent, according to Spiceworks’ State of SMB IT survey.

IT budgets at companies with fewer than 1,000 employees grew 6 percent in the first half of 2012 from the second half of 2011, and 15 percent year-over-year, according to the survey.

BACKGROUND: Can employee-owned devices save companies money?

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Rest easy on World Backup Day 2012 by using one of these five easy ways to backup your files in preparation for the worst.

It’s the day before April Fools, and there is bound to a friend out there plotting to tamper with your computer in preparation for what they hope to be a prank of epic proportions. Luckily enough, some Reddit users had the foresight to mark March 31 as “World Backup Day.”

If youve been putting it off today might be the day to make it happen. It’s the one thing that we seem neglect to do despite the inevitability of a failed hard drive down the road. Hard dri

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