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Acronis Releases Security Solutions for Windows 7

Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:43:00 GMT

Windows 7 customers shopping around for new security solutions now have available a fresh product lineup from Acronis designed to marry malware protection with backup and recovery and capabilities. Acronis Backup and Security 2010, Acronis Internet Security Suite 2010 and Acronis AntiVirus 2010 have all been launched this week and are currently ... (read more)

Feel The Magic: XY/XX Unlockables XXV (DS)

Softpedia News (Florian Totu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:14:00 GMT

The purpose of Feel The Magic: XY/XX is to impress the girl of your dreams in typical high-school-boy fashion, by performing insane and ridiculous stunts. These stunts are the actual gameplay, as there are over 30 mini games that can be performed via the DS mechanics. The touch-screen is used to play games such as riding a u... (read more)

The Best Winter Olympics Pics Get Showcased in a Special Picasa Gallery

Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:09:00 GMT

The upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics have sports fans buzzing with excitement now that the start of the competition is just two days away. Google seems to be catching the bug as well, and is dedicating quite a lot of energy to provide fans with all the resources they need. To make sure you don't miss out on any of the ac... (read more)

Explaining the Structure of Cement

Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:02:00 GMT

More than 2,000 years ago, some bright scientists in the Roman Empire created a compound that has remained in use throughout history, up to this day. Cement is still one of the most widely used construction materials in the world, with most constructions employing it in one form or another. However, despite its wide-scale use, sc... (read more)

iPhone Owners Can Monitor Minute Usage via New Free App

Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:59:00 GMT

OverMyMinutes.com announced recently a new solution meant to offer iPhone users the possibility to easily monitor the usage of minutes and texts on their handsets, the Overmyminutes.com Alerter. According to the company, the new solution is released as a mobile compliment to its free tracking service website, OverMyMinutes.com, and can be... (read more)

AMD Preps 870 Chipset, New 3.2GHz Business CPU

Softpedia News (Traian Teglet) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:42:00 GMT

Sunnyvale, California-based company continues to dominate the DirectX 11 market, as NVIDIA still delays the launch of its much-anticipated Fermi-based GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards. However, the chip maker has a couple of plans for the chipset and CPU business, according to recent details that have surfaced on the Internet. AMD will apparently refr... (read more)

Microsoft Atlas Selected as Ad-Serving Platform by IPG

Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:39:00 GMT

Advertising holding company Interpublic Group (IPG) will leverage Microsoft’s ad-serving platform for North America campaigns, per an agreement inked by the duo. Expanding a collaboration dating back to mid-2009 when the Redmond company partnered with IPG’s global media planning and buying unit, Mediabrands, the new deal is focu... (read more)

Facebook Gets Basic Photo Slideshow Feature

Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:34:00 GMT

Facebook has a lot on its plate, Google is launching a new assault with Buzz, Twitter is always a threat, and its growth, Facebook is now at 400 million users, is a blessing as much as it is a burden. For all the things Facebook gets right, there are as many it gets wrong, especially when it comes to the site itself. The recent redesign addressed some of the issues, and likely created others, but one area is still in need of a significant revamp, the photo section. Things are moving though an... (read more)

Nanomotors Go Electric

Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:30:00 GMT

Scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), led by expert Joseph Wang, have recently developed nanoscale motors that are capable of being propelled through liquids using solely electric fields. The machines essentially have no onboard propulsion systems, which means that they could be used for a wide array of applications in the near future, both in ... (read more)

Updating iPhone 3GS to Firmware 3.1.3 Now May Break Your Unlock Forever

Softpedia News (Filip Truta) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:23:00 GMT

Although the iPhone Dev Team has had this warning issued for quite a while, it seems that many 3GS users have made mistakes along the way of updating to firmware 3.1.3, possibly losing their carrier unlock, and ability to jailbreak, forever. Softpedia does not condone these hacks.

According to the infamous grou... (read more)

Five New Games Are Added This Week to the DSiWare Collection

Softpedia News (Florian Totu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:22:00 GMT

Nintendo and its download list made quite a comeback this week, as we've already seen with the four WiiWare and one Virtual Console titles added, but DS fans can pride themselves with an equal joy, as five new tittles have been added to their console. The list is kicked off by Oscar in Movieland, a platformer where Oscar takes a step ... (read more)

Nintendo Displays an Impressive WiiWare and Virtual Console Download List This Week

Softpedia News (Florian Totu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:21:00 GMT

Nintendo's download list might have been rather modest in the last few weeks, with very few new titles released, but this week all that changed, as we'll get four new titles for the Wii, five for the DS and even another Virtual Console addition. The first game added to the WiiWare is Blaster Master Overdrive, an... (read more)

Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires Hints VII (PS2)

Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:19:00 GMT

Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was exclusively released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony in August 2004. The title is classed as an action adventure game played from a third person perspective with a lot of influences taken from history and some light fantasy element... (read more)

AP Stories Return to Google News As Mysteriously As They Vanished

Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:05:00 GMT

It looks like Google and the AP(Associated Press) are on speaking terms again though none of them are what you'd call 'talkative'. AP news stories have started showing up on Google News again after seven weeks of radio silence. Google has had an agreement with AP to host news stories on Google News itself, but it expired last mon... (read more)

Opera Software Intros Opera Mini for iPhone - Sneak Peek

Softpedia News (Filip Truta) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:04:00 GMT

If web browsers like Mercury can be considered Safari replacements, then Opera on the iPhone should prove to be even better. According to Opera Software, the company will reveal Opera Mini for iPhone in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC). Attendees are encouraged to visit Opera’s exhibit... (read more)

HTC Legend in New Photo, More Details

Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:59:00 GMT

One of the yet unannounced handsets the Taiwanese phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to deliver to the market in the not too distant future is the HTC Legend, which was spotted around the web a few times before. A new photo with the device has just emerged, along with some more details on its capabilities, showing us what to expect from it when launche... (read more)

SAP Supports Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2

Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:40:00 GMT

As of the end of the past week, customers running SAP will be able to leverage the latest iteration of the Windows Server platform along with the associated hypervisor from Microsoft. Starting with February 5th, 2010, SAP allows users to take advantage of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 in scenarios that also involve guest operating systems Wind... (read more)

Baidu Sees Record Profits and Revenue in Q4 2009

Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:37:00 GMT

Google doesn't want to get out of China, definitely not altogether, and China doesn't really want Google out either, despite the tough face the officials are putting on, but there's at least one company who would be more than thrilled at the prospect, Baidu, the largest search engine in China. The company has just announced its fourth quarter re... (read more)

Dynasty Warriors 4 Hints XIX (PS2)

Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:34:00 GMT

Dynasty Warriors 4 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox console from Microsoft and the PC in February 2003. The title is classed as an action adventure game played from a third person perspective with a lot of influences taken from history and some ... (read more)

Cheap Labor Makes Thieves Redundant

Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:30:00 GMT

Not too many decades ago, the common crimes in the United Kingdom revolved around stealing household good, and later appliances, as well as cars. This made economic sense at the time, considering the price of these things, and the fact that they remained inaccessible to the majority of the population. Thieves therefore had a lot to work for, and could expect ... (read more)

Android Needs Enhancements for Flash Player 10.1

Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:28:00 GMT

Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 is set to arrive on a wide range of smartphones out there in the very near future, yet it seems that there are some details on the launch of the technology that were not unveiled until now. One of them is the fact that Google's Android operating system will need some enhancements to fully support the upcoming technology... (read more)

Intel's 'Gulftown' Processors Coming in March

Softpedia News (Traian Teglet) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:21:00 GMT

As technology goes, consumers will see the introduction of new computer processors featuring an increased number of cores. While today's high-end CPUs are featured with a maximum of four cores (for the consumer market), future processors will enable end-users to take advantage of the performance of six cores. Both Intel and AMD are getting ready to la... (read more)

Download Aperture 3 for Free and Test It for 30 Days

Softpedia News (Filip Truta) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:04:00 GMT

In usual manner, Apple has confirmed that Aperture 3, the latest version of its professional photography software, is available for download to anyone interested in testing it out for a period of one month. Updated yesterday, Aperture 3 includes over 200 new features, including additions like Faces and Places, also found in Apple’s iPho... (read more)

Satellite Data Gage Future Haiti Tremor Risks

Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:00 GMT

The exemplary international mobilization that jumped to aid Haiti after the January 12 earthquake, and the January 20 aftershock, is now being followed by a cohort of studies on the risks associated with the fault lines on which the country is resting. The island of Hispaniola, hosting Haiti and the Dominican Republic,... (read more)

Clooney and the Oscars, a Bad Security Mix

Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:01:00 GMT

With the Oscars rapidly approaching, the associated black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) campaigns have already started. Security researchers from ALWIL Software, the creators of avast! antivirus, warn that searching online for information about Academy Award nominees has a high chance of leading to scareware.

The 82nd Academy Awards ... (read more)

Rumor Mill: HTC Scorpion to Include 1.5GHz CPU, Android

Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC is already known all around the world for the appealing handsets it has delivered to the market with Google's Android operating system on board, including the 1GHz-packed Nexus One sold via Google itself, and it seems that it plans on raising the bar even more. The company is allegedly working on an even mor... (read more)

Assassination Multiplayer Confirmed for Next Assassin's Creed

Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Ubisoft has confirmed that it will be offering multiplayer assassinations in the next videogame in the Assassin's Creed series, which is set to arrive this year and will keep Ezio as the main protagonist, after his very good performance in the second game in the series.

In an investor conference that took place after the p... (read more)

The 2009 Mod of the Year Award Candidates Have Been Announced

Softpedia News (Florian Totu) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:52:00 GMT

Games and their developers get their own award show, but the mod community's efforts are sometimes just as impressive, so it should only be fitting that mods themselves should get an award show as well. And, if anything, 2009 was a great year for game mods, as some very impressive ones have been put together. ModDB is the one organiz... (read more)

Gas Around the Sun Mapped in 3D

Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:50:00 GMT

Despite numerous surveys and investigations of the area around the Sun containing interstellar gas, the full picture of what precisely goes on inside that region has yet to surface. Previous researches imaged the area in various wavelengths, and scientists have been working on putting all the data together for a long time. Now, an ... (read more)

iPhone 4 Slightly Bigger than 3GS Model, Leaked Pictures Suggest

Softpedia News (Filip Truta) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:48:00 GMT

A set of leaked pictures allegedly depicting the front part of Apple’s next-gen iPhone show a slightly taller handset, compared with existing iPhone models. Discussing the photos in question, iPhone repair site iResQ claims they depict the actual parts that would make up the fourth-generation iPhone expected to ship later thi... (read more)