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A new study has revealed that parents seeking to get their children interested in a certain activity are better off letting them explore whatever they want, before finally deciding on what they want to do full-time. Passions for things such as music, sports and a variety of other hobbies are not instilled in the youn... |
9 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Leading provider of strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients SRA International, Inc. announced today the launch of its SRA One Vault Voice solution for BlackBerry smartphones. According to the company, the new encrypted voice communications technology is meant to ... |
9 February 2010
17:41 GMT |
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After finishing Mass Effect 2 for a second time, with the stated aim of actually getting as many members of my party killed as possible, and after getting a bit more time to reflect on the game, one element of the experience appears as a clear setback when compared with the first game in the trilogy: the actual final... |
9 February 2010
17:31 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, the use of electronic media is not directly linked to the increase incidence of headaches that children, adolescents and teens experience today. The investigation revolved around youngsters, because they are most likely to get affected if these devices were to pose any harm. The s... |
9 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Tired of seeing a variety of messages pop up on your Facebook page without them actually meaning anything to you personally? Soon, some of them will be Madden-themed if EA Sports has its way and manages to move the complete American football simulation experience to the popular social gaming platform.Peter Moore, who... |
9 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Worldwide leader in mobile-billing solutions Mobile First, Inc. announced today the release of Mobile First Mobile Payment processing for all developers and providers of social-networking sites, virtual currency platforms and online games. According to the company, the new solution is available in 40 markets around t... |
9 February 2010
15:51 GMT |
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From the variety of document file formats on the market, the PDF is one of the most versatile and universally used. Apart from the output filesize that can be quite big sometimes and can stress your CPU and RAM, this format is highly customizable. It allows you to insert various images and drawings, regardless of the... |
9 February 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Google hasn't had much luck with the social web. Somehow, its approach so far has failed to provide any meaningful products. But social is the future, at least that's how it looks right now, and, with Facebook becoming stronger every day, Google is worried. After so many misses, it now hopes to score a hit,... |
9 February 2010
15:08 GMT |
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A recently published report from Juniper Research shows that the revenues from Mobile Connected M2M and Embedded Devices are expected to increase all around the world up to $18.9 billion by 2014. Moreover, the research firm also notes that consumer and commercial telematics applications, as well as in vehicle soluti... |
9 February 2010
14:51 GMT |
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We deal with multimedia files almost on a daily basis. Whether we’re talking about the newest album of our favorite singer or about a new movie, we all want cool multimedia software for our computer. Media Cope is a program that promises to be complete multimedia software by covering all specific areas: video, ... |
9 February 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Curious about what teens perceive as grounds for suicide, a scientist has traveled to Australia, Italy and India to find the answer. She was also curios about the values and social significance that teenagers gave to this action, as well as about the attitudes associated with it. The investigator interviewed more tha... |
9 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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L.A. Noire, the mystery thriller that is being created by Team Bondi (for quite some time now) and set to be published by Rockstar, has been confirmed as being in development for the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft, as well as for the PlayStation 3 from Sony, which it was initially announced for.The game ... |
9 February 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Worldwide leading technology innovator in mobile communications LG Electronics announced today the launch of a new mobile phone, dubbed LG GD880, or LG Mini. According to the company, the new device comes to the market with a nice range of intelligent features, while also sporting a trendsetting design to complement... |
9 February 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive, as the publisher, and BL-Logic, as the developer, have announced that their World War II strategy title, Arsenal of Democracy, is now code complete and has a release date set for February 23. The grand strategy title should arrive on the PC via digital distribution and will cost interested gamers... |
9 February 2010
13:01 GMT |
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This is the largest area of Acronis True Image Home 2010, containing all the little things that give extra value to the package. At the top of the list is Startup Recovery Manager, an instrument that lets you boot directly into Acronis instead of Windows by pressing F11 key.Once enabled, it will allow you to start a ... |
9 February 2010
12:41 GMT |
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Acronis has made a name for itself in the computer backup and restore business through their flagship product, True Image Home. The application provides an easy means to create backup images of your data, including entire volumes or hard disks, offering a neat way to restore them at a later time.It can also help you ... |
9 February 2010
12:41 GMT |
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Kyocera Corporation announced on Monday that it aimed at showcasing the first Long Term Evolution (LTE) micro base station in the world at the upcoming Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, between February 15 – 18. According to the company, its prototype LTE micro base station is expected to prove t... |
9 February 2010
12:41 GMT |
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To say Facebook is growing isn't really news and it's even somewhat of an understatement. The social network has been adding users like there's no tomorrow and has now reached the 400-million-user mark. However, in certain aspects, Facebook has been growing even faster than it's been adding new us... |
9 February 2010
11:37 GMT |
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Back in late 2008, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA surprised everybody with the launch of a new product aimed specifically at the low-end netbook and nettop market. The NVIDIA ION was widely acclaimed as one of the outfit's most interesting products, as it basically enabled OEMs to create low-priced PCs tha... |
9 February 2010
11:21 GMT |
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South Korean mobile-phone maker Samsung seems set to unveil to the world the first mobile phone powered by its newly launched bada operating system this Sunday, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The company already put in place a teaser web page pointing out at February 14 as the day when &... |
9 February 2010
11:17 GMT |
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When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was reopened, not two months ago, the high-energy physics community was excited that the largest scientific experiment on the planet was operational. Then came the milestone that everyone wanted to see, namely the fact that the machine became the most powerful particle accelerator... |
9 February 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Unidentified hackers were able to hijack the domain name of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest IT and outsourcing provider in India. The DNS servers were apparently altered in order to redirect the domain to a different server. The attack happened last Sunday, when www.tcs.com displayed a message reading, ... |
9 February 2010
11:02 GMT |
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Google is no stranger to controversy. If it isn't Google Books that's getting the company in trouble, it's Street View. And every once in a while, a seemingly innocent product, Google Maps, also puts Google in the middle of the worst type of arguments, politically charged border disputes. Last year, i... |
9 February 2010
10:52 GMT |
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In addition to threatening the low-lying coasts of the world, and bringing about climate changes that would instill extreme weather patterns, global warming will also change water patterns, the way in which land is used, as well as the amount of precipitations that usually befall a certain area. When this happens, pl... |
9 February 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Owners of a mobile phone running under the Symbian S60 operating system have now yet another appealing application available for them, namely SBSH FExplorer Pro 2.1 for S60. SBSH announced today the launch of a new flavor of the software solution, which now includes new touch-designed toolbar, a great addition for t... |
9 February 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Even before the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft was hard at work planning the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms. But even though the successor of Windows 7, commonly referred to, even by Microsoft’s own employees, under the codename Windows 8, was in planning, the Redmond company is not ... |
9 February 2010
10:50 GMT |
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TUL corporation has already released a rather large number of HD 5500 graphics cards through its PowerColor brand, but it seems that its VERTEX3D brand isn't going to be overlooked. VTX30 revealed that its product lineup had expanded with the addition of its ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card. Predictably, similar... |
9 February 2010
10:45 GMT |
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According to as recently published report from comScore, Windows Mobile, the operating system delivered to the market by the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, was present in around 18 percent of the smartphone on the United States market at the end of December 2009. The new market share the mobile platform acc... |
9 February 2010
10:33 GMT |
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AMD has only just announced its ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics adapter and already its partners have started launching their respective versions. PowerColor, however, did not limit itself to only the “small” number of four HD 5570 models, but also chose to launch two HD 5550 cards. All devices feature Direct... |
9 February 2010
10:28 GMT |
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With Firefox 3.6 Final made available for download in the second half of January 2010, Mozilla has moved onward and is offering a taste of the evolution of its open source browser. And ‘a taste’ is just the way to describe the pre-Alpha version of Firefox 3.7 that is currently up for grabs for early adopt... |
9 February 2010
10:25 GMT |
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Creating invoices, estimates, sales recipients, payments, sales orders or credit memos can become a basic operation that can be done even when you're not in the office, using a simple Pocket PC. Developed by LowFat Software, the Mobile Invoice application is fully compatible with any handheld running Windows Mob... |
9 February 2010
10:22 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, the wonderful developers behind the KDE project announced the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4.0. Dubbed Caikaku, KDE SC 4.4.0 is the next major release with over 7,000 bugs squashed, over 1,400 new features, new applications, new effects, and... |
9 February 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10, the first mobile phone the company launched on the market with Google's Android operating system on board, is expected to make an appearance on the market in the UK sometime at the end of next month, according to online retailer Play.com. The company has the phone listed on thei... |
9 February 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Email marketing giant MailChimp released at the start of February 2010 a revised version of their newsletter management service, named MailChimp v5. The service went live without any special fees for its 240,000 users.During last year, MailChimps's competitors released many tools and add-ons for their services. ... |
9 February 2010
10:10 GMT |
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“Faces and Places. Brushes for precision retouching. Dozens of adjustment presets. True full-screen browsing and editing. And that’s just part of the perfect picture,” Apple states, answering the question on every photographer’s lips: “What’s new?” Apple has confirmed that ov... |
9 February 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Silicon Power already has an assortment of USB flash drives that end-users can choose from, such as the Touch, LuxMini, Ultima and Unique series. Aiming to complement these existing lines so that the company's offering can cover the complete range of USB flash drives, the Helios 101 comes with an “extrater... |
9 February 2010
09:59 GMT |
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The new NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is one of the first telescopes to be launched into space based on an idea that would have seemed heresy to the astronomical community just decades ago. The Sun is apparently a variable star, which is something of a new idea in scientific circles. The new instrument is des... |
9 February 2010
09:56 GMT |
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Facebook has 400 million people so it's safe to assume that pretty much everyone uses it. Yet, most people will also admit, albeit reluctantly, that their use of the social network falls more on the frivolous, trivial side. Every once in a while though, the site redeems itself and shows the true power of social... |
9 February 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is permitting a high degree of flexibility when it comes down to building custom Internet Explorer 8 browser packages. By leveraging the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8, the latest version of IE can be personalized in accordance with specific preferences, the resource offering various options, includ... |
9 February 2010
09:44 GMT |
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A couple of handy Mac apps have received maintenance updates today - Ed Hamrick’s VueScan, a powerful scanning software solution available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, and Speed Download, a download manager created by the talented Mac developers over at Yazsoft. “Faster and more secure, more features... |
9 February 2010
09:39 GMT |
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Even though NVIDIA still hasn't managed to launch even one DirectX 11 graphics card, the company aims to score big on the mobile PC market through its introduction of the Optimus Technology. Eager to be among the first to bring out products featuring this functionality, ASUS has proudly announced that, during th... |
9 February 2010
09:39 GMT |
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Although the Apple store is yet to go back online, Apple has updated its press room with a new announcement – Aperture 3. As the company’s next major release of the powerful photo-editing and -management software, Aperture 3 ships with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Aperture 3 ... |
9 February 2010
09:35 GMT |
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Insight EMEA, a division of Insight Enterprises Inc., a leading value-added reseller of IT solutions in 15 countries in EMEA, announced today that it had joined forces with Google Enterprise for the delivering of Google Apps online applications and services to the European market. According to the company, it will d... |
9 February 2010
09:30 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Orange UK is expected to soon launch yet another highly appealing mobile phone on its airwaves, namely the long rumored HTC Bravo. Some new details on the matter reportedly emerged recently, suggesting that March would be the lucky time frame for enthusiasts, but nothing is confirmed for the time be... |
9 February 2010
09:16 GMT |
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A Lebanese hacker claims to have hacked Orange's regional website in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) through SQL injection. The attack allegedly gave him access to the website's administration interface and information on almost 60,000 customers.Orange is the fifth largest telecom provider in the world wit... |
9 February 2010
09:15 GMT |
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Tecore Networks, one of the top global suppliers of 2G, 3G and 4G mobile infrastructure and multi-technology, announced yesterday that it would present its iCore all-IP software-defined core network at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona from February 15 to 18. The iCore supports 2G GSM and CDMA, 3G UMTS and ... |
9 February 2010
09:13 GMT |
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Since Final Fantasy XIII started out as a PlayStation 2 game, it's no surprise that it ended up staying in development for over five years, for it was eventually carried over to the PS3. And it seems like, while everybody at Square Enix is overjoyed with how well the title was received in Japan, as far as critic... |
9 February 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Windows 7 customers that get the “Consider replacing your battery” message from the operating system, should in fact replace the battery, revealed Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division. Microsoft has been investigating reports of issues associated with the latest iteration of Windo... |
9 February 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA, one of the world's leading vendors of graphics processing units, announced today the launch of its new Optimus technology, a solution designed to provide consumers with a better performance and visual experience out of their notebooks. According to details of the new technol... |
9 February 2010
09:01 GMT |
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Two teams of British scientists from the Oxford University have recently managed to lay the groundwork for the development of artificial bacterial cells, capable of responding and adapting to new stimuli in their environment. This is something that only living organisms have proven to be able to do thus far, therefor... |
9 February 2010
08:55 GMT |
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While there have been a high number of products touted as the “world' [superlative]” by their creators, some of them actually stand out from the crowd through their genuine set of innovative and advanced features. Seagate seems to aim for such an impression by announcing the availability of its Savvi... |
9 February 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Twitter heavy users rejoice, one of the most popular desktop Twitter clients, TweetDeck, has been updated to version 0.33. It's a pretty big update with a number of new features but also updates under the hood. One of the most visible changes is the new Column Navigator which serves as a quick way of moving bet... |
9 February 2010
08:43 GMT |
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Scientists managing the recently launched NASA planet-tracking telescope Kepler announce that the observatory suffered another safe-mode event on February 2. This is the fourth such event to plague the instrument since it was deployed, on May 12, 2009. Such occurrences are not normal, and the protective mode is engag... |
9 February 2010
08:38 GMT |
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In usual Tuesday manner, Apple has unceremoniously taken its web store down, telling customers to sit tight as the company updates the online venue with goodies. It is generally believed that Apple’s Macintosh computers are on track for a number of hardware upgrades. Nothing else new is expected from Apple, thi... |
9 February 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices delayed the introduction of its Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) in the past, but it seems that the current ETA set by the Sunnyvale, California-based company is going to be met. Until recently, however, details on the actual capabilities of the processors have been scarce, but AMD to... |
9 February 2010
08:23 GMT |
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A job posting over at Apple’s website suggests the company’s camera-less tablet is about to get the necessary video-capable hardware. Whether it’s going to be a minor revision of the iPad, or the second-generation model, remains to be seen. However, we will need more than just a job description to c... |
9 February 2010
08:11 GMT |
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Just three days are left until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver are kicked off, but NBC Universal and Microsoft have already set in place the online Olympic hub designed to brings fans around the world winter games coverage. NBCOlympics.com on MSN is the result of a collaboration b... |
9 February 2010
08:08 GMT |
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BioWare launched its Mass Effect 2 some three weeks ago, and while the developer is hard at work with the Expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, that doesn't mean that it forgot its plans for ME2 downloadable content. Aside from all the preorder and retailer-exclusive bonuses, like the extra companion Zaeed Massani ... |
9 February 2010
08:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has expanded the availability of its first example of surface computing product to customers in Australia. The Redmond company indicated that widespread interest in the tabletop computer from companies and organizations down under had been a catalyst for commercial availability of Microsoft Surface on the t... |
9 February 2010
07:35 GMT |
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Google rules online advertising, but there's one area where it hasn't made too much inroad, not for lack of trying, display advertising. This is where Yahoo shines, and has always done so, and 2009 was no different. In terms of raw impressions (views), Yahoo had a strong lead in the US with 512 billion imp... |
9 February 2010
07:13 GMT |
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The Nokia Beta Labs announced today the availability of a new, updated version of Nokia Messaging for social networks beta. According to the developing team, the new release of the software solution comes with support for a new social networking site, Twitter, so that Nokia mobile phone users can enjoy twitting dire... |
9 February 2010
07:00 GMT |
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The effects of smoking on one's health have long since been established. The harms of second-hand smoking have also been carefully investigated, and its threat level assessed. But very few investigators ever considered the influence of so-called “third-hand” smoking on people's health. Researche... |
9 February 2010
06:59 GMT |
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The Nook e-reader from Barnes and Noble has been receiving orders for several months, but the bookstore found its ability to meet those orders severely outmatched by the unexpectedly strong demand. Currently, the device is only available for purchase online, but it seems that it will finally be making it into shops t... |
9 February 2010
06:43 GMT |
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High-level sports competitions are occasions on which, theoretically, only the best of the best should gather to match their skills against others. But, in some cases, a few of these athletes “enhance” their performance by nefarious means, such as illegal substances. It is the job of doping officials and ... |
9 February 2010
06:43 GMT |
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Google has some big problems in China, of its own making, but it doesn't mean that it will let smaller ones slide. Shortly after it announced that it was ready to pull out of China if it couldn't operate a censorship-free search engine in the country, enterprising people set up Goojje.com, a brand-new sear... |
9 February 2010
06:29 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced today the launch of a new messaging handset, the LG GT350. According to the company, the new device comes to the market not only with a QWERTY keyboard for enhanced messaging capabilities, but also with built-in applications for major social networks, as well ... |
9 February 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Get ready to download and test-drive Opera 10.50 Beta. Of course, the first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of Opera 10.50 is not available for download at this point in time. However, the release is literally just around the corner, with all indications pointing to the fact that Opera Software might release... |
9 February 2010
06:25 GMT |
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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 ri... |
9 February 2010
06:10 GMT |
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Now that Advanced Micro Devices launched yet another DirectX 11-capable graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5570, hardware manufacturers are naturally following suite with their own devices. MSI has already launched its version and Sapphire is once again ready to match that offering with not one but two Radeon HD 5570 a... |
9 February 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Following decades of ongoing studies, climate researchers have discovered a very peculiar link between the southwestern corner of Australia and a region of eastern Antarctica. It would appear that a negative correlation exists between them, in the sense that, when the Australian land is battered with drought and lack... |
9 February 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Apple seems to be quite offended by Android references in the App Store, but not by developers whose apps' descriptions clearly state that they compete with Safari, the company's web browser. One such application features a description that aims to steer customers clear of Safari, while Apple’s review... |
9 February 2010
06:05 GMT |
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There's another Star Wars game soon coming to our PC and gaming consoles, and while Star Wars The Force Unleashed II has already been unveiled, some of you might hope this is about a sequel for Republic Commando or even, maybe, just maybe, Battlefront III. Unfortunately, reality is somewhat more colorful, but no... |
9 February 2010
06:04 GMT |
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iPhone owners on AT&T's network have now the possibility to enjoy an enhanced software solution on their devices, coming straight from TeleNav in the form of AT&T Navigator v1.5i. According to the company, there are a series of new features available for the owners of an iPhone that will offer them a more enjoy... |
9 February 2010
05:59 GMT |
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PayPal has suspended all payments and transfers in India, though the eBay-owned payments platform was vague on the reason. The company says that there are "questions" that need to be addressed before enabling the service in the country again. What those questions were or how long the block will last the company woul... |
9 February 2010
05:54 GMT |
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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 ... |
9 February 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Chinese experts have recently unearthed one of the most well-preserved fossils ever. It was left behind by a type of spider known as Eoplectreurys gertschi, of which only two other specimens were ever recovered. However, the newly discovered one is more than 120 million years older than its “peers,” as it... |
9 February 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Hard-drive enclosures have been typically used to enable a hard disk or solid state drive to interface with the computer through a USB or eSATA port. Spire, however, has gone beyond offering this simple functionality and has come up with the EZvault RFID, whose RFID lock endows the enclosure with security features. T... |
9 February 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The owners of a Motorola DROID mobile phone have now yet another reason to rejoice, as the mobile phone maker has announced officially that it plans on delivering the Android 2.1 update for their handsets as soon as this week. The software update for DROID was already rumored to arrive in the near future, yet now al... |
9 February 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Bing allows for much more than simply searching for information on the web. In fact, Microsoft is offering developers and API designed to let them leverage the search/decision engine in scenarios beyond the default offered on Bing.com. Devs that do take advantage of the Bing application programming interface can also... |
9 February 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Square Enix's plans of world domination seem to be going just fine, and the somewhat recently purchased British publisher, Eidos, is pulling its weight. The big Japanese publisher has just announced its financial report for the year, and has revealed that the company has a 68-percent increase in operating income... |
9 February 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Electronic Arts was pretty busy yesterday as it announced that it would be publishing a wide array of high profile videogames in the coming 12 months while also showing signs that it was returning to a profit, albeit pretty slowly.The company is saying that in the final quarter of 2010, something it is talking about ... |
9 February 2010
05:22 GMT |
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Worldwide leading provider of mobile technology solutions Myriad Group AG, which has software included in more than 2 billion handsets globally, announced on Monday the release of its high performance Dalvik Turbo virtual machine for the Android platform. According to the company, the new virtual machine is expected... |
9 February 2010
05:21 GMT |
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One of the great features in Google Street View has been the possibility to view user photos of the current location. Street View photos are practical and a great alternative to, well, nothing at all, but their quality generally leaves to be desired. With the user photos feature, you can get much better pics of the ... |
9 February 2010
05:19 GMT |
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New data collected by the Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated once again that the possibility of a liquid ocean existing underneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is very significant. During its last fly-by of the celestial body, the NASA/ESA mission managed to discover clouds of negatively-charged w... |
9 February 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Now that Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has released its ATI Radeon HD 5570, hardware manufacturers are already taking turns revealing their own customized versions of the card, as it always occurs when AMD, Intel or NVIDIA launches a new device. One company that already has its HD 5570 on hand is... |
9 February 2010
05:00 GMT |
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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 ... |
9 February 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Microsoft has just recently announced that the Xbox Live service will stop supporting the original Xbox console, as well as its games in an attempt to further evolve the system. One of the things that are expected to change will be the Xbox Live friends cap of 100, a limit that has been an issue for some time now. As... |
9 February 2010
04:59 GMT |
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System administrators rarely have it easy when it comes down to managing complex infrastructures with large numbers of computers. However, a small component included by default into both Windows client and Windows Server operating systems is designed specifically to streamline management tasks for admins. With the ad... |
9 February 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the major drawbacks of wars is the fact that people die in them. Military analysts and strategists have tried for a long time to reduce the number of casualties by as much as possible, but the best they could come up with until now was flying airplanes high in the sky, and striking their targets f... |
9 February 2010
04:50 GMT |
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One of the main issues that the Android 2.1-based Nexus One had when launched on the market was that, out of three companies involved in its release, including Google, T-Mobile and HTC, none was able to provide satisfying support for the handset's issues. However, things have evolved since, and it seems that Go... |
9 February 2010
04:45 GMT |
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It looks like Facebook isn't the only one to get Twitter envy, Google seems to be catching it too as there are reports that it's launching a tool which will enable users to view status updates and shared links from their friends inside Gmail. The WSJ claims (subscription required) that the feature may be co... |
9 February 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Many people use colors to describe their emotions either unintentionally, or because this is how they learned to do it from their peers and family. Some say that they are green with jealousy, whereas others see red when they are angry. At the same time, depressed people are in a gray mood, but these colors that we at... |
9 February 2010
04:29 GMT |
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It seems that Samsung isn't the only company developing advanced DRAM technologies. Not long after it launched the 30nm DRAM, Micron and Nanya are presenting their own advancement in this field, namely the 42nm process technology that enables the creation of DRAM modules of up to 16GB. This 42nm process allows f... |
9 February 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Unlike Retrevo, In-Stat sees the iPad as a product that promises significant opportunities not just for its makers, but for other parties as well, including an ability to energize the emerging tablet PC segment, while creating a potential semiconductor opportunity of over US$4.1 billion in 2014. The company dealing w... |
9 February 2010
04:23 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just unveiled a new touchscreen-enabled handset that should make a lot of enthusiasts out there rejoice, the Samsung S5620 Monte. The new mobile device is being shown to the world just before the Mobile World Congress kicks off next week in Barcelona, Spain, and one might ... |
9 February 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Ubisoft, as the publisher, and Blue Byte Software, as the developer, have announced the contents of the Collector's Edition for Settlers VII: Paths to a Kingdom, which is set to be delivered on the PC and Mac platforms on March 23 in North America and on March 25 in European territories. All those who are intere... |
9 February 2010
04:21 GMT |
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Approximately two years ago, Microsoft announced a visceral change in strategy designed to make its products more open and to encourage interoperability. Essentially, the Redmond company provided access through what it referred to as open connections to all its high-volume products including Windows, Windows Server, ... |
9 February 2010
04:21 GMT |
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When it rains, it pours, and when it comes to the leaked photos of future mobile phones that will hit the market from the Taiwan-based handset vendor HTC Corporation, the list increases. This time around, we can have a look at what the already rumored HTC Legend should look like when landing on the market, after bei... |
9 February 2010
04:03 GMT |
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In December 2009, Softpedia revealed how some applications’ descriptions didn’t include the necessary information regarding the respective supported devices. Moreover, apps that aren’t supported on a certain device for their main functions were still allowed to run on unsupported devices, wasting ou... |
9 February 2010
04:01 GMT |
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One of the most enduring theories in science is the one stating that life emerged from a primordial soup, a mix of chemicals that promoted over eons the creation of organic molecules, amino-acids, and eventually proteins. But some researchers are arguing at this point that it's time for this theory to be discard... |
9 February 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Continuing as the only graphics solution manufacturer with cards capable of DirectX 11 graphics, Advanced Micro Devices has officially introduced the low-profile ATI Radeon HD 5570. Part of the Sunnyvale, California-based company's plan to offer DirectX 11 cards for all market segments, this accelerator is mean... |
9 February 2010
03:51 GMT |
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MTV Games and Harmonix have announced that during this week, Megadeth is coming to Rock Band in spectacular fashion, with the release of the full list of tracks from their “Rust in Peace” album, seen as a landmark in the history of rock. The songs will be delivered later today on the Xbox 360 home gaming ... |
9 February 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Right now, DICE is rolling out its PC Beta for Battlefield Bad Company 2, which features the multiplayer game mode Rush on the Port Valdez map, but we also know that the game will also feature a solid single-player campaign. And if we want any details beyond those that the title's story trailer revealed, then we... |
9 February 2010
03:38 GMT |
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Following the release of iPhone OS 3.1.3 for iPhone and iPod touch, the iPhone Dev Team revealed that PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X would let users update safely, preserving their existing jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. However, not all versions of the iPhone and iPod touch are supported, while those relying on the ... |
9 February 2010
03:25 GMT |
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2008 was a very bad year for the IT industry as a whole and companies were not exactly optimistic when 2009 came. However, thanks to the excellent marketing performance of netbooks, the advancements in flash memory and, especially, the evolution of green computing helped turn the situation around, so that 2008's... |
9 February 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Learning how cells respond to various stimuli is one of the areas of research that have the potential to reveal a wealth of data about biological systems. These pieces of information could inform experts in designing better drugs and therapies for a variety of medical conditions, but a more in-depth study of complex ... |
9 February 2010
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The first Release Candidate Builds of Microsoft’s next generation development platform and tools are currently available for download. At the start of this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and .Net Framework 4 Release Candidate, but opened access only to subscribers of the Microsoft... |
9 February 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Nexus One by HTC has just gotten a little more appealing to mobile phone users out there. The handset, launched in early January in the US with Android 2.1 on board and available for purchase via Google's web store alone, now sports an early termination fee of only $150 if one cancels the contract during the fi... |
9 February 2010
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Knights in the Nightmare is a very unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turned-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with ele... |
9 February 2010
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Kirby's first run-in with the DS was an unfortunate one, and before he even got to take the handheld for a spin, an evil witch turned him into a ball. Your only choice is to use the Magic Paintbrush that the witch left behind in order to draw walls, ramps and platforms meant to help Ball-Kirby return to his old ... |
9 February 2010
03:02 GMT |
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In the last few months of 2009, Electronic Arts was one of the publishers that felt a powerful blow to its financial situation and came up with a pretty cruel solution for this problem. The company fired around 1,500 of its employees and completely shut down Pandemic Studios, hoping that, this way, it would be able t... |
9 February 2010
02:56 GMT |
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High Voltage has announced that its upcoming The Grinder is set to arrive on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony in addition to the Nintendo Wii, for which its was already confirmed. The game was initially announced when High Voltage was constituted as a company and should have arrived... |
9 February 2010
02:55 GMT |
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The six astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor have overnight conducted the first heat shield inspection of the STS-130 mission. The spacecraft is currently on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), where it's due to arrive tomorrow, February 10, at 12:09 am EST (05:09 GMT). According to officia... |
9 February 2010
02:52 GMT |
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All-in-one personal computers are not as popular as other types of systems, such as netbooks, notebooks or desktops, but there are scenarios where they are more suited than such systems because of their space efficiency. ASUS has been selling Eee Top all-in-ones for about a couple of years, but it has yet to release ... |
9 February 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Thorough astronomical observations have revealed that the long-held belief that states that spiral galaxies form over time, through various shape modifications, is probably wrong. Experts now believe that the galaxies formed from structures that developed a short time after the hypothetical Big Bang explosion that cr... |
9 February 2010
02:34 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
9 February 2010
02:26 GMT |
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The 3.1.3 firmware update has been around for a while, but just in case some of you iPod touch users didn’t know this, the update is available free of charge, if you’re already running a version of iPhone OS 3.1. Last year, Apple issued a major firmware update – version 3.0 – for both iPhone ... |
9 February 2010
02:25 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobile ph... |
9 February 2010
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