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The United States Department of Health and Human Services, the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, the Entertainment Software Association and a number of representatives from video game publishers have launched the Active Play Presidential Active Lifestyle Award, an initiative designed to create ... |
1 May 2012
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Video game developer PopCap Games has announced that it has entered into licensing agreements with a number of partners aimed at using its intellectual property to create a number of real world items, starting with products based on Plants vs. Zombies, which should be released before the end of spring.
The list of p... |
1 May 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Activision has talked about its Call of Duty Elite online service, which it believes will become mandatory for practically any large videogame franchises because players want to feel connected with others through social features.
Call of Duty Elite may have been met with mixed feelings when it was first announced la... |
1 May 2012
19:21 GMT |
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One of the most popular all-in-one messaging applications for Android devices, IM+ has just received a major software update that ups it to version 6.2.
It is also worth mentioning that the important update was soon followed by a minor patch that fixed some bugs and bumped the application to version 6.2.1.
The new... |
1 May 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Apple’s choice as the best iPhone and iPad Utility in App Store Rewind 2011, Living Earth HD has reached version 1.52 which adds a number of enhancements and fixes.
The updated Living Earth HD features enhanced cloud definitions for live clouds, enhanced zoom for iPhone 4S, launch speed improvements, and a muc... |
1 May 2012
18:51 GMT |
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The browser market is evolving, at its own pace, but only two browsers are really moving, Chrome and IE, one up the other down. Judging by StatCounter numbers, Chrome is set overtake IE within months.In fact, it's already bigger than IE, if only for a day or two at a time. Chrome first overtook IE on a Sunday a ... |
1 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Within the first hour of The Walking Dead video game, my character has slipped on human blood two times, which, in my view, is a bad sign for the coming zombie-based adventures that will involve Lee Everet and Clementine.
Telltale Games has managed to get access to The Walking Dead rights, which have already spawned... |
1 May 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Although Motorola announced earlier this year that the XOOM would receive an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich sometime this year, the Australian branch felt the need to reaffirm the upcoming status of the update.
In this regard, Motorola Australia stated on its official Facebook page that, while the said upd... |
1 May 2012
18:01 GMT |
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According to veteran wireless industry strategist Whitey Bluestein, Apple has all the elements in place to begin providing wireless service directly to its iPad and iPhone customers, eliminating the dependency on mobile service providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. Bluestein thinks they’ll do it, eventually... |
1 May 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Japanese company Pioneer has announced today the release of its new Blu-ray Writer drive, on its official website. The new drive is connected through the classic SATA interface. The device is called BDR-2207 and is able to write a single layer BD-R at a speed of 12x. A double-layer BD-R will be written at a fa... |
1 May 2012
17:39 GMT |
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The team working at The Creative Assembly aims to reach a Metacritic score of at least 90 for all its video game releases and, to achieve this, the leaders are not afraid of cutting big chunks out of their titles even late in the development process.
Tim Heaton, who is the studio director at The Creative Assembly, h... |
1 May 2012
17:31 GMT |
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RedLynx, the studio behind the massively successful Trials Evolution physics-based racing game, has talked about the title and how it manages to stay popular by feeding the competitive nature of all gamers.
Trials Evolution has been a big success since it was released last month on the Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox ... |
1 May 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Vodafone Australia confirmed a few days ago that it had approved the Ice Cream Sandwich update for Galaxy S II devices, now waiting for Samsung to start the rollout within the next couple of days.
Well, that didn’t take too long as the carrier has just announced on its blog site that the Android 4.0.3 Ice Crea... |
1 May 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Avid, makers of professional video editing solutions, have updated their Avid Studio application for Apple tablets. Avid Studio 1.1 is a free upgrade to all existing users, or a five-dollar purchase (4 EUR) for those trying out the app for the first time.
Avid Studio 1.1 records voiceovers directly to the timeline a... |
1 May 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Sony presented God of War: Ascension to the world yesterday by unveiling a variety of details about the new hack and slash game and by hosting a special presentation, which is now available online.
The God of War series is among the most popular ones in the world, managing to sell a huge amount of actual copies, as ... |
1 May 2012
16:31 GMT |
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It looks like Motorola is running a new soak test for one of its devices available at Verizon Wireless, the DROID Bionic.
As expected, only DROID Bionic owners who joined Motorola Feedback Network have been invited to participate in this preview of a new software release.
Obviously, those who are selected to be par... |
1 May 2012
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In a video interview with The Verge, former Apple executive Tony Fadell discusses iPhone prototypes and how Apple eventually did away with the hardware keyboard, in favor of a touch-screen.
Regarded as the father of the iPod, Fadell left Apple a few years ago to start his own company, Nest. Fadell sells the best-loo... |
1 May 2012
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After unveiling the full list of details about God of War: Ascension yesterday, Sony has now posted the first images from the game’s new multiplayer mode, showing some of the characters that can be created by players as they battle against a towering Titan.
God of War games delivered some great hack and slash ... |
1 May 2012
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Codemasters’ newly founded Racing label isn’t ready to talk about a sequel to Grid, one of the studio’s most popular games, despite the fact that the new division will only focus on racing titles, like its name suggests.
Codemasters has published over the years plenty of impressive games, from raci... |
1 May 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Google SPDY is in a very good position. It's poised to become the foundation for the upcoming HTTP 2.0 standard and is already supported by Chrome and Firefox. Google is using it extensively on its servers and the Apache module which enables SPDY is now stable.Wanting to show off SPDY's improvements, Google... |
1 May 2012
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HTC already launched the One X in Canada and plans to release the rest of its One series devices in the following days.
The One V is the less featured smartphone in the One series and is expected to arrive in Canada later this week. The device should go on sale at Bell Canada, Koodo Mobile and TELUS, but other carri... |
1 May 2012
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The development team at Cyanide working on the Game of Thrones role-playing game has revealed that it had been working on its own project well before the HBO-made television series based on the same intellectual property was launched last year. After the television series based on the R.R. Martin saga was shown, the... |
1 May 2012
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Apple is temporarily closing a number of retail stores to beef up on security, according to several sources.
Apple has had quite a bit of trouble with some retail stores getting vandalized and robbed, mainly because it was easy for burglars to smash through the glass entrance and walk away with Macs, iPhones, and iP... |
1 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) users how to upgrade their operating system to the brand-new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) release. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, also known as the Precise Pangolin, arrived on April 26th, 2012 and is the 16th release of the Ubuntu operating system. To see w... |
1 May 2012
14:11 GMT |
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There’s a new entry-level Android phone coming to T-Mobile USA later this week. Rumored several weeks ago, Huawei Prism has just been unofficially confirmed for May 6.
The folks over at TmoNews got their hands on an internal T-Mobile document that states the smartphone will be released in US as T-Mobile Prism.... |
1 May 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Google Wave has been dead for quite a while. But not as dead as now. It was only a few weeks after the service was made available to everyone that Google announced it would kill it. Euthanasia though takes a long time for something like Wave.The technology behind the project was open sourced and became part of the Ap... |
1 May 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher 505 Games has announced that it has entered into a partnership with adidas, the sports company, in order to publish the much-delayed adidas miCoach console video game, which is set to arrive during the summer of this year on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony.
The new ga... |
1 May 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Dingle LLC has released Self Aware, a single-player interactive puzzle game which pits you against your own Phone.
According to the description, “The Security enhanced Turing complete Universal program, or STU for short, has become Self Aware and taken control.” Your task is to listen to the Customer Ser... |
1 May 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Major carrier Verizon Wireless has just announced new prepaid plans are available for its customers starting May 1. In addition, the operator introduced the Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot (MiFi 4510L) for those who opt for one of the new plans.
According to Verizon, the new prepaid offers customers unlimited talk and... |
1 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Google Chrome just keeps on growing, well according to some data sources, and it's now getting close to overtaking Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.
StatCounter's latest data shows that Chrome, while slowing down, is only months away from becoming the world's biggest brow... |
1 May 2012
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The developers at Eat Sleep Play have revealed that their original design for the rebooted Twisted Metal have three different endings, linked to the difficulty level that the player chose when he started a game, with each of them set to offer more details on the universe of the title and the fates of core characters,... |
1 May 2012
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Webmasters can feel safe their forms are user friendly when using Sisyphus.js. This jQuery plugin takes advantage of the localStorage system implemented with HTML 5 in most major browsers. The plugin automatically saves form data to localStorage as soon as the visitor enters it in a field. This ensures that if any n... |
1 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Digg seems to be pretty much done for. The site isn't shutting down just yet, but rumors say that its tech team has been "acquired" by the Washington Post where they'll be working on the newspaper's digital efforts. The Washington Post has been doing some interesting things with Facebook integration, a... |
1 May 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Although Verizon has yet to officially announce the availability of the HTC DROID Incredible 4G LTE, the Taiwanese handset maker has already started to ship a couple of accessories for the smartphone.
The guys over at Phandroid recently found out that some official accessories for the DROID Incredible 4G LTE are now... |
1 May 2012
11:09 GMT |
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Symantec experts decided to take a better look at the Flashback Trojan that recently cause havoc among hundreds of thousands of Mac OS X users. The malware has been analyzed before, but this examination was conducted with the purpose of finding the cybercriminals’ motivation for launching this campaign.
To det... |
1 May 2012
11:03 GMT |
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Symantec released its Internet Security Threat Report in which it details the elements that left a mark on the cyber security landscape of 2011.
If we look at each month individually, we see that May was the busiest month of 2011. That is when scripting attacks that generated Facebook invites were first launched, ma... |
1 May 2012
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After so many months of quiet development, Biostar has finally come up with a hefty range of new products, and this can only make us smile with joy.
After the somewhat promising X79 debut and its sudden halt, it's the turn for Intel's socket 1155 to shine and Biostar now proudly displays a wide assortment ... |
1 May 2012
10:44 GMT |
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System76, a company that manufactures Ubuntu preinstalled laptops, desktops, and servers since 2005, is now shipping its products with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin). System76 has two laptops available for its customers called Lemur Ultra and Pangolin Performance. They're are nothing fancy, but the p... |
1 May 2012
10:37 GMT |
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Sleeping Dogs will use a triad of experience streams in order to show the player the various ways to approach a mission and make him care about the background of the main character, Wei Shen.
In addition to the normal experience, which can be used to level up and gain access to new abilities, players will have to de... |
1 May 2012
10:31 GMT |
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CrunchBang, a Linux distribution based on Debian and powered by the lightweight Openbox window manager, designed especially for low-end machines, is now at version 11 R20120430. CrunchBang 11 R20120430 distribution, codenamed "Waldorf", is based on Wheezy sources which is the testing branch of Debian. This means th... |
1 May 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Google is expanding its Business Photos program which enables business owners to add 360 degree panoramic photos of their locations to be published on Google Maps and on their Places pages. The program enables businesses to hire accredited photographers and have them come and shoot at their locations. This enables... |
1 May 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Calibre is one of the best eBook management software available right now, but its strength lies in the abundance of plugins available for it. This week we’ll take a look at a very interesting plugin called “Quality Check”. According to the developer, this plugin is intended to help users identify ... |
1 May 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Paras Rajput, considered to be one of the biggest anti-Islam websites, was attacked by hackers part of the Muslim Liberation Army. The hackers defaced the site as a form of protest against organizations that promote anti-Islamic views, VOGH reports. “Muslims are the ones, who get martyr in Iraq, yet they are t... |
1 May 2012
09:59 GMT |
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The collective known as Kosova Hacker’s Security has turned its attention towards Greece, breaching the websites of mobile telecoms firm OTE, the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace (DAMT), and the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religion.
Voice of Grey Hat reports that the hacker... |
1 May 2012
09:45 GMT |
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Richard Lemarchand, who was one of the veterans of the Naughty Dog development team and served as co-lead designer on Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, has announced that he was leaving video game development and will join the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
He will take on a t... |
1 May 2012
09:44 GMT |
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All Lumia smartphones have been plagued by numerous bugs since their launch on the market. Nokia Lumia 800 was no exception to this as owners have previously reported issues with the sound, power management and battery life. Although the Finnish company delivered a few updates for its Windows Phone device, there are... |
1 May 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Facebook is getting ready for its IPO so it's putting on a good show, not that it really needs it. With great fanfare and on national television, Mark Zuckerberg himself announced that Facebook users could now announce to the world that they are organ donors.
Apparently, this will contribute to the greater good... |
1 May 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Many iPhone owners have heard of George Hotz, or Geohot, as he is best known on the web. If you ask anyone even remotely interested in iPhone hacks, they’ll tell you he’s the guy who hacked Apple’s original iPhone to unlock it for use on multiple carriers.
The feat was impressive at the time Geohot... |
1 May 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Developer and publisher Bigpoint have announced that their free-to-play browser-based MMO Battlestar Galactica is now one-year old and that the game features a number of events to celebrate the occasion during the week, until May 6.
All those who log-in during the period will be able to get access to a number of it... |
1 May 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Now, here's one really nifty piece of news: we've got (and listed) for you the latest display drivers for the new 22nm Intel CPUs, codenamed IvyBridge.
These new display drivers will enhance the capabilities of the IvyBridge embedded graphics processors and deliver better performance. As you most likely al... |
1 May 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Apple has hired a former Yahoo! executive, Jessica Jensen, to join its iAd team under the guidance of Todd Teresi - also a recent acquisition at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. The WSJ’s All Things D reports that Jessica Jensen will be answering to Teresi, who has also worked at Yahoo! and has been an ... |
1 May 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Hitcher, the Pakistani hacker, defaced four websites belonging to the India-based Kingfisher Airlines company to post his protest message against India and Israel.
The list of affected domains includes the company’s main site (flykingfisher.com/home.html), and the ones dedicated to Kingfisher Cargo (kingfishe... |
1 May 2012
08:52 GMT |
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As expected, Research In Motion (RIM) has just taken the wrap off its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, formerly known as BBX.
Based on PlayBook OS, BlackBerry 10 was unveiled at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida. For the time being, developers can download a toolkit for native and HTML5 software... |
1 May 2012
08:46 GMT |
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After seeing many images with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and even getting a semi-official confirmation through a bit of Morse code, the UK website of the upcoming game from Activision has gone live, offering the first details on the new first-person shooter.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was rumored for quite some time b... |
1 May 2012
08:32 GMT |
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The piece of ransomware known as Reveton returns and this time it locks the computers on unsuspecting victims on behalf of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
The cyberciminals that operate this scam use the Citadel platform to spread the malicious element.
It’s uncertain at this point if schemes ... |
1 May 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Prototype 2, the action-packed open world game from developer Radical Entertainment and publisher Activision Blizzard, has managed to take over the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart for the week that ended on April 28.
Prototype 2 is one of the first high-profile titles to launch the May rel... |
1 May 2012
08:29 GMT |
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Shortly after Microsoft announced it would soon close access to Marketplace to all non-Mango Windows Phone devices, the company came forward with an official statement outlining how it should improve its applications store.
Although Windows Phone Marketplace is still way behind iOS and Android stores when it comes t... |
1 May 2012
08:13 GMT |
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The development team at id Software working on Quake Live has announced that it is adding more content update for those who are either Pro or Premium subscribers to the browser-based first-person shooter.
The Premium Pack 12 includes five new game modes, a new interface that introduces better match customization opt... |
1 May 2012
07:58 GMT |
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Security solutions provider Zscaler revealed its latest product designed to aid Internet users while surfing the web. It’s called Search Engine Security (SES) and it’s meant to protect Internet Explorer customers against BlackHat SEO links in search engines.
SES already exists for Mozilla Firefox and Goo... |
1 May 2012
07:57 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that it will unveil later today both the Kinect update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as well as the first details on the first downloadable add-on for the massive RPG.
Skyrim delighted millions of players last year when it came out for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Since then, Bethesda has relea... |
1 May 2012
07:49 GMT |
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A grandma who invented a new type of accessory for iPad users has caught the attention of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California. Thanks to her success with the leather iPad Handle, Cate Vincent was recently flown to Apple’s HQ to meet with a representative.
When Cate Vincent dropped her iPad four weeks ago, she ... |
1 May 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Open Week for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) will take place between 2nd to 4th May, 2012, on the usual Ubuntu IRC channel, #ubuntu-classroom. The Ubuntu Open Week event was created to teach end users who to work with the tools included in the Ubuntu operating system through... |
1 May 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Lin Shishan, a colonel in the General Staff Fourth Department, wrote an article in which he detailed the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) plans to take out United States computer networks and satellite communications.
According to Pakalert Press, the latter category would be targeted with high-power mic... |
1 May 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Mozilla is not the only one improving its web developer tools. Chrome's built-in dev tools have long been the industry standard and still are, for all of Firefox's advances. They're getting better too, Google is boasting about the latest addition, support for debugging Web Workers, a relatively modern ... |
1 May 2012
07:16 GMT |
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Crytek, the studio behind the very successful Crysis first-person shooter series, has cleared a few things up about its previous statements that called anti-used gaming features in next generation consoles “awesome” and said that it wants to address piracy, especially on the PC platform.
Crytek has earne... |
1 May 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Owners of websites who fear they might suffer data breaches as a result of which their files may be altered with malicious code can now turn to File Inspection, a WordPress plugin that creates MD5 hashes from every file in their blogs.
By creating the hashes, in case the site is hacked, the admin can easily check wh... |
1 May 2012
06:31 GMT |
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While unlocked HTC One X devices are currently getting software update 1.29.401.7, UK-based carrier Three is now deploying the first update released by HTC two weeks ago.
In fact, the operator said it wouldn't push software update 1.28.401.9 at the time of launch, instead it came forward with this 1.28.771.9 ma... |
1 May 2012
06:23 GMT |
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Video game publisher Nintendo has announced that it has plans to double the overall sales of titles for the 3DS handheld during the current fiscal year, although it still has some problems generating enthusiasm for the device on Western markets.
Speaking to investors Satoru Iwata, the chief executive officer and the... |
1 May 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Vimeo LLC has rolled out an updated version of the iOS client they maintain, adding new abilities, improvements and, of course, numerous bug fixes.
In version 2.0.3 you can navigate Home by double tapping the navigation bar on iPhone. You can also click on links in descriptions. Several improvements have been made, ... |
1 May 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Malware that targets Mac OS X machines is becoming widespread and most major companies have come to realize that Apple products are not as safe from malicious viruses as they were once. As expected, Microsoft also came forward to provide an example of a Mac OS X threat.
This particular malware, identified as Exploit... |
1 May 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The stable Google Chrome has been updated to Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168. As is the norm at this stage of development, it's a bug fixing and security update.
Three vulnerabilities labeled as "High" risk and two labeled as "Medium," but Google only found one to be worthy of a monetary reward and paid $1,000, &eu... |
1 May 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Another confirmation of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has just appeared, as the official website for the franchise now displays a brief sequence in which a pattern of dots and dashes appear on the screen, spelling out, in Morse code, Black Ops Two.
A new Call of Duty game will be announced later today by Activision, but... |
1 May 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Crytek plans to create a game for its upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 3 that is similar to that of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in depth but without resorting to the scale that the Bethesda team used.
Crytek is interested in offering attention to detail, allowing players to take an in-depth... |
1 May 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Last year in November, Vulnerability Lab experts identified a dangerous SQL Injection vulnerability on the public website owned by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. Yesterday, on April 30, the researchers confirmed that the security hole has been addressed.
It’s probably not news to anyone that Chinese governm... |
1 May 2012
05:05 GMT |
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The first development version of the upcoming Empathy 3.6 instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment has been announced last night, April 30th. Empathy 3.5.1 has the following new dependencies: GLib > 2.32.0, telepathy-glib > 0.17.6 and Intltool > 0.50.0. And now, let's take a lo... |
1 May 2012
05:04 GMT |
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BlackBerry Bridge, the application that allows users to pair their smartphones with a PlayBook tablet has just received a maintenance update.
According to RIM, software update 2.0.2.30 improves the stability with multiple pairing and fixes some connectivity bugs. In addition, it fixes a predictive text issue with Ta... |
1 May 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Google is running a May Day doodle in several parts of the world. The celebration which is officially known as the international Workers' Day is a national holiday in some 80 countries and is observed in plenty of other places as well. The doodle isn't that remarkable, but it gets points for a certain kind... |
1 May 2012
04:52 GMT |
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The first tablet to be launched with Android 3.2 Honeycomb out of the box, Huawei MediaPad has just become an Ice Cream Sandwich slate.
The tablet was launched on the market last year, but Huawei announced a few months ago that it would launch several additional colors.
Moreover, Huawei MediaPad will be retailed w... |
1 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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The development team at Platinum Games has revealed a new live action teaser trailer for their upcoming Metal Gear Solid Revengeance, which seems to suggest that the character of Solidus will be featured in the new experience. The video shows a group of scientists and doctors who are working Raiden’s arm, tryi... |
1 May 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that it will release a special live action web series of videos called Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn ahead of the actual game’s launch on November 6.
Halo 4 is certainly one of the biggest videogames that will appear at the end of the year and, despite some serious competition, Microsoft is... |
1 May 2012
04:38 GMT |
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A security hole found recently in Skype, the popular messaging application, allows users, even with low skill levels, to find out the IP addresses of other customers.
It’s uncertain at this point who found the vulnerability, but it appears that it first surfaced on Pastebin, later being picked up by the Skype-... |
1 May 2012
04:35 GMT |
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iOS hacker Pod2g is happy to inform his 260K Twitter followers that he has made progress on two major fronts - kernel, and bootROM.
A recent tweet from Pod2g says “News: a productive week-end. Found 2 big vulnerabilities. 1 kernel land and 1 root land,” the latter being really important, as it will allow... |
1 May 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Matthias Klose announced last evening, April 30th, that the next version of the popular Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 12.10 is now open for development. Dubbed Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.10 will have a development cycle composed of three Alpha versions and two Beta releases. The final version of Ubuntu 12.1... |
1 May 2012
04:30 GMT |
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It looks like HTC has started to deliver another maintenance update for the One X, which is meant to correct lots of issues. This would be the second update for the HTC One X since its launch in early April. The first important update that fixed lots of bugs, software version 1.28.401.9 was pushed OTA (over the air)... |
1 May 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Tapbots have released a major update for their intuitive Twitter client for iPhone and iPad users, Tweetbot 2.3. The new version brings a cool tweet detail view with inline conversations and replies, and a handy conversation view, to highlight just a couple of the new features.
Arguably a much better Twitter client ... |
1 May 2012
04:00 GMT |
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The famous Pakistani singer Zaain Ul Abeedin recently found that his Facebook page was taken over by a cybercriminal. Authorities failed to help the celebrity so he turned to ethical hacker Himanshu Sharma, who in less than 24 hours managed to recover the account. This is not the first time when a celebrity’s ... |
1 May 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Codemasters will debut a demo for its upcoming Dirt Showdown racing game later today on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
Dirt Showdown takes the racing series developed by Codemasters into a new direction, emphasizing destruction and tricks over racing skills.
While it may not feature the same rally events, it c... |
1 May 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Apple has added six new countries to the iTunes Match list, customers are reporting. iTunes Match is now available in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Austria, Bulgaria and Slovenia.
A paid service enabling iTunes users to upload their libraries to iCloud making their music available across all supported devices, iTunes Mat... |
1 May 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that it has introduced a new Item Restoration Service for its MMO World of Warcraft, allowing gamers to get back those prized items that they accidentally delete from their inventory, sell or modify in ways that they later come to regret.
The official announcement from Bli... |
1 May 2012
03:17 GMT |
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Acer has started the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich rollout several days ago. Although the update wasn’t supposed to be released until April 27, the company surprisingly kicked off the deployment of the upgrade for Iconia Tab A500 one day earlier. The guys over at AndroidOS claim that the update has now reache... |
1 May 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that it’s going to release a new update for Street Fighter X Tekken which should eliminate some of the infinite combo moves that are pulled off by skilled players who know how to exploit the mechanics of the fighting game.
Street Fighter X Tekken appeared earlier this year for PS3 and Xbox... |
1 May 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Although Sony Ericsson tried to hype up its Xperia PLAY gaming smartphone before it goes on sale in United States, it appears that the device is not among the popular Android phones preferred by customers.
Nevertheless, Verizon Wireless and Sony have decided to improve the phone’s features and bring new capabi... |
1 May 2012
02:53 GMT |
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Nautilus, the graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage your files and browse your filesystem, is now at version 3.5.1. Nautilus 3.5.1 is just a development version, but there are a few interesting changes and features available. Highlights Nautilus 3.5.1: · An applicat... |
1 May 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Apple is addressing Mac Developer Program members encouraging them to sign applications with their Developer ID now to get ready for Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion.
As explained in our Mountain Lion Features special, Gatekeeper is a new security measure in OS X version 10.8 aka Mountain Lion which, according to Ap... |
1 May 2012
02:43 GMT |
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, the new first-person shooter from City Interactive, has just received a brand new series of screenshots that show off the game’s impressive visuals in all sorts of environments, from jungles to more urban settings.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a decent game that placed a heavy emphasis on... |
1 May 2012
02:36 GMT |
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Video game developer Turbine has announced that the five-year anniversary celebrations for its MMO The Lord of the Rings Online have been extended until May 9 because of their popularity with the players.
This means that those who have not logged into the MMO in some time can come back in order to get their serving ... |
1 May 2012
02:31 GMT |
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