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So, I've finally got my hands on the remake of the 1994 Sid Meier classic, which still has a place on my hard drive and in my playtime schedule. The first piece of advice is to go for a Marathon or Epic game with a big map to fully get the Colonization experience right.16:00. Whom to play as? The four sides from... |
1 October 2008
21:01 GMT |
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Realism is a very big part of most games. Trying to recreate a real world environment and characters is often a pretty hard task. Especially with things such as clothes, objects or foreign languages. That's why Capcom, the developer behind the upcoming Resident Evil 5 title, wanted to make it as real as possible... |
1 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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You have to love Peter Molyneux. If he isn't praising the high quality and innovation of his games, he's praising the console for which he is working on, the Xbox 360. While speaking in a recent interview with VideoGamer, he went on to analyze Microsoft's console against Sony's PlayStation 3. Gues... |
1 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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In-game advertising is set to be one of the biggest advertising mediums that has yet to be explored by the big companies. Although some attempts were made in the past, with Electronic Arts indulging in quite a few real life products in their Need for Speed series, the concrete deals aren't in that big of a numb... |
1 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Ever since the first product from this family arrived in stores, Corsair's Voyager drives have been quite renowned for providing fairly large storage capacities in a very tough and shock-resilient body. And that is also the case with the company's latest product, which packs no less than an amazing 64 GB of... |
1 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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In a surprising turn of events, Apple has decided to eliminate the non-disclosure agreement that forced developers to keep coding details under wraps, as well as their talks with the Mac maker. Unreleased applications, however, will fall under Apple's NDA at least until they are released.From Apple's Develo... |
1 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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A study from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has managed to link increased numbers of Achievements or Trophies with increased video games sales. The correlation is strong enough that developers should consider packing all their titles with them in order to make sure their games sell.The study took into a... |
1 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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HeroCraft, the leading Russian game developer, announced it's ready to release lots of its games for Google's new Android platform. There will be at least ten titles to be compatible with Android handsets in early 2009. The first game that will get a release is Stolen In 60 Seconds, the popular title awarde... |
1 October 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Game Club Cafe is a casual games portal created and maintained by the independent game developer Codeminion. The portal now features a collection of over 50 titles for Mac. Codeminion is well known for titles like Ancient Quest of Saqqarah and Magic Match.According to Konrad Olesiewicz, Codeminion co-owner, Game Club... |
1 October 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is going to be a pretty interesting title, the zombie shooter promising quite a lot of things. The innovations it brings have been enough to convince most of us that it will be a must buy title. But not everyone, so Chet Faliszek from Valve decided to give us a few details on the future demo of the ... |
1 October 2008
14:31 GMT |
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ProClip USA has announced its new iPhone 3G Holder with Tilt Swivel and Pass-Through Connector. The company's holders are designed to securely mount to car, truck, or SUV dashboards and consoles.The pass-through connector acts as a docking station to which users can connect a stereo cable, charging cable or any ... |
1 October 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is bridging the gap between the latest versions of the Windows client and server operating systems and its web platform. At the end of September, the Web Platform Installer Beta went live on the Microsoft Download Center. Available for download in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, Web Platform Installer Beta ... |
1 October 2008
14:11 GMT |
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NCsoft says that the Issue 13 update for City of Heroes, its superhero based MMO, will no longer include the Architect, the editor which will allow players to make their own adventures.Issue 13 is now named Power and responsibility and will feature things like The Leveling Pact, Multi Builds and a lot of rebalancing.... |
1 October 2008
14:11 GMT |
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In just the first months of availability, Google Chrome Beta has made consistent inroads into the territory of Internet Explorer and Firefox. Both Microsoft’s IE and Mozilla's Firefox started to see their audiences slip a little and ended up losing market share to the new browser from Google. In fact, so ... |
1 October 2008
13:44 GMT |
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You all know what people say: metalheads around the world are a little nuts. Well, I'd add most of them are a little more nuts, so to speak. Yet, it gives me a great pleasure to inform you, my non-metal friends that listening to such music and acting like a real metalhead (I mean headbanging) now gives you free ... |
1 October 2008
13:31 GMT |
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At the start of September 2008, Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich revealed that he was cooking a major update for Process Monitor, one of the components of the Sysinternals suite. As of September 30, version 2.0 of Process Monitor became available for download. The description of the tool authored by ... |
1 October 2008
13:18 GMT |
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Microsoft played around with colors when it comes down to Internet Explorer 8. Although the graphical user interface of the current iteration of the browser evolved only subtly compared to IE7, IE8 features new tabbed navigation eye candy. In accordance with the Grouped Tabs capabilities of IE8, related items a... |
1 October 2008
12:37 GMT |
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Defined by Microsoft as a “bare metal hypervisor-based server virtualization product,” the availability of Hyper-V Server 2008 was announced by Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer during his keynote address at a TechNet Server and Tools event in London, today, October 1. Delivered as a free download, Mi... |
1 October 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Two new genes, along with a suspected third, are believed to have a significant influence in the formation of gout in humans. According to the latest research, the presence of all three genes in an adult body increases the risk of developing gout by more than 40 times. In other words, they have a tremendous negative ... |
1 October 2008
11:29 GMT |
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The same day when it launched the entry-level Nokia 1680, T-Mobile USA also released a brand new Motorola phone, namely the MOTOACTV W450. While the Nokia candybar is sold for 14 USD, the Motorola handset is a bit more expensive, coming at 24 USD, with a contract agreement for two years.MOTOACTV W450 is offered in tw... |
1 October 2008
11:20 GMT |
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During the 1980s, the theory of ocean acidification as a result of the greenhouse effect arose and has been attempted a demonstration ever since. The recent atmospheric carbon dioxide level measurements proved it, as well as its impact on oceans. Besides the negative results of the acidification of the planet's ... |
1 October 2008
11:06 GMT |
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It appears that the legal dispute against two of the largest graphics card manufacturers, AMD's subsidiary ATI and the Santa-Clara, California-based NVIDIA, regarding price fixing, has finally come to an end. Both companies have agreed to pay approximately $2 million in order to settle the antitrust lawsuit rega... |
1 October 2008
11:03 GMT |
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The fact that the Chinese mobile market is a strong one is definitely not news. After all, it has “only” a little over 1 billion inhabitants. Considering that most mobile phones companies produce their phones there, it is only understandable that they have access to several interesting toys. Interesting a... |
1 October 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Motorola has recently unveiled that its Good Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Good S/MIME) is certified by the US Army with the ATO designation (Army’s Authority to Operate). This means that the Good S/MIME product is now suited for use by the US Department of Defense, as well as b... |
1 October 2008
10:41 GMT |
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Researchers from Finnish security vendor F-Secure have recently analyzed a worm with rootkit capabilities that tries to execute code directly into the OS kernel by exploiting a known Windows vulnerability. This is for the first time when the technique is encountered in such applications.“Most malware with rootk... |
1 October 2008
10:40 GMT |
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Back in June 2007, Firefox 3.0 skyrocketed to a record eight million downloads in just the first 24 hours following general availability. At the same time, the open source browser continues to enjoy what Mozilla referred to as tens of millions of downloads, and yet Firefox is nothing short of crawling when it comes ... |
1 October 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Canadian researchers conducted a study on 1800+ children, meant to determine if second-hand smoking may indeed cause in non-smokers the same symptoms that regular smokers exhibit, as previously speculated. In their conclusion of the study, the scientists revealed that more than 5 percent of all test subjects, a... |
1 October 2008
10:29 GMT |
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LG Wine first appeared on the stage about six months ago, when it was released on the South Korean market. Afterwards, in July, to be more precise, the phone was officially launched in Europe and Japan as well.Now, the device is traveling across the ocean to Canada, where it will be made available through the mobile ... |
1 October 2008
10:07 GMT |
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After yesterday's release of WD ShareSpace, Western Digital's first product ever to address the small-office network storage market, the company has introduced today its second-generation Caviar Green desktop hard drives. The new HDDs feature the proprietary GreenPower technology, which is meant to signific... |
1 October 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Since almost all modern life's entertainment is based on electrical appliances that use remote controls, new technology developments could soon mean the transition to an even easier form of remote controlling - using your own hands.The technology for hand remote controlling is already in place and has been ... |
1 October 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Touted as the world's first kids comic for iPhone, EyeCandy is now available on iTunes for $0.99 as a (total) re-make of Murderome. The app isn't just a comic, but a color book as well. Kids can swipe from left to right to move through the pages, or up and down to strip the chatters and the setting of their... |
1 October 2008
09:58 GMT |
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A new adhesion molecule, named P-Cadherin, was linked to the developing stages of colon cancer by researchers at The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. This molecule is normally present during the developing stages of a human fetus, but it then disappears in adults. The new study provides some potentially groun... |
1 October 2008
09:58 GMT |
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When released by Rogers in Canada, RIM's BlackBerry Bold 9000 came with the hefty price of $399, plus the high fees that users had, and still have, to pay for three years. The smartphone still has this price tag now, but it looks like Rogers will soon make it cheaper with $100, hence it will cost only $299.Of co... |
1 October 2008
09:55 GMT |
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A few days ago, NASA officials announced that the recent mishap that affected the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, September 27th, prevented the servicing mission scheduled for October 14th from taking place. Instead, the mission is currently moved to next year, until the problem is dealt with.The Hubble trouble l... |
1 October 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is continuously tending to its Windows client and server operating systems ensuring not only that the rough edges of the products are softened, but also dealing with security vulnerabilities, and securing the overall evolution in addition to service pack releases. In this context, Windows Update plays a key... |
1 October 2008
09:26 GMT |
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Various reports claim Apple has threatened with pulling the plug on the iTunes Store, should a ruling expected tomorrow force the company to pay more to music makers for each downloaded track. According to The National Music Publishers' Association, songwriters in the US should get between 9 to 15 cents more for... |
1 October 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Sony UK has recently announced that it is going to release a special edition Vaio notebook, of which only 700 units will be produced. Dubbed the Bond Z series of laptops, Sony upcoming Vaio line is going to become available in time for the release of the new James Bond movie, called “Quantum of Solace.”&n... |
1 October 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Sagem, the French mobile phones manufacturer, was never associated with high-end phones, which was quite understandable as it seemed to produce only low to mid-end devices. Perhaps the collaboration with Porsche, that resulted in the creation of the P9521 and the P9522, was one of the few occasions when the company r... |
1 October 2008
09:10 GMT |
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American black bears that live next to urban sprawls are more prone to dying younger and more violently than those living in wild areas, where human-bear contact is limited. Also, their cubs mortality rate is several times higher than in the wild, due to common accidents, such as car collisions. A team of resear... |
1 October 2008
09:09 GMT |
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About two weeks ago, a rumor that Nokia 1680 would become available across the US first started making the rounds, allowing budget users to dream about this new and cheap phone. Now, the handset has been released by T-Mobile, for a price that is more than affordable – only 14 USD, with the signing of a contract... |
1 October 2008
09:03 GMT |
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Found in the Rio Colorado region of Argentina, the fossilized remains of a dinosaur called Aerosteon Riocoloradensis may aid scientists track the evolution of birds' breathing systems.Jeffrey Wilson and his team of paleontologists from the University of Michigan took part in dinosaur specialist Paul Sereno'... |
1 October 2008
08:54 GMT |
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Astronomers have puzzled the international scientific community once again by announcing that Earth and its surrounding solar systems may exist in some sort of “bubble,” inside which the flow of space and time is altered compared with the outside world. This contradicts the Copernican principle, which sta... |
1 October 2008
08:44 GMT |
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There was a time in the early days of the USB storage when everything looked very serious and technically-correct. Well, no more! Today's USB storage devices have surpassed those rather gloomy and dull days and are pedaling fast to embed their chips in the funniest and most unusual objects anyone could think of.... |
1 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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Everything seems to be “wireless” nowadays, including here some specific areas that were “wired” by tradition, as for example HD content streaming. We're all quite used to HDMI cables, but it seems that the Japanese company Panasonic is quite keen on eliminating even those, since it has j... |
1 October 2008
08:05 GMT |
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A deliveryman from Hertfordshire, UK, bought a camera for £17 (around $30) from eBay. After returning from a vacation in the US, the man tried to download his pictures only to discover images of rocket launchers and photos of al-Qaeda terrorists along with their names and fingerprints.The records fo... |
1 October 2008
08:03 GMT |
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During several years of development, robots have been taught to do many things, but recently a lot more attention was focused on their mimicking the human appearance, movement, feelings and reason in order to ensure people's better social acceptance. In this respect, a robot able of self-analysis and self-adapta... |
1 October 2008
07:41 GMT |
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As an integral part of the promotion built around the sequel for “Gears of War”, Microsoft is repeating the publicity stunt it did with Halo 3 and Zune. If over a year ago, the Redmond giant married Halo 3 with its digital media player and came up with the Military Edition of the device, this time around,... |
1 October 2008
07:40 GMT |
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You know how people talk about new consoles being launched sometime in 2014 or even later? Nintendo might disagree with that. Sources have been talking to gaming site What They Play saying that the console developer is creating a new product, called the Wii HD, which will represent a significant upgrade over the curr... |
1 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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GPS devices have grown into a full-featured technological aid in our everyday life; not only when going abroad, but used for a fairly easy way to escape in crowded cities. Of course, bike or motorbike rides to the countryside are no strange places for our GPS buddies; and with the constant development of all the tech... |
1 October 2008
07:08 GMT |
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The latest promotion built around Live Search cannot be accessed with Firefox or Opera. In fact, Microsoft has cut all third party browsers out of the equation, as only users of Internet Explorer, version 6.0 and above, will be able to sign up for SearchPerks. The latest initiative from the Redmond giant designed to ... |
1 October 2008
07:05 GMT |
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New researches conducted on the impact wind turbines have on biodiversity proved that the European Commission has nothing to worry about. Farm birds are not about to be decimated by the turbines, as doom-sayers “foretold.” The findings are actually quite important, as the Commission has plans of supp... |
1 October 2008
07:05 GMT |
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While this is not a scientific survey (far from it), former Editor-in-Chief, PC World, Harry McCracken, decided to see how the iPhone community was feeling about its device of choice lately. Apparently, most of the users are satisfied and, in some cases, downright excited about the device's features and the serv... |
1 October 2008
06:55 GMT |
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All sorts of rumors are flying in right now about Samsung's next phone, the so-called Samsung Delve. It seems that the company keeps releasing phone after phone and, after the Bresson, meaning Pixon – the official name, yet another picture has been leaked on the Internet, seemingly showing the device coden... |
1 October 2008
06:51 GMT |
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There's a lot of excitement around DC Universe Online, the superhero based MMO which is being developed by Sony Online Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and the PC. The developers say that the game will allow players to become superheroes on their own and be drawn in a complex storyline where they can fi... |
1 October 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Physics is bound to become a major part of upcoming graphics cards, as well as future game releases, which is why major players in the industry are seriously considering the development and adoption of physics-ready hardware. This also includes Intel and Havok, two companies that have joined forces in a recently anno... |
1 October 2008
06:48 GMT |
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A scarce plant once populating the inland salty marshes of upstate New York was thought to have gone extinct. But recently, the rare species of goldenrod appeared from nowhere, in a surprising place: on the sides of the local roads.The re-emergence of the rare plant surprised the specialists. If anyone expected this ... |
1 October 2008
06:45 GMT |
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ZTE Corporation, one of China's leading telecommunications company, has announced the release of ZTE U990, touted as the world's first phone to come with both HSDPA and TD-SCDMA connectivity. The U990 was first unveiled during a ceremony that celebrated the company’s shipping of its 100 millionth mobi... |
1 October 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Retina receptors (RR) are very small parts of the human eye that play a significant role in vision. When affected by diseases such as diabetes, complications may cause severe vision disorders and even blindness. However, Raju Rajala, Ph.D., the leader of the research team that conducted this most recent study, believ... |
1 October 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Asphalt Urban GT is a racing video game for the Nintendo DS and the Nokia N-Gage handheld consoles. It was developed by Gameloft and published by Ubisoft and released on November 21, 2004, making it one of the DS launch titles. It has support for wireless multiplayer with up to four opponents and takes advantage of t... |
1 October 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Canadian researchers from the University of Calgary have come up with a new device which captures the carbon dioxide from the surrounding atmosphere. The machine is built from materials that don't belong to the high-tech, but rather to the “near-commercial” technology.David Keith, Canada Research Cha... |
1 October 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Today, Broadcom announced that its portfolio of services would be enriched with a Wi-Fi Positioning System. The company said it would integrate and deploy the Wi-Fi positioning developed by Skyhook Wireless and which can determine position by triangulating nearby cell towers rather than satellite-based GPS.The Assist... |
1 October 2008
05:58 GMT |
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This year was full of surprises, as far as the mobile phones industry is concerned. Among others, there was – and still is – the problem of the operating systems that the handhelds use, as some of them are free, while others not. Google has already introduced its Android Platform on the mobile market, whi... |
1 October 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Adobe officials are cited as saying that a Flash Player application for Apple's iPhone is now awaiting the company's approval for download through the App Store. Speaking at the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems, Paul Betlem, stated that an iPhone... |
1 October 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Animal Crossing: Wild World features a very minimal plot. The objective of the game is to pay off a debt to Tom Nook, who allows the player to move into a house he owns. If the mortgage is paid off, the player's house will expand until upstairs, left, right, center and back rooms are included. This is slightly ... |
1 October 2008
05:46 GMT |
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90% of the world's population perishes, meteor storms, earthquakes and all sorts of natural calamities constantly ravage the world while clouds of smoke and "evergray" ash turn the day into an eternal night. What could intelligent, rational human beings do in Advance Wars: Dark Conflict's opinion? Divide in... |
1 October 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Despite the fact that it might not be the best selling netbook on the market, MSI's Wind could literally win a yet-to-be invented award, for the “The netbook with the most number of clones” category. As it turns out, the small-sized Wind is actually available worldwide in 23 differently branded vers... |
1 October 2008
05:35 GMT |
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WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 will let players take the fight into their own hands with the debut of Superstar Fighting Styles. The game features eight unique styles, each having its own strategy and exclusive attributes. A brand new Struggle Submission System will give players intuitive and natural control over their ... |
1 October 2008
05:33 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson's first 8 Megapixel Cyber-shot handset, the C905, is now commercially available. The proof is not only the fact that SE has removed the “coming soon” sign from the phone's online presentation, but also an unboxing video with the slider.In the video, the phone itself appears only fo... |
1 October 2008
05:32 GMT |
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If you liked KOEI's titles Dynasty Warriors or/and Samurai Warriors, then there are some really big chances that you will love this game, too, since it is a crossover of them - and it looks absolutely impressive. Not to mention that it's always nice to see hundreds of enemies invading your screens. The PSP... |
1 October 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the first nex-gen title to be 100% developed internally by Lucas Arts. After the saga was completed by the final movies, there were some questions about the story and specifically about the period of time between Episode III and IV. Darth Vader has just become the apprentice Darth S... |
1 October 2008
05:25 GMT |
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Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.The African continent is literally ... |
1 October 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Intel has been moving upwards lately, and its shares rose 1.46 points on Tuesday, closing up at $18.73, with an 8.45 percent gain. The company marked this upgrade at a time when competitors like Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments have their shares traded at much lower prices. Intel is expected to report its... |
1 October 2008
05:18 GMT |
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In a press release made available on T-Mobile's website, the company reveals that it plans to expand its wireless network, including the deployment of its third-generation (3G) wireless broadband service to 27 major markets in the United States by the end of 2008. Thus, the aim is to provide more than two thirds... |
1 October 2008
05:07 GMT |
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On October 6, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will flyby Mercury for the fifth time in history. Equipped with $8.7 million worth of sensors, the probe will photograph most of the planet's surface, descending to an altitude of approximately 124 miles. This will be the second time that Messenger passes by Me... |
1 October 2008
05:03 GMT |
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TheStreet.com, the well-known New York-based financial company, has announced that it is now offering a special application created in order to allow BlackBerry users to easily access all its content. Thus, owners of RIM-made smartphones who need to stay updated with the latest financial news, stocks, quotes and othe... |
1 October 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Round Rock, Texas-based Dell has decided it was about time it brought something new to its offering of desktop and portable computer systems – consequently, a recently made announcement says that the company will allow customers to customize their Dell systems with an exclusive pre-installed movie bundle, and e... |
1 October 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Star Wars is back in grand fashion. And the reason is not the animated feature film which debuted to less than positive reviews or the animated series which is set to launch this fall. The big reason for excitement amongst Star Wars fans is a video game, The Force Unleashed, which managed to sell well and even s... |
1 October 2008
04:36 GMT |
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There are more and more mobile and portable gadgets in your pockets than ever: mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players and all sorts of other devices we use everyday. Yet one thing never changes: they all run on electricity and from time to time this happens to go down when one needs it least. Just how many times have you e... |
1 October 2008
04:29 GMT |
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As some of you might remember from our CEDIA and CES coverages, Japanese company Hitachi announced back at the beginning of 2008 its UltraThin line of LCD HDTVs, which features a width of just 1.5 inches (3.87 cm). Nevertheless, it seems that Hitachi has decided to up the ante right on its home turf and showcased at ... |
1 October 2008
04:29 GMT |
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On Monday, September 29, we were telling you that Motorola was working on an Android phone. Sources were reporting, at the time, that the company was planning to expand its Android team from 50 persons to 350, which could only be regarded as a huge step towards the development of its own Google Android phone. With al... |
1 October 2008
04:25 GMT |
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The following few years could bring us a ground-shaking new atomic microscope based on the fantastically smooth mirror just developed by the scientists from the Surface Science Laboratory at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. While this new device type would not provide a much higher resolution than the currently-used e... |
1 October 2008
04:24 GMT |
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With word on the web that Apple's portable computers are gaining ground on Windows, even Microsoft-focused bloggers are talking about it. While “Windows laptops are losing luster, Mac laptops are making surprising gains,” eWeek Microsoft Watch blogger Joe Wilcox has noticed, having moved to a 20-perc... |
1 October 2008
04:13 GMT |
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A new research seems to indicate that dinosaurs didn't take over their habitat right after they first appeared, but instead underwent millions of years of constant change, until they became perfectly adapted to the environment. Professors at the University of Bristol say that dinosaur evolution was a very slow p... |
1 October 2008
04:12 GMT |
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The graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, ATI, demonstrated at the CEATEC Japan 2008 trade-show a working sample of its Mobility Radeon HD 4000-series graphics processors. The interesting part of the news is that ATI is on its way to have a dual-chip graphics solution for mobile computers as well, after m... |
1 October 2008
04:10 GMT |
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With Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 delivered in the first half of September 2008 and the feedback incorporated in the development process, Mozilla is gearing up for the next stage of Shiretoko. The first taste of Firefox 3.1 is now available for download. Mozilla is offering the nightly trunk of Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Pre signalin... |
1 October 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Perhaps looking to lure in even more customers with its new music phones, Samsung has decided that all of them are to be sold together with the Shazam service. Developed by the British company of the same name, Shazam is an application that will allow owners of Samsung's new music phones to recognize tracks... |
1 October 2008
04:05 GMT |
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TDK Corp has recently announced that it has achieved the world's highest surface recording density of HDD, 803Gbit/inch2 with a track recording density of 1.771kBPI and a track density of 454kTPI. The announcement comes after Toshiba introduced last week its first 250GB 1.8-inch HDDs, designed to meet the specif... |
1 October 2008
03:56 GMT |
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The Tiberium universe is very important to Electronic Arts. After acquiring Westwood Studios, the owner of the classic Command & Conquer franchise, they gained access to the intellectual rights and began exploring new game opportunities. One of them was a squad based shooter that would portray the story of a young c... |
1 October 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Among all the high-end audio gear, tube-powered devices have a rank of their own, no matter whether we're talking about headphone amplifiers or high-power ones, or even radios. Tubes have always exerted a mysterious attraction for both enthusiasts and audiophiles and despite the fact that they represent a past a... |
1 October 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Iuri Stanchev announced last night a new version of his Slackware-based Linux distribution, with advanced security enhancements. The new version comes with a smaller ISO image, a portage system, enhanced kernel configuration and updated X.Org, improved installer and much more. "As the NetSecL Project developer - I am... |
1 October 2008
03:46 GMT |
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As expected, the first Google Android phone, T-mobile's HTC G1, has really made a splashing entrance on the mobile scene. The entire media is already going up and down about this particular device. And it should, since this device is meant to be a groundbreaking one, and might just revolutionize t... |
1 October 2008
03:46 GMT |
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The father of science-fiction, Jules Verne, was undoubtedly a visionary man, since many of the things he imagined were shifted to reality at some point. Others, though, didn't.The second most translated author in history (after the most prodigious crime-novel author Agatha Christie), Jules Verne is still one of ... |
1 October 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Way back in 2005, when Electronic Arts announced that it had recruited Steven Spielberg to create at least three videogames for the company, a lot of people were skeptical of the partnership. After all, videogames and movies never mixed well and there was no guarantee that such a high profile creator would be able to... |
1 October 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Movies based on games don't have a very impressive track record. Most of the times, they just venture far away from the actual action it the game and the script writers use the characters in weird ways. In most cases, it's just an excuse for them not to develop other characters. A Max Payne movie is g... |
1 October 2008
03:36 GMT |
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I've always wanted to present an educational product, one intended especially for children in primary school because, that way, I would contribute to making the learning process just a tad better for some. And by better I mean more fun, with less stress associated with it and, why not, a real pleasure. Well, now... |
1 October 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Reliable sources claim that Apple is preparing the first Snow Leopard pre-release builds to be seeded to developers. These copies are the first to be handed to a “limited” / select number of developers since the initial build issued at Apple's WWDC in June, this year.AppleInsider cites people familia... |
1 October 2008
03:29 GMT |
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Guitar Hero: World Tour is not out yet and Activision Blizzard is still thinking of new things that can get the valuable Hero tag. It's pretty much sure that, in 2009, a Metallica themed Guitar Hero will make an appearance and the company also says that it plans to release more games in 2009 and 2010, with... |
1 October 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Canada's third largest mobile carrier, Telus, has just released a new Motorola phone – the RAZV VE20, which was previously launched in the US, via both Sprint and Alltel.Motorola VE20 could pass as a classic RAZR, hence it will probably not blow you away with its look and features. But this doesn'... |
1 October 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, announced on Tuesday that it is ready to start using advanced 28-nanometer technology at the beginning of 2010 for the production of CPUs, graphics processors and gadget chips. TSMC is mainly competing against United Micr... |
1 October 2008
03:06 GMT |
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EVGA, one of NVIDIA’s most important board partners, has recently rolled out a new product that is meant to provide overclocking enthusiasts with just enough features to keep them occupied until those Intel X58-based motherboards finally make their debut. Based on the company's earlier released nForce 790i... |
1 October 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Cowboy Bebop: Tsuioku no Yakyoku is a video game developed by Banpresto Co Ltd. and published by Bandai Co Ltd. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the original PlayStation. It was released in August 2005. The game is classed as an action adventure title, which is played from a thi... |
1 October 2008
03:01 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is a colossal hit, the Japanese company registering at the moment over 30 million units sold. Undoubtedly, the popularity of this console has been decided by the fact that it doesn't target only hardcore gamers, but offers titles which appeal to both serious and casual ones. The large market ap... |
1 October 2008
02:59 GMT |
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To counteract what is clearly a potential problem, professors at the University of Virginia (UV) have envisioned a daring plan, aimed at reducing the heat high-speed computer processors generate while computing large amounts of information very fast. Avik Ghosh and Mircea Stan, both with UV's School of Engineeri... |
1 October 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Yesterday, September 30, AT&T announced that iPhone 3G would be launched in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on October 17. The iPhone 3G will bring users here all the revolutionary features of the iPhone, plus the advantages of 3G – networking twice as fast, built-in GPS and the iPhone 2.0 software... |
1 October 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that members of Apple's executive team have been granted more than $122 million in restricted stock-based compensation for their current and future efforts, reflecting the company's growing Mac, iPod and iPhone businesses.Nine grants were... |
1 October 2008
02:40 GMT |
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Corvette Evolution GT is a videogame developed by Milestone S.R.L. and published by Black Bean. The game was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the PC. It was launched in June 2006. The title is classed as a driving simulation played from a first person perspective, with some portions where the v... |
1 October 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 is going to be a very big game for the Xbox 360 this holiday season. Promising to bring back the action packed, testosterone filled gameplay from the first title, it will definitely be a best seller. But if there's still money to be made, why not go that extra mile, asked Microsoft. And so it has... |
1 October 2008
02:32 GMT |
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Constantine is a video game developed by Bits Studio Ltd. and published by THQ Inc. The game was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the original Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in February 2005. The game is classed as an action title with horror elements and with a comics background. It was ... |
1 October 2008
02:17 GMT |
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Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Bagdad is a video game developed by Pivotal Games Ltd. and published by SCi Games Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PC and the Game Cube; it was released in 2003. It is classed as an action title with shooter elements,... |
1 October 2008
02:12 GMT |
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