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Amidst the rumors of a possible price cut for the Nintendo Wii console, the company's president, Satoru Iwata, has just revealed that Nintendo isn't considering such a move in the near future, and that it is focusing on making the Wii more attractive to those that haven't bought it already.The Nintendo... |
1 November 2010
19:01 GMT |
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While its competitors, Microsoft and Sony, are trying to invest more seriously into smartphones, with the Windows Phone 7 operating system and the rumored PlayStation Phone, Nintendo has once again emphasized its devotion to dedicated handheld consoles, like the upcoming 3DS.Nintendo is currently dominating the handh... |
1 November 2010
18:21 GMT |
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Today, ViewSonic went official with a couple of tablet PCs running under Google's Android operating system, the ViewPad 7 and the ViewPad 10. While the former is based on the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, the latter comes with Android 1.6 on board, though it offers dual boot capabilities, pairing the plat... |
1 November 2010
17:11 GMT |
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The Sly Cooper Collection, containing all of the original Sly Cooper games that were made for the PlayStation 2, is set to arrive in high definition on the PlayStation 3 on November 9, according to an announcement made by the development studio of the collection, Sanzaru Games.
A huge amount of popular franchises ... |
1 November 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is finalizing the launch of its widely adopted productivity suite, Office for Mac 2011, which officially debuted at the end of October with much fanfare. The suite delivers updated and highly-improved versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and, for the first time, Outlook for Mac. On November 1, Microsoft Ro... |
1 November 2010
15:46 GMT |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007 is a video game developed and published by Japanese company Konami exclusively for the Nintendo DS.
As its name says, it is part of the extremely popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and is just one of the many video games that were inspired by the long running anime and manga series.
T... |
1 November 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA has just announced the upcoming availability of three new Android-based devices on its airwaves, the T-Mobile Comet, LG Optimus T with Google, and Motorola DEFY, all of which are set to arrive with price tags of under $100, and also introduced new plan options for its users. According t... |
1 November 2010
15:21 GMT |
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ZeniMax Media, the parent group of publisher Bethesda Softworks, has just revealed that it has acquired Japanese studio Tango Gameworks, which is led by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.ZeniMax Media has brokered some impressive deals recently, including the acquisition of Arkane Studios and extremely popular firs... |
1 November 2010
15:21 GMT |
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A new wave of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate (RC) downloads has been leaked and made available for download in the wild. Build 6.1.7601.17105.100929-1730 was offered by Microsoft officially to the public for testing on October 26th, although some early adopters received access to the bits a tad ear... |
1 November 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Still new on the market, Windows Phone 7 has been strongly backed by smartphone manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung and LG. Following the operating system's announcements, a set of seven devices running Microsoft's new mobile OS were launched on the market. If you are one of the lucky few that managed to get... |
1 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour is a video game developed and published by Japanese company Konami exclusively for the Nintendo DS portable console.
The game is part of the highly successful Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise which is based on popular anime and manga series from Japan.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour was first ... |
1 November 2010
14:51 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the availability of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate (RC), Microsoft also released an update designed to streamline certain scenarios such as the deployment and removal of the upgrade. Just ahead of the 2010 Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC 2010), the Redmond company of... |
1 November 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is getting ready to bring to the market in the United States a new mobile operating system, dubbed Windows Phone 7. Announced officially last month, the first handsets running under the platform should become available for purchase in the US via wireless carriers AT&T and T-Mob... |
1 November 2010
14:41 GMT |
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US-based carrier Sprint has just announced the debut of sales for the entry-level Samsung M360 clamshell mobile phone. Targeting customers that are looking for a basic phone, the M360 handset is an interesting option for Sprint's customers that cannot afford or don’t want to spend more on expensive devices... |
1 November 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Antivirus vendor Webroot has acquired cloud security solutions provider Prevx and plans to integrate the company's technology into its own services in order to enhance their capability.Based in Boulder, Colorado, Webroot offers both consumer and corporate products. The company's flagship product is Webroot ... |
1 November 2010
14:11 GMT |
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Canadian wireless carrier TELUS announced officially that the Android 2.2 Froyo software update for its HTC Desire smartphone is already available for its users as an over-the-air update. The announcement follows the release of this update last week, when it was announced as available for the first time, though TELU... |
1 November 2010
13:45 GMT |
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Today, leading provider of wireless broadband services Clearwire Corporation announced officially that it made its CLEAR 4G services available in a series of new markets in the United States, offering even more users the possibility to enjoy enhanced 4G connectivity on the company's WiMAX network. According to ... |
1 November 2010
13:41 GMT |
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AT&T and Samsung have just announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Evergreen, an affordable phone built with 70% recycled post-consumer plastics and packaging that utilizes 80% recycled post-consumer paper.The feature-phone comes with a slide-out four-row QWERTY keyboard, which makes it a good deal as a qu... |
1 November 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Adobe announced the availability of the latest version its web conferencing software Adobe Connect 8. The latest release features some general improvements, better video and audio quality, more collaboration features and so on, but also a great expansion in platform availability, with new mobile and desktop clients."... |
1 November 2010
13:26 GMT |
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Windows Azure is a tangible example of Microsoft’s strong efforts to drive interoperability and to build a truly open platform. Developers can already create Cloud projects using ASP.NET, C#, PHP and Java, but the software giant’s work is far from over, with new enhancements delivered constantly, the lat... |
1 November 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Google has now released the first update to its WebM software development kit. This first release brings a significant improvement in decoding performance and better quality encoding. While the open source library has been made available last week, the details of the release as well as Google's detailed plans fo... |
1 November 2010
12:57 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint and mobile phone maker Samsung have teamed for promoting some of their latest product, while offering users the possibility to enjoy increased access to content on their mobile devices. The Android-based Samsung Epic 4G and Galaxy Tab are included in this deal, as both of them are reportedly ... |
1 November 2010
12:51 GMT |
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Google usually introduces several new features or changes to its search engine each week, yet not all of them are worthy of an entire blog post from the company. One such new feature that you may have noticed is adding more refinements for certain searches. To make sure that users don't miss out on anything, Goo... |
1 November 2010
12:22 GMT |
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The iPad has managed to become a huge success story for Apple but the company can't rest on its laurels and, as many of you were certainly were hoping, the next generation iPad device will come with a front facing camera as well as a back snapper, according to some recent rumors.This report comes thanks to the u... |
1 November 2010
12:19 GMT |
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According to researchers in the United Kingdom, detecting hazardous radiation has just been made easier when investigators at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) developed a new, portable radiation detector, that can work at long range. The instrument is apparently capable of detecting any traces of potentially ha... |
1 November 2010
12:07 GMT |
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With the Sandy Bridge series of CPUs on the way, it is not exactly surprising to hear of new rumors or details leaking to the web, and it seems that one of the more recent ones is quite promising, at least as far as energy efficiency goes. As consumers may or may not know by now, the Sandy Bridge series of CPUs shou... |
1 November 2010
11:56 GMT |
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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) is notifying 56,000 emergency medical technicians and paramedics that their personal information was exposed after a hacker compromised an Internet-facing system.The breach occurred on September 17, when an unauthorized individual obtained access to a publicly ac... |
1 November 2010
11:56 GMT |
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A new study focusing on the way that the temperature of the Southern Ocean could influence the distribution of king crabs, concluded that if the coldest waters on Earth warm up, this could trigger an invasion of voracious predatory crabs, which will threaten the unique continental-shelf ecosystems of Antarctica.King ... |
1 November 2010
11:55 GMT |
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As time passes, it becomes increasingly clear that fossil fuels will no longer be able to cut it in terms of servicing our power needs without destroying Earth. Experts say that hydrogen, the most abundant substance in the Universe, is the chemical of the future. Electricity coming from alternative sources is current... |
1 November 2010
11:50 GMT |
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The browser market has been fairly static recently, at least in terms of trends. The only browser that is seeing some movement, in either direction, is Google Chrome, while Internet Explorer, Firefox and the other popular browsers are largely static relative to their market share.Chrome added another half a percentag... |
1 November 2010
11:50 GMT |
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I have to admit that I am somewhat skeptical when it comes down to Chinese manufacturers that I have never heard before such as Mineral Technology, this company just announcing they are releasing a new seven inch, Windows running UMPC device, available in four different configurations.Dubbed the U91, this tablet like... |
1 November 2010
11:43 GMT |
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Today, Adobe announced the launch of Adobe Connect 8, a new version of their web conferencing solution, which is based on Adobe Flash Player, and which was designed to deliver effective and engaging Web meetings, online training and webinars. According to the software giant, the new solution was delivered with suppo... |
1 November 2010
11:23 GMT |
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Sylmar, California-based Spectrolab Inc. has produced its 3 millionths multi-junction, space-based solar cell, after 15 years of being in business. The milestone is an indicators of the boom the satellite industry has been experiencing over these past years. The corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing ... |
1 November 2010
11:18 GMT |
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ViewSonic is one of the companies that decided to go for the dual-boot configuration when making its tablets, and it seems that one of its larger media slates, the ViewPad 10 to be exact, has just been given its official price tag.Like many of its peers, ViewSonic is getting ready to start shipping its own 10-inch m... |
1 November 2010
11:15 GMT |
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A new British Academy report has concluded that British people are more stressed with every day that passes by, and this phenomenon is starting to become a big social problem in the current economic crisis.Report author Professor Tarani Chandola from the University of Manchester, discovered that even people who had n... |
1 November 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Even though wireless video streaming solutions seem to pop just about everywhere nowadays these are still to expensive for the average consumer while image lag and transmission range can still prove to be a problem so Thanko developed an adapter that sends HDMI video or audio pver to your HDTV via Ethernet.Ethernet c... |
1 November 2010
11:05 GMT |
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The file-sharing world came under a bit of a shock last week when LimeWire effectively shut down. While the move should have come as no surprise to anyone, LimeWire has lost several lawsuits and was ordered to shut down previously, the story proved quite popular. The fact that millions of users suddenly found themsel... |
1 November 2010
11:05 GMT |
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A Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for instrumenting a software piracy scheme, which involved selling over $1 million worth of unlicensed computer programs over the Internet.Todd Alan Cook, 24, of Wichita Falls, Texas, pleaded guilty on March 11, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, to a ... |
1 November 2010
11:01 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind research, experts determined that each person's personality traits and social activity patterns interact to determine that person's vulnerability to experiencing sleep deprivation.The new research paper, which appears in the November 1 issue of the esteemed scientific journal SLEEP, i... |
1 November 2010
10:55 GMT |
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Today, wireless carrier Sprint announced officially the launch of its Sprint 4G services in a series of new markets around the United States, including New York City. The service is offered on Clearwire's WiMax networks, and is currently available commercially in a number of 61 markets in the US.Today, Sprint m... |
1 November 2010
10:43 GMT |
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Technology analysis provider Canalys has just published its Q3 2010 smartphone market research results, which place Apple's iPhone in the lead on the US smartphone market and Android as the dominant OS in North America.According to the research company, Apple's iPhone is the best selling smartphone in the U... |
1 November 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Welcome to the 121st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Finnix 100, MeeGo 1.1 and Salix OS 13.1.2 KDE Edition. In other news: Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) will have a revamped interface, based on Unity; At UDS... |
1 November 2010
10:41 GMT |
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A four minute video demonstration featuring VMWare Inc. CTO Scott Davis as he shows off the capabilities of VMware View for iPad is now available for watching. The demo took place at VMworld 2010, in Copenhagen. The iPad app is expected to arrive early next year. Parallels was first to the race to deliver a remote d... |
1 November 2010
10:36 GMT |
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Huntkey decided to create a computer enclosure that, instead of focusing on aesthetics or overall feature richness, puts more emphasis on something most chassis don't focus on overmuch, namely electromagnetic radiation.Like all electronics, any PC configuration creates an amount of electromagnetic radiation.Nor... |
1 November 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, warn that short courses of antibiotics can leave behind normal gut bacteria with antibiotic resistance genes for as long as two years after the end of the treatment.Before this new survey, health care professionals believed that the impact the ant... |
1 November 2010
10:26 GMT |
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A team of experts managed to create a diode-like device that allows electromagnetic waves to pass in one direction, but prevents them from going the opposite way. The innovation could have a wide array of practical applications. The new diode was constructed specifically for polarized microwaves, the group explains, ... |
1 November 2010
10:25 GMT |
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If today's office there's hardly enough room to place a color printer as well as a fax and scanner, so multifunction solutions have become more and more popular in the office environment, Canon just releasing the imageRUNNER C1030 series as an alternative to all the other color letter-size multifunction pro... |
1 November 2010
10:23 GMT |
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The YouTube ban in Turkey has been lifted, according to officials. This came after videos that the country found offensive were removed from the site. While Google has confirmed that it's starting to see some traffic coming from Turkey, it says it has no direct involvement with the removal of the videos and that... |
1 November 2010
10:22 GMT |
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The website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been offline over the weekend and continues to be so, because of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Anonymous in retaliation to the LimeWire shutdown.Last week, a federal court issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Lime ... |
1 November 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller is a video game developed and published by Japanese company Konami exclusively for the Nintendo DS portable console.
The title was released in its native Japan on November 30, 2006, under the name Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Summoner, and in North America on January 2, 2007, subtitled Spirit Cal... |
1 November 2010
10:13 GMT |
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The fall update to the Xbox 360 Dashboard is currently rolling out to gamers worldwide, having been released earlier today, November 1st, 2010, as initially planned. While it is designed to bring to the table an array of new features, the fall 2010 Xbox 360 Dashboard update is designed to accommodate the upcoming Ki... |
1 November 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA went official with a series of new Android-based handsets on its airwaves, set to become available on November 3rd, including the T-Mobile Comet, LG Optimus T with Google, and Motorola DEFY. All three devices will be priced under $100.The affordable and appealing Android mobi... |
1 November 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Even though Intel usually keeps its technologies to itself, it seems like it will start to manufacture a certain other company's processors starting next year, those of Acronix Semiconductor to be exact.Sometime next year, Intel will start to put its 22nm manufacturing process to good use at making new chips.Sa... |
1 November 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Officials at NASA say that they still don't know for sure what will happen to space shuttle Discovery after it returns from its last planned flight, the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Discovery is now ready to fly to the orbital facility, and it is scheduled to launch on Wednesday. It w... |
1 November 2010
09:48 GMT |
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An underwater robot that can follow marine organisms over record distances and can function in the ocean for months in a row, will allows scientists to study life in the open ocean.The new robot, called the Tethys, carried out its first experiments last month, spending nearly one week at a time in California's M... |
1 November 2010
09:41 GMT |
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A new version of the redsn0w jailbreak utility from the iPhone Dev Team is available for download packing a bunch of new features, including custom bootlogos for iPhone and iPod touch, the ability to enter DFU mode and restore to a custom jailbreak made on a Mac, and more.The infamous team of hackers acknowledges in ... |
1 November 2010
09:40 GMT |
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When it comes down to GPS navigation TomTom is one of the most established brands out there, the company announcing two new devices that are bound to hit the US market, the GO 2405 TM and GO 2505 TM that offer an enhanced user interface as well as faster routing.Available with 4.3” (GO 2405 TM) or 5” (GO ... |
1 November 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008 is a video game developed and published by Japanese company Konami exclusively for the Nintendo DS.
As its name says, it is part of the extremely popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and is just one of the many video games that were inspired by the long running anime and manga series.
T... |
1 November 2010
09:37 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Orange UK has just announced officially the launch of a new device on its airwaves, the Android-based Galaxy Tab from Samsung. According to Orange, the new slate is immediately available for purchase at retail shops and Orange telesales, while being accompanied by one and 12 month price plans from t... |
1 November 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Instead of releasing yet another monitor or two that focus on performance before everything else, NEC decided to, instead, create a pair of displays that place a stronger emphasis on environment friendliness, their names being MultiSync EA192M and MultiSync E201W. The MultiSync EA192M and MultiSync E201W, as their n... |
1 November 2010
09:33 GMT |
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Bluetooth headsets are some of the most widely used phone accessories out there, so Jawbone thought to expand its Icon line with four designer edition EarWear Collection offerings, catering to all those fashion conscious users out there that don't want to give up on style while talking on the phone.Featuring a ... |
1 November 2010
09:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has just launched the Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 experience on Foursquare, a great initiative designed to highlight the best photo spots in cities across the United States, with a focus on San Francisco, Seattle and New York for the time being. I just have a bit of a problem with it. Where was this wh... |
1 November 2010
08:57 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the University of Kansas recently investigated how people interact when they want to enter a relationship, and determined that a little self-awareness goes a long way towards increasing people's chances of finding their better half.According to assistant professor of communication studie... |
1 November 2010
08:03 GMT |
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Despite showing a clear disapproval of Apple’s App Store guidelines, the developers of VLC Media Player for iOS still have a binary available through iTunes, at the time of this writing. Following news that Apple had been sent a formal notification of copyright infringement for not allowing other means of distr... |
1 November 2010
08:02 GMT |
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Nokia N8, the latest high-end smartphone Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia brought to the market during the ongoing year, is set to land on shelves in Singapore on November 5th, on the airwaves of wireless carrier SingTel. The operator would have the Nokia N8 exclusively for four weeks. In addition to being sold in S... |
1 November 2010
07:57 GMT |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Reverse of Arcadia, also known as Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship, is a video game developed and published by Japanese company Konami exclusively for the Nintendo DS.
As its name says, it is part of the extremely popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and is just one of the many video games that were inspir... |
1 November 2010
07:54 GMT |
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The State of Indiana is suing WellPoint, one of the largest health insurance providers in the United States, for failing to notify customers affected by a data breach in a timely manner.WRTV Indianapolis' Channel 6 reports that the lawsuit was filed on Friday in Marion County by the attorney's general offic... |
1 November 2010
07:52 GMT |
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Deciding to leave the consumer market alone for now, Habey went ahead and developed a system suited for industrial application, namely the embedded system dubbed Habey WIT-1800.While desktops and notebooks have a clear target end-user base, embedded systems are more task-oriented.Mostly, they end up used, either alo... |
1 November 2010
07:51 GMT |
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However great present day smartphones are there is one thing that still manages to elude them, that being battery life, so A-Solar has developed a series of Apple licensed solar chargers for iPhone, that enable you to recharge your phone wherever you may be, as long as some sunlight is available.Coming with “Ma... |
1 November 2010
07:44 GMT |
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A new research paper says that existing nuclear deterrent measures at work in the United States are a danger to national security, and qualifies them as pure fantasy. The document shows that the new strategy, set in place this year, needs immediate revision.The paper appears in the SAGE publication Bulletin of Atomic... |
1 November 2010
07:42 GMT |
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The Salix OS team has announced the first release of a KDE-based version of the Linux distribution. Salix OS 13.1.2 KDE is based on the slightly older KDE 4.4.3 and comes with a variety of KDE software."The Salix team is proud to announce the very first official release of Salix KDE edition," George Vlahavas wrote in... |
1 November 2010
07:42 GMT |
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Softpedia reaffirms its belief that Mac OS X 10.6.5 will arrive this week, following yet another seed on behalf of Apple, which instructs developers to focus their testing efforts on 3D Graphics, Printing, QuickTime, Time Machine, and USB Devices, in the latest beta build - Mac OS X 10.6.5 10H568.People familiar with... |
1 November 2010
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is now offering an updated version of the Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals, featuring information on more products than ever before. In fact, almost 20,000 items are now included in the list provided by the software giant to IT pros on the software solutions that are designed t... |
1 November 2010
07:39 GMT |
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Following last year's successful launch of the original Worms for iOS game, Team17 has just announced that Worm 2: Armageddon for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available in the App Store. The sequel to Worms comes with new features, but keeps the same gameplay style, which is a blend of strategy and arcade.... |
1 November 2010
07:36 GMT |
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It's no lie, even if this is another kind of eruption – one in which life erupts from what was once a death-spreading mountain. Mount St. Helens is very well known for its huge eruption back in 1980, an event that didn't surprise anybody and that left visible traces until today. “It began with... |
1 November 2010
07:31 GMT |
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WordPress developer Automattic has announced the official release of their application for Nokia phones. Up until now, users of the popular blogging platform were only able to use the beta version on their Nokia handsets.However, the application is not yet compatible with Symbian^3 devices such as N8, C6 and C7. Furt... |
1 November 2010
07:29 GMT |
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Even though the Huron River platform hasn't even come out yet, being set to debut early next year, reports have apparently already surfaced bearing information on its successor, set to come out around the same period of 2012.The upcoming next generation of central processing units (CPUs) from Intel will have su... |
1 November 2010
07:09 GMT |
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On Earth, there are several protected areas that preserve wilderness and every one of them is a triumph for the preservation of nature, but if we take a closer look, we can see that on the ground, the reality is slightly different, and many rare species are ignored.A new study carried out by Lisette Cantú-Sala... |
1 November 2010
07:06 GMT |
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Investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using advanced technologies to study how nonverbal communication patterns influence discussions and arguments in today's society. At the Institute's Human Dynamics Lab, arguing and other socially-gray behavior is encouraged, so that lead ... |
1 November 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Starting today, November 1st, UK customers can purchase the Samsung Galaxy Tab in their country. The Android-based tablet PC was announced as coming to the UK market a few weeks ago, and it already went on same via various channels in the country. Those UK customers interested in the purchase of this 7-inch slate fr... |
1 November 2010
06:58 GMT |
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A new trojan, created by a group of hackers sympathizing with the Vietnamese Communist Party, was specifically built to attack dissident websites and bloggers.The malware, which has been dubbed Vecebot by Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks, was created and released on around October 13.The trojan drops several... |
1 November 2010
06:56 GMT |
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If crazy out of the ordinary headphones are what you are after then you probably must have heard of Urbanears since this company is behind some of the most outrageous and colorful earphones available, the Plattan Plus being its latest ”made for iPhone” creation.Just as the regular Plattan, that were relea... |
1 November 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Just as the search world is becoming less varied, now that Yahoo search results are provided by Bing, in the US for now, a new search engine is being launched to challenge the established market. Blekko, which has been in the works for quite some time, is now going public and is available for everyone.Blekko is a cla... |
1 November 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Simplifying asynchronous programming is the task set for a new download available from Microsoft for developers. Visual Studio Async went live on the Microsoft Download Center at the end of the past month, and is offered to devs as a Community Technology Preview release.Obviously, the tool is served free of charge, ... |
1 November 2010
06:48 GMT |
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A new scientific research demonstrates that children literally see things differently than adults do, especially until they reach the age of 13. It's only then that their brain begins interpreting visual stimuli the way the adult brain does. One example the researchers behind the new work give of this change is ... |
1 November 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Logitech may have released a large number of peripherals in its time, but the most recent one may turn out to be one of its more daring projects, what with its ability to recover its energy by simply being bathed in light.The new device that the world-class maker of peripherals has created is a keyboard known as the... |
1 November 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Despite initial dissensions among the participants at the Conference of the Parties 10 (COP10) of the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), nations eventually managed to come to an important agreement regarding preserving biodiversity on Earth.The decision was made Friday morning, when representatives of nearly 2... |
1 November 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is back in Europe this week, his second EMEA tour in 2010. Ballmer will be visiting Russia, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine. In fact, the tour has already debuted with Microsoft CEO keynoting the RUSNANOTECH Forum today, Monday, November 1st. Ballmer’s recent an... |
1 November 2010
06:17 GMT |
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An information technology director, who took revenge on his former employer after being fired by deleting part of his website, was sentenced to 27 months in prison.Darnell H. Albert-El, 53, of Richmond, VA, pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer without authorization on June 29, 20... |
1 November 2010
06:15 GMT |
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A new 3D modeling of the mouth parts of the Anomalocaris, proved that the meters-long, dreadful carnivorous 'shrimp' that was thought to own the seas a half billion years ago, could have been a real softy. Anomalocaris was believed to have been a fierce predator that fed on trilobites and other creatures of... |
1 November 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Nokia Z500 seems to be the codename of the first Nokia MeeGo tablet to be launched on the market. Information about a future device with a larger screen has been showing up all over the internet since this Spring, when game developer Fishlabs revealed that they are closely working with Nokia on a triple-A title featu... |
1 November 2010
06:13 GMT |
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While the new SDXC card is specifically intended for digital cameras and camcorders, the new CFast 500 cards that Transcend has prepared are, instead, designed for the industrial sector, being built in such a way as to operate on the same principle as solid state drives (SSDs).While there are many types of memory ca... |
1 November 2010
06:12 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung reportedly denied all rumors regarding the upcoming availability of a Nexus Two smartphone coming from it. According to the leading handset vendor, these rumors are “simply not true.”Rumors on a possible Google phone from Samsung emerged into the wild a few months ... |
1 November 2010
06:11 GMT |
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If you think that pretty much all the eReaders available out there look the same, then you surely haven't taken a look at the Pocket eDGE, Entourage's e-Book reader coming with a dual screen design that redefines the boarder between tablets and eReaders.Incorporating a monochrome 9.7 inch Wacom Penabled e-I... |
1 November 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Researchers have wondered for a long time why people go out on Halloween night and search for scary thrills, such as horror movies, nasty costumes, haunted houses and so on. A new study throws some more light on this behavior. The investigation determined that most people search for these spine-chilling effects preci... |
1 November 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Now that the Full HD video quality has more or less become the new standard when it comes to any sort of media files, Transcend decided to provide digital cameras and camcorders with a card capacious and fast enough to keep up with this type of media recording.NAND Flash storage chips have come to be used in a wide ... |
1 November 2010
05:30 GMT |
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The LimeWire peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network has been shut down by court order last week, leaving millions of users scrambling for a new source of music. LimeWire lost a four year long lawsuit with Recording Industry Association of America (RIA), having been found guilty of copyright infringements, which res... |
1 November 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Marine experts and oceanographers believe that a monitoring network to cover all of the world's oceans should have been set into place years ago,and is therefore long overdue. Such a sensor network could be used to keep track of all the changes that take place in the global waters, such as for example how reefs ... |
1 November 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system version from Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, was put on sale in a series of European and Asia-Pacific markets about ten days ago, and already managed to win the hearts of customers, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest. Germany is among the coun... |
1 November 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Nimbuzz has just announced a new partnership with VoX Communications, a cloud-based communications solutions, apps and services provider, for the release of a new Voice over IP application named VoX Mobile Out for Android.A Pervasip Corp.wholly-owned subsidiary, VoX Communications is the first US-based premier partne... |
1 November 2010
05:21 GMT |
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One of the common themes around Google recently revolves around its apparent inability to hold on to its talent. A number of high-profile people left the company, many of them heading to Facebook. Lars Rasmussen, the co-creator of Google Maps and Wave, has now confirmed that Facebook is his destination as well, after... |
1 November 2010
05:20 GMT |
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A team of Australian and British researchers, discovered that within our bodies, there is a protein called perforin, which punches holes in rogue cells, and kills them.The researchers have deciphered the structure of the perforin pore, and as project leader Prof James Whisstock from Monash University says, “per... |
1 November 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced last week that it would start the roll-out of the long promised Android 2.1 software update for its Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 handsets as soon as last Sunday, and the first devices already received their update, it seems. Users on the market started to repor... |
1 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Since NAS devices have become quite popular when it comes to home and small office networks, their makers have begun to use stronger hardware in their making, and Thecus seems quite eager to surprise with it newest such model.The new product that Thecus has completed goes by the name of N4200PRO and uses a dual-core... |
1 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Those that don't want their Call of Duty: Black Ops experience spoiled should shield their eyes, as massive and surprising details about the game's Zombies mode have just hit the web, thanks to a leaked video.
According to a brand new video uploaded to YouTube, and promptly taken down by Activision, the ... |
1 November 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Given that we are at, or nearly at, Peak Oil, it stands to reason that the costs associated with building roads are increasing, and that government can no longer afford to maintain their road systems. Now, a new method of producing asphalt is being developed to counter these effects.The technique is critical for avoi... |
1 November 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 is yet to reach RTW, but the browser is already winning the hearts and minds of users worldwide. With IE9 Beta released in mid-September and IE9 Platform Preview 6 launched the past week at the Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC 2010), the next major iteration of IE continues to make co... |
1 November 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy Tab, the first tablet PC the South Korean mobile phone maker announced officially this year, is expected to make an appearance on the market in Singapore come November 13th. The slate should land on SingTel's shelves in the country, and the carrier already confirmed officially the move.In case th... |
1 November 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of the successful 2010 FIFA World Cup in which it was the only African global sponsor, MTN has added the critically acclaimed Nokia N8 smartphone to its offering. MTN Group is a major multinational telecommunication company, which operates in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.MTN Group... |
1 November 2010
04:31 GMT |
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Although there's no denying the fact that TV has become pretty old fashioned in this day and age there are still times when you would give anything just to be able to watch your favorite show or sporting event, so the tizi TV hotspot for iPhone and iPad comes as great news for all you TV affectionados out there.... |
1 November 2010
04:30 GMT |
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The Pine Trail platform from Intel has spawned quite a number of netbooks over the past months, and it seems that one of them, one that has been in existence for some time now, has finally expanded its horizons by going to Europe. For those interested in a reminder, netbooks are those mobile computers that focus on ... |
1 November 2010
04:28 GMT |
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The traditional Xbox Live Fall Update has just been launched by Microsoft, bringing new features to the online service, including improved voice chat, Zune Music, enhanced Netflix capabilities and, most importantly, support for Microsoft's new Kinect peripheral which will be launched for the Xbox 360 late this m... |
1 November 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed in 1994 a mathematical model for creating a space drive that could theoretically propel a spacecraft faster than the speed of light. Real simulations show that such a drive would indeed propel a spaceship, but only up to 25 percent of light speed. In Alcubie... |
1 November 2010
04:15 GMT |
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A new research found out that pregnant women who eat peanuts may put their children at increased risk for peanut allergy.Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and leader of the study said that “researchers in recent years have been uncerta... |
1 November 2010
04:14 GMT |
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Thirteen-year-old teen actress Chloë Moretz got her Twitter and Facebook accounts hijacked, after a thief broke into her home and stole her computer, among other things.Ms. Moretz, who is best known for her role as "Hit-Girl" Mindy Macready in the 2010 superhero movie Kick-Ass, told Entertainment Weekly magazine... |
1 November 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola and wireless carrier Verizon are gearing up for the release of a new device running under Google's Android operating system, supposedly dubbed Motorola DROID 2 Global. As the name suggest, we're looking at a smartphone with global connectivity options on board which, it seems, s... |
1 November 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Knowing that higher prices are usually the bane of devices based on new technologies, Super Talent figured it would play on this aspect and significantly boost the appeal of one of its newer products by making it more affordable than one would expect. What the company prepared is a series of USB flash drives, known ... |
1 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Samsung's first Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is on a roll in the United States. Amazon, America's largest online retailer decided to keep the hype alive by introducing the gadget into its offering. There are even chances that customers receive it before its official launch in the U.S.Initially announced ... |
1 November 2010
03:54 GMT |
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Sony's Massive Action Game (MAG) will be on the receiving end of a brand new downloadable content pack, in the form of the Escalation expansion, which was previously tested during the game's beta stage last summer.MAG players have already received a lot of new changes to the multiplayer only first person sh... |
1 November 2010
03:54 GMT |
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Starting today, mobile phone users in New York have the possibility to enjoy enhanced connectivity options with Clearwire's 4G services. The company has just announced the immediate commercial availability of these services for customers in New Brunswick and New York.Clearwire brought these services to the mark... |
1 November 2010
03:51 GMT |
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Engineering teams at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, could now finish up with the repairs of space shuttle Discovery in due time, and so take off for the orbiter's final flight have been delayed one extra day, to November 3. The shuttle is now scheduled to take off on Wednesday, at 3:52 pm EDT, or 19... |
1 November 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Not that much time has passed since Roku released upon us its latest trio of media streamers and the company has recently announced they will add Hulu Plus support to all of their streamers (including the Netgear branded ones) starting this fall, to spice things up a bit. This will add to an already impressive number... |
1 November 2010
03:50 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle Children's, and Group Health, say that the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item) is a very good screening test for severe depression in teenagers too.Being a teenager is not very easy and sometimes depression comes along the growing up p... |
1 November 2010
03:42 GMT |
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According to a panel of space experts, scientists and engineers, the Moon should be our first stop in the quest to start mining the solar system for precious resources. Our natural satellite won the “competition” over Mars and near-Earth objects (NEO) primarily because it features other resources as well,... |
1 November 2010
03:36 GMT |
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With most of NVIDIA's latest cards being dual-slot video boards, Sparkle decided to offer the mainstream market a single-slot version of the GeForce GTS 450, one known by the codename of SXS4501024D5SNMS.For those interested in a reminder, the GeForce GTS 450 is based on NVIDIA's GF106 graphics processing ... |
1 November 2010
03:34 GMT |
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HP and Palm announced officially not too long ago the upcoming availability of a new smartphone powered by the webOS platform, the Palm Pre 2. The mobile phone was already made available for purchase in France on SFR's airwaves, and should arrive in the US soon, on Verizon Wireless' network, according to r... |
1 November 2010
03:30 GMT |
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The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs announced that an interim arrangement has been reached with Research In Motion (RIM) regarding the lawful interception of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) services and expects a final solution to be in place by January 31.RIM's problems in India began back in July, when the governme... |
1 November 2010
03:22 GMT |
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Konami has just announced that the patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is now available for download, and fixes the save game issues that have been affecting the hack and slash game.Castlevania: Lords of Shadow seemed to deliver the first actually good 3D Castlevania experience in the ... |
1 November 2010
03:22 GMT |
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New studies of the Martian surface have demonstrated that small habitats that could have been capable of supporting life may have existed on the Red Planet some three billion years ago. This conclusion comes from analyzing datasets beamed back by a NASA orbiter, which revealed the existence of mounds of light-colored... |
1 November 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless was already known to plan the launch of some new, highly appealing smartphones in the near future, and more info on the matter has emerged. According to leaked documents from the company, November 11th should bring to its airwaves handsets like Samsung Continuum and Samsung Zeal... |
1 November 2010
02:46 GMT |
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