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Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Hints V (PS2)

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a video game developed by Treyarch and Frey Matter and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Game Cube and the Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in 2005. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective wit...

1 August 2008
21:16 GMT

Weekend Reading: Fighting Against Piracy

Earlier today I wrote a report about how piracy hampered the PC sales of Devil May Cry 4 and that was the moment when I realized that this is probably the most debated topic when it comes to PC gaming: piracy. According to game developers, that's the main reason behind their departure from the old PC systems to ...

1 August 2008
20:16 GMT

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 Achievements (Xbox 360)

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 is a great game to play while you're on your way to school, high-school or work. The only major flaw of this title is its ever-present lag in the menus, but thank God it's gone during gameplay. Otherwise, the use of the analog control system is brilliant, an idea well used by EA Spo...

1 August 2008
19:46 GMT

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) Achievements (Xbox 360)

In TMNT, the story is told through comics that appear between the missions to let you know what's happened to our beloved reptiles. It seems that introducing the plot with the aid of comics has become a real trend nowadays as every great producer uses it without prejudice. I'm not saying that it's a ba...

1 August 2008
19:06 GMT

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 Hints (PS2)

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 is a video game produced and published by Capcom Entertainment. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox from Microsoft, the Dreamcast from SEGA and the Game Cube from Nintendo. The title is classed as a fighting game played from a third person per...

1 August 2008
18:26 GMT

Demigod Combines Tactics with Role Playing

Demigod was announced a while back, right after Gas Powered Games released Supreme Commander and, for a while, details were scarce on the title, with only one gorgeous screenshot of a towered giant being showed. Now, the game has advanced along the development path and the developers are interested in offering more i...

1 August 2008
18:06 GMT

TimeShift Cheats, Hints and Glitches (Xbox 360)

Timeshift is part of the next generation of shooters that break the laws of conventional gaming by introducing a hoard of mind-numbing powers like the ability to slow, stop and reverse the flow of time. Krone and Lin are members of a secret government agency that is developing a time travel technology, but Krone betr...

1 August 2008
17:06 GMT

Call of Duty: Finest Hour Hints IX (PS2)

Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a video game developed by Spark Unlimited and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Game Cube and the Xbox from Microsoft. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with sequences in first person view. Th...

1 August 2008
16:31 GMT

Nokia 5610 to Hit the US on August 11

Although Nokia 5610 is not among the newest handsets to come from the Finnish company, the US mobile users can't buy it yet, as it has not been released in the States. First believed to be launched in June, the 5610 will only be on sale starting August 11, offered by T-Mobile. According to Cell Phone Signal, th...

1 August 2008
16:06 GMT

Capcom Profits from Monster Hunter Freedom 2G

There's a wave of financial results announcements hitting the videogame industry, as accountants finally make sense of what happened in the first quarter of the financial year 2009, which starts, rather absurdly, on March 31, 2008. Capcom is the latest publisher to reveal its situation and the results are not to...

1 August 2008
16:06 GMT

The Cursed Mountain Brings Horror to Wiis

Nintendo's console doesn't seem to be the most suitable platform for horror games, but a change every now and then can definitely do no harm. At least that's what Deep Silver appears to believe, since it has just announced its newest project, Cursed Mountain, a survival horror designed specifically and...

1 August 2008
15:06 GMT

Bully Glitch (PS2)

Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006, it is available for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The title is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the video...

1 August 2008
14:46 GMT

WALL-E Bright Spot in Gloomy THQ Report

THQ is another one of the companies that have presented financial information this week for the quarter that ended on June 30. The publisher is sending word that it managed to increase its earnings over 2007 by more than 33% to reach the sum of 137 million dollars.The main performer in THQ's line-up was the vide...

1 August 2008
14:06 GMT

Visual Voice Mail Launched by Verizon

After it was made popular by Apple and its first-generation iPhone, Visual Voice Mail has been embedded in Sprint's Samsung Instinct and now Verizon Wireless is offering the service too. The application that brings you Visual Voice Mail is offered by Verizon for free and is currently available only for the popul...

1 August 2008
13:49 GMT

DMC 4, Pirated to Hell and Back

One of the main issues when it comes to PC games is piracy - that's the general reason why developers prefer to go for the safer consoles - which is something a bit strange, since piracy on the Nintendo DS is a huge problem, too, but tons of games keep being released on the handheld. Indeed, production prices ar...

1 August 2008
13:06 GMT

The Survival of Internet Explorer Past Firefox 3.0 - Onward to IE8

With the explosion that was Firefox 3.0, which climbed over the 8 million unique downloads just in the first 24 hours since the launch on June 17, heavy clouds seemed to have gathered on the horizon for Internet Explorer. But the fact of the matter is that IE has managed to survive virtually undamaged, according to s...

1 August 2008
12:19 GMT

The Samsung AT&T Summer Krush Music Tour Debuted

Samsung, the world's second largest handset manufacturer, and AT&T, North America's biggest mobile carrier, have announced the launch of this year's Samsung AT&T Summer Krush music tour in the US. The tour features leading artists who are performing live, in unique shows, in several important American ...

1 August 2008
12:14 GMT

American McGee's Grimm Launched, First Episode Free

American McGee's Alice is still considered one of the craziest and most twisted games ever released, a must-play for every gamer in the world. After the success recorded by Alice, the game designer worked on two other titles, Scrapland (a mediocre game) and Bad Day in LA, a total failure, criticized by every gam...

1 August 2008
12:06 GMT

Google Representative Private Information Made Public with Street View

Although Google has always said that people's privacy is one of the main reasons for concern for the company, Google Street View somehow comes to contradict that statement. Aaron and Christine Boring, a couple from Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the search giant because their house appeared, without their...

1 August 2008
11:50 GMT

Time Pilot Achievements (Xbox 360)

Time Pilot is an arcade shooter game originally released in 1982 by Konami for Arcade systems. This game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto was eventually ported to more systems, including the Xbox 360 thanks to the Xbox Live Arcade service. The XBLA version was released on the 30th of August 2006. It is also available on P...

1 August 2008
11:46 GMT

How to Install the Colorblind Applet on GNOME

Color blindness, sometimes called daltonism, is mostly a color vision deficiency. Colorblind people can't tell the difference between some chromatic colors and as far as I know there are no tools on Linux OSes that can help them distinguish the hues. I use Ubuntu, and the colorblind applet is part of the gnome-m...

1 August 2008
11:43 GMT

Windows: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit

The evolution of Windows in parallel with computing architectures can be mapped out in accordance to the following marks: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit and even further along. But while milestones have the potential to offer a consistent growth in terms of performance, they also come with inherent setbacks when it comes do...

1 August 2008
11:40 GMT

Telstra Streams Horse Races on Mobile Phones

Telstra, the leading Australian mobile operator, announced that as of today (the 1st of August), its subscribers can stream live horse races directly on their Telstra 3G and Next G handsets. This "sports offering" comes after an agreement with ThoroughVisioN (also known as TVN) and is available via Telstra's sub...

1 August 2008
11:09 GMT

Spam Attacks Using Opera Email Signature

In the last few days, Opera received complaints and notifications regarding some emails sent to random people on behalf of the Norway-based company. These emails, bearing fake signatures, contained malicious software that was installed on people's computers as soon as they chose to read what the Opera staff want...

1 August 2008
11:03 GMT

Thermaltake Unveils Odd-Looking Memory Cooler

Thermaltake is known for offering some of the best (and sometimes downright weird) cooling products for your computer hardware components. Today, the company announced a new solution meant to provide your high-end DDR and DDR2 memory with the cooling factor required for intensive performance.The new product is dubbed...

1 August 2008
11:02 GMT

Mutant Flies Think Clear Even if Deprived of Sleep

It's not easy to concentrate after a long sleepless night, everybody knows that. It has been scientifically proven more than once that sleep deprivation actually decreases the activity of the brain, while after having slept, it reaches its highest levels. Washington University School of Medicine researchers have...

1 August 2008
10:48 GMT

Microsoft to Users: Patch Virtual Earth

Microsoft is permitting end users of Virtual Earth that are not happy with the content offered via the service to introduce patches with imagery. The Redmond company is constantly introducing double digit Terabytes imagery updates to Virtual Earth, but it is simply not enough, and entire areas of the world are covere...

1 August 2008
10:41 GMT

Softpedia Recommended Mac Apps of the Week - 01.08.2008

Another week has passed and, as always, we've sifted through some interesting pieces of free Mac software, which undoubtedly must reach your eyes, if not your Mac. Browse through, pick what you like, and pass on what you don't.ImpressCMSImpressCMS is a Content Management System aiding OS X users to easily b...

1 August 2008
10:38 GMT

Skype Is Now Windows Mobile 6.1 Compatible

Skype, the free and popular software that enables users to chat, make calls over the Internet and transfer files, is not compatible with Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile 6.1 OS for Pocket PCs. The new version of the software, namely 2.2.0.45, is freshly released and it finally allows owners of Windows Mobile 6...

1 August 2008
10:32 GMT

Text-Based Spam Revival

Spammers radically changed their methods from what they used last year. If, at the end of June 2007, 60% of spammers used images in order to make people swallow the bait, the percentage dropped to 3% at the end of June 2008. On the other hand, after conducting a global study, BitDefender researchers noticed the reviv...

1 August 2008
10:25 GMT

Sylvania, a New Brand in the Netbook Market

As we mentioned in a series of our previous articles, the netbook market is expanding at a very fast pace, for which reason a number of manufacturers have announced their intention of joining in. Major companies such as Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu and others, have already expressed their interest in entering the n...

1 August 2008
10:09 GMT

Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux

Despite constantly downplaying the relevance of Linux and Mac OS X, because of a variety of reasons, from high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to security risks and inferior shipment volumes, Microsoft is well aware of the real threat to Windows represented by the open source platform and Apple's operating system....

1 August 2008
09:50 GMT

Forget About the Gym, Take a Pill

Sounds too good to be true? Not quite. Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have recently identified two signaling pathways that can be activated through drugs in order to increase endurance. Both pathways are naturally activated through exercise, but the effects of a workout session can be mimi...

1 August 2008
09:41 GMT

Zeemote's JS1 Controller Coupled with Sony Ericsson W760 for a Dutch Release

Zeemote JS1, presented as the "first compact wireless thumbstick for mobile gaming", will be released in the Netherlands next week, coming in a package with Sony Ericsson W760i. According to MobileGamesBlog, at first the JS1 controller will be offered only in bundle packages with an advanced handset. The W760i (or s...

1 August 2008
09:34 GMT

NVIDIA Throws in the Towel - No More nForce

Most recent reports on NVIDIA seem to indicate that the Santa Clara chip maker is far from doing well. All of the company's business sections have to deal with one or another significant issue and, from the looks of it, all of them will most likely leave their mark on the company's overall performance. So m...

1 August 2008
09:16 GMT

Download Here - Kaspersky Internet Security Update

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454 Final version has just been released. It is a tool that is presented by the team of developers as an unmatched security solution for home and home office. The Kaspersky product offers protection from viruses, Trojans and worms, scans the Internet traffic, the email and insta...

1 August 2008
08:58 GMT

How Dynamos Work

Although the name dynamo was originally associated with all types of electrical generators, currently it is only used to describe mechanisms capable of producing direct current and small devices used to generate the power running the lights of bicycles (see featured image). A dynamo is basically a device able to conv...

1 August 2008
08:49 GMT

Australia Gets Two New Satellite Phones

Optus, the second largest Australian mobile carrier, has announced that it will start offering two new satellite phones from Thuraya Telecommunications, a well-known satellite mobile services provider. This comes after Optus and Thuraya (based in the United Arab Emirates) have signed an agreement that will bring even...

1 August 2008
08:40 GMT

Doom 4 Announced Again

id Software is putting on a show at QuakeCon, telling gamers all about what the future holds for the company. And, apart from Rage, which got a new trailer showing off its awesome graphical quality, id fans are getting a new Doom game.We have known that the franchise was getting a new game since May, since some job p...

1 August 2008
08:34 GMT

Multiwinia Preview

Multiwinia is the upcoming project from Introversion, the guys that brought us the apocalyptic DEFCON and the weird Darwinia. The game is basically a multiplayer component to Darwinia as it takes the same graphical theme and the same universe to offer players a chance to take out friends or the AI in vicious, quick a...

1 August 2008
08:20 GMT

Sun Delivers on Its JavaFX Promises

Great news coming from Santa Clara, CA, as Sun Microsystems announced the release of JavaFX Preview SDK (Software Development Kit). Sun Microsystems caused quite a stir in the RIA community when it presented, earlier this year, at the JavaOne Conference, the JavaFX concept platform aimed at competing with Adobe'...

1 August 2008
08:13 GMT

Thrillville: Off The Rails Achievements (Xbox 360)

Thrillville: Off The Rails is a theme park sim game similar to Rollercoaster Tycon. It was created by Frontier Developments and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to Thrillvile and it got released in North America only on the 16th of October 2007. No plans for another game in series have been made public until ...

1 August 2008
08:12 GMT

Cartoon Network Racing Cheats and Unlockables (PS2)

Cartoon Network Racing is a video game created by Firebrand Games LTD. and published by The Fame Factory. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and for the Nintendo DS handheld device and was launched in 2006. The title is classified as a racing game with an arcade feel, developed using a li...

1 August 2008
07:55 GMT

The App Store Has Issues

It's not just MobileMe that's had a rocky start, but the App Store as well. The latest issues reported by users concern the "brief" availability of a Nullriver app that seemingly conflicts with AT&T's policies. While some managed to snag in time, others, who had been anxiously waiting for the release, ...

1 August 2008
07:41 GMT

Panasonic Viera 921P Released Tomorrow in Japan

Panasonic has recently announced the imminent Japanese release of 921P, a new mobile phone from its Viera line-up. The 921P comes in a clamshell form factor and doesn't look too different from the previous Viera handsets (NTT DoCoMo's P905i, for example). Like all of Panasonic's latest phones announce...

1 August 2008
07:37 GMT

The Anti-Microsoft: Linux, Open Source, Google and Apple

The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: Linux, open source, Google and Apple. The software giant has made inroads on a vari...

1 August 2008
07:30 GMT

Beijing Journalists Will Have Full Access to the Internet

The International Olympic Committee announced today that, after negotiations with the Chinese authorities, journalists would be provided with full access to the Internet. "The media should be seeing a noticeable difference in accessibility to web sites that they need to report on the Olympic Games." says an IOC offic...

1 August 2008
07:11 GMT

CART Fury: Championship Racing Cheats II (PS2)

CART Fury: Championship Racing is a video game developed and published by Midway Games. It was created and released exclusively for the PlayStation 2 gaming device from Sony in 2001, when the console had just been launched on the market. The title is classed as a racing game with a third person perspective. This is o...

1 August 2008
06:58 GMT

Lenovo's Netbook Specifications Revealed

Lenovo, which is currently one of the largest manufacturers of portable computer systems, is also set to break into the netbook segment by releasing a new product. The company will try to provide its fans with a competitor to ASUS' Eee PC, which, as of now, is the most successful item on the netbook market. On t...

1 August 2008
06:56 GMT

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 Achievements (Xbox 360)

The game allows you to take the road to the PGA Championship with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, at home or on the go, since you challenge the world's top golfers in all-new PGA TOUR Mode, featuring training sessions, practice, and The FedEx Cup, the new PGA TOUR championship playoff system. Hone your skills in the al...

1 August 2008
06:52 GMT

Oldest Biological Macromolecule Found in Halite

Understanding how life evolved on Earth over hundreds of millions of years greatly depends on finding actual signs left behind by ancient life forms. For example, in the case of dinosaurs, fossils pointed towards most of what we known about them now, while insects trapped in amber further provided important evidence ...

1 August 2008
06:46 GMT

Nothing New on Windows Live Messenger 9.0, but WLM Library 2.0 Is Live

Microsoft is currently cooking Windows Live Wave 3, and has reportedly moved the development process past Milestone 1 stage and into M2. Windows Live Messenger 9.0, the successor of version 8.5, is an integral part of Windows Live Wave 3, but the Redmond company is not saying a single word on the next iteration of it...

1 August 2008
06:37 GMT

Nvidia Preps GeForce 9400GS and Nvision 2008

Nvidia looks like in a launch spree lately, as another card is stated for release in the weeks to come, the GeForce 9400GS. The card is said to be a less efficient version of GeForce 9500GT graphics board, and will not be available for the retail market, but only for OEMs and System integrators. The card will be chea...

1 August 2008
06:29 GMT

Britons Look for Bargains and Saving Tips

The challenging economic environment is also reflected in the Internet use behavior in the U.K. People seem, now more than ever, inclined to navigate to webpages that offer discounts and saving tips. A snack-food business recorded an astonishing growth rate of 2,575% from last year, since its management decided to of...

1 August 2008
06:22 GMT

PowerColor to Bring HDMI, DisplayPort-Equipped Radeon HD 4850

Without a single trace of doubt, AMD's channel partners are going through what can only be deemed a terrific period, and they all have the release of the company's latest HD 4000-series of graphics cards to thank for. Just recently, most of them have announced the availability of various models, developed o...

1 August 2008
06:16 GMT

Depths of Peril Patch 1.012 Addresses Mac-Specific Issues

Soldak Entertainment has released a beta patch for its action RPG title for Mac, Depths of Peril. Although patch 1.012 was released for all versions of the game, it contains updates and bug fixes specific to the Mac version, which is why you, as a player of the RPG title, should download the package and update now.De...

1 August 2008
06:13 GMT

Vista SP1 Windows Media Center Meets the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Microsoft has poured a consistent amount of effort into occupying a place as close as possible to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which are scheduled to debut next week. In this context, the Redmond giant has ensured that MSN and Silverlight 2 would be in the spotlight via NBCOlympics.com, but it is also going one st...

1 August 2008
06:05 GMT

Water Electrolysis Made Easy by Revolutionary Electrode

A new type of material developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is now revealed by chemist Daniel Nocera as a possible means to conduct water electrolysis processes at room temperatures with the input of relatively low electric currents. The material could be used to chemically store solar energy and ef...

1 August 2008
05:48 GMT

T-Mobile's Motorola Handsets Are Now 50% Cheaper

T-Mobile USA and Motorola have recently decided to drop the prices of the handsets they offer to North American users. Therefore, most of T-Mobile's Motorola phones can now be bought for 50% less than their original prices, if acquired together with a contract agreement for two years. The handsets that are now ...

1 August 2008
05:43 GMT

Gran Turismo 5 Gets Patch

The main element in the new patch is the addition of Gran Turismo TV, an in-game media channel focused on providing fans with car related television programs. There will be both free content offered through the channel and some programs that are pay-per-view. The latter category includes the much loved Top Gear telev...

1 August 2008
05:30 GMT

EVGA Brings New AKIMBO-Series Cards

As most of you already know, last Tuesday, the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA, finally decided to release the latest GeForce cards, the 9800GTX+, 9800GT and 9500GT. Following the official launch, a number of the company's board partners, including EVGA, also announced their versions of NVIDIA�...

1 August 2008
05:26 GMT

Six New Aperture Web Themes from Jumsoft

Jumsoft has released another pack of web themes for users of Apple's Aperture photography software. The six new Aperture Web Themes cost $29.00 USD. If you're already using Jumsoft's pack of web themes, you can add these six new items to the library for free."Today, you have more options to reveal your...

1 August 2008
05:21 GMT

How to Protect Your Data from Malware

Internet users are no longer so naive as to open files that come from unknown senders and with the promise of revealing celebrities in compromising situations. However, they still open emails that seem to have been sent by their bosses or business partners, without taking any precaution or verifying who really is beh...

1 August 2008
05:19 GMT

Don't Wait for the New Media Release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Microsoft released Windows Home Sever Power Pack 1 to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and subsequently the gold bits were made available through the Download Center. The Redmond company offered just the English version of the Power Pack initially, indicating that the German, Spanish and French versions would drop in ...

1 August 2008
05:09 GMT

University of Utah Recognized as CUDA Center of Excellence

The University of Utah has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence, announced NVIDIA Corporation and the institution. This appointment marks the beginning of an important collaboration between the two organizations. This is the second CUDA Center of Excellence to be recognized after the University of Illinois ...

1 August 2008
04:52 GMT

Sony Ericsson R306a Approved by FCC

After the May FCC approval of Sony Ericsson R300, the Federal Communications Commission has now cleared another Radio phone manufactured by the Swedish-Japanese company, namely the R306a. Being the American version of R306, Sony Ericsson R306a comes with 850 / 1800 / 1900 MHz GSM connectivity, hence it's ready ...

1 August 2008
04:51 GMT

First OS X 10.5.5 Build Seeded to Developers

Yesterday we reported that Apple was close to issuing the first pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.5.5, the latest maintenance update for Leopard users. "People familiar with the matter" told AppleInsider that Apple Developer Connection members and other high-profile software makers could receive the first test builds ...

1 August 2008
04:46 GMT

OCZ to Use Gamers' Brains to Promote NIA

Earlier this year, OCZ introduced one of the most high-tech devices designed for gamers, the NIA, or Neural Impulse Actuator. Designed to be used in conjunction with the mouse, the NIA aimed at enhancing a users gaming skills. In other words, it works by translating the electrical biosignals of ones body into compu...

1 August 2008
04:45 GMT

Plants Also Talk, Researchers Say

A new study carried out at the University of California involving a parasitic plant known as the dodder vine, now shows that this plant is not only able to consume the water and the nutrients of the host, but it can also tap into the communication system of the latter and use it to gather information for its own purp...

1 August 2008
04:35 GMT

Microsoft's 'Mama' Dies at Age 72

Microsoft has lost one of its early employees one month after the original 11 members reunited to celebrate Bill Gates' retirement from his day-to-day role with the company he co-founded. Miriam Lubow (1935-2008) is known as Microsoft's 'Mama', a title she received shortly after starting to work a...

1 August 2008
04:32 GMT

Google Plans to Inject Adsense into Video Games

IGA Worldwide and Double Fusion already give companies the chance to insert in-game advertising, especially for MMO games and other online-based video games. It appears that this is the future: Grand Theft Auto IV proves that huge, lively virtual worlds can be created and, just like the city you live in, these worlds...

1 August 2008
04:15 GMT

Apple Releases Security Update 2008-005

Apple has released the Security Update 2008-005 for client and server users of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard). With the release of this update, Apple has addressed a few previously-acknowledged vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.The update fixes a vulnerability in QuickLook - loading a malicious Microsoft Office f...

1 August 2008
04:04 GMT

Asus P320 Has New Faces for India

Released in India at the beginning of July in an elegant black color, the Asus P320 Pocket PC now has two new color versions that Indian users can pick up: "pearlescent white" and "lustrous pink". The fresh versions of the stylish P320 are surely welcomed, since not all consumers might like their handsets all black a...

1 August 2008
04:04 GMT

No Online Computer Shopping Anymore

In the second quarter of 2008, video games, consoles and game-related accessories were Americans' favorite items when it came to online shopping. This industry developed the most, the growth rate being of 73%, which is 60% more than the total increase of online purchases. Americans also proved that they had take...

1 August 2008
03:58 GMT

Facebook Partnerships Intel for Xeon-Based Server Deployments

Intel and Facebook inked a partnership agreement for the optimization of Facebook's hardware and software for the datacenter infrastructure the company is currently building. Facebook's increasingly rich media applications including videos, music, photos and more impose leveraging the processing power of th...

1 August 2008
03:50 GMT

Simulation Reveals How the First Stars Formed

Results of computer simulations carried out at the Nagoya University, Japan show that, in the outcome of the tremendously energetic event that gave rise to what we now call the universe, ripples propagating through matter caused clouds of gas to condense and collapse, so as to form the first objects to shine visible ...

1 August 2008
03:49 GMT

First Pictures of the Eee PC 701SD Surface

It's not been that long since ASUS' CEO Jerry Shen confirmed the company's plans to extend the Eee PC family from 11 models to 23, and we're already being offered the very first set of photos showing one of the new Eee PCs. Since you must be anxious to know which is the model that already got this...

1 August 2008
03:47 GMT

First DS Football Management Game Announced

There are basically two football management game franchises fighting for supremacy right now: Sega's Football Manager and EA's FIFA Manager - with a small share on the market being held by Championship Manager or LMA Manager. However, none of these popular franchises comes with a handheld version, and that&...

1 August 2008
03:44 GMT

Free XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Deployment Toolkit Available for Download

Microsoft has made available for download a Solution Accelerator designed specifically to handle the deployment of the company's desktop and server software products including Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the Office 2007 System, as well as Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 R...

1 August 2008
03:29 GMT

Nokia Lowers the Prices of Its Youth-oriented Phones

As if it's not already the first choice for most mobile users from all over the world, Nokia has recently cut the prices for lots of its devices in order to make them even more attractive. Thus, according to Reuters, starting this month we will be able to get Nokia phones for prices about 10% lower. Most of the...

1 August 2008
03:18 GMT

T3 Revives Hellgate and Mythos

It seems that, at long last, someone is ready to step up and take over development of the legacy of Flagship Studios, which imploded last month. There are reports that T3 Entertainment, an Asian publisher, is getting ready to create a new development and support studio in the San Francisco area. There are several job...

1 August 2008
03:18 GMT

Get Ready to Become a Night Watcher

Some of the most hardcore RPG fans probably remember Nival's great game, Night Watch, while others still have fond memories of Oleg Divov's fictional novel, or Timur Bekmambetov's masterpieces. No matter the source of the information about Night Watcher, one thing is clear: we're talking here abou...

1 August 2008
03:10 GMT

Daylite 3.7.5 Released

Just got word from Marketcircle that Daylite 3.7.5 is now available. The powerful productivity suite, which goes beyond contacts and appointments to include projects opportunities, now re-enables the Crash Reporter that was inadvertently disabled in a previous release, and includes other, minor bug fixes.Daylite inte...

1 August 2008
03:08 GMT

Broadcom Might Be Interested in AMD's Consumer Electronics Business

Advanced Micro Devices announced a while ago its plans to sell the "non core" businesses, and the latest news indicates that this may include selling the consumer electronics TV business unit the company acquired back in 2006 together with ATI Technologies. According to an analyst, the possible buyer of the company&#...

1 August 2008
02:57 GMT

Phoenix Mars Lander: Water Found on the Red Planet

More than two months after NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the north polar plains of the Red Planet, the pile of circumstantial evidence pointing towards the presence of water was put aside and replaced with the first clear analysis showing that water indeed exists on Mars. In a report published yeste...

1 August 2008
02:51 GMT

Logitech Will Offer Premium Guitar Hero Instruments

Logitech and Activision Blizzard have announced that they are going to enter into a partnership aimed at creating so called "premium" instruments for the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour. The game will be available sometime this fall for the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii.It seems...

1 August 2008
02:47 GMT

Russian Version of WoW Gets Dated

The biggest massively multiplayer online game of them all, World of Warcraft, is finally going to receive its already announced new language, Russian, on the 6th of August this year. Starting that day, people who live in Eastern Europe will be able to purchase the localized version of the game and its Burning Crusade...

1 August 2008
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