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Activision, now fully merged with Blizzard, is probably keen on pointing out how its games will dominate the Christmas period, and there's nothing better for this than having an industry analyst endorsing some of the video games you publish.Mike Hickey, from Janco Partners, says that he expects the World of Warc... |
10 November 2008
21:01 GMT |
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When Guitar Hero World Tour was initially announced, one of the most interesting features was the fact that Activision said the game would sport a complete music creation tool, which was supposed to allow players to compose songs that could be subsequently shared with other players online. As the game was launched, A... |
10 November 2008
18:51 GMT |
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Hegel Music Systems are celebrating their 10th anniversary with the release of two new pieces of audiophile high-class audio technology in the bodies of the P10 preamplifier and the H10 power amplifier. Now, it's obvious where the "10" in their names comes from; yet, the looks of these two new gadgets are n... |
10 November 2008
17:21 GMT |
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New refurbs are available from Apple, starting with the smallest of the iPods, and ending with the funnest of the lot, which Apple is offering to customers at low prices, covered by Apple's One-Year Limited Warranty and an option to purchase an AppleCare Protection Plan.Refurbished iPod shuffle 1GB - BlueThe tin... |
10 November 2008
16:11 GMT |
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It's been some time since the last Lego title and, with the launch of this new and thrilling Indiana Jones movie, we just had to have a game as well. A Lego character fills in Harrison Ford's shoes perfectly and there is no other better company out there than Traveller's Tales to do this job. LEGO Indi... |
10 November 2008
16:11 GMT |
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According to information Microsoft provided its OEM partners with, the RTM of Windows 7 is planned to take a full 101 days. The Redmond giant revealed that it would release the next iteration of the Windows client in no less than eight stages stretching over a period of three months. However, the software compa... |
10 November 2008
16:01 GMT |
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After a busy 2008, in which it added a variety of new game modes and even motorbikes to its Burnout Paradise title, Criterion is getting ready for another busy year, in which it plans to release four updates for the game. The second of them will be dubbed the Legendary Cars Pack, and will offer players a chance to pl... |
10 November 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Welcome to our 19th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!Here’s what you can read about in this edition: the openSUSE team releases the fourth beta of the upcoming openSUSE 11.1 Linux distribution; Jesse Keating announces the Preview release of the Fedora 10 Linux; the third beta version of Amarok 2.0 arrives with a... |
10 November 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Windows Azure was introduced during the opening day keynote address at the professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of October. Following the departure of Bill Gates from his day-to-day role with the company, Microsoft embarked on the path of Software-plus-Services under the leadership of C... |
10 November 2008
15:11 GMT |
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LittleBigPlanet was hyped up as a game which took user creativity and content sharing to new heights, largely due to the fact that players could change the environment of the game with their own SackBoy or SackGirl character.Media Molecule, the developer, and Sony, the publisher, both said that players would have fre... |
10 November 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Flashlights have gone a long way since the first paper-tube based models launched over a hundred or so years ago. However, up until now, most of them relied on batteries in order to work, but it would seem that even that is a thing of the past, since a company called 5.11 Tactical Series has just announced the i... |
10 November 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Although Microsoft showcased a much more feature-complete variant of Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 at the professional Developers Conference 2008 and Windows hardware Engineering Conference 2008 in Los Angeles the past couple of weeks, the bits that made it out of Redmond contained a variety of locked fea... |
10 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Lego Batman: The Videogame brings an original storyline which puts together both the controllable dynamic duo (Batman and Robin) and Gotham City's most notorious criminals (The Joker, The Penguin, Catwoman, Scarecrow, Killer Croc, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Harley Quinn, Two Face, Bane, Clayface and Poison Ivy) - ... |
10 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Rock Band is one of the most popular music games out there largely due to the fact that it has brought a lot of innovations to this very successful genre of games. Things like multi instrument games or weekly DLC (Downloadable Content) packs in the form of tracks you can play in the game would have never found their ... |
10 November 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Meridian Audio products are famed in audiophile circles both for being praiseworthy and for boasting a noble look, and the newest creation emerging from the British manufacturer is not at all different: bearing the signature of the all-time design favorite Alfred Dunhill, the new music system announced by Meridian is... |
10 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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The concept of connected GPS personal navigation devices is quite an interesting one and should have really taken off...if it wasn't for the world economic crisis. The most important developers of such products (Dash and Magellan, just to name a few) have either postponed or canceled their products altogether, b... |
10 November 2008
12:21 GMT |
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The epic story of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker continues as Link finds himself lost and alone in unknown seas in a new adventure. Featuring intuitive touch-screen controls and innovative puzzles, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass offers fresh challenges for fans of the series and an easy-to-grasp introduc... |
10 November 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that it has finished development on its Heroes-based game, which it initially announced as being in production as far back as July 2007. The rights, which Ubisoft has acquired from NBC Universal, have not yet been returned to the company, and there are no plans of resuming the development of the... |
10 November 2008
12:11 GMT |
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In the constant quest to increase its foothold on the operating system market Microsoft announced a marriage between the Live Search-powered MSN Toolbar and the Java Runtime Environment. The Redmond company inked a distribution deal with Sun Microsystems. Per the agreement, Sun Microsystems' Java Runtime Environ... |
10 November 2008
11:29 GMT |
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In ways unknown to us, hard-working people, a whole line of phones costing over $130.000 each has sold out a few days after the unveiling. This makes one wonder if things are really as bad as they seem. It wouldn't come as such a surprise if not for the so terrifying and inevitable financial crisis that everyone... |
10 November 2008
11:21 GMT |
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It has always been difficult for any kind of flying machine to fly close to the ground in crowded environment conditions, meaning close to buildings, pillars, trees or cables. But a group of technicians from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh led by roboticist Sanjiv Singh have managed to build an uncrewed ... |
10 November 2008
11:12 GMT |
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You have to admit that the LG KP152 clamshell is really quite simple, but also unbelievably appealing. Though it is not clear what happened when this phone was designed or when it was manufactured for the first time, it sure makes you feel good having it. All these feelings are triggered by its charming lines and ele... |
10 November 2008
11:10 GMT |
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These are really hard times for game developers and publishers because a lot of people are now very selective with the titles they buy and don't want to spend their hard earned money on something which only looks good but has a lot of flaws or annoying programs bundled, like the much blamed DRM (Digital Rights M... |
10 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Illwinter Game Design have updated all three platform versions of Dominions 3: The Awakening. Bringing the Mac version to 3.21, the patch delivers new features, bug fixes, and new modding commands.Dominions 3: The Awakening is a fantasy turn-based strategy title created by Illwinter and published in 2006 by Shrapnel ... |
10 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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The new geothermal plant that opened Thursday, November 6th, is the first modular plant of its kind, meaning that its building time only lasted for about 6 months. This is a very short term for such an undertaking, as regular thermal power plants usually take about 5 to 7 years to plan and build. Raser Technologies I... |
10 November 2008
10:56 GMT |
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This year, AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, succeeded in finally introducing the world to a new graphics card capable of being a serious competitor for NVIDIA's latest GeForce lineup. In addition, the company also managed to steal the performance crown from the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker, with ... |
10 November 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Relying on a tight budget, a humanitarian project led by Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is set to monitor some of the zones most threatened by violent activities. The main focus is on the region of Darfur, an independent sultanate in the western part of Sudan... |
10 November 2008
10:21 GMT |
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A recent study, conducted by Joseph Emmerich, M.D., PhD, at the University Paris Descartes, showed that people who had been vaccinated against influenza exhibited 26 percent less chances of developing blood clots (venous thrombotic embolism – VTE), as opposed to the control group. All participants to the test w... |
10 November 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has decided it was high time for a change on the scene, namely for the introduction of products that aren't part of the company's range of Wind netbooks, or Intel X58-based platforms. This is where the new VR220 YA Edition notebook systems come into place, delivering a bright-colo... |
10 November 2008
10:11 GMT |
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At first sight, the new messaging device distributed by Sprint looks as if it was built only for picture messaging, while everything else was pretty much neglected; actually, that's not too far from the truth. Besides the fact that everybody seems to call it as they please, as if it was created by a ghost compan... |
10 November 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Leading systems vendor HP has announced today the integration of the Colubris range of networking products in the company's existing ProCurve networking family. In addition, the company has also revealed the introduction of its new 802.11n wireless access point, which has been designed to enable high-bandwidth a... |
10 November 2008
09:29 GMT |
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Recent studies have shown that cancer medicine aimed at inhibiting the vascular endothelial growth factor (VGEF) protein actually promotes tumor growth, by making the blood vessels cancerous cells build stronger and almost normal. Seeing how the tumor needs blood to feed itself, doctors thought that cutting their blo... |
10 November 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Following a recent invitation-only conference held at its own headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and attended by nearly 50 experts from different fields and institutions, the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) company hopes to find enough important customers interested in purchasing their DragonLab reusable ... |
10 November 2008
09:23 GMT |
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Seemingly, Apple acts on promise on one side, and fails to deliver on the other. Yet another blogger has revealed that Apple's White MacBook is suffering from some kind of disease, as the cases on these babies continue to spontaneously crack. Apple has apparently scrubbed the bottom case from the list of compone... |
10 November 2008
09:22 GMT |
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According to a report from the Financial Times, the unclassified network of the White House has been compromised on several occasions by Chinese hackers. The attackers intercepted and downloaded data circulating on the network, like e-mail conversations between officials.The attacks were brief, but long enough to all... |
10 November 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Visual Studio 2010, the successor of Visual Studio 2008, will be tailored to Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client. Jason Zander, general manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft, present at the Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers, referenced the next version of Visual Studio as “riding th... |
10 November 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Cliff Bleszinski is currently one of the most popular game developers in the business. Having worked at Epic Games for quite some time now, he is the mind behind the extremely successful Gears of War series of games, which saw the second title released the past weekend. His casual attitude has earned him quite a... |
10 November 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Indeed, a driver (especially a female driver) can find out directions a lot easier by stopping at a gas station, for example, and smiling, but that's not what we'll talk about here. No, the subject at hand is the GPSmile 62 launched by Holux, a crafty little personal navigation device that should, at least ... |
10 November 2008
08:51 GMT |
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While both Intel and AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, are preparing their 2009 graphics solutions for professional users and workstation systems, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just introduced its latest Quadro FX 5800 graphics card. The company's new Quadro solution has been specifically designed ... |
10 November 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Dynamic Pixel Software Group, as you've probably guessed, is the company that produced this game and although it hasn't been around for too long, they are not an unfamiliar presence. The Russian group has showed a great appetite for creating games and now, for a company of their rank, they will probably hit... |
10 November 2008
08:38 GMT |
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While going through the large amount of pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE high resolution camera, a group of experts from the University of Berne, Switzerland, led by Patrick Russell have come across a series of photos showing a phenomenon strikingly resembling one happening on Earth. By the no... |
10 November 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is a farm simulation video game published and developed by Marvelous Interactive in Japan, and released in North America by Natsume exclusively for the Nintendo DS. It is the fourth installment of the Harvest Moon series on the DS and the first one to give players the opportunity to ... |
10 November 2008
07:59 GMT |
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Having joined Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 at the hip with the release of Service Pack 1 for both operating systems, Microsoft is moving on with this strategy for the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms. The Redmond giant has synchronized the development processes of Windows 7 and Wind... |
10 November 2008
07:55 GMT |
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A few days after the Linux kernel regression announced by the Ubuntu developers on October 30th, they discovered two nasty problems in the Linux kernel packages of Ubuntu 8.10, that could "help" an attacker execute malicious code as root (system administrator), or caused DoS (Denial of Service) attacks to hang or cra... |
10 November 2008
07:12 GMT |
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You can use your keyboard to quickly perform many tasks in iTunes. Shortcuts for common commands like Playback, fast access to your iTunes Library and playlist, iTunes menu shortcuts and, most importantly, control menu shortcuts can be extremely handy if memorized. So here's what an iTunes fan simply has to know... |
10 November 2008
07:08 GMT |
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To be honest, we don't know how much making an airplane window costs; we're not even sure whether this would make a key issue in selling airplane windows. Nevertheless, it has come to our attention that one of the cool, wacky and expensive gifts for this year's coming holidays are airplane windows. We ... |
10 November 2008
07:04 GMT |
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NComputing, a company with a similar goal to that of Intel and the OLPC project, namely to deliver a computer system that is affordable for everyone, is said to be planning a new product that will enable a single desktop PC to provide up to 11 workstations. The company's solution is based on virtualization, and ... |
10 November 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Some 2,000 scientists worldwide have been working at this census of all marine interactions for the last decade, in an attempt to offer the international scientific community and the general public a thorough insight into how animals and plants interact in the marine ecosystems. The city of Valencia, in Spain, will h... |
10 November 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools are now available for download. The Power Tools went live on the Microsoft Download Center at the end of the past week, with Microsoft having slipped past the initially intended release date. Still, the release is labeled October 2008, even though the ... |
10 November 2008
06:58 GMT |
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A recent article published on LiveScience made me really ponder on the possibility of actually leaving our planet at some point and heading towards other worlds that would house us, at least for a while. Citing this year's issue of the Living Planet Report by the World Wildlife Federation, the author of the arti... |
10 November 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Based on the hit TV series of which you too are probably a fan, Deal Or No Deal: Million Dollar Mission brings the action and excitement of the TV show onto your iPhone or iPod touch. Developed by I-play, the multi-platform casual game publishing division of Oberon Media, Deal Or No Deal has players trying their... |
10 November 2008
06:39 GMT |
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By analyzing the genomes of some 10,000 patients – 2,000 who had developed aneurysms and approximately 8,000 healthy individuals – two Yale professors managed to identify three chromosomal segments, named loci, where variations in the make-up of various genes cause increased risks of sufferers developing ... |
10 November 2008
06:37 GMT |
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Pixar's latest animation movie, "Wall-E," has enjoyed a huge level of success around the world, and, as things usually go, this popularity has brought about the development of all sorts of branded products, most of them designed for kids. However, one of the most fitting devices of this type (which DOES NOT targ... |
10 November 2008
06:31 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that NVIDIA is currently leading the workstation segment of the graphics cards market. NVIDIA's Quadro products are the leaders in that market, and the green company sees more than 60 percent margin. Other big industry players, including Intel and AMD, are planning to gain some market sha... |
10 November 2008
06:30 GMT |
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As we've previously reported, the Nintendo DSi has managed to sell more than 171,000 units in its first weekend, which pretty much means that the initial stock of the device has been sold out faster than Nintendo can replace it.Even if the DSi is being introduced as a replacement of the DS Lite, Nintendo is stil... |
10 November 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Harvest Moon DS Cute is a customized version of Harvest Moon DS, which now has content exclusively for girls. The original title is the first game in the farm simulation series developed by Marvelous Interactive and published by Nintendo exclusively for the DS handheld consoles. The game was released in Japan on the ... |
10 November 2008
06:28 GMT |
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DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution is a video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Inc. and published by Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. The title was created exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, and was released in September 2002. It is classed as a rhythm game, played from a third-pers... |
10 November 2008
06:21 GMT |
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According to Catch the Wind, a Virginia-based company, laser "vision" is the future of wind technology. Their new product, a laser system capable of detecting both horizontal and vertical air movements, can increase productivity by about 10 percent. The company says that the system can be installed with relative ease... |
10 November 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Out of the blue, this fresh appearance brings back to life Windows Mobile, making a great impression comparing it to other high-end devices and surely recruiting a lot of fans, especially in Asia, where it is due to be released in a few weeks, but leaving other markets still waiting for it. Equipped with a more than ... |
10 November 2008
06:06 GMT |
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The bits for Network Monitor 3.2 went live in mid-September 2008, and following the release of the latest version, Microsoft has also overhauled the parser management. Paul Long from the NetMon team indicated that the parsers were revamped in order to support upgrades and, in this context, a new project was launched ... |
10 November 2008
06:05 GMT |
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It's been medically and statistically proven that smoking is a very bad thing, which affects the human body in a very adverse manner. For this reason, countless methods that are supposed to help people quit have appeared on the market over the past few years, each of them providing both advantages and disadvanta... |
10 November 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Let us start this with a simple question: what do you do when you see that your old PC isn't cool enough to keep up with the latest computer systems on the market? Well, one option would be to start modding, of course, and so turn your PC into something for which your friends will likely envy you. This is ... |
10 November 2008
05:57 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 d... |
10 November 2008
05:56 GMT |
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The results of a study on three year olds, which was aimed at seeing how children are influenced by the forms of entertainment they consume, have been released. One of the conclusions of the study is that children who play violent video games are more likely to adopt an aggressive behavior in relation to their peers.... |
10 November 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Security vendor Kaspersky Labs warns that between 2,000 and 10,000 American and Western European web pages have been hacked in a two-day interval. The cybercriminals responsible for the attack have not been identified yet, but the details of the incident are highly similar to an attack that took place last spring and... |
10 November 2008
05:46 GMT |
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The folks at Agile Web Solutions have rolled out the final version of 1Password 2.9.4. Having gone through three betas since the initial 2.9.4 release earlier this month, the makers of this popular password manager have cemented changes like improved Fill Login menu in all browsers except Firefox, and improved automa... |
10 November 2008
05:44 GMT |
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The new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), called F-35 Lightning II, will probably become the most relied-on aircraft in the US' strategic air fleet, seeking to meet the tactical requirements of the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Marine Corps alike. In this respect, it will combine all the capabilities of ... |
10 November 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Silverstone seems to be almost ready for the release of its Raven RV01 chassis, already announced at Computex this year. The new chassis is set for launch on November 18th in China, in line with that of Intel's Core i7 processors. Besides a futuristic design, the Raven RV01 includes a lot of features and technol... |
10 November 2008
05:31 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies have shown that entertainment devices, such as headphones for MP3 players, interfere with medical devices, when the two are in close proximity to each other. The leaders of the current study say that a 3-cm distance should be enough to guarantee no interference between the two classes of equ... |
10 November 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Harmonix has announced that it plans to release The Color and the Shape, one of the most loved albums by the Foo Fighters, as downloadable content for Rock Band 2. The full album will arrive on November 11 for the Xbox 360, and on November 13 for the PlayStation 3. The price will amount to 1,600 Microsoft Points or 1... |
10 November 2008
05:03 GMT |
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It must be the approaching winter holidays or something, because otherwise no one could explain the ever-increasing number of new Radeon-based graphics cards to have recently surfaced on the Internet from major companies, such as PowerColor, Gainward or Palit. The latest to join in is Taiwan's ASUSTek, whi... |
10 November 2008
05:00 GMT |
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In a study focused on the influence of overnight dialysis, Turkish researchers analyzed 224 cases of patients who underwent this procedure for about a year. They learned that their survival rates were about 80 percent higher than that of patients undergoing regular dialysis, for 4 hours a day, three days per week. Th... |
10 November 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is putting its money where its mouth is. Vahe Torossian, President of Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe, indicated that the Redmond company's promises to Central and Eastern Europe are indeed taking shape and that the software giant is ready to step up its game by increasing the volume of financial ... |
10 November 2008
04:44 GMT |
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After hackers ridiculed Google's OS for G1 mobiles by bypassing it in no time, Google came out just as strong and fast with an update that placed everything right back where it all started. To be more explicit, this update is repairing all the flaws in the old system and getting G1 users to their previous status... |
10 November 2008
04:42 GMT |
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It's time to welcome the newest and possibly the hottest release from the world-renowned manufacturer Pioneer, in the body of the LX01BD home cinema system, a piece of audio technology that boasts extremely refined looks and more functionality than one would normally expect from a theater-in-a-box unit. If you&#... |
10 November 2008
04:35 GMT |
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A lot of gamers were a little annoyed when, just a few, short weeks after the merger that created probably the biggest publisher in the world, Activision Blizzard announced that it had ditched many games that had been under development, and meant to be published by Vivendi Games. Among them were Ghostbuster, which ap... |
10 November 2008
04:34 GMT |
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Three of the largest IT industry players, Seagate, Dell and McAfee, teamed up to design and deliver a data encryption solution for PCs, meant to address an issue caused by the large number of notebook computers that are stolen every day, leading to the loss of extremely valuable data, often more valuable than the not... |
10 November 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Adobe Shockwave (formerly known as Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player, prior to the introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). Shockwave allows Adobe Director apps to be published on the Internet, and viewed in a web browser on computers with the Shockwave... |
10 November 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Panasonic, one of the largest makers of consumer electronics, formerly known as Matsushita Electric, is now reported to plan to acquire smaller rival Sanyo Electric, as part of a deal that will make Panasonic surpass Hitachi and consequently become the largest electronics equipment producer in Japan. Furthermore... |
10 November 2008
04:16 GMT |
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The serious situation of bees in the UK has recently prompted British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) members to demand some $8 million in government funding, to avert the ever-increasing incidence of the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which threatens all bees in the country. Francis Ratnieks, a scientists and the onl... |
10 November 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Huawei Technologies has a strong expansion plan on the move that is turning its enemy into a friend - what it actually does is including the world economic crisis into its plans in a very productive way. Huawei Technologies is the new big name to join the Symbian foundation even if their main sales of mobil... |
10 November 2008
04:12 GMT |
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The number of space objects that humans have created has grown a lot within the recent decades and will be exponentially increasing in the future. With all the planets and celestial phenomena that should be explored and observed, space missions (such as satellites and stations) are in bloom. Also, as overdue or unnee... |
10 November 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 is a video game developed by Z-Axis Ltd. and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, for the original Xbox from Microsoft, the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. Launched in September 2001, the game is classed as a sports title, based ... |
10 November 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Apple has started airing a new iPhone ad, continuing its efforts of showing the world how iPhone can solve life's dilemmas, "one app at a time." The latest such ad features Shazam, a very useful app that miraculously tells you what song is coming from a stereo's speakers."Shazam fully integrates with and co... |
10 November 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Red Alert is one of the most popular franchises in the whole Command & Conquer universe of strategy games, joining the likes of the Tiberium and Generals series of games. Through its latest title, Red Alert 3, it emphasizes the co-op type of gameplay, a very innovative and pretty well built feature, which hasn't... |
10 November 2008
03:42 GMT |
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The new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, codenamed “Shanghai”, has been announced to receive ecosystem support from AMD's leading x86 operating system (OS) and virtualization partners. The new server chip developed by Advanced Micro Devices is coming under the 45nm technology process and is said to f... |
10 November 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Some 15,000 activists gathered along a train line in Germany, to protest against the continued use of nuclear energy in the country's 17 nuclear power plants. A shipment of depleted fuel came from France, carrying some 17 tons of used pellets, to be disposed of in a special facility, at the salt mines in Gorlebe... |
10 November 2008
03:33 GMT |
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There were many attempts to make it big with the Soundbug concept speakers but none has managed to become a viable, self-sustaining idea. In a few words, the Soundbug concept refers to speakers that attach to flat surfaces and transmit sound via vibrations, making the whole structure resonate to the music. Now, this ... |
10 November 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Dark Cloud is a video game developed by Level 5 Inc. and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated. Created exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, it was released in December 2000. The title is classed as an action and role-playing game, played from a third-person perspective.Over 400 years ... |
10 November 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts doesn't have quite a decent reputation among gamers and those in the gaming industry largely due to the fact that it hides quite a lot of things from customers, especially when it comes to DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems introduced in the games the company publishes.Although not a lot of ... |
10 November 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Back on November 6, 2008, then-Windows chief, Co-President, Platforms & Services Division, Jim Allchin, delivered this message: “It’s time!” He was signaling the debut of a new era for Microsoft, the move away from Windows XP, the introduction of Aero, User Account Control, the black screen of death... |
10 November 2008
03:14 GMT |
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This is probably the best moment to be an ATI board partner, as the company continues to regain the ground it lost to competitor NVIDIA, with its Radeon HD 4000-series graphics cards. It is because of these cards' performance potential and relatively affordable price range that most graphics card manufacturers d... |
10 November 2008
03:12 GMT |
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All-in-one computing systems have been around for quite some time (just think of all the iMacs out there), and more and more manufacturers are getting involved in this particular market segment. However, it would seem that a company called Silicon Mountain has taken this concept to a whole new level with its All... |
10 November 2008
02:58 GMT |
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The first Indian unmanned craft ever, Chandrayaan-1, has been successfully circling the Moon in a steady orbit for about two days. During the next four days, it will perform further maneuvers in order to reduce the orbit up to approximately 100 km distance from the Earth's natural satellite. Its engines were fir... |
10 November 2008
02:56 GMT |
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We previously reported that the latest title in the Banjo Kazooie series, Nuts and Bolts, was coming out exclusively for the Xbox 360 console, being the first game that wouldn't be making an appearance on a Nintendo console. Rare, the studio behind this series, said that, for a full Banjo Kazooie experience, the... |
10 November 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Rising global warning awareness levels cause the most unusual forms of protests from worldwide teenagers. The most appropriate example for this is the Club du Neon organization in France, a group that aims at cutting back on emitted carbon levels through the powering down of neon signs that firms employ overnight. Th... |
10 November 2008
02:54 GMT |
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According to the latest news, Foxconn is preparing the launch of another Quantum Force series motherboard. The board features the Intel P45 chipset compatible with the Core 2 processors. The board is not a simple P45 product, as it boasts a lot of characteristics that no other similar motherboard has, although it com... |
10 November 2008
02:48 GMT |
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Days after it was revealed that IBM was holding a grudge against its former blade server guru, Apple issued an official announcement saying that Mark Papermaster was joining the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. Soon after these events had unfolded, a federal judge ordered the former I... |
10 November 2008
02:45 GMT |
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The music game genre is a very popular one these days, having already overtaken the sports one in terms of sales and especially the coolness factor. Nothing is as exciting as playing your favorite tracks in front of your TV and envisioning yourself on the stages of the biggest concert halls on Earth.The two main comp... |
10 November 2008
02:36 GMT |
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The large refugee camp of Kibati is home to tens of cholera cases, Doctors Without Borders announced recently. Only yesterday (Sunday, November 9), 13 new cases were reported, adding to the 45 already known of. Though the numbers aren't significant in themselves, there are a few factors that could cause the dise... |
10 November 2008
02:22 GMT |
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