150 articles found
Wasteland 2 is still a long way from launch date, but the main developer working on the Kickstarter crowd-funded title says that the nature of the game is fundamentally changed because of the way the team has obtained the money it needs to create it.
Brian Fargo, who is the father of the Wasteland concept and the cu... |
10 April 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Remedy Entertainment, the actual developer behind the successful Max Payne series, has once again expressed its thoughts on the upcoming Max Payne 3 title, which is being made by Rockstar Games, saying that the result is quite brilliant. The first two Max Payne games delighted millions of people from all around the ... |
10 April 2012
20:21 GMT |
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Adobe has just announced the immediate availability of its latest Reader application for Android. It appears this is a major update that brings several new important features as well as some improvements. Firstly, the users will now be able to add free-hand annotations. Simply use the new “Freehand” opti... |
10 April 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Gamers tend to frown upon video games that limit their ability to choose, but one leading developer believes that no quality titles can exist without placing a number of clear restrictions on what players are able to do inside the game. Jon Shafer, who is best known for being the leading developer on Civilization V ... |
10 April 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Plenty of people delete their Facebook accounts in a fit of rage or the spur of the moment. Luckily for them, the regular way of doing this doesn't actually delete the account, it just "removes" or "disables" it.This means that the profile won't be visible or searchable, but all of the content will be kept ... |
10 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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“Dream:ON is the app to influence your dreams” according to British Psychology Professor Richard Wiseman, who enlisted the help of iOS development studio Yuza to submit the app to the iTunes App Store. The app lets users indicate the type of dream they’d like to experience and when they want to wak... |
10 April 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Rockstar Games, the developer of the upcoming Max Payne 3 third person shooter, has revealed that it currently has no plans of releasing a demo for the new title.Max Payne 3 is eagerly awaited by lots of shooter fans, both because it continues the story of everybody’s favorite grizzled detective, but also becau... |
10 April 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Sony Xperia S has been on pre-order since last weekend for Rs 32549 (635 USD or 485 EUR) outright. Various leading retailer offered the smartphone along with free accessories and software to make it more attractive.
Although Sony India said it would bring the Xperia S bundled with free accessories worth Rs 4,000 (8... |
10 April 2012
19:01 GMT |
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The Kilrathi are back and humanity is on its backfoot once again, in dire need of new pilots and new carriers to hold the line against the advancing felines in space and maybe even extract a little bit of payback against the aggressors.
Wing Commander Saga – The Darkest Dawn is created by a group of fans of th... |
10 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Cliff Bleszinski, the creative director of Epic Games and the man behind the Gears of War franchise, has shared his thoughts on downloadable content and the recent practice of putting the content on the game’s disc and then charging a fee from players to unlock it. DLC has always been a sensitive aspect of the... |
10 April 2012
18:21 GMT |
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After seeing the huge Excite 13 tablet, we have finally arrived at the Excite 10, which is basically the closest thing to the “common” denominator on the slate segment right now.
"One size does not fit all, so we are carefully considering how and where people are using tablets and designing form factors... |
10 April 2012
18:11 GMT |
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It appears that Datawind, the company that manufactures the cheapest Android tablet available on the market, plans to launch a makeover of the original Aakash slate.
Moreover, the company’s CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli, confirmed an Ice Cream Sandwich update would be available for Aakash 2 about six to eight weeks a... |
10 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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It's been a busy month for Research In Motion (RIM) as the company delivered weekly updates for BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and improved its main instant messaging clients such as Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger.
Today, BlackBerry Messenger received yet another small update that fixes a f... |
10 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a big success for both developer Eidos Montreal, and publisher Square Enix. One leading executive working on the game says that one of the reasons for this was the collaborative process that the team employed. Speaking about the development process for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, St... |
10 April 2012
17:51 GMT |
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One of the most popular apps for Android devices that allows users to publish texts, quotes, chats, links and such on the Internet, Tumblr, has just been updated to version 3.0. The team behind the application completely redesigned the interface, which looks more stylish and crispier. In addition, notifications for ... |
10 April 2012
17:31 GMT |
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As expected, Vodafone Australia has just announced the immediate availability of the PR1.2 software update for Nokia N9.
We reported yesterday that the carrier was currently testing Nokia Belle for N8 and C7, and had already approved updates for Nokia N9 and Lumia 800, which were waiting to be deployed by the handse... |
10 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Kingdoms of Amalur was supposed to change the way the gaming world experienced action role-playing games, but the game failed to make the impression that developers at Big Huge Games and 38 Studios had hoped for. Mike Fridley, who was the executive producer working on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, stated in a postm... |
10 April 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Toshiba has just announced a new set of three tablets based on Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, Excite 10, 13 and 7.7.
All three slates come with similar hardware configurations, but set themselves apart when it comes to display and storage amount.
The smallest of the three, t... |
10 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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It looks like Sharp really is doing badly nowadays, having decided to sell so much of its LCD production in Sakai, Osaka, that Foxconn will be the one with the greatest stake in it.
It was last month that Sharp sold a stake of 46.5 percent to Foxconn.
That left it with the same share, while 7 percent went to Sony... |
10 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Avatron Software has released version 3.0 of its popular file-sharing app for the iOS devices - Air Sharing. The new release is said to be the fastest ever!Air Sharing turns your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into an external drive, making it dead-easy to view and move files on the go.In version 3.0, Avatron included a ... |
10 April 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol can't be budged from the top spot in the illustrious top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, but that doesn't mean things are static across the board. Four new entries made it to the top 10 this week, one proving so desirable that users put up with an inferior tele... |
10 April 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has once again shared his predictions about the following months, saying that June’s E3 2012 expo will see the announcement of price cuts for both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 consoles. The games industry is still going strong but the recession has caused some s... |
10 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The development team at NetherRealm, best known for recently rebooting the fighting series Mortal Kombat, seems to be ready to work on next-generation video game consoles. It is also ready to hire at least two developers that will have hands on content with new hardware from both Microsoft and Sony. One of the new o... |
10 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Starting as a rumor a few weeks ago, the idea of Sony bringing the entire Xperia NXT lineup in Canada through its official stores has just been confirmed by the Japanese company.
The handset maker has just announced that the first smartphone in the Xperia NXT series, Sony Xperia S will be exclusively available to So... |
10 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Not long ago, Miley Cyrus was being criticized in the tabs for being too “chunky.” Today, she has to defend herself again, by shooting down rumors that she has developed anorexia or another form of eating disorder. In recent weeks, the former Disney star has been photographed looking definitely thinne... |
10 April 2012
14:51 GMT |
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According to Analyst Brian J. White with Topeka Capital Markets, Apple’s next iPhone will leverage a unibody chassis that will make the device look simply awesome. Which is why he believes people will flock for the new handset when it’s released this year.There is still a lot of debate as to when the next... |
10 April 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Like all notable Google products, Google Music now has a Labs section. While the Labs tradition may be a dying one at Google, the feature now exists for a relatively modern Google product, Music.As you'd expect, the Labs section enables you to experiment with features that may not yet be ready for mass consumpti... |
10 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Rebellion has just confirmed that today will mark the release of the demo for its upcoming Sniper Elite V2 shooter. A trial version will be out on the Xbox 360 all around the world, and on the PS3 in North America. The original Sniper Elite wasn’t that big of a success, but it earned a loyal following that pro... |
10 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Today, Nokia officially announced the immediate availability in Canada of its third smartphone in the Lumia family, the Nokia Lumia 900. The smartphone, the new flagship of the family, was released exclusively at Rogers Communications, featuring a price tag of CA$99 (around 75 Euro) with the signing of a three-year... |
10 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix and online game company Bigpoint have announced that they are working on a new project, although neither of the two companies offered any sort of information on what players can expect from it.
Phil Rogers, who is the chief executive officer at Square Enix Europe, stated, “We&r... |
10 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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It was just a matter of time before Amazon introduced an in-app purchasing service for its Appstore. Today, the company announced the immediate availability of such a solution.
Amazon’s In-App Purchasing (IAP) service makes it easier for developers who create software for Appstore to offer digital content and ... |
10 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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They're still to confirm it officially in a statement to the biggest media outlets but, by all accounts, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are engaged and planning a summer wedding. More details on her engagement ring have emerged. Rumors about the engagement first started to circulate late last year, with vari... |
10 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Kingston's DataTraveler collection of USB flash drive units is fairly extensive, but the company didn't see any reason not to release yet another set.
The latest product line is called DataTraveler Elite 3.0 and, in spite of the name, it is actually supposed to be one of the more economical options out th... |
10 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Apple has requested Russian Web registrar Reggi.ru to shut down one of three domains that security firm Dr. Web had been using as a spoofed command and control server to monitor the collection of hijacked Macintosh computers.The move was, mildly put, very uninspired, according to Boris Sharov, chief executive of the ... |
10 April 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Patents are becoming more valuable than technology, more valuable than engineers and more valuable than revenue in the tech world. In fact, it's starting to replace revenue for some companies it seems, as both AOL and Yahoo are hoping to cash in on their sizeable patent portfolio. The difference is, AOL already... |
10 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Although HTC announced it would bring its One series of smartphones on the market as early as April, it looks like not all Americans will be able to grab their favorite HTC One device this month.
Even though HTC and Sprint announced the upcoming availability of the HTC EVO 4G LTE, which is a carrier-bounded HTC One ... |
10 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Wasteland 2 will not be directly influenced by the players who have contributed to the Kickstarter project to fund it, but the team working on the game will be asking for feedback at crucial points during the development process.
Brian Fargo, who is the leader of inXile and the creator of the Wasteland concept, spok... |
10 April 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has, finally, made it to the beta channel. Google Chrome 19.0.1084.15 is the first beta channel release and will eventually become the stable release.There's not much to brag about in this latest update, the only feature Google thought worth writing about is the open tab sync feature, which enab... |
10 April 2012
12:21 GMT |
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A brand new report has arrived concerning the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console, this time speculating on its actual retail price, as well as on the price of its components. The Nintendo Wii U is awaited by quite a lot of people, as it finally puts the Japanese company on par with its rivals in terms of console p... |
10 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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OSClass is a relative new classified ads publishing platform, built to resemble the WordPress backend interface as much as possible. Nevertheless, all similarities end here. Built to work on its own (not as a WP plugin), OSClass is one of the most delightful classified ads management solutions we have ever tested he... |
10 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Google has just updated the beta channel for their web browser, incrementing the version number to 19.0.1084.15. The new revision is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and features the “Other devices” menu in the new tab page, previously available only in Dev. T... |
10 April 2012
11:33 GMT |
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Today, the white flavor of Samsung’s largest Android smartphone to date, the Galaxy Note, went available for purchase in Canada at two wireless carriers in the country, namely Bell and Rogers. The handset was released with a price tag of $199.99 (around 150 Euros), with the signing of a three-year contract ag... |
10 April 2012
11:31 GMT |
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After the first one-brand BIOS day yesterday, here we go back to the usual listings. Today's BIOS pick brings a lot of Asrock software, but Asus, HP and Lenovo are present, as well.
The "star" of the day is a new board from Asus, the P8Z77-V. This Z77 board comes with an ATX form factor but it can be housed in ... |
10 April 2012
11:24 GMT |
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With the MegaUpload trial moving at a slow pace and the first update not expected until August, the entire focus is now on the user data. Millions of people had stuff stored with MegaUpload and lost access to it when the site shut down. That data is safe for now, as Carpathia Hosting, a hosting company that MegaUplo... |
10 April 2012
11:22 GMT |
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Panasonic really values its batteries and power supply expertise, more than many other companies, and nothing can make a statement to that effect like a special new product line.
The power supplies that Panasonic formally introduced yesterday (April 9, 2012) might not conjure up the correct mental images.
When say... |
10 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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It would seem that James Franco is cool whatever he does, even if that includes showing his admiration for co-star Selena Gomez by lip-syncing to one of her latest songs. Below is a video the actor, who is now working with the Disney darling on “Spring Breakers,” as he posted it on his WhoSay account... |
10 April 2012
11:14 GMT |
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Subconsciously, each of us has an age that we believe we'll live to see. This is our personal life expectancy, and we may not be aware of it at all. In a new study, experts were able to show that this value – how long we expect to live – influences some of the most important decisions in our lives.
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10 April 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Philips' business product line now includes the Moda 248X3LFHSB LightFrame monitor. At least, this is what VR-Zone said not long ago. The Moda 248X3LFHSB bears the LightFrame moniker because of its special bezel that emits blue light, for the purpose of reducing eye strain and aiding concentration. Whether or... |
10 April 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 900 was launched in the United States a few days ago via AT&T. The device is already one of the best-selling phones at various leading retailers across the country. In fact, the Lumia 900 tops Amazon’s charts with both black and cyan colors coming on first and second places. However, this doesn&r... |
10 April 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Taiwanese company Synology has just announced its new RackStation RS2212+ and RS2212RP+ NAS Servers on its official website. These are 10-bay rackable enclosures complete with multiple failover systems. The platform is powered by a Dual Core 2.13 GHz CPU that’s very likely to be an Intel Atom family member. Th... |
10 April 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Starting today, Microsoft’s Windows Vista platform enters the extended support period, after benefiting from mainstream support for the past five years. In addition to Vista, Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Office 2007 as well, urging users to upgrade to newer flavors of its products. Moving fort... |
10 April 2012
11:02 GMT |
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The same areas of the human brain that underly the larger sense of morality each of us is experiencing daily are also activated when we engage in, or are exposed to, egalitarian behaviors. This was recently demonstrated using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).The imaging technique, which analyzes how blood... |
10 April 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft, experts with the Naval Research Laboratory were recently able to discover a new type of structure in the solar corona.
The finding could be used to advance our knowledge of how magnetic fields evolv... |
10 April 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Though there was a time when she could only dream of one day being as famous as she is today, Katy Perry is already disgusted with the whole fame game, as she reveals in her latest interview with Teen Vogue magazine.
The singer, who is now promoting a new music release, says it's her art what she holds most i... |
10 April 2012
10:44 GMT |
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New tablets are all well and good, but Toshiba has been up to more than just new mobile devices running Android 4.0. In fact, it has a bunch of new laptops on the way too. We'll get the real powerhouses out of the way first: the Qosmio X875 and the Z875 3D, both based on Ivy Bridge CPUs and 3GB Nvidia GeForce ... |
10 April 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Symantec’s accountant, Phillip A. Bullock, has left for Apple Inc. to lead the Mac maker’s tax department, according to an SEC filing unveiled today. Business Insider says “Apple poached Symantec's SVP and chief accounting officer Phillip Bullock to run its tax department,” but regards t... |
10 April 2012
10:35 GMT |
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On February 29, the skies above the US Army’s Proving Grounds in Yuma, Arizona were bustling with activity. A test model of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) was just about to be parachuted out of an airplane, in order for engineers to test its parachutes. The purpose of the exercise was to investiga... |
10 April 2012
10:32 GMT |
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4MLinux Rescue Edition, a special distribution that includes a wide set of system maintenance and recovery applications, is now at version 3.2.
4MLinux 3.2, a mini Linux distro focusing on maintenance, multimedia, miniserver and mistery, was launched only a couple of weeks ago and now it's time for 4MLinux Resc... |
10 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The developer of Notepad++ has accustomed us to small releases for the application. Version 6.1 of the program is no different; it introduces nothing new and four out the five entries in the modification list for this revision are fixes.It looks like all mending is done around a feature introduced in the previous bui... |
10 April 2012
10:26 GMT |
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All those who played Mass Effect 3 have done something along these lines: talked to the leaders of at least three alien races while trying to forge a galactic alliance, decided the fate of at least one nomadic civilization and their robotic and rebellious underlings, brought down two entire Reapers.
Those who have c... |
10 April 2012
10:26 GMT |
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Samsung officially introduced the white-themed Galaxy Note last week and mentioned that all major carriers would offer the smartphone in the following weeks. The first to launch the white version of the Galaxy Note was TELUS, but other carriers have yet to announce the availability of the device. The folks at Mobil... |
10 April 2012
10:15 GMT |
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Here's one nice piece of news for all those people who own laptops equipped with Nvidia-powered graphic cards: new display drivers dubbed 301.24 Beta are officially available.
The 301.24 beta drivers have been developed to comply with the specifications of all ION notebook GPUs, but will also work with Quadro-N... |
10 April 2012
10:08 GMT |
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GParted Live, a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86 based computers that enables users to take advantage of all the features of the latest versions of the GParted application, is now at version 0.12.1-1.
GParted Live 0.12.1-1 has arrived quickly after the release of Gnome Parted Editor (Gparted) 0.12.1 an... |
10 April 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Mac resellers are signaling shortages of 15-inch MacBook Pros in what could be regarded as a clear indication that the Cupertino, California-based Apple is dwindling down stock intentionally, ahead of a planned refresh. Not that the MacBook Pro redesign wasn’t all over the news already, but AppleInsider arrive... |
10 April 2012
10:05 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft has made available for download a refreshed flavor of Windows Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs release, in an attempt to bring along more innovation on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs comes with integration capabilities for Microsoft’s Windows Azure to provide rich... |
10 April 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Japanese company Toshiba has just sent out a press release announcing its new Qosmio gaming notebook line. The powerful mobile systems are powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors. The 17.3” model is called Qosmio X875 and also has a 3D version. The platform can handle up to 32 GB of DDR3 RAM, as the mai... |
10 April 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Iran is working on its own private and local internet, that much is certain. A new report also hinted that access to the other internet would be shut down come August, but it seems that this is not the case. Iran officials are denying the date and blaming it all on the "hostile media" which took a "baseless claim" an... |
10 April 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Over the past few million years, Asia and North America have been intermittently linked via a land strip from time to time. Researchers were recently able to demonstrate that the presence of this strip is what caused the massive climate swings that characterized the last ice age.
Between 80,000 and 10,000 years ago,... |
10 April 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Lana Del Rey, officially the hottest thing in music right now, is either dating Axl Rose of Guns 'N' Roses or she's working on a duet with him. Chances are it's the former, word in the blogosphere has it. A few days ago, Lana was spotted at a Guns concert, just like many other celebrities who were... |
10 April 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is making a series of changes to the manner in which users can load and run applications on their BlackBerry devices. RIM has just stepped up and provided a series of additional details on the matter, to clarify reports regarding its intent to get rid of sideloading of... |
10 April 2012
09:41 GMT |
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inXile has released the first image linked to Wasteland 2 in order to mark the official start of the game development process for the old school role-playing title. The game is being created with the money that fans have directed to the project via the Kickstarter service in the last few weeks. The image shows... |
10 April 2012
09:37 GMT |
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The younger generation may not recognize the name Commodore, but the company, founded in 1953, actually established the idea of home computing.
We now learn that the founder, Jack Tramiel, husband and father of three sons, has died (April 8, 2012) at the age of 83, as one of the people to have the greatest roles in... |
10 April 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Toshiba has officially launched its latest tablets, one of which stands out through its sheer size, as well as the quality of its liquid crystal display panel.
The NVIDIA Tegra 3 mobile platform has been used in so many tablets that it is no longer capable of getting one sold on its own, even with its new and shiny... |
10 April 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Snowlinux 2 LXDE, codenamed Ice, a Linux distribution based upon the stable and latest Debian 6 Squeeze distro with a LTS Linux kernel 2.6.32, Chromium browser, Icedove, Banshee and Shotwell, has been announced and it's available for download.
Snowlinux 2 LXDE distro doesn't have a lot of differences in co... |
10 April 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Perhaps one of the most anticipated releases of the year is “Snow White and the Huntsman,” with Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman. Below is a behind the scenes video with Oscar-winner designer Colleen Atwood, in which she offers plenty o... |
10 April 2012
09:23 GMT |
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The United States military has recently expressed its interest in outfitting Marine vehicles with advanced weapons systems, capable of shooting down incoming projectiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) if they become a threat.
Officials announced that this capability needs to be implemented on existing vehicles ... |
10 April 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Unity Technologies has officially announced that their Unity development toolkit has managed to get more than 1 million registered developers, accelerating its growth rate during the last few months. 250,000 developers have signed in since the end of 2011 and the company says that the pace of adoption is actually in... |
10 April 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Almost three weeks ago Vodafone UK came forward with a short announcement claiming that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung Galaxy S II was “under test.”
At that time, the carrier explained that as soon as the tests were completed they would upload the update onto its serves and start p... |
10 April 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Version 2.3.7 of NoScript is out, getting rid of some bugs that prevented the correct functioning of the add-on. The new revision does not bring to the table any new features, only a small set of repairs.Among the modifications featured by the new revision, there is a workaround for “rapid fire” protectio... |
10 April 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Wikipedia is the ultimate web success story, something made possible by the internet and one of the big examples of why the internet is so great. But the internet is only great if you can use it, which, even in the most developed parts of the world, is not always possible.
That shouldn't stop you from accessing... |
10 April 2012
09:05 GMT |
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The code-savvy peeps at Agilebits Inc. have rolled out the latest version of their flagship iOS app, 1Password, featuring improved security, Dropbox enhancements, better support for the new iPad’s screen, and improved filling of log-in dialogs. 1Password 3.6.5. uses 10,000 PBKDF2 iterations to protect the encr... |
10 April 2012
08:58 GMT |
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Over the weekend, actress Amanda Bynes was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after allegedly scraping the car of a police officer, as she tried to get past it. Her dad insists she wasn't arrested because she was drunk. Rather, Rick Bynes would have the world believe, Amanda was in a very troub... |
10 April 2012
08:50 GMT |
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Seoul-based fanless PC company NoFAN has recently announced the CS-70 and CS-80 computer cases on its official website. Having a computer with no moving parts has always been a dream for silent PC enthusiasts. NoFAN has a wide variety of original cooling systems in its product range – enough to build a complet... |
10 April 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) say that they were recently able to complete the development of a new type of small sensor, which could come in handy for numerous practical applications.
These include sampling gas contents and concentrations above battlefield... |
10 April 2012
08:41 GMT |
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One of the most anticipated Bruce Willis movies is finally nearing release. “Looper” is a time-traveling action thriller that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young Willis, and a new trailer is on its way. In the meantime, though, Joe and director Rian Johnson have shot a vignette, in anticipation for ... |
10 April 2012
08:37 GMT |
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On April 8th, 2014, Microsoft will officially kill the support for two popular products in its offering, namely Windows XP and Office 2003. On Monday, the company started the two-year countdown until the support for these products is phased out. The Redmond-based software giant was also keen on making sure that its c... |
10 April 2012
08:32 GMT |
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Available only for Windows Phone devices, Microsoft Office Mobile application has just been launched for Nokia Belle handsets.
The recent release follows Nokia’s announcement that OneNote, Lync 2010, Document Connection and PowerPoint Broadcast are available for Nokia Belle platform.
Nokia and Microsoft work... |
10 April 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Resident Evil fans are in for a major surprise, thanks to a leaked trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil 6 title, which mentions a whole new release date for the action horror game: October 2. Resident Evil 6 was announced earlier this year and Capcom told fans to get ready for its release, on November 20. Now, th... |
10 April 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Biebermania is about to reach a new, unprecedented pitch. To promote his upcoming video for “Boyfriend,” his new single, Justin Bieber has released a new teaser and, as usual, you can see it above.It's not longer than 17 seconds but, as it turns out, even so, it's enough to get fans (Beliebers) ... |
10 April 2012
08:23 GMT |
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According to SemiWiki, the name has been uncovered for the first central processing unit built, or which will eventually be built, on the 14nm manufacturing process technology. With early 2014 as the ETA (estimate time of arrival), the chip (codenamed Airmont) is a sort of proof that Intel really is moving faster th... |
10 April 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Chromebook owners running the dev channel version of the operating system have just gotten a very big surprise - a brand new window manager with a dock, launchers and other things common to desktop OSes but uncommon to Chrome OS. It's up to users to judge whether the surprise is a nice one or not.
The latest Ch... |
10 April 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Project Aether: Aurora is a research initiative meant to provide scientists with the chance to study northern lights from high latitudes. The two-week project is currently taking place in Alaska and is scheduled to conclude on April 13.
In order to get the best views possible of the light shows, scientists with the... |
10 April 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Nokia has silently released the cheapest phone ever launched on the market. We’re not sure what exactly the handset vendor put inside this device, but Nokia 103 has been priced at just 16 EUR (about 21 USD).
Although the bar phone has just been announced in Nigeria, it’s likely that the Finnish company w... |
10 April 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Parallels is proud to announce the addition of Ubuntu 12.04 Beta to the list of supported guest operating systems in the latest version of its flagship product - Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac.Deemed as a major upgrade to the award-winning software for running Windows on a Mac, Parallels Desktop 7 creates powerful and e... |
10 April 2012
07:50 GMT |
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Video game developer Telltale Games has launched a new video which shows players how they can join the cast of the Walking Dead. They have to pre-order the video game based on the comic book franchise from the official store of the company before the actual launch date.
The lucky winner will get a role as a human ch... |
10 April 2012
07:46 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators in the United Kingdom and Canada announce that they were recently able to decode the entire genome of triple negative breast cancer, which is the most dangerous and deadly form this condition can take.
The discovery is very important, since a deeper understanding of how this cancer o... |
10 April 2012
07:46 GMT |
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After delays and more delays, the Raspberry Pi foundation has finally eliminated the last barrier between it and free sales of its eponymous PC.
About two weeks ago, we reported on the latest barrier that had lowered itself in front of the Raspberry Pi Linux computer.
Then again, it might be more accurate to say ... |
10 April 2012
07:41 GMT |
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One of the hottest social networks has been acquired by the biggest social network, Instagram by Facebook. You may not think of Instagram as a social network, but that's what it was, it was just centered on photos.
Facebook is said to have paid $1 billion, €764 million for Instagram, a massive amount of mo... |
10 April 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Gearbox Software has revealed some very impressive details about its upcoming Borderlands 2 game at last weekend’s PAX East conference, including the fact that all those who pre-order the game will get a free downloadable character class called the Mechromancer as DLC after the title’s launch. Borderland... |
10 April 2012
07:31 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Yahoo! Mail Android application is now available for download, with a few enhancements and fixes packed inside. The new software release arrived in the Google Play Store as version 1.4.0, featuring support for all devices running Android 2.0.1 and higher. The team behind the app notes that the... |
10 April 2012
07:01 GMT |
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If you thought you would never read the name of Martin Scorsese and “Twilight” in the same sentence, never has come. In a recent GQ interview, the iconic director weighs in on the vampire frenzy, and argues why vampires are the coolest of the undead. The conversation starts off with Scorsese saying a few ... |
10 April 2012
06:53 GMT |
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As Samsung’s next Android-based flagship smartphone is getting closer to release, more details and rumors on the technologies that it will pack inside are making it online. Today, some info on the phone’s screen has emerged, confirming that it will be the first true Super AMOLED HD panel out there. Fe... |
10 April 2012
06:51 GMT |
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After successfully launching the LTE version of Lumia 900 in the Unites States via AT&T, Nokia is now preparing for the global release of the international variant.
Although various third-party retailers listed the smartphone and confirmed they were taking pre-orders for the device, none offered an exact release dat... |
10 April 2012
06:04 GMT |
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FlashbackChecker, a handy tool compiled by an indie developer, runs the tests described in the F-Secure Bulletin as of April 6th, 2012 and reports the presence of Flashback malware on Mac OS X. Users should note that FlashbackChecker does not remove the Flashback trojan, if by any chance it does find your Mac infect... |
10 April 2012
05:59 GMT |
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As information stickers on new Z77 motherboards show, builders of Z77-based systems will need an Ivy Bridge CPU to make one of the long PCIe slots work. This is quite strange as it’s the first time we’re presented with a disabled PCIe x16 slot on a wide range of high-end PC motherboards. Whether that... |
10 April 2012
05:58 GMT |
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The presence of certain hormone receptor genes in a person's genetic material may determine whether they are nice or mean, the conclusions of a new study show. The research basically sets the foundations for developing a genetic test meant to gage a person's niceness.
Scientists have always wondered why t... |
10 April 2012
05:56 GMT |
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We've seen the small, mini-ITX 7-Series motherboard from Zotac, and now we get to look at what is essentially the polar opposite, in both size and features.
The ZT-Z77-U1D SuperOverclock hasn't actually been launched officially, or at least we haven't spotted the press release yet.
Instead, it is E... |
10 April 2012
05:55 GMT |
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According to maintainer Willy Tarreau, the Linux kernel 2.4 branch has reached End of Life status, after a 15-month warning period. Linux kernel 2.4 branch was supposed to go EOL (End of Life) in December 2011, but the break-in from last year put those plans on hold. According to the maintainer, some users have a... |
10 April 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Video game publisher and developer Konami has announced that it is re-launching its football simulation Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Windows using PCs with a lower price point in order to celebrate its solid performance in Latin America.PES 2012 has man... |
10 April 2012
05:47 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new research paper, it would seem that oceanic crust forms a lot slower than scientists first calculated, but in a more dynamic manner. Past studies found that as many as 4 cubic miles (16.67 cubic kilometers) of crust are forming under Earth's oceans each year.
But research s... |
10 April 2012
05:42 GMT |
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It looks like Research In Motion has just updated its instant messaging clients once again. New versions for Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger are now available for download in the App World.
As always, RIM does not offer any change logs whatsoever for these updates, so you might want to wait f... |
10 April 2012
05:40 GMT |
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The next major Windows Phone release, codenamed Apollo and expected to arrive on shelves in fall as Windows Phone 8, was long rumored to feature a Windows NT kernel. In fact, the mobile platform was rumored to have been built on the same kernel as the Windows 8 OS for desktops and tablets. Microsoft hasn’t o... |
10 April 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs will be launched in a couple of weeks, so motherboard makers are showing their 7-Series platforms, even very small ones.
Contrary to what some may think, a powerful computer does not actually need to have a huge main unit, far from it.
It all boils down to the motherboard size and how... |
10 April 2012
05:33 GMT |
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The National Geographic Society is extremely proud to release National Geographic Today, a free iPad app that brings you the best of the magazine’s daily offerings, including news, videos, quizzes, articles, and awe-inspiring photography. Users get daily highlights and updates, and they’ll be able to cat... |
10 April 2012
05:18 GMT |
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Jack Tramiel, who was a survivor of the Holocaust and led the company that created the Atari ST, the Jaguar and the Lynx, passed away on Sunday at the age of 83, according to reports from family and friends. Tramiel is known for his work in the personal computing and gaming spaces, after he founded Commodore during ... |
10 April 2012
05:14 GMT |
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The Resurgence Pack DLC for the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3 is set to appear later today on the PC and Xbox 360 platforms all around the world, and on the PS3 in North America.Mass Effect 3’s online mode has gotten a lot of people interested in the experience throughout the past month.Now, in order to spi... |
10 April 2012
05:09 GMT |
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We didn't really expect some information on the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690 to emerge so soon after the GK106 specs, but here we are. Then again, we can't really say Expreview's information is much more than a confirmation of what people would have expected. Yes, the dual-GK104 card supports PCI Expre... |
10 April 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Nokia had a pretty solid presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress trade fair. The Finnish company announced several interesting new devices, including a Nokia Belle smartphone, the 808 PureView.
The main attraction of Nokia 808 PureView is by far the 41-megapixel camera on the back. The handset manufactur... |
10 April 2012
04:59 GMT |
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The United Launch Alliance, a collaborative effort between The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin, announces that its Atlas V delivery system has been selected for launching the next generation of weather satellites into geostationary orbit.
Officials made the announcement on Thursday, April 5. They say that the two... |
10 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Because she's a single mother of no less than 14 children, Nadya Suleman can't keep a regular job, but she does make ends meet with appearances and various other odd jobs. Speaking with Dateline NBC, she admits she regrets having the octuplets 3 years ago. After giving birth to them, Suleman was dubbed Oct... |
10 April 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Fearing potential leaks, Apple has decided to forego iPhone carrier testing this year and instead enlisted the help of a company specializing in network interworking to confirm that the device runs well on existing cellular networks.It is known that mobile phone manufacturers provide operators with their upcoming pro... |
10 April 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Now that the first NVIDIA Kepler graphics processing unit is officially available as part of the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, the rumor mill is looking in the direction of its as yet unreleased peers.
The folks at 3DCenter.org are the ones who posted information on the graphics chip that will power the GeForce GT... |
10 April 2012
04:44 GMT |
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LG Optimus 4X HD, South Korean mobile phone maker’s first quad-core smartphone running under Android, is capable of great performance, the latest benchmarking results show. The guys over at Techblog.gr put it to the test, and discovered that it can deliver nearly the same performance as HTC’s One X smart... |
10 April 2012
04:39 GMT |
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A new study reveals some of the most important missing details about how the Ordovician–Silurian extinction event (known simply as the Ordovician extinction) occurred, about 450 million years ago.
One of the most interesting aspects of this event was that it occurred in two stages. This is partially why it was... |
10 April 2012
04:32 GMT |
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California-based memory company Kingston has just announced its HyperX 3K SSD on its official website. This drive is a cheaper alternative to the well-known HyperX line of SSDs from Kingston, but the cost reduction comes at a later price. Budget gamers and PC enthusiasts will benefit from the lower price of Kingston... |
10 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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The much awaited progress on GIMP is now marked by the launch of the first release candidate for version 2.8 of the application. Compared to the preceding beta, version 2.7.5, the set of modifications is not large.However, keep in mind that installing the latest revision will create a new folder (/.gimp-2.8) in the h... |
10 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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It looks like Desire HD and Desire S owners can now choose either to wait until HTC delivers the promised Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for their devices or to install the latest unofficial ROM that will bring their smartphones to version Android 4.0.3.
XDA Developers forum user proxuser has been working for... |
10 April 2012
04:30 GMT |
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A new study by Chitika reveals that 10 percent of the iPad traffic done in the United States stems from third-generation iPads. One month after releasing the new iPad, Apple is seeing tremendous adoption trends. Not that it wasn’t expected of Apple, but the new iPad doesn’t seem to offer too many benefit... |
10 April 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Epic Games, the owner of Polish studio People Can Fly, has confirmed that the developer is currently working on a brand new game, instead of a sequel to its first full-fledged release, Bulletstorm. Bulletstorm came out at the beginning of last year, promising to deliver a whole new first person shooter experience, i... |
10 April 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Say what you will about him, but The Game sure has a heart of gold, at least where his fans are concerned. He stopped a recent concert to come to the help of a fallen fan. Video of the entire incident (with safe for work audio) is embedded below, at the end of this post. The Game was performing at The Observatory... |
10 April 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome 20 should be on the brink of being released but until we see it, the development team updated the stable channel of the web browser. The new revision is available only on Windows and deals with a single issue, SSL-related.Update 18.0.1025.152 of the web browser attends to a problem that would cause Chro... |
10 April 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Nuance Communications, the company that gave Apple’s Siri the power to understand what you're telling her, has released a new version of its PDF Converter for Mac. The new PDF Converter 3.0 features ties to cloud services such as PaperPort Anywhere and Evernote. A FormTyper converts paper files into e-form... |
10 April 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Although we still don’t know for sure what the Galaxy S III will look like, rumors on its design and specs continue to pour in.
According to the latest hearsay, Samsung made some changes at the last moment before the Galaxy S III went into production.
The folks at UnwiredView, citing Korean Digital Daily, cl... |
10 April 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it will be launching two new maps today, for those who are playing the Xbox 360 home console version of its first-person shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The two maps are called Sanctuary and Foundation and will give those who are engaged in the mul... |
10 April 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Nokia’s latest Windows Phone, the Lumia 900, has arrived on shelves at wireless carrier AT&T this Sunday, and is already leading sales charts. The smartphone was launched in Black and Cyan and is expected to arrive on White too before the end of this month. All three flavors sport LTE connectivity. The slee... |
10 April 2012
03:57 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have only investigated the drawbacks of cell phone texting, such as its effects on literacy levels and driver safety. In a new study, a team of experts was able to demonstrate that the practice can also have very positive effect.
Investigators at the University of California in Berkeley (... |
10 April 2012
03:49 GMT |
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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City came out last month and, even if it didn’t make that big of a splash, it’s now going to receive some free downloadable content in the form of a mission focusing on the team of Spec Ops soldiers in the zombie-infested city. The new Resident Evil game takes the franchi... |
10 April 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Jennifer Love Hewitt fans must already know that she's back on TV in a role very much unlike the one she played in the family-friendly “Ghost Whisperer.” A new ad for Lifetime's “The Client List” is out and, surprisingly, it Photoshopped away the best part of the original pic. In &ld... |
10 April 2012
03:34 GMT |
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In an attempt to collect as much info on AMD’s Trinity results as possible, German blog site Citavia has compiled a list of results obtained from working with Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software. According to Wikipedia, BOINC is “an open source middleware system for volun... |
10 April 2012
03:16 GMT |
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CPU World has provided the prices for the Xeon E5-4600 microprocessors, the batch of new Intel server chips that will appear at some point between this month (April) and June (2012).
We've already pretty much reported on all the relevant specifications of the series, right here.
What we are now looking at is... |
10 April 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Seeing how Blizzard has already pinned a May release date onto its long awaited Diablo III, many of the genre’s fans are awaiting a launch date for Torchlight II, the other big dungeon crawler title that’s coming from Runic Games. According to the studio’s CEO, Max Schaefer, he and his team aren&rs... |
10 April 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Owners of a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC from Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion can now download and install a new Angry Birds game on their devices. Dubbed Angry Birds Space, the game was released several weeks ago on Android, iOS and other platforms, and proved one of the most successful titles in t... |
10 April 2012
03:06 GMT |
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The stable build for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.61 is now available, after spending about two weeks in the beta stage of development. The new release brings to the table several improvements, as well as a couple of fixes. Modifications in this revision refer to overall performance, usability and stability. Improvem... |
10 April 2012
03:04 GMT |
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A video has surfaced showing off the animation process for STALKER 2, the much-awaited video game from GSG Game World. However, it is not clear whether the images shown mean that development on the game is still going on or that the team is showing off older results in order to drum up some more interest in the proje... |
10 April 2012
02:58 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that a nearby star that could very well pass as the Sun's twin has as many as 9 extrasolar planets in orbit around it. Thus far, astronomers have discovered very few stars that have more planets around them than the Sun.
The object, called ... |
10 April 2012
02:54 GMT |
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New iPhone prototypes have been seeded internally with designs akin to that of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S to throw off leaks. However, the cat’s out of the bag regarding some of the phone’s specs, such as the amount of on-board memory to handle applications.Citing no specific sources (but generally accura... |
10 April 2012
02:51 GMT |
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Intel's launch event expected to take place on April 23 may or may not include mobile parts alongside desktop units, but some benchmarks of one have surfaced anyway. Bulgarian website laptop.bg has posted benchmark results of the Intel Core i7-3610QM central processing unit. Or at least, the website claims t... |
10 April 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Last week, Motorola and Verizon kicked off the testing period for a new software update for the Motorola DROID RAZR. That firmware was said to arrive on devices only with a series of enhancements packed inside, but it appears that Motorola might have changed its mind on the matter. All in all, this could be great ... |
10 April 2012
02:42 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has just revealed a brand new batch of screenshots with its upcoming Max Payne 3 third person shooter, this time focusing on the actual shooting mechanics that will be present in the future game.Max Payne 3 is poised to take the franchise originally developed by Remedy Entertainment to a new level, wit... |
10 April 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Australian wireless carrier Vodafone and South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung have just announced the availability of a new software update for the Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 tablet PC. Last week, the two started delivering the Android 3.2.1 update to the first version of the device, GALAXY Tab 10.1v, and they are ... |
10 April 2012
02:06 GMT |
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