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Open Season is a computer and video game based on the animated movie of the same name. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft on the 19th of September 2006 in North America, the 6th of October 2006 in Europe and the 30th of November in the UK. The game closely follows the story of the mov... |
10 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Burnout is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was released in 2001for the PlayStation 2 consoles from Sony but also for the Game Cube and for the original Xbox. The title is classified as a racing and driving game which can be played from a first and a third per... |
10 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Ninja Gaiden 2 is the sequel to Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox, launched in 2004 (although the original was a NES arcade game). It features a new and improved game engine, developed exclusively for Microsoft's system by Team Ninja and legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of the Dead or Alive franchise.The st... |
10 July 2008
19:46 GMT |
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After the announcement that Fallout 3 would feature more than 300 different endings, Bethesda is again dazzling gamers by saying that there are more than 40,000 lines of dialog in the game. The original release in the series, which many still hold to be the definitive role playing experience on PCs, has less than 20 ... |
10 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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NBA Street Homecourt is a streetball game developed by Electronic Arts Canada and published by EA Sports BIG on the 19th of February 2007 in North America, the 22nd of March 2007 in Australia, the 23rd of March 2007 in PAL territories and the 24th of May 2007 in Japan. An interesting thing about the game is that it f... |
10 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006 and available for the PlayStation 2 consoles from Sony, and also for the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii, it is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the v... |
10 July 2008
18:41 GMT |
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Mophie has introduced a one-of-a-kind battery pack for owners of an iPod touch. The new 'Juice Pack' offers up to 24 hours of extra audio playback and 7 more hours of video playback, while the pack itself also acts as a protective case for your iPod touch.Aside from extending the time that you can use your ... |
10 July 2008
18:26 GMT |
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With Bungie taunting us about a big announcement coming out at the E3 trade show, we might just be around to see a new first person shooter set in the Halo universe. But, for now, the only confirmed game that uses the background of the franchise is Halo Wars, the real time strategy title that is developed by Ensemble... |
10 July 2008
18:16 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the website dealing with news and information about Apple Inc.'s retail stores worldwide, is reporting that Apple has officially announced the grand opening of its first China retail store on July 19th at 10 a.m. The same source also reports that this week has seen the Apple Store Birmingham (Ala.... |
10 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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We did not like the Postal movie, to be honest, but we all loved the games in the Running With Scissor's series, not to mention the never-ending crowd of Postal babes that made our lives be less sad. It seems that the highly anticipated Postal III will be bigger and better than we can imagine and, in order to pr... |
10 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is a video game created by Eurocom Entertainment Software, and published by Vivendi Universal Games. It was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2 gaming platform from Sony, for the Xbox and for the Game Cube. Billed as an action title, it is played from a third person perspecti... |
10 July 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Home Sweet Home is a home design game where the player must listen to and learn about their client's tastes. You create designs for your clients and then direct your team to assemble it all. The game was launched for Mac just recently, with a free trial version also being available.Big Blue Bubble claims that ov... |
10 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Remember the days when you went to the arcade and fought waves and waves of planes, ships and submarines in your trusted World War II fighter, with the occasional boss encounter at the end of the level and your eyes always darting to the side of the screen to see how many lives and how many bombs you had left? Well, ... |
10 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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The Europeans probably know about this adventure game developed by Kheops Studios, since it was launched late last year. Named Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy, the game will finally be available worldwide for purchase, with a Nintendo DS version being scheduled for release later this year.Nostradamus: The Last Prophec... |
10 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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The Bouncer is a video game developed by Dream Factory Co. Ltd and published by Square Co. It was released in 2000 on just one platform, the PlayStation 2 console from Sony. This is a title which mixes action and role playing game features, and is played from a third person perspective. There are also elements of mar... |
10 July 2008
14:31 GMT |
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If someone wants to make a soap opera set in the glamorous world of the videogame industry the subject they should tackle is Electronic Arts' attempt to take over Take Two. At first it seemed like love could blossom between these two. The first had the money and the publishing network, while the latter had the g... |
10 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Announced in October last year, Nokia's acquisition of NAVTEQ was finally completed today, after all the necessary procedures and requirements have been met. Based in Chicago, USA, NAVTEQ is an important provider of electronic maps and GIS data (Geographic Information Systems). The whole deal cost Nokia no less ... |
10 July 2008
13:37 GMT |
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Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath has just got patched to version 1.01 and, strangely, Electronic Arts feels like celebrating. I call this strange because, in my humble opinion, no game should require patching and, if it does, there would be no reason for celebrations to be held, since it is only common sense to... |
10 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Sprint has just announced that, starting July 13, four of its Push-to-Talk (PTT) devices - which work on the Nextel Direct Connect network - will be available in 14 new US markets. The handsets are Samsung Z400, LG LX400, Sanyo PRO-700 and Sanyo PRO-200, all of them being clamshells. Already available in 46 regions a... |
10 July 2008
12:52 GMT |
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Lots of rumors regarding the future of the Xbox 360 consoles can be heard, from pure speculations about Blu-ray implementation to bigger hard disk drives and new motion-sensitive controllers and price cuts. The strange thing is, however, that there have already been price cuts in Europe for Microsoft's console a... |
10 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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If, until now, Yahoo! Games was mostly based on a fee paying system for their users to have full access to the games displayed on the website, things are about to change. The company has announced two agreements, signed with Double Fusion and NeoEdge, which will allow users to freely download 400 ad-supported games, ... |
10 July 2008
11:55 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems has recently announced it has embedded its Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) into HP's iPAQ 900 Windows Mobile smartphone. This will allow the handset's owners to view emails in HTML format as well as easily access contact information. "We are excited to have worked with HP to delive... |
10 July 2008
11:50 GMT |
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BSD is short for Berkeley Software Distribution, and Open BSD, as the name suggests, is an open-source operating system, very similar to Unix. The flaw was discovered by Otto Moerbeek who works as an OpenBSD developer, and it seems to be dating from 1975. This is not the first time that researchers come across such ... |
10 July 2008
11:49 GMT |
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NBA 2K8 is a basketball simulation game developed by 2K Sports released in 2007 and considered to be better than its main rival, NBA Live 2008. 2K8 features slam dunk contests and three point shootouts, similar to EA's game. The athlete chosen by 2K Sports to appear on the game's cover is New Orleans Hornet... |
10 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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The third and last service pack for the 32-bit version of Windows XP has debuted on the path to automatic distribution today, July 10, 2008. Initially, Microsoft was shy about pinpointing the actual deadline for XP SP3's availability through Automatic Updates, and only referenced an abstract "early summer" in or... |
10 July 2008
11:37 GMT |
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Belkin has announced today that it has introduced its new N+ Wireless Router and N+ Wireless USB Adapter. These two new products, designed to offer consumers wireless support for their everyday requirements, make use of the latest in wireless technology, so they should bring some impressive levels of performance, hel... |
10 July 2008
11:18 GMT |
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Despite its often too-good-to-be-true price, from very low to completely free, pirated software comes with a hidden tax which manages to take a consistent toll, Microsoft revealed. A whitepaper titled "The impact of software piracy and license misuse on the channel" by IDC and sponsored by the Redmond company along w... |
10 July 2008
11:15 GMT |
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A short while back we were reporting on a DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky, and which has since then been patched by the industry. The thing is that after unveiling this vulnerability, he met with industry representatives from the 16 major IT companies that manufacture DNS software and shed some light on the situ... |
10 July 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Apple fans and users of the company's products will probably get very little sleep tonight with all these impressive updates floating around, including the iPhone software 2.0, the App Store, MobileMe and more. Most recently, Apple issued a certain iPhone configuration utility, as well as version 2.1 of the Appl... |
10 July 2008
11:08 GMT |
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High-end mobile devices are not the only ones that get to be cloned - mid-end handsets can benefit from the same treatment and the latest example is Sony Ericsson C702, which now has a Chinese illegitimate brother, named SE-702. Theoretically, the SE-702 seems to be quite a nice phone that can easily compete with the... |
10 July 2008
11:05 GMT |
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Want to win a contest against an equally skilled opponent? Wear red clothing! That should give you a satisfactory advantage. During a study destined to establish how humans perceive the color red in certain situations, Norbert Hagemann of the University of Munster discovered that referees are more likely to unwilling... |
10 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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While Microsoft is still hammering away at Internet Explore 8 in order to produce the second Beta, currently planned for August 2008, Mozilla is gearing up to release the first update to Firefox 3.0. The successor of Firefox 2.0 was released to the general public on June 17, 2008, and climbed to a record 8 million do... |
10 July 2008
10:51 GMT |
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You can now get your hands on the latest release of GoblinX Standard 2.7, which has been brought to you after more than four months of work. The prior stable release, GoblinX 2.6, was released sometime in mid-February - on the 18th, to be more precise.The first ISO of GoblinX Standard was released at the end of Octob... |
10 July 2008
10:49 GMT |
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With New Zealand customers already being able to buy and activate an iPhone 3G, Apple has released two much awaited upgrades for its fans: the iTunes App Store, currently offering some 500 applications, and Software 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users.The App Store is only available for download after iPhone / iPod t... |
10 July 2008
10:36 GMT |
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Centipede and Millipede, two of Atari's best loved arcade classics, are now available tobe downloaded and played through the Xbox 360's Internet service, Xbox Live Arcade.Centipede challenges gamers to defend their villages against an onslaught of centipedes, spiders, army ants and more. However, XBLA also ... |
10 July 2008
10:34 GMT |
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As far as storage is concerned, Solid State Drives are expected to impact the market in a very significant way. And it seems that this is what all storage manufacturers are concerned about these days, according to all the recent news. With all that, Seagate comes to counter this trend - by announcing today the releas... |
10 July 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, is not really at ease with the never-ending story of the company's acquisition. While Carl Icahn, the investor who started a proxy fight in order to determine the replacement of the current board of directors - which is unwilling to accept Microsoft's offer -, is in talks with the... |
10 July 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Apparently, the Australian government does not like post apocalyptic scenarios too much. I say this because I can't see any other reason for the banning of the upcoming Bethesda title called Fallout 3 in the region. A governmental site shows the fact that the game has no rating at the moment but no official reas... |
10 July 2008
10:18 GMT |
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When someone migrates from other platforms to Linux, he or she will look for his/her "tools of trade," like IDEs, image editing programs or something else. A web developer will surely want an XML validator and XML editor with syntax highlighting, DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation and all the goodies. One of the best... |
10 July 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Surf's up for Microsoft, as the software giant needs to at least replicate the performance of rivals Google and Apple in terms of navigating the "coolness" wave. However, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that it is not actually a case of what company is cooler at the Worldwide Partner Con... |
10 July 2008
10:12 GMT |
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SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator from South Korea, will soon release the Samsung SCH-M480 smartphone. The handset will be available in the second half of July, for a retail price of 600,000 KRW ($600 or 384 Euros). The SCH-M480 is, most probably, the CDMA version of Samsung i780, already available in Europe.... |
10 July 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Gameplay in Symphony of the Night adheres to the standard precepts of 2D platforming. The game's protagonist is Alucard, whose most basic moves are to attack with multiple weapons and jump. As he explores the castle, new abilities, such as the power to transform into a bat, are available.But what made it a real ... |
10 July 2008
10:08 GMT |
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The next generation of powerful computers is just around the corner, claims a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has recently developed a new technique that would allow semiconductor manufacturers to integrate even more transistors on silicon chips. By using light with a wavelength... |
10 July 2008
09:54 GMT |
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According to Commtouch, a US based company that specializes in providing e-mail safety solutions, and the quarterly report that it has recently released, malware and spam traffic is still at alarmingly high levels mainly because of the millions and millions of infected machines. The report analyzes the day to day ev... |
10 July 2008
09:51 GMT |
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As some of you already know by now, Microsoft will introduce DirectX 11 as its next-generation graphics API. This means that the DirectX 10.1 API will probably end up as a footnote in Microsoft's history and AMD's HD 3xxx and HD 4xxx will be the only series of cards to support it.As we informed you yesterda... |
10 July 2008
09:41 GMT |
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The title stays true to the original board game recipe, as players will be using seven followers to place random tiles around a map and they'll do that by taking turns. These tiles are the sections of certain environments, like castles, monasteries or roads. Imagine a combination between a domino and a puzzle ga... |
10 July 2008
09:35 GMT |
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During an interview with the folks at Kikizo, id Software's CEO, Todd Hollenshead, shed some light on exactly how Apple sees gaming and why it has never managed to up this segment throughout the years. Moreover, the renowned game developing company is truly glad that Apple is moving away from the PowerPC archite... |
10 July 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Burnout 3: Takedown is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony but also for the original Xbox. The title is classified as a racing and driving game which can be played from a first and a third person perspective.As f... |
10 July 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Do you fancy huge, high definition battles in a multi 3D environment game and, overall, some hardcore action? In this case, you should know that Omega Five is the game you're looking for. And you don't have to look too much, since it is available on Xbox Live Arcade since the 9th of January, for 800 Microso... |
10 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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With Chairman and Co-founder Bill Gates out of his day to day role at Microsoft, and with Ray Ozzie firmly in the seat of Chief Software Architect, the Redmond company is veering in a new direction as far as software development is concerned. In this context, the future strategy is defined not by bridging the softwar... |
10 July 2008
09:22 GMT |
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We might not feel it, but Earth's atmosphere is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on our bodies every day. A column of gas some 100 kilometers tall exerts a staggering 101,353 Newtons per square meter on any surface at sea level. Our body cannot generally notice it because this pressure is exerted evenly f... |
10 July 2008
09:13 GMT |
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About a month before the actual release of the N96 Nseries smartphone, Nokia is offering a limited edition of the handset, for 759 Euros - which means almost $1,200. That's surely expensive, but you won't give this amount of money only in return for a N96. More exactly, Nokia has initiated a campaign, toget... |
10 July 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Burnout 2: Point of Impact is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony but also for the Game Cube and for the original Xbox. The title is classified as a racing and driving game which can be played from a fi... |
10 July 2008
08:55 GMT |
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Battlestar Galactica is one of the most interesting sci-fi franchises existent at the moment. The original series had a very old school vibe to it when it was aired in the 1970s. Even if it was quickly canceled and spawned a very short revival, which also enjoyed limited success, the idea of Battlestar Galactica was ... |
10 July 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Google's principle of sharing its developments with the users in a non-technical, easy to understand language, is displayed once again. The Google team decided to reveal the philosophies that stand behind their search ranking system, that probably are what singles them out from amongst the competition. For start... |
10 July 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Ninety-Nine Nights in an Xbox 360 exclusive, developed by gaming luminaries Tetsuya Mizuguchi ("Lumines,""Meteos") and SanYoun Lee ("Kingdom Under Fire"). Published by Microsoft and developed by Phantagram and Q Entertainment, Ninety-Nine Nights is an epic fantasy action game that features a sweeping story, stunning ... |
10 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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People who fall victim to phishing attacks can end up penniless because the attacker will most likely use the information obtained through a phishing site to drain the victim's account dry. Search engine giant Google has been at the forefront of the battle against such scam attempts, warning users that the mess... |
10 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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The game is developed by Backbone Entertainment and is a throwback to all the scrolling arcade shooter titles you've ever played. The action is viewed from a top down perspective and your mission is simply to get to the end of the level while masses of enemies discharge huge amounts of ammunition on you. The gam... |
10 July 2008
08:38 GMT |
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In the light of recent reports, it seems that the flourishing netbook market isn't as flourishing as everybody initially believed. In fact, ASUS might probably want to reconsider its first estimations regarding the Eee PC, as reports are coming in saying that the company has failed to reach the initial forecasts... |
10 July 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Pirated software has grown to become the ugly face of the software industry, hurting not only the vendors and their environment of partners, but also end users. Whether it's made available on the black market via bootlegged media, through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, or sold and installed as genuine solut... |
10 July 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Earlier this week we were reporting that the recently discovered DNS security flaws have been patched in a simultaneous effort by the entire industry. Although the fix resolves those security issues, it may also leave Zone Alarm users without an Internet connection. The following platforms are affected: ZoneAlarm Fre... |
10 July 2008
07:51 GMT |
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Shortly after the W595 slider, another new and unannounced yet Sony Ericsson has appeared on the Web. This time it's a candybar codenamed Sony Ericsson Patti and, unfortunately, there's only one image with it which doesn't present it in its entirety, but only its lower part. Thus, for the moment we can... |
10 July 2008
07:13 GMT |
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You can't blame global warming on maritime vessels alone but they are most certainly responsible for quite a large chunk of the total amount of greenhouse gases and soot emitted into Earth's atmosphere every year. Tugboats were recently found to emit more soot than any commercial vessel in relation to the c... |
10 July 2008
07:10 GMT |
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PlanetEye is a new website focused on delivering travelers with the right set of online planning tools designed to enable the searching, exploring and sharing of a plethora of destinations worldwide. Launched into Beta on July 9, 2008, PlanetEye makes use of Microsoft technology in order to permit users to plan their... |
10 July 2008
06:54 GMT |
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As most of you already know by now, AMD is the first graphics card manufacturer to introduce a GDDR5-enabled card. However, the one thing that might have gone by unknown in this is that AMD succeeded this by partnering with memory chip maker Qimonda, which, back in May, announced that it had started shipping GDDR5 me... |
10 July 2008
06:36 GMT |
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It's easy to have control over your bank account from home or work. The remote administration of accounts is best performed, as a study undertaken by ComScore shows, by the Canadians. 67.1% of the Internet users from this country have banked online in April 2008. This percentage easily overpasses the one in the ... |
10 July 2008
06:32 GMT |
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The already announced launch of the new Zen X-Fi PMP from Creative is finally getting official. The new PMP will come in two versions, one WiFi and the other non WiFi, featuring 16 and 32GB for the former, while only 8GB for the latter. Still, it seems that the Zen X-Fi will only be available for the APAC region at t... |
10 July 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Webroot, a company that specializes in providing antivirus and antispyware security solutions, was co-founded by Steven Thomas back in 1997. It seems that the 36 year old millionaire has gone missing from a hotel in Hawaii, last week. While the local authorities are trying to find him, his family prays that he is saf... |
10 July 2008
06:23 GMT |
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It will still take a long time before man will be able to predict an earthquake and its force, and science seems to be taking baby steps in this field, albeit when it comes to earthquake predictions any step is a big step. US researchers have recently brought new insight into the dynamics of earthquakes after detecti... |
10 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Windows Live OneCare has moved to the next stage in its evolution. At the debut of July, 2008, Microsoft made available for download version 2.5 of its one-size-fits all security solution. However, the Redmond company managed not to make a big deal out of the release of OneCare 2.5. Dropped on July 1, the antivirus w... |
10 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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RoverPC X7 is the name of a new Pocket PC manufactured in Russia by RoverPC, a company that we've already heard of on several occasions. X7 is the latest device created by RoverPC and it's presented as its most powerful communicator handset. The Pocket PC runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and does indeed bring a... |
10 July 2008
05:53 GMT |
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When Steve Jobs announced the upcoming availability of the App Store, he was hoping to launch the service with some 200 software offerings. Apple's CEO could confirm in an interview with USA Today that the company now has more than 500 App Store launch apps for iPhone and iPod touch users to download, as soon as... |
10 July 2008
05:42 GMT |
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It's not often that astronomers find asteroids made out of a single massive piece, but rather containing two or more objects loosely bound together or orbiting each other, tumbling through the immensity of space. The cause to this particularity remained a subject of debate for a long time, although now a new stu... |
10 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Finance websites are matters of everyday interest for Americans. In addition, staying in touch with the financial realities is seen as compulsory by more and more people. "Current economic conditions - including rising gas prices, general inflation concerns, housing troubles and stock market uncertainty - have Americ... |
10 July 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Recent reports seem to indicate that AMD's R7xx series of graphics cards has nothing but a bright future ahead. Apparently, the Sunnyvale-based chip manufacturer is planning to release a couple of new graphics cards based on the 55nm manufacturing technology. They will be part of the company's R7xx series a... |
10 July 2008
05:35 GMT |
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At the begging of this month we were reporting that Texas adopted a new law which required all IT repair technicians to get a PI (private investigator) license if they wanted to keep doing their job, or face punitive measures (a $4,000 fine or 12 months of incarceration time). The law has of course caused a lot of st... |
10 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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The strong impact Intel's Atom platform had on the low-power ultraportable market received fast responses from other manufacturers, mainly from VIA with its Nano chip, and AMD with the rumored 1GHz processor. The Atom, however, managed to impress the makers of industrial PCs (IPCs). Since the platform went under... |
10 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Not all Microsoft initiatives are profit-oriented, and the latest one from the Redmond company comes to prove this point. The NGO Connection is designed as a comprehensive collection of resources made available though an online hotspot to nonprofit organizations worldwide. According to the software giant, the NGO Con... |
10 July 2008
05:15 GMT |
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In the midst of the iPhone 3G-related craze, AT&T has announced that it will offer wireless services to Muzak, the well-known US provider of music and multimedia services. The new deal was made for three years and sealed for $6.4 million, which now reached AT&T's bank account(s). 40 Muzak US locations and more t... |
10 July 2008
05:14 GMT |
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AT&T has been caught on tape receiving stocks of white iPhone 3G units, as well as black ones. The white model of Apple's new handset is (not surprisingly) packaged in white as well. The video also reveals that AT&T stores are seemingly getting a pretty good number of iPhone units.A YouTube video which we'v... |
10 July 2008
05:04 GMT |
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A new study conducted between 1998 and 2006 indicates that the eruption patterns of geysers in the Yellowstone National Park, US are slowing down and could even stop as a result of global warming. Temperature readings performed on five of the geysers in the famous national park show that two of the best known of them... |
10 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Game engine creators Trinigy, the ones behind the recently released Vision Engine 7, announced that Ubisoft's Blue Byte studio (those who brought us the great titles in the Settlers series) having signed a deal which would allow them to use the engine for upcoming titles. Unfortunately, no details regarding the ... |
10 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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These past few days, graphics card maker Sapphire has been showered with quite some attention from the online media, and that happened especially ever since AMD unleashed the new RV770-based graphics card lineup. But Sapphire is also expected to release a card based on AMD's mid-range HD 4850 GPU, which is said ... |
10 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Everyone gets annoyed when they have to wait for what it seems like dozens of endless seconds until a webpage loads. This might actually no longer be a problem in the near future. Australian researchers from the University of Sydney have found a rather simple method to pump up the speed of the Internet by almost 100 ... |
10 July 2008
04:39 GMT |
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With one day left to go until the iPhone 3G launch, Apple has released iTunes 7.7. Available as a free download right HERE on Softpedia, iTunes 7.7 is specifically designed to work with iPhone / iPod touch software 2.0. As rumored, the new release also adds a Remote app that lets users control iTunes playback from an... |
10 July 2008
04:30 GMT |
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It has recently come to light that Apple Developer Connection simply gave away the password to Marko Karppinen's account. He is the CEO of MK&C, a software development studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which designs and develops Mac software. How could such a thing happen? Well, it seems that all the scammer ha... |
10 July 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Probably the most important news regarding controller patents is the rumored motion sensing Xbox 360 controller Microsoft keeps denying it's coming. However, this does not mean that other companies have no plans to create new ways of controlling our games and file their own patents. Nintendo is the latest firm t... |
10 July 2008
04:11 GMT |
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As predicted when it was first discovered on May 9 this year, Jupiter's third red giant storm collided last week with the Great Red Spot and the Red Spot. The outcome of the event is not known yet, since Jupiter's position on the night sky impeded astronomers from carrying out any conclusive observations. "... |
10 July 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Albatron Technology has recently announced three new PCI based graphics cards. The PCI8600GT-256X, the PCI8500GT-256X and the PCI8400GS-256 are meant to get the GeForce 8 Series graphics to the old PCI technology, since those motherboards needed a performance boost to their integrated-graphics, so Albatron decided to... |
10 July 2008
04:09 GMT |
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Last week, when we brought you news of AMD's upcoming R700 graphics card, we also told you it was going to become available in August. The card, to be sold under the dubbing of Radeon HD 4870 X2, is expected to come in two variants, one of which is said to provide 2GB of GDDR5 memory. According to recent reports... |
10 July 2008
04:05 GMT |
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With the iPhone 3G one day before its official release at Apple retail stores and AT&T, more details regarding the process of activating the device have surfaced on the web. Reportedly, customers must determine their own eligibility for an upgrade.AppleInsider says that the build number of iPhone Software 2.0 on iPho... |
10 July 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up to kill off a classic. In this regard, November 1, 2008 will mark the death of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Released on November 1, 1993, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups managed to survive a whole 15 years on the m... |
10 July 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Samsung Instinct is selling at high speeds not only in Sprint's stores, as the third largest US carrier announced two weeks ago, but also in the Best Buy Mobile stores. Best Buy, one of the largest North American consumer electronics retailers, is the only US retailer to sell the Instinct nationwide. Although it... |
10 July 2008
03:55 GMT |
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There's proof that the 20 GB version of the Xbox 360 console might be ready to depart from stores, being replaced by a 60 GB version of the gaming device. Apparently, an e-mail addressed by Microsoft to GameStop and BlockBuster was leaked; it details the way the new console will be introduced.Here is what the e-... |
10 July 2008
03:51 GMT |
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The search advertising market has become more and more competitive, and none of the leading companies wants to fall behind. Today, Yahoo! introduced a new type of API that allows the advertisers to blend in their "special sauce," which is how the representatives of the company refer to the possibility of intervening ... |
10 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Although the Santa-Clara based company isn't doing so well these days, its channel partners are confident in its technology. As if to prove this, if proof is required, they are releasing a number of products based on NVIDIA's latest chips. One of the manufacturers in question is ZOTAC that, besides having r... |
10 July 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Microsoft and independent developer Torpex Games deliver you the first title created using the XNA Game Studio platform. Named Schiziod, it is presented as the "most co-op game ever" and promises to create a new category in the action gaming genre - the survival teamwork. We must admit that it sounds pretty interesti... |
10 July 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Soil samples returned from the Moon during the Apollo missions were for the first time proven to contain trace amounts of water, although they cannot indicate how much water is currently present there nor can they be used to predict a method through which water could be extracted in the near future. The long expected... |
10 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Midway has announced that it plans to release two games in the near future, a Nintendo Wii title called Game Party 2 and a Nintendo DS one called TouchMaster 2.Game Party is the most interesting of the two titles. Even if released quite recently, only reaching European markets in February, the first game in the serie... |
10 July 2008
03:17 GMT |
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The non-profit Symbian Foundation, presented by Nokia at the end of June and set to transform all the Symbian-based mobile platforms into a single open source one, has welcomed today nine new companies as members. These are: - America Movil, the largest mobile operator in Latin America and the fifth largest in the wo... |
10 July 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker from Sweden that is very much concerned with the issues of security and privacy. They should be, since in Sweden the Government can at any time access all international e-mail messages, telephone calls and Internet traffic. Fredrick Neij, co-founder of Pirate Bay, is proposing the impl... |
10 July 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Images of a new MacBook Pro casing have surfaced last week. However, it was only yesterday that AppleInsider was able to post some of those leaked photos which, according to the publication, show a case design akin to that of Apple's MacBook Air."...a trademark aluminum Apple notebook enclosure that appears slig... |
10 July 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Nvidia seems to have decided it's time to make a new tactical move in the already announced war on the graphics cards market. What's coming this time is Santa Clara's direct help for third party modders which started the operation of bringing PhysX processing to AMD graphics cards. Nvidia surely enjoys... |
10 July 2008
03:03 GMT |
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Everybody is preparing for the biggest game related event of the year, the E3, but when a major company has a different agenda, nothing will stand in its way - Activision, for example, has plans to create a brand focused on Wii titles only and they called it, pardon the expression, Wee 1ST. However, the brand's ... |
10 July 2008
02:51 GMT |
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After re-acquiring the rights to Children of the Nile and the license from SEGA and Myelin Media, developers Tilted Mill are saying that the title is coming to Steam, in an effort to offer gamers everywhere the possibility to enjoy the innovative city builder. The game was the first in its genre to introduce a "livin... |
10 July 2008
02:41 GMT |
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Sure, we live in a world where high-definition has become the main concept behind just about any piece of A/V gear, but the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of people out there who simply shoot video clips in order to upload them to YouTube, the world's most famous video sharing website. And it's... |
10 July 2008
01:20 GMT |
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