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The basic chemicals making up the things that allow for life on our planet – the atmosphere and the oceans – may have come from outer space, and be of extraterrestrial origins. The assessment belongs to a group of researchers from the University of Manchester, in the UK, and University of Houston, in the ... |
11 December 2009
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Scientists from the United Kingdom's Met Office reveal that global temperatures may hit their highest peaks in recent history in 2010. This event will take place as a direct result of the growing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Though some still c... |
11 December 2009
19:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group numbers for November are showing that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft has managed to sell more than the PlayStation 3 from Sony in the United States for the first time in the last three months just as the videogames industry registered a 7.6% decline over the same month in 2008.The biggest hit was to revenu... |
11 December 2009
17:31 GMT |
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The renowned New Mexico archaeological site known as Ghost Ranch has recently revealed a fossil that sheds some light on one of the most obscured periods in history, the time in the Triassic Age when the dinosaurs' evolution became clouded in mystery. The newly discovered animal, Tawa hallae, is one of the best ... |
11 December 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Long Term Evolution, one of the standards to be used for the deployment of 4G networks around the world, is seeing increased popularity among carriers. According to a recently published report from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), a number of 51 carriers already committed to deliver LTE networks in 24 ... |
11 December 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Diminutive actress Eva Longoria is a role model for millions of women around the world who want to look as effortlessly good as she always does. The always stylish star has made quite a name for herself for how toned her body is, yet without being too skinny and this, understandably, has made many wonder about her wo... |
11 December 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Astronomers have known for quite some time that the core of large galaxies across the Universe host impressively large, supermassive black holes, behemoths of the skies with millions of times the mass of our own Sun. Now, with the help of the twin W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes, scientists at the University of Cal... |
11 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Totu Florian: Last weekend ended up being a complete mess. I played pretty much everything I had that still held a little bit of interest for me. Some games caught my attention for just a few hours, while one demon of the past made a far more unexpected comeback. While I still toyed around a little bit in Divinity 2:... |
11 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2, as predicted, has dominated the software sales for the month of November in the United States, managing to move more copies than any other launch on the Microsoft made Xbox 360. Surprisingly, the game also managed to take the second place in the software chart with the PlayStation 3 version. The PC ... |
11 December 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Weight gain during the winter holiday season is not uncommon. Come to think of it, one comes to expect it, not only because the homemade goodies are much too tempting to resist, but also because this period messes up our daily workout routine. One way to avoid packing on the pounds this year, Shape magazine ... |
11 December 2009
15:41 GMT |
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An international group of scientists has recently shed some light on one of the most controversial issues related to human evolution, namely how the Asian continent was first populated. Using a wide array of genomes from across the continent, the team was able to map them out completely, and to determine that they al... |
11 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Despite the fact that health experts and nutritionists constantly warn us of the dangers of fad diets and how they will never guarantee sustainable weight loss, it would seem that the appeal of the idea of dropping the pounds without doing much in this sense is too great to resist. From Japan comes the Morning (Asa) ... |
11 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Computer makers Acer and Asustek are reportedly working closely with China-based 3G carriers for the launch of 3G capable smartphones in the country in 2010. The two companies are said to have partnered with China Mobile and China Unicom, and it seems that Acer will initially work on the promotion of TD-SCDMA and WC... |
11 December 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Following a new series of test drives of the Martian rover Spirit, scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who manage the MER mission, say that the robot's rear right wheel is still jammed, and that the machine is in serious danger of being left with just four operational wheels of its original s... |
11 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Just as the Betta fish wallpaper has become synonymous with the Beta Build 7000 and Release Candidate (RC) Build 7100 builds of the latest Windows client, so does the now default Harmony background define the RTM development milestone of Windows 7 (Build 7600). In the video embedded at the bottom of this screen, you ... |
11 December 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Not many months ago, the hottest accessory a woman could possibly have was, according to many self-titled fashionistas and celebrities, a tiny Chihuahua or similarly small dog, in a designer handbag made especially to accommodate its needs. Times have changed but, sadly, not many are the wiser for it, as the latest f... |
11 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Ever since Redmond-based software giant Microsoft delivered to the market the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, we were able to see very appealing handsets being launched with the platform on board. Among these devices, we can also count the LG IQ (GW825), now available for pur... |
11 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Spike's Dragon Ball: Raging Blast is the first arrival of the legendary anime series to the big consoles of the present and, just one month since the game was released in North America, Namco Bandai has announced that a huge series of pieces of downloadable content will be added to the title throughout the comin... |
11 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Does the music get the best of you? Welcome to the club! You and me and probably 90% of the rest of the world could serenely claim that, they not only work better but they also feel better when a glimpse of music touches their life. Music heals, makes you tremble when you fall in love and helps you discover that typ... |
11 December 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Nokia N97 is the hottest Symbian mobile phone the Finnish handset vendor Nokia delivered to the market during the ongoing year, and now users in Canada can also have a taste of it, via wireless carrier Bell. The operator was expected to launch the high-end device in the country as soon as December 10 arrives, and it... |
11 December 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Microsoft plans to make available for download a range of applications designed to take advantage of the touch capabilities built by default into the DNA of Windows 7. The Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was initially announced at the start of this year, after the company had produced the first Release Candidate (... |
11 December 2009
12:11 GMT |
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When it comes down to introducing IT Process automation capabilities into System Center, Microsoft has taken a bit of a shortcut with the acquisition of Opalis Software. Opalis will be responsible for the evolution of System Center in a direction required by customers and service providers that leverage Microsoft tec... |
11 December 2009
11:54 GMT |
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World-leading plasma TV-maker Panasonic announced that it would be paying no less than $4.6 billion to Sanyo in order to acquire a majority stake of 50.2% of its total shares. The deal will allow Panasonic to make use of Sanyo's expertise in solar panels and rechargeable batteries, whereas its smaller rival will... |
11 December 2009
11:28 GMT |
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The southern constellation of Pavo is at this point the host of a peculiar case of galactic cannibalism, taking place between the galaxies NGC6872 and IC4970. The former is the larger one, seen here at the center of the image, while the latter is the small one in the upper part of the photo. The two galaxies were rec... |
11 December 2009
11:23 GMT |
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Mariah Carey officially returned to the music stage this year, with a new album heavy with autobiographical elements and aptly called “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.” Despite the fact that the album managed to get critics singing its praises, fans were not that convinced, judging by sales alone. According... |
11 December 2009
11:21 GMT |
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As Google keeps on growing it's always looking at new areas in which to expand. Recently though this has meant treading even more on the home turfs of some of its, now former, close allies. This is especially the case with Apple as the two companies find themselves competitors in more and more markets. For the m... |
11 December 2009
11:10 GMT |
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iPhone users are suffering from delusion similar to the Stockholm Syndrome, according to research done by Strand Consult. The Stockholm Syndrome is usually described as a psychological response seen in abducted hostages where they show signs of loyalty to the kidnapper. Titled “How will psychologists describe ... |
11 December 2009
11:04 GMT |
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Valve has gotten us all in a frenzy with its “Friendship” announcements and its mysterious upcoming update for Team Fortress 2. After it let us bash our heads against a few walls trying to figure out what it was, Valve's Robin Walker had the decency to let us know what it wouldn't be. While anno... |
11 December 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
11 December 2009
11:01 GMT |
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At 26, country singer and multi-Grammy winner artist Carrie Underwood can safely say she has come to know both the bright side and the downside to fame. She has struggled to become the multi-platinum artist she’s today and has also had the time to enjoy the good things in life, those very things they say only m... |
11 December 2009
10:57 GMT |
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These days, hardware pieces of news are rather scarce, with practically all hardware developers, researchers and manufacturers saving their best releases for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Besides a peek at an upcoming motherboard or the emergence of a certain lawsuit, nothing much can be seen sprouting up o... |
11 December 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant has already lost the fight in the mobile phone area it seems, or at least this is what Mark Anderson, author of the Strategic News Service newsletter, states. According to him, Microsoft is only capable of winning in the gaming segment, with all other consumer areas being poised for fail... |
11 December 2009
10:44 GMT |
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Country singer Taylor Swift is also known, aside from her unmistakable voice and wonderful music, for her curly locks and a very innocent look. Last night, the star stepped out about town with a new ‘do, with straight hair and long bangs, which has generated quite a frenzy with fans on the Internet, as the Post... |
11 December 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Scientists at the Boston College recently announced that they managed to devise a new type of very thin solar cells, which are able to harvest the energy stored in so-called “hot electrons.” These particles are generated as free electrons, when photons making up light are captured by the components of reg... |
11 December 2009
10:21 GMT |
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The Oracle Sun deal is dragging on as the EU is still doubtful that the software giant will provide a good home for MySQL, an open-source database system owned by Sun which competes with some of Oracle's offerings. The proposed acquisition, in which Oracle would buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, is under s... |
11 December 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Much like Acer did back in 2001, when it formed the independent manufacturing division called Winstron, ASUS may have plans to spin out its manufacturing business. This move may have been inspired by Acer's success, which recently surpassed Dell in the area of total PC shipments during 2009. The plan would be f... |
11 December 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that the creators of the Koobface worm have launched a new campaign on Facebook, which uses Christmas as a lure to infect users. This new version makes full use of the component deployed in November, which imitates human behavior.The Koobface worm is one of the most notorious and long time r... |
11 December 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Targeting Bonjour users looking to access all of their services on their home network from anywhere in the world, Yazsoft’s ShareTool includes iTunes music sharing, screen sharing, file sharing, and more. A new version of the app is available, delivering enhancements and bug fixes. ShareTool automatically confi... |
11 December 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Tara Reid, star of “American Pie,” has quite a reputation of a former hellraiser. Once the best friend of socialite Paris Hilton, Reid spent most part of her 20s in clubs, rehabs or, from what pictures tell us, sitting on the sidewalk, trying to stand upright. She also had a go at plastic surgery and thus... |
11 December 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Real-time search is the hot topic right now, especially since Google has rolled out a full-blown service inside the main search engine. Bing has been doing it for more than a month now, Yahoo has just revealed it will integrate tweets as well, and now real-time search is moving to enterprise search as Google has ann... |
11 December 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing the necessary resources to help lock users with standard privileges accounts from accessing Windows 7 while the operating system is in Safe Mode. According to the Redmond company, all that system administrators need do is download and apply a hotfix made available via Microsoft Support. Once t... |
11 December 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Even though some of the big players have finally managed to settle down and resolve their differences after years of legal disputes, it seems that the IT industry still has more than enough resources to provide grounds for more lawsuits, accusations, litigations and any other type of dispute known to man. This time a... |
11 December 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Chillingo Ltd. has released what it believes is a fun-packed RPG game for iPhone and iPod touch in which players adventure unskilled apprentices, trying to defeat enemy monsters and complete quests to discover new weapons, skills and spells. By achieving their goals one by one, gamers eventually become powerful heroe... |
11 December 2009
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Pat Lee of the VMware team has announced via the company’s blog that a new version of its virtualization solution is available for Mac users. Released as a free update to existing customers, Fusion 3.0.1 adds new features, performance improvements and an array of bug fixes. Mac OS X Server improvements include ... |
11 December 2009
09:10 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just unveiled another Comes With Music handset, the Nokia 5235. The new device is expected to hit the market with a wide range of features packed inside, as well as with great free music for users, all of which will become available at a rather unexpected price tag, is seems, &eu... |
11 December 2009
08:56 GMT |
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In a set of investigations that could have the ability to make astronomers better understand how impressive particle jets are spewed from inside black holes, scientists have observed for the first time the hypothesized evaporation effects inside the accretion disk around such a behemoth. The observations were conduct... |
11 December 2009
08:53 GMT |
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Although Marvel and everybody else involved in the project tried for a very long while to keep the identity of the actor playing the villain in “Iron Man 2” a secret, it eventually emerged that the honor would go to none other than freshly returned to the spotlight Mickey Rourke. Anticipation to see him a... |
11 December 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Twitter may not be growing too much in the US lately, in fact its user base even shrank in October, but it's doing alright internationally, and this without having a localized version in any other language, besides Japan, until very recently. Now though, Twitter has started focusing more on its international us... |
11 December 2009
08:50 GMT |
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About a day after another MSI motherboard was pictured, namely the 890FX-GD70, yet another MSI motherboard was spotted pictured online, by the very same site and with an equally large picture gallery for all to see. Yesterday's card was set as the upcoming high-end platform, through its implementation of six PCI... |
11 December 2009
08:50 GMT |
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A BitTorrent client similar to the popular Vuze, Transmission is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application whose code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program boasts a simple, intuitive interface designed to integrate tightly with any O... |
11 December 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel Corp. named Matt Carter, currently the president of its Boost Mobile prepaid unit, as the new chief of the 4G department, where he will oversee the company's fourth-generation wireless broadband service. The Overland Park-based carrier said that Carter, vice president for Sprint’s fast-growin... |
11 December 2009
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Apple may be gearing up for the release of a dock that universally fits any (Apple) device, reports say. A patent application filed by the Mac maker has caught the eye of those tracking Apple’s moves. These people are now speculating that a dock conforming to the shape and size of any device is being designed i... |
11 December 2009
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One year after the release to web of Internet Explorer 8, its successor, Internet Explorer 9 is bound to get some time in the spotlight. And there will be no better occasion than Microsoft’s web-centric MIX 2010 conference. Of course, the Redmond company hasn’t confirmed any sort of official details as of... |
11 December 2009
08:18 GMT |
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Skype has just announced the release of a beta client for the mobile phones running under the Symbian operating system. The new software solution, version 0.9.0, comes with support for a series of Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 devices, as well as for Feature Pack 2 handsets, and is a limited beta variant of ... |
11 December 2009
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In the effort to standardize and simplify datacenters, Dell has been working on realizing its vision of a flexible and dynamically orchestrated infrastructure. The technology released by the enterprise will move datacenter environments closer to this vision, through a combination of 10Gb Ethernet and infrastructure-m... |
11 December 2009
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BioWare, the developer of Mass Effect 2, and Electronic Arts, the publisher of the title, have announced the cast of stars set to provide voice acting for the game that should arrive on January 26, 2010 in the United States and on January 29 in Europe.The list includes: Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Martin Sheen... |
11 December 2009
08:06 GMT |
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In mid-November 2009, Microsoft opened up access to the next iteration of its Office System. Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4536.1000 as well as the associated activation product keys continue to be available for download from the Redmond company. But as it usually is the case with the software giant, the company is acc... |
11 December 2009
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Google is always updating the satellite imagery in Maps and Earth to provide its users with updated or better quality images. This comes in handy in a lot of cases, so it's obvious why the company is investing so much in acquiring the imagery. If it were only that Google would be like any other company, but it ... |
11 December 2009
07:23 GMT |
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A new study by the respected organization Pew Research Center has recently determined that Americans living in the United States tend to have a contradictory set of beliefs, but that they are willing to accept them together. The work may lead to new investigations into the human mind, which seems to be able to dismis... |
11 December 2009
07:01 GMT |
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The modern successor of the FAT system is currently available for licensing from Microsoft, through what a company representative referred to as a flexible licensing program. Companies worldwide can integrate the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) into their own products for a flat fee of as low as $300.000. How... |
11 December 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Security researchers have detected a new mass injection attack that has compromised over 130,000 websites so far. A rogue IFrame is used to exploit visitors and infect their computers with a banking trojan.The attack apparently began in late November and has grown at a steady pace since then. A Google search for the ... |
11 December 2009
06:53 GMT |
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DirectX 11 graphics are already on their way to becoming mainstream, with even notebooks beginning to integrate such capabilities, and the Arrandale and Clarkdale processors have already seen more than a little attention. Still, even though most end-users aren't exactly preoccupied with what will come after the ... |
11 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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The Atacama Desert, Chile-based Paranal Observatory, one of the largest the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has, just received a new telescope, the VISTA. Short for Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, the instrument is a four-meter class, wide-field observatory, and it is currently located on a p... |
11 December 2009
06:47 GMT |
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Brain Age 2 is the sequel to the Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training – How Old Is Your Brain, more simply known as just Brain Age in North America. The title is basically a puzzle game, with several others meant to bring the brain out of its vegetative state. It also features some games and tests made to estima... |
11 December 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Google may be getting bigger and bigger, but it looks like it's losing friends on the way. Its relationship with Apple has become very tense these days after years of being very close. Now it looks like Mozilla, another traditional partner for Google may be moving away from the company as well, albeit not offic... |
11 December 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Computer maker Acer has just unveiled a few more details on its plans for the smartphone market for the next year. Not to long ago, the company stated that it planned on launching mode devices in 2010, and that the lineup would be more balanced between the operating systems featured by the handsets, and now the comp... |
11 December 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Borderlands was one of the few games that managed to live up to the hype it generated and, while it wasn't really a day-one DLC like Dragon Age: Origins, the first extra goody delivered via downloadable content was ready in no time at all. Even if The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned came out on the PC just yesterday, t... |
11 December 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Kendra Wilkinson, one of the three former girlfriends of Hugh Hefner, announced that she was pregnant with her then-fiancé, soon to become her husband. Throughout her pregnancy, the star kept her fans up to speed with everything in her life by means of her official webpage, including that she was to have a boy... |
11 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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As it so happens, various leaks, pictures and postings of upcoming products have been making their way to the Internet this past week, making the anticipations surrounding the rapidly nearing Consumer Electronics Show 2010 more intense. After MSI's 890FX-GD70 was pictured not too long ago, an entire gallery of p... |
11 December 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
11 December 2009
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A Microsoft manager recently told journalists at a Windows Mobile event not to use or even mention Apple products. Reportedly, the manager rebuked a journalist who enthusiastically expressed his opinion about the intuitiveness of Apple’s iPhone at a dinner table. According to various reports, the journalist all... |
11 December 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Taiwan based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has released recently a new ROM upgrade for one of its latest handsets, the HTC HD2. The handset comes to the market with Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system on board, and the new software solution is aimed at delivering an enhanced experience to its E... |
11 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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According to a scientist, it may be that an actual tree for Christmas is greener than a fake, plastic one. The biologist, who is based at the Saint Joseph's University, in Philadelphia, believes that his idea may seem a little bit counterintuitive at first, but says that his arguments are valid, and should not b... |
11 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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As the gaming industry starts feeling the bitter taste of recession more and more, another studio has to cut back on its workforce. We already saw Electronic Arts fire over 1,500 people and shut down game developer Pandemic Studio, and now it seems like one of its smaller business partners needs to make a few cutback... |
11 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
11 December 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Skype is finally able to breath easily and focus on the service, now that all its legal troubles are behind it. The company is doing alright in terms of revenue and great in terms of users, at around half a billion there's nothing to complain, but with increased competition, especially from Google, it's ti... |
11 December 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Mozilla is anything but a Microsoft advocate, being in fact a poster-child for the open source struggle against the Redmond behemoth. But at the same time, Mozilla also seems ready to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s,” and acknowledged the fact that Microsoft does a better job to Go... |
11 December 2009
05:35 GMT |
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SBSH Mobile Software announced today the release of a new software solution WhiteList for Symbian S60. According to the company, the new application comes towards the owners of a Symbian-based mobile phone with a very useful tool, developed so as to protect the privacy of users through keeping unwanted calls and SMS... |
11 December 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 had a pretty hard and bumpy road to get through before it got launched. First, the game was boycotted by dedicated fans of the first installment, and then it had to be seriously edited to be allowed an Australian release. But, eventually, the title was launched and it turned out to be a lot of fun. It s... |
11 December 2009
05:17 GMT |
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2009 has been marked by the price cuts enacted by all the three major console manufacturers, which tried to boost the number of consoles sold by making them attractive even during the recession, and by the fact that, for the last three months, the PlayStation 3 from Sony has managed to best the Xbox 360 from Microsof... |
11 December 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Motorola's second mobile phone that runs under Google's Android operating system, the Motorola DROID, has just reached the market in the UK as the MILESTONE, exclusively via Expansys until the end of the year. The phone has seen a lot of traction in the US, and it seems that it is also poised for great pop... |
11 December 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Intel has reaffirmed its position as a computing innovator with its new research milestone that will allow for the creation of next-generation transistors. So far, transistors based on silicon were subject to large gate leakage because the Schottky gate did not feature any type of gate dielectric. Intel has experimen... |
11 December 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Policymakers in the United Kingdom have finally decided to create a dedicated space agency for the country, after the national scientific community has been pressing for this for many years. In addition to playing a vital role in creating and managing the nation's space policies, the new agency, which is expecte... |
11 December 2009
04:47 GMT |
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It’s only days that ABC seemed to have made a first step towards putting an end to the Adam Lambert controversy by asking him to appear and perform on The View, but the network is back again in the crossfire with the media and fans. Barbara Walters’ special on this year’s 10 most fascinating people ... |
11 December 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Dante's Inferno is just two months away from being released and Electronic Arts is really revving up the sin counter. We already saw some pretty publicity stunts, like the Mass: We Pray game, and now the publisher is planting some jealousy and dissent amongst gamers. According to Yahoo Finance, a special edition... |
11 December 2009
04:38 GMT |
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There's a great trend to move everything online these days. It's not exactly clear if this is a good thing in all circumstances, but everyone's getting on the bandwagon and there's no reversing it at this point. One problem, a big one, with doing everything in a browser is that the performance an... |
11 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The launch of application stores for mobile phone users has seen quite a boost during the ongoing year. Following the launch of Apple's App Store for the iPhone, and its increasing popularity, most major players in the telecoms area came up with their own storefronts. Among them, Nokia's Ovi Store is one o... |
11 December 2009
04:35 GMT |
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An integral part of the enhancements brought to the table by the evolution of Windows Live Movie Maker was the capability to easily publish videos to YouTube right from the client. However, as of the past week, Windows Live movie Maker users that attempted to use this specific functionality were unsuccessful in doing... |
11 December 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Fusion-io scored big last year when it developed the ioDrive, a solid state drive solution that resembled RAM more than it did regular SSDs and that connected to the motherboard through the PCI Express x4 instead of SATA or PATA interfaces. As if the respective read and write speeds of 800MB/s and 680MB/s were not en... |
11 December 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Interviewed at a conference on Wednesday, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak revealed he’d be eager to get his hands on the much-hyped Apple tablet, once it would be rolled out the following year, according to a report by Marisa Taylor, blogging for The Wall Street Journal. Did anyone even have a doubt? The report... |
11 December 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has been having a tough time this year, with continued financial losses and with more personal cuts in its future. But Chief Executive Officer John Riccitiello seems to be convinced that his company will bounce back soon and that the first signs will be the releases of Mass Effect 2, the role playing ... |
11 December 2009
04:19 GMT |
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Chinese state media reported two days ago that the country managed to launch another remote sensing satellite into the Earth's orbit on Wednesday, from a desert-based launch facility. The payload, whose purpose and contents are unknown, but believed to be an ultra-secret spy satellite, was ferried aboard a Long ... |
11 December 2009
04:08 GMT |
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While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon horde of... |
11 December 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Jon Gosselin, the former star of “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” the reality show produced and aired by TLC that told the story of a regular couple and their life as parents of eight, has just received a first, albeit temporarily, blow in the lawsuit with the network. Accused of breach of contract, Gosselin is momen... |
11 December 2009
03:59 GMT |
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While Microsoft is making its way toward the next generation of its data platform, the company is also kicking up a notch older releases of SQL Server. The free version of SQL Server 2008 is currently available for download, complete with the first service pack released earlier this year. Customers are free to levera... |
11 December 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Although the weather appeared to be the biggest threat to a WISE launch today – with NASA officials forecasting an 80-percent chance of thunderstorms – it was in fact a small glitch that stopped the new infrared observatory from launching. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was on track for its Decem... |
11 December 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is hard at work with the development of its software solutions for the BlackBerry smartphones in the enterprise area. It was not to long ago when the company delivered the Service Pack 1 for its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, followed by a patch for some PDF vulnerabilit... |
11 December 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Based on OpenGL ES 2.0, WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for low-level 3D graphics Application Programming Interfaces and is exposed as Document Object Model through HTML5 Canvas. This universal standard for accelerated 3D graphics inside web browsers is aimed at moving applications closer to the ... |
11 December 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive has announced that it is partnering up with developer Fatshark in order to publish its first console-based videogame, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, a third person shooter set to allow gamers to play a gun slinger when it is released at some point during the first quarter of 2010. At the m... |
11 December 2009
03:41 GMT |
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In their reviews, critics deemed Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars as one of the best games to come out on the DS this year. But, in spite of the actual quality of the title, and the recommendations given by gaming sites and magazines around the world, it sold very poorly. The lack of proper publishing support the game... |
11 December 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Ever since the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft started orbiting the gas giant Saturn, in 2004, experts have noticed something very peculiar about one of its moons, called Iapetus. The celestial body appeared to have two faces. On one, it was very bright, as viewed with the probe's cameras, whereas the second was a l... |
11 December 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Yahoo Search isn't dead and buried just because Microsoft pretty much bought it outright. No, Yahoo can be an innovator even if it's running Bing and putting a big purple Yahoo sticker on it, or, at least, that's the official version. And just to show everyone that it's not out of the picture, it ... |
11 December 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Fans of the “Twilight” franchise will get even more of their favorite vampire, werewolf and mortal girl come next summer, when the third film, “Eclipse,” hits theaters. Aside from being released in the traditional format, Summit also has plans to bring the movie to IMAX theaters and, according... |
11 December 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Soon after announcing that iPhone developer news had become available via RSS, Apple issued a new announcement saying that additional language support had been added to iTunes Connect, the service providing access to tools and resources for the distribution of iPhone and iPod touch applications through the App Store.... |
11 December 2009
03:19 GMT |
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The situation of the Mediterranean Sea is such that it can be construed into a model of what could happen to the world's oceans soon, if actions to mitigate the effects of climate change and global warming are not taken. At this point, the sea is undergoing a large number of changes, including variations in its ... |
11 December 2009
03:08 GMT |
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As much as Microsoft perfected Windows 7 in order to deliver an as smooth-as-possible experience, fact of the matter is that the company couldn’t cover all possible scenarios. This despite the extremely large Beta testing pool, which grew to over eight million participants, according to the software giant. An i... |
11 December 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Last week, we saw that the Australian Rating Board had stopped yet another game at its boarder by refusing to grant it a classification and, as such, banning it from sales in the country. Rebellion's upcoming Aliens vs. Predator is the one that didn't make the cut, and, while its developers were rather calm... |
11 December 2009
02:57 GMT |
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After performing on the British show X Factor the other week, Rihanna announced that she would start touring in support of her “Rated R” album in a matter of months. Keeping true to the word she gave to fans back then, the singer has just made public the dates for the UK leg of the tour, as Billboard maga... |
11 December 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Leaks seem to arrive in groups around this time of the year, with data on companies' upcoming products making it to the Internet in various forms, be they photos, slides or just product listings, as is the case with the Acer Aspire 532 Netbook. Only spotted among Acer's drive pages and listed by some retail... |
11 December 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
11 December 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Brutal Legend might not have done as well in retail as publisher Electronic Arts had hoped but to its credit, the company is still willing to breathe some more shelf life into the game by allowing developer Double Fine to create and put out downloadable content packs for the metal-themed videogame.After Tears of the ... |
11 December 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Award-winning new-generation mobile operator & social network aggregator Nimbuzz announced on Thursday the release of a new version of its client for mobile phones powered by the Symbian operating system. The main novelties the updated Nimbuzz solution comes with towards Symbian include pop up notifications and a fu... |
11 December 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Officials representing the 190+ countries that are attending the 2009 UN Climate Change conference, held in Copenhagen, have worked through the night, in an attempt to come to a decision about how to fund poorer nations in the international struggle against global warming and climate change. At the forefront of the d... |
11 December 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Norwegian software company Opera was already known to be working on a new flavor of its Opera Mobile browser, and now the company has released the software solution to operators and OEMs around the world. According to the company, the new Opera Mobile 10 is set to arrive on multiple mobile platforms, including Andro... |
11 December 2009
02:31 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
11 December 2009
02:24 GMT |
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Merely two days ago, the citizens in the northern parts of Norway could see a very peculiar, spiral-like formation glowing on the night sky. Viewed from a lot of angles, it immediately began to raise suspicions that it was a UFO, and many conspiracy theorists began to hypothesize as to its origins and purpose there. ... |
11 December 2009
02:04 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobi... |
11 December 2009
02:03 GMT |
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As the Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft swirl around the Red Planet, they continuously transmit back data and photographs of our neighbor's surface. They have been doing this for several years, and, during that time, experts have come across a number of very interesting features ... |
11 December 2009
01:45 GMT |
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