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So, this is the day that censorship wins. We reported earlier in the summer that Fallout 3 was going to be banned from sales in Australia because the regulatory body for videogames, the Office of Film and Literature Classification, had decided that the references to real drugs in the game, where they were used to rel... |
11 September 2008
21:11 GMT |
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The PC community was up in arms after Spore was released, because of the way Electronic Arts decided to use DRM, in the form of SecuROM, to restrict the possibility of piracy. The main problem that a lot of people deal with is that the game can only be installed a limited number of times before Electronic Arts must b... |
11 September 2008
19:31 GMT |
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LucasArts promises to release a demo of its upcoming Fracture via the Xbox Live service from Microsoft and via the PlayStation Network from Sony on September 18. The move is designed to create awareness about the title in the gaming community and help build up hype for the release which is scheduled for October 7.The... |
11 September 2008
16:11 GMT |
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The Disney Interactive Media Group announced that it has prepared, via mDisney, lots of surprises for mobile gamers in search for new titles to play this fall. More exactly, mDisney has five new mobile games that are set to provide a lot of fun to those who will try them: "Toy Story Mania," "Pure," "Cars Radiator Spr... |
11 September 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Short-throw projectors have become extremely popular lately, due mostly to the fact that they allow users to enjoy the same advantages provided by a regular projector while requiring a lot less space in order to do so. And that's also the case with Epson's EMP-400W, which we've had the chance of testin... |
11 September 2008
16:01 GMT |
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The “Rock the Vote” campaign, which has been energizing the youth vote for the recent few political campaigns, is partnering up with the Xbox Live service offered by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 to launch an awareness campaign aimed at gamers. You can sign up for a contest by using your Gamerpic. You can d... |
11 September 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Court documents reveal that a federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against several of Apple's current and former execs.According to a Reuters report, Chief Executive Steve Jobs is among the enlisted Apple high-... |
11 September 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Defragmentation – all Windows systems need it; otherwise, all the disorderly files can cause severe performance slowdowns. It may sound like a chore for many users, but in fact the entire process can be handled automatically through the "set-it-and-forget-it" function included in a great deal of defraggers on t... |
11 September 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Maintain has updated its general purpose utility for Mac OS X to version 4.1.4. According to the developers, Cocktail 4.1.4 delivers many “under-the-hood optimizations for faster and more reliable performance, major improvements in Adobe font cache clearance and updated Automator actions,” and some other ... |
11 September 2008
14:51 GMT |
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A post on the Greenpeace blog, signed representative tomD, reveals that Greenpeace is mighty proud of Apple's new iPod line. Apple made more efforts this year to remove all of the Arsenic, Mercury and PVC out of the materials an iPod is comprised of, but Greenpeace feels it's high time Macs got a little gre... |
11 September 2008
14:16 GMT |
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Macvide has updated its 3gp Converter for Mac OS X. Currently at version 1.7, the mobile-video conversion utility only got some performance tweaks and bug fixes, but the update is recommended to all Macvide 3gp Converter users.Designed exclusively for Mac OS X, Macvide 3gp Converter lets you (what else) convert other... |
11 September 2008
13:21 GMT |
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For the time being, projectors are not exactly the first choice for most users contemplating the idea of building themselves a high-end home cinema system. However, most people are overlooking the clear advantages provided by some of these devices, as for example the two models we'll talk about as follows, namel... |
11 September 2008
13:11 GMT |
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With the introduction of its new iPod line, announced at the Let's Rock event in San Francisco, Apple immediately started advertising the two newest iPod models on its website. The 4G nano and the 2G touch have their own private galleries up on Apple's servers, with stunning imagery, special viewers, and TV... |
11 September 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The constant wave of Windows 7 Beta chatter from Redmond, even without an official confirmation from Microsoft, is a clear indication that the company is gearing up to move the next iteration of the Windows client beyond the development milestone (M) stages. With the Windows 7 roadshow approaching at a fast pace, as ... |
11 September 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Canada's Research in Motion has just announced having entered an agreement with TiVo Inc. in order to bring a set of unique TiVo features to its BlackBerry handsets.Reportedly, RIM will work together with TiVo to allow BlackBerry users to enjoy the latter company's Emmy-winning television services. For the ... |
11 September 2008
11:24 GMT |
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Physicists from the University of Michigan stumbled upon the proton's distant cousin, the Omega b baryon, as a result of their research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois.While CERN and their contested and heavily discussed LHC still hold first pages of newspapers and fuel news a... |
11 September 2008
11:23 GMT |
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Even as early as July 5, 2007, Microsoft announced that it was extending north of Redmond and into Canada. At that time S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, indicated that the new Microsoft Canada Development Centre would be a nucleus of top talent, and that it would hou... |
11 September 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Cellular One, a regional US mobile carrier, has partnered with Equals, Inc., a Mountain View based company, in order to bring a new mobile application called Party Line. Coming as a first for the US, Cellular One Party Line allows users to initiate, with ease, group phone chats. Available across Europe for sever... |
11 September 2008
10:41 GMT |
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Intel's Atom processor, the small-sized, low power CPU that is featured in most of today's current netbooks is bound to get a new competitor, coming from the company's long-time rival, Sunnyvale-based AMD. As we mentioned in a number of our previous articles, AMD has been rumored to be working on new C... |
11 September 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Just as is the case today with Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft is preparing to harvest end user feedback from the first Beta build of Windows 7. According to Christina Storm, a program manager on the Windows Customer Engineering feature team, the next iteration of the Windows client will simply continue the W... |
11 September 2008
10:34 GMT |
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This week records yet another major breakthrough event, as the University of Southampton in UK begins the world's biggest study on near-death experiences to date. As a matter of fact, "begins" is not the most accurate choice, since the AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is already past pilot phase... |
11 September 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Following the availability of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft has just one piece of the Windows Server 2008 puzzle to deliver, namely Windows for supercomputers. Fighting to make inroads into the high performance computing territory dominated by the open source Linux operating system, Microsoft is preparing to... |
11 September 2008
09:55 GMT |
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If you’ve been looking for a new notebook that you can use in some of the harshest of environments, you have probably already come across one of those Thoughbooks from Panasonic. Nevertheless, despite their impressive reputation, these portable computers aren't the only rugged notebooks on the market. As a... |
11 September 2008
09:27 GMT |
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On March 19th, NASA's "Swift" satellite photographed a powerful stellar explosion half-universe away from Earth, which broke every known record for the farthest object spotted with the naked eye. Researchers have been trying to shed light on the importance of the event ever since. Its redshift (an astronomical m... |
11 September 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Maricopa County Recorder's Office has decided to take death certificates offline from their website due to concerns regarding the increasing number of identity theft incidents. The documents, which are still public records, can now be accessed only upon submission of an official request form.The Maricopa County ... |
11 September 2008
09:09 GMT |
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The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification is the child of Microsoft, EMC and IBM, and the three companies reveled that they aim to receive standardization from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). At the heart of the initiative is the need to en... |
11 September 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Huawei, the giant Chinese telecommunications company based in Shenzhen, announced that it was selected by Etisalat Misr, one of Egypt's three mobile carriers, to expand and enhance its GSM / 3.75G network. Following the new agreement between the two companies, Huawei will deploy an end-to-end network soluti... |
11 September 2008
08:47 GMT |
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iPod shuffle, “the world’s most wearable music player,” is now available in new vibrant blue, green, pink, and red color versions. Apple decided to put the old color models behind it, as they were starting to look a little pale, what with “nano-chromatic” out in the wild.Apple's sim... |
11 September 2008
08:35 GMT |
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Football Manager is ready to shift to 3D. That's the big news for gamers that are interested in football simulations. The game has taken motion capture footage from SEGA Japan's Virtua Striker and is aiming to add some visual realism so that the football simulation world will never want to return to text co... |
11 September 2008
08:34 GMT |
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We all know that there's an intense rivalry between the Sunnyvale, California-based chip marker AMD and competitor Intel. What this means is that either of these companies will probably stop at nothing in order to prove the supremacy of its products over those of its competitor. Recently, we've seen both A... |
11 September 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Dubbed Luna Crescente and based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, OpenGEU 8.04.1 was announced a few days ago. The developers say that OpenGEU 8.04.1 has so many improvements that you will simply fall in love with it - "This is a very important day for our team and project, this release is a milestone indeed. In the latest Open... |
11 September 2008
08:10 GMT |
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The same day it announced that its CN3 handheld would get a Windows Mobile 6.1 version, Intermec has also unveiled a brand new mobile computer that also works on Microsoft's latest OS. Called Intermec CK3, this "highly durable handheld" combines lots of features into a single device. The CK3 comes in a "gun... |
11 September 2008
08:03 GMT |
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Instead of the expected effect of reducing overall warmth, recent reports indicate that the decrease of the solar radiation received by Earth actually raises the level of global warming. All of us, especially people in regions with a temperate climate, have felt the changes in the weather in the past years. It ... |
11 September 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to bridge its proprietary Windows operating system with the open source Linux platform, simultaneously advancing its collaboration with Novell. The two companies announced that they would deliver a joint virtualization solution tailored to customers running heterogeneous environments. In this rega... |
11 September 2008
07:25 GMT |
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Belkin has announced new accessories for Apple's just-introduced iPod nano fourth generation and second generation iPod touch. Starting with sport armbands and ending with screen overlays, the whole list of accessories counts over a dozen new items, all for the new iPods.The first accessory Belkin advertises on ... |
11 September 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Intermec, the North American company known for manufacturing bar code scanners, handheld computers and other industrial products, announced that its CN3 device would soon be released in a new edition that runs on Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. Created to suit the needs of workers who perform in-f... |
11 September 2008
06:55 GMT |
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On August 29, 2008, Microsoft announced the acquisition of European-based Greenfield Online and its subsidiary Ciao for $486 million. But while Ciao, with its over 26 million users per month will be integrated into Microsoft's European search and ecommerce services, the company has not been able to marry Greenfi... |
11 September 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in today's server systems market, which is why we are seeing a number of hardware manufacturers and software developers announcing new products, specifically designed to meet the increasing demand for better and more powerful virtualization systems. Just recently... |
11 September 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Yahoo! has been quick to act and announce Yahoo! oneConnect for iPhone and iPod touch. The app is a new social address book that brings together a user’s circle of friends and all the details about their lives, while also providing ways to communicate seamlessly.Although the company claims that Yahoo! oneC... |
11 September 2008
06:39 GMT |
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A press release from McAfee Inc. announces a breakthrough in computer security software through their new technology named Artemis. The technology, already implemented in the McAfee Total Protection Service, offers unprecedented real-time protection by contacting an Internet-based service, thus being free from the sh... |
11 September 2008
06:29 GMT |
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A team of geologists conducting research in Russia uncovered even more parts of an ancient Ice Age lake. Over 10.000 years ago, enormous glacial lakes covered portions of North America and Russia. One of them, called Lake Agassiz, existed over present Minnesota and Canada. Greater than California, back then it ... |
11 September 2008
06:16 GMT |
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FreedomVOICE Systems has released the beta version of its upcoming iPhone app, Newber. The application is the first location-aware business number, according to an official report issued yesterday by FreedomVOICE Systems. The Newber application is installed and launched on a person's iPhone to become a fully fun... |
11 September 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Sonnet Technologies announced today the launch of its new storage system, the Fusion F3 RAID. The new device packs inside two 3.5 inch SATA RAID drives, which offer capacities between 1TB and 3TB of storage space. The configuration of the two drives allows users to choose between a concatenated array which provides a... |
11 September 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Microsoft applauded the capabilities of Windows Media Center in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista in terms of serving enhanced TV content, even though not all users of the two editions of the operating system will be able to enjoy them. This because enhanced TV materials are intimately connected wit... |
11 September 2008
06:08 GMT |
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LG SV300 Wine is the name of the latest LG-built mobile phone rumored to reach the shores of Canada. The handset should be released on October 3 by Bell Mobility, the second largest Canadian carrier. According to Mobile in Canada, customers from across the North American country will be able to buy the Wine for ... |
11 September 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Whenever someone says the “magical” words “Full High Definition”, the first thing that comes to most people's minds is a huge LCD or plasma screen occupying half of their living room. However, these two are not the only available options for a high-end home entertainment (or, better said,... |
11 September 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Recently, we have been seeing countless new portable computer systems being released, thus confirming an increasing demand for notebooks in the worldwide PC market. However, despite their considerable number, most of these notebooks have one thing in common, namely that they are designed to take advantage of Intel�... |
11 September 2008
05:54 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation's forces are growing stronger, as yesterday it was announced that a new member was joining in, for the enhancement of the popularity of Linux. Black Duck Software is now a Foundation ally, and will further aid in the common quest of maintaining a perpetual growth of Linux.The involvement of... |
11 September 2008
05:35 GMT |
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Scientists from Italy and France say that Vesuvius, the Italian volcano that transformed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae into graveyards in 79 AD shows signs of doing the same soon. Contrary to what most people believe, a volcano is not just the conic mountain that spits lava and ash toward... |
11 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Yesterday, Dell, one of the leading manufacturers of servers and consumer computer systems, announced a new product, part of the company's EqualLogic lineup. Designed to deliver an increased level of scalability, the new PS5500E is meant to provide business customers worldwide with an impressive pack of features... |
11 September 2008
05:10 GMT |
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BlackBerry Thunder, also known as BlackBerry Storm or BlackBerry 9530, has finally appeared in its first video, allowing us to see how the handset looks like in reality. Moreover, precious details about the smartphone are given in said video, so if you're interested in them (and you should be), read below. ... |
11 September 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Nvidia has now extended the Tegra platform through a newly inked partnership with the browser developer Opera. The purpose of the collaboration is the addition of a specially developed version of Opera 9.5 to the program suite built for the platform. The new version of the browser will be optimized for usage on Tegra... |
11 September 2008
05:06 GMT |
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On top of its efforts in the virtualization arena, Microsoft is also focusing on modeling, when it comes down to transitioning new innovative technologies and platforms out from the niche and into the mainstream. The Redmond giant is in fact wrapping up a Community Technology Preview of its Oslo modeling platform for... |
11 September 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Most people work frequently with more than one computer. The most common situation is the one where you have a computer at work and of course, another one at home. Surely, it must have happened to you to need a file from your home computer when you are at work, or the other way around. A possibility would to be to ke... |
11 September 2008
05:01 GMT |
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It appears that HP's collaboration with worldwide famous designer Vivienne Tam will extend to even more portable computer systems coming from the leading manufacturer of notebooks. That's right, HP is expected to introduce even more of those red-colored, peony flowers-adorned notebooks we told you abo... |
11 September 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Microsoft reports that it has not experienced a slowdown in consumer spending related to its entertainment and devices division, which includes the Xbox 360 gaming console and the Zune player.Robbie Bach, one of Microsoft's top executives, clearly stated that “We have not seen, on the consumer side of our ... |
11 September 2008
04:31 GMT |
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One of the biggest announcements coming from Apple this week is, undoubtedly, iTunes 8. The updated media player application boasts some impressive additions, among which a Genius feature, new browsing methods and grid view, and a breathtaking visualizer. Read on for a more detailed overview of each new addition. G... |
11 September 2008
04:26 GMT |
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This hypothetical form of energy is supposed to fill all the space and it continuously pushes its elements apart, increasing the universe's expansion rate. It is one of the most important things that LHC scientists are eager to prove. The standard model of cosmology claims that the universe is comprised 74%... |
11 September 2008
04:10 GMT |
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NCsoft, whose financial department is in big trouble, is on the verge of merging its United States and European subsidiaries into a new entity, called NC West, that is set to be headquartered in Seattle and that should handle all the activity of the company outside of Asia.NC West will incorporate NCsoft studios NC I... |
11 September 2008
04:08 GMT |
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AMD's graphics division ATI announced today the release of two new workstation graphics accelerators, the ATI FirePro V8700 and ATI FirePro V3750. The new chips are designed to provide Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Digital Content Creation (DCC) professionals the maximum performance levels they require for the... |
11 September 2008
04:07 GMT |
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HTC, the Taiwanese company that constantly and quickly grew to become one of the world's most famous handset manufacturers, has yet another ace up its sleeve, after the highly-appreciated Touch Diamond and Touch Pro Pocket PCs. The newcomer from HTC is apparently called Touch HD and it seems to be the ultim... |
11 September 2008
04:03 GMT |
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After announcing several peripheral devices, including the new Arc Mouse and the BlueTrack-equipped Explore and Explore Mini mice, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant has also introduced a new mouse specifically designed to meet the requirements of enthusiast gamers. Unlike most of the company's gaming... |
11 September 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Windows 7 is slowly but surely moving to center stage to the detriment of products such as Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. Microsoft is in fact preparing the next iteration of the Windows client for its debut into the spotlight, a move which could potentially coincide with the release of the first Beta build of... |
11 September 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Funcom announces that it is releasing its Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures MMO on Steam for the price of 44.99 $. The game will also continue to be available through brick and mortar retailers and as a digital download offered through Funcom's own servers.EVE Online from CCP was the first MMO to be released on ... |
11 September 2008
03:25 GMT |
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It seems that AMD is finally determined to make a move against Intel's Atom processor. While the chip giant is said to release the first dual-core Atom sometime in October, the Sunnyvale company decided to make available as of November 65 nm Athlon microprocessors that would target the same market area as Intel&... |
11 September 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Virgin Mobile USA has prepared a big surprise for its customers, with the upcoming launch of Shuttle, the MVNO's very first mobile phone to be EV-DO / 3G capable. The Shuttle is also Virgin's first device to come with features from the recently acquired Helio: Accuweather, ESPN, access to Facebook and MySpa... |
11 September 2008
03:15 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact by now that the worldwide economy is currently on a downward spiral, which is naturally affecting major manufacturers from almost every market segment. However, a recent report by the IDC seems to indicate that the sluggish economy won't have the same effects on the current portable syste... |
11 September 2008
03:13 GMT |
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During Apple's “Let's Rock” event two days ago, Steve Jobs, the company's CEO, announced a couple of new headphone sets (29$ and $79 respectively) that go great with the newly introduced iPods. In fact, they only go with the new iPods, as it turns out. But they're great!The first new s... |
11 September 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Codename: Kids Next Door – Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E is a video game developed by High Voltage Software Inc. and published by Global Star Software Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 gaming platform from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and the Game Cube. It was released in October 2005. The game... |
11 September 2008
02:48 GMT |
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CMT presents Karaoke Revolution Country is a video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, the makers of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and published by Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. The game was only created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and was launched in 2006. It is classed as a music simulation ... |
11 September 2008
02:33 GMT |
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RIM, the Canadian manufacturer, together with Sprint, North America's third largest mobile operator, has announced the future availability of a new iDEN-enabled smartphone: BlackBerry Curve 8350i. BlackBerry Curve 8350i combines the features and benefits a RIM-built smartphone brings with Push to Talk ... |
11 September 2008
02:32 GMT |
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Sony's imaging division seems to be on quite a roll lately, since it keeps pushing out of their design laboratories high-end photography and video recording products at a very impressive rate. So, after Sony introduced its first full-frame DSLR, the alpha A900, the company has just announced the release of the H... |
11 September 2008
02:27 GMT |
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Clock Tower 3 is a video game developed and published by Capcom Inc Ltd. Launched in December 2002, it was only released for the PlayStation 2 gaming platform from Sony. It is classed as a survival horror title with action elements that can be played from a third person perspective.There are other three games in the ... |
11 September 2008
02:11 GMT |
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Chaos Legion is a video game developed and published by Capcom and created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the PC. Released in 2003, the game is classed as an action adventure title with a lot of role playing elements intertwined in the gameplay. It is played from a third person perspective.The game p... |
11 September 2008
02:07 GMT |
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