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At this point, optical fiber is able to focus beams of light into extremely narrow space. AS light travels through the wire, the latter gets narrower and narrower, until it finally reaches a thickness of only a few hundred nanometers. From that moment on – depending on the wavelength of the light itself –... |
13 November 2009
21:31 GMT |
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With the inevitable advent of metamaterials and invisibility cloaks, the world is eager to know precisely how a hidden object would look like in real life. While practical applications are still some time away, German researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have recently released a series of pictures on ... |
13 November 2009
19:31 GMT |
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In their quest for ever-smaller and ever-faster computer chips and transistors, scientists have, over the past few years, dedicated enormous amounts of time, energy, and money to producing electronics at the smallest scale possible. This has gone all well and good for some years, but now this field of research is app... |
13 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
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A lot of people are complaining about the fact that Dragon Age: Origins is formulaic when it comes to the characters, the setting, and the story. Someone has even compiled a list of tropes which show up in all BioWare role playing games, from Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect. But after about 12 to 15 hours into Drag... |
13 November 2009
18:21 GMT |
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For the first time ever, experts believe that they may have identified a sign that could lead to deciphering the mystery behind the conscious and unconscious activity inside the human brain. This has been a goal in neurology and other fields of research related to the cortex since their inception, but finding the key... |
13 November 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Everyone who has ever wiped out dust from an entire house can tell you that, just hours after cleaning, the stuff always returns undisturbed, as if nothing ever happened. This is naturally a nuisance to people who spend hours trying to clean up. Most of us have also wondered as to where all the dust keeps coming from... |
13 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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On Thursday, leading wireless solutions provider Qualcomm announced that it was working closely with mobile software technology providers all around the world for optimizing their solutions for the next-generation Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP) operating system from the company. The partnership is focused on a series... |
13 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Florian Totu: Wow. This is a bit of an odd moment for me. I've got nothing. Nothing new at least. I wasn't really over with Borderlands when I plunged into Dragon Age: Origins, but I was into the second Playthrough. Now, it's well over a week since I started fiddling with the intricate and treacherous ... |
13 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Yesterday we talked about how Regie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said that New Super Mario Bros Wii, which was set to be released later during the month and marked the first time as Mario videogame, would support four-player multiplayer on the Nintendo home console, would be selling better than Mo... |
13 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint seems determined to show to the world that it deserves to be ranked highest among all US telecoms in Newsweek’s Green Rankings. On Thursday, the company announced its support for America Recycles Day, and that it encouraged its customers into making environmentally conscious choices whe... |
13 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Many of us have, at least at one point in our lives, come to a situation when we had to tell the person we were talking to something along the lines “I don't remember if I've told you this, but ...” Apparently, this type of behavior is not something that is entirely owed to the fact that people ... |
13 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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When Blizzard launched its Pet Store last week, two special little creatures made up the list. The first was the Pandaren Monk, while the second was Lil' K.T. As two sides of a single story, the two pets are completely opposed as characters. The first is a peaceful, well-mannered bear, while the other is a malic... |
13 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A recently published report from ABI Research shows that the number of femtocells to be shipped on the market during the ongoing year is expected to be of only 350,000. The research firm thus adjusted its previous forecast on the matter, which placed the shipments of femtocells to about 790,000 before the end of thi... |
13 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Even ahead of the October 22nd General Availability deadline of Windows 7, Microsoft started offering a collection of content designed to enable end users to personalize their operating system. The materials, set up to help customers in their Windows 7 customization endeavors, were only kicked up a notch as the platf... |
13 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that many choose to refuse the idea that global warming and climate change exist, it is nevertheless happening, as satellite data and meteorological measurements show. Speaking of the latter, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that a recent study showed a massive discrepancy between th... |
13 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Worldwide leading developer of advanced wireless technologies, Qualcomm Incorporated, recently announced that it has started the sampling of the world's first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G /LTE. According to the company, the new Mobile Data Modem (MDM) MDM8220 solution that comes with Dual-c... |
13 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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It won’t be long now until Microsoft makes available the public Beta of Office 2010. This, just in case you needed an incentive to steer right clear of the leaked copies of Office 2010 Beta, which have been made available for download in the wild. However, it must be noted that Microsoft has not yet begun to of... |
13 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Sunyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm, Inc. and wireless carrier Telcel announced on Thursday the upcoming launch of the Palm Pre smartphone in Mexico. According to the duo, starting with November 27, mobile phone users in the country will be able to enjoy the capabilities of the first Palm webOS-based handset, whi... |
13 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is one of the vendors that ventured on the Android road this year. The company already came to the market with four such handsets, one of which is the Samsung Behold II, which is expecting to be released on the airwaves of T-Mobile in the US as soon as November 18 is here. The... |
13 November 2009
12:11 GMT |
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You have just finished installing your Snow Leopard copy on your Mac and you are getting ready to know it better when… you end up with a Tiger or Leopard desktop or, even worse, with a gray screen. If that has not happened to you, how about not being able to install Snow Leopard on your Mac at all? What can yo... |
13 November 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Google is facing issues with its Street View service yet again. It seems that every time the service opens up in another country the same discussion pops up with officials worried about privacy. It happened in Germany, it happened in Greece, in Japan and the UK, and so on. Now, Switzerland is saying its piece, with t... |
13 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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This week has been all about playing Dragon Age: Origins and not much else. This has resulted in five diary type installments you can read right now. But we also have the regular Weekend Reading feature, a fresh edition of EndGameWeek and an assortment of other news pieces we think are worth reading.On Monday, we fou... |
13 November 2009
11:11 GMT |
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China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the country, and also the largest in the world based on the number of subscribers, is expected to reach a number of over 100 million 3G subscribers by 2011. During the 2009 Sino-Japan TD-SCDMA Collaboration Conference, Yang Hua, secretary general of the TD-SCDMA Industry ... |
13 November 2009
11:09 GMT |
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In spite of looking like a giant stretch of ice in the Northern Pacific, Greenland fulfills a number of functions in the region, not the least important of them being the fact that it helps keep the North Pole cool. The way it manages to accomplish that is by being large and white, in the purest of senses. Light comi... |
13 November 2009
11:04 GMT |
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For a while now, media center enthusiasts have had a great option in Boxee, a software and service package which makes watching online videos on a TV a breeze. But, for the most part, it took a bit of fiddling to set up the service, keeping most people away from it except for the most dedicated. This may change soon... |
13 November 2009
10:46 GMT |
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It's a known fact that the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is actually a huge ridge, which constantly generates new crust under the waters. The existing crust bulges outwards, while magma pours in from the upper layers of the mantle, solidifying as it does so, in a never-ending cycle. The ridge is the same that fir... |
13 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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PC-Cooling introduced its newest Cooltek-branded PC casing, the Cooltek K4. This case is aimed at the mid-range market segment and is a medium-sized tower of 430 mm in height, 190 mm wide and with a diagonal of 48 centimeters. The case is built with three exposed (external) 5.25” drive bays and six internal 3.5... |
13 November 2009
10:40 GMT |
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For centuries, children have been educated in the spirit of their families, without too much outside influence, and less influenced by their peers than today. It's arguable whether those children turned out to be individuals or not, but the main point is that they were not subjected to the many perks that childr... |
13 November 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Redmond-based company Microsoft has recently delivered a series of updates for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the software solutions portal for users of handsets running under its smartphone operating system, Windows Mobile. The storefront was launched for WinMo 6.5-based devices on October 6, when it included a... |
13 November 2009
10:28 GMT |
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New composite materials on the nanoscale have recently been developed by experts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and are now ready for test deployment. They will be carried to the low-Earth orbit by the space shuttle Atlantis, during its scheduled November 16 launch. When the spacecraft docks at the Am... |
13 November 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a shady IQ test being promoted on Twitter via the Direct Messages feature. This is actually a scam that tries to trick people into subscribing to a useless mobile service for $9.99 per month.According to threat analysts from Trend Micro, this latest spam campaign is being instrumented fro... |
13 November 2009
10:12 GMT |
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Samsung bada is the operating system South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced only a couple of days ago to be included in its future smartphone roadmap, and now we've learned that the company is already working on a handset based on that OS. Moreover, a leaked image with the mobile phone also emerged in... |
13 November 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Menq is a Chinese company interested in providing the world with the cheapest models of laptops possible. Last year, it used a 480×320-resolution, 7-inch screen to reach the $89 price point for laptops, now it is able to include a 800×480-resolution, 7-inch screen. With a video demo released on the net, i... |
13 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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A DVD5 ISO image file containing all the security bulletins made available on November 10th, 2009 for all supported Windows platforms, is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. As is the case every month, the Redmond company is accompanying the security patched it offers through Windows Update, Automatic... |
13 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Weynand Training describes its just-released iKeysToGo for Photoshop CS4 as a must–have reference and learning tool for all Photoshop users. Priced at just $1.99, the application has been approved in the iTunes App Store, and offers content for high-end professional graphic artists, students, and even for &ldqu... |
13 November 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Twitter looks to be as popular as ever, judging by all the attention it's been getting, but for several months traffic numbers in the US have been stalling and they've actually dropped in October from the previous month, going from 20.9 to just 19.2 million, according to comScore numbers. Traffic has been ... |
13 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Palm Pixi, the second mobile phone Palm delivers to the market with its webOS platform on board, will become available for purchase on Sprint's network as soon as November 15 is here. The carrier already announced the launch date and the pricing of the handset, and most of you might already know that it will hav... |
13 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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As we reported in our previous articles, NVIDIA's Tegra solution is expected to be featured in a number of new devices, ranging from small, ultra-portable computer systems to MIDs, tablet PCs, media players, and others. Just recently, Tegra was involved in a rumor concerning a much speculated Apple Tablet, whic... |
13 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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On the way to the next major version of its browser, Opera Software still has to deal with wrapping up and delivering version 10.10 to the general public. Fortunately enough, the Norway-based browser maker is now one step closer to finalizing Opera 10.10 with Unite. Today, November 13th, the first Release Candidate d... |
13 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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The economical worldwide crisis is said to have affected every aspect of life on the planet. Economy, culture, religion, commerce, everything had to suffer because of it. Everything except the data-center outsourcing, that is. Europe has seen a huge number of emerging data centers and the total revenue for 2010 is an... |
13 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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According to scientists who performed a new set of experiments on unsuspecting mice, it may be that the large number of police jail deaths that took place about a decade ago were caused by the use of pepper sprays on people intoxicated with psychoactive drugs. The investigation raises new questions on the use of the ... |
13 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Mint is becoming more and more popular, especially in the US. The personal finance service is going from strength to strength even after being acquired by Intuit. Besides the proper site, Mint also hosts an interesting blog, which is more than just a tool to get its message to users, it's an actual resource for... |
13 November 2009
08:56 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced at the beginning of October the official launch of its high-end Windows Mobile-based HTC HD2 device, but only delivered the handset to the market this week. Originally, the phone was said to arrive on shelves before the end of October, yet it seems that it has be... |
13 November 2009
08:48 GMT |
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A collaboration of German researchers has recently taken on one of the most difficult sets of measurements possible in nature, namely to determine the mass of an ocean. Unlike calculating variations in sea levels, which is relatively simple, finding out the mass of the water is far more complex, as a large number of ... |
13 November 2009
08:46 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released the data for hardware and software sales on the United States market, showing that the videogames industry has declined no less than 19% when compared to the same period of 2008, with sales reaching 1.07 billion dollars. As analysts predicted, the overall economic situation is impacting vid... |
13 November 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Many of us have old, treasured books that have been in our families for generations. These records of events that were, either historical or literary, are extremely important to some, who would love nothing more than to see their old books restored to their former glory. Now, scientists have discovered a new way in w... |
13 November 2009
08:32 GMT |
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“Fusion is the combination of many decades of computing. It’s the fusion of CPU and GPU compute within one processor, significantly enhances active/resting battery life, and provides high bandwidth IO.” Joe Macri, AMD chief technology officer, said. Macri spoke of the project last week at a reviewer... |
13 November 2009
08:24 GMT |
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All is good in Kirby land as he enjoys his delicious picnic, but all that goes terribly wrong when someone snatches his strawberry cake. It turns out that, once again, the villain behind this insidious deed is none other than his eternal foe, King Dedede. He wastes no time in pursuing him and, along the way, he meets... |
13 November 2009
08:18 GMT |
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Toshiba TG01 is the first smartphone that came to the market with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor inside. The handset was launched in a series of European markets in July, and its maker says that it has seen strong demand in the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Italy. Based on this, the computer maker has also lau... |
13 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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As weird as it may sound, Microsoft's loss of the Xbox 360 exclusivity of console Netflix streaming came in the nick of time. Last week, Sony also implemented this feature for its PlayStation 3, but it did so in a time window that offered Microsoft the perfect opportunity to strike back. Microsoft has a thing fo... |
13 November 2009
08:13 GMT |
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The NPD Group figures for October are out and they look pretty grim. Hardware is way down even if all major home consoles have lower prices and it seems that players are not even rushing to stores to get the latest big release. The biggest seller on the North American market has been Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from N... |
13 November 2009
08:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has started shipping the first official Beta Build of its next iteration of the Office System to testers. The Redmond company is actually sending select participants, in the Office 2010 Beta testing program, the bits for the upcoming development milestone on 2GB USB devices. Michael Reza Aulia, a software R... |
13 November 2009
07:56 GMT |
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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is the fourth game of the series on the DS. Here, players will be able to choose one of two playable characters, Mark or Chelsea, and recover from a shipwreck that has left them stranded on a deserted island. Once populated in the past, the island will now be home to their character ... |
13 November 2009
07:33 GMT |
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A new Silent Hill is going to be out and in gamers' hands on December 8, as Konami has announced a new installment in the series. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will be brought to the Nintendo's Wii, but PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable users will have to hold their breath a little longer. Unfortunat... |
13 November 2009
07:26 GMT |
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More details about Comcast's upcoming video on demand service dubbed On-Demand Online. The service is Comcast's approach to the TV Everywhere project, announced by the cable service and Time Warner a few months back. At a NewTeeVee event dedicated to the future of video content, Comcast Interactive Media P... |
13 November 2009
07:26 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre, the father of the Linux Mint project, proudly announced earlier today (November 13th) on their official blog the immediate availability of the first release candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint 8 (codename Helena) operating system. Linux Mint 8 will be based on the newly released Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic... |
13 November 2009
07:14 GMT |
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Microsoft will make available the next update to the service it has built around its Xbox console, come next week. Larry Hryb, the director of programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live, revealed that the Redmond company would offer all members of the Xbox LIVE community the latest refresh to the service ... |
13 November 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Android mobile phone users that own a handset manufactured by HTC might rejoice learning that the company has just updated the HTC Sync for the HTC Magic, HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo, so as to offer them increased connectivity with their own PCs. It seems that the new software version comes to the table so as to prove th... |
13 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake of the original Kirby Super Star, released on the SNES back in 1996, and it features seven different main games. In addition to the previous one, Ultra includes five new titles and three new sub-games. Some of these are detailed below.In The Arena, you'll be able to face all of... |
13 November 2009
07:00 GMT |
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As the biggest game retailer in the US, GameStop has strongly opposed the idea of downloadable content, as it should have, since it's its natural enemy. Despite the support of the concept from both developers and publishers, GameStop has stood firm in its decision to stay clear of the DLCs. Well, not anymore. It... |
13 November 2009
06:49 GMT |
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After years and years of hoping for a working solution for digital archiving, relative newcomer to the IT industry Cranberry seems to have given professionals, businesses, non-profit and governmental offices the solution they want for a better archiving system. Cranberries' DiamondDisc DVD was allegedly designed... |
13 November 2009
06:48 GMT |
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LimeWire X is a free P2P file-sharing program that uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files. It is one of the few solutions of its kind for the Mac, and it’s compatible with all major platforms. The program’s open source code was developed (in part) by a devoted programmer community.... |
13 November 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Solid State Drives continue to grow in numbers, with new technology providing a choice for a more affordable, faster storage solution that addresses the requirements of the consumer segment. On that note, PhotoFast has decided to further expand its SSD portfolio by preparing the introduction of its new G-Monster V4 ... |
13 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9000 and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones have just seen new leaked operating systems available for them. The fresh version of the system software platforms is OS 5.0.0.348, and there are some voices over the web suggesting that these might be the latest OS flavors the owner... |
13 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Google's most hotly anticipated project, the brand-new, web-based operating system Chrome OS, is about to become a reality if rumors about its impending launch as soon as next week turn out to be true. When it first announced the project, Google said that the first public release should come this fall so this w... |
13 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently developed a new type of nanostructures that is extremely efficient in capturing, filtering and steering light at the nanoscale. The group, based at the Berkeley Lab Molecular Foundry, says that th... |
13 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Microsoft has offered official confirmation that a tool it is providing to forensics investigators has been leaked in the wild. Labeled Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) the solution is essentially a USB drive that bundles together several PC forensics utilities designed for law enforcement organiza... |
13 November 2009
06:41 GMT |
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MacPaw has released a new version of its all-in-one cleaning utility for Mac OS X, CleanMyMac. Version 1.7 adds the ability to automatically scan for application leftovers whenever the user moves an app to the Trash. CleanMyMac 1.7 also adds an iPhone/iPod photo sync cache cleanup. Read on for the full scoop on the n... |
13 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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When it comes down to Microsoft’s search/decision engine, some users are “more equal than others.” The Redmond company’s focus on English-speaking markets is obvious, initially with US users becoming first-class citizens of Bing, and now with the decision engine shading its Beta tag for UK cus... |
13 November 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Major IT developer in India Infosys Technologies and the elite GPU developer NVIDIA revealed today an upcoming partnership plan meant to bring about the creation of software for the CUDA architecture developed by the visual computing-solution provider. “Multi-core and parallel programming were becoming import... |
13 November 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Motorola DROID, the second mobile phone the handset vendor delivered to the market with Google's Android operating system on board, and also the first device to run under Android launched on Verizon's lineup, has just been disassembled by an enthusiast interested in what the phone looks like on the inside. ... |
13 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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A few years ago, when online video really started to take off, users were satisfied with webcam-quality, blurry and pixelated videos. Just the fact that you were watching video on the Web was mind-blowing enough. This changed soon enough and HD videos have become pretty much standard for any proper online video serv... |
13 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Yesterday, we reported on the news about the early previews of what Lucid's Hydra 200 chip was capable of, at that development stage. While the product is still some time away from becoming available to consumers, there are reports claiming that the technology has been delayed from market availability due to int... |
13 November 2009
05:55 GMT |
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The Rosetta spacecraft, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to an asteroid orbiting at the edge of the solar system, is scheduled to make its final flyby today, November 13. It already completed two similar swings, in 2005 and 2007, and the new flight will provide it with a sufficient speed boost to send it to its ... |
13 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Britney Spears has got her Twitter and MySpace accounts hijacked by vandals looking to defame her. The rogue status updates posted yesterday on her feed made references to Devil worshiping and the New World Order.Britney Spears, Twitter and hackers seem to be a recurring theme. Back in January, she was amongst the vi... |
13 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Duel Masters: Limited Edition is a videogame developed by High Voltage Software, Inc. and published by Atari Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on November 5, 2004. It is classed as a strategy card title played from a third person perspective.Duel Masters is a trading card g... |
13 November 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Not content with just the computer industry, Swiss company ARCTIC COOLING decided to go for a more expansive and encompassing approach. Now, instead of merely managing heat for CPUs, GPUs and whatever other IT components, the cooling-solution developer moved to a different area. Instead of showing us a breakthrough i... |
13 November 2009
05:43 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile has recently announced that its consumers who have data plans can now enjoy a new solution in the web2go catalogue, namely the free social discovery network from Brightkite. As many of you might already know, the T-Mobile web2go storefront is available for access and browsing for the car... |
13 November 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Google's eagerly anticipated communications service Wave has opened to a lot more people for about a month now. Unfortunately, many users were unimpressed with the current state of the service, be it because of its rather clunky interface or simply because they just don't get what problem exactly it is try... |
13 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The latest update introduced to the Stable version of the Google browser is designed to resolve an issue in which Chrome does not start. On November 12, 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant started pushing Google Chrome 3.0.195.33 through the Stable channel. In addition to the startup problem, the latest update... |
13 November 2009
05:28 GMT |
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The amount of digital data is increasing everyday, making consumers continuously search for new storage solutions, that can provide enhanced capacities, performance, and reliability, features that are required to store and protect one's digital content. On that note, ioSafe has announced today the availability ... |
13 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Interacting with a game without holding any controller is probably the closest we're ever going to get to The Matrix. Still, playing a title by flapping your arms around like a chicken or by running around your bedroom from one corner to the other may be just another thing that makes video gamers seem like total... |
13 November 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Location is all the rage right now, thanks, in no small part, to the growing popularity of web-enabled mobile devices with GPS features. There are a couple of rather popular location services, like Foursquares and Loopt, Google has Latitude, and even Twitter has integrated location into its service. Not wanting to b... |
13 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Customers looking to take Microsoft’s next generation identity management solution for a test drive have the first Release Candidate development milestone available for download. However, IT professionals, that don’t want to go through all the hassles associated with deploying Forefront Identity Manager 2... |
13 November 2009
05:03 GMT |
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The rapidly growing in popularity nettops were certainly a type of product not overlooked by Asus, which has been toying with its customers' expectations, always revealing bits and pieces of its upcoming hardware. This time, the video involving the very looked-forward-to Asus EB1501 nettop doesn't reveal to... |
13 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Since the famed physicist Albert Einstein devised the General Theory of Relativity, the scientific community has been living a perpetual race to demonstrate it over and over again. Despite decades of confirmations, some experts still want to make sure that Einstein got it right, and that there aren't any excepti... |
13 November 2009
04:48 GMT |
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PowerColor, one of the many graphics card manufacturers that can provide you with custom-designed Radeon graphics card, has announced today the debut of a new graphics card that makes use of AMD's HD 5770 graphics processing unit. Dubbed PLAY! HD5770, the new card has been specifically designed for the mainstre... |
13 November 2009
04:44 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Smasung has been rumored recently to plan removing Symbian from its future smartphone roadmap. However, some news site went even further, stating that the company is also intending to stop the support for the OS, due to the launch of its own mobile phone platform, called bada. While th... |
13 November 2009
04:38 GMT |
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There's no doubt Google is a speed junkie. It wants everything to be faster and its doing anything to make it so. It built its own web browser, Chrome, just for this, and it's even building a new operating system, Chrome OS, with the same idea in mind. It obsesses about its search engine to squeeze every l... |
13 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Scientists at the Northwestern University have recently released the conclusion of a new study, showing that music lessons may help those people seeking to be able to distinguish sounds better in loud situations. The investigation comes on the heels of a previous one, which demonstrated that people who played, or had... |
13 November 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Starcraft II just might be the biggest videogame slated to be released in late 2009, but pushed back into 2010. Activision Blizzard was surely concerned about the fact that the real time strategy sequel, which has been expected by gamers for the better part of a decade, would compete directly for the money of the pla... |
13 November 2009
04:33 GMT |
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With IT enterprises more focused on throwing accusations at one another and with the economical crisis, the IT industry hasn't been doing as well as it should have. Well, the industry itself may be fine, but the marketing side certainly hasn't reached the highest level this year. To somehow improve the sale... |
13 November 2009
04:24 GMT |
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As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The... |
13 November 2009
04:19 GMT |
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Apple has confirmed plans to open its newest retail store yet on Saturday, November 14, at 10:00 a.m. Located at 1981 Broadway, on the corner of West 67th Street (New York Upper West Side), the store lies beneath what Apple calls “a breathtaking all-glass arched roof.” The Apple Store Upper West Side is j... |
13 November 2009
04:17 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... |
13 November 2009
04:12 GMT |
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The first trailer for the Prince of Persia movie was released not so long ago, and it seems like it made an impression. With the estimated budget of $150 million and the success of the last collaboration between Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney that gave birth to the Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster, the Prince of Pe... |
13 November 2009
04:04 GMT |
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That didn't take too long! Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced only yesterday that it updated the Windows Marketplace for Mobile with a series of new features, among which it counted the presence of a fresh, improved anti-piracy protection, and now we learn that the measures have already been cracke... |
13 November 2009
04:00 GMT |
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As we reported earlier this week, Qualcomm, a leading vendor of smartphone processors has officially announced the world's first Snapdragon-based smartbook system. Said to debut at the upcoming Computer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, the new ultraportable computer system has been designed in partnershi... |
13 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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The $1.25 billion that Intel Corporation will pay AMD, following the Antitrust settlement, seem to have drastically altered the budget and economical expectations of the Santa Clara-based enterprise. While AMD's stock shares jumped $1.16, or 22 percent, to close at $6.48 (because AMD will be able to pay off a la... |
13 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Katauri Interactive, as the developer, and 1C Company, as the publisher, is announcing that the demo for King's Bounty: Armored Princess is now available to all those who are interested in taking a sneak peak at the title ahead of the official release date of November 20. Players who would like to experience the... |
13 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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It's official, Google has confirmed the acquisition of VoIP startup Gizmo5. The company hasn't provided any financial details about the deal or what its plans are for Gizmo5, but it said that it would integrate it in some way with Google Voice, the hot new service which enables users to switch between mobi... |
13 November 2009
03:47 GMT |
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There are many people in the world today that wish nothing more than to live a long and healthy life, perhaps even reaching the venerable age of 100 years old. A new investigation reveals one of the key elements that make this possible, in the form of an inherited cellular repair mechanism that is able to do its job ... |
13 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Tomorrow, Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto will face each other in the ring, and odds seem to be in Pacquiao's favor. The predictions don't come from sports commentators or from the bookies, but from EA Sports and its Fight Night Round 4. Both boxers are part of the game's roster and simulations of the ... |
13 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Following the five year gap between Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft indicated that it would pick up the pace for the delivery of Windows Next releases, and Windows 7 was an illustrative example in this regard. The latest iteration of Windows was delivered within three years after the general availability of V... |
13 November 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Yahoo has just released the final version of its new instant messenger client Yahoo Messenger 10.0.0.1102. The latest version comes after a beta period of more than two months. The Yahoo dev team has been working on getting it to release quality and the final build comes with a lot of bug fixes and stability-related ... |
13 November 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Microsoft has gone ahead with its plan to ban from the Xbox Live service those users that have modified their gaming consoles and are using it in order to run pirated videogames. The move comes as more and more developers, as revealed by a survey from TIGA, are saying that they are afraid of the impact piracy can hav... |
13 November 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Those who’ve made a clean install of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard may have noticed that Apple’s new OS replaces the old QuickTime with QuickTime X. Admittedly, the new player offers a clean and uncluttered interface, easy media sharing, and flexible recording capabilities, yet some users have been heavily ... |
13 November 2009
02:59 GMT |
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For the first time in nearly nine years, the Russian space agency, RosCosmos, has delivered a new module for the International Space Station (ISS). Named Poisk, which stands for “explore” in Russian, the new component was launched on Tuesday, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. It spent two days ... |
13 November 2009
02:57 GMT |
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In spite of being an area where a huge number of studies has already been performed, the use of cell phones is still making scientists uneasy. The long-term threats on people's safety have not yet been fully and accurately assessed, experts say, therefore they cannot whole-heartedly sanction their use just yet. ... |
13 November 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari. Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title played from a third person pe... |
13 November 2009
02:35 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... |
13 November 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Astronomers have known for a long time that the end of stars sees them transforming into a number of structures, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes. The thing that results after a star's demise is entirely based on the mass of said celestial body. If the mass is large, then the structure will ... |
13 November 2009
02:27 GMT |
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After recently making the rover “stretch” for the first time in six months, experts and engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are currently making the last preparations for beginning their attempts at extricating Spirit from its predicament. The robot has been tra... |
13 November 2009
02:14 GMT |
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