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TNA iMPACT! is a title based on the fastest growing professional wrestling brand in the world and its flagship program with the same name. In this virtual world to be released by Midway, you are able to choose your wrestling style, custom move set and clothing to build your ultimate champion. The game will feature wr... |
13 August 2008
16:21 GMT |
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WALL-E is a video game adaptation of Pixar's movie of the same name. It was developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ on multiple platforms. The game hit the shelves on the 24th of June 2008 in North America, the 4th of July 2008 in Europe and Australians will get the chance to play it too, but no soo... |
13 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface is checking in at the Sheraton Hotels & Resorts in New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Burlingame. According to the Redmond company, customized variants of its surface computing product will be tailored in accordance with the Sheraton brand. Placed in the lobbies of the hotels, the Microsoft Sur... |
13 August 2008
13:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is debuting the second round for Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, almost four months since the service pack was released to manufacturing for the XP client at the end of April 2008. Released to the general users at the start of May, Windows XP SP3 is yet again moving to center stage, but in a dimmer limelight... |
13 August 2008
12:31 GMT |
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The Chinese tried everything in order to stand out at the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games. Whether it was fake fireworks or making a pretty girl lip-sync the performance of another one, who wasn't a classical beauty, these actions outraged the global blogging community. "What isn't adorable about a lit... |
13 August 2008
12:25 GMT |
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About two months ago, I discovered a very promising post-apocalyptic MMORPG game called Fallen Earth and I was wondering when the Beta testing started. It seems that it's still pretty far away into the future, but a few lucky people will get the chance to test the game since an early Alpha stage has just been an... |
13 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise is the upcoming sequel to the original game for girls. It brings a really simple story: Professor Pester and his Ruffians have wiped out all the computer records from Pinata Central and your job is to rebuild the database. You'll have to send your cute little animals at parties a... |
13 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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With the release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17, 2008, Mozilla has virtually signed off the death sentence of Firefox 2.0. However, the migration of Firefox 2.0's install base to the latest version of the open source browser, although a natural process of transition, will not be left unattended by Mozilla. In fact, t... |
13 August 2008
11:36 GMT |
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For the past few days, reports about the cyber attack on Georgia, which disrupted the government sites and other .ge domains, have flooded the news websites and blogs all over the world. New reactions emerged, as security researcher Gadi Evron thinks the attacks could be carried out by kids, while Google denies delet... |
13 August 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley, from security company Sophos, has announced on his blog that Internet users are threatened yet again by a Mal/EncPk-DA infection. This translates into a Trojan:Win32/Tibs.gen!G, which is reported by Sophos to be an average threat to computers. Hackers always keep pace with ... |
13 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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As we mentioned in a number of our previous articles, the netbook market sees a healthy dynamic growth, compared to the other hardware markets. In fact, it looks like the netbooks are the only products that don't seem affected by the worldwide slowing growth in the PC market. Ultimately, this is nothing but grea... |
13 August 2008
10:52 GMT |
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Warlords is an arcade game originally released by Atari in 1980 but ported to different other consoles and platforms. The latest installment was on the Xbox 360 console via Xbox Live Arcade, on the 28th of May 2008. The main changes brought by this next-gen version were the support for Xbox Live Vision and HD graphic... |
13 August 2008
10:22 GMT |
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One of the key capabilities of any email client is the speed with which it delivers messages. This feature is already so common that people choose their favorite email clients by keeping in mind things like storage capacity, design, security level, etc. A team of researchers at the Bournemouth University decided to b... |
13 August 2008
10:17 GMT |
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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is a fantasy-based role-playing game and an example of open-ended or sandbox gameplay. The main quest may be delayed or completely ignored as the player explores a game world consisting of approximately 16 square miles of terrain, following side quests, interacting with NPCs and developi... |
13 August 2008
09:53 GMT |
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Nvidia has put a lot of effort into making the PhysX technology a top competitive one. Its GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 Series cards feature PhysX support, and the company has also released the drivers that are supposed to enable the physics on the graphics cards. The green company has tried to make the performance level... |
13 August 2008
09:51 GMT |
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As you have probably heard - or even read in some of our previous posts - HP, Lenovo and Dell have recently announced the release of a number of business-oriented notebooks. Some of these have one thing in common, namely that they come equipped with an NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPU. On that note, the Santa-Clara based ... |
13 August 2008
09:48 GMT |
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According to a study performed by Nielsen Online, Google is still the number one brand in the U.S., considering the Internet traffic in July 2008. Although the number of users who chose to navigate Google pages in July was of approximately 123 million, Yahoo! proved to be more efficient in engaging people with its we... |
13 August 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The latest Critical security patches for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available from Microsoft. Of course, that the two Windows client versions are not the only software products patched by the Redmond company as a part of its monthly security update cycle. Although Microsoft was pla... |
13 August 2008
09:03 GMT |
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WarTech: Senko Ronde is an arcade/shooter game developed exclusively for Xbox 360 and inspired by Senkô no Ronde Rev X arcade title. Developed by G.rev and published by Sega and Ubisoft in different regions, the game was released on the 22nd of May 2007 in the US and the 8th of June 2007 in Europe. The title was, how... |
13 August 2008
09:03 GMT |
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iPhone 3G, the famous touchscreen handset said to be sold in more than 3 million units until now (worldwide, since its July 11 release), will soon no longer be offered exclusively by Apple and AT&T in the US. This is because Best Buy, the giant consumer electronics retailer, has just announced that it would begin sel... |
13 August 2008
08:40 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that many notebook users prefer a standard mouse over their notebook's touchpad, as a mouse is often seen as easier to use. Unfortunately, carrying a mouse along with everything else can sometimes be a headache, as users tend to forget to pack the mouse each time they take their noteb... |
13 August 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 was released to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and the gold bits are heading straight for the end users' machines. Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server is the equivalent of a service pack for any other Windows client or server operating system and Microsoft is ready to kick-star... |
13 August 2008
07:44 GMT |
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The ClarkConnect developers are proud to announce a new stable version of their Enterprise Linux distribution. ClarkConnect 4.3 brigs a new kernel with support for SMP processors, Groupware support in WebMail, a mail queue and RAID manager, OpenVPN for road warriors, and many other new and updated applications. Let&#... |
13 August 2008
07:16 GMT |
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Panasonic, one of the leading handset manufacturers in Japan, has recently unveiled a new mobile phone for its domestic market: Panasonic P706ie. Coming shortly after other nice devices (like the Viera 921P or the Mirror II), the new Panasonic is a clamshell that looks very elegant and targets consumers in search of ... |
13 August 2008
07:14 GMT |
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The technology behind animated movies such as The Incredibles, Toy Story, Ratatouille, and Monsters Inc. is fully compatible with 64-bit Windows. SIGGRAPH 2008 acted as the stage where Pixar celebrated none other than the 20-year anniversary of RenderMan, and introduced RenderMan Pro Server 14.0. Planned for availabi... |
13 August 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Symantec has announced the official release of Norton Safe Web Beta, a plug-in for the Norton Internet Security 2009 solution. The product enables users to verify and avoid malicious websites as they navigate. The tool informs people which of their search results are malware free and which are dangerous. Also, Norton... |
13 August 2008
06:58 GMT |
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All-Pro Football 2K8, the really appreciated Xbox 360 football sim game developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports, was released on the 16th of July 2007. This was the first football title to be launched by the Take-Two owned company following the purchase of exclusive licenses by Electronic Arts. The ga... |
13 August 2008
06:58 GMT |
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There is not one thing that can point to a bright future lying ahead for the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA. After AMD finally unveiled its dual-GPU GeForce "destroyer," the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the green company announced that its business had not been doing all that well - and it all shows in the Q2 ... |
13 August 2008
06:35 GMT |
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The point and click adventure genre might not be the most popular one at the moment, but I am very glad to see that this does not stop game developers working on brand new and very exciting projects that might even resuscitate this classic type of games. So, one of the projects that has the potential to enter history... |
13 August 2008
06:17 GMT |
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The first Beta build of Internet Explorer 8 was made available for download at the start of March 2008, with bits going live following the MIX08 keynote address by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft General Manager. With Beta 2 cooking, as the baking time will run out by the end of this month, the Redmond giant continues t... |
13 August 2008
06:13 GMT |
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We all know that men are no longer those poor, lost souls when it comes to fashion or, as a matter of fact, to most things that have been, until now, deemed "feminine" par excellence. Which is why, since they do make the best cooks, hair and makeup stylists, and designers, we should probably also listen to what they ... |
13 August 2008
06:13 GMT |
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India, the second largest mobile market in the world, might be the first country besides Japan to get Sony Ericsson Bravia mobile phones. The upcoming availability of Bravia-branded handsets for Indian consumers has recently been unveiled by the new president of Sony Ericsson India, Mr. Anil Sethi, appointed in this ... |
13 August 2008
06:10 GMT |
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The social networks market is generally characterized by important gaps in the year-over-year evolution of the most popular hotspots. Although still holding on to the global second place, the annual rate of growth that MySpace managed to achieve was of only 3%. However, some may say that growth is of good omen, no ma... |
13 August 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Everybody knows about Electronic Arts' love for Nintendo Wii consoles recently, but we knew nothing about how close they were to the DS. Apparently, they are pretty close, since the casual label of EA just announced a brand new DS exclusive: Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. According to its developers ... |
13 August 2008
05:46 GMT |
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SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards have come to replace the old SDs, providing both higher storage capacities and transfer speeds for just about any type of device, ranging from digital cameras to portable music players. And even if there are relatively few users who actually do need so much storage spa... |
13 August 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Yesterday will go down in history as the day when AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, finally succeeded in releasing a card that is impressively better than NVIDIA's high-performance GeForce cards. After the official release, a number of AMD's board partners also announced their implementation of the compa... |
13 August 2008
05:35 GMT |
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Version 2.5 of Faceted Search for Office SharePoint Server brings to the table a consistent collection of improvements on top of the inherent bug fixes associated with the introduction of a new build. According to Leonid Lyublinski, senior consultant, Microsoft Consultancy Services, the latest release is designed to ... |
13 August 2008
05:26 GMT |
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I have talked about Cursed Mountain just a while ago and it seemed to be quite impressive. Today, the game was officially announced by Sproing Interactive and Deep Silver and the companies also decided to offer some more information about the title - including a very general release date (sometime in 2009).In the gam... |
13 August 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Nvidia has finally released a new series of drivers meant to bring the entire benefits of PhysX technology to its GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 graphics cards series. The enabled physics support is supposed to allow gamers to experience real-like graphics on their gaming environment, while developers can design customized... |
13 August 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Samsung has recently released a new mobile phone in the world's largest country, Russia, to answer the needs of users who want fashionable mid-end handsets. The new phone we're talking about is Samsung L770 (or Samsung SGH-L770), a slider that was first presented by the South Korean manufacturer back in Feb... |
13 August 2008
05:10 GMT |
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This week, Nintendo is planning to bring at least one big smile on our faces with their WiiWare and Virtual console releases. Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Break In and Star Parodier are the three fun titles made available for Nintendo Wii owners. It's going to be a great, fun week!Definitel... |
13 August 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Each passing day seems to bring us one more piece of news about one of ASUS' netbooks from its vast series of Eee PCs. If you haven't grown tired yet of the extensive amount of information available on the company's Eee family, we're more than happy to report that Eee PC 900A has finally gone offi... |
13 August 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Participants at the DefCon hacking conference, focusing on the latest methods of taking over end users' computers and corporate machines, found out that they had been subjects to a hijack themselves. According to an AFP report, the attendees at the conference were startled by the statements of Tony Kapela and Al... |
13 August 2008
04:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has already indicated a strong commitment to reaching out to the next 5 billion people with initiatives such as the Unlimited Potential Group. And the Redmond giant is making good on the promise of making its technology ubiquitous beyond the existing first billion users of its software products. In this reg... |
13 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
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There are over two years since VIA Technologies released its latest third-party chipset on the market, but the story seems to have caught a lot of attention lately from the media. And things have gone a little too far on a number of news sites, as there were some articles saying that Via had quit the chipset market b... |
13 August 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Sanyo Katana Eclipse is the name of the latest released handset in Canada. The new Katana is being sold by Bell Mobility, the second largest Canadian mobile, and it comes as a pretty small clamshell that refreshes Bell's line-up of Sanyo-made devices.The prices for which Bell is offering the new Katana (both onl... |
13 August 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Despite yesterday's many rumors and speculations, Dell has not released its highly anticipated Mini Inspiron. However, loyal fans will probably be glad to hear that the company has brought to light a completely new line of Latitude and Precision laptops. Designed for business users, Dell's newly released po... |
13 August 2008
03:53 GMT |
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The gold bits of Firefox 3.0 went live on June 17, 2008, over half a year past the initially planned launch which was targeted for the end of 2007. At just a few days short of the first two months on the market for the successor of Firefox 2.0, users of Mozilla's open source browser now have access not only to t... |
13 August 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Yahoo! has announced the launch of Fire Eagle, an open platform that enables users to provide real-time information about their location and to update the data either automatically or manually via the Internet-based mobile or desktop applications.For those who consider the platform yet another technological gimmick s... |
13 August 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora, the award-winning line of desktops manufactured by Alienware, a leading producer of high-performance notebooks, desktops and entertainment systems, are offered by the company with an ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, considered to be the most powerful graphics card at the moment. The c... |
13 August 2008
03:10 GMT |
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Secunia has issued two advisories, SA31441 and SA31445, regarding a highly critical vulnerability that affects uTorrent versions 1.6, 1.7.x up to 1.8 RC6, as well as the BitTorrent mainline client 6.0 up to 6.0.3. Secunia rated this vulnerability as "Highly Critical" because it can allow an attacker to perform Denial... |
13 August 2008
02:56 GMT |
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For all the mobile users out there who love uncomplicated clamshell phones, Nokia has just presented a new handset of this kind, named Nokia 3610 Fold and scheduled for a commercial release before the end of September. The Finnish manufacturer has been rolling out quite a few clamshells lately, if we're to thin... |
13 August 2008
02:56 GMT |
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The leader in open source enterprise content management, Alfresco Software, announced a few days ago that Alfresco Labs 3 would be offered by Canonical within a pre-built software download in Ubuntu. New users can now be reached by Alfresco, as they are a simple apt-get away from executing a full installation.As resu... |
13 August 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Welcome to our 6th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! In this edition, you can read about: the new and improved version of CCux Linux, the alpha edition of Fedora 10, the new gOS operating system with iGoogle and Google gadgets, the partnership between Canonical and Unison, the first release candidate of Linux Mint 5.0... |
13 August 2008
02:08 GMT |
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As we've been able to see quite clearly over the past few months, Sony is quite keen on "conquering" the European market, at least as far as high-definition TV sets are concerned. The Japanese company has launched quite an impressive number of models this year and doesn't look like it's going to stop a... |
13 August 2008
01:54 GMT |
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