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Indian handset maker Micromax is about to debut a new Android phone in the country. Dubbed A100, the smartphone will soon go on sale in India for Rs 9,999 (180 USD or 145 EUR) outright.Micromax A100 is now listed by major retailer Homeshop18, but the device is currently out of stock, which suggests that the Indian co... |
14 August 2012
19:31 GMT |
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In a report issued just minutes ago, research firm Gartner says that worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2012, and continues to do so, because of the iPhone 5.
How can an unreleased (and basically unconfirmed and inexistent) product cause this disruption? Easy, says Anshul ... |
14 August 2012
19:01 GMT |
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The folks at Wikitude have just released a new version of their popular augmented reality, which expands its availability to additional smartphones.BlackBerry enthusiasts will be happy to find that Wikitude is now fully compatible with Curve 9320 and 9310 smartphones.Although the latest update does not bring any new ... |
14 August 2012
18:31 GMT |
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For many, combining two rival products in a single one seems highly unlikely and hard to imagine, but there are also those who believe that such a combination would result in great things.
Vietnamese designer Pham Tran Hai is one of those people, and he came up with a BlackBerry concept handset that is powered by M... |
14 August 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Slender, the first-person horror game where your only goal is to find 8 manuscripts about the Slender Man, has received a major new update. The game is still in beta, therefore free for mass consumption.
The game’s plot is as simple as it is scary. The more directly you interact with the Slender Man, the faste... |
14 August 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Valve has revealed that it’s overhauling the existing community section of its Steam digital distribution service and that it’s going to present a new feature each day this week, starting with the Game Hubs that will highlight the array of user-generated content for every game in Steam’s catalog. S... |
14 August 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Eager to add something to the external and portable hard disk drive market, Imation has launched some new USB-connected models that offer both a higher capacity and improved safety, compared to existing units. According to the press release and the official company website, Imation's H100 and/or H200 series ha... |
14 August 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Grooveshark is facing some grim legal charges and battles ahead, but the site is still operating as usual. Since this type of lawsuits tend to take years, it's a safe bet that Grooveshark will be around longer. For the cheapskate music lover or for those who don't have any other alternative in their countri... |
14 August 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Adobe Systems has updated its Proto application for iPad. The software lets you create wireframes of websites and apps using Multi-Touch. The new version lets you Paste and Pin objects across selected pages. Other enhancements are also included.
“Adobe Proto lets you create wireframes of websites and apps righ... |
14 August 2012
16:41 GMT |
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LG Optimus L3 has not made its debut in Canada yet. Although most of L-Style series of smartphones are already available for purchase, the L3 has yet to be picked by a Canadian carrier. Well, it looks like this is about to happen, the folks over at MobileSyrup claim. Fido will probably be the first carrier to offer ... |
14 August 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Shortly after T-Mobile USA announced the upcoming availability of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, the carrier confirmed that another tablet, Huawei Springboard, would get the long-awaited update as well.
Aside from bringing the tablet’s software to Android 4.0.4 Ice C... |
14 August 2012
15:31 GMT |
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eBay Inc. has released an updated version of its iPad application for on-the-go shoppers, which brings some user interface tweaks, the ability to review a seller’s feedback, bug fixes, and more.
eBay subscribers are promised a new rich search experience with seamless transitions to buy and pay for items, all o... |
14 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile is reportedly gearing up for the release of an Xperia tipo dual smartphone in the not too distant future.
The handset has just received the necessary approvals from the Global Certification Forum, which suggests that its maker might not relay the release for too long.
Two d... |
14 August 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Rumors on the black version of Galaxy S III surfaced last week, but Samsung has yet to officially confirm the upcoming release of the device. Even though the first press photos of the smartphone were fakes, it looks like the black Galaxy S III made its way into Carphone Warehouse inventory system, which points to an... |
14 August 2012
14:31 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA and Samsung have just announced that an Android 4.0.5 Ice Cream Sandwich software update will be available for Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus beginning August 14.
According to the carrier, the software version T869UVLG7 is only available for download via Samsung Kies desktop software.
We’re not sure whethe... |
14 August 2012
14:01 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card will soon start causing a ruckus, so Advanced Micro Devices is, naturally, preparing preemptive measures, or one of them anyway.
By preemptive measures we mean to say that the Sunnyvale, California-based company is going to give the world an extra reason to buy the Rad... |
14 August 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld seems to be the main element in the near future strategy for Sony and that means that the company has brought out the big development guns, including Media Molecule, which announced that it was working on Tearaway, a new game which is inspired by paper and the way we interact with it. ... |
14 August 2012
13:55 GMT |
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Integrated Device Technology, Inc., IDT for short, will participate in the Flash Memory Summit that will take place later this month, between August 21 and 23.
There, it will introduce a product that may just mark a new age for solid-state drives meant to be inserted into PCI Express slots.
Currently, PCI Express ... |
14 August 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Sony has made a big push for the PlayStation Vita handheld during its Gamescom 2012 press conference and part of the hardware marker’s move include giving away a free version of the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for the device as long as a player picks up the game for the PlayStation 3, thanks to... |
14 August 2012
13:35 GMT |
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Although Motorola and Bell decided to delay the ATRIX HD LTE until August 14, it appears that the smartphone has just gone live and is now available for purchase for $600 CAD on no term.
Bell customers who do not bother committing to a long-term contract can buy the Motorola ATRIX HD LTE for only $50 CAD with a new ... |
14 August 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Like it or not, the Chrome "hot dog" menu is coming sooner than you thought. It was initially introduced in the Chromium 23 daily builds.
The expectation was that the change would trickle down to Chrome 23, when it hit the dev channel, and then make its way to the beta channel six weeks after that, then, six furthe... |
14 August 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Released back in February, Motorola DROID is finally receiving the long-awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Although the phone was launched with Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform out of the box, Motorola promised the DROID 4 will get its Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade by the end of the year. A few weeks ago,... |
14 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter shooter, once again showcasing the multiplayer mode and its special fireteam mechanic.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter once again tells the story of a team of Tier 1 Operators – the elite agents that undertake the most... |
14 August 2012
12:41 GMT |
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For a while it looked like things were a bit better in the UK compared to the US or other parts of the world when it came to copyright infringement issues. But that's clearly no longer the case. Let alone extraditing people to the US to face copyright-infringement related charges, a court sentenced the operator ... |
14 August 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Vodafone UK has just released a new limited edition Vodafone Smart II handset, which will be available for purchase for only 70 GBP (110 USD or 90 EUR) on PAYG (pay as you go), beginning August 16.
Young student Gaby Sahhar, winner of a competition run by Vodafone and Tate art galleries, is the artist who designed t... |
14 August 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Leaflet is a nifty little tool, developed in vanilla JavaScript for working with map data. Its purpose is to ease the process of embedding a map in web pages and also to simplify adding custom map controls. Fully supportive of mobile devices and responsive layouts, Leaflet is one of the few libraries fit to be used ... |
14 August 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Microsoft is set to take the wraps off its next mobile operating system as soon as next month, and some more reports on the matter have started to emerge.
Apparently, Microsoft has already delivered Windows Phone 8 devices to some developers, to enable them to have applications ready for the big l... |
14 August 2012
11:46 GMT |
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Google is a big opponent of software patents and patents in general, but it still bought them by the thousands when it became clear that it was the only way to survive. It's a major reason why it bought Motorola in the first place. But Google still hopes the patent system will get better if not die out entirely.... |
14 August 2012
11:41 GMT |
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LG Optimus 4G LTE was officially introduced in Canada back in November with Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system out of the box.
However, LG promised that an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich would be available for download sometime this year. Well, it looks like that time has finally arrived and LG Optimus 4G LTE o... |
14 August 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Mobile phone game developer Rovio has made available for download an update for Angry Birds for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC. The new release, made available for download through the BlackBerry App World as version 2.2, is free for all those who have already purchased the game. “The piggies continue th... |
14 August 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Austin Matthew, who is the general manager at the Austin Studio of BioWare and one of the main developers behind The Old Republic MMO has announced that the game was getting a new Grand Acquisition worldwide event.
The name sounds like something that the Ferengi of Star Trek would dream about and involves players se... |
14 August 2012
11:25 GMT |
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AmaroK 2.6.0, a music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface, has been announced by the AmaroK development team.
After a development period of over seven months, the new Amarok version is finally here with a wealth of new features and improvements.
AmaroK 2.6.0 Highlights:
• A complete overhaul... |
14 August 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Officials at the Johnson Space Center in Houston – the home of NASA's Astronaut Corps – have recently confirmed that the space agency's former Chief Astronaut, Peggy Whitson, stepped down from her position after three years, this July. The new NASA Chief Astronaut is space shuttle veteran Robert... |
14 August 2012
11:20 GMT |
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In the first few billionths of a second after the Big Bang occurred, the Universe expanded many times over its original volume. All matter existed exclusively in the form of a mixture of elementary particles, called a quark-gluon soup. At this point, our particle accelerators can produce it at will.
Scientists say t... |
14 August 2012
11:12 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has revealed the full length version of the Need for Speed: Most Wanted multiplayer trailer we saw last week, showing off an array of different online activities that can be performed by players in all sorts of powerful cars.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a recreation of the cult classic game from 2... |
14 August 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Evolution, a complete solution that provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop environment, is now at version 3.5.5.1.
Highlights of Evolution 3.5.5.1:
· Various mail formatter and highlighter improvements have been implemented;
· Improvements to... |
14 August 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher has sent Peter Moore, its leading digital distribution evangelist and chief operations officer, to the stage at Gamescom 2012 press conference to talk about the long-term vision it has for its Origin service.
The company has not offered a laundry list of tweaks and updates but talked about how f... |
14 August 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Oppo Finder, one of the slimmest Android-based smartphones in the world, is expected to arrive on shelves in a white flavor too in the not too distant future.
No official info on the matter has been provided as of yet, but the guys over at UnwiredView suggest that it might be released before the end of August.
Th... |
14 August 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Astrophysicists from the University of California in Irvine (UCI), led by experts Kevork Abazajian and Manoj Kaplinghat, say that the gamma-rays photons emanating from the core of the Milky Way show characteristics consistent with light that would result from collisions between dark matter particles.
Thought to be m... |
14 August 2012
10:57 GMT |
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New Orleans is one of the most original and intriguing cities in the US, it's culture not found elsewhere. Unfortunately, in recent years it's been perhaps better known for the devastating hurricane that ravaged it. Hurricane Katrina left a hurt but not broken city behind it and ever since its citizens have... |
14 August 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Texas A&M University investigators found that the intensity of hurricanes can increase by as much as 50 percent if the tropical storm from which it originates passes over a large volume of freshwater on its way to the mainland. The director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies, professor of oceanography and atmosp... |
14 August 2012
10:50 GMT |
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A confusing email is making the rounds, pretending to come from UPS, but carrying an attachment that supposedly contains an invoice from Amazon.
Here’s what the email entitled “We can not charge your credit card” looks like:
Your credit card was blocked.
We tried to withdraw money from your credi... |
14 August 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Regardless of whether or not Samsung is getting thrashed in the trial against Apple, the company has been showing just what it means to be one of the largest technology company groups in the world.
Samsung's latest achievement was to continue in its leading position on the flat-panel TV market.
Reaching 48.9... |
14 August 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Just recently, a fin whale found itself beached in Cornwall, at Carolyn Bay. Locals and conservationists joined hands and tried to help the animal safely get back to the sea, but soon enough vets concluded that the whale had no chances at survival, because of the extensive injuries it suffered.
Therefore, it was ag... |
14 August 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Over the past few years, studies have shown that experiencing stress or depression can lead to significant variations in overall brain volume. Now, scientists at Yale University provide an explanation for why this happens.
After investigating the brains of patients suffering from these conditions, investigators fou... |
14 August 2012
10:39 GMT |
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FIFA and Madden are two of the biggest sports franchises for publisher Electronic Arts but with the NBA Live series still apparently sidelined the company is also pushing NHL 13 as an important title for sports lovers and for those who have an inclination towards some fast action on the ice.
Dean Richards, who is th... |
14 August 2012
10:37 GMT |
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Offensive Security, the developers of the ever popular BackTrack Linux, have just announced the immediate availability for download for the BackTrack 5 R3 release. The third release of BackTrack 5 Linux brings many updated packages, bug fixes, and general improvements. One of the main focuses of BackTrack 5 R3 is t... |
14 August 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel third-person shooter game, this time showing off brand new footage from the title and even a release period of March 2013.
Army of Two games haven’t exactly set benchmarks for third-person shooters, even if... |
14 August 2012
10:32 GMT |
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We have known for two weeks now that Samsung plans to launch at least two Windows Phone 8 smartphones by the end of the year, the Odyssey and Marco.
Both devices were revealed in late July in several court documents, which were submitted by Samsung as part of its trial against Apple.
Samsung Odyssey and Marco will ... |
14 August 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine investigators finally managed to solve one of the most puzzling aspects of schizophrenia treatments, namely why drugs tend to be effective at first, only to lose their healing properties with chronic administration. Antipsychotic drugs are the first choice for treating schizophrenia, ... |
14 August 2012
10:29 GMT |
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You hardly ever hear fresh news about Steve Jobs these days. But this is one story we’d rather not have stumbled upon. A 35-year-old from Alameda, CA, has robbed the Palo Alto home of the late Steve Jobs, stealing $60,000 / 48,000 EUR worth of goods.
Kariem McFarlin has been arrested and charged with residenti... |
14 August 2012
10:24 GMT |
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The first rumors on the upcoming Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for Samsung Galaxy S III emerged about one week ago.
The folks over at SamMobile have been confirmed from an insider that Samsung has successfully completed firmware tests for Galaxy S III.
In addition, the same source claims Samsung is working on a ver... |
14 August 2012
10:23 GMT |
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The recently finished Olympic Games in London have managed to once again bring women’s football into the spotlight, with what some consider to be a tournament that has been even more action and emotion packed than that of the men’s teams.
But despite the newfound popularity of women players from Japan t... |
14 August 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Similar to the state-sponsored pieces of malware before it, Gauss is also presenting itself as a real challenge to researchers. For the time being, it’s uncertain how the malicious element spreads and what its mysterious payload hides.
Since they can’t seem to break the encryption that protects the paylo... |
14 August 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Seeing how, during one of her past interviews with Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga stated loud and clear that, “I hate fur, and I don't wear fur,” it really is not quite that big of a shock that, after seeing the celebrity wearing a fur coat in public, PETA decided that the singer needed to be reminded ab... |
14 August 2012
10:17 GMT |
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The official site of the All India Trinamool Congress (aitmc.org) has been hacked by Anonymous hackers as part of Operation India.
The hackers posted a message on behalf of chairperson Ms. Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
“This message from me is going to be a strange one and may shock... |
14 August 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Acer has issued a press release in which it details the TravelMate P243 notebook, a decently-priced business system ($699 / 565 Euro).
That's actually the price ultrabooks have been vying for, even though the notebook is not thin enough to qualify as one.
At any rate, the laptop's most notable traits are ... |
14 August 2012
10:04 GMT |
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In addition to consuming one cup of coffee or one glass of red wine daily, drinking cocoa has also been proven to be an effective way of slowing down cognitive impairment in old age, researchers say.
One of the reasons why the cocoa plant has such a positive effect on the human brain is that it contains naturally-o... |
14 August 2012
10:04 GMT |
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The staff of a wildlife park in Germany was recently taken aback by the realization that three of the kangaroos in their care escaped with the help of a fox and a wild boar, both of which are thought to live in the nearby woods.
According to the 'official' report for this ingenious and daring escape, the ... |
14 August 2012
09:57 GMT |
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The next release of Microsoft’s Office productivity suite, Office 2013, will arrive with support for more file formats than before, through the addition of Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 into the mix.
The application was already said to come with support for opening PDF documents, so that ... |
14 August 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Having participated in the (PRODUCT) RED campaign against AIDS for almost a decade, Apple is now shipping the RED version of the iPhone Bumper, an accessory that protects your shiny Apple handset from bumps and scratches.
Proceeds from your (PRODUCT) RED purchase of an iPhone bumper will go to the Global Fund to fig... |
14 August 2012
09:52 GMT |
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BitTorrent is one of the most popular ways of file sharing, even though cyberlockers have been gaining ground and even surpassing BitTorrent in some cases in recent years. The large number of sites, the large number of torrents and the p2p nature of the network makes people feel rather secure and private. Users feel... |
14 August 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Nvidia has announced yesterday, August 13th, the immediate availability for download of the 304.37 version of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems. Nvidia 304.37 video driver has one of the largest changelogs I've seen in a while. Usually, video drivers come with just a few smal... |
14 August 2012
09:51 GMT |
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The London 2012 Olympics is officially over and while we haven’t heard of any major cyberattacks during the event, the World Wide Web has been flooded with all sorts of scams.
According to Trend Micro Fraud Analyst Paul Pajares, most of the schemes set up by cybercriminals involved tickets and bogus video stre... |
14 August 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Virgin Mobile and ZTE confirmed in mid-July that the Grand X smartphone would be launched in the UK in early August. However, the carrier delayed the release of the device for unknown reasons.
Today, the UK-based operator has announced the ZTE Grand X is available for purchase for 200 GBP (315 USD or 255 EUR) outrig... |
14 August 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Our never-ending quest for a better social status may be the main driving factor behind confidence and overconfidence, researchers at the University of California in Berkeley's (UCB) Haas School of Business explain.
Very frequently, people who are overconfident are actually less physically talented, less socia... |
14 August 2012
09:36 GMT |
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This past Monday, members of green-oriented organization PETA decided to go against a KFC in Cambodia, hoping that their sitting outside the fast-food all locked up in a cage will raise some awareness with respect to animal rights.
Thus, the two protesters wished to bring forth the image of caged chickens, and the... |
14 August 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has published a fairly sizable blog post in which it reiterated the ETA for Windows 8/RT tablets based on the ARM microprocessor architecture. In it, is also specified exactly which companies would be releasing Windows RT slates alongside its Surface. HP will not be part of the first wave, contrary to p... |
14 August 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed during its pre-Gamescom 2012 press conference that it’s working together with Paris-based developer Dontnod Entertainment on Remember Me, a futuristic third-person action adventure game that’s out in May, 2013.
Capcom has already made a few big announcements at Gamescom 2012, includi... |
14 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Samsung's Series 5 ultrabook is now shipping through Amazon, for the price of $699, or 565 Euro, if exchange rates are anything to go by. That makes it one of the few such laptops to truly meet the target price that notebook makers have been moving towards over the past year. Some other attempts were made at... |
14 August 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Would you pay $900 (730 EUR) to take part in discussions on business strategies and ideas? If you did, you should be on the lookout for spam emails that advertise the Product Development Summits.
Here’s how these emails look like:
Hi [recipient name], hope all is well. On behalf of our Board, I wanted to pers... |
14 August 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy Note’s sequel in late August. Most likely, the South Korean company will launch the Samsung Galaxy Note II a few days ahead of IFA 2012 trade fair opening.
Also known as Samsung N7100, the device will be the company’s new Android flagship smartphone, at least un... |
14 August 2012
09:15 GMT |
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In an attempt to overcome a problem most – is not all – electric car owners seem to have (i.e. they can't drive over long distances without worrying where they can recharge their vehicle and how long doing that will take), London-based company ChargePoint Services Ltd. decided to enter a partnershi... |
14 August 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Experts in charge of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) last week released the largest, most comprehensive map of a large sector of the Universe ever compiled. The 3D dataset covers the equivalent of a cube with a width of 4 billion light-years. The most important elements in the new map are massive galaxi... |
14 August 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Developer Tapbots is pleased to announce yet another Mac test build of the highly-acclaimed Tweetbot. Alpha 5 is the last version that supports Lion, and the update requires a manual install.
Fans of this terrific tweeting machine will be glad to learn that Tweetbot OS X enables Drafts window, Edit Profile (my profi... |
14 August 2012
09:07 GMT |
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Google+ Photos has always been one of the site's most worthwhile features. Facebook has made up some of the gap in the meantime, introducing larger thumbnails, better album layouts and so on. But Google+ is still putting a lot of emphasis on photos.
In the latest update, Google has made it possible to view phot... |
14 August 2012
08:56 GMT |
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Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing on August 1st, meaning that all of the company’s hardware partners have had access to the final code of both Windows 8 and Windows RT for about two weeks now.
Since then, they have been hard at work with loading the new platform on their devices, while preparing fo... |
14 August 2012
08:54 GMT |
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Before the end of this year, Microsoft will bring to the market a new flavor of its Windows Phone operating system, with brand new features and capabilities available for both users and developers.
Dubbed Windows Phone 8, the new OS flavor has recently been rumored to be en-route for an October 1st release, yet no ... |
14 August 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Oracle has recently issued a security update to address a vulnerability identified by David Litchfield and unveiled as part of his “Find me in your database: an examination of index security” presentation at Black Hat USA 2012.
The security hole doesn’t affect 11gR2 databases and it can’t be ... |
14 August 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Keeping in tune with the massive public interest shown worldwide in the latest Olympic Games, the European Space Agency (ESA) had its Proba-1 CubeSat collect an image of the Olympic Village from Earth's orbit.
Despite its name, the High Resolution Camera is the smallest instrument on the microsatellite. Though ... |
14 August 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Just yesterday, the EU made it public news that, thanks to new e-waste management policies, most of the electrical and electronic equipment that are no longer of any use to their owners will enter a carefully planned recycling program.
The end goal is that of collecting the gold, silver, copper and rare metals... |
14 August 2012
08:38 GMT |
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The popular Russian BitTorrent website RUTracker has been breached by an unknown group of hackers. The attack has been ongoing for a few hours now and the site owners still don’t seem to have the situation under control.
According to CNews, the attack began at 7 AM Moscow time. In the meantime, the hackers alt... |
14 August 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Summer is not over just yet, the calendar one at least, but Google's is. The eight edition of Google Summer of Code is wrapping up and thousands of students are finally free to actually have a vacation, the few weeks they have left. This year's edition was the biggest yet, as has always been the case.
Ther... |
14 August 2012
08:22 GMT |
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LucasArts has released the first proper gameplay trailer for its upcoming Star Wars 1313 shooter, showing off quite a lot of footage from the game, including bits and pieces we already admired last June back at E3 2012.
Star Wars 1313 promises to deliver a rather novel experience, largely because the playable charac... |
14 August 2012
08:21 GMT |
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A group of code savvy individuals have been working secretly to develop a jailbreak for the third-generation Apple TV hardware in order to enable customers to install third-party applications, as well as to run multiple types of media formats.
Firecore, the company that develops the Seas0nPass Apple TV jailbreak, is... |
14 August 2012
08:19 GMT |
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With the help of quite a large number of American citizens, who agreed to send in their recordings of various wildlife species, environmental scientists working with the University of York's Department of Biology concluded a new study focusing on how climate change affects the distribution of biodiversity across... |
14 August 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Today’s high-end smartphones are getting bigger and bigger. They pack larger screens, increasingly powerful application processors, along with more internal memory, and all of these come with a caveat: increased phone sizes. This might not be a problem for enthusiasts, that’s for sure, but it becomes a ... |
14 August 2012
07:57 GMT |
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We know there were attempts to enable TRIM on RAID solid-state drive setups in the past, but Windows 8 might finally set the foundation for universal support.
SSDs have a limited number of write cycles, this being their greatest weakness. Over time, constant use leads to a drop in performance.
TRIM is a special t... |
14 August 2012
07:56 GMT |
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A researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that he found concrete evidences suggesting that Mars still has active plate tectonics. Previously, scientists believed that Earth is the only planet in the solar system capable of sustaining such processes.
Plate tectonics occur when heat gene... |
14 August 2012
07:54 GMT |
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In the past few years, not a week went by without a website being hacked as part of the ongoing online conflict between Indian and Pakistani hackers. Ashish Saini, a young researcher who has been actively involved in helping Indian police investigate cyber incidents, has provided Softpedia with some interesting insig... |
14 August 2012
07:48 GMT |
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A document on the official website of Gamescom 2012 lists all the announcements that will be made during the upcoming convention and, among many titles we already knew about, there are two very interesting mentions: Half-Life 3 and Dragon Age 3.
Gamescom 2012 is one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world and... |
14 August 2012
07:39 GMT |
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As of lately, researchers in marine biodiversity noticed that the adult great white population in the waters of the US West Coast has undergone a considerable decline.
Therefore, they are now asking that this species benefit from legal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The organizations having filed sa... |
14 August 2012
07:28 GMT |
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The "I'm feeling lucky" button is such a staple of its homepage that Google kept it there even though it didn't do anything useful anymore, if you have Instant Search enabled. That's because you get shuffled off to the results page as soon as you start typing.
The button simply pointed users to the ne... |
14 August 2012
07:21 GMT |
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The Indian Android market is flooded with cheap smartphones and tablets. The latest entrance on the tablet market is called HCL ME Y2 and comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system out of the box.
Manufactured by HCL Infosystems, the tablet will soon go on sale in India for only Rs 14,999 (270 USD or... |
14 August 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Capcom has just confirmed that its upcoming DmC Devil May Cry hack and slash title will star not only Dante but also his brother, Vergil, who’ll help the protagonist during the story. What’s more, new details, screenshots, and a special trailer have just been revealed ahead of their presentation at Gamesc... |
14 August 2012
06:58 GMT |
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Experts from PrivacyGuard are trying to educate college students about the risks of identity theft. They offer three valuable pieces of advice on how to avoid falling victim to such crimes.
Identity theft is a phenomenon that has caused many problems to individuals and companies in the past few years. Since we&rsquo... |
14 August 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Google's two-step verification or authentication has been a great boon for security for all users. The more people that use it the better. But the feature does come with a few more hurdles than just using a plain password. One annoying problem is having to provide an application specific password for any app tha... |
14 August 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion might have its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system licensed to other vendors, should it consider this move fit for its business.
The company has been long rumored to plan licensing the new OS, and Thorsten Heins, RIM’s president and chief executive officer, h... |
14 August 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Giada has released its newest nettop, or small form factor personal computer as the name goes, one that combines the processing performance of an Intel processor with the video capabilities of an NVIDIA GPU.
The central processing unit is a member of Intel's Atom D2500 series, while the graphics processing unit... |
14 August 2012
06:03 GMT |
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NASA representatives announce the successful conclusion of the final round of negotiations on the contracts for the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite. The next-generation spacecraft will be operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
JPSS-1 will be the second advanced s... |
14 August 2012
06:02 GMT |
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People privy to Apple’s plans with the next-generation iPhone have confirmed to AppleInsider that the new “mini” dock connector indeed boasts eight gold pins (on each side) and a ninth contact point in the metal frame surrounding the plug.“They [the sources] say the 8 gold contacts seen on one... |
14 August 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Kaspersky’s ThreatPost has released an interesting video that’s meant to educate the owners of iOS devices on how to properly secure them.
The 5-minute video shows how a complex passcode can be set, how to ensure that your data is safe in case your iPhone is stolen or lost, how to locate a device, and ho... |
14 August 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Facebook's Timeline is not even universally available, yet, despite being close to one year old. But that doesn't mean Facebook is sitting still. One of the things it's been doing to improve it is to add more event types.
The latest "life event" you can add to your Timeline is "Expecting a Baby" whic... |
14 August 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Having just overcome the awkward experience of a first on-screen appearance after the Kristen episode(s), Robert Pattinson is now getting ready to sit down for a 30-minute interview with MTV News, hosted by Josh Horowitz. The interview will take place this Thursday, the 16th of August, 19:49 ET. Sources say that ... |
14 August 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Using its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was recently able to produce a splendid image of the Tarantula Nebula, boasting a field of view of approximately 3.3 by 3.3 arcminutes.
The view is centered on the outskirts of the main clouds in the nebula, which are made up... |
14 August 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Valve has confirmed quite a few new details about its upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive multiplayer shooter. These include two special game modes plus the fact that the title’s PS3 edition supports not just the regular Dualshock 3 controller, but also the PlayStation Move as well as the mouse and keyboa... |
14 August 2012
05:35 GMT |
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With Windows 8 already out in the hands of manufacturers and set to become available for download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers tomorrow, Microsoft is said to be focusing on the development of the next version of Windows, recently said to be codenamed Windows Blue.
Originally said to be Windows 9, codenamed Wind... |
14 August 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Hard disk drive makers have somehow managed to profit from the consequences of the Thai floods of last year, selling HDDs at twice or three times the normal price due to shortages, but they haven't managed to hop over a certain other hurdle.
We are, of course, referring to the market of ultrathin and ultraligh... |
14 August 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Security experts have identified a clever attack that has targeted the employees of a major international airport. The operation is relying on the Citadel Trojan to steal virtual private network (VPN) login credentials that can be later used to access internal applications.
VPNs are often used by organizations to en... |
14 August 2012
05:27 GMT |
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News that Nepal's tigers are really making a comeback as far as their overall population is concerned made Leonardo DiCaprio celebrate the success of conservation project carried out in these remote areas by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Thus, the celebrity posted the following message on his Facebook page: &... |
14 August 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Google is working on enabling vanity URLs, i.e. custom profile URLs, for Google+. Google+ is one year old and users still get the ugly numerical IDs as their URLs. But Google wants to change this. Don't get too excited, it's not rolling out the feature to all users just yet.
It's only for verified acc... |
14 August 2012
05:20 GMT |
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One of the world’s first first-person shooter - tower defense games, “Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.” Mac gamers can now download the game at a 10% discount on Steam.
Developed by independent company Coffee Stain Studios, Sanctum offers 4-pla... |
14 August 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Research In Motion (RIM) has just released a new version of Facebook for BlackBerry. The latest iteration of the application comes with many new features and capabilities, which improve the overall performance and functionality of Facebook.
Unfortunately, the application is not yet available for the general public, ... |
14 August 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Seamus Curran, a physics professor from the University of Huston, recently developed a new coating for solar panels, which supposedly helps improve their efficiency and significantly cuts down on maintenance costs simply by keeping these green-oriented energy providers fresh and clean for longer periods of time.
As... |
14 August 2012
05:10 GMT |
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As the legal counsels of Apple and Samsung continue their court theatrics in San Jose, California, the latter company has managed to get a few devices off the list.
The international versions of the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II have been excluded from Apple's lawsuit, along with the Galaxy Ace.
Don't be foo... |
14 August 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and DICE are preparing to debut a special Battlefield 3 Premium Edition next month, at least according to the Canadian arm of online retailer Amazon, which has just put up a listing for such a game.UPDATE: Battlefield 3 Premium is now official. EA has just confirmed it during its Gamesc... |
14 August 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are currently investigating an error that occurred aboard the Dawn spacecraft. The orbiter is currently flying around Vesta, the largest asteroid in the solar system.
On August 8, computers aboard the satellite turned off one of Dawn&#... |
14 August 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Researchers from the Vulnerability Lab have identified a couple of security holes in SonicWALL Email Security 7.3.5.6379. The company was notified of the existence of the flaw back in May, but since it failed to respond within the 90-day period, the security firm has decided to publicly reveal the existence of the is... |
14 August 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Out of all the celebrities we would have expected to hear rapping at some point in our lives, Kelly Clarkson would have probably been amongst the last on our list. However, here she is: wearing a hoodie and singing her very own version of Eminem's “Lose Yourself.”
Kelly's performance took the ... |
14 August 2012
04:38 GMT |
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A prominent hacker in the jailbreak community claims to have discovered a serious bug in the way iOS handles text messages. Pod2g promises to provide a detailed analysis of his discovery on his blog, shortly. Renowned hacker and security expert Pod2g has just tweeted to his 330K followers, “Found a heavy SMS f... |
14 August 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Another episode has elapsed in the legal drama that is the Apple vs. Samsung patent war, and Samsung has taken the reins for once, providing a good argument for why Apple's patent infringement claims have no grounds.
One of the patents that Apple accused Samsung of having infringed is the one that describes th... |
14 August 2012
04:30 GMT |
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A massive coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred from the right side of the Sun on July 23, solar physicists announce. The event saw a large volume of material being ejected from the solar surface at the highest speed ever detected by a dedicated observatory.
The material the CME released flew past the one of the twi... |
14 August 2012
04:23 GMT |
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The Mechromancer class in Borderlands 2, which will be released after the game’s launch as DLC, will have a special skill tree called Best Friends Forever, which includes an ability named Close Enough that makes missed shots ricochet and hit nearby targets.
Borderlands 2 includes four different classes, rangin... |
14 August 2012
04:20 GMT |
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A new option in iOS 6, that has received little attention so far, will enable early birds to wake up to their favorite tune. No longer are we bound to Apple’s crazy ringtones for alarm clock sounds.
No offense, Apple, but most of the ringtones iOS ships with suck. Harp and Timba must be the only two decent sou... |
14 August 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Just recently, wildlife specialists working with the Florida Museum of Natural History cut open a python caught in the Everglades National Park and were quite surprised to find that the animal had a total of 87 eggs inside it. Apparently, this discovery sets a new record as far as the breeding abilities of this spe... |
14 August 2012
04:02 GMT |
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The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) has been designed by Microsoft to prevent security holes from being exploited by cybercriminals. However, a security researcher claims to have found a couple of methods to bypass it.
Shahriyar Jalayeri from Iran has apparently bypassed EMET 3.5 even with the return o... |
14 August 2012
03:54 GMT |
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It seems that the special Naval Warfare video for Assassin’s Creed 3 was leaked earlier than Ubisoft had hoped, as the trailer is now available on YouTube ahead of its actual reveal at Gamescom 2012 later today. Assassin’s Creed 3 is set to feature all sorts of impressive mechanics and, as a first for th... |
14 August 2012
03:44 GMT |
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The latest Chrome beta bug-fixing release has now been pushed to the stable channel. Both channels are running the same version, Chrome 21.0.1180.77, though the beta channel should be upgraded to Chrome 22 soon enough. There's not much to brag about in this small update, it just fixes one notable issue.
The pro... |
14 August 2012
03:44 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is expected to bring its largest Android-based smartphone to the United States before the end of September this year.
Called LG Optimus Vu, the handset represents the company’s response to Samsung’s large Galaxy Note, and has sold over half a million units ... |
14 August 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce that they have received the second of four main flight instruments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It consists of two separate devices, the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS). The agency's next flagship space observato... |
14 August 2012
03:33 GMT |
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Acer is in a pretty rough argument with Microsoft about the fact that the Redmond giant will be practically competing with its own clients in the tablet market, once Surface reaches the shops. We don’t really understand why Acer would be so upset as it has a considerably minuscule market share in this sector.
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14 August 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Those of you who are into sports probably know that Abel Kirui, the long-distance runner for Kenya, just won a silver medal at this year's London Olympic Games for his performance at the marathon. However, it is quite unlikely that many are familiar with the fact that Abel Kirui ran all that distance dressed in... |
14 August 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Individuals and organizations who fight for freedom of speech and freedom of information are certainly not friends with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other similar companies that represent the artists. A statement released by Anonymous yesterday reinforces this fact. The hacktivists believ... |
14 August 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Apple will kick off pre-orders of its next-generation handset on September 12, the day of the announcement, according to sources that have provided iMore with accurate information in the past. The device will become physically available in the US on September 21, the same sources said.
The blog spreads the news as a... |
14 August 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Valve has confirmed that it’s going to release a brand new update for its quite popular Team Fortress 2 online shooter, which is called Mann vs. Machine and introduces a cooperative mode that pits up to six players against hordes of robots.
Team Fortress 2 has been around for quite some time and, given its add... |
14 August 2012
03:11 GMT |
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NVIDIA's most recent conference call with financial analysts took place a few days ago, but we will only speak about one of the highlights: supply of 28HP chips.
For those who don't know, 28HP is the abbreviation for 28nm high-performance manufacturing technology with high-K metal gate.
It is the techno... |
14 August 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Last night, it finally happened. Robert Pattinson made his first on-screen appearance after Kristen Stewart's cheating on him with movie director Rupert Sanders placed him under a not-so-inviting spotlight.
In spite of the fact that Robert Pattinson supposedly agreed to sit for an interview with 'The Dail... |
14 August 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Microsoft’s next major release of Windows Phone is now said to be set for an official unveiling as soon as October 1st, 2012, or one day earlier, on September 30th.
Nothing has been officially unveiled on the matter, but Pocketnow claims to have got hold of an internal memo on Windows Phone 8 that mentions an... |
14 August 2012
02:45 GMT |
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Klei Entertainment has confirmed that it’s going to release its latest project, Mark of the Ninja, onto the Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on September 7.
Mark of the Ninja retains Klei Entertainment’s trademark 2D side-scrolling style, this time putting players in the stealth shoes of a modern ninja ... |
14 August 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Samsung promised to roll out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system to all of its Galaxy Tab slates.
The latest step in that direction is the release of the update package for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE and Galaxy Tab 10.1 in South Korea, the corporation's home market.
This comes after the Tab 10.1 ... |
14 August 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of Windows Phone 8 devices, something that has been rumored for the past few months.
At the same time, the company is moving forth with preparing software updates for its current series of Windows Phone devices, to provide users with the 7.8 flavor of t... |
14 August 2012
02:25 GMT |
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