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Disney Interactive Studios has confirmed that it is developing a TRON videogame, called Evolution, which is set to be released at some point during the 2010 holiday season just before the TRON: Legacy movie is launched in theaters.The game should be developed for the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microso... |
15 December 2009
18:21 GMT |
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It can take many months for a human newborn child to learn how to walk. In the first few months of life, the child is highly dependent on its parents for everything, and they learn to move on their own after much experimenting and failure. Experts have wondered for a long time why this is the case with our species, w... |
15 December 2009
18:11 GMT |
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The overall NPD Group figures for November on the United States market show the industry declining overall by 7.6% when compared to the same month of 2008, with hardware being the hardest hit, going down by 13.4%. And a quick look at the numbers side by side is revealing as to what happened.This November, the chart l... |
15 December 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Shigeru Miyamoto is pretty much the equivalent of Willie Wonka. A weird, eccentric, and sometimes misunderstood genius, but a genius nonetheless, Miyamoto has designed some of the most successful and innovative games for Nintendo. While trying to understand the cogs that make such a mind turn will always result in di... |
15 December 2009
16:21 GMT |
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In an important, new finding that could lead to the development of faster optical information processing and more compact computers, physicists at the University of Toronto managed to detect a new type of behavior in photons. These are the elementary particles that make up light, and the UT group learned that they te... |
15 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The global mobile phone sales to end users during the ongoing year are expected to top 1.214 billion units, driven mainly by the stronger sales in the Western European market and by an increase in handsets sold via the gray market, a recent report from Gartner shows. According to the research firm, the total sales wi... |
15 December 2009
15:41 GMT |
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They say you can’t possibly make a woman not love shoes, and this seems to hold water as regards a recent survey as well, which shows that women rather remember the first pair of shoes they bought with their own money than the guy they shared their first kiss with. Similarly, The Telegraph informs, women a... |
15 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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2K has been rumored for a few weeks to be working on a new title in the old Spec Ops franchise and the Spike Video Games Awards offered it the perfect opportunity to show off the first trailer for the game, which is apparently casting the player in the role of United States Special Forces operatives sent to battle te... |
15 December 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Looking younger than one’s age may be a curse while growing up, especially as a teen, but it has solid advantages later on in life because it can predict a longer life for the person in question. Researchers have established that a fresh-faced appearance means a longer life, as opposed to those who usually... |
15 December 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile, together with Ubiquisys Limited (“Ubiquisys”) and Huawei Technologies (“Huawei”), announced on Monday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at femtocell Interoperability Testing (IOT) at T-Mobile’s labs. According to the telecom companies, t... |
15 December 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Spatial-sequence synesthesia is a special form of the condition, in which people tend to see all numerical sequences they come across as visual patterns. Synesthesia is a very hot and debated topic, since some of the people who have it say that they wouldn't get rid of it even if they could, while others would g... |
15 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Expectant mommies are more than just a ball of nerves and mood swings, a new study cited by New Scientist says. Because of the raging hormones, pregnant women can identify signs of anger or aggression on someone’s face with more accuracy than other women who are not expecting and men, the study has learned.
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15 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that it seeks to sell a Collector's Edition for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, which is planned to arrive on February 26, 2010. The game is set to come to the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft and to the PC, and the limited Collector's Edition will be available f... |
15 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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If you are an iPhone or iPod touch user, you will have to either update the device’s software or back up/restore your data. Although Apple makes most of these tasks as easy as possible, sometimes one wants to have guides just to make sure everything will be OK after the process is over.As you might have already... |
15 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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South Korean leading mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced on Monday the commercial availability of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) dongle, meant to offer connectivity to TeliaSonera's users in Sweden and Norway. The wireless carrier, as many of you might already now, has just fired up its 4G LTE ne... |
15 December 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Even though ATI didn't even have a whole year to sell its DirectX 11-capable graphics products, it seems that chances are rather high for total sales to amount to one whole million by the end of 2009. This is quite noteworthy considering the rather large prices of said chips and products based on it. The cheapes... |
15 December 2009
12:12 GMT |
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It's been a long time since we heard from True Crime, ever since True Crime: New York City proved to be a total disaster. While the first game of the series, Streets of LA, proved to be a decent title, its sequel showed that it couldn't even rise to its predecessor's knee. But, now, True Crime is back,... |
15 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Google is always updating its products but it has seen a flurry of activity lately as engineers are working on finishing their work before the holidays. Google Docs is no exception and the team has introduced a couple of new features, the co-editor presence notification for presentations being one of them, and a bunc... |
15 December 2009
11:57 GMT |
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Just a few days after IBM introduced a new line of System z servers designed for efficiency when running the Linux operating system, Big Blue is called to court by NEON Enterprise Software over alleged foul methods of discouraging mainframe holders from using the zPrime technology. This is not the fist foul play laws... |
15 December 2009
11:47 GMT |
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Mozilla had noted previously that it would deliver updates to its fully supported versions of the open source browser by the end of this year, and it managed to live up to its promise. Today, December 15th, Firefox 3.5.6 and Firefox 3.0.16 became available for download. Mozilla has yet to officially announce the avai... |
15 December 2009
11:35 GMT |
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The physical memory is among the most important things in a system. Combine a great amount of RAM with a powerful CPU and you'll have a beast for a computer that'll be capable of handling a large number of apps without shaking its performance.For keeping your system at the highest pace possible a set of cle... |
15 December 2009
11:31 GMT |
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Choosing the wrong travel bag knowing you'll be boarding in an Israeli airport may not be such a good idea if you’re planning to stuff it with valuable items, like your laptop, for example. Chances are it’s going to be blown up by the authorities. It’s the story of blogger Lily Sussman who saw ... |
15 December 2009
11:23 GMT |
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Google is enhancing its recently introduced Fusion Tables data management tool, which is labeled as a Labs project, with the release of a dedicated API. The API will enable users with dynamic data sets to update them without having to log into the Fusion Tables site or having to manually add the new data. This way th... |
15 December 2009
11:22 GMT |
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We were telling you just hours ago that the season 4 finale of Showtime’s killer series “Dexter” managed to surpass even the rosiest of predictions, setting a new record in terms of ratings for the network. Of course, this would not have been possible without the twisted and, for many, shocking endi... |
15 December 2009
11:17 GMT |
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Windows 7 has an extremely funny side, and if you don’t believe then Microsoft has the necessary video footage to prove it to you. At the bottom of this article you will be able to feast your eyes on three of the winning videos from the Windows 7 72-Hour Film Festival that Microsoft held in Seattle the past mon... |
15 December 2009
11:14 GMT |
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BenQ finally released its first 27-inch liquid crystal display monitor when it introduced the M2700HD earlier today. The monitor will perfectly play the part of a main display for a PC or that of secondary output for laptops and, more notably, it even performs better than similar television sets through its superior ... |
15 December 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Scientists at the Aston University, in the United Kingdom, can boast, at this point, having control over the longest fiber laser in the world. Their physics device was created from, and now occupies more than 270 kilometers (168 miles) of optical fiber cable. The science group at the university believes that the new ... |
15 December 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless launched not too long ago its first mobile phone powered by Google's Android operating system, the Motorola DROID, a device that already became very popular all around the world. The phone comes with a large display and with great connectivity options, not to mention some s... |
15 December 2009
10:57 GMT |
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NVIDIA, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance graphics cards and graphics solutions, has just released another Beta version of its latest GeForce and Ion drivers. The new 195.81 Beta release is pretty much similar to the previous WHQL-certified release, version 195.62, according to the release ... |
15 December 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Chris Brown used his Twitter page to let his fans and the music industry in general know that he was not happy with having his latest album, “Graffiti,” “blackballed.” The “rant” made international headlines and was applauded by all Chris Brown fans – w... |
15 December 2009
10:43 GMT |
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The Bing Home Sweet Homepage photo contest is not the only challenge from Microsoft designed to inspire users to share their imagery with the world. The Photosynth team is holding its own season thematic contest, under the moniker "Holiday Lights." Specifically, the Redmond company is looking for people to share thei... |
15 December 2009
10:43 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it may be that one of the reasons why humans tend to live longer than their ape and primate cousins has something to do with the carnivorous diets we are accustomed to. Evolutionary biologists believe that a diet based on meat may also help our bodies avert cancer, ... |
15 December 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Swype, an innovative text input technology, announced today that it managed to secure $5.6 million in Series B financing for the further work on the integration of Swype technology in a wider range of mobile phones on the market. The company also announced that the financing was led by Nokia Growth Partners, Samsung... |
15 December 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Scientists at the CERN-operated Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have proudly announced the first scientific results from the world's largest physics experiment and particle accelerator. They publish the first study based entirely in the observations carried out at the Collider, on two opposite beams of protons, whic... |
15 December 2009
10:29 GMT |
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There is no better time of the year to release animation films or movies that are based on well-known and popular children’s stories as Christmas. On Friday, Disney premiered its much hyped 2D animation film, “The Princess and the Frog,” the first ever Disney production to feature a black princess, ... |
15 December 2009
10:26 GMT |
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The recent beta launch for Mac and Linux seems to have had the desired effect and has pushed Google Chrome usage quite a bit from November. In fact, the launch seems to have increased Chrome's market share by about 10 percent making it the third most popular browser in the world, marginally squeezing out S... |
15 December 2009
10:21 GMT |
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An impressive breakthrough in chemistry was recently achieved at the Cornell University, when researchers learned how to break two of the strongest types of chemical bonds in the world at room temperature and pressure. This is something that has never been done before, and experts say that the innovation could see a ... |
15 December 2009
10:17 GMT |
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Windows 7, the product of what was by far the largest testing effort around a Windows client, with Microsoft revealing that in excess of 8 million early adopters got involved in test driving the operating system. Subsequently, customers applauded the software giant for delivering an extremely polished platform, with ... |
15 December 2009
10:15 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
15 December 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Even though most systems don't need more than 4GB to 8GB of memory to run most games and applications, there are always some gaming or multitasking enthusiasts who want their systems to pack as much RAM as they can shove into them. For those end-users with very highly capable motherboards and CPUs, Corsair has u... |
15 December 2009
10:12 GMT |
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As many of you should know, Apple has recently launched a new, Multi-Touch capable mouse - the Magic Mouse. The older mouse didn’t leave the scene as the new one arrived, although Apple is heavily promoting the new peripheral. The two mice have something in common - they’re Bluetooth-capable and work with... |
15 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
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“Dexter,” the unlikely drama from Showtime, dealing with the story of a serial killer trying to joggle his vigilantism with a family life and a job with the Miami police, was poised for greatness. The season 4 finale, arguably its best season to date, has just shattered all records for the network, with o... |
15 December 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has been rumored not too long ago to be working on a new handset that should run under Google's Android operating system, while also boasting connectivity support for Sprint Nextel's iDEN network, the Motorola Opus One. For the time being, there are no exact details on whether t... |
15 December 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Approximately one month ago, Adobe, the developer of some of the most popular applications on today's personal computers, announced the release of its Flash Player 10.1, a beta solution that would enable PC users to enjoy a better visual experience when dealing with the latest high-definition videos. The beta v... |
15 December 2009
09:46 GMT |
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Google Sidewiki has been out for a couple of months now and, while it hasn't set the world on fire, it is proving rather popular given the expectations. The feature allows anyone in the world to leave a comment on any web page online which other visitors who are also using Sidewiki can read and rate. When it la... |
15 December 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Tiger Woods announced that, because of the recent developments in his personal life, he would be taking an indefinite break from golf until he gets his life back in order. The move as unexpected as it will prove to be unwelcome, with industry insiders estimating that golf programs will see ratings d... |
15 December 2009
09:36 GMT |
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The Lenovo ThinkVantage toolbox is based on the PC-Doctor diagnostics platform and contains a suite of processes aimed at monitoring and maintaining system health, security and productivity when run on ThinkPad and ThinkCentre desktop PCs. The actual application contains five tabs, two of which deal with the aforemen... |
15 December 2009
09:26 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 is the second Xperia mobile phone the Japanese-Swedish handset vendor Sony Ericsson announced that it would come to the market with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system on board. The device was unveiled officially quite a while ago, and was expected to arrive on the market last mo... |
15 December 2009
09:18 GMT |
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In theory, some types of nanoparticles should be able to conglomerate into molecular clusters on account of the fact that Casimir forces tend to balance each other. Achieving such structures would be a considerable breakthrough, especially when considering that it was only in 1997 that the Casimir force was accuratel... |
15 December 2009
09:07 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from Strategy Analytics, one of the main features that mobile phone users praised on their devices during the ongoing year was access to Google and Facebook. Moreover, as the research firm notes, most of the handset users that responded to its survey have declared that they w... |
15 December 2009
08:50 GMT |
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Google rules the search market worldwide and clearly dominates in most countries. In a few markets though, it has failed to make too much inroad, especially where the country is being served by a powerful local brand. This is the case in China, where Google is getting trumped by Baidu and has just managed to get to ... |
15 December 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Advancements in graphics and display technologies have prompted consumers to look for ways to extend their entertainment possibilities across their entire home. This has led to the demand for display technologies with a bandwidth high enough for an in-home converged distribution of HD multimedia, including the uncomp... |
15 December 2009
08:46 GMT |
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With the rising popularity of the Nintendo Wii gaming console, a lot of households around the world can now boast having at least one or two Wii remotes (Wiimotes) around. Priced at around $40 each, the wireless devices may seem expensive for home use, but they are a bargain for members of the scientific community. T... |
15 December 2009
08:45 GMT |
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Taylor Swift is not only a celebrated and much appreciated singer, but also a very lovable celebrity, the kind who never forgets to help others who perhaps will never have the chance she had to break in the spotlight. To celebrate her 20th birthday, the country singer donated no less than $250,000 to schools she visi... |
15 December 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Going from one Mac game publisher to another, Softpedia is pleased to report that Dragon Age: Origins is coming to the Macintosh platform. BioWare and Electronic Arts will soon be releasing the Mac installment, while gamers can secure their own copy as soon as today. The title is ported to the Mac by TransGaming, via... |
15 December 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Gran Turismo 5 has finally received a release window for Japan, with Sony confirming that the racing title from Polyphony Digital will be arriving in the Land of the Rising Sun in March. The company has until now refused to comment on a release date for the United States of America and for Europe but it seems that pl... |
15 December 2009
08:20 GMT |
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Rambus' situation hasn't exactly been on the rise lately, with its finances seeing consecutive unfavorable quarters and most of its legal issues still alive and well. Arguably, the only real favorable development was finally settling things with the European Commission last week. Still, even though its fina... |
15 December 2009
08:15 GMT |
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Rallen and Jeena's routine patrol mission is interrupted when they pick up a distress call. Upon arriving at the source of the message, they find an ancient escape pod and its passenger in cryogenic sleep. Waking him up, the two officers find out about a horrible threat to the universe – the Krawls are abo... |
15 December 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Cloud computing technology is set to take off very soon and storage-solution developers are faced with the need to create high-density and reliable storage units capable of meeting the high reliability and speed demands of cloud infrastructures. In order to more easily develop high-performance enterprise storage modu... |
15 December 2009
07:32 GMT |
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
15 December 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is at war more than usually, and it started off because of friendship. As we saw, the red demoman and the blue soldier found themselves united by camaraderie and liquor, and formed a bond that was greatly frowned upon. As such, the game is preparing the War update, in which only one class will recei... |
15 December 2009
07:12 GMT |
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The folks at Big Download have learned “through several unnamed but reliable sources” that the publisher of multiple Mac game ports, Aspyr Media, laid off roughly 50 per cent of its staff two weeks ago, with the news hitting the wires just now. Reportedly, the maker of the GameAgent utility now has only a... |
15 December 2009
07:07 GMT |
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Users that have experience glitches in scenarios involving the burning of DVDs from Windows 7 might find a resolve with Microsoft, provided that the issues were generated by Udfs.sys. Microsoft has made available an update designed to take care of three problems associated with the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file sy... |
15 December 2009
07:03 GMT |
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At this point, chemotherapy is one of the therapies for cancer that are used around the word. Millions of people are subjected to the drugs, which indeed have some efficiency in destroying tumor cells. Unfortunately, they also attack and easily destroy healthy cells, which means that the therapy has some very nasty s... |
15 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Via technologies announced today two new motherboards that deliver an excellent human-to-machine interaction and make use of the latest HD codecs and media-streaming technologies to deliver a great multimedia experience when paired with the VIA Nano 64-bit, high-performance processor. The actual products are the VIA ... |
15 December 2009
06:51 GMT |
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One of the more interesting new features to make its way into the upcoming Firefox 3.6 is support for the latest W3C File API for HTML and also for the Drag and Drop API from the proposed HTML 5 standard. With these two APIs web developers can create powerful app for file management without resorting to proprietary ... |
15 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is hard at work with improving the functionality of one of the nicest handsets that it delivered to the market during the ongoing year, the HTC HD2. The device, which is powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, has recently seen two new ROM updates... |
15 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken down a Windows Live Messenger-based service it recently unveiled in China faced with allegations that it stole the code for the website. The owners of Plurk , an immensely popular microblogging service and social network in China are firing all guns at the Redmond company, accusing the software g... |
15 December 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Yesterday, AT&T announced the addition of five new high-definition channels to its U-verse TV channel lineup, including two international ones for Cantonese and Filipino subscribers. With the addition of these five new channels, AT&T U-verse comes to a total of over 60 launched this year, half of them in high defin... |
15 December 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Nine years after its previously launched version, ECMA International has announced the release of ECMAScript 5, which was approved as a web standard by the ECMA International's General Assembly at the start of December. This will bring many new features to ECMA-based languages like JScript (Microsoft) and JavaSc... |
15 December 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Nokia phone users have now yet another appealing solution available for them, straight from the Nokia beta Labs, in the form of a beta flavor of Nokia Messaging for social networks with support for Twitter. The solution was launched for the first time in September, with support for Facebook, and now the developing t... |
15 December 2009
06:32 GMT |
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James Cameron spent at least the past 12 years of his life working on his biggest pet project ever, a film that even he refers to as a massive “ego trip,” the upcoming “Avatar.” Dealing with the story of an alien civilization whose planet is being plundered by humans for its vast natural resou... |
15 December 2009
06:28 GMT |
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While the story obviously has two more parts, it's not really set in stone that Dante's Inferno will be part of a trilogy. Theoretically, is would be very hard to make a sequel to the game, considering that the Purgatory and Paradise would have to be the next settings for it, but then again, from what the d... |
15 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Apple keeps standing out this year. Its latest achievement is AdWeek naming the Get a Mac series of ads the “Campaign of the Decade.” The series of commercials is well known for featuring two distinct characters, one portraying PC (Windows), the other, Mac. “Apple always diverged from the ‘sp... |
15 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Physicists at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) propose that the death of stars is not a process that can be fully explained using existing knowledge. They argue that a previously undiscovered type of star is formed when regular precursors die and have dubbed the new celestial object an electroweak star. The... |
15 December 2009
06:11 GMT |
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The December 2009 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office has been up for grabs from the Microsoft Download Center, since the past week, and continues to be available even at this point in time. When it first released the latest CTP build of its software development kit for Off... |
15 December 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Google is speeding up the pace ahead of the holidays and various teams at the company are working to get what they've been working on out the door. The Google Toolbar is the latest to get an update and comes with a couple of big new features for Internet Explorer and Firefox. The biggest announcement is the new... |
15 December 2009
06:04 GMT |
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After the release of Linux Mint 8 back in November, Clement Lefebvre and the developers behind the Linux Mint community announced last evening (December 14th) the immediate availability for download of the 64-bit edition of Linux Mint 8. This version is exactly like the main edition of Linux Mint 8 but compiled for 6... |
15 December 2009
06:01 GMT |
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We already saw a plethora of new games being unveiled at the Video Game Awards this year. The Force Unleashed 2 and Batman:Arkham Asylum 2 were some of the biggest names, but there were a lot of other titles that, while already hinted at and teased, weren't really presented in any way. One of such games is Medal... |
15 December 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Even the IT industry must be feeling the influence of the impending planetary alignment that will occur in 2012. Already, its effects have begun to show, as company leaks gravitate more and more towards the Internet, with docs detailing future releases even slipping away from the Santa Clara-based chip giant. The lea... |
15 December 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Two research groups, one based in France, and the other one in the United Kingdom, are currently working on new ways of integrating Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers in the operating room. They say that this could halve, or even quarter, the time it takes for biopsy samples to be analyzed, a feat that co... |
15 December 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has recently announced that its Xperia Pureness handset is now available for purchase in the US via Saks Fifth Avenue online and through Sony VIP Shopping Service via email at sonyvipservices@sonyusa.com. The handset comes to the market with a transparent liquid crys... |
15 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) have taken their relationship to the next level, beyond the evolution of Eye on Earth. On December 13, the United Nations 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), in Copenhagen, acted as the stage for EEA to release a couple of fresh Cloud-based applications powere... |
15 December 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The iTunes clone known as doubleTwist received a major update this week, although the final version of the software is still pending. Developed by the company with the same name, doubleTwist allows users to browse through their media and play various kinds of video and audio formats. The software recognizes numerous... |
15 December 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced recently the launch of its BlackBerry App World in two more markets, namely in Australia and New Zealand. According to the company, the new launch is set to offer BlackBerry smartphone users in those markets the possibility to access a wide variety of free mob... |
15 December 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Bohemia Interactive has announced that it plans to release the 1.05 patch for its military simulation ArmA 2 before the end of the year, complete with a host of tweaks of bug fixes, and coming with a new bonus campaign for all the long time fans, called “Eagle Wing.” Unfortunately, no clear date has been ... |
15 December 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
15 December 2009
05:31 GMT |
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True to its previous statements, Twitter is starting to roll out the professional features it's been touting for a while now. At the moment, it's just a small feature which enables businesses to have multiple contributors to the Twitter account. These will be able to do all the things the administrator of ... |
15 December 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Nintendo has a brand-new list of downloadable items to support its platforms, and the first one available for the Wii is Stunt Cars. Published by Icon Games Entertainment, the 800-Wii Point game is a rather simple racer that takes place on un-railed, elevated tracks and features a limited power-up turbo mechanic. The... |
15 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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ViewSonic devised its Windows 7 netbook as an economic, low power-using device that, while taking up little space, still delivers good performance, especially display capabilities compared to other such gadgets on the market. The mobile PC VNB102, also dubbed the ViewBook, allows, as the name implies, for good displa... |
15 December 2009
05:19 GMT |
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As the number of the alleged mistresses Tiger Woods has had while married to Elin Nordegren continues to grow, having already become a two-digit one, the golfer’s “prime mistress” Rachel Uchitel is receiving death threats, it has emerged. Rachel has not only been getting threatening phone calls, but... |
15 December 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
15 December 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Time magazine’s finalists for Person of the Year 2009 now include Apple's iconic CEO, Mr. Steve Jobs, who won Fortune's CEO of the Decade title earlier this year. Jobs is the single business leader on this year's Time list. The full list of 2009 Candidates is: Angela Merkel; Barack Obama; Ben Ber... |
15 December 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola is expected to deliver at least two handsets to the market in China, and these devices are said to be the Motorola MT710 and Motorola Zeppelin, both of which have just emerged in a series of new photos. Both handsets should be already familiar to you, as the former seems to be a version o... |
15 December 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Customers already embracing Microsoft’s Cloud platform need to be aware of a range of modifications that the company is planning to introduce with the evolution of Windows Azure platform AppFabric. The software giant underlines that the latest Community Technology Preview of Windows Azure platform AppFabric wil... |
15 December 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Over the years, scientists have been forced to rethink their theories that held only humans and primates could use tools. Rodents, birds and even elephants were proven to be able to do this as well, albeit to a smaller extent, and now octopi are added to the list as well. Recent observations have revealed that an oct... |
15 December 2009
04:53 GMT |
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NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing ... |
15 December 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, as the publisher, and EA Montreal, as the developer, have announced that a demo version of Army of Two: The 40th Day is set to be released on the Xbox Live service for the Microsoft home gaming console and on the PlayStation Network for the Sony platform.The demo will be arriving on January 7, 2010 f... |
15 December 2009
04:33 GMT |
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With both Google and Facebook taking swipes at it and invading its home territory, even if with veiled intentions, it didn't take long for Bit.ly, the biggest name in URL shorteners at the moment and undisputed market leader, to respond. Just as Facebook was revealed to be testing Fb.me and Google introduced Go... |
15 December 2009
04:32 GMT |
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The first 4G networks in the world based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology have been fired up in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. Both networks have been deployed by wireless carrier TeliaSonera, which thus becomes the first LTE operator around the globe. According to the company, the launch of it... |
15 December 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Michael Lohan, the father of much mediated star Lindsay Lohan, has just been arrested for violating a restriction order issued against him at the request of his ex girlfriend, Erin Muller. Mr. Lohan attempted to make contact with Muller by phone, which he is explicitly prohibited to do, TMZ says, and this resulted in... |
15 December 2009
04:24 GMT |
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The massively multiplayer role-playing game soldiers are back on the field, and the generals from Funcom have decided to take the initiative once again and be proactive. After they released a special “long-term commitment” offer, where subscriptions over longer periods of time would bring increasingly inc... |
15 December 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Geologists and climatologists have been aware that global warming and climate change have been eroding the Alaskan coastline for many years, but they have been unsure of the extent of the damage until recently. After using a camera to snap a series of time-lapse photos, they are now able to conclude that the Alaskan ... |
15 December 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Using the handy iPhone Dev Center section designated for developer news and announcements, the company behind the Mac operating system has posted a stub informing iPhone developers that HTTP Live Stream Technology is required for live TV streaming. The technology can be leveraged starting with iPhone OS 3.0. Currentl... |
15 December 2009
04:12 GMT |
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The URL shortener market just got a couple of big disruptions as possibly the two most powerful players in the web at the moment, Google and Facebook, have entered the market with their own URL shorteners. Facebook's approach is a rather cautious one, its shortener kicks in automatically only on the mobile site... |
15 December 2009
04:01 GMT |
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At the start of this month, Microsoft began kicking up a notch the online resources designed to streamline the management of Microsoft Volume Licensing program agreements and products. Essentially, the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center evolved into a single, integrated portal set up to allow customers to admi... |
15 December 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Following an intensely mediated pregnancy, Kourtney Kardashian has just welcomed a baby boy this Monday, at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. Initially due to give birth on December 23, the reality star decided to change the date – both mother and child are healthy and doing well, the New York Daily News reports. &l... |
15 December 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Astronomers have believed for a long time that, as technology finally progresses, we will soon be able to detect habitable worlds around stars similar to our own Sun. While the technology has not yet matured to that point, it is still advanced enough to provide a taste of the things to come. Recently, experts were ab... |
15 December 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of this weekend's news and rumors on what is supposedly the Google Phone, a new series of details emerged on the HTC Nexus One, a device that seems to be none other than the HTC Passion most of you might have heard of before. This time around, we have some availability and pricing info availabl... |
15 December 2009
03:46 GMT |
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You’d think that a list of instructions on “using an iPhone without a wireless service plan” would stem from some obscure blog run by a couple of geeks who love to hack their Apple hardware. But no, this guide is coming straight from 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. Apple reveals to those wh... |
15 December 2009
03:45 GMT |
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The NPD Group released the figures for sales of both hardware and software on the United States market for the month of November and the Xbox 360 managed to beat out the PlayStation 3 in sales, 820,000 to 710,000 units.Microsoft was quick to emphasize that it was a return to the pecking order that was in force before... |
15 December 2009
03:43 GMT |
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While some companies' roadmaps or future release plans don't come out exactly as planned, others have no qualms about revealing something to the public as long as it's on their terms. Public statements may be deliberately vague and often contain only a minimum of information so as to keep end-users�... |
15 December 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Apple has opened a full-time position for a video-game artist in Santa Clara Valley, Cupertino, California. The applicant must have at least three years of experience with the iPhone or any game consoles, and should possess Maya / 3D Max / Photoshop experience. This person will be part of a team tasked with designing... |
15 December 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Namco Bandai Games America just unveiled another addition to the fighting genre, and it's another licensed title for the PlayStation Portable. Based on the very popular manga and anime, the latest beat-em-up from the publisher features all our beloved characters from Naruto Shippuuden and more. Naruto Shippuuden... |
15 December 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Russian space agency, RosCosmos, launched an additional three satellites to the Earth's orbit, all aboard a Proton delivery system. The new instruments are scheduled to become a part of the Glonass navigation system, which the country is developing as an alternative to the American-built Global Po... |
15 December 2009
03:15 GMT |
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It's been a great year for Twitter which means it's been a great year for services built to cater to it, but the biggest being URL shorteners which, at one point, were popping up left and right. Things have quieted down a bit, after a few public failures, and Bit.ly settled into the role of undisputed mark... |
15 December 2009
03:11 GMT |
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It looks like a free tool Microsoft is providing to forensics investigators in approximately 190 markets worldwide has found its match. The antidote for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has been released to web and is currently available for download under the moniker DECAF, an acronym for Detect a... |
15 December 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Toshiba completed its first batch of sample high-density NAND flash memory modules, which are also the first to reach the high capacity of 64GB. The modules are fully compatible with the latest e•MMCTM standard and are not only a breakthrough in the area of embedded NAND flash chips, but they also reduce develop... |
15 December 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Harmonix, MTV Games and Apple Corps have announced that they are today releasing the Rubber Soul album for their The Beatles-themed Rock Band title. Players interested in picking up the full album can log into the Xbox Live Marketplace today to get it or use the Nintendo Wii but those who want to play on the PlayStat... |
15 December 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Rocker Courtney Love has just lost legal custody over her 17-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, People magazine informs. Control over the teenager goes to Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister, for reasons that have not been made public to the media, and will probably remain a secret, with Love’s attorney ... |
15 December 2009
02:55 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a number of 30 new images of what they name cosmic “blobs and smudges,” all inside the famous Orion Nebula. All the structures, the team says, are planetary systems in the making, and they will come to resemble our own solar system ov... |
15 December 2009
02:55 GMT |
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Nokia N900, the latest device the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia delivered to the market with the Maemo operating system on board, is set to make an appearance on Vodafone UK's airwaves as soon as January arrives. The handset can be already spotted on the wireless carrier's website, with the “comin... |
15 December 2009
02:54 GMT |
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While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon horde of... |
15 December 2009
02:44 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... |
15 December 2009
02:37 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... |
15 December 2009
02:05 GMT |
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