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Ever watched a match where Tyneside played against Merseyside Red? I bet you did, but you couldn't have imagined that these are the names that Konami picked for Newcastle and Liverpool while struggling to get more licenses for PES 6. But the fiercest battle is not in the football field, not even in the whole lic... |
15 August 2008
17:26 GMT |
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Everett Kaser Software has announced the successful port of all its casual PC titles to the Apple Macintosh. With the help of Brad Oliver, Solitile, Fliptile, Sherlock, Knarly Mazes, Descartes, Floyd's Bumbershoot and more are now available to buy. You can either get the games as digital downloads or on CD.Devel... |
15 August 2008
17:11 GMT |
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Although Apple is yet to acknowledge 3G connectivity issues surrounding its newly-released iPhone, reports are hitting from everywhere with claims of both hardware and software glitches to be the cause of weak signals. Additionally, Apple is said to be prepping a software fix to deal with the problems users are exper... |
15 August 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Back in 2007, because of the ubiquity of 32-bit architectures, and the market's slow migration pace toward 64-bit computing, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Windows client, Windows 7, would be delivered in both x86 and x64 flavors. In the year of Vista's launch, and even after the general a... |
15 August 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Companies are starting to team up in order to maximize their revenue and offer their product to as many potential customers as possible - something that is, after all, completely natural. Atari and Empire are the latest companies to sign a multi-year distribution agreement, adding a host of titles to Atari's lin... |
15 August 2008
15:16 GMT |
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The wait is almost over, since Electronic Arts and Maxis have announced that the most anticipated game of the year, Spore, has gone gold and will hit the retail shelves on the 5th of September in Europe and the 7th of September in North America and Asia. Also, at the same time with the North American release, the DS ... |
15 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Malware which threatens the global network of computers is so diverse that top-10 malicious programs only account for nearly 30% of the market. BitDefender has released a chart with the most "annoying" trojans and other types of software that affect users' machines. "Annoying" because the company itself admitted... |
15 August 2008
12:18 GMT |
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One can basically do anything in today's video games, but there are still a few game concepts that manage to amaze the world. One of these games is Prey The Stars, an eating puzzle title developed by Koei, scheduled to be released on the 7th of October 2008, exclusively for the Nintendo DS handheld. So, everybod... |
15 August 2008
12:11 GMT |
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The next major iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7 has been under development, taking into consideration the planning stage, for approximately two years, and yet outside of the leaked information and then the Milestone 1 Build, little to no details at all are available about the operating system. However, Micr... |
15 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Wing Commander Arena is a fast-paced space combat game where players team up to attack other ships. The game heads towards an arcade-style experience that allows up to 16 players online in battle at once. Players can propel their customized ships through space, fire torpedoes and unleash deadly gravity bombs as they ... |
15 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Last fall, Facebook was excited with the launch of a new feature which showed friends what the latest online purchases of Facebook subscribers were. Beacon could have been a fun way to share one's preferences, without personally telling everyone in the network about the latest movie he had bought online. But the... |
15 August 2008
11:35 GMT |
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VIA, a well known manufacturer of x86 processors, is reported to have received NANO CPU orders from leading notebook vendor HP. Apparently, the Taiwanese-based manufacturer has already started shipping the processors to HP, although details regarding quantities aren't yet available.At this time, it is unknown wh... |
15 August 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Urs Beyerle announced today the immediate availability of a new version of Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD edition. Compared with the previous version, Scientific Linux 5.2 Live CD/DVD works in persistent mode, which means that it will store/restore your settings if you run it from an USB flash drive. Also, this new fea... |
15 August 2008
10:54 GMT |
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How much time did you spend thinking before choosing the right alphanumeric or whatever type of characters to represent you in the Internet community? Yes, we're talking about email, and yes, you guessed right that email addresses seem to label us from the moment someone who doesn't know us receives a messa... |
15 August 2008
10:20 GMT |
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Not many people remember the original Total Annihilation and no one would have guessed that someday it would make its way onto the Xbox 360. Even if it got launched on the PC first, it remains one of the best strategy games to be found on consoles, because it brings the HD support and uses new exclusive units, online... |
15 August 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Despite the fact that almost everybody in the IT business is talking about AMD's latest high-performance, dual-chip HD 4870 X2 graphics card, MSI has decided to unveil two new models based on NVIDIA's latest mainstream GPUs, the 9500GT and 9800GT, and also a new HD 4870-based one. Unlike the reference cards... |
15 August 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Disney Online, the official website of The Walt Disney Company, has now more features and it's optimized to offer the best-possible online experience via mobile phones. Thanks to its new Mobile Web connectivity, fans can access, directly from their handsets, the magical world of Disney - games, virtual world ... |
15 August 2008
09:18 GMT |
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Wolf Of The Battlefield: Commando 3 is a run and gun type of game developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Capcom on the Xbox Live Arcade and PSN. The Xbox 360 version was released on the 11th of June 2008. An interesting thing worth noting is that, at the time of writing this article, everybody who purch... |
15 August 2008
09:18 GMT |
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Wii Transfer, a useful tool for Mac and Wii owners looking to share their movies, music, and pictures between the two machines, has recently been updated to version 2.6, adding a slew of new features and improvements. A note-worthy addition is the ability to copy Miis from your Wii back to your Mac and save them as i... |
15 August 2008
09:12 GMT |
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We're living in the age of rip-offs and producers aren't ashamed to create new games that are replicas of the hit titles we've played and replayed. If Crackdown can make it to the top while being a GTA-look-alike, why shouldn't Saints Row do the same? Just like the genre-defining GTA III, Saints R... |
15 August 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Although the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority did everything in its power to prevent information leaks, both the summary of the presentation at the hacker conference DefCon and a report marked with the "confidential" label have been published on the Internet. The latter document shows how easily the Charlie... |
15 August 2008
08:50 GMT |
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TNA iMPACT! is a title based on the fastest growing professional wrestling brand in the world and its flagship program with the same name. In this virtual world to be released by Midway, you are able to choose your wrestling style, custom move set and clothing to build your ultimate champion. The game will feature wr... |
15 August 2008
08:37 GMT |
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VIA, one of the leading manufacturers of power efficient x86 processor platforms, has announced today the VIA EPIA N700 Nano-ITX board, designed for compact, industrial PC and embedded automation devices.The platform comes with a 1.5GHz VIA C7 or 500MHz VIA Eden processor and is the company's first Nano-ITX boar... |
15 August 2008
08:32 GMT |
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This was my first ever adventure with a Slakware-based GNU/Linux distribution so I cannot say it has been an easy, effortless task, but that's probably just my lack of experience, because, after I finished the installation and testing of Zenwalk 5.2 Beta GNOME edition, it all made much more sense. Still, I would... |
15 August 2008
08:17 GMT |
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Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released the source code for the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) under the GPL+Classpath Exception. The company took this step in order to combat the fragmentation trends in the mobile development world and to enable developers to create user interfaces that would behave the sam... |
15 August 2008
08:15 GMT |
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Fans of the strategy genre or the Strategic Command franchise will be delighted to hear that Battlefront and Fury Software have just announced a brand new title in the series, Pacific Theater. The game will offer the same complexity we were used to, without requiring a previous installation of any other product, whic... |
15 August 2008
08:10 GMT |
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A free solution accelerator available for download straight from Microsoft is capable of sniffing out the security holes on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and RTM computers in an IT infrastructure. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 was released at the end of June 2008, and is the evolution of the Window... |
15 August 2008
07:25 GMT |
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Mac users looking to capture and record everything happening on their computer's screen in image, video or flash format, should look into MacVide's ScreenCap. The application, recently updated to version 1.9, can also record audio from your desktop or from a microphone or another compatible device. The new ... |
15 August 2008
07:14 GMT |
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We all know that DAB radio (DAB stands for digital audio broadcasting) has never really enjoyed such a high level of success, apart from several regions around the world (Korea and UK, in particular). However, it would seem that British companies are keen on pumping new DAB receivers on the market, and that's al... |
15 August 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Google's Android mobile platform was officially announced quite some time ago, but there's still no device on the market to run on it. Well, according to recently unveiled details, this will change pretty soon, as T-Mobile USA is said to be the world's first mobile carrier to offer an Android-powered h... |
15 August 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Yahoo! has confirmed that two new directors who will be included in the executive board are from Carl Icahn's slate. The two businessmen are Frank Biondi and John Chapple, and are familiar with issues regarding media, entertainment, and even telecommunications and real estate. Previously, Biondi held executive r... |
15 August 2008
06:52 GMT |
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AMD's official announcement for the latest high-performance graphics card, HD 4870 X2, was followed by yet another one, also made by the Sunnyvale-based maker. It appears that the company's graphics business has managed to achieve a market share of 40%, up from 30%, due to the success of its recently releas... |
15 August 2008
06:40 GMT |
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BurnAgain FS mounts your data CD or DVD like a hard disk volume. This Mac app comes in very handy as it lets you add, remove, and even edit and change files which are ultimately burned to the media. The latest version of BurnAgain FS improves handling of large files and QuickLook/Preview performance and fixes a coupl... |
15 August 2008
06:21 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, although the potential of Live Mesh is limitless, the cloud platform does have boundaries, especially in its current form. Introduced in April 2008, Live Mesh is a project developed under the new Software plus Services strategy of the Redmond company, a direction imposed by Ray Ozzie after tak... |
15 August 2008
06:18 GMT |
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It seems that Intel's "latest and greatest" Centrino 2 graphics silicon has some performance issues, which have been recently revealed. A post on the company's blog discusses the ability of the latest generation of integrated graphics to handle high-quality video streams. The blog reckons that the issue exi... |
15 August 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Yesterday marked a big step in copyright protection of open source licensed software, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that an open source software developer can claim copyright infringement, even if the work is released under a free software license.The appellate court reversed a district c... |
15 August 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Atrua Technologies, a Californian company that provides Intelligent Touch Control solutions, has recently announced that Lenovo's latest smartphone, the P960, is equipped with its mobile fingerprint technologies. The P960 is Lenovo's first commercial handset to come with fingerprint biometrics, packing a... |
15 August 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Opera 9.5 beat both Firefox 3.0 and certainly Internet Explorer 8 to the market, as it was launched officially on June 12, 2008. Then at the start of July hot on the heels of the final release of version 9.5, Opera 9.51 was released. On top of the security issues it was designed to resolve, v9.51 was focused on the s... |
15 August 2008
05:45 GMT |
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The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit arrested a 19-year-old man from the Netherlands, as he was trying to sell the Shadow botnet that he had created to a Brazilian. International special forces, including the F.B.I., are collaborating for the extradition of the South American, who was also arrested, to the U.S.The botnet s... |
15 August 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Australian & New Zealand residents and iTunes users can now rent or download movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate, according to Apple. More information, including pr... |
15 August 2008
05:38 GMT |
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According to the most recent rumors regarding Intel's motherboard business, the Santa Clara-based leading chip maker is expected to release a new line of mobos. These will presumably enable PCs to make use of a certain functionality, while still being in a power-saving sleep mode and consuming potentially less t... |
15 August 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Although the second quarter is considered to be a rather slow one when it comes to processor demand, this year, the worldwide PC microprocessor shipments reached a record level during Q2, says IDC. There was a 3.1 percent quarter over quarter increase in processor unit shipments, while the year over year shipments we... |
15 August 2008
05:14 GMT |
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Announced by Virgin Mobile USA more than one month ago, the new entry-level Kyocera TNT! is now available for purchase across the States. The handset's price is of only $20, hence it's clear that its target is represented by users who get along well with affordable devices. The name of the new Kyocera p... |
15 August 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Apple has announced it would be opening yet another Retail Store in the States, in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The Grand Opening will be held this Saturday (tomorrow), August 16th at 10 am. As usual, the first 1,000 people to visit the Apple Store will nab a free Apple Store limited edition T-shirt.Apple is featuring... |
15 August 2008
04:59 GMT |
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A new prototype from Microsoft promises to transform a simple Office 2007 PowerPoint presentation into a zoomable canvas. In this regard, Microsoft Office Labs pptPlex has been designed in order to deliver an alternative method to explore and to display the contents of a PowerPoint slide deck. Because of the new zoom... |
15 August 2008
04:51 GMT |
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One of the most realistic racing games for the PlayStation 3, Criterion's Burnout Paradise, will be available for download from the US PlayStation Store for $29.99 this fall. Even better is the fact that the downloadable version will also include all the recent updates delivered until now: and seeing as how this... |
15 August 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Nvidia announced yesterday the release of a new series of drivers, a beta version, which comes with support for the recently unveiled OpenGL 3.0 standard from the Khronos Group. The new drivers are meant to implement the OpenGL 3.0 API and the GLSL 1.30 shading language for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, and work... |
15 August 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Socialthing!, a website that promises to offer social networking fans quite a revolutionary experience, announced that it had been acquired by AOL, although the transaction had not yet been completed. Socialthing! is a virtual place where people can stay in touch with their friends who are subscribers to other websit... |
15 August 2008
04:19 GMT |
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After Asetek rushed to reveal, earlier this week, the first liquid cooling solution for AMD's latest dual-chip graphics card, CoolIT has been quick to follow suit with its own liquid cooling system for the HD Radeon 4870 X2. As with Asetek's product, the new Dual Drive Bay VGA Cooler has been designed to ef... |
15 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Electronic Arts (EA), the world-famous game developer based in Redwood, California, has announced that it would soon offer a series of mobile games based on the popular Deal or No Deal TV show. EA and Endemol UK (the TV production company that owns the show) have signed and agreement in order to enable EA Mobile to d... |
15 August 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Back in May, Feral Interactive was confirming that Battlestations: Midway was due out for the Mac this summer. In a press release issued yesterday, Robosoft announced that Battlestations: Miday had been fully ported to Mac.The complete version of the game packs around 60 war machines including bombers, battleships, d... |
15 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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The Register is reporting that CardCops, a credit card protection service owned by the Affinion Group, has spotted sensitive information belonging to several hundred people with Mac.com accounts being "traded in underground forums frequented by identity thieves".According to the source, .Mac users handed over their p... |
15 August 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Believe it or not, the successor of Windows Vista is starting to become palpable. The first signs of life as far as Windows 7 is concerned were delivered in December 2007 with the release of the Milestone 1 Build of the operating system. Since then, with the exception of the crumbs from the Windows 7 feast that slipp... |
15 August 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Nobody was really anticipating the closure of Flagship Studios, even though Hellgate: London wasn't doing that great. However, many had high hopes in Mythos, a Diablo-like MMO developed by ex Blizzard North employees. Unfortunately, it seems that the game will not see the light of day too soon.However, all is no... |
15 August 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Palm Treo 850, one of the upcoming flagship smartphones from the Sunnyvale-based manufacturer, will actually be named Palm Treo Pro. Or, at least, that's what it is written in a presentation of the handset, appeared on Palm's website.The said presentation is no longer accessible at the moment, but there are... |
15 August 2008
03:28 GMT |
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As already noted in a number of our previous posts, Solid State Drives are becoming increasingly more affordable and better than normal hard disk drives. This is why companies such as OCZ or Intel are constantly looking to update their offers for the storage market with new, better and overall cheaper SSDs.OCZ is one... |
15 August 2008
03:20 GMT |
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It seems that the best way to produce realistic reflections in today's graphics, although quite an expensive one too, is ray-tracing. The enthusiast of this rendering solution was up until now Intel, which made demonstrations in the past by using the tracing of light rays with some versions of Quake, while on a ... |
15 August 2008
03:10 GMT |
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Velvet Assassin, Gamecock's very promising stealth action game (known as Sabotage in its early days) just got an official website running and we must admit that we're impressed: it has brand new screenshots, video trailers, details about the game... you get the point, it's a real website, not a teaser,... |
15 August 2008
02:58 GMT |
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Users of the NeoOffice suite can download and install the latest patch released to be able to use the Apple Remote for controlling presentations, as well as fix a couple of issues where the second opening of password-protected files failed and movies played only sound after the QuickTime 7.5 update.The third patch fo... |
15 August 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Spore, the most anticipated game of the year, is most likely to become as huge as The Sims was or even bigger. However, Electronic Arts and Maxis don't want their masterpiece to stay only in the game world, like The Sims did - they want to further expand the universe to other media, like television and cinema. S... |
15 August 2008
02:43 GMT |
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Despite the fact that diagonal size does matter a lot nowadays when purchasing a new HDTV set, the truth of the matter is that quite a lot of homes are simply too small for widescreen LCDs and PDPs. For this reason, the people from AOC have just announced a completely new line of high-definition LCD TV sets, designed... |
15 August 2008
01:59 GMT |
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