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A new report from Digi-Capital, an investment banking service company, says that by 2016, the social gaming and mobile market will be dominated by Asia and Europe, both in terms of players and involved development teams.
Global video games revenue in 2016 is estimated to reach 83 billion dollars (62.4 billion E... |
16 January 2013
22:41 GMT |
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David Braben, the leader of the Frontier team working on Elite: Dangerous, believes that the development process for the space sim will be difficult going forward, but he is confident that his colleagues can deliver a deep experience to the fans.
The game maker tells Gamasutra that, “People's expectations... |
16 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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The jailbreak community continues its efforts to recompile apps for Microsoft’s tablet-oriented operating system, so another software solution is now working on jailbroken Windows RT devices. Miranda IM, a popular multi-protocol IM client, has been recompiled to run on unlocked tablets, with no bugs reported s... |
16 January 2013
21:01 GMT |
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The guys over at CloudMosa have just released a new version of Puffin Web Browser on Google Play Store. The new application comes with a few new features and improvements, as well as bug fixes.
According to the developers, Puffin has the fastest engine, as it can execute JavaScript 5x faster than the closest competi... |
16 January 2013
21:01 GMT |
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Samsung has released a brand new Mobile Print iOS client which adds full support for the latest Apple gear and software, as well as compatibility with the OpenIn standard, A3 print/scan support, and more.
Samsung asks, “How great would it be if you could print pictures, Documents, and web pages directly from i... |
16 January 2013
20:51 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker Oppo is getting ready for the launch of its 5-inch Oppo Find 5 smartphone, and appears set to clear up inventories of older devices to make room for the new handset.
To be more precise, the company is said to have cut the price tag of its Oppo Finder 3, which was launched in mid-2012 as t... |
16 January 2013
20:41 GMT |
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David Braben, the developer behind the recently funded Elite: Dangerous, is admitting that he was nervous midway through his Kickstarter process and wondered whether he would have been better off seeking resources via traditional means.
He tells Gamasutra that, “I started off confident, but in the middle I was... |
16 January 2013
20:41 GMT |
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Chinese handset maker ZTE officially unveiled its Nubia Z5 flagship smartphone back in December and promised that the handset would go on sale this month.
GizmoChina reports that the ZTE Nubia Z5 has just hit shelves in China for 3456 yuan outright, which is about $555 or €420.
Those who want something a bit m... |
16 January 2013
20:01 GMT |
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Sony Mobile is getting ready to bring its newly announced Xperia Z and Xperia ZL smartphones to shelves in various markets around the world, and has announced on Tuesday plans to make them available for purchase in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan too.
The two smartphones are expected to make an official appearance in t... |
16 January 2013
20:01 GMT |
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The popular TiVo app for iPhone and iPad now features sound effects (in the Player function), according to its developers. The creators also squashed some nasty bugs in the latest version of their iOS client.Whether or not you own a TiVo DVR, you can get the TiVo experience on your iPhone or iPad by downloading the f... |
16 January 2013
19:41 GMT |
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What we know: Double Fine classic adventure is a game that should not exist according to the laws of modern game development and sales because no big publisher is at the moment ready to take on the heavy risk associated with the genre. But the rise of Kickstarter means that the team led by Tim Schafer has managed to... |
16 January 2013
19:41 GMT |
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The new NOVO series of tablets manufactured by Ainol have just made their debut in China. Aside from the attractive specs sheets, these Android slates are priced incredibly low.
Ainol NOVO7 Venus tablet, which has just been launched on the market, is available for purchase for only 700 yuan outright, which is about ... |
16 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced that it had partnered with the City of Makati to develop a new Windows 8 application that would provide traffic information, news and weather forecasts right in the Modern UI. Even though it’s useful especially for those living in the Philippines, the app is available in the US ver... |
16 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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The cheapest Windows Phone 8 handset launched by Nokia, Lumia 620 has just made its debut in Thailand. The smartphone was initially launched in China, but the Finnish company is now gradually rolling out the handset globally.
According to NokiaPowerUser, customers in Thailand can now purchase the Nokia Lumia 620 for... |
16 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei officially unveiled at CES 2013 in Las Vegas a new high-end device in the Ascend D series, and has already started to offer the device in its homeland country, as of January 16. Dubbed Ascend D2, the new device is now available in China with support for CDMA2000 networks, with make... |
16 January 2013
18:51 GMT |
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Sony has just released the Wake-Up Club application for the PlayStation Vita on the PlaStation Store, allowing owners of the new console to have some fun while waking up and to use the Vita as their own alarm clock.
The PS Vita hasn't been as successful as Sony had hoped for, but the company is definitely tryin... |
16 January 2013
18:41 GMT |
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Facebook didn't have any mobile feature to announce at the big event yesterday, certainly not a phone, but it is working on voice calls and now it's making them available to all iPhone users in the US via its Messenger app. Facebook was already testing VoIP calls with some users, so this isn't much of ... |
16 January 2013
18:41 GMT |
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Security researcher Rafay Baloch has identified vulnerabilities in the websites of Microsoft and Twilio. He has also discovered a number of flaws in the ProActive content management system (CMS).
Twilio rushed to address the Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability identified by the expert.
To demonstrate h... |
16 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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Phonezoo Communications, Inc. has updated its photography app Streamzoo for iPhone and iPad adding customization options for Photo Collage, new icons, and bug fixes.
Streamzoo is a free app that lets you make quick edits, like adding a filter and borders, to share your awesome photos with the world.
Existing users ... |
16 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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File Expert for Android is more than a file manager. The application allows users to organize their important documents on their phones, tablets, personal computers and cloud storage servers.
Developed by Geek Software Technology, File Expert received several updates in the last couple of weeks, which added new feat... |
16 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE appears to be working on a new device that would sport the same design principles as the newly unveiled Grand S, one that was spotted online as the ZTE V987.
The new handset features the same large 5-inch screen as the new flagship phone from the company, only that it can deliver a sm... |
16 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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The development team at Lab Zero says that it still lacks a launch date for the Slightly Different Edition patch on the Xbox 360, but that the full version of the game will certainly be launched on the PC in the coming months.
The problem with the Microsoft home consoles is the patch size for the Xbox Live Arcade se... |
16 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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Jake Solomon, the leading developer on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, says that two board games, Necromunda and War Machines, have served as inspiration for the tactical remake.
The game creator adds, while talking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, that, “we’d played a lot of Pandemic. I don’t know how that... |
16 January 2013
18:11 GMT |
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People are still calling Windows 8 a confusing operating system, even if the amount of helping resources available online is pretty overwhelming.
The Windows 8 Non-Touch Guide, for example, is an application available in the Store with a freeware license that presents users with the most important features of the n... |
16 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Since Google Street View practically goes everywhere, it's full of weird and wonderful photos. Sometimes it also captures more gruesome images, though those don't usually stay on the site for long.
Still the "internet" thought it discovered just such a picture, it looked like one of the Google Street View... |
16 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Combining interactive and beautiful imagery with weather expertise, The Weather Channel for iPad gets statewide Flu levels for the U.S. reported by the CDC, an improved news section, and more.
“With over 200 meteorologists and our ultra-local TruPoint forecasting technology, The Weather Channel helps you plan ... |
16 January 2013
17:21 GMT |
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The development team at BioWare in charge of Star Wars: The Old Republic is offering the first information on a new batch of content called Return of the Gree, which will ask players to travel to the planet Ilum to investigate a new potential galactic threat. A long-lost Gree spaceship will allow players to face a t... |
16 January 2013
17:18 GMT |
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Xperia Z, Sony’s new Android-based flagship handset, has created a lot of buzz last week at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and it should create even more when brought to the market in the coming months. Before that, however, owners of Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II devices, as well ... |
16 January 2013
17:11 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Nintendo is delivering more downloadable content for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity on the Japanese market. Siliconera reports on the content of each of the packs: Papoka Mountain – the content focuses on fire Pokemons like Flareon and Tepig and introduces new it... |
16 January 2013
17:06 GMT |
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Users are advised to beware of emails apparently coming from the US Department of Treasury’s Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS). According to experts from GFI Labs, bogus emails entitled “Payroll declined” have been seen landing in inboxes over the past period. They inform recipients o... |
16 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Dropbox has recently released its official client for Windows 8, but even if the app quickly recorded thousands of downloads, most users are completely disappointed by it. While the application provides a rather smooth performance on Microsoft’s new platform, the lack of features is very frustrating for many o... |
16 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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The GNOME Documents 3.7.4 development package was published yesterday, January 15, on the GNOME servers, just in time for the GNOME 3.7.4 desktop environment.
Among the features implemented in GNOME Documents 3.7.4, we can mention a sharing dialog for Google Docs, a new page navigation bar is now used in preview mo... |
16 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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VueScan, an easy-to-use replacement for the software that usually comes with scanners and that supports most flatbed scanners, printer/scanners and film scanners, has reached version 9.2.04.
VueScan 9.2.04 is a minor release in the series as it doesn’t bring any performance improvements for the Linux platform,... |
16 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Chicago's pigeons are that big of a nuisance, that the city's officials decided to deport most of them to Indiana. More precisely, they are to be taken to a farm whose owner agreed to take them in.
Despite the fact that most of Chicago's residents salute the endeavor, there are some who claim that th... |
16 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Apache Tomcat, an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, developed under the Java Community Process, is now at version 7.0.35.
Highlights of Apache Tomcat 7.0.35:
• Prevent ClassNotFoundExceptions on stop when running as a service;
• Ensure resource prop... |
16 January 2013
16:31 GMT |
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People living in French Guiana have recently found out that the French government agreed to allow a mining company known as Rexma to start digging for gold in that part of the world.
If it were not for the fact that this gold mine is to carry out its activities smack in the center of French Guiana's only natio... |
16 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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The Cave, the new side-scrolling adventure game from Double Fine and Sega, has just received a concrete release date, as the title will hit the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 next week, and the Nintendo Wii U in the near future. Double Fine, the studio behind hits like Psychonauts, and famous designer Ron Gilbert, the man re... |
16 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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The news that a team of Australian researchers made a major breakthrough in terms of finding a cure for AIDS is taking the online community by storm.
Thus, it was this Wednesday when Professor David Harrich, presently working with the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, stepped forward and stated that he and ... |
16 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced that its solution for enabling mobile payments via NFC had been approved by Visa.
RIM came up with a Secure Element Manager (SEM) solution for NFC (Near Field Communication) mobile payments that should be adopted by wireless carriers interested in offe... |
16 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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We’ve already told you that Panos Panay, the man in charge with the Surface tablet at Microsoft, confirmed that the Pro version is now in production, but there’s one more important information the company executive has revealed in his short tweet. Panay confirmed that the Surface with Windows 8 Pro would... |
16 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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The GNOME developers published yesterday, January 15, version 3.7.4 of the GNOME Themes Standard package for the upcoming GNOME 3.7.4 desktop environment.
GNOME Themes Standard 3.7.4 adds a new style for the document frames of EvinceView, adds an HC icon for the GNOME Dictionary tool, adds runtime checks for X11 sp... |
16 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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Publisher Deep Silver revealed a rather striking Dead Island: Riptide Zombie Bait Edition yesterday that caused a huge controversy because it had a female torso without a head, hands or legs that was viciously ravaged everywhere except the chest area. Now, the company has posted a new statement saying it's deep... |
16 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Security experts from SophosLabs warn users that a new spam campaign has been launched. The emails appear to come from car rental company Europcar and they’re designed to spread a Trojan.
The notifications, entitled something like “Europcar Invoice 0985435234,” read:
“Please find your Invoic... |
16 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Vendetta Online, an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) from Guild Software Inc, is now at version 1.8.241.
Highlights of Vendetta Online 1.8.241:
• The delivery missions have been fixed so they now take items from your inventory without you having to launch and dock again;
• Android v... |
16 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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The Benetton Group has just made it public news that, in the aftermath of a rather aggressive campaign led by Greenpeace, it has agrees to help “detox” the fashion industry. Benetton's decision comes shortly after Zara, Levi's and several other major brands and retailers decided to give into G... |
16 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Owners of Android-based devices can now take advantage of the features of a new cloud-storage mobile client available for them, namely MediaFire.
With this application, users can easily manage their files, while also ensuring that they have access to them at all times, regardless of where they are, straight from th... |
16 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Only recently, a zoo in Ukraine witnessed the birth of three Siberian tiger cubs. Unfortunately, one of them died shortly after being born.
However, the other two seem to be doing quite well, and one of their caretakers says that their occasionally indulging in a sip or two of tea is the secret to their being so ac... |
16 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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MoviePro, a powerful video recording application with Pause, Zoom and multiple recording options, has been updated with a truckload of fixes and enhancements that will surely delight existing users.
MoviePro 1.4 adds Zoom Speed Control with 5 different speed levels and brings back an improved Zoom Slider with fixes.... |
16 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Even though a number of Xbox Live games was already available on Windows 8, the Redmond-based technology firm Microsoft today announced the release of the Play service, a technology supposed to bring such games on the new operating system.
The service will provide a better integration of Xbox Live games and devices ... |
16 January 2013
15:01 GMT |
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The GNOME developers behind the GNOME Initial Setup software for the GNOME desktop environment, announced on January 14 the immediate availability for download and testing of GNOME Initial Setup 0.6. GNOME Initial Setup 0.6 adds a new Keyboard Layout page, the Language and Account pages have been modified to match ... |
16 January 2013
14:44 GMT |
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Many times, scientists, even astronomers, have to find ways of making their work more appealing and more interesting to everyday folks. Sometimes though, they don't need to put in any effort at all.
A recent photo taken by the European Southern Observatory's MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is one of those occa... |
16 January 2013
14:40 GMT |
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It looks like Videotron will be the first carrier to introduce the Nexus 4 in Canada. The smartphone is now listed as “Coming Soon” on the operator’s website and is likely to go on sale in the following weeks.
Unfortunately, Videotron does not offer any additional information regarding the handset&... |
16 January 2013
14:31 GMT |
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Today, Viber announced the availability of a new flavor of their BlackBerry app, namely 2.3, with some appealing enhancements packed inside, and also confirmed that it was working on a new version of the software, to offer support for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS from Research In Motion.
The company also announced... |
16 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft says that its upcoming Splinter Cell: Blacklist is now delayed to August 20 of this year, after initially being set to arrive during spring.
The game is still to be launched on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC.
The new date is being shown in the newly ... |
16 January 2013
14:10 GMT |
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Unified security management solutions provider AlienVault has released the 4.1 version of its Unified Security Management (USM) platform. The new variant simplifies and speeds Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) deployments and provides security visibility for Amazon EC2.
The platform offers asset detec... |
16 January 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Zabbix, an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution, released under the GPL (free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use), is now at version 1.8.16.
Highlights of Zabbix 1.8.16:
• IPMI remote commands and scripts have been fixed;
• Handling of PerfCounter error PDH_CALC_N... |
16 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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A new flavor of the LastPass application is now available for download, featuring a nice range of enhancements, along with support for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8 operating system.
The new app release brings along a major UI overhaul, with new colors and more navigable menus on all screens, including supp... |
16 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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Microsoft said it had managed to sell 60 million Windows 8 copies since launch, so it’s no surprise that the operating system is slowly increasing its market share.
According to Net Applications statistics, Windows 8 has managed to jump over the 2 percent market share threshold in the week of January 6 to even... |
16 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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If you’re looking to create beautiful photos and share your vision with the world, the people at By Chengdu Everimaging Science and Technology Co., Ltd think they’ve got just the right app for you.
With an easy to use interface, an enhanced Camera tool, and powerful photo editing options (crop, rotate, f... |
16 January 2013
13:41 GMT |
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AT&T launched the Motorola ATRIX 4G almost two years ago with Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system onboard. Although the US-based handset manufacturer confirmed several times that the smartphone would receive a major upgrade, ATRIX 4G is still stuck on Gingerbread. However, this is about to change as AndroidPo... |
16 January 2013
13:31 GMT |
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A thief tracked down a family to return 4 gold rings he had stolen from them years ago. He also left an apology letter with the rings. The note is posted above, and you can read the entire note by clicking on the image. The thief does not leave his identity, but he or she does leave a clue about who they might be. T... |
16 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Normally, a positive financial forecast is cause for excitement, but the PC market hasn't been a source of great cheer for a couple of years now, something that doesn't seem to be on the verge of changing any time soon.
In marketing terms, this news is bigger than the rumor that HP and Lenovo will suffer ... |
16 January 2013
13:01 GMT |
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A 22-year-old cleaner on a transport line in Sweden decided to take a train out for a ride. Unfortunately for her and a Stockholm, Sweden family, she drove it directly into a building.
She only got as far as 1.5 kilometers (one mile) when that annoying complex got in her way. Nobody was hurt in the process, Press TV... |
16 January 2013
12:51 GMT |
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Mobile phone users interested in the purchase of a new smartphone should give Lumia handsets a try, Nokia UK suggests in a new series of promo videos published for its products.
The new clips provide users with a glimpse at some of the main features of the latest Lumia devices, while also showing how these smartpho... |
16 January 2013
12:51 GMT |
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The mid-range Huawei Ascend G330 is now available for purchase in the UK through Amazon. The unlocked version of the phone costs £180/€215/$290 off contract. Keep in mind that the smartphone is delivered via a third-party European supplier and stock seems to be very limited. Check it out here. The handse... |
16 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Opening new stores across the United States is a priority for the Redmond-based technology giant Microsoft that plans to reach new consumers by making its products available in several new locations.
A new store in downtown Portland is very likely to open soon, the Portland Business Journal writes adding that Micros... |
16 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Developer Milestone Studio says that it is officially working on MotoGP 13, a full simulation for two-wheel racing which is set to be launched during June of this year on the PC, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.
Monumental Games, the developer of previous installments in the series, has b... |
16 January 2013
12:11 GMT |
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Shank 2, the sequel to the amazing Shank 2D platform created by the Klei Entertainment studio, will be arriving on Steam for Linux.
The first Shank game was initially released as an Xbox 360 exclusive, but the guys from Klei Entertainment decided to bring it to the PC platform.
The second game in the series, Shank ... |
16 January 2013
12:06 GMT |
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WP-o-Matic gives WordPress site administrators an advanced tool for importing content from RSS or Atom feeds and converting them to fully compliant WordPress blog posts. The core of the plugin revolves around the SimplePie library which does all the heavy lifting regarding feed parsing and manipulation. A special p... |
16 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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In addition to working on the launch of its new BlackBerry 10 platform, Research In Motion is also pushing forth with the development of software for the older OS releases, although not at the same pace as it did before.
BlackBerry Theme Studio is an example in this regard, as the company has been working on the re... |
16 January 2013
11:51 GMT |
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Apple hasn’t confirmed the fifth-generation iPad yet but, in all likelihood, it’s coming. And it shouldn’t arrive any later than Q3 2013, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Kuo’s shipping estimates may be seriously off. Apple has generally refreshed the iPad in spring and, last... |
16 January 2013
11:41 GMT |
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GNOME Shell, a user interface that provides functions for the GNOME 3 desktop environment, has just received a new update and it's now at version 3.7.4. GNOME Shell 3.7.4 is the fourth development version in the branch that will eventually become GNOME Shell 3.8 and it does pack quite a lot of new features. Hi... |
16 January 2013
11:38 GMT |
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Adobe rolled out a security hotfix that addresses critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion 10, 9.0.2, 9.0.1 and 9.0 for Windows, Mac and Unix.The security holes could allow unauthorized individuals to bypass authentication mechanisms and thus gain control of the server.The company is aware that the weak points in the w... |
16 January 2013
11:31 GMT |
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EMC’s RSA has uncovered a new type of phishing kit which allows cybercriminals to ensure that only certain users can access their phishing websites. Because only users that are on “the list” can access the site, the crime kit has been dubbed “bouncer.”
The bouncer phishing kit relies on... |
16 January 2013
11:14 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Taiwanese handset maker HTC plans to launch a new Android flagship smartphone, the M7.
The device is likely to be launched globally for around $600 / €450 outright, but we will know more about it in a month.
Although the phone’s specs sheet leaked several weeks ago, no pictures of the ... |
16 January 2013
11:10 GMT |
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The Fedora Project has announced the final version of Fedora 18 Spherical Cow and the distribution comes with quite a few new features.
As we detailed yesterday, Fedora 18 Spherical Cow has introduced quite a few new changes, but most important seems to be the new installer.
“The user interface for Fedora�... |
16 January 2013
11:09 GMT |
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Since Intel is so very eager to phase out its remaining 32nm processors, Sandy Bridge as they are otherwise known, it may as well pull all the tricks.
This means that the company will be doing its best to get rid of the chips as fast as possible.
And since just throwing them into the rubbish bin is not economical... |
16 January 2013
11:06 GMT |
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Empathy, a messaging program that supports text, voice and video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols, is now at version 3.7.4.
Highlights of Empathy 3.7.4:
• The 'i' button on video preview is now displayed correctly;
• A message is now displayed if no contacts are shown becau... |
16 January 2013
11:01 GMT |
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For the past 5 years, if not actually more, we’ve been (sometimes unwilling) witness to countless musical reunions. As everybody and their mom got back together for one more concert – and then a new album – there’s one, major ‘90s act you might have forgotten about.
They were renowned ... |
16 January 2013
11:01 GMT |
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Research In Motion’s first BlackBerry 10 devices are set to be officially unveiled on January 30, while expected to land on shelves soon after, but it seems that some of them might disappoint in terms of capabilities.
TechRadar reports that they managed to grab hold of documentation detailing the full specs o... |
16 January 2013
11:00 GMT |
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For quite some time now, a designer named Adital Ela has been keeping herself entertained by manufacturing pieces of furniture whose ecological footprint is pretty much nonexistent.
This is because, as one can easily notice just by looking at the stools in the picture above, her furniture is made from compressed ea... |
16 January 2013
10:59 GMT |
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The Fusion-io ioScale solid-state drive has arrived and is more than willing to forcefully increase the number of potential customers that Fusion-io has, simply by existing. Indeed, the ioScale solid-state drive will bring normal businesses into the fold, as they can appeal to users besides those in need of large d... |
16 January 2013
10:59 GMT |
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Maintain has just released a quick update for all users of the powerful system maintenance utility Cocktail. Version 6.3 adds full support for the upcoming OS X 10.8.3 (do they know something we don’t?) and other fixes and improvements.
Slated to be released sometime in the near future, OS X 10.8.3 is the thir... |
16 January 2013
10:54 GMT |
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The cybercriminal campaign in which the systems of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Capstone Turbine Corporation, and various other organizations have been targeted is far from being over. Experts from security firm Avast, in collaboration with independent researcher Eric Romang, have identified several ... |
16 January 2013
10:50 GMT |
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Dita Von Teese is the kind of woman that you either love or passionately hate. Being a burlesque dancer, she’s often criticized for having “no talent” for the kind of exposure she’s getting but believing that would mean ignoring the fact that Dita is selling an image.
She brings that and her... |
16 January 2013
10:45 GMT |
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The development team at Obsidian is giving fans a chance to get acquainted with Mark Bremerkamp, the lead animator working on Project Eternity, while also offering them an update on what the studio is currently working on.
When asked what he was working on for the week, the developer answered, “Initial attacks... |
16 January 2013
10:44 GMT |
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Curiosity's findings are getting better and better and it has barely started to do any science. NASA has now picked a potential site to test its rock drill for the first time.
What's really interesting about the rock in question and the location is that scientists are seeing clear signs of water flowing on... |
16 January 2013
10:42 GMT |
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Samsung SCH-I425, also known as Godiva, leaked a few days ago, along with speculations that this might be the third device in the Stratosphere series.
Although we though the smartphone would come with a full QWERTY keyboard, it appears that Engadget has just published the first live picture of the Samsung Godiva, wh... |
16 January 2013
10:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced that a new poker game would be released on Windows 8 platforms and would offer Xbox Live support to play with real competitors online.
World Series of Poker: Full House Pro will be distributed via the integrated Windows Store and will be available at no cost for all users, with a free st... |
16 January 2013
10:30 GMT |
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After a brief leak earlier this month, Microsoft has just released a brand new service that should streamline the whole Xbox Live region swapping issue and migrate many things for Xbox 360 owners who are moving to a new country.
Xbox 360 owners who needed to move to another country and wanted to keep the data on the... |
16 January 2013
10:28 GMT |
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While investigating a possible security breach at a US-based company, experts from Verizon’s Risk Team discovered that one of the developers had actually outsourced his job to China.
The firm had set up a VPN concentrator to allow employees to work from home on certain days. However, when analyzing the VPN log... |
16 January 2013
10:28 GMT |
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A man from Burnaby, British Columbia, in Canada couldn't escape his hoarding ways and eventually got stuck under piles of items.
The 76-year-old resident was found days after he had become stuck under boxes and stacks of his own belongings. Judging by the picture of his home, supplied by the Daily Mail, he had ... |
16 January 2013
10:23 GMT |
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We've seen our share of bizarre electronics, homemade and otherwise, but this latest one, from Korean artist Viktor Jan, deserves some special attention.
The man took a cooking pot and an Arduino-powered MIDI interface and somehow turned them into something that plays music.
The MIDI interface plays tunes from... |
16 January 2013
10:20 GMT |
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The organizers of the Game Developers Conference and video game developer Valve announce that they have added two new talks to the schedule of the 2013 event, one dealing with how Team Fortress 2 was ported to virtual reality goggles and another about how future virtual reality experiences might work. The first talk... |
16 January 2013
10:18 GMT |
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Anna Kendrick, the “Twilight” actress who won critical acclaim with movies like “Up in the Air” and “50/50” has managed to become the latest celebrity to have tweets gone viral. This one in particular was about Ryan Gosling, whom Anna saw in the movie “Gangster Squad,&rdquo... |
16 January 2013
10:12 GMT |
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We weren't the only ones surprised to learn about those strange benchmarks in which NVIDIA'a Tegra 4 got trounced by the processor inside the Apple iPad. Needless to say, NVIDIA wasn't about to let that stand. The company was quick to speak up on the matter and promise that the Wayne SoC (system-on-ch... |
16 January 2013
10:12 GMT |
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The January Sale on the PlayStation Store in PAL regions has entered its second week and Sony has now made some serious price cuts for a variety of great games and DLC, including Borderlands 2 and its different expansions.
Sony treated PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP owners in PAL territories like Europe, Australia,... |
16 January 2013
10:11 GMT |
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Panos Panay, head of the Surface team, said in a short tweet that the Surface with Windows 8 Pro is now into production, so the device should go on sale in just a few weeks.
But data provided by AdDuplex, a cross-platform advertisement network, reveals that Microsoft has started testing the Surface Pro in November, ... |
16 January 2013
10:09 GMT |
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Google Glass may still be a long way from going mainstream, or even being available to buy by regular folks, but Google is making some progress in moving the device and the idea forward.
The company has invited some of those that put their names down for a developer edition pair to the first ever event centered aro... |
16 January 2013
10:07 GMT |
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Tuesday's online issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research witnessed the publication of a new study stating that, despite common held beliefs, soot must be listed as the second largest contributor to global warming.
Up until now, almost nobody dared disagree with the fact that soot is one of the underlying ... |
16 January 2013
09:59 GMT |
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I stumbled upon these photos of a World of Warcraft amusement park, which is probably one of the best ideas of all time.
Unfortunately for Blizzard Entertainment, the theme park is not exactly licensed. Hidden in China, it was a $48 million (€36 million) hush-hush project, according to Forbes.
The park is also... |
16 January 2013
09:57 GMT |
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The development team at Wargaming is introducing Chinese tanks to the MMO World of Tanks via Update 8.3, which is at the moment live in Europe and in South East Asia.
Those playing in North America will get access to the same content tomorrow and Korean players will have to wait until January 21.
The Chinese side o... |
16 January 2013
09:54 GMT |
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Less than a week has passed since Oracle patched the vulnerability in Java 7 Update 10 and another zero-day exploit – which is said to work on Java 7 Update 11 – is already being sold on the cybercriminal underground market.
Brian Krebs, who came across an ad for the exploit on a hacker forum on Monday, ... |
16 January 2013
09:50 GMT |
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The latest issue of gentlemen’s magazine Esquire brings a lengthy interview with stunner Megan Fox who, by the looks of things, is not holding back anything, no matter the questions thrown at her. Her answer to one in particular is getting plenty of media attention right now.
Though Megan also talks about her... |
16 January 2013
09:46 GMT |
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The problem with high-end graphics cards is that they need better cooling than others, in addition to more space. NVIDIA's Quadro and Tesla don't really get chewed out for this much, since consumers are the ones most concerned with noise and these two series of video cards aren't for consumers. They ... |
16 January 2013
09:44 GMT |
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Fedora Utils, a tool allowing users to install codecs and additional software, fix problems, tweak and cleanup the operating system, view system information and much more with just few clicks, is now at version 3.0.0. Highlights of Fedora Utils 3.0.0: • A new icon has been added; • Libraries are now more ... |
16 January 2013
09:43 GMT |
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A young woman from Colorado has been reported missing during a trip to the Grand Canyon over the weekend, reports say.
21-year old Kaitlin Anne Kenney of Englewood, Colorado is yet to be found. She disappeared 5 days ago, having been seen last on Friday, November 11.
On Saturday, her friends alerted the Grand Canyo... |
16 January 2013
09:34 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope is definitely not in its prime anymore, but it doesn't mean it can't retrieve valuable data.
The deep field image it captured almost two decades ago remains one of the best known astronomical photos in the world. Since then, Hubble has looked at the same patch of sky in even gre... |
16 January 2013
09:33 GMT |
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Experts from security firm Symantec have analyzed an interesting phishing scam that was making the rounds this past Christmas. The cybercriminals used a typosquatting domain to set up a website that replicated the one of a popular US payment system.
Users who landed on the phishing site were promised a $400 cash pr... |
16 January 2013
09:29 GMT |
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A brand new report has surfaced concerning next-generation consoles, this time with a website claiming that one of its sources already knows about Microsoft's upcoming "Kinect 2" sensor and that the company is already offering prototypes to certain video game developers.
Next-generation consoles are almost cert... |
16 January 2013
09:26 GMT |
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In the grand scheme of things, when you are known for much more, it wouldn't do to have nothing on the tray when starting a new year, besides an average collection of PSUs. So Enermax made sure to launch a sure win item too: the Ostrog GT case.
The reason we say Ostrog GT is a sure win is simple: it is an imp... |
16 January 2013
09:26 GMT |
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Nvidia announced today, January 16, the immediate availability for download of the 313.18 version of its graphics driver for Linux operating systems. Nvidia is making great strides for the Linux platform and is constantly improving the quality of their drivers, mostly by fixing problems spotted by the community. Th... |
16 January 2013
09:21 GMT |
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Charlie Sheen’s first interview with David Letterman since 2005 is out in full. Check it out above and make sure you keep your eyes and ears peeled for the star’s big announcement.
Though he might not look like your regular grandpapa, this is exactly what Sheen will be in a few months, he announces prou... |
16 January 2013
09:21 GMT |
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Tagged Inc. has announced a “beautiful new redesign” for its iOS client and it has submitted a bunch of new screenshots to go with the luscious UI (wink). Tagged currently has over 300 million members who are out to meet new people and make new friends to flirt, date, make friends and simply have fun. Th... |
16 January 2013
09:20 GMT |
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Facebook's Graph Search is very much in the early days, it's got a few hundred users at the moment. But there is potential and the big reason for that potential is the sheer amount of data Facebook is sitting on. For example, there are now 240 billion photos uploaded to the site.
All the top photo sharing... |
16 January 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet was launched back in August with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system onboard.
Although the South Korean company confirmed that a Jelly Bean update would be available for Galaxy Note 10.1 at some point, no timeframe was given for its release.
Well, it appears that the ti... |
16 January 2013
09:01 GMT |
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Jerzy Janowicz is the first to admit that he has certain issues keeping his emotions in check, and this was definitely obvious from his meltdown at the Australian Open, during the match with India’s Somdev Devvarman.
Check out the video above to see what happened. It’s already gone viral.
Clearly, Jer... |
16 January 2013
08:59 GMT |
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We could have spared you the agony and waited to post this tomorrow, when Temple Run 2 will actually be available to download worldwide. But where’s the fun in that? The developer couple at Imangi Studios has come up with a second installment of their crazy running game, Temple Run, and it’s coming out t... |
16 January 2013
08:56 GMT |
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According to a new study carried out on an international scale, children and adolescents who eat either fast food, or other culinary delights labeled as “junk” on a regular basis are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and eczema than the kids whose diet is a tad healthier are.
The researchers who ... |
16 January 2013
08:51 GMT |
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GTK+, a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces that provide a complete set of widgets, suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites, is now at version 3.7.6.
According to the developers, GTK+ 3.7.6 incorporates new features and quite a few updates:
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16 January 2013
08:49 GMT |
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Truthers, conspiracy theorists that believe the Sandy Hook massacre was only a political stunt, are harassing a man that helped survivors. Gene Rosen found six elementary school students and a bus driver in his driveway, that day. They had made it out of the shooting alive. The Newtown resident tried to accommodat... |
16 January 2013
08:46 GMT |
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Windows 8 is good for tablets and touch-enabled PCs, but not so much for enterprise and industrial systems, at least not yet, which is why DAP Technologies didn't outright embrace it when it launched the MT1010 rugged tablet. Rather than Windows 8, the slate runs Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7, though b... |
16 January 2013
08:42 GMT |
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Disney Infinity, the recently announced project from Disney that tasks players with exploring different virtual Toy Boxes and collecting various real-life toys, has just received a huge batch of screenshots, depicting the action in the game.
After the huge success of Activision's Skylanders initiative, Disney h... |
16 January 2013
08:40 GMT |
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River Phoenix, older brother of Joaquin Phoenix, died in 1993 when he was just 23 years old. His final movie, “Dark Blood,” has just been completed and will premiere at the Miami International Film Festival, The Wrap informs.
The psychological thriller directed by George Sluizer was not finished at the ... |
16 January 2013
08:37 GMT |
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Owners of a Galaxy Note II smartphone on the network of wireless carrier T-Mobile should start receiving a small software update for their devices, new reports on the matter suggest. Nothing has been officially announced on what the new firmware release would bring to devices, but TmoNews suggests that this might b... |
16 January 2013
08:34 GMT |
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As 2013 is only just beginning, Apple’s product roadmap is open to speculation. Doing what analysts do best, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has released a research note for investors outlining his predictions for 2013 and the products coming out of Apple.
Kuo starts with the iPhone department, where he believe... |
16 January 2013
08:31 GMT |
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The “We the People” petition tool created by the White House has certainly been popular. It hasn't been effective, since it hasn't actually resulted in any serious changes or any issues being addressed.
Well, it did get the White House to publish its secret beer recipe, but that's probably not what t... |
16 January 2013
08:31 GMT |
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NetworkManager, a program that works as network connection manager for most RPM and Debian-based distributions, is now at version 0.9.7.995. NetworkManager 0.9.7.995 is a development release and incorporates a significant number of fixes and changes. Highlights of NetworkManager 0.9.7.995: • New AvailableConn... |
16 January 2013
08:31 GMT |
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A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel packages by Jon Howell, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, was announced by Canonical. A flaw was reported in the Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel-based virtual machine) subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature... |
16 January 2013
08:22 GMT |
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Ever since Windows 8 was officially released, Microsoft has been continuously calling for developers to create apps for this particular platform, with the company holding special events in several locations across the globe. The Windows Store is growing and this isn’t at all surprising, but some important apps... |
16 January 2013
08:22 GMT |
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The critical and commercial success of XCOM: Enemy Unknown is seen by many players as a sign that turn-based strategy title is now appealing again to the general public, but the situation seems a little bit more complicated to one of the members of the team behind the title.
Jake Solomon, the main developer who work... |
16 January 2013
08:21 GMT |
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The zip file that Intel has released contains all the drivers and software for supported versions of Windows, Linux and FreeBSD for most of Intel's Ethernet Adapters. Unfortunately for some users, it doesn't support operating systems like Microsoft's Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000, Me or XP 64-bit Itaniu... |
16 January 2013
08:20 GMT |
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The world of network-attached storage devices has been remarkably stable ever since the first NAS units were made several years ago, which is why Drobo is comfortable updating its collection. The latest NAS is called Drobo 5N and will be a sibling, of sorts, to the Drobo 5D and the Drobo Mini that have been selling... |
16 January 2013
08:19 GMT |
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Bradley Cooper is one of the hottest actors right now, having managed to win over critics and worldwide audiences with his unmistakable blend of charm, talent and good looks. Taylor Swift is the latest of his victims, says a new report.
The newly single singer, who recently split with One Direction beau Harry Styl... |
16 January 2013
08:16 GMT |
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This past Monday, around 9 p.m., a baby humpback whale passed away after beaching on an East Honolulu beach in Hawaii.
Marine biologists explain that the baby whale was merely a few days old: it only measured 13 feet (roughly 3 meters) in length, and weighed a total of 2,550 pounds (about 1,150 kilograms).
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16 January 2013
08:14 GMT |
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BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion’s next-generation mobile operating system, is one of the most expected platform releases of this quarter, as it could represent the company’s chance to regain its foothold on the smartphone market.
The company has already announced plans to make it official on January 3... |
16 January 2013
08:11 GMT |
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Toshiba has just launched a new series of drivers for the Satellite U920t Ultrabook Convertible in an attempt to keep up with the ongoing performance updates from other brands.The recently released drivers offer improvements in the sound, wireless LAN, wireless display and media recovery sectors.Toshiba Sattelite U92... |
16 January 2013
08:05 GMT |
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Adobe rolled out a new build for Flash 11.6. The fresh release is 11.6.602.146 and incorporates fixes and enhancements.
The developer fixed bugs that caused various errors to pop up on both Windows XP and Windows 8. They corrected a problem that prevented the loader for some Starling Demos to load on Windows with In... |
16 January 2013
08:03 GMT |
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Phys.org – the popular portal providing news on physics, space science, earth science, health and medicine – was hacked earlier today.
Google and Firefox users who tried to access the site were presented with a warning message which said that malware was detected on the site.
In fact, some Google and F... |
16 January 2013
07:59 GMT |
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SpectorSoft, the company that specializes in providing employee monitoring solutions, has released SPECTOR 360 7.5. The latest version of the software allows organizations to monitor and record the activities of their employees, regardless of whether they’re using BlackBerry smartphones or devices running Windo... |
16 January 2013
07:56 GMT |
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Apple needs to rethink its strategy, according to John Sculley, the man who got Steve Jobs fired from Apple after being convinced by the visionary to try and change the world, rather than sell sugared water for the rest of his life. Sculley is best known for getting Jobs ousted out of Apple during an internal power ... |
16 January 2013
07:51 GMT |
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The development team at EA Sports says that all golf fans will be able to experience the first layout of the legendary Augusta National course in the special The Master Historic Edition for the upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14.
The Inaugural Augusta National Invitation Tournament happened in 1934 and the development... |
16 January 2013
07:49 GMT |
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Despite the slowdown in PC sales, Aerocool, like its fellow hardware makers, continues to renew its product series.
This once, it isn't a new cooler or fan series we are looking at. Instead, the company has introduced the GT series of power supply units, as well as the GT-S and GT-SG sub-series.
There are two ... |
16 January 2013
07:47 GMT |
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The news that several brands manufacturing and marketing beef burgers in the United Kingdom and in Ireland somehow ended up adding horse meat to their list of ingredients made headlines.
This happened because, at least as far as Brits, Americans and several European nations are concerned, eating horse meat is taboo... |
16 January 2013
07:44 GMT |
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Dead Space 1 and 2 delivered some great experiences over the years, managing to keep the old survival action genre alive by delivering atmospheric gameplay, impressive visuals, and a pretty decent story that focused on space engineer Isaac Clarke and his fight against the deadly Necromorphs. Now, with Dead Space 3, ... |
16 January 2013
07:43 GMT |
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A helicopter crashed in Vauxhall, near the Thames, in London, at around 8 a.m. today. 2 people were killed and at least 9 were injured in the accident. The aircraft hit a construction crane located on a building, and collapsed to the ground, in flames. As you can see in the footage shown above, the massive crash pr... |
16 January 2013
07:42 GMT |
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Walmart is yet another retailer in Canada to have kicked off pre-orders for Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones through its stores.
The company has announced on Facebook that users could head over to select stores and reserve such devices to have them in their hands when the official avail... |
16 January 2013
07:41 GMT |
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They were the butt of all jokes when they were a couple but Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck remain the best of friends to this day. Above is a video of JLo on Ellen DeGeneres, talking about how happy she is Ben won big at the Golden Globes 2013.
As I informed you at the time, Affleck took home the awards for Best M... |
16 January 2013
07:40 GMT |
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Even if you’re like me and you don’t know a single thing about sports (for whatever reason), the video above, yet another brilliant offering from the guys at Bad Lip Reading, is a must-see.
After taking on movies and even getting a bit into politics by covering the Presidential debates, Bad Lip Reading ... |
16 January 2013
07:26 GMT |
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The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) has revealed that a mobile device containing the records of over 100,000 youths and employees has been stolen from a secure office.
The information stored on the device was not encrypted, despite the fact that DJJ policy states that “confidential data shall not ... |
16 January 2013
07:19 GMT |
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Developer Logic Artists says that its upcoming Expeditions: Conquistador video game is now slated to launch exclusively on the PC on February 28 of this year.
The game will come complete with a newly announced Spanish language version, which honors the culture on which the core of the game is based.
In Expeditions:... |
16 January 2013
07:19 GMT |
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As previously reported, several of China's regions are now experiencing a record-breaking pollution spike, which forced numerous of this country's residents to remain indoors and not risk their health by venturing out on the streets.
Furthermore, schools were asked to suspend all outdoor activities, The V... |
16 January 2013
07:17 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that it's going to take down its PlayStation Network online service on January 17, in order to perform routine maintenance.
The PSN has become a key feature of Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita platforms, as owners can consume all sorts of impressive content via the online servic... |
16 January 2013
07:13 GMT |
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Riley Gunn, of Merlin, Oregon thought his luck ran out when he was laid off from his job. The man from Oregon then bought a lottery ticket that would change his life and that of his family. He entered the Mega Millions sweepstakes at the beginning of the year. The ticket turned out to be a winner, and made the Gunn ... |
16 January 2013
07:12 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's Mega is only a few days away, if the scheduled launch day, this Saturday, is kept. Dotcom wants to launch the new site on the anniversary of the raid that killed the old MegaUpload.
He's been talking about it for months, he leaked some screenshots and explained how the storage service will wo... |
16 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Yahoo’s Search application and widget for Android devices has just received a small update that brings some improvements meant to enhance user’s overall experience. So far, Yahoo! Search supports more than 60 languages and offers voice search with Talk-back feature, which provides interactive mobile expe... |
16 January 2013
07:03 GMT |
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A new version of the popular Cut the Rope game has been released for Windows 8 platforms and is now available as a free download in the Windows Store.
While we only know that the new version comes with several bug fixes and improvements, the free build includes a limited number of levels.
The full paid version come... |
16 January 2013
06:41 GMT |
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HTC One SV made its debut in the UK earlier this month, but no carrier has launched the smartphone until today. The first UK-based operator to offer the One SV is Everything Everywhere (EE).
According to Eurodroid, HTC One SV LTE is now available for free on 24-month plans at various tariffs starting at £36/&e... |
16 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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The release date of BlackBerry 10 devices is drawing near, although both these handsets and the platform powering them will be officially unveiled at the end of this month. Canadian wireless carrier Rogers has already started training its employees on the new operating system from Research In Motion, so as to have ... |
16 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Shawty Lo will have to rely solely on his skills as a rapper to make an honest buck after all. Following intense online protests about the planned reality show “All My Babies’ Mamas” focusing on the rapper, Oxygen has decided to pull the plug on the project.
The pilot for the new series, which wou... |
16 January 2013
06:18 GMT |
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Microsoft is continuously trying to promote Windows Store apps, so the company creates new categories every once in a while to showcase the best of them.
A dedicated section in the “Lifestyle” category displays the right apps “to make 2013 the best year ever” and includes productivity, health... |
16 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Cooliris, the app that enables you to discover all your photos in one place and then selectively share them with your loved ones, has received a new update which adds the ability to discover and share photos from new locations around the web.Cooliris 2.4 can discover and share photos from Twitter and SmugMug. This co... |
16 January 2013
05:59 GMT |
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Samsung and LG aren't the only ones accusing one another of technology theft. Advanced Micro Devices has just made the claim that NVIDIA came into the possession of a good number of confidential files.
AMD is walking a fine line here. The company isn't accusing NVIDIA of tech theft per se, rather four of ... |
16 January 2013
05:58 GMT |
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Holly Madison is moving out of her luxury home in the gated community of Rancho Circle, Las Vegas, because the homeowners association hates the doghouse she built for her 3 pooches – which she painted pink nonetheless.
The former Playboy Bunny, who is now preparing for the arrival of her first child in a few ... |
16 January 2013
05:55 GMT |
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Facebook's new Graph Search is a big deal, but Google-killer it is not, even if it works exactly as Facebook promised, of which there's no guarantee. Facebook's not positioning it as such in any case, in fact, it says it wanted to work with Google but they couldn't reach an agreement.
Facebook Gr... |
16 January 2013
05:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix is teasing a new announcement linked to the Final Fantasy franchise that will take place this week and will be linked to the fifth and the sixth core games in the series.The teaser page that is part of the official Square Enix site offers fans just a number of faint outlines and a ref... |
16 January 2013
05:50 GMT |
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Mobicity has just announced it will exclusively offer the Xiaomi Mi-2 Android smartphone in several countries, including Australia and the UK. One of the best-selling Android phones available on China, the Xiaomi Mi-2 was sold out in minutes after it went on sale in the Mainland. Today, Ausdroid reports Mobicity s... |
16 January 2013
05:50 GMT |
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BitTorrent released a new update for the beta build of uTorrent 3.3. The developer included a brief set of repairs in this revision and made a couple of changes.
The problems with metadata taking too long to download should now be eliminated and the time necessary to flush disk jobs has been reduced.
Another repair... |
16 January 2013
05:48 GMT |
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British resident Kaya Omer has been fatally shot while on vacation in Honduras, after his camera had been stolen.
According to UK's Daily Mail, citing local newspaper El Heraldo, 33-year-old Omer was traveling through San Pedro Sula, in the northwestern part of the country, when he was killed.
He was photograp... |
16 January 2013
05:44 GMT |
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What we know:
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel is the next installment in the Army of Two series and is set to really showcase that the franchise can produce a great experience, not just mindless shooters that only emphasize cooperative action.
Gone are the two main protagonists of the first two titles, Salem a... |
16 January 2013
05:44 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Viber application is now available for download for the owners of BlackBerry smartphones, namely version 2.3. The new app iteration was made available for download with a series of changes to the user interface, as well as with support for new languages, Arabic and Spanish included. Furthermor... |
16 January 2013
05:31 GMT |
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A piece of mobile malware believed to be hidden in around 7,000 Android applications has infected the devices of over 1 million users from China. Experts say that this may be the largest Android botnet the country has ever seen.
According to Chinese publication Xinhua, the Trojan that powers the botnet is Android.Tr... |
16 January 2013
05:31 GMT |
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Tablets wore off their novelty allure years ago, but there are still some ways to make them stand out, both among all other consumer electronics devices and amidst their peers. DaVinci Mobile just used one of those methods.
The Italian company has installed two operating systems on the Kite tablet, and they aren�... |
16 January 2013
05:29 GMT |
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Extreme cold temperatures have led to a water main breaking in Smithtown, N.Y. As the pipe broke, a man's vehicle was stopped in its tracks. The SUV was nearly swallowed, as it reached a sinkhole. ABC News notes that the incident occurred at around 3:30 a.m., on Mt. Pleasant Rd. 26 residences were left wi... |
16 January 2013
05:25 GMT |
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Even though the Windows Store is constantly growing bigger, there’s no BitTorrent client available for Windows RT users who wish to download files via this high-speed protocol. The jailbreaking community comes to the rescue with the first two builds of a recompiled version of MonoTorrent, so those of you who h... |
16 January 2013
05:25 GMT |
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To promote the brand new season of American Idol, Nicki Minaj dropped by on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to talk about her highly mediated feud with Mariah Carey, what it’s like to work upwards of 8 hours a day and, of course, perform her latest single.
Check out her live rendition of “Freedom” above.... |
16 January 2013
05:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Disney is ready to offer more details on the recently announced Infinity toy and virtual world mix, including the prices that players will have to pay in order to get access to the entire experience.
Disney Infinity will use characters from the multimedia company and from movie creator Pixar and... |
16 January 2013
05:12 GMT |
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Gran Turismo 5 developer Polyphony Digital has just released a brand new video that showcases the in-game version of the impressive Acura NSX Concept, which might be released as a DLC for the racing title in the near future.
Acura decided to show off its NSX Concept in action at this week's Detroit Auto Show by... |
16 January 2013
05:09 GMT |
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A top Apple VP has reportedly left the Cupertino company after years within its retail division. Jerry McDougal’s departure is reportedly not work-related. Sources say he only wants to spend more time with his family.
Sources close to Apple are telling ifoAppleStore that McDougal, who was regarded as a potenti... |
16 January 2013
05:02 GMT |
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A new report says that video game hardware creator and publisher Nintendo has undertaken its first major restructuring since 2004 and has unified its Research and Development projects into a new entity called the Integrated Development Division.
The information from Inside Games says that Nintendo aims to have all i... |
16 January 2013
05:01 GMT |
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Howard Stern has put his foot in his mouth again but, this time, he’s actually sorry about the mishap. The radio personality has apologized to Lena Dunham of “Girls,” swearing that his earlier comments were taken out of context.
Check out the video above for Stern’s apology, of sorts.
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16 January 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Microsoft has pretty high expectations from Windows 8, but it’s Windows 7 that’s enjoying a terrific success these days. New data provided by Net Applications indicate that Windows 7 has started 2013 as the number one operating system in the world and thanks to its market share, it’s very likely to... |
16 January 2013
04:57 GMT |
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A 5-year-old girl abducted from school in Pennsylvania on Monday, January 14, was found on a playground, the next day.
Nailla Robinson went missing from William C. Bryant School in Upper Darby. She was picked up by a woman who introduced herself as the girl's mother. School staff thought nothing of it when the ... |
16 January 2013
04:54 GMT |
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The online community takes animal cruelty very seriously, especially if the supposed culprit is one of Google's Street View cars. Hence the media stir caused by the news that one such vehicle might need to be held accountable for the death of a donkey in Botswana.
Apparently, it all started when Twitter user @... |
16 January 2013
04:52 GMT |
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Zaxby's Franchising, Inc., the Georgia-based restaurant chain which operates over 500 restaurants in 13 US states, has issued a warning to customers after identifying pieces of malware on the computers from around 100 of its establishments.
The suspicious files were discovered after credit card processing compa... |
16 January 2013
04:49 GMT |
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In July last year, stunning actress Sofia Vergara became engaged to longtime boyfriend Nick Loeb but they did not announce a wedding date. As it happens, Sofia is planning a wedding ceremony to top all wedding ceremonies. Speaking with People magazine, the star says she hasn’t had that much time to do some ac... |
16 January 2013
04:47 GMT |
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The Blu-ray Disc Association has proven quick in throwing its support behind the latest video specification, though it still has some kinks to sort out. CES 2014 was filled with 4K UHD announcements, from TVs to tablets and, as we most recently found out, 84-inch touch tables. There is one problem with the video ... |
16 January 2013
04:46 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 26.0.1384.2.
The first version of the development 26.x branch of Google Chrome is now out for Linux users, it brings quite a few fixes.
Highlights of Google Chrome 26.0.1384.2:
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16 January 2013
04:43 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has made a few changes to the app submission process for its Windows Phone Store, now allowing developers to associate multiple XAPs with the same app GUID.
Basically, this means that devs are now able to build and submit different flavors of their apps to target both Windows ... |
16 January 2013
04:38 GMT |
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Windows 8 users who have installed Kaspersky security products on their computers may be excited to hear that the security company released a new tool supposed to keep them up to date with the latest security news, threat alerts and expert views.
What’s more, Kaspersky Now is compatible with both Kaspersky Int... |
16 January 2013
04:37 GMT |
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The Need for Speed movie currently being developed by Dreamworks and Electronic Arts, has just received a few more actors, including noted singer Kid Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi), as well as Ramon Rodigruez, Rami Malek, and Harrison Gilbertson.
EA's Need for Speed games have impressed a lot of racing fans by ... |
16 January 2013
04:34 GMT |
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Jessica Simpson has emerged in public after confirming online that she was pregnant with her second child. She’s drumming up publicity for her new, upcoming and yet to be titled NBC sitcom – starting with an appearance on Jay Leno. As I already noted in an earlier post, Jessica will be playing herself i... |
16 January 2013
04:28 GMT |
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The official website of Sri Lanka’s National Security Media Center, a website that provides national security and defense-related information to the media and the public, has been hacked and defaced by the hacker known as Game Over.
According to HackRead, the hacker has not only defaced the site, but he has al... |
16 January 2013
04:26 GMT |
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Video game developer Gearbox has extended the timeframe for the Gear Up event for Borderlands 2 until tomorrow, giving players more chances to battle the Vermivorous special boss.
The official Twitter account of the company states, “The Borderlands 2 Gear Up Event has been extended until the morning of Thursda... |
16 January 2013
04:24 GMT |
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After the world learned that Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide, his friends, family and hacktivists – including the Anonymous movement – have started looking for culprits. Besides the current legislation, which they say needs to be changed, they also accuse the prosecutors handling his ca... |
16 January 2013
04:21 GMT |
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A shooting at a school in St. Louis, Missouri reportedly left two people wounded, on Tuesday, January 15. The attacker, who pointed the gun to himself, and his victim have both been injured.
Fox 2 Now St. Louis gives more details about this story. The shooting occurred at Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, with... |
16 January 2013
04:19 GMT |
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Jessica Simpson is coming back to the small screen but, this time, we’re not talking about a reality show or a fashion competition. The singer and fashion designer has landed a role in a new NBC sitcom, based on her life.
She will be playing herself, of course.
Check out Jessica’s interview with Jay L... |
16 January 2013
04:12 GMT |
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Blizzard has just released patch 1.0.7 for Diablo 3 on the Public Test Realm and confirmed the wide array of changes included in the upcoming update for the final game. Diablo 3 has entertained many players since its release in May of last year by delivering a pretty great dungeon crawling experience that was enhanc... |
16 January 2013
04:10 GMT |
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Orca, a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via speech and refreshable Braille, is now at version 3.7.4. Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI), which is the primary assist... |
16 January 2013
04:09 GMT |
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An ad for Nicolites Electronic Cigarettes recently got banned on account of its being misleading. Thus, the ad stated that opting for an electronic cigarette instead of a regular one posed no risks to one's health.
More precisely, the ad said that the vapors released by these electronic cigarettes were “... |
16 January 2013
04:06 GMT |
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ZTE is reportedly gearing up for the launch of an affordable device packing a 5-inch touchscreen display, known as ZTE U956 at the moment, and the handset has emerged in a series of leaked photos recently.
The new mobile phone is said to arrive on shelves with a 5-inch display capable of delivering a 720 x 1280 pixe... |
16 January 2013
04:02 GMT |
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Designer Adrian Maciburko believes Apple needs to ditch skeuomorphism in favor of a cleaner design of its apps, including Notes and, more recently, Game Center. Maciburko’s latest iOS 7 concept involves the same Crystal Interface he envisioned for his Notes app concept. However, the discrepancies are far more ... |
16 January 2013
04:02 GMT |
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Vice president Joe Biden does not mention video games in the list of measures for gun control that he has forwarded to the office of the President of the United States. A report from Politico says that after the series of meetings he held over the weekend, the task force has created a list of 19 potential executive ... |
16 January 2013
03:59 GMT |
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Officially announced last week at Consumer Electronics Show 2013, Sony Xperia ZL has been confirmed to arrive in black, white and red.
However, the red version of the smartphone was nowhere to be seen at CES 2013, which is why we thought it will be launched later this year.
Well, it looks like the folks over at Xpe... |
16 January 2013
03:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is yet to publicly confirm this, but plenty of users have reported Windows Update bugs on their Windows RT devices after the latest Patch Tuesday fixes delivered last week. It appears that both Windows Update and the Windows Store fail to load on many Windows RT units, including Microsoft’s own Surfa... |
16 January 2013
03:42 GMT |
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Just in case you thought Ryan Gosling couldn’t possibly get any cooler, you should know that his brand new interview with GQ is out – and he admits he loves to knit in it.
Gosling, known as one of the most talented actors of his generation but also a very sensitive man who is not afraid to talk about hi... |
16 January 2013
03:37 GMT |
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A 24-year-old student has been severely injured after a rhino attack, in South Africa. Chantal Beyer was on a safari at the time. Beyer studied in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. She was visiting the Natural Reserve in the vicinity of Aloe Ridge Hotel, in Muldersdrift, when the incident occurre... |
16 January 2013
03:36 GMT |
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Issuing his own take on the low-demand iPhone rumors that kicked off this week, Jeffries analyst Peter Misek tells investors that Apple will release the iPhone 5S this summer. Because of this roadmap, Apple will indeed cut down some of its inventory ahead of the impending refresh. According to Misek, “As word... |
16 January 2013
03:36 GMT |
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Back in 1947, the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago decided to present the general public with a so-called Doomsday Clock.
This clock has one purpose, i.e. that of letting people know how much time they have at their disposal until the human race comes face to... |
16 January 2013
03:36 GMT |
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Wikivoyage, Wikimedia's latest project is now officially launched. The site has been around for a while in its current iteration, but it's been labeled as a beta. The site, in name, has been around for longer.
But the new Wikivoyage combines the old site with Wikitravel, a completely unrelated site, despit... |
16 January 2013
03:36 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer behind the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 and the quite popular The Witcher series, has just posted a brand new image on The Witcher website, teasing the reveal of the much-awaited third installment in the series – The Witcher 3.
CD Projekt Red proved it could deliver a stunning RPG expe... |
16 January 2013
03:35 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have published 33GB of files allegedly representing the JSTOR files “that Aaron Swartz died to bring to the world.” The hacktivists have published a statement on Pastebin, next to the link which points to the files. “HIS NAME IS Aaron Swartz and he is twenty-six years old. His nam... |
16 January 2013
03:31 GMT |
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LG Electronics might not launch a successor for its Optimus G flagship handset next month as previously rumored, but it could be planning the unveiling of the device, supposedly called Optimus G2, for the fall of 2013. Apparently, the handset vendor is set to launch the new flagship model about one year after the o... |
16 January 2013
03:27 GMT |
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Despite the dismal fourth quarter that ended on December 31, things are only going to get worse for the notebook market, and HP and Lenovo will suffer from it.
According to Digitimes, the two companies will suffer from a drop in notebook shipments of around 20%.
Previously, the supply chain anticipated a 10% decl... |
16 January 2013
03:24 GMT |
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Cheese, a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam which also includes graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend, is now at version 3.7.4.
Highlights of Cheese 3.7.4:
• An instance-used-via-static warning has been eliminated;
• Deprecated GFile attribute sy... |
16 January 2013
03:21 GMT |
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This past Tuesday, Anthony Ortolani, a man who, back in 2012 abandoned his German Shepherd mix on the mountain, was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation and 30 hours of community service.
Several animal rights activists are now busy arguing that his sentence should have been much harsher, sources say.
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16 January 2013
03:13 GMT |
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Google is now running the first doodle of the year, the first global one anyway, and to kick things off with style, it's starting with a mini-game doodle.
The game is simple, annoying skaters tear up a skating rink and it's your job to clean it up. You get out with your ice resurfacer and clean up the me... |
16 January 2013
03:10 GMT |
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Since Ivy Bridge itself is about to be replaced by its successor, chips two generations old are obsolete, although some, like the Core i3-2348M will continue to sell for select market segments. Intel sent out notifications over the past few days, in which it revealed that a number of mobile processors, as well as a ... |
16 January 2013
03:08 GMT |
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Tim Taylor, the writer of the Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comic book series, has confirmed that he's trying to fit in as many characters from the upcoming game as possible in order to give fans a look into what made them make certain decisions before the start of the title's story.
Injustice: Gods Amo... |
16 January 2013
03:06 GMT |
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Even though it’s become somewhat of a “rule” to have gay celebrities lie about their orientation and then do some big coming out interview with a major publication, actor Victor Garber never made a secret of his orientation.
That much he told Hollywood blogger Greg Hernandez at the recent TV Critic... |
16 January 2013
03:01 GMT |
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Unveiled last week at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES), Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZL have just been confirmed to arrive in South East Asia in Q1. Some countries in the region will get both smartphones, while others will only receive the Xperia Z.
According to XperiaBlog, Sony will make the Xperia Z (Black, White... |
16 January 2013
03:00 GMT |
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The team working with developer CD Projekt RED on the first teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 is now giving details on the creation process that has gone into it and is offering fans a chance to look at more concept art.
The team says, “The first drafts of the screenplay and preliminary concept art was created... |
16 January 2013
02:59 GMT |
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Former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky has recently posted a tweet from an iPhone and even though he said he was just trying to evaluate competition, many have criticized him for his attempt to dump Microsoft’s products. Sinofsky has written a new blog post to explain his decision to use an iPhone every once in a... |
16 January 2013
02:57 GMT |
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20-year-old girl Caitlin Cornett and 53-year-old Jackie Cornett, her uncle, from Knott and Perry County, Kentucky, lost their lives in a shooting at a local community college, yesterday. The killings took place on Tuesday, January 15, at Hazard Community and Technical College, in a parking lot. Hazard Assistant Chie... |
16 January 2013
02:56 GMT |
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Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have revealed their intentions to picket the funerals of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz. After hearing the news, Anonymous hackers launched a new operation. “Lord willing, WBC to picket the funeral of cyber-criminal Aaron Swaryz at Central Avenue Synag... |
16 January 2013
02:50 GMT |
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Glib, the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME and that provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces, is now at version 2.35.4.
Unlike the latest stable update, which was kind of dreary, the development branch has introduced a huge number of... |
16 January 2013
02:46 GMT |
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This past Monday, roughly 1000 cats were rescued from being killed and turned into breakfast, lunch or dinner, all thanks to a traffic accident the truck transporting them got into.
The felines were crammed inside 40 cages, and following the truck's crashing and the driver's being taken to the hospital, t... |
16 January 2013
02:38 GMT |
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There have been lots of rumors surrounding the next major update for Windows Phone, which is expected to arrive in the next few weeks. Although Microsoft previously confirmed that it would launch the upgrade for all Windows Phone 7.5 handsets, a few OEMs said that some of their smartphones would not receive the upda... |
16 January 2013
02:37 GMT |
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The ultra high-definition resolution had its moment at the Consumer Electronics Show, and we are now covering, somewhat belatedly, a certain product that has a 4K screen, one made by 3M.
A diagonal of 84 inches means a huge display area, which is why Toshiba chose it for its 4K LED UHDTV, and wasn't the only on... |
16 January 2013
02:36 GMT |
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DmC: Devil May Cry, Capcom's recently released hack and slash game, has just received an impressive launch trailer that celebrates the new title and its overhauled protagonist, Dante.
Devil May Cry games have delivered some intense yet stylish hack and slash experiences over the years, but Capcom has partnered ... |
16 January 2013
02:33 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is reportedly gearing up for the launch of Windows Phone 8 devices this year, after registering little success with its previous handsets running under Microsoft’s OS.
The company hasn’t launched a Windows Phone device for quite some time now, but it seems ... |
16 January 2013
02:31 GMT |
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Two 45-year-old men from Antwerp, in Belgium have chosen euthanasia, faced with the possibility of going blind.
The pair were twin brothers, and had been deaf from the day they were born, Telegraph writes. They explained their decision to seek out assisted suicide because they found the mere thought of not seeing ea... |
16 January 2013
02:25 GMT |
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If we are to trust all unofficial reports talking about Surface RT’s sales performance, Microsoft’s first tablet in history is nothing more than a disappointing device that until now failed to meet expectations.
And still, data provided by AdDuplex reveals that the Surface RT is currently the most popula... |
16 January 2013
02:24 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare says that server maintenance for the multiplayer side of Mass Effect 3 will take place from 12 AM Pacific Standard Time and is expected to last until 3 AM.
The official Twitter account for Mass Effect 3 states, “Server maintenance scheduled for tonight between 12-3am PST. Impact sh... |
16 January 2013
02:17 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is gearing up for the launch of a new mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10, set to be officially unveiled to the world on January 30. Apparently, the company has already put its marketing machine in motion, and what appears to be the first BlackBerry 10 commercial ha... |
16 January 2013
02:13 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail for Windows 8 has recently received several improvements, so an updated version is now up for grabs in the Windows Store.
The new build comes with the ability to print emails, but also with several unnamed enhancements when composing emails. In addition, the app now offers support for keyboard shortcuts, ... |
16 January 2013
02:00 GMT |
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A 9-year-old Indian boy has officially become the youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the world, breaking a record previously held by 12-year-old Dubai-based Babar Iqbal.
Times of India reports that Pranav Kalyan is currently a 4th grade student of Willow Elementary School in California and has bee... |
16 January 2013
01:46 GMT |
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The first details on the unannounced Galaxy Pocket Plus leaked more than a month ago, but we did not have any info on the smartphone’s upcoming release.
Well, it appears that the folks over at SamMobile have just received a picture of the budget-friendly Android phone, which is expected to make its debut in Eu... |
16 January 2013
01:45 GMT |
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A 10-week-old puppy now owes its life to a bottle of vodka, which veterinarians used to save it from dying of poisoning. Apparently, Cleo, as this puppy is named, was left unattended in its owner's garage and for one reason or another decided to pass the time by licking and drinking radiator fluid. Soon after ... |
16 January 2013
01:30 GMT |
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The latest version of UC Browser for Android tablets was launched about a week ago and now it looks like developers have just released a new iteration of the popular mobile browser.
UC Browser 2.2.2 aimed at Android tablets brings several new features, such as QR Code, Night Mode, Select and Copy, as well as Save Im... |
16 January 2013
01:30 GMT |
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Microsoft has already confirmed that the Surface with Windows 8 Pro would be released in January 2013, but the company is still tight-lipped on the official launch date of the tablet.
Panos Panay, head of the Surface project at Microsoft, said in a short tweet that the Surface Pro is now in production and confirmed ... |
16 January 2013
01:20 GMT |
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We reported earlier this month on the upcoming release of the long-awaited Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade for Samsung Galaxy S II and it appears that we now have a timeframe for the launch of the update.
Samsung published less than two weeks ago details on Jelly Bean for Galaxy S II and confirmed that it would arriv... |
16 January 2013
01:19 GMT |
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Edward Furlong, the actor who rose to fame as the kid in “Terminator 2” and “American History X,” is in trouble with the law again. The star has been arrested and is currently in custody on suspicion of domestic violence.
As OMG! Yahoo notes, this is Furlong’s third time in custody in ... |
16 January 2013
00:25 GMT |
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Mama June proves once more that, when it comes to handling business, no one can do it better than she can: the Honey Boo Boo matriarch has just decided that Crazy Tony, one of the stars on TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” is too crazy for television. Consequently, he’s been banned and will ... |
16 January 2013
00:11 GMT |
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