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Dragon Age: Origins can be a bit grating for those who do not like to read. Almost all of the old school role playing experiences on the PC or on gaming consoles are like that, mostly because their roots are in tabletop games that required hefty rule books, complex manuals and sometimes huge backstories written by th... |
16 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Apple has recently launched a broadside towards the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable, saying that the iPhone and the iPod are platforms better suited to mobile gaming because of their tactile driven interface and because of the huge number of videogames, most of them priced below five dollars or even offered ... |
16 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The universe is a vast and mysterious, endless patch of knowledge. But somehow, all that the Earth got was an endless batch of incredibly confused and disturbed individuals. As far as fantasy goes, movies, books and all other forms of entertainment usually depict criminals as the greatest masterminds of human history... |
16 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Telecommunications infrastructure vendor Huawei announced recently the deployment of the first TD-LTE/SAE trial network for the wireless carrier China Mobile. According to the company, the new network is capable of delivering download speeds of up to 29Mb/s, and is meant to be used for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.&... |
16 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 is now out and estimates are saying that millions of gamers will be playing it before the end of the year. The first game in the series, which was released in late 2007, has set the bar pretty high in terms of graphics and image realism and Modern Warfare 2 is set to offer a whole new experience, tak... |
16 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia announced today the launch of Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, a new 3G device that comes to the market with support for mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music, and gaming. The new handset delivers access to an enhanced mobile TV experience, the vendor states... |
16 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The weekly numbers for hardware and software charts in Japan have new leaders for the week that began on November 2 and ended on November 8 as seen in the data offered by Media Create, a firm which closely watches the market. Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 from Konami taps Japan's love of football in order to get to ... |
16 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Before the PlayStation 3 could be what it is today, it had to surpass a lot of obstacles, and it's none other than the very "Father of the PlayStation" that helped it get past those mounds of adversity. But Ken Kutaragi is no longer part of Sony, after he stepped down from the SCE Group executive position in 200... |
16 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA announced recently the official launch date for the Samsung Behold II, yet another Android-based mobile phone that makes it into its offering. Starting with November 18, T-Mobile subscribers will have the opportunity to enjoy the capabilities of the new device, which includes great mult... |
16 November 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Using the Desktop as the default saving location of your files, projects or downloads proves to be, in most cases, very time efficient. This way, you don’t have to think twice about where are your recent files are and you can continue your work after a short break almost instantly. Things get complicated when y... |
16 November 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Kingston's debut in the SSD market has been made possible by the company's partnership with Intel. However, since the debut of the first Kingston branded SSDs, the company has grown significantly, having expanded its lineup with new solutions, such as the recently introduced 40GB SSDNow V-series, specifica... |
16 November 2009
12:12 GMT |
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Cisco has been in acquisition mode lately and has been picking up companies it deems interesting, sometimes for a hefty sum. More than a month ago, the networking giant announced its plans to acquire Norwegian video conferencing technology company Tandberg for $3 billion. The investors were apparently unimpressed by... |
16 November 2009
11:59 GMT |
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Google is always introducing new features and products, but it plays it safe and the most experimental ones usually end up in Google Labs, Gmail Labs, and the likes. Even so, things usually work out all right and, apart from the usual bugs and hiccups, there isn't too much drama. It now looks like Google has fi... |
16 November 2009
11:30 GMT |
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Although NVIDIA's first generation of Tegra processor is just making its way into the market, in the form of the recently introduced Microsoft Zune HD and Samsumg Yeep M1 media players, there are rumors already regarding the second installment of the aforementioned processor. Tegra 2 will reportedly double... |
16 November 2009
11:20 GMT |
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The second Android-based mobile phone handset vendor that Motorola delivered to the market this year, namely the Motorola DROID, is considered at the moment to be the nicest Android device available. However, while being as appealing as it can be, it seems that some of its early adopters might have been plagued... |
16 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Earlier today, NVIDIA announced the Tesla 20 series of parallel processors aimed at the high-performance computing market. Naturally, the products are based on NVIDIA's next-generation CUDA architecture, Fermi, and are actually able to deliver the same computing performance at a tenth of the cost and one twentie... |
16 November 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Online video may be thriving when it comes to viewers and there's little doubt that it will get even bigger in the coming years, along with better broadband speeds and availability, but for the time being, video sites aren't doing so great financially. YouTube hasn't reached profitability yet, Hulu is... |
16 November 2009
10:46 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced today its new AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, which comes as a global cloud-based service aimed at offering companies simple “on-demand access to scalable computing capacity.” According to the company, the new service is based on technology from VMware and Sun Microsys... |
16 November 2009
10:43 GMT |
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Most people who know a bit about PCs and what they're made of will recognize the name Cooler Master when they hear it. Not only is this company famous for its stylish, powerful and efficient cooling mechanisms and, of course, casings, but it also has the habit of launching customized versions of its more popular... |
16 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that its highly-anticipated business-oriented handset Nokia E72 is now available for purchase. The new mobile phone comes to the market with a QWERTY keyboard, which can be seen as a great option both by business users and by messaging enthusiasts, the company sta... |
16 November 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Capacity is what drives the traditional hard drive market and storage solution vendors continue to deliver new products that provide users with support for larger amounts of data. On that note, Hitachi GST (Global Storage Technologies) announced today the availability of the newly designed SimpleDrive, an external h... |
16 November 2009
09:55 GMT |
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According to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the cybersecurity mechanisms implemented by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on its computer network are insufficient. The GAO audit found that classified information is not properly organized and that the actions of some users on the net... |
16 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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It seems the IT industry can't go even one day without enterprises of all shapes and sizes suing each other for whatever reasons. This time around, it's not about Intel and AMD, as those folks seem to have cooled down, at least for a little while. No, this time, in the fray of accusations is not one but thr... |
16 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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One of AMD's most anticipated product launches for this year is the much-rumored Radeon HD 5970, a dual-GPU graphics card that is to deliver a significant performance boost over current generation of cards. There has been a decent number of reports on the Internet, regarding the bits and pieces of the upcoming ... |
16 November 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Wanting to start the week by pleasing consumers worldwide, Hyundai IT started off by introducing two monitors on the European market. What the two displays have over many of the other monitors out there are their 3D capabilities. The Korean manufacturer of liquid crystal displays built these monitors, the W220S and W... |
16 November 2009
09:09 GMT |
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After months of Google losing execs and top level engineers, it's nice to see the company reverse the process for a change by snatching up engineering evangelist Don Dodge, recently laid off by Microsoft. Very recently, in fact, Dodge has only been out of a job for 11 days and blitzed through Google's hiri... |
16 November 2009
09:05 GMT |
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The BlackBerry Bold 2 has been finally made available for purchase in the United States via wireless carrier T-Mobile. Expected to become available for quite some time and already on shelves in other markets around the world, the Bold sequel from Research In Motion can now be acquired by BlackBerry enthusiasts in th... |
16 November 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Considering the huge hit the Prince of Persia movie is expected to be, it's no wonder more and more producers are exploring other game-related movie possibilities. Rise of the Lich King, the World of Warcraft movie is another one that is expected to perform great, but, until it's done, it looks like Residen... |
16 November 2009
08:42 GMT |
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“With the entry of new players, such as Barnes and Noble, into the e-reader market and an increase in models from Amazon and Sony, consumers began to have choices in single-purpose e-reading devices in 2009. Among the product differentiation points are support for E-ink’s electronic paper technology, supp... |
16 November 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is set to be released in stores on March 16 in North America and three days later in Europe. The real time strategy title should be the last outed in the Tiberium universe by the publisher and aims to provide a fitting end to the struggle among... |
16 November 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake of the original Kirby Super Star, released on the SNES back in 1996, and it features seven different main games. In addition to the previous one, Ultra includes five new titles and three new sub-games. Some of these are detailed below.In The Arena, you'll be able to face all of... |
16 November 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Although DDR3 will continue to be rather scarce until next year, suppliers are already busy putting together forecasts, and marketing strategies based on them, concerning total DRAM shipments and the corresponding revenues. Despite the fact that DDR3 has only just been introduced and still isn't widely available... |
16 November 2009
07:45 GMT |
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IBM isn't exactly renowned for its swiftness and flexibility, but it's making a big move into the “cloud” market with several products. Now it's revealing a new product, which it bills as a cloud service, though Big Blue's definition of the “cloud” is as vague as everyone ... |
16 November 2009
07:27 GMT |
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If there is one thing, not that there is just one, but the one big thing that survival horrors can't do, that is online multiplayer. A co-op might work, it's close enough to the spirit of the genre and it's also a plausible concept. But full-out online multiplayer is a bit of a stretch as far as the co... |
16 November 2009
07:16 GMT |
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The daily use of applications are limited to just a few programs, such as web browsers, audio/video players, email clients or games, though the number of programs installed on the system is much bigger. A defrag tool, registry cleaner or hard disk clutter cleaner are instruments you run every once in a while. Program... |
16 November 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Small form-factor (SFF) PCs are the definers of a segment of the IT market that is very popular with both business and non-business consumers, especially PC enthusiasts and hobbyists, obviously because of their compactness and easy setup. A leading designer of such PCs is Shuttle, a developer that is always finding n... |
16 November 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, has recently announced that it will update its portfolio with a new platform, specifically designed to meet the performance-requirements of scientists, researchers, and engineers. The new HPC (high performance computing) pla... |
16 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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The HTC Hero is the third mobile phone Taiwanese company HTC Corporation launched on the market with Google's Android operating system on board and, until not too long ago, the handset was seen as the nicest Android-based device available. The Hero can be purchased in the US too, via wireless carrier Sprint, wh... |
16 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The... |
16 November 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is reported to plan launching carrier billing for its BlackBerry App World as soon as 2010 is here. The software solutions portal was released only several months ago, yet the handset vendor seems determined to add as many features to it as possible, so as to impro... |
16 November 2009
06:35 GMT |
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A security researcher has devised a practical Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack leveraging the recently disclosed SSL and TLS renegotiation flaw. The proof-of-concept attack shows that it is possible to steal login credentials from Twitter by exploiting the yet unpatched bug.Two weeks ago, it was revealed that a seriou... |
16 November 2009
06:33 GMT |
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There wasn't much to stand in the way of THQ's WWE Smackdown vs. Raw, and, with a five-year streak, it seemed like it would remain an undisputed champion for a long time. But, last year, Midway released its TNA Impact series and Smackdown was suddenly no longer the king of the hill. Impact was really well r... |
16 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Welcome to the 71th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: SystemRescueCd 1.3.2, DEFT Linux 5, sidux 2009-03, openSUSE 11.2 and Linux Mint 8 RC1. This week's YouTube-powered video clip showcases the "hidden" powers of the newly released openSUSE ... |
16 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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“I was really worried about the x86 cross-license dispute when I heard about it. That could have been disastrous. I understand where this sense of relief is coming from, I'm relieved too,” Kevin Jacoby, chief executive officer of Rain Recording, a Ringwood, N.J.-based maker of high-performance audio ... |
16 November 2009
06:17 GMT |
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San Mateo, California-based AdMob Inc., a company selling ads that appear on mobile phones, has been recently purchased by Google, who agreed to pay $750 million for the company. However, it seems that Google was not the only one interested in the purchase of AdMob, and that Apple also approached it with the same pu... |
16 November 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Twitter is a great tool for public relations and many companies, celebrities, and public figures have realized this early on. And like any great PR opportunity, you're going to want to let the professionals handle it. US president Barack Obama can credit his win at least partially on making good use of online t... |
16 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Duel Masters: Limited Edition is a videogame developed by High Voltage Software, Inc. and published by Atari Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on November 5, 2004. It is classed as a strategy card title played from a third person perspective.Duel Masters is a trading card g... |
16 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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There are quite a number of notebook manufacturers worldwide and the amount of sales each of them scores yearly defines its success and income. Currently, Asustek holds less than 5% of the shares of the laptop market and is ranked as the seventh largest notebook PC brand. However, it seems that, according to a Chines... |
16 November 2009
05:37 GMT |
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New things are coming from Lenovo, according to the latest details on the Internet, as this PC vendor appears to be embracing almost all of the latest technologies in the IT industry. Following last week's announcement that the company would be the first to roll out a Snapdragon-based smartbook, Lenovo is now s... |
16 November 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Palm released only a few days ago a new version of its webOS platform that runs on Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. Now it has also announced the availability of a new Mojo Software Development Kit update, namely webOS SDK 1.3.1. Most of you might be already accustomed with Palm releasing an updated SDK so... |
16 November 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Online video is big today and it's going to get huge in the not-so-distant future. Sites like YouTube and Hulu may be getting all the attention and the users, but at one point specialized video hosting sites will be replaced by custom platforms and most sites will offer their own videos. This market is small at... |
16 November 2009
05:19 GMT |
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All is good in Kirby land as he enjoys his delicious picnic, but all that goes terribly wrong when someone snatches his strawberry cake. It turns out that, once again, the villain behind this insidious deed is none other than his eternal foe, King Dedede. He wastes no time in pursuing him and, along the way, he meets... |
16 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple announced not too long ago that its App Store, the software solutions portal it launched for users of an iPhone or an iPod, reached the number of 100,000 applications. When compared to the number of applications available through other similar portals around, the amount of iPhone s... |
16 November 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Square Enix, the Japanese publisher that has recently bought Eidos, has announced that it will be releasing Final Fantasy XIII, the latest Japanese role playing game in the long running franchise, in the West on March 9, 2010, on both the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The game will be outed... |
16 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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After years when the videoconferencing technology didn't have a good-enough broadband to take advantage of, the advances in networking (the Ethernet, for instance) may finally be able to provide enough resources for the worldwide spreading of videoconferencing solutions. Cisco and Logitech seem to be in a race t... |
16 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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You may find it confusing at times why exactly people don't refer to the PlayStation 3 or to the Xbox 360 as their just being gaming consoles. Well, that's because they can do so much more than just run games. As it turns out, the PS3, among all the other things it can do, can convict criminals. The way in ... |
16 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest vendor of computer processors, has managed to claim the number-one spot in recently updated Top 500 list of the world's most power supercomputers, with its recently introduced Six-Core Opteron processors, codenamed Istanbul. Th... |
16 November 2009
04:39 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
16 November 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is the fourth game of the series on the DS. Here, players will be able to choose one of two playable characters, Mark or Chelsea, and recover from a shipwreck that has left them stranded on a deserted island. Once populated in the past, the island will now be home to their character ... |
16 November 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Everything online today is about customization and options. The world doesn't need 100,000 iPhone apps and developers aren't stopping any time soon, so people seem to be gobbling it up. Yet, you can't really hope to compete in the smartphone market without apps and lots of them. The same is true for b... |
16 November 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Following its acquisition of SPCC and business analytics from RedPill, IBM proudly introduced the allegedly “largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics in the world.” This private cloud is supposed to have more than a petabyte of information (1,000 terabytes or 1,000,000 gygabytes)... |
16 November 2009
04:06 GMT |
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It seems like the BMO Capital Markets forum had a vital piece of information that was initially overlooked. Activision is seriously considering releasing more game features at additional costs. Activision's CFO, Tom Tippl, said that, unlike what we might think, this was what the players demanded and it was not e... |
16 November 2009
04:04 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has made yet another step on the Android development road, materialized in the release of Samsung ‘Galaxy Spica’ (I5700), its fourth device sporting Google's operating system. Although the device has been rumored for a long time now and has been also launched ... |
16 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Nintendo is the biggest winner of the current console generation, with its Wii home console managing to consistently beat the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 when it comes to sales, despite having less storage space and a less powerful graphics engine, thanks to the impressive and forward looking motion tracking contr... |
16 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm was rumored quite a few times before that the Finnish handset vendor Nokia would plan a takeover, and now the rumors have surfaced again. While nothing is yet official on the matter, Palm's shares went up by around 8 percent on Friday, courtesy of these rumors. “Pal... |
16 November 2009
03:38 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of hardware components and computer systems, will reportedly update its Intel-supporting motherboard portfolio with the introduction of a new H57-based motherboard, dubbed P7H57D-V EVO. Designed to accommodate Intel's next-generation of 32nm-based processors, codena... |
16 November 2009
03:29 GMT |
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The TOP500 organization made a classification of the world's currently most advanced supercomputers according to their performance. Although Intel has long contributed to the creation of leading supercomputers, it seems it cannot brag about being the best in this area, that title belonging to none other than Adv... |
16 November 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced about two weeks ago the official launch of its first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, but it hasn't delivered an exact release date for the device. However, the company's UK online store alre... |
16 November 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The giant games that have an impact on the world, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, can only pride themselves with small impacts on society. Traffic jams due to the official launch parade, people getting injured during the mauling of game retailers or thousands of individuals suddenly calling in sick so they can s... |
16 November 2009
03:17 GMT |
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October was not a good month for the videogames industry in the United States, which remains the biggest market in the world. Overall, the industry is 19% down over the same period in 2008, going down to just 1.07 billion dollars, making it worse than the same period in 2007.But it seems that even if the numbers don&... |
16 November 2009
03:12 GMT |
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To military applications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are becoming increasingly indispensable and useful. These aircraft, which are currently flown by remote controls, are able to reach dangerous areas that are deemed too hazardous for human pilots. Their small sizes also make them difficult to detect with convent... |
16 November 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint has just made available for purchase the second mobile phone from Palm that comes to the market with the handset vendor's webOS operating system. Announced quite a while ago, the Palm Pixi is now available for purchase from Srint with the price tag of $99.99 upon the signing of a two-yea... |
16 November 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari. Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title played from a third person pe... |
16 November 2009
02:45 GMT |
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Android 2.0, the latest flavor of Google's operating system for mobile phones, has been released on Motorola DROID for more than a week now, while the SDK went available a few days before the handset's launch, and now we learn that Google also released the Android 2.0 source. The best part here is that, as... |
16 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobi... |
16 November 2009
02:14 GMT |
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