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One of the most important areas of scientific research in the world today is the one dealing with understanding how molecular machines function inside our bodies, regenerating it, and ensuring that we live long lives. How these components assemble is also something researchers are very interested in, so a lot of fund... |
16 December 2009
20:01 GMT |
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According to experts at the American space agency, the main aquifers in California, and the Sierra Nevada mountains have lost enough freshwater since 2003 to fill Lake Mead, which is the largest water reservoir in the United States. The study also reveals that, unless steps to mitigate these phenomena are taken quick... |
16 December 2009
19:11 GMT |
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Bethesda, the company that now owns the rights to the Fallout franchise, has announced that it plans to continue its legal efforts aimed at blocking the former owner of the series, Interplay, from creating and publishing a Fallout MMO. This statement comes as, earlier this week, a judge denied a motion from Bethesda ... |
16 December 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Scientists speaking on Tuesday, at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), have demonstrated that, while the last rocket tests North Korea did were failures, the country is making important progress in building increasingly bigger and better delivery systems. While Pyongyang continues to argue tha... |
16 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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ZeniMax Media Inc., the media conglomerate that owns developer id Software, has announced that the company's upcoming RAGE shooter will not be published by Electronic Arts through its Partners program, as was previously unveiled. Bethesda Software, another company owned by ZeniMax, is set to take over as publish... |
16 December 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Researchers at the IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center), in Belgium, announce the development of a new class of ultrasmall, fully autonomous, wireless sensors, which are powered up via micromachined piezoelectric harvesters. The new achievement was reached by using the Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) ... |
16 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The Advertising Standards Authority, the advertising watchdog in the UK, has just banned a magazine advertisement featuring iconic model Twiggy for the Olay Regenerist Definity eye illuminator, which boasts the ability to reduce wrinkles and dark circles. Because the ad in question made excessive use of retouching, i... |
16 December 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and DICE have been working on Battlefield Bad Company 2 for quite a while now. While the first BC wasn't available on the PC, the developer decided that it was time to give something back to the community that helped the Battlefield franchise evolve and become what it was at the moment. So, on a ... |
16 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Many fans considered Jake Gyllenhaal an odd choice as the hero of the upcoming “Prince of Persia” film, based on the popular video game and hopefully the first in a successful franchise. Perhaps only too aware of the pressure from the community, the actor took his part very seriously, and this also transl... |
16 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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iSuppli, a market analysis firm, has estimated that Sony, the Japanese console manufacturer and videogame publisher, is making a loss of 32.37 dollars for every Slim console it sells to an interested gamer.The company is estimating that each device costs Sony 336.37 dollars for the version featuring the 120 GB hard d... |
16 December 2009
14:11 GMT |
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is one of the two Moon-bound spacecraft that NASA launched this June, aboard an Atlas V delivery system. While the LCROSS impactor already finished its mission, after slamming a spent rocket stage, and then itself, into the lunar south pole, the LRO is still returning valuable d... |
16 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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The Christmases of an estimated 1 million travelers are in danger of being completely ruined if British Airways continues to refuse to negotiate with cabin crew, who are unhappy about some recent measures as regards pay and cutting down expenses by letting people go. According to the BBC, the company is trying to leg... |
16 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Those having large music collections in digital format, namely most of us, often face a problem that plagues nearly every assembly of multimedia files: faulty labeling. This can be quite annoying when, for example, you want to compile all the songs from a specific album but you don't remember all the featured so... |
16 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has made an important step when it comes down to the internationalizing of its latest free security solution designed to protect Windows clients. The Redmond company is now not only offering Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 on a plethora of new markets worldwide, but also started offering new localized ver... |
16 December 2009
13:00 GMT |
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July 2010 will represent a key milestone for Windows XP users, especially those that continue to run the second service pack released for the operating system. According to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle, the Redmond company will cut the lifeline for XP SP2 on July 13th, 2010. This deadline is set in stone, as far ... |
16 December 2009
12:54 GMT |
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Nintendo has managed to bounce back in the United States, taking the first and second place in hardware sales with the Wii and the DS and placing third with New Super Mario Bros. after the juggernaut Modern Warfare 2. And it seems that the company is keen on keeping the momentum by announcing its release plans for th... |
16 December 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Games based solely on atmosphere are a rather rare thing theses days, where everything needs to rely on big explosions, flashy graphics and if they do have a story, they're something very thin and transparent, a see-through garment on a soulless lingerie model. The reason is a simple one, and that is that such t... |
16 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Facebook is without a doubt one of the most popular sites online at the moment; yet, it continues to grow at an increasing rate even as it enters a very select crowd of just a handful of sites with comparable audiences. The latest US numbers from comScore show that Facebook has managed to get pass the 100 million un... |
16 December 2009
11:51 GMT |
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The other day, Courtney Love lost temporary custody of her 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean, in what was later revealed to be a clear case of the teenager wanting to spend more time with her paternal grandmother. The rocker did not take the action kindly, though, and is consequently venting on Facebook, where she sp... |
16 December 2009
11:48 GMT |
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The popularity of NAS servers is increasing everyday, with end-users looking for more storage and better ways to manage their digital content. Leading vendor of NAS solutions, QNAP has just announced the release of its new NAS management software, designed to enable users of its Intel-based Turbo NAS servers to take... |
16 December 2009
11:37 GMT |
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Everyone already knows that with great power comes great responsibility. However, what some people may not have yet realized is that with great power also comes a rather large heap of problems. Intel has been learning this lesson for the past several years and, again, it is faced with this grim reality now that it ha... |
16 December 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Pieces of evidence that the Red Planet was at one point partially covered in water are now beginning to mount considerably. Nearly all new scientific pictures sent back by instruments around or on Mars show signs of erosion, or other types of water-related geological degradation. Recently, Planetary Science Institute... |
16 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Thanks to efforts from Microsoft Research, criminals involved in child-exploitation will have less places to hide, especially when it comes down to the nooks and crannies of the Internet. Ernie Allen, president and CEO of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) notes that while the Internet has creat... |
16 December 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Zack Snyder’s 2007 blockbuster “300,” based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, was a milestone for modern cinematography. Given the kind of revenue it generated, as well as the positive reaction from both fans and critics, it’s no wonder talk of a sequel has been making the rounds ever sinc... |
16 December 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is set to offer its subscribers some appealing gifts during this holiday season, it seems. The company has reportedly restarted the BOGO (Buy One Get One for Free) promotion for the Android-based HTC DROID Eris, the second handset it brought to the US market with Google's o... |
16 December 2009
10:51 GMT |
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CallGuard allows users to make blacklists or whitelists, by creating lists of phone numbers that must be rejected or other lists with the ones that should be accepted. Developed by SymbianGuru, CallGuard can be especially useful for businesspeople who cannot accept calls when they are in a meeting. The application ca... |
16 December 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Google's suggestion box, aptly named Suggest, is a great tool, one that has been quickly adopted by other search engines and even browsers. It analyzes the typed query in real time and suggests similar ones before you're done typing. Now, it's gotten even smarter, it detects when you're modifying... |
16 December 2009
10:48 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Observatory, the European Space Agency's new, advanced telescope, has recently started observing the Universe with unbelievable accuracy. As part of the first observations, it was pointed in the direction of the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. The structure is located some 1,000 light-years a... |
16 December 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Bitstream Inc. announced today that its mobile browsing solution, BOLT, would come preloaded on the entire line of mobile phones that AllviewMobile would deliver to the market all around Europe. Allview selected previously the BOLT browser as the solution of choice for the handset it was to deliver to the market in ... |
16 December 2009
10:35 GMT |
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The season 4 finale of “Dexter,” the killer series airing on Showtime and currently its strongest show in the past 4 years, did not bring about only a change in terms of cast, as executive producer Clyde Phillips has also taken his leave, The Hollywood Reporter informs. Phillips, the man basically respons... |
16 December 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics and Nuance Communications, Inc. announced today that a series of select handsets from the vendor would come to the market with the on-device self-service powered by Nuance Mobile Care. The new agreement inked by the duo is aimed at delivering the solution on an even wider range... |
16 December 2009
10:17 GMT |
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A new beta release of Transmission 1.80 for Mac OS X is now available to the public. Currently at its third beta release, the P2P file-sharing (BitTorrent) client adds improved tracker announcement, less CPU-hungry encrypted handshakes to peers, German localization and more. A BitTorrent client similar to the popula... |
16 December 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Simon Cowell is a well-known name in the music industry, and not only because he acts as a judge on popular television shows like X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. Cowell is also a music producer and has his own label, Syco, which usually signs talented artists discovered by means of the two shows. As such, Co... |
16 December 2009
09:54 GMT |
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The search market is moving along, following the trend of the recent months, and it's likely to be that way for the coming months as well, at least until the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft starts getting some real traction. Google continues its slow upwards crawl, Yahoo loses even more market share and Bing s... |
16 December 2009
09:52 GMT |
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One of the biggest problems the rover Spirit had to deal with since two years after it arrived on Mars was the fact that it could no longer use its front-right wheel. The equipment had sustained damage, and this forced the robot to drive backwards for the last three years. In late May, it got stuck in Troy, the patch... |
16 December 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Ever since it surfaced for the first time a few days ago, the Nexus One managed to catch everybody's attention. The handset was said to be the long rumored Google Phone that many enthusiasts are waiting for to make an appearance, and a wide range of rumors regarding its launch, availability, branding and pricin... |
16 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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As it has become rather expected in a time when various motherboards, roadmaps and benchmarks mysteriously find their way to the Internet, yet another motherboard has been leaked, this time from ASUS. The product, known as the ASUS P7H55-M Pro motherboard, is, like most of all the other motherboards recently previewe... |
16 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Although it’s been quite a while since Adam Lambert’s controversial performance at the 2009 American Music Awards, which cost him a string of public appearances and interviews on ABC, it’s a topic that continues to get tongues wagging. Kris Allen, season 8 American Idol winner and once Adam’s ... |
16 December 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Following in the footsteps of the Windows 7 project, Microsoft has introduced a new blog for the company’s efforts around Windows Live. And just as the blog for Windows Vista’s successor introduced by Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, Inside Windows Live will also be focused o... |
16 December 2009
09:30 GMT |
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A new, updated version of the Apple-developed MobileMe iDisk app is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users. The free application allows MobileMe subscribers to view and share files on their iDisk using their mobile device. New in version 1.1, according to Apple, is the ability to auto-complete email addresses... |
16 December 2009
09:27 GMT |
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While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon horde of... |
16 December 2009
09:26 GMT |
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The computer industry has been, for some time now, trying to provide users with an affordable device that can function as a portable computer system. At first, netbooks were designed with that purpose, but in time, even these devices have grown distant from their original purpose. On that note, Cherrypal, a company ... |
16 December 2009
09:26 GMT |
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Rallen and Jeena's routine patrol mission is interrupted when they pick up a distress call. Upon arriving at the source of the message, they find an ancient escape pod and its passenger in cryogenic sleep. Waking him up, the two officers find out about a horrible threat to the universe – the Krawls are abo... |
16 December 2009
09:23 GMT |
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Judging by the way he once used to keep his fans up to speed with the goings-on in his personal life, especially after the much-mediated split from fellow singer Jessica Simpson, few could actually peg John Mayer for someone who’s afraid of dating. Yet, this is precisely what he told Ellen DeGeneres on her show... |
16 December 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Net neutrality may be a topic of hot debate in some parts of the world, most notably in the US, but in other regions the Internet is facing worse threats than throttling YouTube videos, downright censorship is being advocated and we're not talking about China or other countries notorious for their abuses, the c... |
16 December 2009
09:05 GMT |
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For the next five years, Microsoft will be serving an update to all supported Windows clients in an attempt to promote end user choice when it comes down to the default browser associated with the operating system. The European Antitrust Commission accepted a solution proposed by Microsoft, designed to boost competit... |
16 December 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Square Enix, the Japanese developer and publisher responsible for high profile franchises like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, has announced that it has shipped around 1 million copies of Final Fantasy XIII to retailers in Japan, where the role playing experience is set to be released, exclusively for the PlayStation... |
16 December 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Wireless service provider Verizon Wireless announced recently the launch of a new tool for its customers, namely V CAST Media Manager. According to the operator, the new solution is meant to offer users the possibility to manage the syncing of their photos, videos, and music between the mobile phone and their person... |
16 December 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Displays can only receive video input from devices with compatible connection interfaces. Still, there comes a time when products, despite being very powerful and appealing, have little in the way of connectivity versatility. Such is the case with some products of today, like the display of the 27-inch iMac and the L... |
16 December 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today that Nokia Messaging, its push email service, is set to make a commercial debut in Indonesia starting December 26, on the airwaves of wireless carrier Telkomsel. This is the first time when a mobile phone operator in Indonesia launches the service, Nokia notes, adding... |
16 December 2009
08:41 GMT |
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A new critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting all versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat is currently being exploited to infect the computers of unsuspecting users. After reports of ongoing attacks have surfaced, Adobe confirmed the flaw and offered temporary mitigation solutions.This year has been ve... |
16 December 2009
08:20 GMT |
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YouTube is, by far, the largest video site on the planet so if you want to know what were the hottest videos of 2009, there's no need to look any further. And since this was the biggest year for online video ever, with month after month of record-breaking audiences, there were some pretty big hits out there, mo... |
16 December 2009
08:05 GMT |
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Microsoft is by no means losing sight of the fact that Windows continues to be the most important gaming platform worldwide. In fact, the latest move from the Redmond company is designed to streamline the way in which gamers running Windows PCs can access gaming titles. On December 15th, the software giant announced... |
16 December 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Fans of Kellan Lutz, who plays Emmett Cullen in “The Twilight Saga” but also had a successful career as a model, and especially of his well defined body might be seeing plenty more of him in the future. According to Fox411, Lutz could be going down the same route as Marky Mark many years ago by becoming t... |
16 December 2009
07:48 GMT |
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I-O data said it would be delivering a 1.5TB SATA hard drive back in November, a drive that was meant to compete with Seagate's Baracuda 1.5TB SATA drive. Now, after weeks of waiting, the hard drives set to be released by the company by the end of the month are not SATA but designed for interfacing with the USB ... |
16 December 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Astronomers can now boast the creation of the first complete map of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun inside our solar system. A large collection of images, gathered by space probes, telescopes and other observatories, went into the creation of the new map, which is the first one to contain all notable features ... |
16 December 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced on Tuesday the launch of a new offering for its users, in the form of Verizon Wi-Fi. Through it, its Mobile Broadband customers will enjoy a new way of connecting to a great deal of Wi-Fi hotspots without having to pay extra. Moreover, the company also says that the ne... |
16 December 2009
06:52 GMT |
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Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) on Monday, experts revealed a troublesome fact about Chernobyl, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that blew up in 1986. Recent measurements in the exclusion zone, where no humans can go without protective equipment, have revealed that the radioact... |
16 December 2009
06:50 GMT |
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One day after it started investigating allegations of code theft, Microsoft has shut down the Microsoft China microblogging service offered to customers under various monikers including MSN Juku/Hompy/Mclub. At the same time, the Redmond company confirmed officially that in the making of Juku code and design elements... |
16 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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With the Consumer Electronics Show just a couple of weeks ahead of us, we are seeing a surge of new products making their way on the Internet. Such is the case with an upcoming lineup of new motherboards, from Taiwanese manufacturer, Gigabyte. A number of the company's new Intel-based motherboards have recently... |
16 December 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Google has a special interest in one of its newest products, Place Pages, which was recently introduced to Google Earth, as it merges some of the fastest growing markets at the moment. On the one hand, it caters to small and local businesses which don't traditionally advertise online but which could represent a... |
16 December 2009
06:34 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 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 proved that video games were becoming the new, popular thing, as the game turned out to be the best sold entertainment product of all times. But to do so, its developers had to cut a few corners to make it as accessible as possible for everyone. And, since the consoles are far more popul... |
16 December 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Singer Jennifer Lopez is slowly preparing for the release of her latest album, called “Love?,” from which fans have already heard a few tracks. In the January 2010 issue of Allure magazine, the singer openly talks about anything and everything, from how hard it was for her to kick-start her music career t... |
16 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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MapQuest has recently released its MapQuest 4 Mobile software solutions for users of a handset running under the BlackBerry operating system. A wide range of phones from Research In Motion have seen support for the new app, though it seems that the newer models like Curve 8900, Bold 9700 and Tour have limited suppor... |
16 December 2009
06:21 GMT |
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There have been quite a few releases of tweaked, redesigned or custom-cooled Radeon HD 5770 graphics cards, with Sapphire, PowerColor and ASUS each presenting their own respective products over the past week and a half. Still, while those models each had a slightly higher factory clock or a special heatsink, they wer... |
16 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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After the first Beta, announced at the beginning of December, Warren Woodford uploaded last night the second Beta release of the upcoming SimplyMEPIS 8.5 operating system. This beta contains the newly released KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4 and an important fix, the Python toolchain, in order to make the system-confi... |
16 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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The generally accepted date for the mammoth's extinction in the international scientific community is sometime around 12,000 years ago, shortly before humans took over the world and learned agriculture. These estimates are based on numerous fossil records, which all show that the last mammoths and mastodons died... |
16 December 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Gerard Butler has had a very busy year, putting out movies from various genres, from romantic comedies (“The Ugly Truth”) to action movies (“Gamer“) and dramas (“Law Abiding Citizen”). A nice way to round up 2009 is with an award for International Star of the Year, which the actor ... |
16 December 2009
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Since modern Science and astronomy took off, in the last few hundred years, experts have made numerous discoveries pertaining to the nature of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon. One of these discoveries was the fact that the Sun was a yellow dwarf that had been generated some 4.57 billion years ago. As such, in about f... |
16 December 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Ever since Valve revealed that the Friendship update was actually the War update, things have become so hectic that we get new additions to the game everyday. Yesterday, we saw how the slightly overwhelmed Demoman received a brand-new Close Combat Kit to try to even the scales a bit, today it's the Soldier'... |
16 December 2009
05:40 GMT |
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80 Plus certifications is the current standard against which all new power supplies are compared. Of course, the standard is divided into segments, namely Bronze, Silver and Gold, according to the PSU’s level of compliance with the standard itself. The 87+ products from Enermax will become the successors to the... |
16 December 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Leading developer of mobile applications SPB Software announced on Tuesday the release of a new software solution for users of handsets powered by the Symbian operating system, SPB Weather 2.0. the application was until now available only for handsets based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, yet now a wide... |
16 December 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Hamrick Software has issued a new version of its scanning solution for Mac OS X, VueScan. Also available for Windows and Linux PC fans, VueScan supports over 1,200 flatbed and film scanners and 321 digital-camera raw file types. The program assists users by automatically adjusting images to an optimum color balance, ... |
16 December 2009
05:34 GMT |
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YouTube is working overtime to get those revenue streams flowing and, while Google says it's on track to profitability at a not-so-distant point, the video site is not quite there yet. It's been pursuing several options, aside from the usual variety of advertising models, and is now even considering introd... |
16 December 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Ubisoft revealed at the Spike Video Game Awards ceremony that it was working on a new Prince of Persia title, called The Forgotten Sands, set to arrive in the same time frame as the Sands of Time movie at some point in 2010.The game should continue in the same universe The Two Thrones and Warrior Within took place an... |
16 December 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Google might be targeting users of Linux and Mac OS X operating systems, but without a doubt, the company’s main focus is Windows. At the start of this week, the Mountain View-based search giant kicked up a notch the stable version of Google Chrome, but only for users of Microsoft’s proprietary platform. ... |
16 December 2009
05:09 GMT |
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The multiplayer aspect of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has suffered quite a serious setback as far as fair-play goes with the “Javelin glitch,” but it is a rather big step toward mindless fun. While it is called “Javelin,” this glitch worked with pretty much any launcher weapon, and pretty mu... |
16 December 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Boeing Commercial Airplanes company could finally sigh in relief. Its new airplane, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, took its maiden flight. Originally scheduled to take place in September 2007, the flight was canceled multiple times, due to various technical reasons. But now, more than two years later, the ... |
16 December 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
16 December 2009
05:01 GMT |
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When it rains, it pours, and when a possible Google phone surfaces, rumors keep on coming. This time around, the said handset, which is expected to land on the market as the HTC Nexus One, emerged in a new video that shows it booting up, its name is said to have been trademarked by Google, and some alleged hardware ... |
16 December 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Touted as the conclusion of the long Avernum series of games, Avernum 6 has been out for a month now (for Mac OS X) and it’s already getting maintenance updates. Avernum 6 is coming to Windows PC gamers in Spring 2010. “We have updated Avernum 6 for the Macintosh to v1.0.1,” the latest update on th... |
16 December 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Gmail is one of the most popular web mail clients in the world at this point, despite coming relatively late to the game, and for good reason, its developers always stride to make it easier to handle the increasing amount of emails we go through every day. Apart from the sheer volume, managing all the contacts is al... |
16 December 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Of course, anyone who follows the news has already gotten used to hearing about products that claim to be the best or the fastest, or the smallest or the most reliable and so on and so forth. The latest company to claim that its portable hard drive is the most compact is LaCie. In this case, however, it might be on t... |
16 December 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
16 December 2009
04:47 GMT |
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In 2007, when GSC Game World released S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, gamers everywhere got a chance to take an entirely new look at Ukraine and the disaster that befell the nuclear power plant and the region around it. The title drifted away from reality and presented the area around the plant as a poisonous, h... |
16 December 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Kourtney Kardashian, sister to Kim and daughter to the late attorney who infamously got OJ Simpson off the hook on murder charges, gave birth to her first child yesterday. The mother is supposedly still in hospital, where she underwent C-section to give birth to her son, but fans and the media are already keeping an ... |
16 December 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Activision Publishing announced yesterday that it acquired the rights to publish a range of videogames based on the Zhu Zhu Pets line of toys, one of the few stars of this year's Christmas shopping season. The deal was signed with Cepia LLC, the company that designed the hamster-looking toys, but the publisher d... |
16 December 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Social networking may be growing at a huge pace, just look at Facebook's rise for 2009; yet, incredibly, social gaming is growing even faster. Facebook has 350 million users by now and is on track to make at least $500 million this year in revenue. But it's been at it for five years now. In the mean time, ... |
16 December 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Psystar was brought to its knees by Judge Alsup on December 15, 2009 when he granted Apple a permanent injunction against the Mac cloner. As for the Rebel EFI (still selling on Psystar’s website at the time of this writing), the judge refused to exclude it from the injunction. Outlining that Psystar was not ve... |
16 December 2009
04:20 GMT |
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The holiday season is here and for some of you, there's still enough time to search for more gifts that are to put a smile on the face of the ones close to you. Now, if you are looking for something that can go well with that ultraportable notebook you recently bought, then you might want to take a look at one ... |
16 December 2009
04:19 GMT |
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The new version of Citrix’s virtualization management solution for Microsoft’s hypervisor is designed to streamline the adoption of site recovery for virtual environments. The promise is that Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V will not only simplify deployment, but also reduce complexity and the costs of ... |
16 December 2009
04:14 GMT |
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The Fermi architecture isn't the only thing that NVIDIA plans to put on display at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. The company seems to have serious plans for the mobile computing segment and apparently intends to introduce its second-generation Tegra system-on-chip products in January. The actual ... |
16 December 2009
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The overall mobile phone market has seen a small decline during the ongoing year, as sales have been greatly affected by the financial downturn; yet, the smartphone segment managed to show growth throughout the entire year 2009, it seems. These device are expected to account for around 14 percent of the total h... |
16 December 2009
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The city of Jerusalem has recently revealed another of its mysterious buried treasures to archaeologists, when the experts have been able to uncover a burial chamber that was last used about the time that Jesus Christ was crucified. Inside the chamber, the scientists discovered a body wrapped inside a shroud, which d... |
16 December 2009
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Activision and Infinity Ward's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has proven that its was, and still is, the most popular entertainment title ever released, with its sheer amount of sales and the people that know what the game is. But some of the publicity it got, while still publicity, was a bad one. Closer to the t... |
16 December 2009
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just released a new firmware update for one of its mobile phones currently available on the market, namely the Windows Mobile 6.5-based HTC Touch2. The new software solution comes from the handset vendor as an update for the phone's capability to deliver weath... |
16 December 2009
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Nintendo has had great success with the DS handheld and its variants on the United States market, a fact confirmed by the 1.7 million consoles that were sold in November, a new record for sales of a portable gaming device.And now the company has revealed the titles set to arrive in the first half of 2010 for the plat... |
16 December 2009
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Each year, when the nominations for the Golden Globes Awards come out, the public and critics pay attention because they’re seen as a sign of greater things to come, meaning, as indicators of the Oscar nominations that come after a few weeks. This year was no exception, with the entire movie industry keeping an... |
16 December 2009
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Astrophysicists have known for a long time that the black hole dubbed V404 Cygni is one of the closest to our planet ever discovered. Still, they were unprepared when new measurements of the distance that separated us from it revealed that the object was, in fact, nearly two times closer than first predicted. Using m... |
16 December 2009
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As the year comes to an end, there's two than more weeks left but who's really counting, it's time to sit back and marvel at just how much we achieved in 2009. And if you're Twitter, you may even have a reason to be proud of yourself, the microblogging service exploded onto the scene and secured ... |
16 December 2009
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Even though there have been a slew of hardware pictures coming out lately, the phenomenon doesn't look ready to stop. Adding to this long streak of hardware set for launch during 2010 are three motherboards from Gigabyte. The hardware maker seems to have already put together two micro-ATX motherboards and one AT... |
16 December 2009
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The next flavor of Google's Android operating system is almost here. The upcoming platform iteration has been already spotted at large on the recently leaked HTC Nexus One, and is also expected to soon make an appearance on the highly popular Motorola DROID from Verizon, but now a series of screenshots showing ... |
16 December 2009
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The recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has just captured an impressive view of a large group of young stars in the 30 Doradus Nebula, which astronomers say resemble a large Christmas tree, or even Santa Claus himself. The similarities are admittedly not striking, but people tend to see patterns in everything... |
16 December 2009
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There’s nothing holding Microsoft back from attempting to build market share while piggyback riding on products developers by rival companies. It is the case of its search/decision engine, which the Redmond company is now making available to Apple iPhone users. As of December 15th, users of the mobile phone off... |
16 December 2009
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
16 December 2009
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Batman: Arkham Asylum managed to prove that comic-book superheros and their games were anything but dead and that the genre could still produce some genuinely good products. The game scored big time not only with the critics, but with the fans as well, and even won a world record, Guinness awarding it the title of "M... |
16 December 2009
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It became clear early in the development process of Windows 7 that the latest iteration of the Windows client would be killing off Windows Vista’s Ultimate Extras components. Early adopters that upgraded Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate Beta Build 7000 witnessed firsthand the Ultimate Extras on their comput... |
16 December 2009
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Owners of an Epson or Lexmark printer using a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 should learn that new drivers are available for a better integration of their hardware. Available as free downloads from Apple, as well as from Softpedia, the new drivers apply solely to Snow Leopard. “Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard includes ... |
16 December 2009
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NCsoft has announced that it is launching winter holiday-themed events in all the MMO titles that it is maintaining, trying to attract more players to the games and offering rewards for those who have been loyal for a long period of time.In the most recently release, Aion, the Solorius Festival is being celebrated wi... |
16 December 2009
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, the worldwide second runner in the mobile phone market, has reportedly managed to secure and maintain the leadership on the UK market, sending Nokia, the global handset leader, on the second position. The company is said to account for around 30 percent of the market in the c... |
16 December 2009
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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 December 2009
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In spite of the advanced technological means at their disposal, researchers analyzing some of the harshest regions of Antarctica still can't get to where they need to be. If they do, however, they cannot endure at those extremely dangerous locations for longer. For the first time, scientists have now been able t... |
16 December 2009
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Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
16 December 2009
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