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It is a known fact that the movie industry is all about creating new fictional or real content for the sole purpose of entertaining viewers by challenging them to either take part in adventures or discover the human spirit. The Indiana Jones franchise has been around for some time now and has made it from the wide sc... |
17 November 2009
20:21 GMT |
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We've all been in situations in which the person we were talking to seemed oblivious to the fact that we looked sick and not in the mood, and just kept on ranting for hours on end. The ability to empathize – that is, to figure out what other people are feeling without them saying it, and to relate to their... |
17 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
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The volcanic dome of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, has been recognized for many years as one of the most suited locations for building ground-based telescopes. Its unique vantage point allows telescopes built here to make out details of the Universe that can only be seen from only a handful of other places around the world. ... |
17 November 2009
18:41 GMT |
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been released and Nintendo's President, Reggie Fils-Aime, is glad to brag the game's multiplayer. The way he sees it, the title was designed to fulfill everyone's needs, regardless of gaming experience or cultural background. "I really do believe that New Super Mario Bros.... |
17 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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The international, mobile money transfer market is expected to see an impressive growth in the near future, a recent report from Juniper Research shows. It seems that the market will grow beyond the US$65 billion mark by 2014, due to gross transaction values, which will be mainly driven by the migration of workers t... |
17 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Some people have been talking about how Dragon Age uses the same fantasy stereotypes that have been embraced by every other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired videogame. But the art of the creators at BioWare is to actually take familiar stereotypes, like the tall, goody two shoes, art loving, blond haired elves and turn th... |
17 November 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced recently that it added a series of new devices into its ultra-portable, ultra-connected offering, including the Samsung Go and Acer Aspire One, both of them running under the newly launched operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7. According to the company, the new devices are expec... |
17 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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A few days ago, we saw the first leaked images showing that Facebook integration was being prepared for the PlayStation 3. And, in an unusual move, Sony has not entered its usual denial tactics and actually put out a preview of the features set to be integrated in the 3.10 firmware update, which is said to come very ... |
17 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint announced on Monday that it has just launched its 4G services in Austin and San Antonio. According to the company, the new launch will enable users in those areas to enjoy great speeds, through which streaming video, file downloads and uploads, and web browsing experiences are enhanced not on... |
17 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the Yale University have recently developed a new method of observing how immune-system cells track invading bacteria, before finally catching up with them, and beginning a confrontation. In a paper published in the November 15 advanced online issue of the respected scientific journal Nature Methods, th... |
17 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Best Buy Mobile, the mobile retail unit of Best Buy, announced recently that it planned on offering new deals for customers for the holiday season. According to the company, two Sprint smartphones, the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment, both running under Google's Android operating system, will be available for purch... |
17 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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A lot of games have ended up on the desks around here and all of them look good enough to receive a review. At the frantic work pace that has been imposed by them, some things had to be taken down from the responsibilities board, while others got reassigned. As such, it seems like BioWare's Dragon age: Origins h... |
17 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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A group of researchers has determined that, among Caucasians, the color of a person's face is a major factor in determining their attractiveness level for individuals of the opposite gender. A yellowish, light complexion has been determined to be the healthiest, and therefore the most appealing, by a set of expe... |
17 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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It seems that the release window for Alan Wake is getting ever narrower. Microsoft, set to handle publishing duties on the videogame, has already confirmed that it plans to launch the title sometime in the spring of next year and rumors are now saying that late May is the period when Alan Wake should arrive on store ... |
17 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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On Monday, Samsung Mobile announced the Samsung 3G Ubicell Personal CDMA Base Station, a new addition to its femtocell family of products, expected to reach the market in 2010. According to the company, the new 3G UbiCell can prove a great option for home or small office coverage, as it can work with existing h... |
17 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Some people like keeping some huge collections. No matter what, they like having a big and impressive collection of whatever they can get their hands on. Movies, pieces of software, images and music, you name it. So, it’s pretty tough for them to organize and manage a big collection. Data Crow is a piece of sof... |
17 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Mozilla is cooking a new Beta Build of the next iteration of its open source browser. Early adopters will have a fresh revision, the third one since Firefox 3.6 debuted into Beta stage, available for download soon. Whether referred to as Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 or Firefox 3.6 Beta revision 3, the new release is just aroun... |
17 November 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Tinychat, a rapidly growing bootstrapped startup, announced on November 16 2009 the launch of Tinychat.tv, which is in fact a Ustream-like platform that would offer users the possibility to live stream any video or show hosted on Tinychat. The new service uses the Tinychat's API as its basis and allows people to... |
17 November 2009
12:15 GMT |
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AT&T's smartphone lineup will soon see a new addition, in the form of BlackBerry Curve 8520, the wireless carrier announced recently. The new device will be added to the operator's BlackBerry smartphone portfolio, proving to be the best value for both consumer and business customers, stated AT&T. The new h... |
17 November 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Sharing images over the Internet via e-mail services and keeping them in online photo albums often requires that your pictures come in a smaller size. This can be a requirement for previewing purposes, in the case of catalogs, or a condition imposed by the current limit of mail attachments. Usually, these occurrences... |
17 November 2009
11:51 GMT |
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The online music space is in a volatile state with newcomers popping up seemingly every week while older services are dwindling, having failed to reach the popularity they needed to survive. But, while they may not be thriving financially, the online music market is sure to explode in the coming years and already som... |
17 November 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), in Chile, have recently discovered a double star system, which appears to be housing a “vampire” star. The peculiar formation became visible to telescopes in 2000, after the star underwent an outburst that ... |
17 November 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Following our usual monthly report, we present the conclusions of the recent Elance Work Index, a top provided by Elance, which ranks the most desired skills in today's online freelance work. Even if the latest report is only for the month of October, PHP skills seem to have won the competition for the number on... |
17 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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NVIDIA has been making the headlines recently, as the company's partners have just announced the introduction of their latest GeForce cards, based on the G215 graphics processing unit, or the GeForce GT 240. Coming to support its partners' new cards, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker ha... |
17 November 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch was launched into the wild about a year ago, and now the software solution just reached version 2.0. According to Google, the app managed to become the second most downloaded one in the App Store in about six months, and now users will be able to enjoy a series of... |
17 November 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Just when we thought today was going to be packed with almost nothing else besides release over release of the NVIDIA-based GeForce GT 240 cards, AOC Europe found just the right time to introduce a product that would doubtlessly form a good combination with this new line of video cards. Berlin-based display specialis... |
17 November 2009
10:53 GMT |
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The adventure continues with today's second release of LEGO Indiana Jones, the main character whipping into the adventures of the original movies of the Indiana Jones franchise. You can begin the adventure on new platforms available, the title being released for the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 at $49.99 and th... |
17 November 2009
10:47 GMT |
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After Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Mandriva Linux 2010.0 and openSUSE 11.2, the time has come for Fedora fans to grab the final release of the Fedora 12 (Constantine) operating system, announced a few minutes ago by the Fedora Project developers. Fedora 12 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31, and it includes the K... |
17 November 2009
10:34 GMT |
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There are quite a few days left until the Black Friday will arrive, yet it seems that Apple has already made up its mind when it comes to the deals it will offer to users that very day. Moreover, details on those plans are also rumored to have leaked into the wild, and it seems that the company has some rather major... |
17 November 2009
10:33 GMT |
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The BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology has been around for quite a few years; its huge popularity ensures that it will be around for at least as many. Anyway, the BitTorrent protocol has evolved over the years to the point where BitTorrent trackers, the sites which managed the initial communications between clients,... |
17 November 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Knowing that simple winter air wouldn't be enough to keep graphics card temperature under control (even if it did make it anywhere near a computer), Arctic Cooling revealed that it would soon be introducing a new cooling module for NVIDIA's series of GeForce GTX graphics adapters, dubbed the Accelero XTREM... |
17 November 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Four members of a banking fraud ring operating in UK have been sentenced to a total of over thirteen years in prison. The men, who used a computer trojan to get into the online banking accounts of their victims, were arrested in London back in April.In April 2009, we reported on the arrest of nine London-based suspec... |
17 November 2009
10:08 GMT |
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A new development milestone of Opera 10.10 is now available for download. According to the Norway-based browser maker, Opera 10.10, a spinoff from Opera 10.0, bundled with the Opera Unite technology, has evolved all the way to the third Release Candidate. Moreover, the evolution comes at an extremely fast pace, ... |
17 November 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Ithaca, NY-based Widetronix is currently developing a new generation of nuclear batteries, called betavoltaics. The devices are able to produce a steady flow of low current levels, and can last for up to 25 years, experts say. The batteries will soon undergo their testing phase, and the entire process will be supervi... |
17 November 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation, the largest vendor of smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system and also the first manufacturer to have launched on the market a device powered by Google's Android platform, is reportedly gearing up for the release of a Brew MP-bas... |
17 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Over the past few years, governments around the world have started turning their attention to nuclear energy again, mostly because other energetic sectors are becoming increasingly susceptible to price fluctuations on the international market. With global warming and climate change, using fossil fuels becomes an incr... |
17 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Microsoft’s translation technology designed for integration into third-party web properties has evolved into Beta stage. The latest development milestone, announced at TechEd Europe is also synonymous with the Redmond company opening up access to the Microsoft Translator Widget and the Microsoft Translator AJAX... |
17 November 2009
09:38 GMT |
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The Incredible Hulk comes to the DS with a little bit less flavor than it does on the home consoles. The game still has plenty of puzzles and destruction, but it's far less complex and a lot uglier than its larger brothers. But it's also a lot more simplified, as the DS version will never give you an un-Hul... |
17 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Not long after the Cray XT5 “Jaguar” was appointed the most powerful supercomputer, Cray Inc. revealed the new incarnation of the workstation for the next era, namely the Cray CH1-iWS system. More than a simple configuration, the Cray CH1-iWS (iWS stands for integrated Workstation) combines a powerful Mi... |
17 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Google Chrome is now almost certain to get much better support for extensions very soon, at least in the developer channel builds. After the first clues of an online extensions gallery were spotted yesterday, Google made it more or less official with the latest Chrome release, which now features links and notifiers ... |
17 November 2009
09:22 GMT |
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PC vendor Lenovo is silently working on the release of its future line of portable computer systems, according to the latest details that have surfaced the Internet. The company is rumored to be looking to update its IdeaPad series with the introduction of a new Pineview-equipped netbook, as we mentioned in a previo... |
17 November 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download the first Beta build of its next generation of Windows for supercomputers. The Redmond company announced at Supercomputing 2009 the immediate availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta, the successor of the pain vanilla Windows HPC Server 2008, as the official moniker im... |
17 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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When Intel said it would be pushing USB 3.0 hardware as far away as 2011, ASUS had already finished working on a motherboard with USB 3.0 support. Still, to alleviate the suffering of those PC enthusiasts who wouldn't have a perfect Christmas without USB 3.0, Sharkoon introduced today its solution: a USB 3.0 add... |
17 November 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Working in the Galapagos Archipelago, where Charles Darwin himself studied the behavior of finches more than 150 years ago, scientists have recently announced that they have managed to capture an elusive moment in the history of a group of birds – the creation of a new species from a new strain. The investigato... |
17 November 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T and LG Mobile Phones announced on Monday the launch of a new handset in their line of appealing phones, namely the LG Shine II. According to the duo, the new device, which follows the impressive success registered by the predecessor LG Shine, comes with a glossy exterior and can deliver versati... |
17 November 2009
08:45 GMT |
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It seems like it's not just gamers that feel the nostalgia of the old titles. Nintendo misses all the verbal abuse along with the following praise it received from the nerve-wrecking games from the days of the NES. Stuck on the Wii, the latest titles the gaming giant released were mainly aimed either at a younge... |
17 November 2009
08:14 GMT |
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Version 4.0 of the .NET Micro Framework is now available for download, with Microsoft releasing the solution at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, on November 16th. The Redmond company had promised since early 2009 that the latest iteration of the .NET Micro Framework will become an... |
17 November 2009
08:13 GMT |
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In tune with last month's prediction concerning the launch date of the GeForce GT 240 graphics cards, quite a few hardware manufacturers, including MSI, Galaxy and Inno3D, showcased their own models of the NVIDIA-based video adapters. Bent on matching and even outdoing this competition, Leadtek, in turn, came ou... |
17 November 2009
08:08 GMT |
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The once-tranquil Sunny Island has been thrown in disarray, as crops seem to have gotten a life of their own and they're growing completely out of control. Players will have to unravel the mystery of the wild plants and save the island before it's suffocated in food. Set in the same world as Harvest Moon: I... |
17 November 2009
07:47 GMT |
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Leave your stakes and your silver bullets at home while visiting landmarks of the latest chapter in the Twilight saga to hit movie screens worldwide, but by all means make sure that you have Microsoft Silverlight in place. At the same time, knowing your way around Bing Maps wouldn’t hurt either. MSN Movies has ... |
17 November 2009
07:36 GMT |
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Like several of its peers, Inno3D introduced today its own NVIDIA-based video cards. Similar to those released by MSI and Leadtek, these cards are well-suited for the heavy computing tasks run by most of the latest games and visually complex applications, such as 3D model development software. Able to provide the per... |
17 November 2009
07:30 GMT |
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AOL is approaching its final moments at Time Warner, as the companies are heading towards the spin off revealed earlier this year. Time Warner has now officially put a date on when this is going to happen and as of December 10, 2009 AOL will begin to trade as an independent company on the stock market.... |
17 November 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Many believed and even more feared that Modern Warfare 2 would change the way we looked at video games and the people involved with them forever. Well, the game did just that, but in at least one way that no one could have ever anticipated. After releasing cheats for the game before it was even officially launched, t... |
17 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Microsoft will make Zune available to international users on markets outside of the United States starting today, November 19th, 2009. However, this is valid only for the Redmond company’s Zune-branded service and not for the actual digital media players. The software giant launched its own devices designed to... |
17 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Apple's iconic device, the iPhone, has been launched in China not too long ago, via the wireless carrier China Unicom, which is very confident in the selling power of the handset. According to the mobile phone operator, it managed to sell a number of 30,000 iPhones since launching the device on October 30, and ... |
17 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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EMC's deduplicating technology, dubbed Avamar, is a technology that removes block-level duplication before sending the data to a target device as part of a backup process. The company added lightweight clients for Windows and Mac, featuring an intuitive end user interface for backups and restores, as well as sev... |
17 November 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Scientists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announce the development of the first 'universal' programmable quantum information processor, which uses two quantum bits (qubits) of information. According to the team behind the groundbreaking achievement, the processor can be empl... |
17 November 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Cooperative gameplay seems to be one of the most present videogaming trends of 2009 with a lot of titles, like Borderlands, selling well mainly on the strength of the experience they can offer when played with one or three other buddies.Even Modern Warfare 2, traditionally focused on a single player experience and a ... |
17 November 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Redmond-based software company Microsoft announced a while ago that it would bring its recently launched software portal for handsets, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, to the users of WM 6.0 and 6.1-based devices, and now that promise has been fulfilled. Following the announcements the company made last week, now... |
17 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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At a little over a month since it pushed Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 into Release Candidate stage, Microsoft has released the product to manufacturing. Ahead of the RC milestone, TGM 2010 went through no less than three Beta releases, a period of which Microsoft users to harvest feedback on the sec... |
17 November 2009
06:37 GMT |
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MSI, a leading vendor of computer components and systems, has announced today the debut of its new GeForce graphics cards, with the introduction of the new GeForce N250GT series. Equipped with the latest NVIDIA graphics processing unit and aimed at the mainstream and entry-level user, the new card will be available ... |
17 November 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Google is going all-out in the enterprise front, constantly updating and adding new features to the Google Apps suite it offers businesses. Now it's launching a new template gallery for Google Sites, the service which allows users to easily create and maintain a website. Anyone can install and use themes availa... |
17 November 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Adobe has recently rebutted the claims of a security researcher, according to whom a design flaw in the way Flash Player executes SWF files can put websites accepting user uploads at risk. The professional now says the company totally missed the point and that its expectations of webmasters to address this are comple... |
17 November 2009
06:30 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... |
17 November 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Nintendo just recently announced that it planned to release game demos for the Wii and it has already made it happen. This week's list of downloads from Nintendo also includes fives demos for the Wii console. The first one on the list is also accompanied by its full game and it's the Pokemon Rumble. The tit... |
17 November 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard users can now enjoy updated drivers for their printers, courtesy of a series of new updates released on Monday by Apple, and which includes the necessary software for Brother, Canon, HP, and Lexmark products. According to the company, the new available downloads include the latest printin... |
17 November 2009
06:11 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... |
17 November 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Over the past two million years or so, we have evolved to the point where we've reached about the maximum possible size of our brains. As anthropologists may argue, our brain capacities may actually be getting smaller, and all for a simple reason – the anatomical difficulties that birthing a large-headed c... |
17 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The first direct-to-PCI-e SSD developed by Fusion-io, the ioDrive, was meant for the enterprise market, but even there the cost couldn't truly be justified, regardless of the performance upsides presented by directly plugging the storage device into the slot. The ioXtreme is a version of the same product aimed a... |
17 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Twitter may be slowing down in the US, but it's showing no signs of stopping elsewhere. One feature, which seems to drive growth as much as anything else, is its mobility. Since its inception, users have been able to send tweets via SMS, but Twitter is now taking it to the next level with the announcement of a ... |
17 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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The introduction of native multitouch capabilities is one of the most consistent aspects of the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows 7. However, Microsoft noted that, in certain scenarios, customers running touch-capable computers and Windows 7 would not be able to actually use touch. The Redmond company explained... |
17 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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There are a number of desktop motherboards on the market, some of which can pride themselves with certain unique designs and features. However, the latest addition from DFI, a leading vendor of high-performance motherboards, offers one of the most interesting options, currently available on the market. Dubbed Hybrid... |
17 November 2009
05:35 GMT |
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For most of the older gamers, the glory days are, like for many other things, in the past. The best titles are always the ones we used to play, and rarely the ones we are playing. But shiny graphics, shaders and foto-realistic textures are something we all enjoy, even if they can't always beat the 8-bit nostalgi... |
17 November 2009
05:27 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... |
17 November 2009
05:23 GMT |
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It seems that Motorola DROID, the second Android-based mobile phone the handset vendor delivered to the US market, has had a good first week of sales. A recent report from Flurry shows that the device was sold in around 250,000 units, which can be considered a great result both for Motorola and for Verizon. The Moto... |
17 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Speaking yesterday at the SC09 international supercomputing conference, in Portland, scientists announced that the Cray XT5 high-performance computing system, also known as the Jaguar supercomputer, had officially become the world's fastest computer. The Jaguar moved far ahead of IBM's Roadrunner, which has... |
17 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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With the web reaching more people in more countries everyday translations are becoming even more important. There are a number of translation services online and one of the best just got a big update. Google Translate was already impressive with support for 51 languages and some interesting features, but Google took... |
17 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is a fitting end (if it is really the end, hard to know when it comes to such a long running and interesting series) to the adventures of the very unusual duo of a Lombax and a sentient robot.The first installment in the series arrived in November 2002 and just seven years... |
17 November 2009
05:02 GMT |
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HP introduced several new thin PC computing solutions that will make customers rethink their PC experience and reorganize their preferences. Knowing its products have weight in the area of thin computing, HP expanded its portfolio with HP thin client platforms, client virtualization solutions and multiseat solutions.... |
17 November 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Even before the release date arrived, Modern Warfare 2 was marked by controversy. The PC version of the game was set not to offer dedicated servers and multiplayer is limited to 9 versus 9.The biggest point of discussion related to the first person shooter created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision is the c... |
17 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, has been diagnosed with cancer, as confirmed by Vulcan Chief Executive Officer Jody Allen. In a memo sent out to all employees of Vulcan, Allen’s company, Jody Allen, the sister of Microsoft’s co-founder, indicated her brother is battling non-Hodgkin&r... |
17 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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As anyone who has ever cooked can tell you, adding a little bit of flour in a bowl of water yields a spectacular phenomenon. The fine particles in the powder quickly diverge from the spot where they were originally dropped, in a manner similar to that of an explosion. Explanations as to why this happens have eluded p... |
17 November 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, the first mobile phone from the Japanese-Swedish joint venture that runs under Google's Android operating system, has been announced officially at the beginning of this month, yet we won't be able to see it available on shelves until February next year. However, those who would li... |
17 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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If you've ventured through the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, then you've already gotten a taste of what the developers think of Russia and its residents. As any good American that has lived through the Cold War or been raised on movies inspired by that period, the writers behind ... |
17 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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China recently unveiled a military supercomputer that, according to it, would have ranked fourth in the most recent TOP 500 list. This implies that advances in supercomputing technology may actually be made at a faster pace than suspected. For this year's annual supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon (22n... |
17 November 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Sony has announced that it is planning to introduce online multiplayer capabilities to those titles for the PSP that only had ad hoc connectivity. The service, called AdHocParty, has been running in Japan for about one year and is set to debut in North America at some point later in November or in early December. The... |
17 November 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Adobe is making a big push today with new versions of its popular media platforms Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR. With Flash Player 10.1 prerelease (a cross between a beta and a release candidate), Adobe actually brings a lot more features than the small .1 update in the version number would have you believe, including s... |
17 November 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Yesterday evening, November 16th, Patrick Verner announced the immediate availability of Parted Magic 4.6, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that was created to help users easily partition their hard drives or perform recovery tasks. Parted Magic 4.6 comes with improved support for netbooks, Super Grub Disk, the C... |
17 November 2009
04:06 GMT |
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A new update to Google Chrome is available for download, for testers running the browser on all supported platforms, namely Windows, Mac, and Linux. The Mountain View-based search giant released Chrome 4.0.249.0 at the start of this week, offered to early adopters through the company’s Dev channel. The latest d... |
17 November 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Between Wednesday, November 18, and Thursday, November 19, more than 35 radio telescopes around the world will take part in the largest effort ever of creating a sky grid. This system of reference will allow astronomers to better detect the position of various celestial objects, relative to the position of the Earth.... |
17 November 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Worldwide leading communications solutions provider Qualcomm is expected to take the lead in the 4G wireless communications area when it comes to patent holding. According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the company recorded 24 percent of ETSI declarations surrounding LTE, and 16 percent of the tot... |
17 November 2009
03:55 GMT |
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In July, Eidos got swallowed by the Final Fantasy mania-spreader, in hopes that the Japanese developer and publisher would be closer to the European market in this way. But the British company wasn't really devoured as much as it was assimilated, in less of a Bork-like manner and more of a natural symbiosis type... |
17 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Massive stars are giants several hundred times the mass of our Sun, which have the ability to form neutron stars and black holes at the end of their burning cycle. They are a rare occurrence in the Universe, so the processes involved in their birth sequences have been very little understood until now. With the help o... |
17 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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CyberPower, a leading builder of custom PC solutions, has just announced that its customers will be offered a choice for the latest USB 3.0 and SATA III interfaces, through the company's Gamer Xtreme line of desktop PCs. This new feature will enable gamers and computer enthusiasts to take advantage of the lates... |
17 November 2009
03:37 GMT |
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An increase in storage capacity is never shunned and collectors of virtual data files will be especially pleased to hear that Drobo developer Data Robotics stated, at the launch of the European Online store last week, that it expected hard drive capacity to reach 3TB by April. Dr. Geoff Barrall explained that he expe... |
17 November 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from Naughty Dog and Sony has managed to top the NPD Group chart for the month of October, beating out other titles that were also released for the Xbox 360 or for the Nintendo Wii.The game has been praised, with the Softpedia review not being an exception, for the quality of its graphics, ... |
17 November 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Researchers proposed a long time ago that atmospheric pressure might be one of the key factors determining the habitability of Earth-like planets. Over geological timescales, of millions to billions of years, variations in this pressure may be what determines a planet's ability to foster primitive life. A new st... |
17 November 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Weave, one of the biggest project over at Mozilla Labs, the organization's experimental arm, is getting closer to production level. The first step of the project, the bookmarks and settings sync add-on, has reached the beta stage with Mozilla Weave Sync 1.0 beta. This latest version is the culmination of a lot o... |
17 November 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The first fully-fledged Beta Build of Office 2010 is now available for download to subscribers of Microsoft’s developer and IT professional portals. The Redmond company managed to live up to its promise to offer Office 2010 Beta by the end of November 2009, with public availability of the bits expected any day... |
17 November 2009
03:05 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... |
17 November 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Those who don't want to skip buying a computer component for Christmas just so they can save some cash for an upcoming Fermi card now have three new video boards to choose from. The adapters are capable of matching and even topping the performance of most of the mid-range cards. They are the GeForce GT 240 D3 51... |
17 November 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Saygus, Inc. announced on Monday its Android-powered mobile phone, called the Saygus VPhone, coming to the market with two-way video calling capability. The handset has been unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Awards in New York November 10, where it ... |
17 November 2009
02:53 GMT |
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The human body has evolved over millions of years to the point where it can make the best out of itself, during the healing process. As a person is recovering from an accident or an injury, such as a broken arm, its pain system becomes hyper-sensitized. This essentially means that even simple and normal actions, as w... |
17 November 2009
02:49 GMT |
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Kingston might be focusing a number of its resources in the growing segment for Solid State Drives, but the Fountain Valley, California-based company hasn't forgot where its roots are. The company has just announced the debut of its new 12GB triple-channel HyperX memory kits to support Intel's LGA1366 Core... |
17 November 2009
02:39 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... |
17 November 2009
02:28 GMT |
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Stuck on the surface of the Red Planet for more than six month, the rover Spirit was finally going to begin its complex and long-lasting extrication procedure, scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced. They said that the first commands to the resilient robot had been sent late last night or would be... |
17 November 2009
02:28 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... |
17 November 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just revealed that the recently-announced Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta will be supported by platforms powered by Vision Technology from AMD. The latest installment of Adobe's Flash Player takes advantage of the benefits and features that are enabled through... |
17 November 2009
02:08 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency NASA praise their own achievement, of launching the fifth shuttle flight for this year, a launch rate that has not been achieved since 2002, before Columbia's disaster. In the STS-129 mission, the shuttle Atlantis blasted off from the Launch Pad 39A facility at the Kennedy ... |
17 November 2009
01:51 GMT |
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