114 articles found
According to the old Peter Principle, bosses and those in upper management are destined to be regarded by those below them in the company hierarchy as incompetent and time-wasters. The idea was formulated back in 1969, and it would appear that it has held true ever since. Now, scientists propose that there may actual... |
17 December 2009
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A detailed look at the figures the NPD Group released for videogame sales in November in the United States shows that Modern Warfare 2 is not only a much bigger release than the original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare but also bigger than Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War.The November 2009 chart is domina... |
17 December 2009
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Nintendo has filed a trademark in Japan for the name “Zii,” saying that it will be used in relation to videogame and other electronic devices. The paperwork for the new trademark is said to have gone through on October 30 and assures that the name is protected in Japan but not in any other states.The vide... |
17 December 2009
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced today that it had made new 3G network expansions in the United States, this time around for the benefit of Dauphin County residents. The company has just activated a new cell site in Harrisburg, aimed at offering increased performance when it comes to wireless calling,... |
17 December 2009
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Sony is the first big console manufacturer after Nintendo to add motion tracking to the capabilities of its home console and as the spring release date for the wand is drawing near, more and more gamers are interested in knowing what titles, preferably recognizable ones, are going to support the new technology when i... |
17 December 2009
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T announced on Wednesday that it had just fired up its third generation (3G) mobile broadband network in Vermont. According to the company, the launch of its new 3G network in the area is set to deliver new opportunities for its customers, who can now enjoy better mobile services, as well as ... |
17 December 2009
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Molecular biologists and other researchers have been looking into the mechanisms cells in the human body use to move around for a long time, but it would appear that, following each study, the mystery deepens. For example, researchers at the Brown University have recently found that the cells tend to prod their surro... |
17 December 2009
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On the final stretch, the Friendship War of Team Fortress 2 has the two former best friends ripping each other a new one. A total death count so far has 11,470,648 killed mercenaries on both sides and, with just 14,792 more Demomen killed, this is still anybody's game. To help him get back in the game, Mann Co. ... |
17 December 2009
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The Team Fortress 2 War update rages on and, as we come close to the finale of the epic battle, the two sides are neck to neck. With 5,727,928 killed Soldiers and 5,742,720 killed Demos, it looks like anyone could take home that fourth special weapon. But, until that happens, the last push must be made by both classe... |
17 December 2009
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After a preliminary analysis of a set of submerged structures off the island of Damsay, in the United Kingdom, experts revealed that the underwater relics might hold important clues on how to combat sea-level rises. The phenomenon is strongly associated with global warming-induced glacier and ice-cap melting. The sto... |
17 December 2009
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After a short development period, the Nvidia Corporation announced on December 16 a brand-new and improved version of its video driver for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris systems. The new Nvidia 190.53 graphics driver comes only with improvements and fixes, especially to VDPAU. Without further introduction, let'... |
17 December 2009
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WIND Mobile, the new wireless carrier Canadian mobile phone users can choose, announced recently that it planned on adding to its offering a new handset from mobile phone maker Research in Motion, namely the BlackBerry Bold 9700. At the same time, the company revealed that the lauch was expected to offer “a ne... |
17 December 2009
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Canadian singer Alanis Morissette has battled depression all her life, while also struggling with her weight, a battle she spoke on more than once. Speaking with Runner’s World magazine, the star opens up about the cure she found for depression: running – and the occasional recreational marijuana joint.
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17 December 2009
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uTorrent, the most popular bittorrent client in the world now owned and developed by BitTorrent, is getting closer to the 2.0 release, which packs some pretty big features and updates. One feature is support for the new uTP protocol, the latest iteration of the BitTorrent protocol dating from 2001, which can adjust b... |
17 December 2009
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Modern Warfare 2 seems to be cementing its status as the best selling videogame of 2009. After coming on top in the software charts released by the NPD Group for November in the United States, where it managed to sell more than 6 million copies on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, the shooter from Infinity Ward and... |
17 December 2009
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Leading provider of semiconductors for the wired and wireless industry Broadcom Corporation unveiled recently a new multimedia processor aimed at mobile devices. According to the company, the new Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV multimedia processor has been developed using the 40 nanometer (40nm) CMOS process technolo... |
17 December 2009
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We all need maps. Even if we are lost in traffic, in the middle of nowhere, or when exploring a new area, it's very important that we have one near us. With the advancement of technology, we can have one even on our phone, or other mobile device, so that we never get lost in traffic. But maps were more than sim... |
17 December 2009
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Wireless carrier AT&T has put on sale yet another mobile phone that runs under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, namely the LG eXpo. The device comes to the US market as the first smartphone to sport a 1GHz processor inside, and it also offer users the possibility to use it with an optional detachabl... |
17 December 2009
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Luxury car manufacturers constantly outdo each other in horsepower, features, comfort and, most of all, gadgets. The Mercedes S Klasse, the BMW 7 Series and the Audi A8, top of the line models for each manufacturer, pack in more gadgets than the Enterprise in an effort to justify their unattainable status. The latest... |
17 December 2009
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Set to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the 2Big USB 3.0 will be the result of the joint effort of LaCie and Symwave. It will be a dual disk RAID storage device compliant with the SuperSpeed USB (3.0) standard and will enable professionals to fully leverage the high-speed data transfer capabi... |
17 December 2009
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This year was undoubtedly a good one for advanced technologies, in spite of the global economic downturn that saw a lot less money being spent on electronics. But experts estimate that 2010 will be even better. Sneak previews of the products to be displayed at next year's shows and conventions reveal a huge push... |
17 December 2009
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As Tiger Woods continues to stay into hiding as the number of his alleged mistresses keeps going up, celebrities feel that it’s now ok to have an opinion on the matter and, most importantly, to express it publicly. If one were to ask 50 Cent for instance, he’d say Woods was at fault for being too soft wit... |
17 December 2009
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Not all is bad news, according to a recent report from research firm IDC, which states that the worldwide PC shipments returned to positive growth in the third quarter of 2009 (Q309). As expected, portable PCs continue to drive the worldwide PC market, being the main driver of the industry, with shipments incre... |
17 December 2009
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Hardware manufacturers have been going on about hardware encryption, data protection and secure storage units for quite some time now. Whether it's a hardware or software encrypted flash drive or a portable hard drive with AES 256-bit hardware encryption (or any other type of data security feature), companies ha... |
17 December 2009
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User experience is very much anchored in the technical details of a web app, service or any software out there, but just as important is the presentation and the overall look and feel. Firefox is a great browser used by millions of people around the world and Mozilla wanted to let those people customize their browsi... |
17 December 2009
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It's common knowledge that our Sun goes through 11-year-long cycles at all times. Periods of very intense solar activities alternate with times when the yellow dwarf is barely active. During the former, a large number of sunspots and solar storms appear on its surface, and they can affect communications and sate... |
17 December 2009
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In what must be a new record for this type of thing, the first photo of Kendra Wilkinson’s first baby, a boy named Hank Baskett IV, has already surfaced on the cover of the upcoming issue of OK! Magazine. Editors for the tab were invited at the hospital, where the star was recovering after giving birth, and wer... |
17 December 2009
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The people at M.H.A LCC have developed an application called Airlock, which allows you to control your computer's behavior using your iPhone. We’re currently reviewing the app and it’s impressive, but its functionality is affected by a recently discovered bug in the Bluetooth chip employed by Apple M... |
17 December 2009
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The Android 2.1-powered Nexus One has just received another certification, following the recently announced FCC approval and Google's trademark filing for the Nexus One name, namely the green light from the Global Certification Forum. There are two facts that the new approval confirms, including the fact that t... |
17 December 2009
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Every day we deal with various situations, tasks or other things that can occupy our mind. At home or at work, our schedule can get very busy and we often find ourselves surrounded by tons of information that we need to remember at a given time. That’s where those brightly colored sticky notes appear and tend t... |
17 December 2009
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Following a highly mediated divorce from Ryan Phillippe, it’s no wonder actress Reese Witherspoon wanted to keep her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal a secret for so long. The two confirmed dating only the other week, when Jake referred to her as his “girlfriend” – and Us Magazine says they&r... |
17 December 2009
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One of the easiest ways to take over all your missed calls is to set up your voice mail. Usually, this is network operator-dependent, but Melon Mobile offers Symbian smarpthone users an alternative that will make them independent of this service. Basically, with Voice Inbox installed on their smartphone, they will ha... |
17 December 2009
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Mozilla has released stability and security updates for the 3.5 and 3.0 Firefox branches. The new 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 versions of the popular browser address several security vulnerabilities, some of which are rated critical.Five of the bugs were common for the latest stable versions of Firefox 3.0 and 3.5, while two on... |
17 December 2009
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In trying to provide its middleware stack with the BPM tools required by ERP workflow software and content management systems, IBM acquired the privately held Austin company Lombardi, which specializes in BPM software and collaborated with IBM's WebSphere in the past.IBM did not disclose the financial aspects of... |
17 December 2009
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Scientists at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands, led by expert Igor Berezhnoy, have managed to create a new and revolutionary computer program that is capable of recognizing an authentic van Gogh painting from a forged one, AlphaGalileo reports. This is made possible by special mathematic algorithms devised a... |
17 December 2009
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When Google started building Chrome, it made the decision to start from scratch. While this meant that there were a lot of things to do, it also meant that the developers had the freedom to make everything the way they envisioned it from the start, something that Firefox developers, which is built on Mozilla's ... |
17 December 2009
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SBSH Mobile Software has just announced that a new version of its PhoneWeaver for Windows Mobile is now available for download. The new SBSH PhoneWeaver 2 for Windows Mobile comes as a great phone and profiles management tool, the company says, adding that it has been developed in the idea of fulfilling one of the m... |
17 December 2009
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When it first emerged that Tim Burton, a director known for the imagery he manages to bring to life, as he’s made every film he ever worked on an ode to aesthetics, would take a swing at “Alice in Wonderland,” few had doubts about his ability to come up with a truly breathtaking film. Even fewer, th... |
17 December 2009
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Google and Amazon have just announced a joint program which should come in handy for bloggers wanting to earn some money from their posts. Earlier this year the Google-owned Blogger introduced a Monetize tab to enable its users to easily add AdSense ads to their blogs. Now, it's taking it one step further by pa... |
17 December 2009
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has been already reported a few times before to be working on a device that will bring Google's Android operating system on AT&T's airwaves, and now the phone has made yet another appearance into the wild. The handset in question is the Motorola Backflip, which now we learn that... |
17 December 2009
09:28 GMT |
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For some, Google has become synonymous with the Internet, as the Mountain View, California-based company is responsible for the world's biggest search engine. However, Google's plans have long expanded to new segments, with the company now offering a wide range of different products, spanning from Internet... |
17 December 2009
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The first trailer for the movie that is billed as the hottest release of the year to come has just been released on the Internet a few hours ago. Fans get a first look at “Iron Man 2,” after many months of teasing and speculation: and, from what they’re saying on dedicated forums, it will be one awe... |
17 December 2009
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For a long time, biologists have been drawing attention to the massive similarities that exist between certain ecosystems on our planet and regions of Mars, or even other terrestrial exoplanets. They are hypothesizing that, if life exists on Earth, or at least traces of it endure, then it may not be too much to assum... |
17 December 2009
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One of the biggest trends of the gaming industry at the moment is the release of videogame companions for the most popular movie franchises, offering a different take on the events depicted or a piece of backstory, which movie goers would not be able to get otherwise.Nielsen, the firm that tracks consumer patterns in... |
17 December 2009
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Approximately two months after Windows 7’s general availability on October 22nd, 2009, Microsoft continues to offer free downloads of its latest Windows client. Still, while the Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day Trial offering continues to be live, fact is that there are more ways than one to get a taste of Windows V... |
17 December 2009
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The Blu-ray Disk Association is made up of the leading Hollywood studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney and Warner Bros., and the great players in the consumer electronics industry, like Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, Samsung, Sony and others. The association has finally completed the “Blu-ray 3D” specif... |
17 December 2009
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The future NASA rover on the Red Planet, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), is undoubtedly one of the most complex exploration robots ever devised. It features a host of scientific instruments that can look for signs of life on Mars and even analyze rock samples for traces of former organisms. However, the mission wa... |
17 December 2009
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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 December 2009
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The Android Market is the place where the owners of a mobile phone that runs under Google's mobile operating system can get a wide range of software solutions for their handsets, this is a well known fact. The storefront has seen a great deal of application additions lately, and now the total number of solution... |
17 December 2009
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Those who pre-order Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition for Mac OS X from Aspyr Media’s GameAgent site will benefit from a discount (5%), the company says. Slated for launch this winter, and exclusively available through gameagent.com before arriving in retail stores, the game combines the orig... |
17 December 2009
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With 350 million users worldwide, an estimated $500 million in revenue this year and positive cash flow, Facebook is looking pretty good at this point to any investor. The company though isn't really looking for new capital and an IPO is still quite a way off. For a determined investor though, these problems ca... |
17 December 2009
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Earlier this year, a rep for Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed that the actress and husband Matthew Broderick were expecting twin girls from a surrogate mother. The couple, as fans would know, kept the entire affair out of the media for as much as they could, looking out for the best interest of the children. Last night... |
17 December 2009
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Like other IT corporations that plan to lay off a part of their workforce as a means to cut their losses, Dell revealed its objective to reduce its Malaysian workforce by 700 employees. Still, unlike HP and Fujitsu, which have recently been plagued by strikes and walkouts, the emotional response from Dell's empl... |
17 December 2009
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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... |
17 December 2009
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Gaming pieces of news are starting to become more and more of a wide-access domain and, with producers and developers posting the latest, updates and interviews on Tweeter and even Facebook, the road information takes to reach us becomes shorter and shorter. As such, Dead Space 2 had quite a bit of details talked ove... |
17 December 2009
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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... |
17 December 2009
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It appears that the evolution introduced by Microsoft with the move from Live Search to Bing is paying off. The Redmond company introduced Bing in a move designed to grab market share from Google and Yahoo, and according to the latest statistics made public by Internet metrics companies comScore and Nielsen, Microso... |
17 December 2009
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In a move that could see the field of cancer therapy completely reshaped, scientists in the United Kingdom announce the completion of their laborious work in cracking the entire genetic code of cancer. This was only done for two of the most common forms of cancer, that of the lungs and the skin. Together, these two v... |
17 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... |
17 December 2009
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The carbon-compound graphene is perhaps one of the most promising materials in the world today. Discovered only in 2004, it has already proven its worth many times over, and is recognized as having some of the most bizarre physical and chemical traits encountered in an easily mass-producible material. But one of the ... |
17 December 2009
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Constantly keeping your files defragmented translates into better system performance due to improved read/write speeds because the orderly files are no longer scattered all over the hard disk.In less and less cases, this task is no longer a chore that needs to be remembered as most defraggers on the market today feat... |
17 December 2009
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VideoLAN is sad to announce that all work on the Mac OS X version of VLC may come to a halt. The open source media playback application is most notable for bridging the gap between official playback solutions developed by Apple and Microsoft, delivering support for a wide range of file formats. The software is being ... |
17 December 2009
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As the number of alleged mistresses Tiger Woods has been keeping while married to Elin Nordegren has gone up to 14, talk is starting to make the rounds that the best way to get one’s name in the press is to claim an affair with the golfer. One woman that wants to be associated in no way with Woods is singer Jes... |
17 December 2009
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Adding to Buffalo's line of network storage devices is the TS-XEL/R5 family of four-bay NAS devices. The products will be marketed under the TeraStation brand and will add their storage capabilities to an already large family of high-performance NAS storage devices, among which are the TeraStation III products (... |
17 December 2009
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Google is continuing to do more than it probably has to in order to appease the dying newspaper industry, though its efforts have largely gone unnoticed. About three months ago, Google revealed Fast Flip, an experimental tool designed to make browsing through articles from various online news sources fast and seamle... |
17 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Beejive announced recently the launch of a new application, one that comes towards users of a handset from the Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion, namely BeejiveIM for BlackBerry 2.0. According to the company, the new solution comes as a powerful BlackBerry application that features support for Facebook ... |
17 December 2009
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As it is generally the case, a new wave of technology releases from Microsoft spurs in its turn a new generation of certifications and exams for IT professionals. Windows 7 makes no exception to this rule, with new resources offered by the Redmond company to help IT workers clearly indicate the depth of their knowled... |
17 December 2009
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20-year-old British socialite Peaches Geldof, former wild child and tabloid darling, has been involved in a full frontal collision just hours ago, as she and friends were speeding to Disney World in Florida. Despite the fact that speeding was a cause and the car was badly damaged in the crash, Peaches walked away unh... |
17 December 2009
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Army of Two was a game that looked great on paper, as well as in theory. If you've never actually got your hands on it and all you saw were the cinematic footage and the trailers, you might thinks that this title was awesome. But, when it came to the actual product, both the critics and the fans agreed that this... |
17 December 2009
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For those wondering “Why is there a progress bar when my Mac is starting up?,” there now seems to be an answer. Thanks to an Apple support document entitled “Gray progress bar appears under Apple logo during startup,” as well as some research done by The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), those p... |
17 December 2009
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The newly released DIR-412 3.5G WWAN Router from D-Link is the company's broadband connectivity solution for those cases when a standard connection is unavailable or unsuited. The device allows multiple users to share the same 3.5G Internet connection and can serve both as a primary and a backup broadband connec... |
17 December 2009
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Facebook is now at 350 million users worldwide and 100 million in just the US. At this size, demographic data becomes a pretty accurate substitute for data of the population on the whole. The results may still be a little skewed as several categories of people would be under-represented, but the discrepancies are ge... |
17 December 2009
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She’s just 19 years old, but British Emma Watson is the highest grossing actress of the decade, putting to shame in terms of paycheck and ticket sales veteran thespians and crowd magnets like Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz or the rest of other actresses. According to Guinness Book of World Records, as cited by EW... |
17 December 2009
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Infinity Ward just recently released its 1.06 patch of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 only to find out that it did more damage than mending. The Javelin glitch was solved, but, to take its place, others even worse popped their heads out of the sand. One of them that is pretty much up the same alley as the Javelin bug,... |
17 December 2009
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EVGA is a recognizable brand in the world of computer enthusiasts, graphics cards enthusiasts and gaming fans, as the company specializes in delivering the fastest and highest-performance products money can buy. With a product portfolio that spans from NVIDIA-based graphics cards to motherboards, accessories and oth... |
17 December 2009
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Scientists have learned that microorganisms such as bacteria have the ability to turn very tiny wheels, when suspended in a special solution. The discovery could enable the creation and development of new classes of bio-inspired, dynamically adaptive materials and structures, for a vast array of applications. Additio... |
17 December 2009
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Silverlight-powered Virtual DVDs were announced in the first half of September 2009, an initiative from Tesco, leveraging Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash. At that time, Rob Salter, category director for Entertainment at Tesco, noted that Virtual DVDs were ushering in a new era of digital entertainment. T... |
17 December 2009
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As reported earlier this week, American tourist Lily Sussman had her Apple laptop destroyed by gunfire in an Israeli airport as she had just arrived from Egypt, via the Taba Border Crossing. An interview with the young woman, who blogged about her experience, sheds more light on the incident. The coverage, however, c... |
17 December 2009
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NCsoft, the creator of the MMO Aion, has announced that it is going to offer three weekends during which players will be earning twice the normal experience in the title, in an effort to make it easier for newcomers to actually get into the game and reach a high enough level to be competitive. During the next three w... |
17 December 2009
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While Corsair and Transcend are releasing high-capacity and ultra-fast DDR3 memory kits for the high-end segment, other companies, like Elpida Memory Inc. in this particular case, are, instead, focusing on the lower segment where, not only is affordability a must, but the actual products must do their best to still o... |
17 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... |
17 December 2009
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Security researchers from Vietnamese security vendor Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (Bkis) have identified a new mass injection attack that so far infected almost 180,000 websites with rogue <script> tags. The majority of affected sites are Chinese and many of them are in the gov.cn or edu.cn domain namesp... |
17 December 2009
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It was only a few weeks ago when Spotify announced that it has released its application for the Symbian operating system. With support for a series of mobile phones from Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, the new application, although still in beta, offered users the possibility to enjoy the popular music s... |
17 December 2009
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Twitter has completed the first round of translations it announced a couple of months ago with the introduction of a German-language version of the site. It is the last of the FIGS ( French, Italian, German and Spanish) languages it initially set out to release and the last translation for 2009 apparently. It has be... |
17 December 2009
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While Final Fantasy XIII is the Square Enix game that has the world in an uproar, it doesn't meant that the rest of the franchise isn't getting any more love. FF XIII might have been released in Japan today, but North America will have to wait until March, and, if these gamers need a fix for their Final Fan... |
17 December 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Having transitioned all former Live Search properties and projects under the Bing brand umbrella earlier this year, Microsoft is offering users much more than just a search/decision engine. In this regard, Bing is a more complex package, an important part of which is the company’s mapping, search, and location... |
17 December 2009
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With only 48 hours left to decide on the future of the world as we know it, world leaders are still bogged down in procedures and petty disagreements in Copenhagen, at the 2009 UN Climate Summit. The Conference of the Parties (COP 15) seems to have lost sight of the reason why it gathered in the Danish capital in the... |
17 December 2009
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly heading towards a major series of job cuts all around the world. According to Dow Jones Newswires, the company intends to reduce its global headcount by 2,000 before the mid 2010 is here. The slashes are said to begin at the handset vendor's site i... |
17 December 2009
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Electronic Arts and its Sims development team are announcing that they have released a new add on for the game allowing those playing the title to customize their experience even more. The fresh Create a World Tool, which is still in beta stage, is free and allows gamers to actually make complete cities in which they... |
17 December 2009
04:42 GMT |
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The Intel Core i5 is the first processor allowing the P55 core-logic to handle all input/output functions. The chip provides this functionality through integration of both a two-channel DDR3 memory controller and a PCI Express 2.0 graphics port. This functionality is added to the high overclocking potential of the CP... |
17 December 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has been admitted to hospital with what police describe as “life threatening injuries” after falling from the back of a truck that his girlfriend was supposedly driving. According to USA Today, the sports star is on life support, with some even telling the media tha... |
17 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The Solid State Drive industry is moving at an accelerated pace, with new players joining the market as new technologies provide them with an option to develop faster, more efficient and more affordable SSDs. Intel is one of the industry's innovators, having already launched two generations of SSDs, designed fo... |
17 December 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom, at the University of London, have recently released a new analysis on violent behavior, which follows the patterns that violence takes during conflicts. The findings could be of significant importance for preventing large numbers of casualties in future conflicts, the group says. In ... |
17 December 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Earlier this year, what was deemed the biggest leak the movie industry had ever seen took place, when “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the unfinished cut, made its way on the Internet almost a full month ahead of its theatrical release. After all this time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation finally cracked t... |
17 December 2009
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Atlus U.S.A. has announced that it has set a firm release date for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey while also preparing to add some bonuses to each copy of the game sold.The new role playing experience will be outed on March 23, 2010 and players who pick it up will also get a collectible box containing the game d... |
17 December 2009
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While Assassin's Creed II isn't available for the PC yet, and it won't be either until March 16 next year, console gamers are up to their knees in Italian assassinations, but not in the La Piovra way. Not only that, but there are also two new DLCs in the works for the game, and they'll only be ava... |
17 December 2009
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Security has always been an issue with the computer industry, as computer users tend to forget their passwords and lose access to various devices, or have their digital content stolen. A couple of efforts have been made in this area, in an attempt to provide consumers with a highly secure solution that can protect t... |
17 December 2009
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Just yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission filed its own antitrust lawsuit against Intel, claiming that the chip maker engaged in anticompetitive tactics in order to keep and/or strengthen its monopoly on the CPU market. The FTC also alludes to Intel possibly feeling threatened by the advent of GPUs, which, the Com... |
17 December 2009
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was arguably one of the most successful NASA missions to Mars, and not necessarily in terms of endurance, but when considering the scale of its discovery. Born out of a previous lander's failure, the robot managed to successfully land on the Red Planet in search of water-ice and touch dow... |
17 December 2009
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SPB Software, the leading mobile software solutions provider, has just released updates for two of its most popular applications available for users of a handset that runs under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, namely SPB Weather and SPB Mobile Shell. The former has now reached version 2.3.0, while ... |
17 December 2009
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Google has its hands in a huge number of projects with wildly varied scopes and means yet they all center on one thing, the web. Weather it's releasing a new DNS service or thinking how will people access web apps in five years time with Chrome OS it's easy to forget one simple thing, for most people the w... |
17 December 2009
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Just a couple of days after it kicked up a notch the Stable version of its open source browser, Google unveiled a new development milestone designed for early adopters. Google Chrome 4.0.249.43, a new Beta release, is now available for download, and as was the case for its precursor unveiled the past week, the bits a... |
17 December 2009
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Sony has announced that its free-to-play MMO Free Realms has just received another update incorporating a new set of features that players have been requesting while also making available some content designed specifically for the Christmas period.Players now have access to personal houses, allowing them a space they... |
17 December 2009
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Free games sound like a whole lot of fun, but usually they're not. While there are a lot of free online titles, the fact that they don't have a proper budget and lack the necessary investments is all but too obvious once you log in and start playing. They may feature some of the big, core elements of the bi... |
17 December 2009
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Although not yet available through the Downloads area of Apple’s website, Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.7 has appeared in our Macs’ software updaters, with a list of newly supported cameras. Extending RAW image compatibility for cameras used with Aperture 2, iPhoto ‘08 and iPhoto ‘... |
17 December 2009
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Astronomers are excited at the discovery of a Super Earth-class exoplanet very close to our solar system. The celestial body is about 40 light-years away, and it has already revealed clues that it's able to hold an atmosphere around it. Experts also believe that the structure is almost entirely made out of rock ... |
17 December 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Singer Whitney Houston has been through a lot on a personal level, including surviving a serious drug addiction and managing to successfully break free from an emotionally abusive relationship with former husband Bobby Brown. From him, she was left with a beautiful daughter, Bobbi Kristina, of whom the singer speaks ... |
17 December 2009
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Android 2.1, the next version of Google's mobile operating system, is set to make an appearance in the not too far future on the market, and the first device to sport it seems to be the Nexus One phone. The handset, which is reportedly made by HTC, has made it to the headlines over the past few days, as it was ... |
17 December 2009
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It is the right of every company to defend its copyright. And so is the case of Hollywood studios that have been fighting the “good” fight since the Napster scandal first shed light upon the new phenomenon of P2P file sharing. At least in one moment of our lives we face an event in which our copy or legal... |
17 December 2009
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Those who follow the news must know that, yesterday, Intel was hit by yet another antitrust case. The plaintiff is none other than the Federal Trade Commission. The accusations include alleged threats and incentives directed by Intel towards large manufacturers, such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, in order to lea... |
17 December 2009
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For a long time, geologists and seismologists have noticed that some fault lines, which are generally considered to be very stable and strong, tend to “slip up” at some points and become mobile. The scientific community has had no explanation for this phenomenon, so researchers have set out to discover wh... |
17 December 2009
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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... |
17 December 2009
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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... |
17 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... |
17 December 2009
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