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Cabela's Big Game Hunter, which is also known as Cabela's Big Game Hunter: 10th Anniversary Edition - Big Game when played on a Windows platform, is a hunting video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and published by Activision for the Playstation 2 console, for the Game Cube and the PC. The t... |
17 July 2008
23:06 GMT |
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Capcom's game not only allows you to save the galaxy alone, as you were used to by playing other games, but you will have the chance to do it in cooperation with up to three other players over Xbox Live or locally, on the same console. This means that, basically, Rocketmen: Axis of Evil tries to provide some non... |
17 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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RoboBlitz is a fast-paced action game featuring puzzle-solving and unique physics-based weapons. Players blast through 15+ levels of high-intensity action as Blitz, a multi-talented robot on a mission to save its factory from a band of invading mechanical brains. The game was developed by Naked Sky Entertainment and ... |
17 July 2008
19:51 GMT |
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Rumors were ragging before E3 that Bungie was about to release some information regarding an upcoming project. Gamespot even said it had reliable insider information that detailed a new game in the Halo franchise which focused on squad based action and not on Master Chief. But Monday, the Microsoft press conference c... |
17 July 2008
19:51 GMT |
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Burnout 3: Takedown is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony but also for the original Xbox. The title is classified as a racing and driving game which can be played from a first and a third person perspective.As f... |
17 July 2008
19:31 GMT |
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The Bourne Conspiracy, created in collaboration with Ludlum Entertainment and Bourne scriptwriter Tony Gilroy, promises to deliver an original story uncovering Bourne's past and the conspiracy shrouding his origins. Of course, the main attraction will be our hero as a definition to the "perfect weapon" concept -... |
17 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Burnout Revenge is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, but also for the original Xbox and the Xbox 360. The title is classified as a racing and driving game that can be played from a first and a third person per... |
17 July 2008
18:46 GMT |
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It seems that, at long last, Microsoft has made up its mind regarding the addition of a Blu-ray player to the Xbox 360 gaming console. And the final answer, straight from the mouth of Shane Kim, one of the most important Xbox 360 spokesmen for the Redmond based company, is that there's no chance of ever seeing a... |
17 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Posit Science has developed an original program for the auditory system of the brain called The Brain Fitness Program Classic. It features six computer-based exercises designed to be very easy to use, "even for computer novices," according to the makers, which improve the quality and quantity of information your brai... |
17 July 2008
17:11 GMT |
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It seems that massively multiplayer online game publisher Aeria started a huge expansion progress because during the past months, it purchased the rights to distribute a couple of great games, such as Dreamlords: The Reawakening. Now, the company has announced the acquisition of Cronous, the classic MMORPG developed ... |
17 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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E3 is no longer a public trade show and lately the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the event, is taking some flak of its own. Activision and LucasArts, together with id Software, have pulled out of the organization and a lot of the other members are declaring themselves dissatisfied with the work ... |
17 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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If you are having trouble concentrating while reading, suffering from poor eyesight, or simply want to do more with your time, the guys at Shiny Development have this great application for you called Speakapedia. It creates podcasts from Wikipedia articles, imports them to your iTunes library and lets you play them. ... |
17 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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If you somehow consider that the Nintendo Wii console doesn't have enough sport-related games, there is no need to worry anymore, since during the E3 media summit, cdv announced plans to release a brand new casual title exclusively for the motion sensing console. The title will be brought to you under the name o... |
17 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006 and available for the PlayStation 2 consoles from Sony, and also for the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii, it is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the v... |
17 July 2008
14:36 GMT |
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System 3, the developer of Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli for the PlayStation 3, said that a downloadable content pack for the game was in the pipeline and might be released as soon as "the next month".Just before the DLC launch the game is also due to receive a patch designed to fix problems that have been croppin... |
17 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It appears that Square Enix really enjoys Microsoft's console, since not only its biggest title, Final Fantasy XIII will get an Xbox 360 version, but the Star Ocean series, usually considered a PlayStation exclusive, will mark its way onto Xbox 360 exclusively. Yes, you've heard that right - exclusively! Th... |
17 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The next development milestones of the upcoming versions of Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.1 Codename Shiretoko are virtually on the horizon. While Microsoft is hard at work on the successor of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla has already moved onward following the release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17, 2008. In this rega... |
17 July 2008
12:46 GMT |
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Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot. ... |
17 July 2008
12:31 GMT |
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I am sure that you're a fan of the Metal Gear Solid franchise and, even more, you love the multiplayer thrills offered by Metal Gear Online. If so and if you consider yourself one of the best players ever, you should be really pleased to find out that Konami is planning to start a World Championship competition ... |
17 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Ericsson and 3 Italia (Italy's 3) recently announced they have established a cutting-edge 3.5G HSPA commercial network that allows data transfer speeds of up to 5.8 Mbps in uplink. This achievement is an important step towards the deployment of an HSPA Evolution network. With uplink transfer speeds of 5.8 Mbps, ... |
17 July 2008
12:05 GMT |
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Two security bulletins, from December 2007 and from June 2008 respectively, affecting the DirectX components of a wide range of Windows operating systems including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, have been updated. According to Microsoft, the modifications were designed to simply add Direc... |
17 July 2008
11:52 GMT |
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is a first-person shooter video game and the sequel to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was announced by Ubisoft on November 20, 2007. The game was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 18, 2008, in North America and March 20, 2008, in Europe, except for G... |
17 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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It has recently come to light that by signing up to Google Calendar, one can find out the name used to register any Gmail account. This is a serious issue for those who have used their real names, but prefer the information stays private. The thing is that by getting access to such data, a spammer can deliver a pers... |
17 July 2008
11:36 GMT |
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Not at all surprisingly, Acer has recently announced a number of new notebook computer systems that are based on the latest Intel Centrino 2 platform. Released as part of the company's TravelMate and Aspire series, the new laptops will provide Acer fans with the power of the latest Intel technology, which includ... |
17 July 2008
11:31 GMT |
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The weight of supermassive black holes found in the center of galaxies is usually estimated by measuring the effects of the huge gravitational fields on the objects located in the vicinity of the black holes in question. Now, a new and precise weighing method developed at the University of California with the help of... |
17 July 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Esmertec, a Swiss software, application and services provider, announced today that Sony Ericsson would integrate its Jbed Java Multitasking Virtual Machine in the Xperia family of mobile devices. Yes, you heard (read) well, Xperia is a whole series of handsets, hence besides the upcoming X1 Windows Mobile smartphone... |
17 July 2008
11:04 GMT |
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TiVo and YouTube announced today an agreement that allows the broadband-connected subscribers in possession of TiVo Series3(TM) and TiVo HD DVRs to watch their YouTube favorite videos on these supports. For those who were tired of the typical TV programs or simply considered the TV screen a better alternative for the... |
17 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Despite the bitter rivalry between Apple, with OS X and Mac computers on one side, and Microsoft and OEMs with Windows and PCs, on the other, the Cupertino-based hardware company is little shy about parading the latest version of its iPhone running a Microsoft service in all its glory. The fact of the matter is just ... |
17 July 2008
10:37 GMT |
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It looks like ASUS has finally given the green light to its latest Eee products and has begun launching them in Asia. We are talking about the 10-inch display Eee PC 1000h and the only desktop PC in the Eee family, the Eee Box. It is these two products that ASUS has made available for its fans in Singapore.And to fur... |
17 July 2008
10:30 GMT |
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The mass extinction of the marine life nearly 93 million years ago would have been most likely determined by the lack of oxygen in the oceanic waters as an intense underwater volcanic activity was triggered, says a study co-authored by Steven Turgeon of the University of Alberta. For a long time volcanism was thought... |
17 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Bell Mobility, the second largest Canadian mobile operator, is having some problems lately in improving its cellphone reception in Toronto, the largest Canadian city. At the end of 2007, the CDMA carrier closed a deal with the Presbyterian Church from Guildwood (a neighborhood in Toronto), in order to build a cellph... |
17 July 2008
10:28 GMT |
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At the end of June, the current year, we were announcing that Google's Safe Browsing API can improve online security. Thanks to this utility you are less likely to visit a malware spreading site because a warning is issued every time you try to access such a site. If the number of visitors to your site or blog h... |
17 July 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Keeping a personal diary is a good way to keep track of the things you do during a day and also to cast a look back if and when you so desire. Why look back into your past? First off, because it can prove helpful in your growth as an individual and, from a more physical perspective, because it can ease your work by m... |
17 July 2008
10:17 GMT |
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Just prior to the release of the Nintendo Wii the "console wars" were fought between Sony and Microsoft. Nobody credited the Japanese company with a chance to take the console top spot. Now the hardware sales charts are dominated by the Nintendo Wii, which can at times sell as much as its two rivals combined.The batt... |
17 July 2008
10:07 GMT |
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This is certainly a premiere... Windows 7 has managed to make it on a Microsoft.com home page for the first time. It's an unlikely position for the next iteration of the Windows operating system, which the Redmond company is keeping tight under wraps for now. And even more so as, following the Microsoft Worldwid... |
17 July 2008
09:53 GMT |
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In an attempt to counterbalance the possible damage made by the proxy fighter Carl Icahn, who sent a letter to the stockholders of Yahoo! asking them to replace the current board of directors, the company's CO and CEO resorted to the same method. Their aim is directed, of course, at their continuing to work at Y... |
17 July 2008
09:46 GMT |
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The same genetic variation that offered African people better protection against malaria seems to be responsible for an increase of nearly 40 percent in the chances of contracting the HIV virus, while in infected individuals the respective genes appear to increase their lifespan by almost two years, according to a st... |
17 July 2008
09:38 GMT |
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With the aid of its in-the-cloud security tool named SecureBrowsing, Finjan has discovered that sites belonging to the Government, NHS, and numerous respectable businesses have been compromised, the total number of such sites detected this month alone exceeding the 1,000 mark. It seems that a massive attack has been ... |
17 July 2008
09:29 GMT |
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Robotron 2084 (or simply called Robotron) is an old arcade game released initially in 1982 by the Vid Kidz company. One of its most innovative aspects was that it had to be controlled using two eight-way joysticks (one for moving and the other for shooting), unlike the games which only needed one. The Xbox 360 versio... |
17 July 2008
09:18 GMT |
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Neonode, the Sweden-based telecoms company, announced today that its fashionable Neonode N2 touchscreen mobile phone has received yet another set of enhancements, in addition to the firmware update released yesterday. From now on, the Neonode N2 will also feature a Chinese XT9 text input interface (phrase prediction ... |
17 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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An electrical rectifier is a device used to convert alternating current into direct current. Most of the rectifiers currently available on the market are based on solid state devices, regardless of application, although before the 1960s and prior to the development of high voltage solid state devices mercury arc valv... |
17 July 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit represents the revolution in the series and, with the entry in the next-gen era, there is no saying on how much better the inspired anime games will become. This release actually blurs the limit between the gameplay and the actual televised series. Action-packed and in hi-def, it proves to ... |
17 July 2008
08:56 GMT |
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Apache server logs have revealed that requests from phones running two distinct iPhone Software 2.0.1 builds are coming from the San Francisco Bay Area (near Apple's Cupertino HQ) and Atlanta (where AT&T is at). It is believed that OS 2.0.1 will resolve the issues emerged with some iPhones after the 2.0 update l... |
17 July 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2008 is a hunting video game that was developed by Sand Grain Productions and published by Activision for the Playstation 2 console, for the Mac and the PC. The title was launched in 2002 and is classed as a hunting simulation game played from a first person perspective. There are some r... |
17 July 2008
08:45 GMT |
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Ninja Gaiden is one of the most successful games on the Xbox 360 and the sequel will probably outsell the latest titles. Ninja Gaiden 2 will feature a new and improved engine, redeveloped from the ground up exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Team Ninja, with the help of Tomonobu Itagaki, the creator of the Dead or Alive... |
17 July 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Out of all the countries in the world, the United States are the most affected by spam (say security companies like Sophos and ScanSafe), followed closely by China. MessageLabs, company that specializes in providing messaging and Internet security solutions, has recently put together a top 10 of the most spammed US ... |
17 July 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will be focused on the career of Aerosmith, playing various songs from their discography in a chronological order, spanning from Mendon Nipmuc Regional High School in 1970 up to the 2001 Super Bowl halftime. It certainly won't include any of the problems that have plagued the band since it... |
17 July 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Riot Act promised to be Grand Theft Auto without turning into a rip-off. An open-world game, with free-roaming included, that takes place in a dirty and corrupt futuristic world that reminds us of Sin City. You have to clean the streets by dispatching all the criminals and you fight some pretty nasty bosses on the wa... |
17 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Toshiba, one of the leading manufacturers of storage products, announced yesterday a new line-up of high-performance 2.5-inch hard disk drives, including a low-noise flaghisp model that pushes areal density to 477Mbit/mm2 to achieve a capacity of 400GB. The company also announced five new drives that bring new levels... |
17 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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It's been some time since the last Lego title and, with the launch of this new and thrilling Indiana Jones movie, we just had to have a game as well. A Lego character fills in Harrison Ford's shoes perfectly and there is no other better company out there than Traveller's Tales to do this job. LEGO Indi... |
17 July 2008
08:28 GMT |
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Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2005, which is also known as Cabela's Big Game Hunter: 10th Anniversary Edition - Big Game 2005 when played on a Windows platform, is a hunting video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and published by Activision for the Playstation 2 console, for the Game Cube, the Xb... |
17 July 2008
08:26 GMT |
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Besides announcing the upcoming Italian availability of the high-end i900 Omnia Pocket PC, Samsung has also recently unveiled the release of another new phone, named M150 and targeted for fashion-conscious users who don't want to spend too much money on a mobile device. First presented together with the J800 ... |
17 July 2008
08:23 GMT |
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eBay's year-over-year report shows that the company is becoming more and more prosperous. The total revenues for the second semester of 2008 surpassed the ones from 2007 by $361 million, reaching $2.2 billion. The e-commerce activities still account for most of the business share, but some domains that could sti... |
17 July 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Microsoft is delivering a new project to the largest community of instant messaging worldwide. Windows Live Messenger users have available a new service dubbed "minimise-me" via MSN on Windows Live. The website will effectively permit users of the Redmond company's instant messaging client to build their own cha... |
17 July 2008
07:47 GMT |
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 does play nice with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, with a small exception, according to Microsoft. Apparently, the Win32_Processor class of XP SP3 manages to label Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs incorrectly, this also being valid for machines running XP with Service Pack 2 installed. In this context, i... |
17 July 2008
07:10 GMT |
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A new breakthrough in the dynamics of lightning has recently revealed the source of X-ray light emitted moments before the lightning strikes and could help in the near future advance the methods used to predict the moment and location where these phenomena occur."From a practical point of view, if we are going to eve... |
17 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Nokia just announced that during the second quarter of 2008 (April, May and June) it has shipped 122 million mobile phones worldwide. This represents 40% of the total number of phones sold by all the handset manufacturers in the same period, a number estimated at 303 million units, and reaffirms the Finnish company&#... |
17 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Along with the release of the iTunes App Store, a logical necessity for handheld owners browsing the application venue was an RSS feed for apps. In a natural approach, the guys at Pinch Media have set up not one, but four such RSS iPhone app feeds for handheld owners, enabling them to view the newest software additio... |
17 July 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Teams from 47 countries entered a contest sponsored by Google, but only 4 came out victorious. All of them had as mission the finding of small businesses that had a website but didn't profit from the possibility of advertising their products online. Google gave the contestants AdWords vouchers worth $200 in orde... |
17 July 2008
06:43 GMT |
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They say size doesn't matter. Well, at least as far as subwoofer engineering is concerned, size DOES matter. And since we're on the "big-bigger-biggest" topic, it's high time we introduced the world's most fearsome subwoofer installation, a custom job made by Royal Device, an Italian company speci... |
17 July 2008
06:36 GMT |
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We had to wait quite some time before we finally got to see the latest Sapphire graphics card, but chances are it may have all been worth it. Of course, we are talking about the highly anticipated HD 4850 TOXIC Edition, a card that has been so hyped that it should practically sell the moment it hits the store shelves... |
17 July 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Techpowerup has released yet another version of the famous and quite useful lightweight utility designed to give you all the information about your video card and GPU known as GPU-Z. The new 0.2.6 version of GPU-Z brings adjustments to the tool and also features an extended list of hardware detection updates.Version ... |
17 July 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Microwave ovens heat up food by generating an electromagnetic wave with an alternating electric component. As the wave interacts with molecules of water in the food, having a positive charge at one end and a negative one at the other, it forces them to rotate and align with the electric field. At the same time, other... |
17 July 2008
06:11 GMT |
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After the TyTN II got cloned (and downgraded when it comes to functionality), now the newest HTC Pocket PC, the Touch Diamond, has an illegitimate brother too. Named Diamond J6, the Touch Diamond clone comes from China (as most of the copycat handsets) and it can easily be mistaken for a genuine HTC Pocket PC. At ... |
17 July 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Windows 7 is bound to trip over Mac OS X Snow Leopard, even if just a little bit, at the rate that Apple is growing, making consistent inroads into the computer market. Mac OS X Leopard has already managed to take a consistent bite out of the traditional Windows territory, pushing Apple's slice of the operating ... |
17 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Pocketwatch Games has released Venture Arctic for Mac OS X users running Panther or higher. The Tycoon title doesn't feature any human beings and players aren't asked to build necessities for the animals right from the get-go. You simply pick up on the game and create your own ecosystem - "nature is at your... |
17 July 2008
06:01 GMT |
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According to a report recently released by ScanSafe, company that specializes in providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), malware related threats have increased by a staggering 278% in the first half of 2008. In June, 66% of all malware blocked by ScanSafe was related to legitimate web pages that had become compromise... |
17 July 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Recently, Google launched a new feature that allows users to have two specific lists of contacts on their Gmail account - their manually added friends and the suggested contacts. This came as a solution after people complained about the fact that their list of contacts was getting bulkier and bulkier. Thanks to it, G... |
17 July 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Intel is undoubtedly the worldwide leading chip manufacturer and, as NVIDIA is disputing AMD for the highest-performance graphics card crown, the company might be planning to change the graphics scene altogether. Development for the upcoming Larrabee processor is currently underway and it is precisely it that got peo... |
17 July 2008
05:39 GMT |
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iSoftPhone, a VoIP telephony app that uses a virtual internet phone for Mac OS X, and provides crystal clear voice quality and a neat user interface, has recently been updated to version 2.3. Xnet has added SMS support (by server), SMS and IM chat integrated with Address Book, presence showing, more privacy options a... |
17 July 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Mars had liquid water on the surface in its distant past and quite a lot of it too, according to the high-resolution spectrometry images relayed back to Earth by the CRISM instrument on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. CRISM revealed that there is a great abundance of clay minerals, which usually form i... |
17 July 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Other Ocean Interactive, which has worked alongside SEGA of America to develop the iPhone port of Super Monkey Ball, has announced plans to create a specialized iPhone division at its studio in Prince Edward Island, Canada.Other Ocean Interactive is just one of many companies using the iPhone as their own launching p... |
17 July 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Intel's Nehalem processors aiming at the mainstream market still make us wait a little longer before having them in our hands. It seems that it will be over a year or so until the chip manufacturer unleashes its performance giants on the market. This year will bring us Bloomfield, another Nehalem based processor... |
17 July 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Opera has just released the latest version of its Opera Mobile web browser for Windows Mobile, the 9.5 beta, which comes with lots of enhancements but also with several bugs (since it's a beta version). Opera Mobile 9.5 beta has a new user interface (UI), presented as more intuitive and cleaner than the UIs f... |
17 July 2008
05:05 GMT |
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We can't really say what became of the by now traditional press release but, according to the listings on some of NVIDIA's channel partners’ web pages, the GeForce 55nm graphics card is finally out. So, if you happen to be interested in acquiring the new card, you only need to turn to EVGA's site, wher... |
17 July 2008
04:59 GMT |
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ScanSafe, company that specializes in providing Internet security solutions, has recently revealed that the web page for popular British cook Nigella Lawson came under hacker attack, first detected at the beginning of the week. It is believed that visitors to the previously mentioned site may have been infected with ... |
17 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Many wonder what technologies and methods Google employs in order to return such accurate results to the queries. Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, has revealed some of the secrets that make 80% of the people from most countries choose Google to the detriment of its competitors. Information Retrieval, that mostly uses wor... |
17 July 2008
04:44 GMT |
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On July 16, Microsoft confirmed officially that it was opening up the Tech Preview program for Live Mesh. However, the Redmond giant also indicated that Live Mesh had in no way evolved past the Tech Preview stage, but that more testers would be permitted to get a taste of the synchronization and collaboration platfor... |
17 July 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Out of all the claims Apple has put on paper when filing the much awaited suit against the Florida-based Mac cloners, one in particular stands out as quite unusual. Besides accusing Psystar of Copyright infringement, Contributory and induced copyright infringement, Trade dress infringement, Trademark dilution and mor... |
17 July 2008
04:32 GMT |
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We can understand that, once a successful formula has been found by a game developer, it can be used a bit in other projects, but I am totally against calling "new game" a title that is actually something already done. This is the problem with The Last Remnant, a RPG presented as a brand new original IP - it has Fina... |
17 July 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Shortly after announcing it was named 2008 North America Company of the Year, AT&T has also unveiled that it will offer its customers all the Olympic action from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (August 8 - 24). This will be possible thanks to an agreement with NBC Universal, the giant media and entertainment American ... |
17 July 2008
04:13 GMT |
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The Russian authorities have confirmed this week that the remains of Prince Alexei Nikolayevich and those of his sister, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, have been identified after 90 years since the Bolsheviks executed Russia's last royal family. Many people still view Nicholas II as the greatest Russian of all... |
17 July 2008
04:09 GMT |
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According to the PCI-SIG certification, ATI's next-generation mainstream graphics cards and graphics processors for mobile devices are ready to enter the market. Advanced Micro Devices, the company that acquired ATI, demonstrated through the launch of its latest ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards that the ... |
17 July 2008
04:08 GMT |
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BLAG 90000 (codename Chlorine) was announced two days ago by Jeff Moe. With Fedora 9 as its basis and a huge number of applications, released under the GNU GPL v3, BLAG Linux 90000 is a completely free distribution with all the tools needed for a desktop computer and more. It is also the first version that includes t... |
17 July 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Once or twice, you might have found yourself wondering about which was the coolest notebook on the market. If that be the case, you're about to get an answer to that and, surprisingly enough, it has nothing to do with Apple's MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air for that matter. This is actually a notebook that will... |
17 July 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Maybe the biggest announcement to come out of Microsoft's E3 presentation was the fact that the long awaited Final Fantasy XIII, developed by Square Enix, is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive. The game will also be launched on Microsoft's own Xbox 360 and there's even some talk that the developers ha... |
17 July 2008
03:54 GMT |
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It is last week that I was congratulating developer Natsume for creating a game for girls only (Princess Debut) and it seems that it's starting to become a trend - during their E3 conference, Ubisoft said that they would pay more attention to the young female demographic and, therefore, they announced the ENER-G... |
17 July 2008
03:49 GMT |
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According to a recently released study conducted by The Strategic Counsel and sponsored by CA, company that specializes in providing IT management software solutions, while external security threats are going down, insider related ones are increasing. In the last year alone, consumer discontent in regard to data loss... |
17 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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TeamViewer, a remote control and desktop sharing solution from the developer of the same name, has been finally approved by the team of beta testers. It now includes full file transfer capabilities and it is fully cross-platform compatible for connections to and from Windows machines. The software is free for persona... |
17 July 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Samsung announced that Italy was the first country where the new high-end Samsung i900 Omnia would be available, starting July 22. This comes shortly after Samsung said the Omnia would also be available in Germany, but only starting the 6th of August. The good news for Italian mobile users - besides the fact that ... |
17 July 2008
03:36 GMT |
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For those who see organizing their documents, no matter if they're private or official, as an ordeal, as well as for those who are gone geese when having to imagine a nice layout for their engagement party invitations or for their resumes, Google is salutary. A new gallery of 309 templates, that can be used for ... |
17 July 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Over six months since the RTM of Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft has made available a new wave of downloads with the gold bits of the service pack. In this manner, Vista SP1 continues toward the finish line of the availability process. Having been released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, along with Windows Server ... |
17 July 2008
03:29 GMT |
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By now, most of you have already found out that NVIDIA is currently going through a rough patch, especially as far as the GeForce lineup is concerned. This mostly comes as a direct consequence of the fact that AMD's graphics subsidiary has finally succeed in putting forward a more than interesting product. Even ... |
17 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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The SOI Industry Consortium announced that Nvidia, the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of graphics processing units, joined the corporation. Nvidia's entrance in the organization may let us believe that the semiconductor developer has in mind a possible usage of the silicon-on-insulator technology... |
17 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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You could argue that the games that Take Two presented at E3 in 2007 were some of the biggest hits of the year that has passed since then. BioShock surprised everyone when it raked up more than 2 million sold copies and a version of the game designed especially for the PlayStation 3 is currently in development and sl... |
17 July 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Universal Pictures released the movie Wanted on the 27th of June and it is has already earned $192 million in worldwide box office thanks to its triple-A cast (James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie) and overall quality. It seems that we, all the gamers out there, will get an extra treat from the movie gian... |
17 July 2008
03:12 GMT |
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Users of the Pownce free desktop application should find it extremely exciting that an update is now available for them. And that's not all: an iPhone version of the Pownce application has also been released. The latter is currently available for download via the iTunes App Store."We're very excited to anno... |
17 July 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson T303, one of the latest entry-level handsets unveiled by the Swedish-Japanese company, was recently approved by the FCC, hence it can be used, from now on, in the US. However, this doesn't mean that the handset will get to be released in the States. Of course, the T303 approved by FCC is made to wo... |
17 July 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Activision, back when it was not yet part of Activision Blizzard, announced that it was pulling out of the Entertainment Software Association and that it would not take part in E3. Because the event itself is a big draw for the press and for the gamers, Activision Blizzard has decided to host an "independent" press e... |
17 July 2008
02:53 GMT |
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The general belief amongst astrophysicists is that the magnetic field of a galaxy evolves simultaneously with the galaxy, slowly building up in time. New observations of the distant universe on the other hand, appear to suggest that this is not quite true and that young galaxies also possess powerful magnetic fields ... |
17 July 2008
02:51 GMT |
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The war against the Chimera just got personal during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3, as we all know it nowadays) since Sony pulled out a PSP and presented Resistance: Retribution, a game under development at Bend Studio, which is planned to be released in spring 2009. The game will be a third person action ... |
17 July 2008
02:45 GMT |
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