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It's nice to see that videogame designers can step into the shoes of the common fan and understand how quickly we can turn to love or hate because of the smallest details on a screenshot or because of a wrong color palette in a trailer.Lead designer for Diablo 3 Jay Wilson thinks that there will always be fans t... |
17 September 2008
21:41 GMT |
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At the recent Analyst Day event hosted by Activision Blizzard, the company managed to officially announce the next Call of Duty game without actually telling us anything concrete about it at all. And it also probably managed to drive a few music industry executives to new levels of insanity by pointing out how much b... |
17 September 2008
19:41 GMT |
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There are still people out there who imagine gamers to be sad and lonely people who only look at the monitor, have no real friends and will never get a girlfriend. This stereotype is so persistent that I still occasionally get weird looks from people who find out that I play games and make a living out of it.Now... |
17 September 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Artificial Life, the Hong Kong-based mobile content developer, seems to really love football (soccer), as the company has just released another new game that revolves around the popular sport. The game is called "Leo Messi-GOAL!" and comes after less than a week since AL launched the first official Bayern Munich mobi... |
17 September 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Iomega is a company specializing in data protection and security solutions. The company announced its new Iomega eGo Helium portable hard drive today. The USB 2.0 320GB hard drive is aimed at owners of an Apple MacBook Air and is said to be the perfect match for the style and incremental storage needs of Apple's... |
17 September 2008
15:51 GMT |
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We've talked on several occasions about Canon's rather unusual habit of making a large number of announcements in single day, followed by long periods of inactivity. And, once again, the company has proved that old habits die hard, since it came up with a very large number of cameras, targeting various mark... |
17 September 2008
15:51 GMT |
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SkyZone Entertainment, developer and publisher of a wide range of mobile games, announced the upcoming release of two new titles licensed from Universal Pictures: Animal House and Tic-Tac-Dough.Based on the National Lampoon's Animal House comedy movie (first aired back in 1978), the Animal House mobile game is s... |
17 September 2008
15:41 GMT |
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At its March 6 event in Cupertino, this year, Apple threw a bombshell called the “App Store”. In relation to the App Store, Apple's chief exec also mentioned something called the iFund. The initiative was to dedicate $100 million to companies that want to develop new applications for the iPhone / iPo... |
17 September 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment is sending word that its MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has now managed to ship more than 1.5 million game copies to retailers as it prepares for its worldwide release which takes place this week. Electronic Arts also says that the MMO has generated the highest number of pre-orders in the... |
17 September 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years, NEC has rolled out quite a few digital signage solutions, very large displays used in public venues in order to deliver different types of content (promotional videos, various announcements, train/plane schedules, etc.). Most of these products target the corporate or public service... |
17 September 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has updated StarCraft for Mac to version 1.15.3. The patch fixes a communication bug affecting third party leagues, also offering players a quality experience on versions of Mac OS X which do not support 256-color mode. A few fixes have also been included for Windows users.Among the many impressive features ... |
17 September 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Along with the release of a major OS update, Apple also updates the compatibility with certain raw digital cameras. The Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.2 offers support for an additional ten cameras from renowned manufacturers such as Kodak, Sony and Canon.Describing the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Upd... |
17 September 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Even if the "cherry" on today's cake of announcements from Canon was represented by the EOS 5D Mark II, the company has also unveiled several other devices, targeting, however, other market segments. Two of these products are the PowerShot SD990 IS and the SD880 IS compact digital cameras, which combine a fashio... |
17 September 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Windows 7 Build 6780 Milestone 3 represents the first time in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor when Microsoft introduced the Fluent/Ribbon graphical user interface into the operating system. Default components of the next iteration of the Windows client including Paint and WordPad are now featuring the... |
17 September 2008
12:13 GMT |
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Boingo Wireless, the Los Angeles-based company specialized in Wi-Fi software and services, has announced that its Boingo Roaming Network now includes more than 1,100 new hotspots from across Switzerland. The hotspots are owned by Swisscom, the largest mobile carrier in the Central European country, and include airpor... |
17 September 2008
11:59 GMT |
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Microsoft applauded the growing list of collaborators associated with its IP licensing program, naming companies such as Motorola, Nokia, Novell and even the Cupertino-based Apple. Owning one of the most consistent intellectual property dowries worldwide, Microsoft started licensing items from its patent portfolio ba... |
17 September 2008
11:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is not only hard at work on the next versions of the Windows client and server operating systems, namely Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server/Windows Server 2008 R2, but also on the next iteration of its Cloud platform. And although the Redmond giant has failed to breathe a single (official) word on the first Bet... |
17 September 2008
11:21 GMT |
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A recent survey involved questioning 1.102 children 12 to 17 years of age and their parents concerning their gaming-related habits. As it turns out, 94 percent of the young girls and 99 percent of the boys show different degrees of game addiction. Pew Internet & American Life Project demonstrated in a survey pa... |
17 September 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Although NVIDIA's new low-profile GeForce 9400 graphics card has been officially announced for quite some time now, one of its add-in-board partners decided to keep its customers waiting for a while. However, the company has officially launched its version of the new GeForce graphics card earlier today, offering... |
17 September 2008
11:17 GMT |
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Google has just released a Linux software repository which greatly facilitates both the download and software updates for their applications. For now, only two of them have been introduced to this repository, but we expect to see more as soon as possible. There are graphical sets of instructions to make your computer... |
17 September 2008
11:08 GMT |
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At about the same time with the introduction in Alaska of three new (but not that new for the rest of the world) BlackBerry smartphones, Research In Motion has just announced the availability of prepaid BlackBerry services for Indian mobile users (showing just how international the company is). This comes following a... |
17 September 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Yes, ladies and gentleman, on September 15, Adobe announced the first beta release of Adobe AIR for Linux, a new technology that allows Adobe AIR applications to be deployed on computers and devices powered by the Linux operating system. "Thank you for your interest in downloading the Adobe AIR for Linux public beta.... |
17 September 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Gears, an open source project that enables more powerful web applications by adding new features to web browsers, has recently been released for Safari, confirming rumors that Safari might eventually borrow features from Chrome. The plug-in extends the browser to create a richer platform for web applications. You can... |
17 September 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Robert “RSnake” Hansen have been working on developing several proof of concept exploits based on clickjacking techniques that affect websites on all browser platforms. They intended to present them at the OWASP AppSec Conference in New York later this month; how... |
17 September 2008
10:40 GMT |
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There is no law to prevent the manifestation of cannibalism. Against killing or physical assault, yes, but not against eating your own. Cases of cannibalism are constantly scandalizing the public, and every time this happens, everyone wonders what makes one embrace it and practice it. Human mind is a strange an... |
17 September 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Affordable is without a doubt the last thing that comes to mind in relation to a $25,000 Windows-based machine, but the fact is that the characterization is not as far off as it might seem. This because the product introduced by Microsoft and Cray is a supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 aimed at the high p... |
17 September 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Kodak occupies a very important place in the history of photography, although it was caught a bit unprepared by the rapid advent of digital cameras. Nevertheless, the company is doing everything in its power to regain the lost ground, so it also got actively involved on the digital photo frame market. Actually, it�... |
17 September 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Micro-Star International, a leading manufacturer of portable computer systems, motherboards and graphics cards, has announced today two new notebooks, powered by AMD's Turion processors. Either new portable system has been designed to meet the requirements of a different market segment. While the new GX711 was c... |
17 September 2008
09:42 GMT |
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In what looks like a well-established trend over at Apple, the Cupertino-based iPhone maker has excluded another important application from the App Store. Nullriver's NetShare had previously gained access to the venue, after which Apple (or AT&T) decided to pull it from the store. The app got itself back online,... |
17 September 2008
09:40 GMT |
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China Unicom, the second largest mobile carrier in the Asian country, announced that its merger with China Netcom, a leading Chinese provider of fixed telephony and Internet services, has been approved by the shareholders of both companies.The news comes after China Unicom has also said that its CDMA mobile division ... |
17 September 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Set up on the road to democratize virtualization, Microsoft sees the technology as an indispensable component of Cloud computing, one that will ultimately support the realization of its own Software plus Services business strategy. In this context, the Redmond company is committed to delivering a strong set of softw... |
17 September 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Super Talent, one of the leading manufacturers of flash-based storage devices has just introduced what it likes to refer to as the “Dangerously Fast New SATA-II SSDs.” The company's new products have been designed to meet the requirements for faster and higher-capacity storage solutions based on the... |
17 September 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Human cloning, although highly unofficial, is possible, and there are thousands of uses for it, from the medical organ donation to science and art. We've all wondered how a classical composer such as Mozart or Bach would fare in the modern world, and many would like to listen to more songs from Freddie Mercury. ... |
17 September 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Sony is announcing that a new firmware update is available for its PlayStation 3 gaming console. The catch is that the update is not really necessary for most users and that you probably can safely ignore it.Firmware update 2.43 is specifically created to address issues with the consoles that Sony sold in Japan. It s... |
17 September 2008
08:24 GMT |
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As part of their second annual report, security company McAfee compiled a list of the most dangerous celebrity names to search for. Brad Pitt tops this list and searching for his name is supposed to correspond with a 1 in 5 chance of ending up on a malicious website. Paul Ducklin, head of technology for security firm... |
17 September 2008
08:10 GMT |
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As modern men, we all got used to living on the edge, always rushing, always having to be somewhere, feeling that a day should have at least 25 hours. Also, I think all of us agree that the alarm clock is one of the most annoying things ever invented. I don't know about you, but sleep is very important for my mo... |
17 September 2008
07:58 GMT |
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Microsoft, a company once regarded at the periphery of the security universe, has slowly made its way to the center, and come November 2008, will be the source of a new model for developers industry-wide to follow. The Redmond company is looking to share the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) debuted in 2004 with t... |
17 September 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Although Christmas isn't as close as we might want it to be (we still have three more months until then), HTC has prepared a white surprise for all mobile users avid of high-end handsets. More exactly, HTC Touch Diamond will be available in white too, allowing those who don't like the all-black origina... |
17 September 2008
07:29 GMT |
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The gold version of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.2 went live on the Download Center on September 16, 2008. Version 3.2 marks the evolution of the Network Protocol Analyzer out of the beta stage and the delivery of the successor of v 3.1 which was released in mid-2007. As the label implies, the Network Monitor 3.2 is a... |
17 September 2008
07:17 GMT |
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As some of you probably already know, Intel has just released its first 6-core Xeon processors, designed to bring a whole new level of performance to upcoming server systems. Although still newcomers on the market, the new server-class CPUs have already proven their potential, as they have been built in several serve... |
17 September 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Three out of sixteen Nvidia partners announced today the release of new GTX 260 cards, featuring 216 shader cores instead of 192 as the original product. The new cards landed fast enough in the hands of reviewers, so information on their performance levels is already available on the web. Yet, there are also other in... |
17 September 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Following the start and subsequent end of Apple's US Back to School promo, which included a “free” iPod touch (8GB) for all students buying a new Mac, the offer has come to the UK as well. However, don’t think Apple is handing out free nanos or anything like that. As a student at a higher educa... |
17 September 2008
06:40 GMT |
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When it comes to monitors and TV sets, we can’t but acknowledge the general trend, which has it that these display devices must provide a high-quality visual experience, while maintaining a sleek and lightweight form factor. This is the reason why most of the display manufacturers of today are continuously sett... |
17 September 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Flycell, a New York-based entertainment company that you might be familiar with, has just launched a new ringtone in order to help the Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) charitable organization. Named "Just Stand Up!", the ringtone is based on the homonym song (recently recorded by a group of star musicians) and it will bring... |
17 September 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Pioneer is the latest addition on Microsoft's collection of Intellectual Property partners. The two companies announced on September 16, 2008 a cross-licensing patent agreement focused on consumer technology. In the past year, the Redmond giant signed similar partnerships with Kenwood and Alpine Electronics, and... |
17 September 2008
06:20 GMT |
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A new species of blind, underground predatory ant has been discovered in the Amazon, and it seems that it descends from the first ant lineages, which appeared 120 million years ago. During his research studies in the Amazonian jungle area, near the city of Manaus, Brazil, Christian Rabeling from the University ... |
17 September 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Apple and Psystar have agreed to extend the period of time in which Apple has to respond to Psystar's Counterclaims, filed on August 28, 2008, until September 30, 2008. Apple too granted Psystar not one, but two such response extensions in the past months, since the Cupertino-based Mac maker filed its original s... |
17 September 2008
05:52 GMT |
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With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 released to manufacturing at the start of August 2008, the Redmond company is focusing on the evolution of the product via a project based on DATAllegro technology. In less than two years, the software giant plans to integrate the resources that it has acquired concomitantly with DATAll... |
17 September 2008
05:45 GMT |
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Earlier this week, we told you that, on September 17, Creative was expected to release a new X-Fi product, which was promoted by means of an "I am Heard Everywhere" campaign. Today is the 17th and, as it turns out, the company has kept its promise by unveiling the new X-Fi Notebook ExpressCard, a new high-e... |
17 September 2008
05:43 GMT |
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The old saying "When it rains, it pours" seems to be one of Canon's favorite mottos, since the company doesn't really feel "content" until it floods the market with a large number of products, all in one day. And that's exactly what happened today, when Canon rolled out quite a few interesting cameras ... |
17 September 2008
05:33 GMT |
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Motorola W450, said to be hitting T-Mobile USA sometime this fall, has recently been spotted in live images, before its official announcement. The handset might also be named MotoACTV or Motorola W6 by T-Mobile – the naming details are a bit confusing at the moment – and it will apparently come to re... |
17 September 2008
05:22 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project announced that the first country that would try the XO laptops featuring the Microsoft Windows XP Operating System is Peru. The software giant and OLPC brought the new laptops to Peru as a part of a nine-month pilot program. The two companies announced that th... |
17 September 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Late in the evening of September 19th, people living or traveling north of a line crossing North America will be able to observe the Pleiades star cluster being hidden by our moon. Although the term occultation – which is derived from the Latin "occultatio," meaning hiding – might be new to many of ... |
17 September 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Although it’s been quite a while that NVIDIA's faulty chips issues made all the headlines, more details on them have just recently emerged. This time around, it’s the company's upcoming chips that are getting all the media attention, in regard to the same issues that have also caused some of the... |
17 September 2008
05:04 GMT |
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EFiX America has started shipping its USB hack dongle, which allows PC users to boot Apple's Mac OS X and run all of its apps seamlessly. Not only does the device allow you to install Apple's OS (as well as Windows and other OSes), but it also recognizes official updates and lets you install them the instan... |
17 September 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Zenprise, Inc., a Californian developer of mobile service management software, has recently announced the release of MobileManager 4.0 for BlackBerry. The new application is created to monitor, troubleshoot and manage issues that end users might experience with BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) environments. Th... |
17 September 2008
04:44 GMT |
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A Computerworld report points out the toll Google's new web browser, Chrome, has taken on rivals Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, noting that Safari hasn't been affected at all by its recent emergence on the market.At the beginning of this month, Google released its much-awaited web browser, Go... |
17 September 2008
04:18 GMT |
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In the wake of North America and Japan, Microsoft has decided to announce that the prices of the Xbox 360 line of gaming consoles would also be reduced in Europe in the coming days. In an interesting move, both the Xbox 360 Arcade and the Xbox 360 Premium console bundles will be sold below the price of the Nintendo W... |
17 September 2008
04:15 GMT |
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In a recent book, physicist Joao Magueijo explains the principles of his varying-speed-of-light (VSL) theory, claiming that light can outrun itself. This idea of velocities beyond that of light has been discussed before, as two German scientists claim their quantum tunneling experiments proved it was possible. ... |
17 September 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Super Talent Technology, a worldwide leading manufacturer of Flash storage devices and memory modules, announced yesterday the addition of two new SSD solutions to its MasterDrive family. The drives are stated to deliver dramatically increased performance over existing SSDs. According to Super Talent, the new MasterD... |
17 September 2008
04:09 GMT |
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Not very long ago, we informed you about Samsung's intentions to acquire SanDisk, a leading manufacturer of flash-based memory products. Back then, no type of feedback came from SanDisk, while the exact details of a possible acquisition weren't available. However, it appears that the Taiwan-based company ha... |
17 September 2008
04:08 GMT |
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New tests following the launch of iPhone software 2.1 have revealed that the percentage of iPhone 3G slow connection speeds has been cut down to half. Test My iPhone administrator Donovan Lewis notes that this is a considerably major improvement.“We’re seeing an overall more consistent kbps score and... |
17 September 2008
03:54 GMT |
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The Chronicles of Spellborn, a fantasy MMO set in a world that has been “fractured”, is pretty much ready for release and the developers behind it have shared information regarding the Fame system implemented in the game, the Player versus Players servers and the classes that would be available for gamers... |
17 September 2008
03:49 GMT |
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Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Mathews are three of the guys that made Metroid the phenomenon we know. They are the former game director, in charge of the entire development process, the art director and the principal technology engineer that worked at Retro Studios when Metroid was in production for Nintendo... |
17 September 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless and RIM will come up with a new handset that's bound to create a hype greater than the one Apple's iPhone did. We're talking about the first BlackBerry touchscreen smartphone, which we've seen before, in a not that favorable video review.We know now for sure that the smartphone wi... |
17 September 2008
03:40 GMT |
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General belief has it that, given that enough complexity is provided, life is probable to arise as a consequence. And, besides living organisms, there's no other system more complicated than the Internet. So, how wrong is it to assume that it may evolve into a living entity? Even now, you're reading t... |
17 September 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Ever since Canon's EOS 5D arrived on the market back in 2005 and proved its worth, photographers have been waiting to see what its successor would look like and what innovative features it would provide users with. And now, the company has finally decided to put an end to all that waiting and officially announce... |
17 September 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Over the past few days, we have been extensively covering news of this card – now, it seems that the new GeForce GTX 260 with upgraded GPU has finally received some form of official treatment. Several graphics manufacturers have released the new and improved GeForce card, despite the fact that NVIDIA is yet to... |
17 September 2008
03:08 GMT |
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Commandos 2: Men of Courage is a video game developed by Pyro Studios SL and published by Eidos Interactive Inc. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the original Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in 2002. It is classed as a squad action strategy title, with some sneaking and comb... |
17 September 2008
03:05 GMT |
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While releasing new additions to its GPU series, the green graphics cards manufacturer NVIDIA has issued yet another version of its PhysX System Software, the 8.09.04 WHQL. According to the company, all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series graphics solutions support NVIDIA PhysX acceleration and only a minimum o... |
17 September 2008
03:03 GMT |
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On August 27, 2008, Microsoft made available for download the second Beta of Internet Explorer 8. At that time, the browser came in four flavors, namely English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. On September 16, the Redmond company went live with the second wave of IE8 Beta 2 releases, offering the browser... |
17 September 2008
02:57 GMT |
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In light of yesterday's updates, Apple has issued an update to its solution for managing the Macs on a network, distributing software, providing real-time online help, and more. Version 3.2.2 improves reliability with the Copy Items command, and fixes issues surrounding the Force Quit All Applications and Copy I... |
17 September 2008
02:52 GMT |
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If you happen to want a smartphone-shaped handset that's not really a smartphone but just a device that lets you read and send e-mails while on the go, Peek might be a good choice. Freshly released across the US, Peek is a handset equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard and a large enough display (2.5 inches and 24... |
17 September 2008
02:49 GMT |
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Combat Elite: World War II Paratroopers is a video game developed by Battle Borne Entertainment and published by SouthPeak Interactive. The game was created for the PlayStation 2 platform and for the PC; it was launched in November 2005. It is classed as a combat simulation played from a third person perspective.Comb... |
17 September 2008
02:40 GMT |
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Colin McRae Rally 04 is a video game developed and published by Codemasters Software Company Limited. The game was launched for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and the PC. It was released in 2003. It is classed as a racing simulation title with some off road elements and can be p... |
17 September 2008
02:21 GMT |
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Clock Tower 3 is a video game developed and published by Capcom Inc Ltd. Launched in December 2002, it was only released for the PlayStation 2 gaming platform from Sony. It is classed as a survival horror title with action elements that can be played from a third person perspective.There are other three games in the ... |
17 September 2008
02:18 GMT |
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