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WWE Puts Wrestling on Your iPhone, iPad with Free App

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has launched the official WWE app for iOS devices which provides a 24/7 platform for the WWE universe on-the-go, the media company said.Acting as a second screen TV companion that activates during Monday Night Raw with live polls and content, the WWE app offers breaking news, a hug...

18 August 2012
20:21 GMT

Pod2g: Little Chance of Apple Releasing iOS 5.1.2 to Patch SMS Flaw [Exclusive]

iPhone hacker Cyril, also known to the jailbreak scene as Pod2g, has provided a few helpful answers for us regarding his SMS spoofing discovery as of late.We had recently speculated that Apple might release iOS 5.1.2 in order to patch the flaw before someone takes advantage of it. Pod2g insists that there’s ver...

18 August 2012
16:51 GMT

Apple Responds to SMS Spoofing Claims

According to renowned iPhone hacker Pod2g, a person with bad intentions could send a spoofed message to an iPhone user and specify a fake reply-to number. Apple has responded to these claims, noting that iMessage is the way to go, as any cell phone is susceptible to such attacks.After Pod2g detailed his findings on h...

18 August 2012
15:31 GMT

Weekend Reading: Even Without Half-Life 3, Valve Remains Brilliant

It’s been a busy week for Valve, one of the most popular independent developers out there, as not only did it reveal details about a lot of upcoming projects, from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to Dota 2, but it also launched new features for existing products, like Team Fortress 2’s Mann vs. Machine m...

18 August 2012
14:11 GMT

Samsung GALAXY S III Goes Cheaper in Canada

Samsung Galaxy S III is available in Canada since June and is currently one of the most popular Android phones on the market.Two months after its official launch Samsung decided to slash the Galaxy S III price to $98 CAD. The deal requires customers to sign up for a new three-year agreements.For the time being, only ...

18 August 2012
13:31 GMT

BlackBerry Curve 9320 Arrives at WIND Mobile

Canadian carrier WIND Mobile has just announced the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone.WIND Mobile recently launched the Ascend P1 smartphone, which is one of the Huawei's high-end Android devices that has yet to be rolled out globally.However, the Curve 9320 has been available in Can...

18 August 2012
13:01 GMT

iPhone 5 Display Revealed

We’ve seen all kinds of part leaks but none of them showed the iPhone 5’s actual display. So far, that is.Repair shop UBreakiFix has obtained photos of the full front panel coupled with the LCD display of the next-generation iPhone.Their source confirmed that the new display is capped at four inches on th...

18 August 2012
12:38 GMT

4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook Now Available at Rogers

Made official earlier this month, the 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook has just made its debut at Rogers. However, the Canadian carrier only offers the tablet to its business customers.The 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook comes in a 32GB model and can be purchased for $349.99 on a three year term data plan activation for small b...

18 August 2012
12:01 GMT

Script of the Day: Flyspray

Flyspray is a bug-tracking system, with a modern interface, up-to-date code and developed by a dedicated community of developers.Created to help programmers at first in providing support for their applications and tools, Flyspray has enough flexibility right now to be used with a wide range of services.It benefits fr...

18 August 2012
12:01 GMT

There's a JavaScript Nintendo 64 Emulator, to Play Super Mario in the Browser

Earlier this week we showed you a Game Boy Color emulator written entirely in JavaScript. If you thought that was impressive, then this will be truly epic, a Nintendo 64 emulator written in, you guessed it (or you read the title), JavaScript. Super Mario and friends are getting a lot of web love. Now, before you get...

18 August 2012
11:31 GMT

Battery Status Tells You When Your Magic Mouse Is About to Die

Finally, an app that tells you when your Magic Mouse is getting ready to take a surprise nap! Developed by Taylor Marks with the sole purpose of giving Mac users an accurate reading of the status of each battery-enabled device, Battery Status is a useful utility that lives quietly in your menubar and shows every bit ...

18 August 2012
11:08 GMT

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Cinematic Video Now Available

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be launched next week so, in order to mark the occasion, Valve has released a special cinematic trailer with the popular squad-based first-person shooter.Valve's impressive Source Filmmaker tool went live earlier this year and, since then, it has given users a look into how ...

18 August 2012
10:31 GMT

Google and Oracle Reveal Bloggers and Journalists on Their Payroll

A few weeks ago, the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit took an interesting turn. The lawsuit had all been over, Google having won pretty much everything. All that was left was the paperwork to be filled. However, seemingly out of nowhere, the judge presiding the case ordered both Google and Oracle to present a list of any bl...

18 August 2012
10:21 GMT

Motorola and Verizon Wireless Confirm Launch Event on September 5

Major carrier Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility have just revealed they will be holding an event on September 5. The “Save the Date” event will take place in New York and has been teased with “Motorola. On Display” which suggests that the US-based handset manufacturer might finally go off...

18 August 2012
10:01 GMT

Repair Shop Stocking iPhone 5 and iPad mini Parts “for Some Time Now”

Parts making up the next-generation iPhone and the rumored iPad mini have (again) surfaced in pictures, this time showing that there are no contact pins on the top side of the plug. The source also says it has had them for a while now.Repair shop iResQ says they’ve been sticking iPhone 5 and iPad mini parts for...

18 August 2012
09:25 GMT

Facebook to Build "Sub Zero" Facility with Custom Hardware for Emergency Recovery

Facebook is battling it out with Google on many levels. One of the geekier ones is on hardware design. Both companies employ custom servers and data centers. Google takes a very secretive and closed approach, Facebook is a proponent of open hardware design. But both companies take pride in their lean and mean data c...

18 August 2012
09:01 GMT

Download OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Build 12B17 - Developer News

The Cupertino, California-based computer company run by Tim Cook is asking its developer community to continue to test areas like Active Directory, iCal, Microsoft Exchange in Mail, PAC proxies in Safari, SMB, USB, and WiFi, in the latest Mountain Lion beta, OS X 10.8.1 Build 12B17.Released via its Developer connecti...

18 August 2012
08:57 GMT

Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.4 Demon Hunter Changes Revealed

Blizzard has finally revealed what its upcoming Diablo 3 patch 1.0.4 will change in regards to the Demon Hunter class, after already confirming some of the update’s other aspects.Patch 1.0.4 for Diablo 3 is set to be biggest in the history of the role-playing dungeon crawler. Fans already got to learn about its...

18 August 2012
08:31 GMT

Huawei Launching Ascend D Quad and Ascend D Quad XL in Late August

Chinese handset maker Huawei unveiled several high-end Android smartphones back in February at the Mobile World Congress 2012, in Barcelona.However, only a few of these devices are now available on the market, and those aren't even launched globally.Huawei Ascend D quad is one of the smartphones that has been de...

18 August 2012
08:01 GMT

Dropbox Site Now Instantly Displays File Changes, No More Spamming Refresh

Dropbox has been putting a lot of effort into the website recently and for good reason. While the core of the service will remain the native apps, a powerful and simple web app completes the platform, making sure that users are able to get to their files, with ease, in any circumstance. The latest addition is a mino...

18 August 2012
07:41 GMT

SolusOS 1.2 Features LibreOffice 3.6.0

Ikey Doherty proudly announced yesterday, August 17th, the immediate availability for download of the SolusOS 1.2 Linux distribution. SolusOS 1.2 is the second maintenance release of the 1.x branch of the SolusOS distribution, bringing better GPU, bluetooth and printer support, as well as many system-wide optimisat...

18 August 2012
07:21 GMT

Beautiful Dwarf Galaxy DDO 190 Imaged in Detail

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently has snapped a sharp and very clear image of the dwarf galaxy DDO 190, whose name comes from the David Dunlap Observatory. The latter manages the catalog in which this object is included. Scientists classify DDO 190 as a dwarf irregular galaxy...

18 August 2012
07:21 GMT

Fujitsu Starts Turning CDs and DVDs Into Notebooks

We've seen compact disks and DVDs being used for lots of things other than what they were originally meant for, but what Fujitsu has in mind is different form a sparkling curtain or sculpture. It so happens that Fujitsu is aware that many people form across the world have more CDs or DVDs than they know what t...

18 August 2012
07:02 GMT

Micromax A90 Superfone Pixel and A100 Superfone Canvas Now Available in India

Indian handset maker Micromax has just announced the immediate availability of two new Android smartphones, the A90 Superfone Pixel and A100 Superfone Canvas.Customers in India can now purchase the Micromax A90 Superfone Pixel for Rs 12,990 (235 USD 190 EUR), while the A100 Superfone Canvas is available for only Rs 9...

18 August 2012
07:01 GMT

Caltech to Continue Managing JPL for Another 5 Years

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, will continue to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, in Washington DC, for another 5 years, officials from the American space agency announced recently. The current contract ends on September 30, and had ...

18 August 2012
06:58 GMT

BepiColombo Undergoes Vibration Testing in the Netherlands

A joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), BepiColombo is destined to survey the innermost planet of our solar system, Mercury, starting in 2015. The spacecraft just underwent vibration testing at a facility in the Netherlands. During rocket launches, spacec...

18 August 2012
06:51 GMT

Wine 1.5.11 Has New ALSA Driver

Alexandre Julliard announced on August 17th, a new development version of the Wine app, which brings assorted bugfixes and improvements, among which we can mention:• Multi-channel support in the ALSA driver has been updated;• A big X11 lock has been removed;• Support for pair positioning adjustments in...

18 August 2012
06:50 GMT

Security Updates Released for PostgreSQL 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13 and 8.3.20

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released security updates for the 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13 and 8.3.20 variants of its database systems. The main issues addressed by these updates are the insecure use of libxslt (CVE-2012-3488) and libxml2 (CVE-2012-3489). These vulnerabilities could be leveraged by any aut...

18 August 2012
06:37 GMT

Download Chrome 21.0.1180.81 Beta with Printing and Flash Fixes

While Chrome 22 is getting very close to being released to the beta channel, Chrome 21 is still lingering there. It's not actually lingering either, it's getting updated. Chrome 21.0.1180.81 is now available in the beta channel bringing with it quite a lot of fixes. An issue with "duplex printing" being en...

18 August 2012
06:31 GMT

HP Creates Special Business Unit for Tablet Development

HP may not be part of the first wave of Windows RT tablets, but it will still develop slate-type devices. In fact, the company has decided to set up a special business division whose purpose will be to create and promote tablets. The one leading it will be Alberto Torres, according to the folks from The Verge. ...

18 August 2012
06:21 GMT

File-Sharing Blackmail Scam Hits Sweden

Internet users from Sweden may receive letters in which they’re accused of illegally downloading copyrighted adult content. Authorities say they have nothing to do with the notifications and they advise everyone not to pay the fines. It’s uncertain at this point how the con artists pick out their victims...

18 August 2012
06:20 GMT

India to Launch Mars Orbiter Next Year

Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, has announced earlier this week that the Asian nation will launch an unmanned spacecraft towards the Red Planet in 2013. The robotic orbiter is scheduled to survey our neighboring world for several years. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will handle all the d...

18 August 2012
06:17 GMT

Brain Region Responsible for Focus on Important Stimuli Found

Scientists have known for a long time that the brain sorts through data it receives from the five senses at all time, identifying the most important information and ignoring the rest. Now, researchers at Princeton University believe that they may have identified this region of the brain. What this area deep within ...

18 August 2012
05:59 GMT

Graphics Shipments Up in the Second Quarter of 2012

The second quarter of 2012 ended at the end of June, but it took analysts, in this case Jon Peddie Research (JPR), some time to count all the shipments of graphics cards and central processors with integrated GPUs. As expected, the rising popularity of chips with integrated GPUs has had a good effect on the segment ...

18 August 2012
05:57 GMT

Barclays Spam: We Are Carrying Out Security Maintenance

The website of a company from Portugal and probably many others have been hijacked to take part in the latest Barclays phishing scheme. It all starts with an email (via millersmiles.co.uk) that reads something like this: Dear Client We are carrying out security maintenance in Online Banking on Wednesday 15 August...

18 August 2012
05:49 GMT

Canonical Promotes Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS

Canonical has issued a white paper in which they’re detailing the features of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), in an effort to determine people to voluntarily switch from Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS. The fact that its a Long Term Support release, which extends the support offered by Canonical for a perio...

18 August 2012
05:47 GMT

Testimony Phase Between Apple and Samsung Finally Finished

Whether or not Apple's lawyer was really smoking crack the other day, the lawsuit between Apple and Samsung in San Jose, California, has finally reached a close. Well, not exactly, but the phase where the two parties bring witnesses to testify in front of a jury is passed at least. “We are done,” J...

18 August 2012
05:20 GMT

Japan to Benefit from Trusteer Fraud Prevention and Endpoint Protection Systems

World-renowned cyber security company Trusteer has revealed that Japanese organizations can benefit from its leading security solutions. The firm has opened offices in Japan and to ensure that everything will run smoothly, they’ve appointed industry veteran Norio Miyazawa as country manager. Similar to other h...

18 August 2012
05:08 GMT

HP Pavilion All-In-One, Home of Latest AMD APU

When we described the AMD A6-5400K accelerated processing unit, we mentioned that it was an HP all-in-one computer that indirectly exposed its existence. Here we will finally say what makes that system, called HP Pavilion 23-1000z tick. With a starting price of $649.99 (527 Euro), it pairs the Trinity APU with 4 ...

18 August 2012
05:03 GMT

Computational Model Can Build a Universe from Scratch

An international collaboration of experts announces the development of an innovative computational model that is capable of simulating and monitoring the birth, evolution and eventual demise of thousands of galaxies over billions of years. Created by American researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrop...

18 August 2012
05:01 GMT

First Science Site for Curiosity Revealed

During a teleconference held on August 17, experts in charge of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity announced the robot's first target for exploration, as well as when the advanced machine would use its primary laser for the first time. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) expert and...

18 August 2012
04:46 GMT

OnLive Purchased by New Company, Lays Off Most of Its Staff

Popular cloud streaming service OnLive might not exist in the near future, as a series of surprising developments have been heard from sources deep within the company, claiming that it was just bought by another corporation and that, in order to make itself more valuable, OnLive decided to lay off most of its staff.C...

18 August 2012
04:41 GMT

AMD Ships A6-5400K Accelerated Processing Unit

AMD may have designed some central processing units without GPUs that, somehow, are still part of the Trinity family, but most such products are still accelerated processing units, like the A6-5400K. The A6-5400K is one of the APUs that AMD did not spend too much time individually promoting, allowing market watcher...

18 August 2012
04:20 GMT

Fake Security Device Shows That Perception Is an Excellent Deterrent to Crime (Video)

Physically securing a company doesn’t necessarily have to be about expensive alarm systems, high resolution cameras and other fancy gadgets. To keep burglars at bay, all you might need is a gadget that tricks them into thinking that you have high-tech security systems. Global Link Security Solutions are offer...

18 August 2012
03:56 GMT

Register Now for Access into The Witcher 2 REDKit Beta

CD Projekt Red revealed that it's going to release a set of full-fledged mod tools for its recently launched The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition, in the form of the REDKit, and has now begun accepting registrations for a future beta stage.Modding is a popular hobby for many PC gamers as they want to tinker around wi...

18 August 2012
02:21 GMT

Rayman Legends Gets New Trailer and Screenshots

Ubisoft has posted quite a few new things about its upcoming Rayman Legends, including a fresh video that depicts the game’s special cooperative mode, whichmakes full use of the Nintendo Wii U’s GamePad controller, not to mention some screenshots that show of the game’s stunning graphics.Rayman Orig...

18 August 2012
00:11 GMT


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