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Cabela's Dangerous Hunts Hints (PS2)

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts is a hunting video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and published by Activision Value Publishing for the Playstation 2 console, for the Xbox and for the PC. The title was launched in 2003 and is classed as a hunting simulation game played from a first person perspective. ...

18 July 2008
21:51 GMT

Analyze That: PlayStation 3 Sales Double in North America

In the general madness that is E3, the NPD numbers, which track the sales of gaming hardware and videogames on the North American market, might be easily overlooked. But since June holds interesting data and might show interesting trends, we've decided to take a closer look.Overall, the game industry is on an up...

18 July 2008
19:16 GMT

Cabela's Big Game Hunter Hints III (PS2)

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...

18 July 2008
18:36 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Detailed

Square Enix is in the center of attention by saying that it would bring Final Fantasy XIII to the Xbox 360 gaming console after the game was previously announced as being a PlayStation 3 exclusive. Now, the company is trying to make people more interested in the game itself than in the platforms on which it will be r...

18 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Samurai Shodown 2 Achievements (Xbox 360)

Samurai Shodown 2 is a fighting game initially released on Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld systems in 1999. The title was eventually released on Xbox Live Arcade, bringing back some sweet memories to the fans of the franchise or to those of the fighting genre. Samurai Shodown 2 is set in the 18th century and featurs bl...

18 July 2008
17:06 GMT

Burnout 3: Takedown Hints V (PS2)

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...

18 July 2008
16:31 GMT

India Gets the Sony Ericsson W350i

Sony Ericsson W350i, one of the newest Walkman handsets, was officially released today in India, the world's second largest mobile market. Coming in a stylish semi-flip case, the W350i is a device that combines the ease of use with a set of nice features. The new Sony Ericsson offers, first of all, music-orie...

18 July 2008
16:11 GMT

PlayStation Portable Might Get Hard Drive and Trophies

Through firmware update 2.41, the cleaned up version of the disastrous 2.40, Sony finally introduced Trophies to the PlayStation 3, bringing a reward system to its console that is on par with the Achievements system available on the Xbox 360. There might be some time before we really see all the games for that platfo...

18 July 2008
16:11 GMT

Roogoo Achievements (Xbox 360)

Roogoo is a puzzle game available for download on Xbox Live Arcade, developed by SpiderMonk Entertainment and published by SouthPeak Interactive on the 4th of June 2008, with a PC version released eight days later. The XBLA variant costs 800 MS Points, or $10.Although the release offers a simple, basic gameplay, it h...

18 July 2008
15:06 GMT

Bully Hints VI (PS2)

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...

18 July 2008
14:41 GMT

Next-Generation Windows 7 User Experience

With Windows 7 Milestone 1 released in December 2007, Microsoft managed to give a taste of the user experience that is coming with the successor of Windows Vista. At the same time, since Windows M1 was virtually identical with its predecessor in terms of the graphical user interface, the UX was also similar. But make...

18 July 2008
14:41 GMT

Konami Presents Homecoming and Castlevania at E3

Konami focused its E3 presentation on talking about its established franchises, without offering any news regarding unannounced games.Castlevania: Judgment, which was announced only a few weeks earlier, is set to redefine the way fans view Catlevania. The characters featured are the likes of Alucard, Dracula, Simon B...

18 July 2008
14:06 GMT

Windows Fiji Has RTM'd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008

Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing. The Redmond giant sent Windows Fiji RTM emails to the select pool of customers who helped nudge the product forward through development milestones. Fiji has been from the get go to the finish line a product developed under wraps at M...

18 July 2008
13:24 GMT

Vista SP1 Update Makes Intel Turbo Memory Play Nice with SCSI Devices

According to Microsoft, Intel Turbo Memory, a caching solution associated with Intel Centrino Duo and Intel Centrino Pro processors, fails to play nice with SCSI-class devices via Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The Redmond company informed that it is not only Vista SP1 that prevents nonvolatile (NV) cache commands fro...

18 July 2008
13:07 GMT

Ubisoft Cracks Own Game with Reloaded Fix

Probably all PC users know what a No-CD crack is - that small file which allows you to play a game you bought without having the CD or DVD inserted in the drive. However, such files are considered illegal and game developers go as far as stating that they promote piracy. And we must admit that it is indeed true: the ...

18 July 2008
13:06 GMT

Motorola VE75 to Touch(screen) China

Motorola has recently unveiled a new touchscreen mobile phone targeted for the Chinese market: Motorola VE75. The handset comes after Moto has officially released the A1600 and A1800 Ming clamshells as well as the A810 candybar, all three of them being touchscreen enabled and available only across China. The VE75 wa...

18 July 2008
12:45 GMT

Eternal Sonata Announced for PS3

It seems that not only the PlayStation exclusives go Xbox 360 (such as Final Fantasy XIII), but titles previously considered Xbox exclusives are now developed for Sony's console. It's the case of Namco Bandai's Eternal Sonata - the game which allows you to take on the role of composer Frederic Chopin a...

18 July 2008
12:06 GMT

Google Knows 40 Languages

In 2008, Google has focused, more than ever, on making its web properties' content available for as many people as possible, no matter their mother tongue. "A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I'm sure you can imagine, that isn't as easy as...

18 July 2008
12:04 GMT

Rocky and Bullwinkle Achievements (Xbox 360)

Rocky And Bullwinkle is an XBLA game developed by Zen Studios and published by Microsoft on the 16th of April 2008. This downloadable title based on the popular television show was generally received with poor reviews claiming that it offers way too short and frustrating mini-games.Rocky and Bullwinkle is based on th...

18 July 2008
11:46 GMT

baKno Launches 'Insert-Coin' Payment System for Its Mac Games

Players of baKno's games for Mac can now benefit (so to speak) from the ability to purchase (virtual) coins which they can use whenever their game trial expires. The new "pay per play" solution is an alternative to purchasing a traditional shareware license, baKno reveals.Yes, it's no joke. You buy coins wh...

18 July 2008
11:35 GMT

Court Rules in Favor of Dutch Scientists Who Cracked the Oyster Card

As promised, NXP has sued the Radboud University so that it would not publicly disclose how Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs managed to crack the Oyster card which uses NXP Mifare technologies. The court hearings which began on the 10th of July came to an end today when the judge ruled in favor of the university."Radboud...

18 July 2008
11:08 GMT

ThinkPad X200 vs MacBook Air

Well, as most of the world knows by now, Intel has finally brought its Centrino technology in the 2.0 era. And this has been the main catalyst behind the recent notebook releases from almost every major manufacturer, including Lenovo, which has finally rolled out its highly anticipated X200 notebook, as part of the c...

18 July 2008
11:00 GMT

Microsoft Proves Vista Is Not a Failure with 180 Million Licenses Sold

Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure. Quite the opposite, in fact; according to the Redmond giant, Vista has sold over 180 million licenses in its first year ...

18 July 2008
10:48 GMT

Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass, Out Now

Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass, the latest mobile iteration of the widely popular Guitar Hero game series, is now available across the US, for all the fans of "mobile rocking". Released by Hands-On Mobile in collaboration with Activision Publishing, Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass can offer more than 25 hours of c...

18 July 2008
10:44 GMT

Evolution Favors Large Species

With the help of data regarding the fossils of as much as 4,000 known species of mammals that lived on Earth up to 60 million years ago, Aaron Clauset of the Santa Fe Institute and Douglas Erwin of the National Museum of Natural History created one of the most accurate computer models that estimates how the body size...

18 July 2008
10:43 GMT

Sneak Preview of Wuala, First Peer to Peer Online Storage Network

Wuala is a free desktop application, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, that will be launched, in Beta version, on August 14. Rumors talk about the utility and security of the application, but no one really knew what it was actually like. The Swiss team behind the project decided to offer, besides the screenshots ...

18 July 2008
10:31 GMT

Antispam SMS Alliance and Software Solution Inaugurated in China

As of yesterday, the 17th of July, the ISC (Internet Society of China) has officially set the basis for an antispam text message alliance. The 574 million mobile phone users from the country have more than welcomed the initiative, considering the fact that China is plagued by more than 350 billion text spam messages ...

18 July 2008
10:30 GMT

Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed by Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is certainly feeling threatened by the merger between Activision and Blizzard. After all, the publishing strength of Activision is a perfect match for the developing capabilities of Blizzard and its MMO muscles. Electronic Arts has hit back the best way it knows, by announcing something big that can s...

18 July 2008
10:15 GMT

CentOS 5.2 i386 LiveCD Launched

The CentOS 5.2 i386 LiveCD was released by the CentOS Development team yesterday, as announced by Patrice Guay. The LiveCD is based on the CentOS-5.2 i386 distribution, and it also offers the possibility to perform a netinstall thanks to the "Network Install" option.You can use the CentOS 5.2 LiveCD as a workstation,...

18 July 2008
09:58 GMT

LG KS360 Available Soon All Over Europe

After being announced for a UK release, LG KS360, one of the latest QWERTY handsets to come from South Korea, is now ready to be launched all around Europe. The KS360 is mainly targeted for young users, thus it brings an array of features especially made for them. The full QWERTY sliding keyboard will allow youngst...

18 July 2008
09:58 GMT

The Future Could See Nanorobots Traveling Through Your Veins

It might sound like fiction to some, but to Sylvain Martel of the NanoRobotics Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal it is anything but. By using an MRI machine and specially designed software, Martel proved that it is possible to propel and control nanorobots inside the bloodstream of a living pig, bringing ...

18 July 2008
09:48 GMT

The Architects of Internet Explorer 8 in Images

There is much more to Internet Explorer than meets the eye. And, apparently, Microsoft is good and ready to deliver a different perspective over itself, associated by default with the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Fact is that neither the software company nor its proprietary browser have been enjoying easy rides, wit...

18 July 2008
09:46 GMT

Liquid Metal Cooling to Revolutionize CPU Cooling

It's a commonly known fact that the higher on performance your CPU is, the better your cooling solution must be. Trying to keep the CPU temperatures down to a minimum has led some system builders to incorporate liquid-based cooling solutions into high-end computer systems. Nevertheless, such solutions are expens...

18 July 2008
09:45 GMT

All-Pro Football 2K8 Achievements - Custom NFL Uniforms Codes (Xbox 360)

All-Pro Football 2K8, the really appreciated Xbox 360 football sim game developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports, was released on the 16th of July 2007. This was the first football title to be launched by the Take-Two owned company following the purchase of exclusive licenses by Electronic Arts.The gam...

18 July 2008
09:45 GMT

Rockstar Presents Table Tennis Achievements (Xbox 360)

Rockstar Presents Table Tennis is an Xbox 360 game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games on the 23rd of May 2006 in North America and the 26th of May in 2006. And, if you're wondering - yes, we're talking about the same company which released Grand Theft Auto IV! Strange things hap...

18 July 2008
09:42 GMT

Alien Hominid HD - Hat Locations (Xbox 360)

Alien Hominid HD features completely hand-drawn high-definition graphics coupled with a familiar and accessible game play that makes it an addictive, side-scrolling shooter with cute, quirky humor and adjustable cartoon gore. Also, there is multiplayer mode to be selected at your desire, immersive environments, famou...

18 July 2008
09:37 GMT

Trustworthy Parents Unaware of Security Threats Related to Their Children

According to a recently issued report by Carpone Warehouse entitled "Mobile Life 2008", most UK parents are unaware of the dangers their children expose themselves to when going online. Parents believe they are fully aware of what their little ones are doing while sitting in front of the PC, and their children would ...

18 July 2008
09:33 GMT

Ace Combat 6: Fires Of Liberation - Bonus Aircrafts (Xbox 360)

Based on the Ace Combat beloved franchise, Namco Bandai's Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation is an Xbox 360 exclusive game. It was released on the 23rd of October 2007 in North America, the 1st of November 2007 in Japan, the 23rd of November of 2007 in Europe and the 13th of December in Australia. The arcade styl...

18 July 2008
09:29 GMT

3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures - Medal Locations (Xbox 360)

3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures is an Xbox Live Arcade title developed by Wanako Studios and released on the 18th of April 2007. The release features four player multiplayer games, a customizable course editor and, as expected, it was really fun to play. The game costs 800 MS Points ($10).3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures wa...

18 July 2008
09:20 GMT

Jimi Hendrix Is Coming to Guitar Hero: World Tour

The race for the most successful music game is heating up, with Nintendo presenting Wii Music at E3 and with Disney also revealing a game called Sing It. And one of the most interesting aspects in the race is who manages to bring popular and interesting tracks to their game. Aerosmith has already signed off on an exc...

18 July 2008
09:20 GMT

How to Put an End to Gossips with a Website

Gary Dean, a British businessman who had worked in advertising all his life, managing to earn enough money to afford a luxurious existence, was accused of leaving his wife and the rest of the family almost insolvent after the divorce. To put an end to the rumors that were becoming truly annoying, since the man actual...

18 July 2008
09:18 GMT

2006 FIFA World Cup - Achievements and Teams (Xbox 360)

Cheered for France in the final? Yes, Italy may have won the World Cup, but you can now change history thanks to this great football sim. EA Sports have done it again and you'll enjoy this FIFA installment perhaps even more than the 2007 title. Of course, you can't compare the Xbox 360 version with the PSP ...

18 July 2008
09:07 GMT

How Rocket Propelled Grenades Work

Rocket propelled grenades are explosive projectiles currently used in modern warfare to attack or destroy enemy targets from a distance. RPGs have their origins in mortars, which have been used as weapons of siege ever since the 1500s. Basically, a mortar is a metal tube aiming into the air, inside which mortar shell...

18 July 2008
08:58 GMT

Portrait Professional 8 Enhances Three-Quarter Views

Users of Anthropics' Portrait Professional should be glad to hear that the latest version of the intelligent portrait airbrushing software has been enhanced with more training in human appearance.Particularly, the three-quarter views have been specifically enhanced to achieve the most realistic results possible,...

18 July 2008
08:44 GMT

Middle Eastern Businesses to Benefit from Security Threats

All types of Internet users, from large corporations to single individuals in Dubai, have to face a growing number of security threats, ranging from spam, to phishing and virus infections. This is something that security software provider Sophos has noticed all over the world, but in the case of the United Arab Emir...

18 July 2008
08:44 GMT

Intel Denies European Commission's Accusations

As expected, Intel is now being slapped with another Statement of Objections coming from the European Commission, in which the Santa Clara-based chip maker is accused of anti-competitive behavior. However, even if this is not the first time that Intel is facing this type of charges from the European Commission, the c...

18 July 2008
08:42 GMT

Sony Ericsson T303 to Be Released in August

Although Sony Ericsson said, earlier this year, that its T303 fashionable slider was set for a release in the second quarter of 2008, we are now in the third quarter of the year and the phone is still not on the market. Well, it seems that the T303 won't come this month either, as it will be commercially availab...

18 July 2008
08:33 GMT

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2004 Unlockables (PS2)

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2004 is a hunting video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and released by Activision Value Publishing for the Playstation 2 console, for the Xbox and for the PC. The title was launched in 2003 and is classed as a hunting simulation game played from a first person perspecti...

18 July 2008
08:32 GMT

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 Cheats (PS2)

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 is a hunting video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and published by Activision Value Publishing for the Playstation 2 console, for the Xbox and for the PC. The title was launched in 2005 and is classed as a hunting simulation game played from a first person perspective...

18 July 2008
08:03 GMT

Alltel Offers MyShow for Camera Phone Owners

Alltel Wireless announced today that it's the first mobile operator in North America to offer the MyShow application to its customers. Presented as a "user-generated mobile slideshow application", MyShow allows camera phone owners to create slideshows with their in-phone photos and publish them, almost instantly...

18 July 2008
07:15 GMT

YouTube Posts Get UK Youth Booted Off the Web

The person in question is 23-year-old Andrew Kellett from Swarcliffe, West Yorkshire, who uploaded to popular web page YouTube a total of 80 videos, where he can be seen doing illegal acts, such as consuming class A drugs and racing cars at speeds in excess of 120mph. The punishment given to him by Judge Christopher ...

18 July 2008
07:11 GMT

Google Gets Involved in Mother Russia's Business

Google announced the upcoming acquisition of one of the most conspicuous contextual advertising companies in Russia. Begun, a property of Rambler Media, will become part of Google's advertising business most probably starting with September. By that time, the American company will have to pay a total of $140 mil...

18 July 2008
07:11 GMT

Samsung and Sun to Improve Server-grade SSDs

Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems announced yesterday that they had managed to develop a single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash memory device that was to be used in Solid State Drives. The drives that will feature the new SLC memory are expected to offer much higher endurance levels, compared with any other flash ...

18 July 2008
07:06 GMT

Deep Impact Gets Alien Glimpse of Earth

NASA's comet chaser Deep Impact became famous on July 4, 2005 as the first spacecraft in the history of space exploration to collide an impactor into the nucleus of a comet in order to study its internal composition. As it turns out, Deep Impact provided recently two short films showing how our planet and its mo...

18 July 2008
07:03 GMT

Golden Times for Soulcalibur IV

Soulcalibur IV is one of the most anticipated fighting titles of the year, even if it brings way too many Star Wars characters in play (a total of three for both console versions). The good news is that you will probably be able to go through the game without fighting against these characters, which means that it won...

18 July 2008
06:59 GMT

Gibraltar Firewall 2.6 Launched

Gibraltar Firewall 2.6, a Linux firewall distribution based on Debian, was launched yesterday as announced by Rene Mayrhofer. This will be the last release that will use the Linux kernel 2.4, as the next Gibraltar editions will use the 2.6 kernel. Among other things, this edition of Gibraltar offers improved traffic ...

18 July 2008
06:52 GMT

Windows Search 4.0 Pushed Automatically to Vista SP1, but Not to XP SP3

Microsoft plans to debut serving Windows Search 4.0 automatically to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 by the end of July. With the final version up for grabs through the Download Center since the beginning of June 2008, the Redmond company is now wrapping up Windows Search 4.0 for delivery through Windows Update. However...

18 July 2008
06:48 GMT

With E3 Closing, JoWood Presents Lineup for the Games Convention

Many people are disappointed by this year's E3 media summit and we can't actually blame them. However, this does not mean that all the festivals in the future will be as boring as the one which has just ended (maybe "boring" is too harsh if we are to describe the event as a whole). The upcoming Games Conven...

18 July 2008
06:34 GMT

Over 500 Ringtone Sites Under EU Investigation

After carrying a study on a total of 558 web pages that specialize in providing mobile phone ringtones and wallpapers, the EU has found that a staggering 80% of them are suspicious. The study, which was conducted at the beginning of June on all 27 EU member states, has revealed that most of these sites fail to provid...

18 July 2008
06:32 GMT

Verizon Brings Mobile Banking and Field Force Manager for BlackBerry

Verizon Wireless offers from now on two new applications for its BlackBerry customers: Mobile Banking and Field Force Manager. Mobile Banking will allow users to have non-stop access to their financial information and the features and capabilities of the application include: - Bill Payment, for viewing and paying bi...

18 July 2008
06:25 GMT

Intel Atom Will Not Replace Celeron Processors

Despite the fact that Intel's Atom processor is generating an increasing amount of interest on behalf of many manufacturers of computer systems, the worldwide leading processor maker doesn't see the Atom replacing its Celeron CPUs. At least not in the near future. "At this point in time, we do not see [Inte...

18 July 2008
06:19 GMT

Lego Batman Detailed at E3

Games in the Lego series are always highly anticipated but, unfortunately, they don't always manage to rise up to the expectations (as it happened with the recently released Lego Indiana Jones). Warner Bros is trying to right the wrongs by launching a new exciting game this fall: Lego Batman. And if we are to ju...

18 July 2008
06:14 GMT

Unified Advertising Platform from Google

Google has launched today a new feature for all advertisers. While their campaigns were, up to this point, either keyword based or placement based, the two possibilities can now be integrated in one unitary proceeding. By adding keywords to a placement-targeted campaign, more websites from a specified area will displ...

18 July 2008
06:10 GMT

Analyst Predicts One More Month of iPhone Shortages

With just over a quarter of Apple's retail outlets having iPhones to sell (as reported Thursday), Wall Street analyst Gene Munster claims shortages are to last up to a month. Apple's stock checking web page, set up for iPhone fans, pretty much confirms it.According to Gene Munster, Apple needs to boost its ...

18 July 2008
06:03 GMT

"Wanted" Star Angelina Jolie Used in Spam Campaign

At the end of June, on the 27th to be more precise, the movie Wanted was launched all over the world, bringing Angelina Jolie back into the public eye. BitDefender, company that specializes in providing security software solutions, has found out that spam messages have surfaced claiming to show adult footage of Ange...

18 July 2008
06:02 GMT

Update Takes Windows Live Calendar Beta to the Next Level

Microsoft has released a new update designed to take Windows Live Calendar beta to the next level. The surface changes the impact of the graphical user interface, enabling users not only to modify the color of a specific calendar in their list but also to choose its position. The extra UI options are available by rig...

18 July 2008
06:00 GMT

Fossils to Shed Light on the Time When the Americas Connected

More than 500 fossils of teeth and bones belonging to species of rodents, horses, crocodiles and turtles found near the Panama Canal, dated to have lived as far as 20 million years ago could provide some information regarding the period when the North and South American continents became connected to each other, say ...

18 July 2008
05:59 GMT

Sony Ericsson W350i Review

The new Sony Ericsson W350i is a mid-level ranged mobile phone that adds to the Walkman series portfolio. As it has been a long time since a famous handset manufacturer launched a flip phone, W350i brings back the Sony Ericsson's T series feeling. Revamped and improved, W350i's design has that special retro...

18 July 2008
05:56 GMT

Beat All the Guinness World Records in the Videogame

I don't know about you, but one of my biggest dreams when I was a kid was to be enlisted in the Guiness Book of World Records, to have my name next to those of the craziest and zaniest people in the world. Of course, time passed and I did nothing worthy of being mentioned there. It seems that, after all these ye...

18 July 2008
05:49 GMT

EVGA Rolls out Precision 1.3.0

EVGA's Precision, the well known graphics card overclocking tool for GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards, has just received a fresh update. Quite a rich list of features comes along with the new Precision 1.3.0. The application allows users to easily tweak the core or fan speeds of their graphics card in order to...

18 July 2008
05:46 GMT

Hector Ruiz Replaced by Dirk Meyer as AMD's CEO

As we informed you on Monday, Advanced Micro has been showered by the media with quite a few favorable pieces, thanks to its latest Radeon graphics cards. Nevertheless, this fails to change the fact that, overall, the company isn't doing all that well, a thing that is more than obvious in the Q2 figures register...

18 July 2008
05:34 GMT

Chuck Norris Goes Mobile in a New Gameloft Game

Chuck Norris, the legendary American actor and martial artist, will soon have his own mobile game, developed and distributed by Gameloft. Titled "Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain", the new game is created following an agreement between Gameloft and Brand Sense Partners, Chuck Norris' exclusive business developmen...

18 July 2008
05:28 GMT

$60 Billion in Revenue for Bill Gates' Last Year at Microsoft

June 30, 2008 marked the last day of Bill Gates as a full-time Chairman of Microsoft and, at the same time, the end of the company's 2008 fiscal year. On July 17, the Redmond giant announced revenue of over $60.42 billion, representing a jump of 18% from the past FY. In just the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008, th...

18 July 2008
05:15 GMT

Six-Year-Old Internet Vulnerability Still Active

For the past week or so, Dan Kaminsky and the DNS (Domain Name System) flaw that he discovered have made the headlights of numerous online publications. Although specific, technical details about the flaw have yet to be disclosed, the IT industry assures us that the 8th of July patch has solved the problem. Founder ...

18 July 2008
05:09 GMT

World's Most Famous Documentaries, Free on the Internet

For those who didn't have the chance to see Super Size Me, State of the Union, Dig! or Under Your Skin yet, they can do so now for free on the Internet. SnagFilms, a website created by Ted Leonsis, AOL Vice Chairman Emeritus and producer, and backed by Ted Leonsis, AOL co-founder, Revolution LLC Chairman Steve C...

18 July 2008
05:08 GMT

Microneedle Offers Painless Solution to Injections

Injections are no fun, regardless of what some might say, but that could soon change with the invention of the painless 'microneedle', a device that works much in the same way as the needle of mosquitoes while sucking blood. In the case of the aforementioned insects, the whole process consists of blood bein...

18 July 2008
05:07 GMT

Papaya 1.1.1 Allows Multi-File 'Properties' Editing

Papaya, a web server for Mac OS X dedicated to sharing your files with others, has been updated to version 1.1.1. The new release adds the ability to edit properties for multiple selected files at once, a new context menu item to show activity in the log, and detectable resource forks.Using Papaya is as easy as dragg...

18 July 2008
05:00 GMT

Sidekick LX Tony Hawk Fully Released

The Sidekick LX Tony Hawk Limited Edition is now offered by T-Mobile for everyone (everyone in the US, that is), after the handset was released, last week, only for users who were already T-Mo's customers. Well, now you can get a Tony Hawked handset even if you are new to T-Mobile. The new Sidekick LX can be bou...

18 July 2008
04:39 GMT

XP SP3 RC1 and RC2 Still Available for Download

Just for the sake of going back in time, Microsoft is still serving the Release Candidate development milestones of Windows XP Service Pack 3. Both XP SP3 RC1 and XP SP3 RC2 continue to be available for download from the Redmond company's Windows Update servers, even though the actual pages in the Download Cente...

18 July 2008
04:36 GMT

Summer 2009: Intel Launches Larrabee

What with the abundance of rumors surrounding Intel's upcoming discrete graphics card, the Larrabee, it's only understandable if some of you have already grown a bit weary of it, especially as none has revealed, so far, an estimated release date and all we had to make do with was pure speculation. Today bri...

18 July 2008
04:33 GMT

iPod Packaging Patent Emerges

Acting as a reminder of how careful Apple is about its intellectual property and other things, a patent application filed by the Mac maker a while ago has emerged. The iPod / iPhone packaging filing describes a base with a ledge formed on its interior, a holder disposed within the base for holding an item, and a lid ...

18 July 2008
04:32 GMT

The Eset Way of Keeping Infection Free

The one thing that any PC owner must understand is that the fight against spam, viruses, and all sorts of malicious software seems to be a never ending one. Attackers are constantly coming up with new ways of fooling detection and further propagating their malware. As a matter of fact, the latest trend is to target v...

18 July 2008
04:31 GMT

Intel to Put an End to 65 nm Processors

Intel seems to be on its way to start phasing out the majority of its 65 nm Xeon DP processor generation, at least that's what the company said to its partners. The move should make room for the new 45 nm CPUs. From the total of 16 CPUs, 11 are put on an end line, while the others are subject to a transition to ...

18 July 2008
04:30 GMT

Autistic Children Often Have Socially Aloof Parents

A new link between genetics and autism was established in the outcome of a study showing that the parents of autistic children are likely to behave similarly to their young ones when it comes to evaluating people's facial expressions, although they do not have the disorder themselves.By conducting psychological ...

18 July 2008
04:17 GMT

Watch Out for British, Romanian and Czech Ringtone Websites

A number of complaints on behalf of users who were taken in by certain ringtone websites determined the European Parliament to investigate further into the matter. Commissions from every country of the EU were asked to check the websites that provided ringtones and wallpapers for the people living there. The look-ove...

18 July 2008
04:16 GMT

App Store - Apple Rearranges 'Sneaky' Apps

Earlier this week, it was pointed out that certain iPhone developers were adding spaces in front of their app's titles to "stand out of the crowd" in the Sort By Name category on the App Store. It took Apple a couple of days to acknowledge and rectify this but, as MacUser is reporting, the cheaters' apps ha...

18 July 2008
03:57 GMT

LG Rumor Now from Virgin Mobile Canada

LG Rumor, the popular and affordable handset that's been around in the US for about one year, is now offered by Virgin Mobile Canada too. Of course, the phone was already available for Canadian users, but only for those who are Bell Mobility's subscribers (the CDMA carrier released the Rumor back in April, ...

18 July 2008
03:53 GMT

New Intel-based NVIDIA Chipset to Arrive in August

Even if most news items about NVIDIA place the green company in not too bright a light, we must not doubt that it will continue to release new products. And that's besides the highly anticipated 55nm GeForce cards, which should virtually put the Santa-Clara based chip manufacturer in the leading position in the ...

18 July 2008
03:47 GMT

Samsung Chairman Gets $109 Million Fine

A court of law in South Korea has recently found Lee Kun-Hee, former Samsung chairman, guilty of tax evasion and security law violations and consequently issued appropriate punitive measures. Lee will have to pay a hefty fine in excess of $100 million and spend 3 years in prison, a sentence that the 66 year old man ...

18 July 2008
03:37 GMT

Less Ads, More Money for Google

Google's decision of focusing more on the quality of the ads provided to the users, and not on their number, has apparently paid off. The total revenues recorded for the second semester of 2008 reached $5.37 billion, an increase of 3% compared with the first three months of this year. Going even further than tha...

18 July 2008
03:24 GMT

Available Now: SliTaz Cooking

The SliTaz team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the SliTaz Cooking, a development edition of the SliTaz Linux, which includes many bug fixes and new features. So, if you're wondering what's new in this version, let us tell you that SliTaz has now the ability to boot from the Internet usin...

18 July 2008
03:19 GMT

Nvidia Releases Three New Tools for Game Developers

Nvidia, a world leader of graphics cards manufacturer, steps up once again with tools that will help game developers on their future creations. The three products delivered by the company are PerfHUD 6.0, FX Composer 2.5 and Shader Debugger (this one requires payment for commercial use). "These new tools reinforce ou...

18 July 2008
03:17 GMT

ASUS to Drop a New Eee PC Version

Now that ASUS has finally unveiled the latest Eee PC nebtooks and has extended the Eee family with the desktop Eee Box, there's one thing that we can say with certainty about its small-sized, low-priced computer devices - and that is that they can provide almost every user with a varied number of choices concern...

18 July 2008
03:12 GMT

New Guide to Building Mac and iPhone Apps Released

Xcode 3 Unleashed has been... unleashed. The book details Apple's Mac and iPhone development suite and contains a guide by Mac developer Fritz Anderson, in which he thoroughly explains to readers the best and easiest ways to build any Mac or iPhone application.Priced at US $44.99, Xcode 3 Unleashed, written by t...

18 July 2008
03:11 GMT

Phishing Attack Uses IRS as a Front

US citizens are warned that a spam message claiming to originate from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is circulating on the Internet. The users are lured by a "stimulus payment" message into visiting a phishing site and providing the scammer with their private data. There are several security risks associated with...

18 July 2008
03:11 GMT

King's Bounty Detailed at E3

The original King's Bounty served as the basis for the whole Might and Magic series and its influences can be seen in the initial installments of Heroes of Might and Magic. Now, the game is getting a new lease on life courtesy of Russian developer Katauri and of publisher 1C Company. The game has no set release ...

18 July 2008
03:05 GMT

Graphene, World's Strongest Material

Carbon sheets only one atom thick, also known as graphene, became a wonder material in 2004 when they were first discovered and maintained their status ever since, showing good electrical and thermal conductivity as well as semiconductor properties. Now, defect-free graphene monolayers were also proven to possess exc...

18 July 2008
03:05 GMT

Sony Ericsson Ready to Unveil a New Chapter in Mobile Music

Celebrating 3 years since the first Walkman phone hit the market, Sony Ericsson is preparing the release of at least three new W-series handsets. The Swedish-Japanese company officially confirmed the new releases for July 22 (that's next week, on Tuesday).For the moment, the rumored handsets that will get an off...

18 July 2008
03:00 GMT

Microsoft Reports First Time Profits for Xbox 360 Division

Microsoft is saying that, after the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 and after computing full year reports, the Microsoft Xbox 360 division, which manages both hardware and software sales for the gaming console, is reporting an operating profit of 426 million dollars for the whole year.The results indicate that, for the...

18 July 2008
02:30 GMT

FiberWAN Network Admin Claims He Is Not Guilty

A few days back we were reporting that the actions of one network administrator had put the city of San Francisco's FiberWAN network under complete lockdown. Terry Childs, whose password was the only one that could access the network, has pleaded "not guilty" at the court hearing held yesterday. Another interest...

18 July 2008
02:26 GMT


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