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Every one of us was a child, and passed through a lot of years in school, in order to be prepared for life and for its challenges. But before computers appeared, timetables were merely a piece of paper posted in front of a class, where teachers were noting their hours.With the appearance of computers, however, i... |
19 December 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Fedora 10 was officially released a year ago, on November 25th, 2008. It was dubbed Cambridge and it offered the latest stable version of GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1 desktop environments, faster boot experience (powered by Plymouth), better printing, better webcam support, improved wireless network connection sharing, bet... |
19 December 2009
12:17 GMT |
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There have been comments recently from the team at Bungie that handled the development and the release of Halo 3: ODST indicating that they were aware of the problems, initially saying that the game was an expansion and then shipping it as a full-fledged release and showing that the problem of the final price of the ... |
19 December 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Series intro The Internet is certainly one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. It helped open the road to unprecedented levels of innovation and communication between people. But, life on the Internet is by no means perfect. Numerous gangs of cyber-criminals lurk in the Internet's underground... |
19 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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It’s that time of the year when charts and tops are made to show the best and worst of the past 12 months, from film to music, fashion and celebrities. Speaking of stars and with the motto that “annoyance is the great equalizer among human emotions,” the SC Times has comprised a list of the ten most... |
19 December 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Director James Cameron spent the last 15 years thinking of a film that, as he put it, would help him step up from “king of the world,” a distinction he more than earned with the blockbuster “Titanic,” to “king of the universe.” Clearly, coming from any other filmmaker now working i... |
19 December 2009
09:21 GMT |
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2009 is coming to a close so what better time than to release all manner of interesting and exciting statistics and tops for all the family to enjoy. Symantec certainly thinks so and better yet, it's tying in some marketing material for good measure. The company has released the top 100 searches for 2009 by kid... |
19 December 2009
07:33 GMT |
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As most of you already know, the 2009 winter will officially begin two days from now, on Monday, December 21. The date will mark the winter solstice, the astronomical point in time when the shortest day of the year will take place. From that point on, winter is ongoing, even though this year it came a little bit earl... |
19 December 2009
07:24 GMT |
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Jon and Kate Gosselin are officially single, as their divorce was pronounced final the other day, as we also reported just hours ago. Jon says in a recent press statement that he’ll do his best to provide for the eight children he has with Kate, but that might be beyond his means right now, TMZ has learned. Kat... |
19 December 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Computer savvy users are perfectly aware of the importance of regular defragmenting files on the disk. The benefit of the procedure have a direct effect on overall system performance, reducing read/write times, thus leading to snappier opening of applications as well as faster copying data on the hard disk.One of th... |
19 December 2009
07:01 GMT |
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One of the movies that generated plenty of media attention this year, albeit for reasons related more to the stars in it than for the production itself, is “The Bounty Hunter,” starring the gorgeous Jennifer Aniston and the always charming and occasionally threatening Gerard Butler. The good news is that ... |
19 December 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Generally, most news about e-readers revolved around their low availability and how shipments won't be delivered on time for many customers, especially those wanting to acquire the Nook from Barnes and Noble. Also, market analysts believed that the market for e-readers would not grow at a very rapid rate because... |
19 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Yesterday, NASA reached an important milestone in its development of the first airborne infrared telescope, dubbed SOFIA. Mounted on the side of Boeing airplane, the telescope's main advantage is that it can be deployed anywhere it is needed. Its powerful instruments allow for scientific observations to be cond... |
19 December 2009
06:54 GMT |
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It was the biggest scandal of 1998, when former President Bill Clinton was impeached but not thrown out of office following allegations of improper conduct. Monica Lewinsky was a key element in the scandal and she’s now saying that Clinton lied under oath about their relationship in an upcoming book by Ken Grom... |
19 December 2009
06:34 GMT |
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There have been a couple of new developments in the past week regarding the Twitter API and, surprisingly, they don't really have anything to do with Twitter at all. Rather they have to do with 'old school' blogging platforms WordPress and Tumblr adopting the Twitter API as their own. What this means ... |
19 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Brown University experts have just finished conducting their head-on comparison of alcohol types, and the effects that each of them cause in drinkers the morning after. According to the work, details of which have been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the scientific journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Ex... |
19 December 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Swiftech proudly introduced, and detailed, the MCR Drive, the first ever developed cooling mechanism to fully integrate both a pump and a radiator. Not only is the module capable of up to three times the normal heat dissipation, but it is even easy to set up and make use of. The product allows higher system flow rate... |
19 December 2009
06:22 GMT |
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This year alone they will be responsible for infecting in excess of 25 million computers worldwide, but they could come close to compromising as much as 30 million machines. At the root of this epidemic lay simple social engineering tactics designed, through various methods, to convince victims to pay for peace of mi... |
19 December 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system seems to be losing more market share, at least this is what some of the latest reports and surveys have showed. Analysts also forecast that the mobile platform has already lost the battle in front of more appealing and more popular solutions, yet things might not be a... |
19 December 2009
06:01 GMT |
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End-users are starting to care more and more about other things besides raw processing power or high-speed data transfers. Consumers are becoming more concerned with not only the reliability and maintenance of their machines, but also with their aesthetic value, with some customers even making a point of having a sys... |
19 December 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Scientists were recently able to create a new method of producing glass nanofibers, one that relies on technology known as “laser spinning”. The group, made up of researchers from the University of Vigo, the Rutgers University, in the United States, and the Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, ... |
19 December 2009
05:56 GMT |
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It’s been a long and very bitter legal fight, but the end has come: Jon and Kate Gosselin are officially divorced, TMZ informs. The case was finally settled by the judge, while an arbitrator is still working on the division of property between the two, which also includes revenue from their now-defunct TLC real... |
19 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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The latest version of the world most popular self-hosted blogging platform, WordPress 2.9, is now out and available for everyone to download and install. It's been quite a while since the last major update, more than six months actually, and the latest version comes with a few big new features and a bunch of sm... |
19 December 2009
05:37 GMT |
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One of the nicest looking mobile phones that was unveiled during the ongoing year as sporting Google's Android operating system on board is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, a device that has just passed through FCC's courtyard with T-Mobile frequencies on board. There are no details available on when it might... |
19 December 2009
05:36 GMT |
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When AMD released its graphics cards with CrossFireX capabilities, end-users all around the world were most likely eager to see just how much of a graphical performance increase such setups would present. Of course, CrossFireX scenarios aren't exactly the most common, as in order to set one up, one needs a suita... |
19 December 2009
05:27 GMT |
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These past few weeks have been extremely hard for golfer Tiger Woods, admittedly the highest earning athlete until just recently, as he made an estimated $100 million from endorsements alone. Following the car crash in which he was involved, his adulterous liaisons with other women have emerged, which has prompted El... |
19 December 2009
05:13 GMT |
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The NASA Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite was designed specifically to identify and analyze features known as “glow-in-the-dark” clouds, which form high above the surface of the planet, and remain luminous even after nightfall. The structures are also known as noctilucent clouds or Polar ... |
19 December 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has been long known to be longing for Apple's iPhone, which is currently available for purchase in the US via AT&T. The carrier stated a few months ago that it planned on adding the iPhone to its offering during the ongoing year, and, although nothing is still official in t... |
19 December 2009
05:04 GMT |
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The fourth quarter has traditionally been the slower time of the year for hardware developers, as new models are always known to come at the Consumer Electronics Show. Still, even though 2009 has been a rather unfavorable year for the IT market in general, and especially for semiconductor manufacturing, the fourth qu... |
19 December 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Though the negotiations of the 2009 UN Climate Summit were scheduled to conclude yesterday, representatives from nearly all countries involved decided to give compromise another chance today, in an extended session. Things don't appear to be running too smoothly however, as a draft proposal presented earlier was... |
19 December 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint has added a new device to its offering, namely the BlackBerry Curve 8530. The new smartphone is available for purchase from the service provider with a price tag set at $50 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement. Considering the features that it comes to the market with, the Curve ... |
19 December 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Not the likeliest of partners, but common interest sometimes wins over other, more 'ideological' principles, YouTube and Facebook are getting a bit cozier with each other with the launch of a new feature that enables users to see what their friends share on the social network while on YouTube. It's th... |
19 December 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Not too long ago, the Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. on the grounds that the latter had been using anticompetitive tactics in order to ensure and/or strengthen in monopoly. The FTC claimed that it was seeking a ruling aimed to prevent Intel from similar tactics in the future. ... |
19 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Earlier this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA signed a partnership together, which saw the creation of a joint task force for Martian explorations. The signing was hailed as an achievement at the time but, until now, there has been the risk that the governments involved in ESA will not go along with the... |
19 December 2009
04:14 GMT |
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EA Mobile, an Electronic Arts Inc. division, announced on Friday that there is a new game title now available in the Apple App Store for users of an iPhone or iPod touch, namely Need for Speed SHIFT. According to the company, the new software solution has been specifically designed for the iPhone and iPod touch devi... |
19 December 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Tomorrow, three space fliers will take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, and will head to the International Space Station. These astronauts will join the other two already in orbit, and together they will form the Expedition 22 crew. ISS Commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Maxim Suraev, who are... |
19 December 2009
03:52 GMT |
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Best Buy Mobile, the mobile device retail unit of Best Buy, announced recently a new special offer for the HTC DROID Eris, the second Android handset released on the United States market by mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless. According to the company, the new offer will be in place up until December 26, and it in... |
19 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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End-users may have already gotten used to hearing about strikes, walkouts, protests and/or awkward price listing errors which have been plaguing companies like HP, Dell or Fujitsu. Still, in the case of Advanced Micro Devices, the company won't be interrupting its operation because of any sort of inconvenience.... |
19 December 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion and wireless carrier China Mobile Hong Kong announced on Friday the launch of a new BlackBerry IM & Email Service Plan in Hong Kong, as well as the availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone for the operator's customers. The new service plan from China Mo... |
19 December 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Twitter is continuously expanding its network and it integrates more and more functionalities to provide users with the possibility to update their existing accounts and to share their actions with the world. One of the latest services offered by Twitter is text messaging and it has recently become available to user... |
19 December 2009
02:29 GMT |
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YouTube surely no longer needs any confirmation for its motto: 'Broadcast Yourself' and the one of the persons to have experienced it for himself is called Fede Alvarez. He was was offered a $30 million contract for a Hollywood movie after having uploaded a short video to YouTube. The man is from Uruguay a... |
19 December 2009
02:18 GMT |
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