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Famous mainboard and laptop manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has just introduced a new nettop that won the Green ICT Green Energy Saving Product Award. The device is 90% recyclable and it even comes with a Nvidia GeForce GT 610M video card for light gaming and high-resolution movie playing. The device is report... |
2 June 2012
21:09 GMT |
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Japanese company Buffalo has just introduced a new wireless keyboard that works with just two AAA batteries, on its official website. The new product is called SRKB05BK and is a keyboard with 103 keys laid out in the usual QWERTY standard. Buffalo’s SRKB05BK keyboard might not be the thinnest wireless keyboard... |
2 June 2012
20:51 GMT |
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The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Snowlinux 2 MATE, Fedora 17, grml 2012.05, Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-60, and Linux Mint 13 OEM. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about SME Server 8.0, NetBSD 6.0 Beta 2, SystemRescueCd 2.7.1, Bridge Linux 2012.5, AntiX M12 Pre-Final, W... |
2 June 2012
20:30 GMT |
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In this case, Philips is not Philips. The company behind this product is MMD Monitors & Displays and it has an agreement with Philips to make and market computer monitors and using the famous brand. MMD Monitors & Displays has just started shipping the 273E3QHSB 27-inch monitor that comes with an AMVA high-quality p... |
2 June 2012
20:11 GMT |
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French company Quietty NEW has just announced the company’s new all-in-one PC on its official website. The system is powered by an AMD Sempron mobile processor and is completely fanless.The new quiet all-in-one system from Quietty NEW comes with a Linux operating system and is priced at a very affordable 200 EU... |
2 June 2012
19:51 GMT |
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One of the questions that popped in my head frequently while playing Max Payne 3 was: how many addictions can one man contend with before crumbling under their combined weight?The first two titles in the series have already established that Max Payne has a heavy addiction to painkillers, which are his one and only wa... |
2 June 2012
17:41 GMT |
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LG Display has just announced two new additions to the company’s line of LED computer monitors, on its official website. These two are called LG IPS224V and IPS234V-PN.It’s clear where the IPS part of the name is coming from and the rest of the product name tells us the diagonal size of the display. So LG... |
2 June 2012
16:45 GMT |
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Dear Fedora fans, we are sorry to announced today that the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) operating system will reach end of life (EOL) in three weeks, on June 26th, 2012. Dubbed Lovelock, the Fedora 15 operating system was released on May 24th, 2011, it was powered by Linux kernel 2.6.38 and it introduced features such as a... |
2 June 2012
15:21 GMT |
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E3 2012 kicks off next week on June 5 and ends on June 7. In these three days, the gaming industry is expected to reveal its biggest and brightest games to the world in order to get everyone's attention before their release at the end of the year or in 2013.The last few weeks have already been filled with major ... |
2 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Major carrier Claro and Motorola Mobility have teamed up to offer customers in Peru the ATRIX 2 Android phone. The device is now available for purchase on Claro Smart Total i 129 Post Paid plan for 555 USD (445 EUR) with device agreement for 12 months.However, the price may vary according to what kind of plan the cus... |
2 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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The affordable BlackBerry Curve 9320 is about to make its debut at Virgin Mobile Canada. The smartphone is rumored to arrive on the carrier's airwaves as early as June 4.According to an internal Virgin Mobile document leaked via MobileSyrup, the Curve 9320 will be available for purchase for only $150 CAD outrigh... |
2 June 2012
14:01 GMT |
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I am a creature of many interests and I live in a modern world where I can get information, live events and experiences based on most of them, and where I have already signaled to the rest of the world what my hobbies are.Yet, despite the fact that I follow at least one national team, England, and the World Rugb... |
2 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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New York based company DRS Technologies has just introduced the new ARMOR X7et and the ARMOR X7ad thin, lightweight tablets, on its official website. These are two 7” tablets that use Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system as well as Google’s Android.The ARMOR X7et is powered by Intel’s Atom Z... |
2 June 2012
13:35 GMT |
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Best Buy Canada was the first retailer to offer details on Samsung Galaxy S III pricing options in the country. A few days ago the Best Buy listed the smartphone on its site, along with some of the price tags offered by Canadian carriers that will sell the device.However, there was no information on the no-term price... |
2 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Mozilla uploaded earlier today, June 2nd, the final packages containing the Mozilla Firefox 13.0 web browser for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. There's no official announcement from Mozilla, as the browser is officially expected in three days, on June 5th, but the binary and source packages of ... |
2 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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As expected, regional carrier Koodo Mobile has just released the affordable HTC One V Android phone. Although the smartphone was originally priced at $225 CAD, Koodo Mobile and HTC decided to bring the One V on the market for only $175 CAD.Moreover, the carrier also offers a free $50 CAD Visa gift card for each custo... |
2 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Swiftlet is a mystery. Even if its description says it's a PHP MVC framework, it also ships with a GUI for managing content, just like a CMS.
In recent months, a trend of CMS built on solid PHP frameworks has emerged, and many of them have started calling themselves CMFs (content management frameworks) and not ... |
2 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Even though Samsung previously released many Galaxy S II variants in North America, it appears that the company won't do the same with its latest Android flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III.At least not when it comes to form factor and design. The folks over at The Verge have just received the first press phot... |
2 June 2012
11:31 GMT |
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The maker of the Transformer tablets, computer expert ASUS has just released a teaser video at this year’s Computex teasing a new product featuring two very different features. Many are speculating that this is all about a tablet device that will have a dual boot with Microsoft’s latest operating system, ... |
2 June 2012
10:37 GMT |
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It looks like the wait is almost over as Verizon Wireless has just announced the hotly anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Motorola XOOM 3G/4G will arrive on June 4.To make things even more clear, the carrier also published the official changelog of the update on its support site. Software update IM... |
2 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA will be the first US-based carrier to offer the long awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung Galaxy S II.The operator has recently confirmed it will start deliver the update starting June 11, though Galaxy S II owners will only be able to upgrade their devices through Samsung Kies deskt... |
2 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Firefox 13 is almost here. You can grab the pre-release final version now, if you're confident no new bugs show up until Monday when the browser is supposed to ship officially. Unlike Firefox 12 before it, Firefox 13 actually has several features to be excited about.New tab pageOne of the biggest and clearly the... |
2 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Epic Games confirmed yesterday that a new Gears of War game is coming and that we'd know more next week, when Microsoft holds its E3 2012 press conference. Now, Game Informer magazine has posted more details about the new game, including the fact that it's called Gears of War: Judgment, and that its ... |
2 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Because we're seemingly running out of fairytales we can identify with, “Snow White and the Huntsman” from newbie director Rupert Sanders is most welcome. This modern take on the age-old story of purity, greed and true love is beautifully and hauntingly shot, captivating, terrifying to a point, but i... |
2 June 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Google's head of Chrome, Sundar Pichai, who also leads Google Drive efforts said that an offline version of the service is coming very soon, in five weeks' time. That may either sound great or confusing, depending on who you ask. After all, isn't there an offline version of Google Drive already? They&... |
2 June 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Recently, Microsoft made available for download the Release Candidate of its Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 platform, with various improvements in terms of features and stability. The new framework release was preceded by the availability of a beta flavor a few months ago, and it should be followed by a final version... |
2 June 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and DICE have confirmed that a massive patch for Battlefield 3 is coming next week, which solves all sorts of issues with the game, including the M26 dart one. The update introduces a colorblind mode to the console versions of the game, as well as a variety of other features. Battlefield 3 has been a... |
2 June 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Facebook is revising its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, basically its terms of service, as well as its Data Use Policy, what was previously known as the privacy policy. There's nothing particularly surprising about that, but Facebook is not just dumping a new document on its users, it's actually ... |
2 June 2012
07:51 GMT |
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As it is quite clear to everyone, children tend to have much more energy than grownups typically do, and this energy mostly manifests itself when they start playing. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that environmentalists who are dead set on making the most out of whatever energy source they can get their han... |
2 June 2012
07:30 GMT |
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F-Secure released DNS Check, a tool designed specifically to scan your computer and detect if the DNS settings have undergone malicious modifications. If this is the case, the instrument can restore the DNS configuration to a clean state. With new discoveries about “Flame” Trojan and the origin of Stuxne... |
2 June 2012
07:20 GMT |
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The fact that our galaxy will collide with M31, also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, is no longer a secret to astronomers. What remained a topic for debate was how this collision will occur, and data recently released by the Hubble Space Telescope provide an answer to this riddle. Scientists established that the two... |
2 June 2012
07:10 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III flagship device has managed to become the top selling smartphone of the year at UK retailer Phones 4U in only 24 hours after its official debut. The retailer includes in this number the devices that were pre-ordered before May 30th as well, which was also a record one, it seems. Phone... |
2 June 2012
07:05 GMT |
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Since we covered the Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 just a short while ago, we may as well write about an NVIDIA high-end card as well. The company getting ready to launch a Kepler-powered video adapter is ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems). The product in question bears the name of ECS GTX680 Black Series and... |
2 June 2012
07:04 GMT |
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A group of researchers in the United States have recently taken an important step forward in figuring out how the vertebrate brain is wired. They are currently compiling a map of how neurons in the brains of mice interact. This is critical step before moving on to the human brain. Thus far, neuroscientists from the C... |
2 June 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Channing Tatum has come a long way from his “Step Up” days, being now literally one of the hottest actors of the day. His upcoming film, “Magic Mike,” just got a brand new poster – and it should send ladies howling. “Magic Mike,” for its impressive cast, is actually an indie... |
2 June 2012
06:57 GMT |
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The folks from IDentity Theft 911 have made a clever experiment to show how fraudsters try to earn a profit by fooling unsuspecting Craigslist users. To demonstrate the “anatomy of a Craigslist scam” they posted an ad to sell a piece of furniture, and soon enough a number of con artists were already sho... |
2 June 2012
06:55 GMT |
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In light of the recent wave of crimes, some more gruesome in nature than others, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is taking swift action so that panic doesn't sweep over the nation: zombies don't exist, so the so-called “zombie apocalypse” can't possibly be looming. Earlier th... |
2 June 2012
06:46 GMT |
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The newly-launched Windows 8 Release Preview was designed to provide users with a new, better experience when browsing the web on the Metro style Internet Explorer 10. We already had a look at some of the main enhancements on this IE10 release, such as Adobe Flash Player integration, Do Not Track features or touch ... |
2 June 2012
06:45 GMT |
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Since a spacecraft meant to discover life on the Jovian moon Europa is in the works, testing to see which methods of doing this are the most efficient is essential for a successful mission. A location that provides a similar environment has been discovered at Borup Fjord Pass, in the Canadian High Arctic. This loca... |
2 June 2012
06:44 GMT |
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It's no news under the sun that basically every single one of the activities humanity engages in at any given moment in time affects the environment in one way or another. However, if some of us still take comfort at the thought that Mother Nature is quite capable of getting back on track and somehow fixing itse... |
2 June 2012
06:32 GMT |
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A few hours ago, CloudFlare issued a statement admitting that hackers managed to gain access to the email accounts of Matthew Prince, the co-founder and CEO of the company. “This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack... |
2 June 2012
06:24 GMT |
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Even Jennifer Lopez's manager Benny Medina admitted in a recent interview that she tends to mix pleasure with business to the detriment of both. The latest report on JLo's American Idol contract claims her boyfriend Casper Smart is now calling all the shots. He's not yet working for Jennifer in an off... |
2 June 2012
06:18 GMT |
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We wrote about many Vizio products, but none of them have been PCs, and this will change this month (June, 2012), as the TV maker broadens the scope of its operations. The company decided to make some laptops and all-in-one computers. Design-wise, they resemble Apple's Macs and Macbooks somewhat, but that is... |
2 June 2012
06:16 GMT |
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After pinning a new release date on Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega and Gearbox Software have confirmed a special Collector’s Edition for the game, as well as a set of pre-order bonuses that will be available at certain retailers.Aliens: Colonial Marines has been in development for quite some time and, after sub... |
2 June 2012
06:11 GMT |
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This week saw Kathie Lee Gifford of The Today as protagonist of what has been branded the most awkward moment in television in recent years, when she asked Martin Short about his wife, who had passed away. Luckily for her, Mr. Short is a gentleman all the way. Video of the entire thing is below and, even though the... |
2 June 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Firefox 13 is scheduled to land officially on Monday, but Mozilla has already uploaded what we may call a release candidate to their servers. This build is also most likely to be shipped on June 4. The modifications include a better designed homepage that features access to important areas, such as download history,... |
2 June 2012
05:55 GMT |
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NVIDIA may have finally enabled its graphics cards to handle more than 2 monitors at a time, but AMD still has the advantage of experience in the field of multi-display setups. Club 3D's newest video card shows that well enough. Club 3D has officially introduced a video card called Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 a... |
2 June 2012
05:52 GMT |
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A fortnight ago, TIME Magazine caused an uproar by featuring on the cover a mom breasfeeding her 5-year-old son. She isn't the only one who stands by the benefits of attachment parenting, with singer Alanis Morissette being the latest celebrity to speak out in support of the method. Alanis has a 17-month son, ... |
2 June 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Windows 8 Release Preview, the final pre-release version of Microsoft’s next-gen platform, was made available for download yesterday with a load of enhancements packed inside, including a new set of applications from Bing, namely News, Sports, and Travel. Rumors on the availability of these Metro apps in the ... |
2 June 2012
05:39 GMT |
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One of the rarest events in astronomy will occur next Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5-6. Venus will pass in front of the Sun, an event known as a transit. Telescopes on Earth and in orbit, including the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), will study this phenomenon. Venus has a peculiar pattern when it comes to sol... |
2 June 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Given the more than impressive number of households throughout the world, all of which are responsible for producing at least some amount of garbage on a daily basis, it's no wonder that today's society is faced with the risk of finding itself well over its head when is comes to waste management. Out of a... |
2 June 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Back in early May, we learned that ultrabook makers were going to abandon aluminum in their case construction, due to costs. Now Intel says that its engineers managed to create a new Ultrabook concept case, through methods inspired by the aerospace and automotive industries. The quality and strength of the plasti... |
2 June 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Kristen Stewart can now be on the big screen in the modern take on the Snow White fairytale “Snow White and the Huntsman.” Though the role is very different from her work on the “Twilight” franchise, she didn't choose it on purpose to distance herself from it. For the past weeks, Stewar... |
2 June 2012
05:07 GMT |
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On May 29, WHMCS released a security patch to address an SQL Injection vulnerability that affected the billing and support software. However, before the company learned of the security hole, cybercriminals were selling the exploit for $6,000 (4,560 EUR) on underground markets. The WHMCS incident doesn’t seem t... |
2 June 2012
05:01 GMT |
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The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission to monitor the development of tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean will begin in late August and will conclude in early October, covering most of the 2012 hurricane season. The endeavor is being led by NASA. The American space agency and the US National... |
2 June 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Humble Bundle V is now the most successful initiative so far, after it managed to garner some pretty impressive sales, smashing old records. The games in the fifth Humble Bundle are all top-notch tiles and this has reflected in the number of sales. After the word got around about this fabulous collection of games, o... |
2 June 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Before Jennifer Lawrence became the hottest actress of the younger generation thanks to the blockbuster “Hunger Games,” she shot a little movie called “House at the End of the Street.” It just got a brand new trailer. As we also noted a while back, when the first one came out, “House a... |
2 June 2012
04:44 GMT |
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After yesterday they declared war to the famous Jester (th3j3st3r), a few hours ago the UGNazi breached the popular imageboard website known as 4chan.org. During the time in which it was controlled by the hackers, all the site’s visitors were redirected to the group’s Twitter account. “We are not s... |
2 June 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Driven both by the need to cut down on their energy bills, and by their concern for the environment, about 50% of the world's major companies are seriously considering investing significant amounts of money in setting up renewable energy sources for themselves. For the time being it seems that, out of a total ... |
2 June 2012
04:29 GMT |
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We saw quite a few mice crop up lately, both high and low-end, so we may as well cover the one that SteelSeries built. Right off the bat it's easy to see that the Sensei MLG Edition is not a normal gaming mouse. In fact, even among gaming mice it is bound to stand out, due to its ARM processor. That's... |
2 June 2012
04:26 GMT |
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Moving the 13 billion tons of ethanol produced yearly in the United States around the country is not an easy task. Transporting it by rail, trucks or barges is not economically feasible, but then again neither is moving it through pipelines, since ethanol-loving bacteria easily degrade the pipes. Researchers at the... |
2 June 2012
04:22 GMT |
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SolusOS, a modern operating system based on the popular Linux distribution, Debian, which works out of the box, with great support for all modern day computing needs, is now at version 1.1. According to the developers, users of SolusOS 1.0 should not update if they have “legacy” hardware, but everyone e... |
2 June 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Video game publisher Konami has released a new E3 2012 trailer for its upcoming Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, which suggests that the game will be launched in the first few months of 2013, although no clear date was mentioned. The trailer is the first look at the gameplay of the series since the direction of the g... |
2 June 2012
04:06 GMT |
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After taking a short break, Team GhostShell hackers return with an operation called ProjectDragonFly, a campaign aimed at China and particularly at the country’s government. “I've been looking into China's actions in more detail since a couple of months ago and I've learned quite a bit ab... |
2 June 2012
04:00 GMT |
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The entry-level GeForce 600 series cards are just rebranded 500 series models, but this may change when NVIDIA finally brings out the GeForce GT 640. According to CPU World, the Santa Clara, California-based company will bring out the GT 640 during Computex 2012 (June 06-09). Of course, it would be more accu... |
2 June 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Windows 8, Microsoft’s next-gen operating system, is expected to become commercially available sometime in October, when users will be able to purchase it with new hardware, or upgrade from previous flavors of the platform. In preparation for this, Microsoft has launched a new Windows Upgrade Offer for all us... |
2 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Latest reports inform us that Laura Miller, who served as mayor of Texas from 2002 up until 2007, is planning to build something never seen before: an environmentally-friendly coal plant. Presently, rumor has it that both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund are to be involved in... |
2 June 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Microsoft has just made available for download a new pre-release flavor of its Microsoft Security Essentials tool, namely version 4.0.1540.0. This app version is available as part of Microsoft’s Security Essentials Prerelease program, which provides users with the possibility to grab the latest app iterations... |
2 June 2012
03:25 GMT |
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Despite arriving two years later than Skyrim, the upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online will use more stylized graphics in order to make sure that it does not run into the technical limitations of the MMO genre. Jared Carr, who is the art director working on The Elder Scrolls Online, told Game Informer that, “We&r... |
2 June 2012
03:21 GMT |
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An analyst and a several anonymous sources have suggested that during the summer months Zynga would announce a number of video games which will use the Unreal Engine. They would also offer a deeper gameplay experience than its current offerings. Colin Sebastian, who is the analyst watching the video game industry at... |
2 June 2012
03:11 GMT |
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One of the cheapest ICS-based smartphone, the HTC Desire C has just been launched in the UK. Customers can now purchase the handset for 150 GBP (230 USD or 185 EUR) on PAYG (pay as you go) via Three UK.Customers who are willing to commit to a long term monthly plan can also grab the Desire C for free from £13 a... |
2 June 2012
02:42 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that it's looking for many Xbox 360 owners of its The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim title in order to try out a beta version of the downloadable Dawnguard expansion that's set to arrive this summer.Skyrim is a great game but, given its complexity, this meant that many bugs and issues were p... |
2 June 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Ubisoft has revealed yet another special version of Assassin’s Creed III, in the form of the Ubiworkshop Edition, which includes the game, as well as the impressive Encyclopedia of the franchise and a new graphic novel.Assassin’s Creed III is among the many great games that will appear at the end of the y... |
2 June 2012
01:21 GMT |
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A rumor reported by Game Informer suggests that video game hardware creator Sony is putting together a deal with digital streaming service Gaikai, which will allow the company to start offering titles originally launched for the PS2 and the PSOne on its current-generation console, the PlayStation 3.The new service, w... |
2 June 2012
00:51 GMT |
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NetherRealm Studios, the developer behind the hugely successful Mortal Kombat franchise, has announced a brand new fighting game, in the form of Injustice: Gods Among Us, a title that will feature a variety of comic book superheroes from DC Comics.NetherRealm impressed millions of people with Mortal Kombat for the PS... |
2 June 2012
00:41 GMT |
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The developer team at Arkane Studio and publisher Bethesda has released an all-new trailer for their upcoming Dishonored, showing gamers who might not be familiar with the concept how the game will deal with stealth and force when it comes to murdering shady figures. Dishonored is a game that tries to mix a steampun... |
2 June 2012
00:11 GMT |
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