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They say marriage is for life or, as we hear so often in movies and books, “‘till death do [us] part.” Still, divorce is also part of our life, being the logical choice when things no longer work out, to put it in the simplest terms possible. As rates for divorce are soaring in most countries, a new... |
21 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Activision was right. Bringing in 550 million dollars in revenue in the first five days on sales, Modern Warfare 2, the sequel created by Infinity Ward, has become the biggest entertainment release in history, beating out videogames like Grand Theft Auto IV and movies like The Dark Knight and the various Harry Potter... |
21 November 2009
10:21 GMT |
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It’s extremely hard and close to unfathomable to speak of a music album as of an “instant classic” when it’s not even out in stores, yet this is precisely what’s happening with Adam Lambert’s debut material “For Your Entertainment.” Due out on November 23, Lambert&rsquo... |
21 November 2009
09:15 GMT |
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Currently unable to quickly respond to short lead-time orders from customers, Aptina imaging seems to be interested in transforming Micron's Japanese semiconductor manufacturing plant into a producer of CMOS image sensors. Aptina CEO David Orton stressed the fact that the cause for this current inability was in ... |
21 November 2009
07:21 GMT |
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The underlying technology powering the Internet is going through a major overhaul as IPv6 is slowly replacing the aging IPv4, the most widely used networking protocol. The adoption rate has been slow but more and more companies are implementing the new protocol. Google is already one of the biggest adopters and is no... |
21 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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Nero InfoTool is another instrument in Nero 9 Reloaded toolbox. It is tailored to offer the user the most important information on installed drives, inserted discs or detailed data on drive properties (buffer size, firmware, serial number, production date or DVD region code). Moreover, the application extends its tal... |
21 November 2009
07:11 GMT |
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I don't think it's a secret that I have something against organized religion. I've never tried to keep that a secret, and I've struggled to explain why throughout my articles. In my quest to discover people with similar points of view to my own, I came across some fairly interesting speakers, as w... |
21 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Recently, yet another suit hit Facebook, and this time it is caused by various game advertisements that scammed numerous users. The second defendant in this federal class-action lawsuit is Zynga, and the two companies are requested to pay more than $5 million to the social network users who had been scammed through t... |
21 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless recently announced that it deployed a new cell site in Woodland Hills, CA, meant to offer improved 3G connectivity to residents, businesses and visitors in Los Angeles County. According to the company, the new roll-out should improve the coverage from Santa Rita Street South to R... |
21 November 2009
06:58 GMT |
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In tune with making the top 10 CEA Christmas wish list, where they got eighth place, Blu-ray players, along with Blu-ray disks, are expected to see a surge in popularity over the next three years, after the volume sales of BD movie disks rose during this year's first three quarters by 183%, 200% and 180%, respec... |
21 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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The first public testing milestone of Office 2010 is now available for download, with Microsoft imposing no limitations on the number of users that can grab the bits, or on the period of availability. Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4536.1000 is offered in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) flavors and can be used until ... |
21 November 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Aging fashion house Ungaro thought Lindsay Lohan, with the kind of publicity she can generate without even breaking much of a sweat, was the perfect solution for their campaign of revamping the brand. As it turns out, Ungaro bosses have come to the conclusion that having Lohan as a creative advisor was a very bad bus... |
21 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Telecom service provider Deutsche Telekom is reportedly looking out for partners for its U.S. Subsidiary, T-Mobile USA, and might consider teaming up with AT&T, Clearwire or MetroPCS, recent reports suggest. Moreover, it seems that there might also be the perspective of unnamed financial investors from outside the wi... |
21 November 2009
06:23 GMT |
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With Facebook counting over 325 million users, it's little wonder that many are trying to profit from the social network and not always with the nicest of methods. One company that was selling fans and friends to customers wanting to boost their counts, USocial, was sent a Cease and Desist letter by Facebook for... |
21 November 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Crystallization is the name given to the process that sees the transformation of a solution, melt or gas into solid crystals, through precipitation. The phenomenon takes place relatively slow when compared to other types of chemical reactions, and scientists have recently discovered one of the reasons for that. It wo... |
21 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Earlier this week, the unspeakable happened and Adam Lambert, a singer very open about his orientation, came under fire with Out magazine for trying to come across as “straighter” in a recent number of the mag. The Editor-in-Chief and interviewer both assured that Lambert’s team made absurd demands,... |
21 November 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Not much time after being released, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 5800 series was revealed to be in relative short supply, due to, said AMD representative Chris Hook, Advanced Micro Devices' relative short supply of high-end and mainstream DirectX 11 products. This shortage of components is mostly gen... |
21 November 2009
05:57 GMT |
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iPhone users around the world now have yet another free application available for them, FunMail. The new software solution is meant to enable them to add relevant, real-time images to the text messages they plan on sending, all in a very simple manner. The app “presents cute, comical or irreverent images”... |
21 November 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Three individuals were charged on November 19 for their role in an attack, which involved hijacking the comcast.net domain name and redirecting its traffic to a rogue website. According to the indictment, the defendants used social engineering in order to obtain information that facilitated their plans to alter the d... |
21 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Nickel is one of today's most popular metals, and chances are that, as we speak, you have at least a few nickel coins in your pocket. But, in spite of its massive use in several industries, no one really knew for sure, until just recently, how the metal came to form on our planet. A new research comes to clarify... |
21 November 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Mobile voice service revenues are expected to start going on a downward route as soon as 2011 is here, a recently published report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, the revenues in the mobile voice area are expected to reach their peak in 2010, which started to decline during the following year... |
21 November 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Google has pushed a new build to the Chrome dev channel with the usual number of small fixes and tweaks. It's only a minor update but if you want to be on the bleeding edge, you should grab the latest build, Google Chrome 4.0.249.4, from the download link below. The updated version fixes a number of issues acros... |
21 November 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Qualcomm's Gobi2000 solutions for laptops and netbooks provide such systems with support for the world's leading 3G technologies and integrated GPS services. There is a wide availability of both EV-DO and HSPA wireless networks around the world and Qualcomm's Gobi2000 technology allows for easy switchi... |
21 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just put on sale yet another BlackBerry device from the Canadian handset maker Research In Motion, the BlackBerry Curve 8530. The new device comes tot he market as the CDMA version of the Curve 8520, which has already been launched on the United States market via wireless car... |
21 November 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Yesterday, television was shaken to the core by reports saying that Oprah Winfrey, the ultimate Queen of Television, as fans endearingly refer to her on occasions, was preparing to make an announcement that her show, the successful The Oprah Winfrey Show, would end in 2011. The announcement came as expected – a... |
21 November 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Although they look stunningly beautiful, with their long necks stretching over the top of trees, giraffes also posed a difficult challenge for evolution, in terms of making them capable of surviving. What is beautiful about them – the long and thin neck – also comes with a disadvantage, and namely the fac... |
21 November 2009
05:05 GMT |
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The Quantum Chromodynamics Parallel Computing on the Cell (QPACE) is a German research supercomputer used in elementary particle physics simulations, mostly aimed at research in the area of quantum chromodynamics (QCD, which describes, for instance, how protons are composed of quarks and gluons). The system is a four... |
21 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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People in the tech industry love speculating about two things, what Facebook is really worth and how Twitter will make money. The jury is still out on the first one but Twitter is adding more fuel to the fire by changing its tune and now saying that ads are in fact coming to the site. To add to the hype, Twitter isn&... |
21 November 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Now, users are protected against data theft by hackers and cyber criminals. According to the company, the new solution has been released exclusively on the North American market, and should safeguard cellular phones/PDAs or smart phones against attacks. “Amateur hour is over,” said Anthony Sasso, founder ... |
21 November 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Bacteria are extremely small organisms, and in many cases, they consist of only a few cells. There are species that only have a single cell, and therefore keeping it intact is a major priority. Over the course of their evolution, the organisms have set up a clever and ingenious defense mechanism against aggressive ox... |
21 November 2009
04:49 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award more than $4.3 million to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for advancing knowledge on the Sun, and adding improvements and upgrades to the Big Bear Telescope (BBT). The installation will receive a new cryogenic infrared spectrograph, which will consider... |
21 November 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The third film with the ridiculously hilarious Focker clan is currently in the making but, according to the reports now coming in, it could very well be that not all is great in Focker-land. Meant to reunite the original cast, presumably with the addition of Jessica Alba, “Little Fockers” was seen as the ... |
21 November 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is reported to plan not having a stand at the Mobile World Congress 2010, which is to take place in Barcelona. The company focuses only on Nokia Siemens Networks for the event; at least this is what it stated when asked about its objectives. “Nokia is committed to M... |
21 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Early last month, rumors were confirmed when TLC, the network carrying the once very popular “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality show, announced that the series was officially coming to an end in November, pending a judge’s sentence in the ongoing lawsuit. Come this Monday, the final episode of the show wil... |
21 November 2009
04:19 GMT |
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Based on its ioMemory technology, Fusion-io developed a custom-designed PCI Express card called the ioDrive Octal card. What this product is capable of doing is simultaneously hold eight ioMemory Modules, becoming a card with the combined capacity and performance of eight ioDrives in one. In using this invention, the... |
21 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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The Sony Ericsson Kurara is the latest handset the Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has been rumored to deliver to the market in the near future. We've already had the chance to enjoy a series of leaked images with the handset, as well as some specifications on it, and now some more details on w... |
21 November 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Over recent weeks, a large number of false alarms have prompted Mission Controls in Houston, the US, and in Russia to wake up astronauts while they were sleeping on the space station, and to put them on alert about possible impacts. The International Space Station's (ISS) orbit is currently taking the facility m... |
21 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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People love online video these days. In some cases, it has even begun to replace old-fashioned TV watching as users connect their PCs or web-enabled set-top boxes to their TV sets and get the best of both worlds. But it's a tough world to make a living in for video sites, not only are they struggling to bring in... |
21 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Nokia N900 is the first high-end device the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia delivered to the market with the Maemo 5 operating system on board. The company was initially expected to launch the device sometime in October, but it was only a few days ago that it actually became available for purchase. However, the hand... |
21 November 2009
03:40 GMT |
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For the first time in more than six months, the rover Spirit took a tiny step towards freeing itself from the grasp of the loose patch of soil known as Troy. The powder-like sand was covered by a thin crust, which gave way as the robot was climbing a 12-degree slope, which led to a formation known as Home Plate. Engi... |
21 November 2009
03:40 GMT |
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $172 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry, and has over 2,000 companies as members. The electronics holiday wish list this year seems to be almost exclusively focused on mobile systems and gadgets, with only t... |
21 November 2009
03:37 GMT |
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The Japanese space agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa space probe is a sample-return mission sent to collect data on the small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. The probe was launched on May 9, 2003, met up with the object, and then landed on it due to a glitch. It managed to take off however, and is currently head... |
21 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Computer maker Acer announced not too long ago the launch of its first mobile phone powered by Google's Android operating system, the Acer Liquid. The handset is now expected to come to the UK market via retailer Clove, which recently revealed that it planned on launching the device before the end of the ongoing... |
21 November 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Adam Lambert, before anything, is a very accomplished singer, critics agree. However, it’s not just that that’s made him so popular with audiences worldwide even before he released a music album, a very rare occurrence these days. The difference between him and other up and coming talented artists is that... |
21 November 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the group that manages the Large Hadron Collider, announced that the first proton beams had already been injected in the massive particle accelerator, and that they had completed thousands of spins in its tunnels. The 27-kilometer-long facility saw ... |
21 November 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Leading provider of telecommunication solutions Motorola Inc. announced on Friday that it had purchased the iDEN business from RadioFrame Networks which, as many of you might already know, is the provider of power efficient, lower cost iDEN technology. According to the former, RadioFrame Networks’ iDEN business... |
21 November 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Michael Moore is, by now, a director that has probably become well accustomed to the idea that whatever project he comes out with, and especially if it’s a documentary, will be regarded as “uncomfortable” (to say the least) by many. However, even he hoped that the same would not apply for the Academ... |
21 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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Centaurus A is a very active galaxy, whose core is currently producing a large number of stars. It is believed that, 200 to 700 million years ago, it collided with another similar structure, which it consumed. The remains of that galaxy are still being ground down in the core of the former, triggering a large number ... |
21 November 2009
02:32 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced on Friday that users of its popular Nokia Messaging service would be able to enjoy the Windows Live Messenger on their homescreens. The company has included the widely known Microsoft instant messaging application in the push-email service so as to provide users with more co... |
21 November 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Over recent years, robotic spy planes and unmanned drones have helped armies around the world take the best decisions for a specific situation on the battlefield. This ability stems from the fact that these aircrafts are perfectly capable of supplying their commanders with live feeds from the hot spot. Now, innovatio... |
21 November 2009
02:13 GMT |
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50 Cent has long stopped considering himself a rapper alone. What with his acting career starting to take off and the many other side projects he’s involved in, Fiddy is a bona fide businessman and he’s perhaps the first to say it out loud. However, before that, he is an actor who’s still trying to ... |
21 November 2009
01:58 GMT |
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