|
Home > News > Archive > 21st of December 2009
|
|
News archive: 21st of December 2009 |
|
|
|
|
120 articles found
Authorities have been trying for many years to educate drivers about the dangers of driving while speaking on their mobile phones, but it would now appear that texting is a lot more dangerous to the safety of these people, as well as of others in traffic and on sidewalks. A new scientific study has recently revealed ... |
21 December 2009
19:51 GMT |
 |
|
The golden ratio is a concept that has been passed down through the generations, and is generally regarded as a set of numbers that can be translated into existence via different constructions. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the ratio was the key to building aesthetically pleasing pyramids and other monuments, w... |
21 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
|
|
It might not yet have an official name and the details might still be a little sketchy but Sony is eager to talk about the new motion controlling wand that is planned to be released towards the end of spring 2010.The Japanese company is saying that its solution will be better suited to the needs of both hardcore game... |
21 December 2009
17:41 GMT |
|
|
As Christmas is almost here, Aviva, the international savings, investments and insurance group, decided to have a look at the shopping habits of UK residents for the holidays, in order to be able to compare them with interest in a pension or insurance policy. What it found is that, while the average Brit will spend a... |
21 December 2009
16:21 GMT |
|
|
Welcome to the 76th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
I would like to start this weekly by wishing Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of our readers, and... check out the "Video Clip of the Week" section for a little nice present! The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: Linux Mi... |
21 December 2009
16:11 GMT |
|
|
Hummus, pizza, lasagna or even teriyaki chicken have now a plus of flavor and even medicinal properties, as more and more restaurants serving food cooked with cannabis are popping up all over the US, Metro informs. Not only that, but television shows offering cooking courses for chefs who have not yet picked up on th... |
21 December 2009
15:31 GMT |
|
|
It’s not uncommon for actors to lose or gain weight for some movie role, albeit said modifications are not as drastic as, say, in the case of Christian Bale and Taylor Lautner. The latter, for instance, gained about 30 pounds of muscle between “Twilight” and “New Moon,” and, for it, has ... |
21 December 2009
15:21 GMT |
|
|
A Securities and Exchange Commission filling has shown that investor Carl Icahn has bought up shares of the publisher Take Two, pushing his stake in the company to just over 11%. He now owns no less than 9 million shares, which are estimated to be worth a little over 70 million dollars.The SEC document also shows tha... |
21 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
|
|
The upscale department store in the UK, Selfridges, has come under serious fire these past few days after discontinuing all ranges for plus-size women without as much as bothering to let them know. Today, customers can find at the flagship Oxford Street store a size 16 at best and only if they’re lucky and pati... |
21 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
|
|
As far as the gaming industry goes, the really big developing fields are America and Japan. While there is no real competition between the two, and both tend to stay out of each other’s way, western games tend to have a North American release while Japanese ones also tend to be localized. When a title truly hit... |
21 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
|
|
According to scientists at the University of Bonn Argelander-Institut fur Astronomie, in Germany, it may be that astrophysicists will soon be able to observe the collisions of tens of pairs of black holes in star clusters. The team believes that the technology to allow for such direct observations may find its way in... |
21 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
|
|
It’s not uncommon for celebrities to put out fragrances that they back by name or, at best, help create. For some reason or another, Beyonce has not yet explored this part of her creative personality, but all that is about to change in February 2010, when Heat, her first fragrance ever, will arrive in stores, t... |
21 December 2009
13:31 GMT |
|
|
Square Enix is saying that Final Fantasy XIII, the latest installment in the long running Japanese role playing game series, has managed to sell more than 1 million copies in its first day on sales on the Japanese market.The game is selling for the equivalent of about 100 dollars in Yen and Square Enix has shipped ab... |
21 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
|
|
Palm Pre, the high-end smartphone unveiled by Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm in the beginning of the ongoing year and launched on the market in June on Sprint's airwaves, has been available in Canada for quite some time now, via wireless operator Bell. In case Canadians haven't jumped on the devic... |
21 December 2009
12:31 GMT |
|
|
Airlock is an interesting piece of Mac software I’ve come across recently. It’s a new pref-pane app developed by the people at The M.H.A LLC. It can be configured to lock your Mac’s screen as you move away from it, and unlock the screen as you come back to continue using it. Airlock works with all M... |
21 December 2009
12:31 GMT |
|
|
For quite a long time, speculating on how and when will Twitter make money has been a favorite discussion point for the tech media, but it now looks like the speculation is over, Twitter may have already reached profitability. The company still doesn't have a constant revenue stream, but the revenue from the re... |
21 December 2009
11:46 GMT |
|
|
Today, news has been mainly about the sudden release of the Intel Atom N450 Pineview processor. Immediately after the launch, companies like ECS, MSI and Dell raced to show off their respective hardware products which either are meant to be used with or already make us of the processor. Hynix, however, distinguished... |
21 December 2009
11:38 GMT |
|
|
Over the past years, video formats have grown in number, thus making place for video converting tools that can ease your work when you want to play a video file on different gadgets that support various file formats. Converting a video file nowadays has become a simple job that any user can cut into with the least ef... |
21 December 2009
11:21 GMT |
|
|
Bryan Singer, who also helmed the critically and commercially panned “Superman Returns,” is back on one of the most beloved superhero franchises of our times, “X-Men.” At the premiere of James Cameron’s “Avatar,” the famed director let it slip that he would be helming the upc... |
21 December 2009
11:14 GMT |
|
|
Experts have recently come to believe that some of the earliest stars in the Universe, which formed more than 13 billion years ago, may have been fueled by dark matter originally. This type of matter was hypothesized more than a decade ago, but thus far scientists have been unable to detect it directly. But some beli... |
21 December 2009
11:14 GMT |
|
|
Leading mobile music discovery provider Shazam announced today its forecast for the upcoming year in the sound area. According to the company, its predictions are based on the behavior of its 50 million users, and is not similar with polls like BBC’s “Sound of 2010”, and Spin magazine’s &ldqu... |
21 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
|
|
Online video is growing every year and will inevitably replace TV watching like we know it in the not-so-distant future. We're not quite there yet, thanks in part to the established media companies, especially the distribution part, doing everything in their power to stop it or at least slowing it down. A new m... |
21 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
|
|
It’s now official, the final release of Firefox 3.6, the next iteration of the open source browser from Mozilla has slipped into the coming year. Users that have so far been holding their breaths for the delivery of Firefox 3.6, codename Namoroka, might as well exhale now, as they will need to exercise their pa... |
21 December 2009
10:59 GMT |
|
|
Eager to preserve the high rate of success seen in the Inspiron Mini 10 line of netbooks, Dell has refreshed the family with a variety of features, which not only enhance the overall experience but yield a longer battery life as well. The netbooks will be powered by the Intel Atom N450, may be capable of HD media pla... |
21 December 2009
10:58 GMT |
|
|
Security researchers point out that spam containing links to abusive .cn domains is on the decline. This trend seems to be related to new domain registration requirements recently introduced by China's Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).On December 11, CNNIC announced that a stricter registration proced... |
21 December 2009
10:55 GMT |
|
|
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has successfully managed to kick her severe addiction to drugs and eventually get her life back on track. Part of her new life is also former husband Blake Fielder-Civil whom, as fans must remember, her parents often blamed for her addiction in the first place. They are now back together... |
21 December 2009
10:50 GMT |
|
|
The latest rumored Android-based handsets that turned the blogosphere upside down is the Nexus One by HTC, a new mobile phone that was said to be the Google Phone itself. Running under the Android 2.1 version of the operating system and expected to arrive on the US market on the airwaves of T-Mobile, the phone is al... |
21 December 2009
10:44 GMT |
|
|
TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
21 December 2009
10:41 GMT |
|
|
While most business companies have avoided a big celebration or lavish Christmas party, The Go Daddy Group has gone all out for its employees this holiday season. After experts from Inc.com and Domain Name Wire have estimated the companies’ earnings at around $600 million, at this year's Christmas party, B... |
21 December 2009
10:38 GMT |
|
|
A simple change made into Windows 7’s registry can cause the operating system to cut access for end users to the settings of the User Account Control feature. According to the Redmond company, the Office 97 has been identified as the source of the problem. Microsoft explains that the issue only occurs in scena... |
21 December 2009
10:33 GMT |
|
|
OrbiterApps has issued a new maintenance update for users of its flagship product, Orbiter. The free Mac app is a Softpedia pick. Orbiter acts as a quick launcher for the files, folders and applications you use the most. “This is a performance update only,” a small announcement on the OrbiterApps website... |
21 December 2009
10:26 GMT |
|
|
James Cameron’s latest movie, the daring “Avatar,” has grossed $232 million at the international box office over the opening weekend, of which only $73 million were ticket sales in North American theaters, the BBC informs. At this point in time, it is very difficult to estimate whether the film will... |
21 December 2009
10:24 GMT |
|
|
The social discovery network Brightkite has announced today the launch of the first augmented reality advertising solution on the US market. The augmented reality service has been available for its users ever since August, via a partnership with Layar, and now it has been brought to a brand new level, offering them ... |
21 December 2009
10:21 GMT |
|
|
Paradox Interactive, the publisher and developer of such high profile titles as the Hearts of Iron series and the Europa Universalis franchise, has announced that it has acquired AGE Studio, which also includes developer AGEOD, creating a wargaming powerhouse that has access to some very strong intellectual prop... |
21 December 2009
10:19 GMT |
|
|
It was just a few hours ago that rumors made their way to the net regarding a certain netbook line that MSI was reportedly working on. Unlike most rumors though, which can live and, especially, thrive for weeks before they get confirmed or disproved, this one saw a very short lifespan indeed. Just a few hours after t... |
21 December 2009
10:15 GMT |
|
|
ifoAppleStore is reporting that Apple has started accepting applications for its “Expert” opening, at some of the company’s retail establishments throughout the US. First reported in October, the Expert position is part of a complete job title among retail staffers. “You’ve gotten a tas... |
21 December 2009
10:12 GMT |
|
|
Chrome OS is very much in the early stages and the release we saw last month is likely very different from the one we'll be getting about a year from now. So, it's no surprise that things, even fundamental ones, are changing sometimes significantly so. Recently Chromium OS, the open source project on which... |
21 December 2009
10:11 GMT |
|
|
UPDATE: Download Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha 7x Faster than Opera 10.10 - official release. Just days ahead of the official release, an internal development milestone of the next iteration of Opera has been leaked and is now available for download in the wild. Opera Software had announced that it was planning to o... |
21 December 2009
10:08 GMT |
|
|
Over the weekend, reports started to emerge that, while in a terribly difficult position, both professionally and on a personal level, because of his conduct in recent years, Tiger Woods was still fighting to save his marriage to Elin Nordegren. Today, TMZ informs that Elin herself is not yet decided as to what to do... |
21 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
|
|
When it comes to games and awards, I have a tradition of being Malkavian about it. I get a kick out of the big titles as much as anyone else, especially when there's something more about them than just hype. But, somewhere along the way, I've picked up the habit of completely ignoring the biggest gem in the... |
21 December 2009
10:00 GMT |
|
|
The first half of the next year is set to deliver to us an appealing series of mobile phones from the Taiwanese handset vendor HTC Corporation, both running under Google's Android operating system or under Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. Among these devices (HTC Bravo, HTC Legend, HTC Trophy), there i... |
21 December 2009
09:45 GMT |
|
|
Heartland Payment Systems has reached a settlement with American Express, following the major security breach suffered by the company last year. According to the agreement, the payment processor will pay $3.6 million to the card brand.Heartland Payment Systems is a Princeton-based provider of payment processing servi... |
21 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
|
|
When the W and Z bosons were proven to be the mediators of the weak nuclear force, the Standard Model of particle physics received one of the most definitive pieces of evidence in its favor. At the time, all the jigsaws to the puzzle appeared to be falling into place, and physicists were more than happy with the meas... |
21 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
|
|
Corsair's award-winning Performance Series P64, P128 and P256 solid-state drives just got an upgrade now that the leading high-performance and flash memory maker has finished work on the special TRIM firmware. This firmware will add Windows 7 support for the TRIM command, through which SSDs can be kept for long ... |
21 December 2009
09:39 GMT |
|
|
The browser wars continue on several fronts, from JavaScript performance to support for modern web standards, but perhaps most importantly in terms of audience. The success of each browser is ultimately measured in install base and usage share, and in this regard, Microsoft is at the top of the browser game, with In... |
21 December 2009
09:38 GMT |
|
|
Victoria Beckham’s weight has been subject to much speculation ever since she was still with the Spice Girls and she got, through dieting, the figure she still maintains. The star has repeatedly denied reports that she was either suffering from an eating disorder or that she was putting herself to the strictest... |
21 December 2009
09:34 GMT |
|
|
Facebook enjoys a massive audience of 350 million users and Twitter, while a lot smaller, commands some pretty impressive sway; yet, it's still impressive to see the power they have after just a few years of existence. For the last four years, the number one single in the UK for Christmas came from the winner o... |
21 December 2009
09:28 GMT |
|
|
Vodafone is the fourth wireless carrier in the UK which will have the iPhone available for its users, following the already availability of the device via O2 (which had it exclusively for a couple of years), Orange UK and Tesco Mobile (a joint-venture between O2 and the supermarket giant Tesco). According to the lat... |
21 December 2009
09:26 GMT |
|
|
The reality at Barnes and Noble seems to be bittersweet. One again, the Nook e-reader is in danger, or rather the ones that placed orders are in danger of not getting their shipment on time. The bookstore chain may still have trouble coping with the demand for the device, prompting the need for some kind of compensat... |
21 December 2009
09:07 GMT |
|
|
Chinese astronomers have recently identified a new exoplanet, orbiting the peculiar binary star system known as QS Virginis. The thing about this giant planet is that it's about to be destroyed (and we use the word 'about' in its loosest form). The celestial body is orbiting two stars, rather than one,... |
21 December 2009
09:05 GMT |
|
|
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is rumored to plan making yet another interesting move on the market, namely to come to the shelves with handsets that will include dual-SIM capabilities. Since some of the world's largest mobile phone makers made the move, including Samsung, LG, or Motorola, the No. 1 handset v... |
21 December 2009
09:01 GMT |
|
|
Authors of rogue antivirus software hesitate little when it comes down to copying the design and branding of official security solutions in an attempt to pass their fake antivirus code as genuine offerings. It is, of course, just one of the aspects of the social engineering techniques designed to trick end users into... |
21 December 2009
08:58 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the University of Boston have recently developed a new DNA sequencing method that is touted to become a lot cheaper and faster than any current technique in a short time frame. One of the main mechanisms that the new technology employs is reducing the amount of DNA it requires in order to conduct its in... |
21 December 2009
08:45 GMT |
|
|
Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just released a new software update for its Windows Mobile 6.5-powered HTC HD2 handset, this time around providing enhancements for the device's Calendar application. The new firmware update, as many of you might already know, comes in line with a series of ot... |
21 December 2009
08:37 GMT |
|
|
Physicists have been looking for a way to reduce the amount of nuclear waste produced by power plants for a long time, but they couldn't manage any breakthroughs because the technology they have used has not been advanced enough. Now, recent innovations make it possible to consider the idea of closed-circuit rea... |
21 December 2009
08:33 GMT |
|
|
As a free virus checker for Macintosh users, ClamXav aims not to secure Macs, but to keep them from becoming carriers of a virus that might eventually end up on a Windows machine. There’s malware targeting Macs as well, and ClamXav will find those too, just as efficiently, according to Mark Allan, the developer... |
21 December 2009
08:24 GMT |
|
|
Not much time after Intel announced that it would be focusing more closely on the mobile computing market segment, the long awaited launch of the Atom Pineview processors actually came somewhat earlier than expected. It was only a few hours ago that Intel oficially introduced its next-generation mobile chips, the Ato... |
21 December 2009
08:22 GMT |
|
|
South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has reportedly unveiled officially a new music handset for its users, namely the Samsung M5650 Lindy. The new device has been already spotted into the wild before, and some of you might have learned already that it is said to be in a way the successor of the Corby ... |
21 December 2009
08:19 GMT |
|
|
Google has been using logo 'doodles' for years now to mark special occasions and celebrations and lately it looks like it's stepping up the process. So, it's not much of a surprise that Google is sporting a holiday related logo already and, in fact, it's the first from a series of images whi... |
21 December 2009
08:15 GMT |
|
|
A quick glance over the Moscone Center's summer schedule shows that, between June 28th and July 2nd, Apple is likely to host its Worldwide Developers Conference, an event that attracts la creme de la creme of developers worldwide, as well as all major tech publications and papers. The people at 9to5Mac point out... |
21 December 2009
08:02 GMT |
|
|
When it killed its plain vanilla search engine and unveiled the new decision engine earlier this year, Microsoft also buried the Live Search brand, swapping it for the “sound of found” Bing. As a brand, Live Search failed to add any value to the company’s search engine, and the hope is that Bing wil... |
21 December 2009
08:01 GMT |
|
|
Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. ... |
21 December 2009
07:55 GMT |
|
|
End-users may have noticed that today's news has been both surprising and intriguing, especially because, all of a sudden, Intel introduced its Pineview processors. With the slow rate at which the IT industry was moving, consumers most likely understood that the market wouldn't see any new big releases befo... |
21 December 2009
07:16 GMT |
|
|
Tom Clancy and Ubisoft have been working together on games for quite some time now, and it doesn't look like there is an end in sight for their collaboration. Besides the very hyped, upcoming Splinter Cell: Conviction, the studio has plans to expand another TC franchise. Another trademark filing was spotted by S... |
21 December 2009
07:09 GMT |
|
|
Upgrading to the resource hog that was Windows Vista meant that home and business users alike also required a hardware upgrade. The fact that Vista required quite expensive new hardware in order to run at a level of performance equivalent to Windows XP’s turned customers away from the new platform, and kept th... |
21 December 2009
07:06 GMT |
|
|
Google is one of the biggest players in the tech industry and one of the largest companies in the world, bringing in some serious revenue numbers every year. At those levels, the taxes the company pays for its operations are also significant, so much that choosing the right country to pay those taxes for its interna... |
21 December 2009
06:56 GMT |
|
|
Mobile phone maker Motorola is set to deliver three new mobile phones on the Chinese market in the near future, the latest reports around the Internet show. Among the said devices, one can spot the Motorola Sholes Tablet, which will reach China as XT701, the OPhone-powered MT710, which resembles the DROID from a cer... |
21 December 2009
06:52 GMT |
|
|
Scientists operating the Herschel Space Telescope have recently announced that they managed to identify some of the sources associated with the CIB (Cosmic Infrared Background) that the observatory detected a while back. The weak field surrounds the Earth from all directions, and experts believe that it may hold yet-... |
21 December 2009
06:46 GMT |
|
|
One of the upcoming devices that will run under Google's Android operating system is a 7 Inch Internet tablet from ICD. The Android-based tablet definitely has the looks, and it also comes around with some appealing specifications, including the Android 2.1 flavor of the mobile platform. The guys over at Engadg... |
21 December 2009
06:31 GMT |
|
|
Just a short while after end-users everywhere learned that the Amazon Kindle e-reader had broken the monthly sales record, it seems that another company besides Sony and Barnes and Noble is ready to take the e-book reader competition up a notch. Chinese company Aigo has unveiled its EB6301 model which, although at a ... |
21 December 2009
06:30 GMT |
|
|
Kate Gosselin is now a single woman, after her divorce from Jon Gosselin was pronounced final over the weekend. As a single woman, the mother of eight and former star of her own reality show on TLC, Mrs. Gosselin did the 10 @ 10 segment on Jay Leno, where the talk show host pays a visit via satellite feed to a celebr... |
21 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
|
|
There is undoubtedly a large variety of applications that nanotubes could fulfill, if only they were practical to produce in large masses. From space elevators to nanoscale, 3D computer processors, and from electrical transmission lines to new drugs, the nanotubes are clearly the way of the future. However, at the en... |
21 December 2009
06:18 GMT |
|
|
While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon hord... |
21 December 2009
06:18 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has made available for download the first Release Candidate of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, which was formerly known as Geneva Server. With the RC development milestone, Microsoft has focused mainly on integrating early adopter feedback into the solution. In this regard, the company ex... |
21 December 2009
06:05 GMT |
|
|
Rumors of Google acquisitions are flying around at an incredible pace these last few days and a couple of companies are said to be of interest to the search giant. The document collaboration services DocVerse is apparently being courted for about $25 million. Another possible acquisition comes in the form of Trulia,... |
21 December 2009
06:04 GMT |
|
|
Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain has generated quite a bit of attention on all fronts. In a gaming medium dominated by commercial titles and an over saturation with casual ones, the interactive drama, as it's been pegged, is more than just the ugly duckling of the family. But, from all points of view, it really l... |
21 December 2009
06:03 GMT |
|
|
Wall-mounted, ultrathin displays are already no longer the domain of science fiction, as panels have already reached a stage where they can output high-definition graphics even while measuring less than a centimeter in thickness. Still, it seems that LCDs have been on a serious diet as of late, as the latest prot... |
21 December 2009
05:55 GMT |
|
|
Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC is known to be the largest maker of Windows Mobile-based handsets, and it seems that the company plans on keeping its name. Since the next flavor of Microsoft's OS is under development at the moment, the handset vendor is also set to give a hand at delivering it to the market... |
21 December 2009
05:50 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently proposed a new battery design that could lead to the emergence of an entire class of new devices. The digital quantum battery is a concept that could, at least theoretically, exceed the performances of its lithium-ion competitors by several or... |
21 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
|
|
Tina Knowles, Beyonce’s mother, has filed papers for a divorce from Matthew Knowles, the man who has been her husband for almost 31 years, TMZ has recently learned. In the papers, Tina says that she and Matthew have been separated for about a year, from January this year. No other detail is available at this ti... |
21 December 2009
05:38 GMT |
|
|
Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
21 December 2009
05:35 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the Duke University announce the development of a new type of electromagnetic lens that is able to focus wavelengths a lot more clearly than average lenses. The new device doesn't look like a conventional lens and is not made up of a transparent material, such as glass and plastic. The DU team ... |
21 December 2009
05:27 GMT |
|
|
One of the Jonas brothers, of the band of the same name that has been burning up charts and breaking teenage fans’ hearts for quite some time, is officially off the market. Kevin Jonas, 22, married his “princess,” as he calls fiancée Danielle Deleasa, in a fairytale ceremony fit for such a ro... |
21 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
|
|
At the beginning of the month, Fujitsu unveiled what it touted as the world's first Windows 7 UMPC (ultra mobile personal computer) with multitouch capabilities. The product in question was named the LifeBook UH900 and was initially set to only come out in January 2010. Still, it seems that time moves a bit fas... |
21 December 2009
05:18 GMT |
|
|
Live video streaming is becoming increasingly popular and the few companies that battle in the space are seeing some steady growth despite the increasing competition. But as with the vast majority of emerging technologies and services, generating revenue is still a sore issue. Advertising alone, as music streaming s... |
21 December 2009
05:17 GMT |
|
|
When it comes to big games, one has to mention Grand Theft Auto 4, since the title was a huge hit all around. Whether in sales, critic reviews or fan reception, the game scored top marks all around. So, anything that carries the GTA 4 name should have done just as well. The title released two downloadable content pac... |
21 December 2009
05:14 GMT |
|
|
HTC HD2, the most appealing handset running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system that the Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation delivered to the market during the ongoing year, is expected to arrive on the US market in early 2010, and T-Mobile might be the carrier to have it. HTC hasn't... |
21 December 2009
05:10 GMT |
|
|
This year, World of Warcraft, the Blizzard-made MMO, celebrates five years of existence and is still the biggest subscription-based game in the world, with more than 12 million active players logging into the experience.The company is now working on a new expansion for the MMO, called Cataclysm, putting the finishing... |
21 December 2009
05:08 GMT |
|
|
At just a day after the free Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Evaluation Version went live on the Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft announced that it had released UAG 2010 to manufacturing. Although officially launched concomitantly at the start of December 2009, Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG... |
21 December 2009
05:07 GMT |
|
|
Recent investigations have determined that ice particles make up for more than half of contents inside the plumes that come out of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The discovery questions previous knowledge, which held that only about ten to 20 percent of the plumes were ice, with the rest being made of water vapor. Acc... |
21 December 2009
05:02 GMT |
|
|
Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors and platforms, has officially announced today the debut of its latest generation of ultraportable PC platforms, with the introduction of the new Atom processor and supporting chipset. Due out on January 4, in systems from var... |
21 December 2009
05:00 GMT |
|
|
Lady Gaga usually gets people polarized about what to make of her, but the truth of the matter is that, whether she’s seen as just a showoff who has brought little to the table in terms of music achievements or as the next huge pop icon, 2009 was entirely her year. MTV, for one, is convinced of this, naming her... |
21 December 2009
04:59 GMT |
|
|
Take-Two released its fiscal report for the fourth quarter last week and things don't look very good at all. While its Borderlands did very well, which isn't at all surprising considering just how much fun the game proved to be, the rest of its titles proved to be an economical liability. The company report... |
21 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
|
|
Nintendo has managed to boost sales of the Nintendo Wii home gaming console on the Japanese market and conquer the videogame chart with the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and the game shows no sign of being ready to relinquish its top spot, even with the international blockbuster Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity ... |
21 December 2009
04:33 GMT |
|
|
Yesterday evening, December 20th, Patrick Verner announced a new and improved version of his versatile Parted Magic, Slackware-based Linux distribution. Parted Magic 4.7 comes now with Linux kernel 2.6.32.2, Google Chrome, Partclone, and lots of updated applications, as well as bug fixes and improvements. Parted Magi... |
21 December 2009
04:32 GMT |
|
|
Mobile phone maker Motorola has been long rumored to plan bringing to the market a batch of new handsets running under Google's Android operating system, among which a Motorola Sholes Tablet has been spotted. Said to be a close relative of the already available Motorola DROID, the Sholes Tablet has emerged not ... |
21 December 2009
04:30 GMT |
|
|
Firefox has come a long way since its launch in 2004 but, on the whole, Internet Explorer still dominates the landscape, though its lead is diminishing. When it comes to the market share of individual browser versions, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser in the world, according to web analytics firm S... |
21 December 2009
04:30 GMT |
|
|
An iron truss bridge that has been in operation for more than 100 years has now been restored and put back to use, after years of being neglected. It was bypassed in the 1970s, and it has fallen in disrepair since. However, a Virginia Tech undergraduate student conducted a serious load-bearing test on the old structu... |
21 December 2009
04:30 GMT |
|
|
Even though India, Singapore, Mexico or the Philippines are generally more appealing as locations for technological support call centers, HP seems to want to distinguish itself from the fold by building such centers in northern African countries. The company has not revealed how many facilities it plans to open but h... |
21 December 2009
04:22 GMT |
|
|
The founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, Robert Shingledecker, announced on December 19th the immediate availability of the Tiny Core Linux 2.7 operating system, a version that brings lots of updated applications and scripts, various improvements and, of course, a couple of bug fixes. Without further ado, let'... |
21 December 2009
04:12 GMT |
|
|
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
21 December 2009
04:07 GMT |
|
|
Rallen and Jeena's routine patrol mission is interrupted when they pick up a distress call. Upon arriving at the source of the message, they find an ancient escape pod and its passenger in cryogenic sleep. Waking him up, the two officers find out about a horrible threat to the universe – the Krawls are abo... |
21 December 2009
03:57 GMT |
|
|
The Saboteur was pretty much the last thing to come out of the late Pandemic Studios, after Electronic Arts tightened its belt and decided that this was a studio that simply had to go. As such, it seems like the game has some serious technical difficulties, and users with an ATI graphics card that run the game on Win... |
21 December 2009
03:54 GMT |
|
|
Publisher Take Two has announced that it has lost 22 million dollars during the last quarter of the year and that its losses for the whole of 2009 have reached 137.9 million, which is significantly more than in 2008. Overall revenue for Take Two stood at 968.5 million dollars, which is more than one third less than i... |
21 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has made available for download multiple resources designed to streamline the usage of its upcoming Distributed Application Server offering. Developed under the code name Dublin, the solution is designed as an extension to Windows Server. The tutorials delivered by the Redmond company for what continues to ... |
21 December 2009
03:34 GMT |
|
|
Canadian mobile phone users who purchased an HTC Dream or HTC Magic from Rogers, the two phones the carrier delivered to the market earlier this year with Google's Android operating system on board, won't see the Android 1.6 version of the OS loaded on their handsets, it seems. The two phones have been lau... |
21 December 2009
03:31 GMT |
|
|
On the last stretch of this year, gaming companies have started thinking outside the box. This has led to some pretty strange ideas and some even stranger patents. Nintendo's Vitality Sensor has been flying around, looking for a friend and it's rumored that it has found it in Wii Relax, and that's not ... |
21 December 2009
03:20 GMT |
|
|
In a move that developing nations called the “death of the African continent,” representatives of the countries that attended the 2009 UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, decided to adopt a draft proposal for a new treaty. The document is the same we were telling you about on Saturday. Even then, it dr... |
21 December 2009
03:19 GMT |
|
|
With Sony claiming that it can deliver full 3D rendering capabilities to the PlayStation 3 through a simple firmware update, the move to full gaming in three dimensions has taken another step forward as the Blu-ray Disk Association has announced having finished working on a new specification for the hardware, called ... |
21 December 2009
03:09 GMT |
|
|
On December 17 (Thursday), tech-focused sources were reporting that Psystar had officially ceased all operations, including taking down its website. The Florida-based vendor of Mac clones was still selling the Rebel EFI utility through its website even after Apple had been granted a permanent injunction against the c... |
21 December 2009
03:05 GMT |
|
|
Windows 7 is by no means without its own problems, albeit in a volume far less consistent compared to Windows Vista’s. Still, users of the latest iteration of the Windows client will stumble across glitches in the operating system, some more severe than others, some just annoyances. As far as printing from Wind... |
21 December 2009
02:58 GMT |
|
|
Actress Brittany Murphy died on Sunday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Hollywood after paramedics were summoned to her house in the Hollywood Hills, where her mother had found her unresponsive in the shower. As of now, little is known of her condition prior to her death, but the Coroner’s Office says ... |
21 December 2009
02:56 GMT |
|
|
Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled to the world not too long ago its first handset that will arrive on the market with Google's Android operating system on board, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, a quite appealing device that should be launched in early 2010, according to reports. However, ... |
21 December 2009
02:50 GMT |
|
|
The Latitude ON Flash was designed by Dell as a less costly instant OS offering meant for use with the Latitude E4200, E4300 and Z laptop models. It should be a substitute for the Latitude ON, an OMAP-based add-in card that enables immediate access of business tools for the supported notebooks without having to boot ... |
21 December 2009
02:50 GMT |
|
|
According to a new scientific study, it may be that birds tend to favor some of their offspring over others, but with very good reason. That is to say, the animals simply want to reduce their losses in case something bad happens to the future generation. When a young bird becomes infected with parasites, for instance... |
21 December 2009
02:44 GMT |
|
|
Three astronauts are currently bound to the International Space Station (ISS), after they successfully blasted off on Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. The space fliers are scheduled to reach the station tomorrow, where they will hook up with the other two members of Expedition 22, who are already o... |
21 December 2009
02:27 GMT |
|
|
DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a Game Cube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mob... |
21 December 2009
02:22 GMT |
|
|
Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
21 December 2009
02:03 GMT |
|
|
Facebook is currently working on redesigning and improving its Game Dashboard, in an attempt to help members to better find, use and monitor their favorite Facebook games. The new project wants to strike a balance between encouraging game developers and pleasing the gamers, while also striving to prevent g... |
21 December 2009
01:58 GMT |
|
|
Google always tries to attract the best people in the business on its side to maintain its advantage over the competition, so, when Kevin Marks left in June, another promising person was bound to join the company. It is currently the case of Joseph Smarr. According to his personal blog, the newest addition to the Mo... |
21 December 2009
01:49 GMT |
|
|
|
|
Find us on Google+
