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Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest Cheats and Hints (PS2)

Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest is a video game created by Snowblind Studios and published by Sony Online Entertainment. It was only developed for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and published in 2005. The game is classed as an action title with a dark medieval theme that sought to introduce some...

21 August 2008
21:06 GMT

Skate Achievements (Xbox 360)

Is there any other skateboarding title out there besides the ones in the Tony Hawk series? Finally, the answer to this question is "Yes", as Skate is the only worthy rival of Tony Hawk, even surpassing it when it comes to realistic aspects. EA has done a wonderful job, by starting from a promising premise: a game tha...

21 August 2008
19:46 GMT

Sony Reveals 160 GB PlayStation 3 and New Peripheral

Sony Computer Entertainment America announces that the PlayStation 3 gaming console is getting a new bundle, aimed at the North American market. The bundle is released because of the upcoming launch of a limited edition of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.The bundle is set to retail for close to 500 dollars, specifica...

21 August 2008
19:11 GMT

Duke Nukem 3D Achievements (Xbox 360)

Duke Nukem 3D was initially released in 1996, on the PC, and it became a classic of the genre, especially thanks to Duke and his cool, macho lines. Speaking of which, you'll surely love to know that we're getting closer to the launch of the next game in the series, Duke Nukem Forever (however, nobody really...

21 August 2008
19:06 GMT

Bookends Reference App Updated

Bookends, a full featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for professionals and students, has been updated recently to include a slew of tweaks and fixes. Sonny Software's app costs 99 bucks to buy, is a Universal Binary and runs on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later. A de...

21 August 2008
18:41 GMT

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence Hints V (PS2)

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence is a video game created and published by Konami Interactive. It was developed just for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and was launched in 2005. It is classed as an action adventure title with a medieval and fantasy setting that is played from a third person perspective.Cas...

21 August 2008
18:26 GMT

Warhammer Online Sparks Credits Debate

It appears that the soon to be launched Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will only credit those contributors that are now employed by developer Mythic Entertainment.Mark Jacobs, who is the vice president of Mythic and the general manager in charge of the game, stated that "Over the years, we've had hundreds of...

21 August 2008
18:11 GMT

Invoy (Invoicing App) Released for Mac

Empty Factory and Wigwag have released Invoy, a simple and easy-to-use invoicing application for Mac OS X users. Invoy sports a nifty UI, multi-currency support, exports your data to Excel or Numbers (CSV Format), integrates with Address Book and creates invoices, cash sales, credit memos, debit memos and more."We�...

21 August 2008
17:36 GMT

Syrinx - Free, Fully Customizable Twitter Client for Mac

Syrinx, a fully customizable twitter client designed for the Mac, is seeing its first public release. Having been built for efficient workflow as well as customization, MRR Software's app sports bookmarks, searching capabilities, a pause feature, easy keyboard controls and numerous customization methods (color, ...

21 August 2008
17:06 GMT

Join the School of Wizardry on Nintendo DS

Konami is preparing to bring us a huge, brand new world of magic on the Nintendo DS sometime in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. The game is entitled Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry and it will be a definite hit for the fans of the handheld, as well as for those who always dreamed of becoming a wizard.As y...

21 August 2008
17:06 GMT

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness Hints VI (PS2)

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is a video game created and published by Konami Interactive. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the Xbox from Microsoft and published in 2005. The game is classed as an action and role playing title with a medieval and fantasy theme played from a third pers...

21 August 2008
16:36 GMT

MiTimeZones: One-Window, Simultaneous Time Zone Display

Although JS8 Media is offering a paid version of its MiTimeZones Leopard app, the demo version of the software does a pretty good job at displaying a total of seven simultaneous times around the globe. Best of all, you can constantly change the seven time-zones with a few clicks. Clearly very few people are intereste...

21 August 2008
16:16 GMT

New Improved Xbox 360 Controller Revealed

For a long time, the battle of videogame consoles was waged with computing power and graphics capabilities in mind, but the fight might just shift to controllers in the near future. The Nintendo Wii has built its success mostly on the innovative control scheme and apparently both Sony and Microsoft are scrambling to ...

21 August 2008
16:06 GMT

Simon the Sorcerer 5 Announced

It seems rather strange to hear that a fifth game in a series is announced, even though the fourth was not yet released in English speaking countries. The even stranger thing is the fact that the game was not announced by the same company that's working on the fourth iteration, which makes us wonder if these las...

21 August 2008
15:06 GMT

Microsoft, Closer and Closer to the Anti-Apple Panacea

Apple had no problems whatsoever in leveraging the weight of its brand in order to kick Windows Vista while the operating system was down. But the time is drawing near when Microsoft will no longer be a silent and passive participant in the Apple monologue marketing show. The Redmond company has been building up its ...

21 August 2008
14:46 GMT

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 Hints and Glitches (PS2)

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 is a video game produced and published by Capcom Entertainment. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox from Microsoft, the Dreamcast from SEGA and the Game Cube from Nintendo. The title is classed as a fighting game played from a third person per...

21 August 2008
14:26 GMT

Novastrike Gets Massive Update

The Trophy craze is now spreading from PlayStation 3 AAA boxed titles, like Warhawk and BioShock, to the smaller PlayStation Network titles, which seek to rekindle the interest of players by adding shiny new Trophies which they can hang in Home when it eventually gets released. The latest game announced to get an upd...

21 August 2008
14:06 GMT

Razer's New Megalodon Gaming Headset Will Bite Your Ears Off

As some of you might know, the Megalodon was one of the biggest sharks to have ever swum within Earth's oceans, being pretty much the ultimate aquatic predator starting around 18 million years ago and down to around 1.5 million years ago. So, by choosing this particular name, the people from Razer have made thei...

21 August 2008
13:16 GMT

Microsoft Slashes the Price of Office 2007 Ultimate by 91%

Microsoft has slashed the price of the Ultimate SKU of its Office 2007 System by no less than 91%, taking into consideration the estimated retail price offered by the company. The resulting offering made available under The Ultimate Steal brand umbrella is an initiative geared towards students on several markets worl...

21 August 2008
13:13 GMT

Hudson Details Three New Titles

Hudson is mostly known for its multiplayer extravaganza Bomberman, a game concept that still is one of the most appreciated and fun ever released. However, this does not mean that the company is not doing its best with other products - for example, by the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2009, Hudson plans to relea...

21 August 2008
13:06 GMT

Windows 7 Client Drivers Available for Download

While Steven Sinofsky is now managing to throw a few bones from the Windows 7 dogfooding feast outside of Redmond, any piece of information coming directly from the Windows chief continues to be translucent. In this Windows 7 monologue, the Senior Vice President of the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group is of...

21 August 2008
12:49 GMT

Microsoft Brings the Political "Game" to Xbox 360 Users

Microsoft has partnered with Rock the Vote and embarked on a new initiative designed to "harvest" new registrants for the 2008 election. In this context, the Redmond company announced that it has opened its Xbox LIVE network to Rock the Vote. As a direct consequence, users of Xbox gaming consoles will be able to get ...

21 August 2008
12:15 GMT

DS and Wii, Perfect for the Winx Club Universe

Konami knows that Nintendo's Wii is the perfect console for fun family friendly games, so whenever it's not doing a Metal Gear game, it turns its head to the Wii and starts developing. And since the developers were in a playful mood, they decided to create not one, but two games based on the popular Winx Cl...

21 August 2008
12:06 GMT

Facebook 2.0 for iPhone - Details, Screenshots

Facebook, iPhone version, is getting updated in September! The developing team has invited fans to have a look at some of the upcoming features in version 2.0. Full details and screenshots are available below."It's been a few weeks since we released Facebook for iPhone 1.1, and many of you are wondering what...

21 August 2008
11:55 GMT

Things on Wheels Achievements (Xbox 360)

Things on Wheels is an accessible, pure arcade racing title placing players at the helm of radio-controlled vehicles as they compete on tracks set within a gigantic house. This makes me think waaay back, when I was playing Micro Machines - and the game manages to bring the same great experience and multiplayer fun, w...

21 August 2008
11:46 GMT

BitDefender Launches Survey with Product Discount Prizes

People are often secretive when asked about the problems they encounter when on the web and not always opened to discuss their fears and concerns regarding this matter. Also, questionnaires that may actually help security solutions companies improve their products face public indifference, which makes these companies...

21 August 2008
11:26 GMT

New Internal Network Security Threats Encyclopedia

The Internal Threats Encyclopedia was launched by the Israeli security company Promisec. According to the company, most of the threats which can put a network at risk are actually internal rather than external. The encyclopedia is an effort to list and rate the applications that can pose a threat to a corporate netwo...

21 August 2008
10:43 GMT

Seinfeld Hired to Counter-Attack Apple's 'Get-a-Mac' Ads

It looks like Microsoft is dead serious about its counter-offensive towards Apple. The software giant has allegedly hired famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld to be the image of its ad campaign dubbed (hear this) "Windows, Not Walls".Not that Microsoft's move isn't logical, or worthy of our appreciation (not to m...

21 August 2008
10:33 GMT

Fujitsu Unveils Atom-Powered, Vista Capable UMPC

Fujitsu Japan has announced the release of a compact, ultra-portable computer system that will be powered by the same Intel Atom processor that is featured on almost every netbook currently available on the market. However, unlike most notebooks, which feature a 9-inch or a 10-inch display, the new Fujitsu system wil...

21 August 2008
10:22 GMT

IBM Invests $300 Million in Cloud Data Restoration Centers

IBM announced that it would invest $300 million in 13 restoration centers across the globe, which are meant to secure and preserve data in case of a disaster of any kind. The project is based on cloud computing, hence, business partner information will be preserved in designated spaces directly on the Internet. IBM a...

21 August 2008
10:20 GMT

Sony Ericsson TM506 Officially Presented

Sony Ericsson TM506, the first Sony Ericsson to be offered by T-Mobile USA after several years, was officially presented today. The TM506 will be sold only in the States and exclusively via T-Mobile, its release representing the beginning of a longer collaboration between the North American carrier and the Swedish-J...

21 August 2008
10:18 GMT

X-Men: The Official Game Achievements (Xbox 360)

The game catapults players into an original storyline that serves as a prelude to Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Studio's film, X-Men: The Last Stand, and allows them to command the distinct powers of Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Iceman as they face off against formidable enemies, battle through massive environ...

21 August 2008
10:06 GMT

Microsoft Photosynth Is Live with 20 GB of Free Storage

The technology behind Microsoft Photosynth has evolved past the stage of simple Technology Preview and is now available in its final form. Fathered by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, who joined Microsoft Live Labs in 2006, Photosynth is designed to permit end users to build navigable three dimensional spaces out of 2D digital...

21 August 2008
10:05 GMT

Smooth Disk Partitioning

Remember Partition Magic? Well, it's been a while since Symantec bought it from Power Quest and turned it into commercialware (i.e. you can no longer download it unless you buy it) without adding any improvements to it. It must have been one of the best partition managers out there and its legend will continue.H...

21 August 2008
09:53 GMT

Children Face Great Dangers on the Internet

Many parents believe that using the parental control tool found in basically any security solution on the market keeps their children perfectly safe from dangerous or offensive content. The latest Norton Online Living Report shows that children not only don't care too much about the threats, but they also do thi...

21 August 2008
09:42 GMT

WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2007 Achievements (Xbox 360)

Man invented sports so he could stop fighting and start competing as a method to show off his skills. However, we went back to fighting in no time and so we have the violent sports we've come to know and appreciate: K1, wrestling, boxing, street fighting and many more. Well, some of them go beyond the "sport" co...

21 August 2008
09:26 GMT

GTA IV for the PC Looks Impressive

No hardcore gamer was surprised when Rockstar announced that GTA IV would make its way to the PC. It is a tradition for the developer to launch its games on the PC roughly six months after the console release. But now, after the announcement, Rockstar is showing off the way the game will look and play on the new plat...

21 August 2008
09:15 GMT

BlackBerry Bold out Now in Canada, $599 Free of Contract

Almost one month after the initially-rumored release, BlackBerry Bold 9000 is finally available in Canada, as of today, August 21. As you probably already know, the Bold is offered in the North American country exclusively via Rogers Wireless, the largest Canadian mobile operator. Rogers has not announced (yet) Bol...

21 August 2008
09:15 GMT

More Details on AMD's RV730-Based Cards

As we mentioned today in one of our posts, AMD is set to roll out three new graphics cards, and photos of them have already been spotted on the Internet. As expected, rumors are starting to build up and, because of them, we can now offer you more details about the upcoming cards, including core speeds for both the gr...

21 August 2008
09:02 GMT

Windows 7 Server Official Overview

Microsoft is gearing up to detail more and more information related not only to Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, but also to the other Windows 7 cooking over in Redmond, namely the first minor evolution from Windows Server 2008. And while mum's no longer the word on Windows 7, even though all informati...

21 August 2008
08:54 GMT

Two Major Botnets Possibly Controlled by the Same Bot Herder

It has been discovered that two of the botnets that are responsible for the largest number of spam attacks, Srizbi and Rustock, share the same principle when it comes to malware spreading. They both use Trojan.Exchanger, a type of malware that comes with unsolicited email. Each time users decide to check what's ...

21 August 2008
08:32 GMT

War World Achievements (Xbox 360)

War World is like a third person Unreal Tournament 2004 and this is not at all a bad feature. I prefer you get the recipe from somewhere else and use it well, instead of trying to develop something "revolutionary" that's going to mess up your game.The main gameplay feature is without a doubt the upgrade system. ...

21 August 2008
08:32 GMT

TomTom Goes PRO with 4000 and 8000 GPS Navigators

By their very nature, PNDs (GPS-enabled personal navigation devices) are not exactly very tough, extremely long periods of use and rough environments taking quite a toll on their case and, ultimately, on the way they actually operate. For this reason, the TomTom company has just released the PRO series of GPS navigat...

21 August 2008
08:29 GMT

Reliance Launches Jump Games in the US

Reliance Big Entertainment announced today that Jump Games, one of its subsidiaries, just got launched in the US and also has a new Chicago headquarter. With this move, Reliance is trying to impose Jump Games as a leading mobile entertainment company in North America. Jump Games will further try to acquire licenses f...

21 August 2008
08:19 GMT

Toshiba Has Two New Centrino 2 Notebooks

Almost one month ago, Intel was rolling out its next-generation mobile platform, the Centrino 2. Since the release date, a number of manufacturers have announced and even released their own Centrino 2-based notebooks, and amongst them is also Toshiba. The company has just recently introduced its summer collection for...

21 August 2008
08:15 GMT

Championship Manager 5 Hints (PS2)

Championship Manager 5 is a video game that was developed by Gusto Games and published by Eidos. It was launched for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony, for the Xbox from Microsoft and for the PC. It was released in 2005.This is by no means "The World's No. 1" football manager game, nor is it the second....

21 August 2008
08:07 GMT

Download Free UrlScan Filter 3.0 RTW

Microsoft has taken UrlScan Filter 3.0 out of Beta development stage and made the tool available for download. The gold code of UrlScan 3.0 that went live on the Microsoft Download Center on August 21 is designed to integrate seamlessly with Internet Information Services 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0 running on top of Windows Ser...

21 August 2008
07:49 GMT

Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms Hints (PS2)

Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms is a video game created by Snowblind Studios and published by Sony Online Entertainment. It was only developed for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and published in 2005. The game is classed as an action title with a dark medieval theme that sought to introduce some ligh...

21 August 2008
06:59 GMT

Keyword Master - Free Keyword Processing App for Mac

Keyword Master is a new photostock keyword helper for Mac OS X. This free utility does Counting (how many words you are going to post), Separating (uses various types of separating characters), Dividing (separates entered string using lines with entered number of words), Sorting and more. The software is aimed at pho...

21 August 2008
06:42 GMT

Vista SP1 PCI Express Integration Problems

According to Microsoft, both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1/RTM can run into very rare problems when it comes down to integration with hardware components connected via a PCI Express interface. The Redmond giant described an issue occurring only at restart in which cards failing to play nice...

21 August 2008
06:41 GMT

Upcoming Nehalem CPUs Are "Self-Overclocking"

As we are approaching the official release date for Intel's highly anticipated, next-generation Nehalem processors, more details about their features and capabilities just keep on surfacing. Earlier today, we told you about Intel's intentions to provide its upcoming CPUs with a new feature, dubbed "Turbo Me...

21 August 2008
06:27 GMT

Comcast Will Slow Down Clients' Connection Speed

Comcast, the biggest US Internet provider, announced that it would change its policy regarding the management of its total bandwidth. In the past, the company had been accused of restricting or slowing down the connection for several file sharing programs. This affected users of P2P networks, which had problems whene...

21 August 2008
06:23 GMT

Skypephone S2 on Pre-Order in the UK

Skype and 3 UK have recently announced the release of Skypephone S2, the second mobile phone that can offer Skype calling and messaging free of charge. Users can pre-order a Skypephone S2 as of now, but the handset will only be available starting 27 August online and September 1 in 3's stores across the UK. Tog...

21 August 2008
06:22 GMT

ClarionMiND Brings Together GPS Navigation and Mobile Internet Devices

There are quite a lot of companies out there that have the relatively nasty habit of parading some highly innovative product at some technology show, and then come up with the actual product months (if not years) after the initial announcement. And that's also the case with Clarion, which presented back at CES a...

21 August 2008
06:21 GMT

IE8 XSS Filter Under the Hood

A detailed XSS filter architecture and implementation article has been published on the Security Vulnerability Research & Defense blog. The main goal of the XSS filter integrated in IE8 is to prevent exploitation of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities without breaking the web.Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of ...

21 August 2008
06:08 GMT

Real Racing (HD) Coming to iPhone by Christmas

If you're a fan of Bizarre Creations' Project Gotham Racing, or the Gran Turismo series, developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, you might want to take a look at the demo video of this Real Racing game for iPhone (allegedly boasting HD visuals), due out by the end of the year.As a racing gamer, you are su...

21 August 2008
05:53 GMT

Pictures of AMD's RV730XT, RV730 Pro and RV710 Surface

Recently, NVIDIA has launched two new graphics card designed to provide entry-level and mainstream users with decent graphics support at an affordable price. As expected, rival AMD and its subsidiary ATI have been working on the development of their own entry-level and mainstream-oriented graphics products and, despi...

21 August 2008
05:42 GMT

TV Widgets from Yahoo! and Intel

Yahoo! and Intel have announced a partnership that has the purpose of erasing the boundaries between Internet and television. Some of the applications that, until now, could only be used on the Internet, will also be supported by television in the near future. The "small Internet applications," or TV Widgets, as Yaho...

21 August 2008
05:26 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Available for Download

Hot on the heels of the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework SP1 releases, Microsoft has now made available for download Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1. Marking the evolution past the Beta development stage, the Software version 1.1 of the Development Kit for Visual Studio 2008 is tailored specifically to...

21 August 2008
05:24 GMT

ZTE C79 Flip Phone Released in the US

ZTE USA, Inc., subsidiary of the China-based ZTE Corporation, has unveiled the availability of its C79 in the US. The new phone is offered by the regional carrier MetroPCS; hence, not all the mobile users across the States will be able to get it. The C79 comes in a clamshell form factor, somehow resembling several M...

21 August 2008
05:17 GMT

ASUS Preps Atom-Powered 10.2-Inch Notebooks

As mentioned in a number of our previous articles, Taiwanese manufacturer ASUSTeK is expected to release a new lineup of Atom-powered portable computer systems that will not be part of the company's Eee PCs. The new lineup is meant to provide users with a highly portable computer system with enhanced computing f...

21 August 2008
05:11 GMT

ATI/AMD 8.8 Display Driver Released

The latest ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released yesterday, and it brings various new features such as CrossFireX and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support. It also introduces ATIOverDrive to maximize the GPU's (Graphical Processing Unit) performance, although some caution is advised, as increasing its clocks above...

21 August 2008
05:09 GMT

Australians Switching to Mac Faster than Anyone Else

Recent figures revealed by research firm Gartner say that Mac sales in Australia have increased some 52 percent in the second quarter. This is almost six times the rate of the overall PC industry, CourierMail reports, also adding that Australia's figures for Mac adoption have even topped US numbers.In the US, th...

21 August 2008
05:09 GMT

Buzz! and Destruction Derby Are Going Mobile

Player X, a renowned mobile media company based in London, UK, has announced the upcoming availability of two new mobile games based on the Buzz! and Destruction Derby franchises, currently available only for PlayStation. Owned by Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS) and licensed to Player X, the...

21 August 2008
04:33 GMT

Intel Announces Two Cores in Atom

After all the recent rumors, Intel has finally decided to go official with its highly anticipated dual-core Atom processor, designed for the already established small sized, low-power portable computer systems, or netbooks. According to the company, the new CPU is expected to be launched next month and will expand th...

21 August 2008
04:31 GMT

Chinese Authorities Delete Pages Which Prove Gymnasts' Real Age

A hacker, identified as Stryde Hax, while following leads indicating that a couple female Chinese gymnasts participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympics are underage, managed to stumble upon some webpages supporting such scenarios. Thus, he discovered certain inadvertences that could convince even the most skeptical of ...

21 August 2008
04:24 GMT

It's Heavy Rain, It's Brilliance

Indeed the PlayStation 3 doesn't have as many exclusives as Xbox 360 does, but we all know that it's quality that matters, when it comes to video games, not quantity. And Sony does have quality in its games, one of the latest exclusives for its console being Heavy Rain, an adventure title developed by Quant...

21 August 2008
04:21 GMT

VirtualKeyboard 3.5 Adds Automatic Layout Switching, Compatibility with Spaces

VirtualKeyboard, a CoralloSoftware-developed utility for Mac OS X, has reached version 3.5, which now offers support for languages with a non-Roman alphabet including Cyrillic and Eastern European languages, compatibility with Spaces, a Zoom button in the toolbar and more. A free trial version of the software is avai...

21 August 2008
04:17 GMT

Microsoft: the Windows 7 Client, an Awesome/Major Release

Former Windows chief Jim Allchin, co-president, Platforms & Services Division, considered Windows XP SP2 the equivalent of a fully fledged Windows release, but certainly much more than a service pack. Allchin retired from Microsoft just as Windows Vista hit the shelves in January 2007, and there are no doubts that th...

21 August 2008
04:03 GMT

Affordable LG Invision Launched by AT&T

At about the same time with the release of the cheap Sony Ericsson W350 in the US, AT&T has come up with LG Invision, another new and affordable handset. Unlike the W350, which is a semi-flip phone targeted for music lovers, the Invision from LG is a simple candybar created for "visionaries of video", as AT&T puts it...

21 August 2008
03:48 GMT

Intel Details Larrabee, Calpella and High-Performance SSDs

Today is the last day of Intel's Developer Forum, the conference held in Los Angeles at the Moscone Center. As anticipated before it kicked off, Intel has revealed a number of details regarding upcoming products, including the soon-to-be-released Core i7 processors. The company has also detailed its highly antic...

21 August 2008
03:46 GMT

Combat Giants Attack the DS

Ubisoft is strongly focusing on both the Nintendo DS and the tween demographic, since it plans to release a bunch of games aimed at kids aged six to ten. One of these very promising titles (at least good for the parents, who are concerned with the games kids play nowadays) is Combat Giants: Dinosaurs, expected to be ...

21 August 2008
03:37 GMT

FTC Approves EA Take Two Takeover

The Federal Trade Commission, which is charged with overseeing all major transactions that might involve a monopoly situation, has announced that it green-lighted a possible takeover of Take Two by Electronic Arts.The FTC says that "it now appears that no additional action by the commission is warranted at this time....

21 August 2008
03:35 GMT

Luxury Roubini Fornasetti Rugs for Your Home

Artwork should, and is, generally displayed everywhere else than on the floors of the apartments or houses we live in. Enter Roubini Rugs, the famous manufacturer and retailer of "works of art" that are just ideal for you to tread on: handmade rugs. Now, with the recent introduction of the new Fornasetti collection, ...

21 August 2008
03:34 GMT

iPhone Firmware 2.0.3 Confirmed

As soon as we covered the release of iPhone software 2.0.1, one of our readers promptly wrote, "at last - bug fixes for 2.0!" These are the feelings of the whole iPhone community, which is downright fed up with the issues surrounding Apple's new iPhone 3G. However, word on the web is that Apple has finally zeroe...

21 August 2008
03:34 GMT

Spammers Attack Through WW III Headlines

Symantec has just released its monthly spam report for July, and it shows the appearance of new ingenious ways that hijackers use in order to either sell products through spam or infect the targeted machines. The latest artifice that tricks people into clicking on images that lead to webpages hosting malicious conten...

21 August 2008
03:21 GMT

Intel Talks of Turbo Mode in Future Core Processors

As expected, Intel has disclosed details about its upcoming products and technologies at the Intel Developer Forum, held in San Francisco and due to end today. There have been talks about the company's upcoming Core i7 processors, Centrino 2, as well as about future projects such as the graphics-targeted Larrabe...

21 August 2008
03:02 GMT

Apple Hit with 3G Connectivity Lawsuit

Apple has been hit with a lawsuit by an Alabama resident named Jessica Alena Smith, the owner of an iPhone 3G. The person filed the complaint on Tuesday, alleging that Apple's new iPhone model boasts unacceptable performance and reliability, contrary to what the ads say - that it's "twice"-everything than t...

21 August 2008
03:01 GMT

Sony Launches New PlayStation Portable Model

At long last Sony is doing something to revamp its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming device. A new model was announced; it is called the PSP-3000 and aims to update the hardware of the console by offering an improved LCD screen and a built in high definition microphone. The new model will apparently be available i...

21 August 2008
02:58 GMT

Palm Treo Pro Officially Unveiled, out in September

After lots and lots of leaked images and details related to Palm Treo Pro, the new smartphone has been finally presented in an official way, by Palm itself. The Sunnyvale company describes the handset as "an effortlessly usable smartphone", and puts the accent on its elegant look. The features of Treo Pro are pr...

21 August 2008
02:56 GMT

Blizzard Reveals More Diablo III Facts

The most anticipated RPG of all times, Diablo III, has been detailed even further by Blizzard, which is offering us as much as it probably can for now, and I must admit we're quite pleased with the level of detail. I am sure nostalgics and skeptics together will be extremely pleased to hear that Blizzard plans t...

21 August 2008
02:51 GMT

Konami Announces New IP at GC

If E3 was criticized for the lack of big game announcements, this year's Game Convention in Leipzig will certainly bring us a few surprises. For example, Konami has just announced that it's working on a brand new IP - an action adventure game named Lords of Shadow, developed by Madrid-based Mercury Steam fo...

21 August 2008
02:32 GMT

ESA Gets Tough on Videogame Piracy

The Entertainment Software Association is sending word that it is hiring a new general counsel in the person of Kenneth Doroshow, who is a veteran of the Recording Industry Association of America. At the organization, Kenneth served as the head of the litigation department, which sought to go after all those who infr...

21 August 2008
02:32 GMT

Mandriva 2009 Beta 2 Introduces a New Installer

Mandriva announced a few hours ago the second beta release of Mandriva 2009, which brings a new installer, system-config-printer, Firefox 3, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and a few other small changes. Also, in this beta, the Mandriva theme (Ora) was integrated into the KDE 4 desktop environment. Moreover, as we've me...

21 August 2008
02:19 GMT

Intel Joins Forces with Yahoo! for Pushing Internet TV

Internet TV represents, without a doubt, the future of television as we know it, since the WWW is turning into world's greatest content delivery solution. However, in order to be able to enjoy the various types of content that can be delivered via the Internet, users require dedicated, specialized machines, and ...

21 August 2008
01:23 GMT


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