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It's hard to tell new stories that the gaming industry and consumers haven't heard of yet. It's even more difficult to escape the pattern of aliens, Nazis and all-out wars that stretch over continents and across the galaxy. How do you think of something that doesn't make everyone say "been there, ... |
22 July 2008
21:16 GMT |
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Cabela's Deer Hunter 2004 is a hunting video game that was created by Sand Grain Productions and released by Activision Value Publishing for the Playstation 2 console, for the Xbox and the PC. The title was launched in 2003 and is classed as a hunting simulation game played from a first person perspective. There... |
22 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Parody is the middle name of the game, as EA's title manages to gather all the famous ones from the last years in a big pile and mock them. We're dealing with a 3D action-adventure platformer that allows playing as Bart, Lisa, Homer or Marge as you enter the world of GTA, Medal of Honor, Shadow of the Colos... |
22 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires is a Japanese button mashing game developed by Omega Force and published by Koei on the 25th of August 2005 in Japan, the 13th of September 2005 in North America and the 23rd of September 2005 in Europe. The game also combines beat 'em up and 3D action elements with its button mashing... |
22 July 2008
19:46 GMT |
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The gaming version of Shrek the Third keeps the same plot elements from the movie, plus a bit more stuff, added to fill in the gaps and give you extra minutes of play. In case you haven't seen the movie, you're about to find major spoilers, so skip this part if you're the kind of person that hates know... |
22 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Not much of Empire: Total War has been showed until now. Creative Assembly was more keen on talking about its new project Stormrise at E3, but some people got to see the next Total War in action. In an interesting twist, the developers have so far refused to show any footage detailing the ground combat in the game, d... |
22 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Call of Ctulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a video game developed by Headfirst Production and published by Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 gaming console, the Xbox from Microsoft and for the PC. It was launched in 2005. The title is classed as an action horror title, played f... |
22 July 2008
18:36 GMT |
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Fans of the steam locomotive and train simulator SteamTRAIN 3 (exclusive to the Mac) now have the chance to upgrade to the latest version and benefit from a number of enhancements aimed at the snow, visibility, traction sand and collision recovery. For those who haven't got a a chance to try out this simulation ... |
22 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Peter Moore, the current head of EA Sports, who recently commented on the state of PC gaming, is again talking about the future of games, this time focusing on the digital distribution model and on the way social gaming will be taking over from single player experience.The people from GamesIndustry caught up with Moo... |
22 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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WordPress is the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The highly anticipated app is now available for free download through Apple's iTunes App Store."With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or hig... |
22 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Pi Eye Games has decided to offer fans of the casual genre an alternative to the classic "serve a cake, sell an ice cream" type of games we have been getting ever since the online portals were launched, and we're glad they made such a decision. System Mania is the result of their development process and it is al... |
22 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Cabela's Deer Hunter 2005 is a hunting video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and released by Activision Value Publishing for the Playstation 2 console, for the Xbox and the PC. The title was launched in 2004 and is classed as a hunting simulation game played from a first person perspective. Ther... |
22 July 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Reportedly, The Great Tree was very popular when it was released on the PC last December, because it brought a grown-up story of good and evil together with "surprising" gameplay and "stunning moments that are unlike anything you'll find in any other game." Quite a hefty description, you have to agree. Neverthel... |
22 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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If you woke up today experiencing a slight feeling of déjà-vu, think for a moment of the situation that the managers at Electronic Arts are in as they experience the déjà-vu of their lives just as they are announcing, for the fourth time, that they plan to extend the deadline for a hostile takeover of Take Two, the publi... |
22 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The number of MMORPG games available on the market keeps growing and we'll pretty soon have as many online titles as offline ones. This is not at all a bad thing, since they not only offer tens of hours of entertainment, but also bring the social aspect to maximum levels. One of the newest titles to try their lu... |
22 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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ASUS looks to be keeping things really focused with its portable computer systems lineup. And that's somewhat explainable, taking in consideration that the company's CEO has set a rather impressive target, at least for the Eee PC lineup. But the fully-fletched notebook lineup might also deal with such a hig... |
22 July 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006 and available for the PlayStation 2 consoles from Sony, and also for the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii, it is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the v... |
22 July 2008
14:46 GMT |
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Shaun White Snowboarding is in the final stages of production and Ubisoft is pushing hard to make the game the most interesting snowboard sim that's on offer on the market.Ubisoft is well aware that Shaun White Snowboarding will face stiff opposition, from games like SSX, Amped and 1080, but the developers seem ... |
22 July 2008
14:16 GMT |
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It's always nice to have a keyboard that can provide for you more than just the basic keyboard features. However, it's not until you get to customize each and every one of keyboard's keys that you know you are dealing with one truly special product. One such product is Art Lebedev's OLED Keyboard ... |
22 July 2008
13:41 GMT |
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We got our Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Sing Star titles - all of them are games which allow us to become superstars in the music world, but none actually allows us to have any real control on the industry. Wolverine has decided to right the wrongs and release Music Wars Rebirth, a much improved version of the well kno... |
22 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Ever since he is no longer vice president at Microsoft, Peter Moore appears to have something against the Xbox 360 console and, even more, he just seems to love talking more than actually doing something (OK, I admit, this is just my personal opinion). Either way, one thing is clear: Peter Moore is one of those guys ... |
22 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Exactly on the same day they were officially announced by Sony Ericsson, the new W595 and W302 Walkman handsets appeared in two promo videos. Of course, these don't tell us anything new about the phones, but they're good "eye candies" for all the mobile users who like Sony Ericsson's products or music-... |
22 July 2008
12:02 GMT |
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Samurai Warriors 2 Empires is a button mashing game developed by Omega Force and published by Koei on the 27th of February 2007 in North America and the 16th of March 2007 in Europe. This expansion was received with poor reviews by critics, who only seemed to appreciate its interesting story.The game can be a wonderf... |
22 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Nowadays, even people who shop for pet food or other products that don't require such a rigorous previous research rely on the Internet for learning more about their purchases. A survey conducted by Nielsen Online shows that 44% of the people who own pets make a previous documentation on the Internet to find out... |
22 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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According to Panda Security, a company specialized in providing security software solutions, a new spam campaign has been launched with the purpose of infecting users' machines with a banking Trojan which identified by the previously mentioned firm as Trj/Banker.LGC. People in the English speaking part of the wo... |
22 July 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Larry Mendte, who used to work as a news presenter for a Philadelphia TV station, somehow managed to gain access to the e-mail of his co-presenter, Alycia Lane. The information he had access to for a period in excess of two years was later on leaked to abloids and resulted in Lane's downfall. Since the start of ... |
22 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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The 8 Megapixel "mobile battle" is slowly but surely heating up, with Sony Ericsson and Samsung already in the game, and Motorola rumored to unveil its 8 MP handset soon. Now we have a new 8 Megapixel phone, but this time it does not come from a major company. Named X908, the new monster camera phone comes from Chin... |
22 July 2008
10:58 GMT |
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The biggest pay-TV provider in the U.K., BskyB, has just signed an agreement with Universal Music in order to deliver to subscribers the possibility of either listening to music after a short live streaming on the computer and other supports, or downloading the songs they like. These will be available for any type of... |
22 July 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Viruses have always been part of our evolutionary process, constantly mutating in order to defeat the immune system, at the same time triggering changes in the structure of the DNA, which eventually gave us defense mechanisms that still work today. Some types of viruses, known as retroviruses, even have the capabilit... |
22 July 2008
10:47 GMT |
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No one can really say that AMD is doing all that well these days but, as far its graphics business is concerned, things appear to be shaping the way the Sunnyvale-based company wants them to. And that's mainly because, for the first time in years, ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary has managed to bring out a ca... |
22 July 2008
10:38 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has been very quiet lately in regard to the Xperia X1 high-end smartphone, although its release date is getting closer and closer. Said to hit the market in September, Xperia X1 might actually be delayed a month or two. According to TechDigest, the new Sony Ericsson smartphone will be offered by 3 UK st... |
22 July 2008
10:15 GMT |
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We all know that if we want to keep our browsing habits private, so that nobody can tell what sites we visit on a regular basis, we should clear the browser history. Also, if you want to keep your mails private, you should not give away your username and password. But what if you share a Tesco's online shopping ... |
22 July 2008
10:14 GMT |
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Online dating is sometimes a rather frivolous activity, but this might be about to change. Some researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland performed a study that showed that compatibility in a couple is primarily DNA-based. Therefore, the group of researchers set up a website which gives out these details... |
22 July 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Following the recent announcement that the PlayStation 3 division of Sony is expected to turn a profit by early 2009, the head of Sony, Kaz Hirai, revealed a more ambitious target for the gaming device. In an interview with the Financial Times, in which the manager talked about the future of the gaming console busine... |
22 July 2008
10:07 GMT |
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How about playing the Wii without the Wii? As intriguing as it may sound, we have the technology and it has already been put to good use for those that want an alternative to Nintendo's Wii console. The cheaper alternative to the wireless gaming console is named CamSpace, and comes under the form of an executabl... |
22 July 2008
09:55 GMT |
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State of the art field effect transistors found a new rival recently in the form of thin film transistors having as substrate and interstrate a single layer of paper. This is the first time when FETs find their way onto paper. The new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer was developed by Elvira Fortun... |
22 July 2008
09:44 GMT |
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The Nigerian scammers seem to be out of fresh ideas to put to use and line their pockets, so they are reviving a classic phishing attempt. They are once again sending out threatening spam messages and asking people to pay large amounts of money if they want to get to stay alive. The only difference is that they are n... |
22 July 2008
09:34 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Apple is attempting to have its software installed on Windows users' PCs without their consent, again. Similarly to its move with the Safari 3.1 update this spring, Apple has reportedly bundled a MobileMe control panel applet with the iTunes 7.7 update for Windows users.What's wors... |
22 July 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Fly Mobile is not quite among the world's famous mobile phone manufacturers, but this doesn't stop the company from continuously announcing new handsets. The latest product to come from the European producer is named Fly E310 Attitude and it's a fashionable mid-end phone. The best features of Fly E310 ... |
22 July 2008
09:23 GMT |
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Capcom is now officially talking about Dead Rising for the Nintendo Wii, following the announcement that the title is in production. The official tag line for the game now reads Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop, and it aims to perfectly translate the zombie killing action that has already been a success on the Xbox 360... |
22 July 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Shotest Shogi was initially a PC exclusive game developed by AI Factory and published by Rubicon Development, but it will be ported to Xbox 360 consoles via the XBLA service. The game represents the virtual remake of Japan's rival to traditional chess, Shogi and promises to offer everybody who tries it endless h... |
22 July 2008
09:11 GMT |
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A new 29-teraflop Mac supercomputing cluster, based on 324 Mac Pros, now calls Virginia Tech home. Particularly, the cluster is located at the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS) within the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.According to various reports, the system was allegedly ranked in t... |
22 July 2008
08:56 GMT |
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You might have heard on the television more than once about the assassination of the Bulgarian dissident Gerogi Markov with the help of a device hidden inside an umbrella, which fired a small pellet containing ricin into his leg. But what is ricin and why is it so deadly? It is a potent protein toxin extracted from t... |
22 July 2008
08:53 GMT |
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First of all, top RPG fans waiting for the game to hit their consoles (if it hadn't already) should know that Hironobu Sakaguchi was assigned to carry out most of the work for Blue Dragon, only because he's a pure Japanese developing talent. However, it's Akira Toriyama who handled the lines and curves... |
22 July 2008
08:50 GMT |
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The online experience of Facebook users is becoming increasingly thrilling by the day. CasualCafe, a company that develops and delivers browser games for different platforms, signed a partnership with Facebook, which would enable the social network's users to get their hands on two brand new Flash based games. T... |
22 July 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a video game developed by Spark Unlimited and published by Activision Publishing. The game was created for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony, for the Game Cube and for the Xbox from Microsoft. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with sequences pl... |
22 July 2008
08:42 GMT |
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Blitz: The League is a video game developed by the Midway Chicago studio for publisher Midway. Released in 2005 for platforms like the Xbox and the Xbox 360 (from Microsoft) and the PlayStation 2 (from Sony), Blitz: The League is an American football simulation game played from a top down perspective.It is not based ... |
22 July 2008
08:38 GMT |
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According to research conducted by Internet security company TrendMicro, phishers are resorting to new ways of fooling users. The ever present URL to the phishing site has no longer been seen in numerous messages analyzed by TrendMicro. It would seem that instead the user is provided with a legitimate e-mail address.... |
22 July 2008
08:38 GMT |
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A new portable computer has been released for Bentley users. What you're to understand by the phrase "Bentley users" is that this new product comes with quite a price tag attached to it, a thing that can be easily explained by the fact that it's Bentley-branded. Even more, it comes at a time when everybody ... |
22 July 2008
08:37 GMT |
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In the "mobile news for girls" category, we now present you a new agreement between mobivention and American Greetings, following which popular characters of the latter will be brought to mobile phones. The characters include Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Twisted Whiskers, Holly Hobbie and so on. The German-based... |
22 July 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Castle of Shikigami III is a side scrolling space shooter game released in Japan only (just a Wii version hit the United States on the 13th of May 2008). The game was developed by Alfa System and published by Arc System Works on the 13th of December 2007 (the publishers are definitely not superstitious people!).Altho... |
22 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War is one of the action games published by Koei for the next-gen consoles (Xbox 360 and PS3). Developed by Omega Force and single player only, Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War was released on the Xbox 360 console, on the 25th of October 2007 in Japan, the 2nd of November 20... |
22 July 2008
08:24 GMT |
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BenQ, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, has recently released one if its new 3G mobile phones, namely the BenQ E55. The handset was first seen back in May, but then there was nothing official about it. Now the new BenQ has hit the market, coming in a simple but nice clamshell form factor and bringing a set of n... |
22 July 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Matthew Dillon proudly announced yesterday the release of DragonFly BSD 2.0, which features the HAMMER filesystem, numerous kernel, hardware and userland changes. It also features a lot of contributed software such as BIND 9.3.5-P1, bzip 1.0.5, less 418, libarchive 2.5.5, OpenSSH 5.0p1, and GCC 4.1.2.Among the new fe... |
22 July 2008
07:07 GMT |
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The latest Catalyst drivers for the ATI Radeon graphics cards have been released by Advanced Micro Devices for both Windows and Linux. The company announced that the new drivers are capable of providing up to 20 percent better performance in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark and also up to 15 percent frame rate increase i... |
22 July 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Polaris, whose vibrations seem to have almost completely decreased this past century, appears now to have resumed its activity, although astronomers don't quite understand what is triggering the process. Polaris, also known as the Northern Star, is a Cepheid variable star that varies its brightness every four da... |
22 July 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2006 is a hunting and fishing video game that was produced by Sand Grain Productions and released by Activision Value Publishing for the Playstation 2 console, for the Xbox and the PC. The title was launched in 2006 and is classed as a hunting and fishing simulation game played from a... |
22 July 2008
06:56 GMT |
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A mother whose video showing her baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was pulled off YouTube entered a legal action against Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). The company decided that the 30-second video infringed copyright, as the artist's song shouldn't have been displayed in public w... |
22 July 2008
06:55 GMT |
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TrendMicro, company that specializes in Internet content security, reports that the Storm botnet is once again attempting to propagate its malicious software. The means to do so is by sending out spam messages which inform about a financial crisis that will engulf the world's economy. A link is of course provide... |
22 July 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Calgoo Software, a provider of calendar sync and share solutions, has announced that all of its products, which include Calendar, Connect, and Hub, will be FREE as of July 22, (noon, Pacific). That's today!"Over the past two years, Calgoo Software has been developing the most complete calendar suite on the marke... |
22 July 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Price cuts are always an interesting subject, as they allow a user to acquire better products for less money than under normal circumstances. This holds true regardless of the manufacturer's reasons for it. However, if you're on the lookout for another price cut session for NVIDIA's GeForce lineup, the... |
22 July 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Bell Mobility, the second largest mobile carrier in Canada, has come up with a promo offer that makes five of its Samsung phones 50% cheaper. On Bell's official website, all the handsets that have "Samsung sale" written below their presentation can now be bought for half the initial price: Samsung u740, S... |
22 July 2008
06:27 GMT |
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The children of Google employees spent this past week in the "Geo Camp," a place where they could get in touch with Google Earth, Maps and Docs. These applications are probably the most appealing for kids between 9 and 12 years old, whose passion for all things science, nature and gadgets is vivid. After a week of ha... |
22 July 2008
05:47 GMT |
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There are few firearms out there than can do anything else but kill. But, as you might have noticed in the last few decades, military forces around the world are constantly heading towards developing non-lethal weapons that wound or disable the individual instead of killing him. The US Army is no exception to this ru... |
22 July 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Recently, the DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky made all the headlines, first of all because of its gravity, and secondly because the Director of Penetration Testing for IOActive would not release specific, technical details about the flaw. Kaminsky stated on numerous occasions that he would disclose all the inform... |
22 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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As we mentioned in previous articles as well, the netbook market is currently marked by a tendency of gradual growth, so the fact that more and more manufacturers are reported to be working on their own low-cost notebooks should come as no surprise. However, this might mean that, by sometime next year, ASUS, MSI, and... |
22 July 2008
05:40 GMT |
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The G92 series from Nvidia seems to be getting another member pretty soon, as the 9800 GT, a renamed 8800 GT, is rumored to arrive on July 29. The 9800GT represents the third rebranding/renaming of the same chip, which means that we'll be looking at that same G92 made under the 65nm manufacturing process. The ne... |
22 July 2008
05:19 GMT |
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Project X is a project management application for Mac OS X. Developed by Marware, that also crafts sleeves and cases for Apple's portables, Project X, now at version 1.5, takes a redefined approach to traditional project management by focusing on collaboration, communication, and management. Easy data entry and ... |
22 July 2008
05:08 GMT |
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As promised last week, Sony Ericsson has unveiled today three of its new Walkman handsets, two candybars and a slider. The phone that deserves our full attention is undoubtedly the W902, the first Sony Ericsson Wakman to pack a 5 Megapixel photo camera. Said to be the perfect combination between a music-oriented de... |
22 July 2008
05:05 GMT |
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If you happen to be among those who take a keen interest in how computer technology is evolving, then you know that most of the recent discussions on storage solutions have been about Solid State Drives. This is only natural, as this solution is believed to become the next standard in computer storage, even if a coup... |
22 July 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Tilted Mill, the company known for the not so great Children of Nile game, but also for the successful SimCity Societies and Caesar IV, has just announced a brand new title which promises to be way better than its predecessor and comes with interesting, innovative features. The game will be called Hinterland and, if ... |
22 July 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing is currently by far the best solution when it comes to wrinkle removal techniques, giving overall better results than some of the latest invented procedures. Most of the time the technique is successful in clearing up the skin, and the side-effects are relatively harmless, generally c... |
22 July 2008
04:49 GMT |
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The Pwnie Awards are all about celebrating the greatest achievements and the most notable failures in the security industry. This year the awards committee had to pick 37 nominees out of a list of 134 submissions, and then place each of them in the proper category (there are 9 awards categories in total). The winners... |
22 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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YouTube's project, Trendspotting Tuesday, which refers to a day when the company features some of the most representative videos on the homepage for a whole day, could turn into a fiasco because of people's attitude towards it. For example, some of this week's featured videos are religious. YouTube... |
22 July 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Last month, we reported (with little surprise) that old iPhone accessories were incompatible with the new iPhone 3G. Apple notes that, while some old iPhone accessories are compatible with the new device, iPhone 3G sports its own Dock, which doesn't even ship inside the box.Sadly, for those who've upgraded ... |
22 July 2008
04:40 GMT |
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The Fedora Unity team is proud to announce the immediate availability of a new Re-Spin DVD based on the official release of Fedora 9, and injected with all the updates released as of July 18th, 2008. The new Fedora 9 Re-Spin DVD is available for download as an ISO image for i386 and x86_64 architectures. "We were una... |
22 July 2008
04:30 GMT |
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NAND flash memory controller IC design houses believe that the market demand status is improving after having prices cut down back in June. Still, the growth seems to be only a small one. Most leading controller IC design houses see demand warming-up and are expecting to have double-digit sales growth during July. Sa... |
22 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Most computer enthusiasts have undoubtedly heard of the Fatal1ty-branded computer hardware products, since they are mostly advertised as being exactly what a high-end gamer needs in order to become the best of the best. Well, it looks like the Fatal1ty family has just received a new addition, this time around OCZ bei... |
22 July 2008
04:16 GMT |
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The tropical Atlantic Ocean could become a net carbon dioxide sink, say the results of a study which found that seasonal blooms of ocean plankton fertilized by the waters of the Amazon river absorb more carbon dioxide than previously estimated. The waters extending from the mouth of the Amazon into the Atlantic ocean... |
22 July 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Nokia E71, one of the two new Eseries smartphones recently unveiled by the Finnish manufacturer, is now available in USA, from Nokia's Flagship Store in Chicago. Of course, we're talking about the North American edition of E71, which comes with 850 / 1900 HSDPA connectivity so as to work on AT&T's netw... |
22 July 2008
04:04 GMT |
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According to Ohad Rosen, the web page that he administrates has recently come under constant hacker attack, presumably of Iranian origin. The cause of the attack is a message posted on the site, from Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, addr... |
22 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Looks like Apple's wrath isn't something the guys at Open Tech are afraid of. While the real Mac maker is wrapping up its suit against Psystar, this company appears to have little to no knowledge of Apple's EULA, which specifically states that OS X Leopard should only run on Apple systems.Open Tech... |
22 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Sega of Europe has announced a new addition to the Storybook Series of Sonic Games, entitled Sonic and the Black Knight and developed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii consoles. This second adventure game will be released in spring 2009 and Sega promises it will offer Sonic fans an experience they will never forget. F... |
22 July 2008
03:51 GMT |
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Americans don't spend so much time online anymore. As the summer holidays began for students, and working people are now thinking more and more about where to spend their vacations, the time allocated to navigating the web has decreased by 4% from May to June. 1% less users killed time in front of a computer con... |
22 July 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Late last month, Gainward was reported to have started offering graphics cards based on AMD's latest graphics processors. Based on this and on the fact that Intel was said to be in the final stages of completing the Larrabee project, a rumor has begun to spread. Apparently, two of NVIDIA's best partners are... |
22 July 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Video games are slowly becoming the best entertainment tool in the world, according to analysts, but they also have the potential to offer valuable information and even teach youngsters, for example. One of the first national organizations that want to entertain and educate teenagers is the Argentinian Tax Office - t... |
22 July 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Adding to the already extensive hype surrounding LittleBigPlanet, the upcoming game from Media Molecule for the PlayStation 3, David Reeves, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has stated that he sees a possibility for user-generated content for the game to be monetized. Jokingly, he even said that w... |
22 July 2008
03:11 GMT |
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According to the new chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Dirk Meyer, AMD has already started pilot production for microprocessors on the 45 nanometer manufacturing process. The statement, made during a conference call with financial analysts, also included the announcement that the chip developer has e... |
22 July 2008
03:10 GMT |
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Although lots of AT&T's customers are waiting for the release of Samsung BlackJack III, the largest US carrier has decided to offer the "old" Samsung BlackJack II smartphone in two new color versions: pink and blue. The new BlackJack II handsets are not fully dressed in pink and blue respectively. Only their ba... |
22 July 2008
03:07 GMT |
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Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel galaxy, is a spiral galaxy located about 27 million light-years in the constellation Ursa Major, having a diameter about twice that of the Milky Way and containing vast amounts of high-density hydrogen gas, which gives it a fluffy-looking appearance. According to some estimatio... |
22 July 2008
03:01 GMT |
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Apple announced the financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter yesterday, posting revenue of $7.46 billion and net a quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share. Apple's Q3 2008 ended June 28, 2008.Comparing the results with revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 mil... |
22 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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According to the US DOJ (Department of Justice) three top brass executives from E-Gold, an online service that allows users to send and receive payments, and Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to engage in money laundering and conspiracy to operate a money transferring business wi... |
22 July 2008
02:52 GMT |
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505 Games managed to hit the jackpot with the release of Cooking Mama, since the casual masterpiece soon climbed the rankings and became one of the best selling games of its kind. As it usually happens in such circumstances, lots of spin-offs and sequels are expected to be released and we're pretty sure this sec... |
22 July 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Metal Gear Online just can't get a break, apparently. The game was initially plagued by registration problems and by access issues when the beta was launched by Konami, just before the release of Metal Gear Solid 4. Now the Gene expansion for Metal Gear Online seems to be suffering from a host of problems as it ... |
22 July 2008
02:39 GMT |
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A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both the x86 and the x86_64 platform. ATI Catalyst 8.7 introduces support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2. It also introduces early support for openSUSE 11 and Redflag DT 7.0. The following are some of the impo... |
22 July 2008
02:30 GMT |
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