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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.... |
22 August 2008
21:36 GMT |
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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... |
22 August 2008
18:36 GMT |
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Equinux, a company providing solutions for watching TV on your Mac, has updated its TV client to version 2.8, adding new language support, full compatibility with Apple's MobileMe service and more. The company's hardware TV solution, the TubeStick Hybrid, now sports boosted digital reception quality as well... |
22 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Zoids Assaults is a strategy-RPG that will be released this fall. However, we already have the achievements you'll be able to unlock while playing - and we sure hope they will manage to create an even clearer image of the game for you. And since waiting is, anyway, not a really pleasant thing to do, you can make... |
22 August 2008
17:21 GMT |
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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... |
22 August 2008
16:36 GMT |
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HSC Edit, an edit plug-in for Aperture users that offers more than 4,000 effects to apply on one or a set of images, has been updated to version 1.35. Human Software's plug-in is comprised of 13 modules that can be purchased separately or as a whole bundle.A particular highlight of HSC Edit 1.35 is a new Image E... |
22 August 2008
16:16 GMT |
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In an unusual twist for a videogame developer, Capcom thought they needed to promote pacifism in today's violent world. So, they chose 1942: Joint Strike, their just released arcade shooter which is available on the Xbox 360 and on the PlayStation 3, and decided to launch the 1942 Limbo Contest. The idea is that... |
22 August 2008
16:06 GMT |
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One of the side effects of Blu-ray's victory over HD DVD in the format war has been the fact that the manufacturers of standalone players were relieved of the pressure of coming up with new and improved models at a very fast pace. But even if the rate of launches has somewhat diminished, we keep seeing new Blu-r... |
22 August 2008
15:51 GMT |
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This you won't believe. Apple's iPhone 3G, as you've probably already heard, is launching in 21 new countries starting today. While some markets are packed full of iPhone fans just waiting to grab the handset, in other territories, such as Poland, people aren't that keen on buying the new device. ... |
22 August 2008
15:47 GMT |
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Zuma Deluxe is one of the most popular casual franchises in the world, developed by PopCap Games, the same company that did Bejeweled - the best selling and most played game in the world. Quite a few records for PopCap, right? So... with Zuma, the company hit the jackpot on Windows-based systems, but soon enough it g... |
22 August 2008
15:06 GMT |
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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... |
22 August 2008
14:21 GMT |
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In an effort to expand the profile of the PlayStation 3 and to further promote the console as a multimedia hub designed not only for games but also for movies and video, Sony has decided to unveil a new service called Vidzone, which will allow users of the gaming consoles to use their Internet connection to download ... |
22 August 2008
13:46 GMT |
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Remember those "old" cassette players that once represented the center of any car audio system? Well, although they're long gone now (at least from modern vehicles), it would seem that they've served as a model for the device you're about to see as follows, namely the CA-IP500 Head Unit from Fusion, a ... |
22 August 2008
13:26 GMT |
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Matrix Games, the company that apparently has no other goal than to develop super hardcore strategy games, has just announced that, together with IQ Software, it released the first official update for World War II: Road to Victory, bringing the game to the 1.201 version and adding a bunch of new features, as well as ... |
22 August 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is back, bigger and better than ever and it plans to prove that by releasing a demo for its upcoming NHL 09 game. PlayStation 3 owners will be happier, since the demo is already released for Sony's console, with an Xbox 360 one being scheduled for early September. But these are just a few details... |
22 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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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... |
22 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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The Amarok team is happy to announce the much anticipated release of Amarok 2.0 Beta 1. Codenamed Nerrivik, this Beta version takes one step further towards the final 2.0 version, by bringing lots of improvements and new features like the scripting interface, new artwork, AFT and numerous bug fixes.The scripting inte... |
22 August 2008
11:38 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that the Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent tracker, had been banned in Italy. The first reaction on part of one of the Pirate Bay's founders was a virulent post on the official blog of the tracker, where Italy was described as having a "really bad background, as one of the IFPIs... |
22 August 2008
11:17 GMT |
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The latest comScore report that shows what the search preferences of Americans were in July indicates a rather stagnant situation at the top of the chart. Google sites are still on the first place, with 61.9% of the total market, which represents a 0.4% growth in comparison with the previous month. Yahoo! and Microso... |
22 August 2008
10:26 GMT |
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As rumored at the beginning of July, LG indeed has an 8 Megapixel handset, the KC 910, which is apparently set for an October launch. The new high-end handset from the South Korean company will be on par with the other two 8 Megapixel phones announced this year: Sony Ericsson C905 and Samsung Innov8 i8510. Unlike the... |
22 August 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Acer, with its Aspire One notebook, is one of ASUS' main competitors in the netbook market, a segment that is dominated by the presence of Intel's small-sized Atom processors. Because both Acer's and most of ASUS' netbooks are powered by the same 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, only a few differences ... |
22 August 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Microsoft might have discontinued the download pages for Windows Vista RTM Enterprise, and Vista Enterprise plus Office 2007, packaged as virtual hard disks, as the bits continue to be available from its servers, the company is now also offering free trial versions of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise edition. Just a... |
22 August 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Audi of America has released a free racing game for iPhone and iPod touch users up on the iTunes App Store, featuring (what else) its new Audi A4 model. The game is played from a top-down perspective, and has players using two on-screen pedals for accelerating and braking, while steering is done by tilting the device... |
22 August 2008
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft's decision to have both Windows XP and Windows Vista available concomitantly on the market was a move that inherently backfired against the company. Comparisons involving the two Windows operating system versions favored Vista very little, being, quite to the contrary, beneficial for XP instead. Howeve... |
22 August 2008
09:39 GMT |
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The Elive Team announced the latest version of their Linux distribution being ready for user testing. Elive's 1.8.4 development version brings important improvements and temporary features like the removal of the Fast Boot mode, new drivers and a translation of the installer.The kernel used in this version has b... |
22 August 2008
09:35 GMT |
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The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is determined to find out if the media speculations, which said that at least two of the six members of China's gymnastics Olympic team are underage, are true. But the organization that has in sight the right conduct of all gymnastics competitions has even more doubt... |
22 August 2008
09:29 GMT |
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Until Dell decides to finally roll out its much-hyped netbook, known under the unofficial dubbing of Mini Inspiron or Inspiron 910, we'll just have to make do with all those leaked images and details that we already have at our disposal. But that's not all: this once, the small-sized netbook has been snappe... |
22 August 2008
09:28 GMT |
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Signaling yet again that the time for inaction when it comes down to the damage delivered by Apple's Get a Mac ads is over and done with, Microsoft has come out with the proverbial guns blazing. The Redmond giant, through the voice of Christopher Flores, Director Windows Communications, is applauding Windows Vis... |
22 August 2008
09:19 GMT |
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A new super chart is born, aiming to track the worldwide success and sales of videogames. The NPD Group, which tracks sales for the North American market, has joined forces with GfK Chart-Track Limited, which hails from London and focuses on Europe, and with Enterbrain from Tokyo, which provides data on the Japanese ... |
22 August 2008
09:19 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 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 on a... |
22 August 2008
09:05 GMT |
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Ozura Mobile, the well-known Singaporean mobile content developer, has announced the upcoming availability of a new fishing simulation mobile game called Fishy Fishee. This comes shortly after Ozura launched two other sports-related games, namely Beijing Dreams and Counter Smash. Of course, fishing is not "just a spo... |
22 August 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Desktops 1.0 from Sysinternals is designed to kick the flexibility of the Windows desktop up a notch. The solution to an overcrowded working space has always been simple, and Microsoft is by no means reinventing the wheel. What the Sysinternals utility will do, is allow the end users to stretch across no less than fo... |
22 August 2008
08:51 GMT |
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Chaos Legion is a video game that was developed and published by Capcom. It was created for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and for the PC and released in 2003. The game is classed as an action adventure title with a lot of role playing elements intertwined in the gameplay. It is played from a third person... |
22 August 2008
08:42 GMT |
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When it comes to graphics cards, the biggest buzz in today's market has to be around AMD's high-end HD 4870 Radeon card, which was unveiled quite some time ago. Not that it performs better than NVIDIA's GTX 280 (a job that was left for the recently released HD 4870 X2), but rather because of its signif... |
22 August 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Xevious is a vertical shooting game developed by Namco Bandai a long time ago, in 1982. The game has become very successful since then and Microsoft felt the need to publish it on Xbox 360 consoles, too - which they did and it was a great move, since previously the game only ran on Namco's Galaga.Xevious was a h... |
22 August 2008
08:28 GMT |
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ScanSafe has released a virtual global map that displays, almost in real time, the threats that the security team discovers and neutralizes. The map is updated every minute and shows the place of origin for each threat, the type of malware that is detected, and also the date and time when ScanSafe detects and blocks ... |
22 August 2008
08:26 GMT |
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As of today, August 22, mobile users across India can finally buy Apple's new iPhone 3G, either from Airtel or from Vodafone - the first and the third largest carriers in the country. While the news of iPhone 3G's release is probably known by lots of Indian consumers, what they might not know is that anothe... |
22 August 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Even as a new player on the virtualization market, Microsoft has touted intentions to democratize the technology. Despite the perception of a revolutionary novelty, virtualization in fact dates back all the way to the 1970's mainframes. However, the technology has so far failed to gain sufficient traction, despi... |
22 August 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Less than one month after the announcement of "Transformers G1: Awakening" and "Superman/Batman", Glu Mobile has unveiled that two new and cool mobile games are in the making. These are "The Price is Right" and "Family Feud", both of them being based on the famous TV shows that bear the same names. Of course, si... |
22 August 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Judging by the six Intel P45-based motherboards in MSI's product lineup, one could easily say, and not be in the wrong when doing so, that the Taiwanese manufacturer is really fond of Intel's chipset. So much so that it has decided to roll out a new mobo, based on the same P45 chipset mentioned above. Howev... |
22 August 2008
07:00 GMT |
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CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), a development kit used to create derivative works for academic, commercial, or personal purposes, has been updated to version 2.0. Available for free download here, the main use of CUDA is Standard C programming language enabled on a GPU.From Apple's Downloads page:NVI... |
22 August 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Back at the end of May 2008, Microsoft gave the audiences of TechNet and MSDN (also of the Expression website) a taste of new social bookmarking tools, tailored for the two portals. At that time, the offerings were made available as previews with no details available as to when the final implementation would be deliv... |
22 August 2008
06:53 GMT |
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McAfee has announced that it will integrate some security solutions with Intel-powered laptops and mobile Internet devices. The only condition for the mobile gadgets to be secured by the McAfee technologies is to be based on the Z5XX Intel Atom processor and the open source Linux Moblin software. In the case of porta... |
22 August 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Websense Inc., a major company that offers web security filtering and solutions, has discovered that the DNS servers of China Netcom (CNC), one of the country's leading ISPs, are compromised. The servers suffer from poisoned DNS entries injection, resulting from exploitation of the flaw in the DNS system core, u... |
22 August 2008
06:49 GMT |
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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... |
22 August 2008
06:33 GMT |
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While Photosynth has been released to web in August, ending the Technology Preview incubation at Microsoft Live Labs, there are additional projects at the software giant designed to deliver new experiences when it comes down to the digital photographs. One illustrative example in this context is AutoCollage (also ref... |
22 August 2008
06:22 GMT |
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If you are among those users whose high-end desktop computer systems are based on one of Intel's quad-core processors, then you should know that your high-performance CPU will soon pale in comparison to what Intel is about to release, namely the 6-core Dunnington processors. Moreover, the new CPUs are expected t... |
22 August 2008
06:15 GMT |
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"Since the Apple SoHo store moved in six years ago, it has become the worst neighbor in SoHo," wrote SoHo Alliance director Sean Sweeney in the letter addressed to city and state elected officials and Apple Inc.'s management. Seemingly, the last straw was a Jonas Brothers concert at the SoHo store earlier this m... |
22 August 2008
06:12 GMT |
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The CEO of the fourth largest bank in the UK discovered an identity theft that cost him several thousands of pounds, as the Daily Mail reports. Andy Hornby was on vacation when a person in the staff of HBOS, the bank he manages, told him that his account had been frozen, because of some unusual transactions that had ... |
22 August 2008
05:43 GMT |
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Sony is now taking pre-orders for its latest iPod docking station, the S-Airplay Wireless iPod Dock. The dock is capable of sending out wireless signals to a total of ten speakers scattered throughout your house, with listeners from one room being able to choose playing music from the iPod, while those from another r... |
22 August 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008. With the code for both the Standard and Premium SKUs of Windows Small Busin... |
22 August 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Have you ever wanted to transfer some files to a server and wondered what the best app for the job was? If that's the case, you'd better take a look at CrossFTP, a simple to install, reliable FTP client. This is a must-have type of tool if you often need to move files between remote locations and you don�... |
22 August 2008
05:31 GMT |
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Ladies and gentlemen, judging by the high number of pictures and details that have recently surfaced on Intel's upcoming Nehalem-supporting, X58-based mobos, we can say that we are getting close to an official unveiling. According to some of the most recent rumors, Taiwanese manufacturer MSI is in the final stag... |
22 August 2008
05:14 GMT |
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Image Entertainment makes films and television programming available on the iTunes Store, and has recently expanded its digital distribution business with a wide assortment of Image programming available on iTunes for purchase or rent. This includes feature films, episodic television, stand-up comedy specials, music ... |
22 August 2008
04:43 GMT |
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An USB memory stick containing personal information of tens of thousands of prisoners from the UK has been lost, as the British Home Office confirmed. Although some of the objectives of the institution are related to safeguarding "people's identity and the privileges of citizenship," important information, such ... |
22 August 2008
04:42 GMT |
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If you are one of the players who enjoy Codemasters' massively multiplayer online game ArchLord, you will be really pleased to hear that now Codies' title is bigger and better than ever - everything for free! And knowing that about 750,000 players have registered accounts there, I'm sure this announcem... |
22 August 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Intex Technologies, an electronics manufacturer based in New Delhi, announced the availability of IN 5050, a new dual-SIM mobile phone for the Indian market. The new Intex IN 5050 is a good-looking candybar and comes in a case that weighs only 88 grams. The phone can be used with two SIM cards at the same time, a ... |
22 August 2008
04:25 GMT |
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As previously mentioned, yesterday was the last day of Intel's Developer Forum event, which has held in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. During the three-day conference, the Santa Clara-based leading chip maker released a number of details on its in-development projects, while also demoing a couple of the so... |
22 August 2008
04:20 GMT |
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Nokia has confirmed that the major vulnerabilities reported by Polish security researcher Adam Gowdiak are valid. The Java Micro Edition vulnerabilities affect the very popular Nokia Series 40 phones and can result in vital phone functions being compromised.Earlier this month, Security Explorations, a Polish security... |
22 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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American Photo is hosting the 2008 Emerging Photographers, which conducts a worldwide search to find the best emerging photographic talent. If you have an aesthetic sense, and are also pretty handy with a camera, why not take a few hefty shots, download the free trial version of Aperture 2, use the free Portfolio Rev... |
22 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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If you enjoyed games like Tamagotchi, where you had to take care of a virtual pet, just as if it was a real living and breathing being, you will definitely love Deep Silver and Game Life's latest title - Baby Life, a simulation somewhat similar with the Tamagotchi games but clearly more complex and probably even... |
22 August 2008
03:46 GMT |
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The United States International Trade Commission in Washington is asked to block the import of the Nintendo Wii game console and of the various Wii controllers by a company called Hillcrest Labs, which also seeks cash compensation for patent infringement from Nintendo. It seems like a ploy to get Nintendo to pay up t... |
22 August 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Since yesterday brought us news about ASUS' upcoming, Atom-powered, fully fledged 10-inch notebook that won't be part of the company's vast Eee PC lineup, today we already have the first pictures of the product, which have surfaced on the Internet. This could only indicate that the Taiwanese manufactur... |
22 August 2008
03:44 GMT |
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With the release of NeoOffice 2.2.4, the open source suite of office apps really took off, fixing tons of bugs, but, most notably, adding support for the Apple Remote for controlling presentations. After launching the fourth patch for NeoOffice 2.2.4, the developing team could confirm that slideshow presentations ran... |
22 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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The first Beta of Windows 7 is on the horizon, and in this context it's right about time to look beyond Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The next iteration of the Windows client has been a palpable presence only through the Milestone 1 build dropped at the end of 2007, with the Redmond... |
22 August 2008
03:25 GMT |
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AT&T's line-up of affordable phones seems to grow quickly lately, as after the arrival of Sony Ericsson W350 and LG Invision, a new pretty basic handset is prepared to be released. The phone in question is Nokia 2680 Slide.As its name suggests, this new Nokia comes in a slider form factor. What the name does not... |
22 August 2008
03:25 GMT |
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We previously reported on the arrest of a teenage Dutch, who had created the Shadow botnet. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit and the FBI worked together to solve the case of the malicious network, which is reported to be responsible for the infection of over 100,000 machines. The Brazilian conspirator in the Shadow bot... |
22 August 2008
03:19 GMT |
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You have probably never heard of Deco Online and I can't blame you: there are so many MMORPGs out there that it's natural for somebody to lose count of them. However, this is a successful genre and every now and then a company decides to try its luck and throw a new game on the market. The same is happening... |
22 August 2008
03:19 GMT |
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On the one hand, we are pushing for bigger and bigger disks like the Blu-ray, designed to contain the ever increased gaming content developers pack into today's titles, on the other hand, companies say that digital distribution, aka pushing content through the Internet, will quickly become more important than th... |
22 August 2008
03:09 GMT |
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This month, several major manufacturers are expected to put out new products, as we already noted in a couple of our previous posts. OCZ's name also popped up among those of the other manufacturers, and now we get to see why that was, as it has recently released a new gaming mouse with a unique and very interest... |
22 August 2008
03:04 GMT |
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While portable Mac user accounts have been hinted at for quite some time, MacsimumNews is reporting that a new patent (number 20080201456), revealed by the US Patent & Trademark Office, talks about a device that would seemingly render user accounts portable.According to the patent, which relates to multi-user compute... |
22 August 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Although projectors are still lagging far behind plasma displays and LCDs as the solution of choice for one's home entertainment center, the manufacturers of such products keep pumping out new and improved models, hoping that they'll manage to convince at least some of the future customers. However, since m... |
22 August 2008
02:47 GMT |
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The Agency is an online action shooter game developed for PlayStation 3 consoles and PC systems - a very promising title that seems to borrow a few things from Team Fortress, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Actually, it seems that it's quite good, according to the latest fact sheet released by Sony Online.... |
22 August 2008
02:34 GMT |
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If you live in the United States, you can use your Microsoft manufactured Xbox 360 to register so that you can vote in the upcoming elections. Grassroots organization Rock the Vote, which has been trying to get young people to vote for more than a decade, has decided to enter a partnership with the software giant des... |
22 August 2008
02:29 GMT |
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The second alpha version of openSUSE 11.1 was announced last night by the hard working people behind the openSUSE project: "openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available and ready for testing. This time it is actually installable and bootable. But you'll need to be quick and select the right boot option from the bootmenu. D... |
22 August 2008
02:29 GMT |
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Wireless, multi-room audio systems represent the future of home entertainment, and for this reason it should come as no surprise that Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony wants as big a piece of this pie as possible. This is why the company has just announced the S-AIRPLAY, a device that combines its advanced wir... |
22 August 2008
02:09 GMT |
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MSI is one of ASUS' main competitors as regards several products, including motherboards, graphics cards, notebooks, and even the newly emerged netbooks. Both companies are currently offering small-sized, Atom-powered portable computer systems to all users out there who are interested in acquiring such a device.... |
22 August 2008
01:22 GMT |
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