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Far Cry 2 Developer Details Multiplayer

Louis-Pierre Pharand, who is a producer on Far Cry 2, talked to Eurogamer and its readers and revealed that the game would have four distinct multiplayer modes. The now classic options of Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch will be in the game, with the entire 50 square kilometers of the world or just a portion of it ava...

23 September 2008
21:31 GMT

French Arson Case Blamed on GTA IV

It really seemed like the cases of violence and accidents that were pinned on Grand Theft Auto IV were slowing down, even stopping at some point, until this one popped up from France: a teenage boy, after supposedly playing GTA IV, went out, spread some gas on three cars and torched them. Yes, GTA IV m...

23 September 2008
20:01 GMT

Sony Says the 45 nm Cell Processor Will Be Implemented in 2009

Technology development is constant nowadays, but Sony and Toshiba's latest venture in research, the attempt to improve the Cell processor, which currently powers the PlayStation 3, has resulted in a finished product. Say  goodbye to the old 65 nm chip, and welcome to the new 45 nm one. Sure, it may not soun...

23 September 2008
19:01 GMT

Lensbaby Lenses Can Be Bent, Help Photographers Be More Creative

The Lensbaby company (formerly known as Lensbabies) launched a couple of years ago a series of creative, bendable "distorting" lenses, which were targeting mainly those people closely interested in special-effect photography. However, after two years of providing pretty much the same lineup, the company decided ...

23 September 2008
16:51 GMT

Xerox Launches Two New Powerful Office Workhorses

Although for some people the field of multifunction printers is a lot less "glamorous" than that of high-end mobile phones, advanced portable computing systems or PMPs, for example, the truth of the matter is that MFPs are actually extremely important for the business segment. For this reason, the Xerox company has j...

23 September 2008
16:41 GMT

Microsoft Reaches 6 Million Xbox 360's Sold In Europe

Microsoft is one happy company these days, mainly when it comes to its videogames division. Yesterday, we reported how the numbers from Japan show the Xbox 360 Arcade coming close behind  the Nintendo Wii in sales and now the European markets seem to be reacting to the reduction in price. The NPD numbers wh...

23 September 2008
16:21 GMT

Free Gasoline from Nintendo

It seems that with the pretty high price of gasoline in the world, a sure fine way of marketing products has turned out to be offering free gas for everyday people. Recently, Electronic Arts has managed to deliver  such a publicity stunt, taking over a gas station in the United Kingdom and offering drivers 40&po...

23 September 2008
16:01 GMT

Pretec Develops World's Largest and World's Fastest CompactFlash Memory Cards

As some of you might remember, Pretec launched back at CES one of the world's largest CompactFlash cards, providing 48 GB of storage space. Then, at CeBIT 2008, one of the company's representatives talked to Softpedia about the speed of their cards, which was far superior even to SanDisk's most impress...

23 September 2008
15:01 GMT

Samsung's NaBee Adds Wireless USB Connectivity to Any Digital Camera

Connecting a digital camera to a computer without using any wires seems to be quite an important issue nowadays, and several solutions for this problem have been provided until now. One of them is the EyeFi wireless memory card, another one is incorporating a wireless module in the camera itself, but Samsung has deci...

23 September 2008
14:11 GMT

Microsoft: We’ll Unveil Windows 7 to the World for the First Time this Year

Microsoft is gearing up to showcase Windows 7 for the first time in 2008, and the company is planning to do so to a global audience. According to Tim Sneath, Microsoft Client Platform Technical Evangelist, the Redmond  giant is planning to introduce the next iteration of the Windows client at the Professional De...

23 September 2008
13:41 GMT

Download Microsoft Image Composite Editor

At the Photokina fair in Cologne (Germany), Microsoft will unveil the latest photographic tool to come out its research laboratories. Microsoft Image Composite Editor is designed as an panoramic image stitcher and is already available as a free download. Microsoft Research's Matt Uyttendaele referred to the tool...

23 September 2008
13:25 GMT

Gigabyte Announces Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard Technology

Gigabyte, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has just announced its new, revolutionary Ultra Durable 3 technology, which is going to be enabled on several of the company's motherboards built on Intel's P43 and P45 chipsets. The underlying innovation of the new technology developed by...

23 September 2008
13:21 GMT

Adobe Introduces Photoshop CS4 – 3D Painting

Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4, along with Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended, the latest iterations of the applications found in Adobe's suite. Optimized to take advantage of GPUs, Photoshop CS4 simplifies tasks, like with content-aware scaling, auto-align and auto-blend modes on 360 degr...

23 September 2008
13:11 GMT

Core i7 and X58 Mobos Almost Ready to Launch

After pictures of Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Core i7 Extreme 965 processor have surfaced on the Internet, it appears that one of the yet to be announced X58 motherboards has also “posed” for the camera. More specifically, we’re talking about one of Gigabyte's soon to be unveiled mobos...

23 September 2008
13:01 GMT

Rock Band Coming to Australia

Australians sure are having a rough time with games – always being forced to wait longer for a game to be officially launched there must be really annoying. If you have a friend in Europe or North America, things are even more frustrating because, at least from my point of view, hearing how good a game is ...

23 September 2008
12:01 GMT

Fujifilm Ushers in 3-Dimensional Digital Photography

The possibility of shooting, viewing and printing photos in 3 dimensions might have seemed like stuff taken out of SF movies up until now, but the truth of the matter is that this concept is a lot closer to reality than we think. And that's because Fujifilm has just introduced at Photokina a very innovative real...

23 September 2008
11:51 GMT

Nokia Launched Legends Telegraph

In its native homeland, Finland, Nokia started a new campaign featuring a fictional newspaper, The Legends Telegraph, and also boldly announced its plans for the future of mobile usage.Its plans for the future include eight 'elements' but Nokia also outlined the directions in research up to 2015, when it be...

23 September 2008
11:26 GMT

Sony Vaio TT-Series Officially Available for Pre-Orders

Sony unveiled today the “world's lightest computer with Blu-ray Disc technology” part of the company's Vaio notebooks. Details on its new Vaio TT series surfaced the Internet prior to the official announcement, as we informed you a few hours ago, and it appears that the leaked information was pr...

23 September 2008
11:03 GMT

Samsung Briefly Teases Us with 10x Zoom HZ1 Compact Camera

Since every major name on the digital photography market is launching (or has already launched) a new product for this year's Photokina, it was expected from Samsung to do the same. However, the Korean company's announcement is not exactly a fantastic one. No, we're not talking about some megapixel-bur...

23 September 2008
10:50 GMT

Stonehenge Was a Healing Mecca

Recent excavations conducted at the Stonehenge site, the first after 40 years, uncovered a series of pieces of evidence to the fact that pilgrims from all over Europe visited the monument for healing purposes. Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill based their conclusion on the fact that the skel...

23 September 2008
10:35 GMT

Trism Developer Refuses Android over iPhone

With all the complaints from rejected iPhone developers and their apps swimming around, we hardly come by positive news regarding the App Store lately. Nevertheless, Steve Demeter, the developer of one of the best puzzle games released for the iPhone (Trism), is quite pleased with Apple giving him the opportunity to ...

23 September 2008
10:28 GMT

Firmware Update Doubles Transfer Speeds of Eye-Fi Wireless Memory Cards

We've recently informed you that Eye-Fi had entered a partnership with Lexar, the latter adopting the former's wireless technology for one of its own cards. However, that hasn't stopped Eye-Fi from updating its offerings, and the company has just announced at Photokina that it will make some enhancemen...

23 September 2008
10:22 GMT

Lexar Introduces Kodak-Branded 16 GB SDHC Card

Cross-promotions between digital camera makers and memory card manufacturers have always enjoyed quite a high level of success, and that's simply because, typically, most users also purchase a memory card whenever they go shopping for a new digital camera. And that's also the case with the Lexar – Kod...

23 September 2008
10:21 GMT

Mega Man 9 Is Getting Proto Man and Extra Stages

Capcom has released Mega Man 9 for WiiWare, the download service for users of the Nintendo Wii, and curious users quickly looked through the manual to discover that the game is already planned to receive five content packs via DLC.Mega Man 9 is seen as a remaining of the series that plans to retain the look of the or...

23 September 2008
10:11 GMT

Vodafone Spain and Qualcomm Use 3G to Improve the Elderly's Independence

Through HSPA broadband technology, Vodafone Espana Foundation, the Spanish Red Cross and Qualcomm hope to connect the elderly to their families and caregivers since they plan to unify voice and videoconferencing through a familiar device for the elderly, like the television in the '3G connecting generations'...

23 September 2008
10:06 GMT

Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download

Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download. On September 22, 2008, the same day the high performance computing platform was released to manufacturing, the gold bits of Windows HCP Server 2008 went live on the Microsoft Download Center. The Redmo...

23 September 2008
10:04 GMT

McAfee to Extend Its Network Security Portfolio

McAfee Inc. announced that it would acquire Secure Computing, a leading provider of network security solutions. The deal will cost the Santa Clara company an estimated $465 million, but it will significantly improve their previously not so impressive share in the network security market.Secure Computing Corporation i...

23 September 2008
09:33 GMT

Palm OS II Coming in Early 2009

Last fall, Palm Inc. announced that the company would release smartphones that would use a new Linux-based version of the Palm OS. It was initially said that the OS should hit the market in 2008 but, later on, the date was changed for 2009. The good news is that, last week, the release date was confirmed by Stephane ...

23 September 2008
09:27 GMT

Teacher Wins Emmy Thanks to One to One Training at the Apple Store

Burbank, CA elementary school teacher Larry Newman won an Emmy Award for his first attempt at filmmaking. Newman hadn't done any professional filming prior to shooting "Children's Music Workshop: 2007 All Schools Honor Orchestra." He did get some help, though, from Apple.TUAW is reporting that Larry Newman,...

23 September 2008
09:19 GMT

Microsoft Marries Food and Popular Culture

Microsoft, via MSN, has debuted a new initiative designed to marry food and popular culture. The recipe cooked together with Hearst Magazines Digital Media has resulted in Delish.com, an online destination synonymous with heaven for every gourmand. Launched under the MSN brand umbrella, Delish is live as of today, Se...

23 September 2008
09:11 GMT

Dolphins and Seals as a Neanderthalian Diet

Dolphin and seal remains dated 30.000 to 60.000 years ago were recently discovered in Vanguard and Gorham's caves on the Rock of Gibraltar, along with flint knives used by Neanderthals. This leads to the conclusion that Neanderthals, besides eating land grub, were skilled and adaptive enough to hunt sea mammals....

23 September 2008
09:03 GMT

HPC Pack 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK)

Following the RTM of Windows HPC Server 2008 on September 22, Microsoft made available for download the HPC Pack 2008 Software Development Kit. Going against the supremacy of Linux on the high performance  computing market requires more from Microsoft than providing a simple alternative to the open source operat...

23 September 2008
08:40 GMT

Aleratec's Robot-Like Disc Printer Does Up to 100 Discs Unattended

Small-scale disc printers have become rather popular lately, since they allow small-scale users (advertising and PR agencies, small companies, etc.) to print an average amount of promotional discs in a very fast and easy manner, while at the same time keeping costs low. This is also the case with the Aleratec RoboJet...

23 September 2008
08:39 GMT

Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights Cheats and Unlockables (PSP)

Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (HIN) evolves on the current street racing scene, allowing players to have a taste of the real-life HIN tour, the nation's largest lifestyle custom car show in an intense racing experience. Featuring track and drift racing at real-world locations around the globe, next-gen AI and unpa...

23 September 2008
08:19 GMT

Iron Man Unlockables (PSP)

Iron Man is one of the biggest blockbusters to come out this year and it's only natural to see a game developed based on it. Secret Level is the production company that took it upon itself to bring to life the Marvel hero and they've done a great job.Iron Man is one of the most prolific crime fighters from ...

23 September 2008
08:08 GMT

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Unlockables and Hints (PSP)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an action adventure game based on the highly successful movie and book written by JK Rowling, the fourth one  in the series from the Harry Potter universe. The usual heroes are playable in the game, Harry, Ron and Hermione, all of them can be controlled by the player. In th...

23 September 2008
07:51 GMT

The Evolution of Core Computing

Microsoft Research New England opened its gates on September 22, 2008, with the Redmond giant praising the advent of a new era in computer science. With an international team of 33 researchers, the New England group is Microsoft's sixth research facility and an integral part of a multibillion dollar annual inve...

23 September 2008
07:31 GMT

GRID Gets the McLaren F1 GTR

GRID, coming from Codemasters, was the reason for quite a few hours of pure fun, driving tips and full speed crashes when we played it earlier in the summer. The big downside to the game proved to be the fact that there were only 45 cars you could race while playing.Now the developers are announcing the imminent rele...

23 September 2008
07:10 GMT

One of the World's Biggest Diamonds Discovered

According to the mining company Gem Diamonds, miners in the Lesotho region of South Africa recently came upon a near-flawless diamond weighing approximately 500 carats, one of the largest ever discovered. The shiny stone was unearthed on September 8 from the Letseng mine, and the experts in Antwerp claim it has ...

23 September 2008
07:10 GMT

The Godfather: Mob Wars Cheats (PSP)

The Godfather: Mob Wars is the PlayStation Portable version of Electronic Arts' Godfather game based on Mario Puzo's novel with the same name. With two gameplay modes, The Godfather Mob Wars for PSP offers  countless choices for solving the family's problems with brutal violence, skillful diplomac...

23 September 2008
06:56 GMT

Core i7 Extreme 965 Poses for the Camera

Although we still don't know when the official announcement will take place, Intel is expected to unveil its next generation Core i7 processors, based on the Nehalem architecture. As with most other highly anticipated hardware products, details have already surfaced on the Internet, which literally means that, ...

23 September 2008
06:56 GMT

A New Approach to Surround Audio: the Mono, from Simon Denzel

It's time to witness the birth of a most intriguing piece of audio technology in the field of loudspeakers attempting to re-create the natural conditions of the recorded sound: the Mono loudspeaker from British designer Simon Denzel. The Mono (object in Japanese) looks rather peculiar but behind its uncanny shap...

23 September 2008
06:55 GMT

The Windows Laboratory

The new $300 million Windows marketing campaign is not limited at Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, plus I'm a PC and Live without Walls advertising. Microsoft is in fact ready to get its hands dirty and to be the first to analyze the way consumers experience Windows products and the Windows  brand at retail. ...

23 September 2008
06:52 GMT

The American Foundation for the Blind Lauds Apple's New Accessibility Enhancements

Upon taking the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Steve Jobs introduced iTunes 8, two new iPods and a slew of enhancements accompanying both to the world. One extra in particular is now being lauded by The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), which appreciates Apple's efforts in m...

23 September 2008
06:46 GMT

sidux 2008-03 Comes in Several Flavors

The Sidux Team announced yesterday the much anticipated release of their Linux distro (codename Ουρέα), which focuses on the integration of the modifications brought by the 2.6.26 Linux kernel, while providing support for the latest hardware, such as the most recently launched netbooks and c...

23 September 2008
06:45 GMT

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 Unlockables (PSP)

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 is the sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, one of the best selling PlayStation Portable games launched in 2006. The game was developed by Dimps, published by Namco Bandai Games and distributed in Europe by Atari. It was released in Europe in May 2007. Inspired by the famous anime seri...

23 September 2008
06:35 GMT

Malware Hosting Company Intercage (Atrivo) Went Dead

Following a collaborated effort from security researchers, anti-spam groups and online media to disclose the connection between cyber criminal groups and Intercage Inc., all its ISPs were pressured by bad publicity or their own clients to sever ties with the California based company. Their last remaining ISP, Pacific...

23 September 2008
06:34 GMT

Windows Mobile 6.1 Update for Telus' HTC S720

Even if HTC launches the Android Google Phone G1 today, it still took the time to make an update available for Canadian carrier Telus. So, Telus users, this means good news for you, especially if you use the HTC S720, since the update is available only for this model. In light of this release, it becomes pretty clear...

23 September 2008
06:31 GMT

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars Unlockables (PSP)

Crazy Taxi is a video game developed by Hitmaker and published by Sega. The game was first released in arcades in 1999 and was ported to the Sega Dreamcast in 2000. Subsequently, it was brought to the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo GameCube in 2001; it was ported to the PC and the Game Boy Ad...

23 September 2008
06:30 GMT

A Small Guide to Ear Cleaning

Physicians concur on the fact that Q-tips and other such devices that are introduced in the ears for cleaning purposes have a major negative impact on ear-health in the long run. Here's why some clinical guidelines in this regard have been released at last. There are about 12 million patients suffering from...

23 September 2008
06:29 GMT

SmartParts Introduces World's Largest WiFi Digital Photo Frame

It's not the first time SmartParts introduces a very wide digital photo frame, but it would seem that the company has taken things a bit too far this time. And that's because the newly announced SP3200WF model has a diagonal size of no less than 32 inches, which makes it larger than most PC monitors or even...

23 September 2008
06:28 GMT

HP Rolls Out HP G60 15.6-inch Notebook

Hewlett-Packard launched the HP G60, its first laptop to feature a 15.6-inch display, yet it made it pretty quietly. The new mobile machine is powered by an AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Dual-Core Mobile Processor which has a 2.00GHz core frequency and 1MB level 2 cache. The notebook can pack up to 3GB of DDR2 memory and inclu...

23 September 2008
06:10 GMT

Apple Announces iPhone Developer University Program

Apple has announced the official debut of its free iPhone Developer University Program. Currently available only to “accredited, higher education institutions in the United States,” the iPhone Developer University Program includes iPhone SDK, iPhone dev center resources, testing on iPhone and iPod touch, ...

23 September 2008
06:03 GMT

Smaller, Better and Lighter Cameras with Liquid Lenses

Scientists have developed a new type of adaptive camera lens, made from microscopic drops of water that are made to vibrate when exposed to high frequency sound waves, and alternate their focus as they move. This should theoretically allow users to capture up to 250 pictures per second with very little energy consump...

23 September 2008
06:01 GMT

Microsoft Applauds SQL Server 2008 Performance

Seven months after the official launch of SQL Server 2008, and almost two months after the release to manufacturing milestone of the product, Microsoft is applauding its data platform for the high performance delivered in comparison to the price tag. In this regard, the Redmond company cited statistics offered by the...

23 September 2008
06:00 GMT

Portable Storage Goes up to 400GB Thanks to Toshiba

Toshiba, one of the leading manufacturers of storage and portable computer systems, has recently announced a new 400GB model added to the company's line of portable personal storage devices. Designed to meet the requirements of today's consumers who are looking for high-capacity solutions to backup their fa...

23 September 2008
05:59 GMT

The Number of Planets in Our Planetary System Is Unknown

Astronomers still have trouble establishing once and for all the number of planets our system is comprised of. The recent conferences were of no help in this regard, as both a clear definition of the term "planet" and a reasonable delimitation line at the end of the planetary system eluded the scientists, while the c...

23 September 2008
05:38 GMT

MailWrangler Denied from the App Store

Ever since the App Store really started to take off, apps duplicating other apps' functionality have been turned down by Apple one by one. While some of them replicated the features of Apple's own applications to very little extent, Apple has been ruthless and denied every one of them. This is also the case...

23 September 2008
05:36 GMT

ATI Radeon HD 4830 Comes in October

There is little time left until we see the new Radeon HD 4830 card on display, as ATI seems determined to have it released at the beginning of October. The new card is built on the well known RV770 chip and comes with a 256-bit memory interface. Voices over the web say that the new graphics card will actually be mad...

23 September 2008
05:34 GMT

Leica Crams a Whopping 37.5 Megapixels in S2 Professional DSLR Camera

Although it has introduced several new cameras and lenses and it has also updated an older model before the actual start of Photokina, it would seem that German company Leica still had one heck of a "rabbit" in its magic hat. And that's because the high-end digital camera manufacturer has just shed light on its ...

23 September 2008
05:21 GMT

New Kodak Wireless AIO Inkjet Printers Tout Lowest Ink Replacement Cost Ever

As some of you might know, the ink used for inkjet printers is among the most expensive substances on the planet. However, in order to make their products more attractive for budget-conscious users, the most important manufacturers from this particular segment are now focusing on reducing the printing costs as much a...

23 September 2008
05:16 GMT

NVIDIA Preparing 55nm Comeback as Soon as September

By now, almost every computer enthusiast out there must know that AMD has finally succeeded in claiming the number one spot in the high-performance graphics market, making the guys at NVIDIA scratch their heads to come up with a new card that would be capable of competing with the powerful Radeon HD 4870 X2. This is ...

23 September 2008
05:12 GMT

Microsoft “Cutting” Components from Windows 7

The trend started with the MinWin project, designed to deliver a bare-bone core of the Windows operating system (the kernel plus critical systems) is reverberating across Windows 7. In combination with the need to bridge the desktop platform with the Cloud, Microsoft is stripping Windows of several default component...

23 September 2008
04:57 GMT

Apple to Sell 5 Million iPhones in Q4

In a note to clients, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster writes that Apple will have sold 5 million iPhones by the end of the company's fourth fiscal quarter. Munster has previously estimated some 4.1 iPhones sold by Apple's Q4. The analyst is also confident in Apple's Macintosh and iPod sales this yea...

23 September 2008
04:49 GMT

First Patch for Spore Is Here

Electronic Arts announces that it has released the first patch for its Spore, a title that is already a big hit with gamers while also being at the center of several controversies regarding DRM and restrictions.This first patch is designed to address some bugs that the community identified and which tend to limit the...

23 September 2008
04:48 GMT

Helix 2008R1 Released

The Helix team has announced the release and immediate availability of the latest version of their Linux Distribution, called Helix 2008R1, but which is actually Helix 2.0. This version comes with a lot of changes over the previous release, both new additions and updated packages.Let's have a closer look at some...

23 September 2008
04:43 GMT

SNIA Announces the Solid State Storage Initiative

A few members of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) have announced at the SNIA 2008 Storage Developer Conference the launch of the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), a project meant to “foster the growth and success of the market for solid state storage in both commercial and consumer enviro...

23 September 2008
04:42 GMT

Xperia X1 Comes with Its Own Web-TV Series

Sony Ericsson is launching X1 with a reality thriller web series. The story goes like this: Johnny X is a man who has amnesia, and he's trying to remember his identity as he’s being chased by the police. Basically, it's a race against time for the main character.With each new episode, Johnny puts...

23 September 2008
04:41 GMT

Rumor Mill: HP Is Closing VoodooPC

HP is planning to restructure its VoodooPC division – a brand that has recently made it into all the headlines with the release of the new Omen and Envy computer systems. It is yet unclear what the company’s plans are exactly but, according to the ongoing rumors on the Internet, VoodooPC could soon become...

23 September 2008
04:22 GMT

New Details on Star Trek MMO

Star Trek has a lot of fans and has been the setting of a few games, without any spectacular result. Even if the intellectual property is very interesting for developers, they have never managed to make players connect with the Star Trek games that have come about.Now Cryptic is trying to come up with something ...

23 September 2008
04:21 GMT

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw Coming to the PC

THQ and Jakks Pacific, who are already heavily involved in developing a wide array of wrestling games, are announcing that they plan to launch a PC based online world called WWE SmackDown vs. Raw. The game is still in the first stages of development and the companies behind it are just offering a few details.The deve...

23 September 2008
04:12 GMT

Thermaltake XPRESSAR RCS100, the Refrigeration Cooling System

Thermaltake has released to the market the latest PC cooling technology, XPRESSAR. The new XPRESSAR RCS100 uses the first DC inverter type micro refrigeration cooling system enabling the platform to become the ultimate over-clock gaming solution. The company worked on the new technology starting from the design princ...

23 September 2008
04:09 GMT

iPhone 2.1 Software Breaks Background Email Checks

iPhone users have filled Apple's discussions forums with complaints regarding iPhone software 2.1. In what seems to be a widespread issue, 2.1 iPhones do not check for incoming e-mails automatically, whether the devices are set on a schedule or to push mail. Exchange and MobileMe accounts, which previously respo...

23 September 2008
04:03 GMT

GTA IV Multiplayer for PC Will Be Only on Games For Windows Live

Although it was a bit of a no-brainer, there were some of us who hoped that Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC would not be a Games For Windows exclusive. The dream of playing over the Local Area Network with friends, tearing up Liberty City, was a nice one, but it was only a dream. Rockstar and Microsoft have just annou...

23 September 2008
03:46 GMT

Brothers in Arms Unveils System Requirements

After a series of delays, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is finally arriving on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The release date is set in stone for October 10 and Ubisoft has just issued the hardware requirements related to the PC version of the title.Because the game uses the Unreal 3 engine, it&...

23 September 2008
03:35 GMT

Biggest Star in the Milky Way Weighed

Researchers from the University of Montreal, Canada, discovered that the giant star is also accompanied by another huge "sister," weighing 89 times more than our sun. The way stars are formed is known only in theory, based on previous observations and on the limits of science, which proposes models stating that ...

23 September 2008
03:32 GMT

Bruce Shelley's Thoughts on the Closing of Ensemble Studios

Microsoft has decided to close down Ensemble Studios and, although this piece of news is a bit old now, we have just received an official statement from Bruce Shelley, the boss of Ensemble, via the studio's blog. Even if a lot of people frowned upon Microsoft's decision of closing the studio that was respon...

23 September 2008
03:26 GMT

Walton Chaintech Intros Apogee Elite DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory Modules

As recent developments clearly show, almost every memory manufacturer out there is getting ready for the new wave of DDR3-supporting computer systems, which, naturally, only goes to explain the high number of DDR3 memory modules being released on the market. However, DDR2-enabled systems still constitute the majority...

23 September 2008
03:17 GMT

New Vaio TT Series Specs Leaked

It seems that Sony is on its way to release yet another series of its Vaio notebooks. According to sources, the new series will come as Vaio TT and will include four models for the beginning. There are some voices saying that the TT series is likely to replace the TZ series of notebooks. The new TT models expected to...

23 September 2008
03:00 GMT

Conflict Zone: Modern War Hints III (PS2)

Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy is a video game developed by MASA and published by Ubisoft Entertainment Software. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Dreamcast and the PC and was released in 2001. The title is classed as a war themed real time strategy game, played from an isometri...

23 September 2008
02:53 GMT

Xbox Japan Hopes to Continue Ascending Trend

If there's one thing that Microsoft wants to have, it's supremacy in Japan. The native country of Sony and Nintendo has always eluded the Redmond giant, mainly because the Japanese people didn't really like its games, which were oriented towards the American public in general. Stuff like violent shoote...

23 September 2008
02:51 GMT

iPhone 3G Adapter Recall – A 'Minor Speedbump'

Apple announced last week that, under certain conditions, the iPhone 3G ultracompact USB power adapter may cause “electric shock,” recalling all units from the US, Japan, Canada and other territories. While some may think this affects Apple's sales / image, American Technology Research analyst Shaw W...

23 September 2008
02:50 GMT

Conflict: Vietnam Hints III (PS2)

Conflict: Vietnam is a video game developed by Pivotal Games Ltd and published by SCi Games Ltd. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and for the PC; it was launched in 2004. The game is classed as a squad based shooter that is played from a third person perspective...

23 September 2008
02:44 GMT

Available Now: Elive 1.9.02 Unstable

The development team from Elive has proudly announced a new unstable version of their Debian-based Live CD, Elive 1.9.02, which comes with an improved installer and a handful of bug fixes - "The improvement of Elive for the next Stable release is proceeding smoothly, also profiting from the upcoming release of Debian...

23 September 2008
02:36 GMT

iRex Unveils iRex 1000 Series of Digital eBook Readers

For the past couple of days, iRex, the manufacturer of the iLiad and iLiad Book Edition portable eBook readers, has been touting a product that, according to the company, was supposed to forever change the way in which we perceive e-reading (reading books or text materials in electronic format, while on the go).It di...

23 September 2008
02:31 GMT

Midway Borrows Money for Game Development

Midway was a great publisher that, with the likes of Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man franchises under the belt, was doing really well in the 1990s. But ever since the takeover of the company by the Redstone family, a wealthy group of people from the United States, in 2005, things haven't been going so well anymore...

23 September 2008
02:22 GMT

Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Bagdad Hints II (PS2)

Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Bagdad is a video game developed by Pivotal Games Ltd and published by SCi Games Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PC and the Game Cube; it was released in 2003. It is classed as an action title with shooter elements, ...

23 September 2008
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Colin McRae Rally 04 Unlockables II (PS2)

Colin McRae Rally 04 is a video game developed and published by Codemasters Software Company Limited. The game was launched for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and the PC. It was released in 2003. It is classed as a racing simulation title with some off road elements and can be p...

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