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In the general field of physics, turbulences are among those factors that can cause a perfectly good device to malfunction. They represent hazard, and knowing your enemy is half the battle. Researchers looking into this type of phenomena are very dedicated workers, as was evidenced recently by California Institute of... |
24 November 2009
21:01 GMT |
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The state of California is about to make history in a few weeks, when it will become the first ever to introduce the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) all over its territory. Starting January 1, 2010, the state will have the necessary means to force all of the fuel suppliers on its territory to abide by the new laws, i... |
24 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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The Spitzer Space Telescope is one of the most renowned and important telescopes that the American space agency NASA currently has in orbit. Although the stage of its mission in which it observed the sky at super-low temperatures is over, it is still very capable of performing competitive science. This was again demo... |
24 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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HTC Corporation, the mobile-phone maker that delivered to the market the first handset running under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1), is rumored to be ramping up for the launch of an Android-powered mobile phone that will boast a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor inside. Moreover, ... |
24 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile-phone maker Nokia announced today that it would continue its efforts to align its research and development (R&D) operations to its already-announced portfolio of future products, and that these efforts would include the reduction of its R&D activities in Japan. According to the company, th... |
24 November 2009
18:11 GMT |
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In a new scientific study conducted on people's perceptions on politicians, it was revealed that people tended to alter the image they had of their candidate (or their opponent) in their mind, depending on preferences. The feelings that the politician incites in a person are a factor that directly influences the... |
24 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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You know what rules in the Dragon Age game world? A party made up of three mages and just one warrior specializing as a tank. There are mages, Morrigan and Wynne, that you can recruit in the game and can concentrate on damage dealing and on healing and buffs. The player can also create a mage character and specialize... |
24 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Leading telecommunication-equipment and -service provider Nokia Siemens Networks announced today together with LG that they had managed to successfully complete the first end-to-end LTE (Long Term Evolution) interoperability tests using the 2100 MHz frequency band. According to the duo, the tests were conducted in th... |
24 November 2009
17:51 GMT |
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A-H1N1 is the influenza strain that is responsible for the current swine flu pandemic, which has already stretched across the world and claimed thousands of lives. Although it carries a higher degree of danger as opposed to the “standard” strains, it is not unlike them in the way it acts. That is to say, ... |
24 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The global mobile marketing and advertising market is expected to see impressive growth during the following years, a recent report from Berg Insight shows. According to the firm, the market is expected to grow from EUR1 billion in 2008 up to EUR8.7 billion in 2014, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of... |
24 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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It seems that Activision and Red Octane might be interested in offering a new way to get the various downloadable content packs for Guitar Hero. In addition to the current mode, which allows the player to pay as he picks up each track, the two companies might introduce a subscription model allowing fans to get as man... |
24 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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The holiday season is drawing near and this can only mean one thing for all fashion-conscious women out there: they must start dieting and working out more than ever to fit that fabulous dress they plan to acquire for New Year’s Eve party or some such similar fancy event. Luckily, trainer Marco Borges, who prev... |
24 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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The ribosomes are some of the most important structures inside the human cells, as they play a fundamental role in making proteins from amino acids. Without proteins, our bodies would have no clue what to do, and all of the cells would die off very fast. Two new scientific studies have recently shed new light on the ... |
24 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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One of the biggest unanswered questions regarding the Universe today is why there are two types of galaxies, one that has trailing spiral arms, such as our own Milky Way, and one that looks more like a compact ball of stars, known as a barrel galaxy. Astronomers have struggled with this question for a long time, and ... |
24 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Mobile advertising agency AdMob has recently released its October Mobile Metrics report on the mobile advertising market, which was focused on how the requests were distributed on mobile phones based on each of the analyzed smartphone operating system. According to the agency, it didn't analyze the distribution ... |
24 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 is barely out the door and we've already seen the game receive some official, as well as some unofficial, new content. The official support from Valve is represented by the title's first patch that comes to fix several of the multiplayer issues it proved to have, while the modding community ha... |
24 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Fans of the “Twilight” films must already know that “New Moon,” the second installment in the franchise is, aside from the third biggest opener of all times in the history of cinema, also more action-packed than the previous film. As such, the question of what stars appearing in it did to keep... |
24 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Boost Mobile, the Sprint subsidiary that offers wireless services with no required contract, has recently announced the launch of another handset for its customers, namely the Motorola i410. The new device is added to the growing mobile-phone offering from Boost Mobile as a classic clamshell that sports both durabili... |
24 November 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced that it plans to release two bundles involving the Nintendo DSi in the United States. On November 27, in time for Black Friday, the Japanese manufacturer will offer interested buyers a Metallica Blue and a White version of the Nintendo DSi handheld, which will include 20 dollars worth of softwa... |
24 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Fad diets usually promise impressive results over short periods of time, which is why they’re so popular no matter how many warnings health experts issue concerning them. The downsides are that the results don’t stand the test of time and, secondly, that they imply restrictions many of us find it hard to ... |
24 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Mobile-phone carrier AT&T announced today the introduction of new plans for the users of its mobile broadband network. The new DataConnect Pass from AT&T comes to the market as a pay-as-you-need it data service that offers customers access to the carrier's fast 3G network, and is available by the day, by the wee... |
24 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Animals and insects living at the highest latitudes, either at the North or South Poles, had to be evolutionarily prepared to do so, biologists hypothesized a long time ago. They also proposed that these animals, especially the smaller ones, must have antifreeze molecules inside their bodies, to prevent the water ins... |
24 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Dropping some pennies off the original prices of their products is not an unusual for Raxco, one of the leading companies in the world when it comes to disk defragmentation. If you take into consideration the consistency of the promotions in the last four months, it would have been a logical assumption that this yea... |
24 November 2009
13:36 GMT |
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Chinese telecommunication-equipment provider Huawei Technologies Co. is reportedly getting ready to increase its presence on the North American Market. It seems that the company is considering the addition of a number of 600 more jobs to its operations on the continent, in an attempt to expand its market share in the... |
24 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it will offer those who have bought Need for Speed: Shift a free-to-download DLC pack which will provide even more content to play around with in the racing game. The new piece of content is called The Team Racing Pack and is set to introduce a new mode of play for those interested ... |
24 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Not long ago, reports emerged that Amy Winehouse, the multi-Grammy winning British singer infamous for her long and difficult struggle with substance abuse, was on the verge of falling victim to another addiction, just as dangerous. On the same note, the Mirror has now learned that things are getting more serious wit... |
24 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Star Wars The Old Republic proved very well just how popular it was when, at the start of its beta test subscription, BioWare's SWTOR site went down from the sheer amount of people that wanted to get on the action. Since then, the title kept teasing all of us with all sorts of new content. Whether it was new con... |
24 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile-phone maker Research In Motion announced not too long ago the release of a new handset to the market, namely the BlackBerry Bold 9700, which is also known as the Bold 2, and now the handset is already available for purchase via various carriers around the world, including T-Mobile and now AT&T in the ... |
24 November 2009
12:21 GMT |
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Earlier this month, as the promo campaign for “Avatar,” one of the most anticipated releases of this winter, was kicking into high gear, reports started to emerge as to how the film stood little chances of actually making a profit at the box-office, especially since it became possible because of an estima... |
24 November 2009
12:12 GMT |
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At this year’s American Music Awards, the unthinkable happened: Adam Lambert, once everybody’s favorite American Idol, despite not winning the title in the last season of the show, fell from grace with a performance that was labeled anything from tacky to disgraceful and shameless. Complaints continue to ... |
24 November 2009
11:42 GMT |
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Google hasn't even launched the extensions gallery for Chrome and the excitement is already building. Extensions have been supported to some extent by the browser for several months now, but only recently has Google gotten close to launching the feature to a wider audience. The company is now weeks, maybe days, ... |
24 November 2009
11:37 GMT |
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While work on Windows 7 client and server operating systems has been wrapped up since mid-2009, the latest iteration of Windows continues to be at the core of efforts centered on another Windows-related project from Microsoft. In this regard, the Redmond company is forging ahead with the development of the next gener... |
24 November 2009
11:31 GMT |
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In spite of being right under our noses, the Sun is still very little understood. While its physical and chemical traits have been established some time ago, there is still confusion about the underlying mechanisms that trigger the formation of events such as solar storms. Predicting them is of vital importance for o... |
24 November 2009
11:22 GMT |
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For much criticism they draw in the media for their personal life, despite not doing anything in particular to elicit such negative attention, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continue to do much good together as a celebrity couple. In fact, in 2009, the two have contributed over $6.4 million to charity, which virtually ... |
24 November 2009
11:14 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering customers a chance to win some rather sweet prizes via a new contest built around Windows 7, including an HP Envy 15 laptop. The contest, hosted over at Toolbox for IT is designed to permit IT professionals to share Windows 7-related experiences from the workplace. Participants need nothing more... |
24 November 2009
10:57 GMT |
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In a new comparative study of animal brains, it was revealed that the size of the brain is not necessarily a clear indicator that more mass equals more smarts. In a paper published in the November 17 issue of the respected scientific journal Current Biology, researchers report that insects with brains the size of a p... |
24 November 2009
10:46 GMT |
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OCZ and Symwave plan to join forces in an effort to come up with ever better, faster and more storage-capable, USB 3.0-compatible devices. The two plan to combine the flash-based storage technologies of OCZ with Symwave's expertise in silicon system solutions in order to develop the world's highest performi... |
24 November 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Janet Jackson is coming out of a long and committed relationship with music producer Jermaine Dupri, with whom she was even reportedly considering settling down and starting a family. On the other hand, there is ladies’ man Colin Farrell, who has been linked to stars of the highest profile. What they have in co... |
24 November 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Although discs nowadays are two-a-penny, and wasting one would not generally cause too much trouble, in the case of re-writeable media things change, as you have to know how reliable they are at each use.Another instrument included in Nero Toolkit is DiscSpeed which is designed for benchmarking the speeds of the opti... |
24 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Either Germans care a whole lot about their privacy or they really have it in for Google. Most likely it's the first, but it doesn't discount from the fact that Google is getting in trouble again in the country, after the whole Street View affair, this time for Google Analytics. Several government official... |
24 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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The KOffice team announced on November 24th that, after six months of hard work, the final version of their KOffice 2.1 open source office suite was now available for download on mirrors worldwide. The new version brings numerous improvements over the 2.0.0 release and, as usual, some new features, such as the abilit... |
24 November 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Quantum computers are one of the most promising and hard-to-reach goals in the world today. These machines promise unprecedented calculation power, that would make today's supercomputers look like mere pocket calculators. But achieving stable quantum operations is tremendously difficult, and groups around the wo... |
24 November 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has recently announced that its Android-based HTC Tattoo handset is now available for purchase in India. According to the company, the new device is aimed at enabling all mobile phone users out there enjoy a customized device both on the inside and on the outside. All asp... |
24 November 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Jumsoft, a key provider of Apple Keynote themes and objects, has released its all-new Keynote Themes FX 5.0. Boasting 15 brilliant themes to be used by professional designers, the package costs $39 for new users and $19 for existing customers. Presentations, put together with Keynote Themes FX, can be exported as Qui... |
24 November 2009
10:26 GMT |
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“Disaster recovery and business continuity is critical whether you work in a huge multinational or a regular small business – having access to data in the event of an unexpected outage will save an organization thousands if not millions of dollars, so compromising cannot be an option,” Devang Kothar... |
24 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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The finale episode of TLC’s once very successful reality show, “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” dealing with the story of a regular married couple raising eight adorable children, aired as scheduled on Monday, November 23, 2009, and got mixed reactions in the now-estranged spouses. While Kate cried and expresse... |
24 November 2009
10:16 GMT |
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Developer Shazam has introduced its very own (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition Shazam app. Offering the same music discovery features as the recently launched Shazam Encore app, as well as (RED)-related content, the app will initially launch in eight languages and will sell for $4.99. 20% of the price is contributed to t... |
24 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Just the other day, Katie Price’s boyfriend as of July this year, cage fighter Alex Reid, was telling British paparazzi at the airport that he was traveling to Australia to propose to Price. He was convinced that she would say yes, so one can only imagine how he must have felt when she dumped him in front of th... |
24 November 2009
09:58 GMT |
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These days, most manufacturers seem to focus on implementing the latest touch and multitouch technologies into the biggest displays they can, trying to, as they say, bring man and machine closer together. Still, it seems that one company decided to scramble the whole idea and just go with what displays were actually ... |
24 November 2009
09:57 GMT |
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Swedish researchers have recently finished compiling a new report, which seems to suggest that holding in the anger caused by colleagues or bosses at the workplace could be detrimental to people's health. The correlation is especially true in the case of working men. In their case, it was revealed that the risk ... |
24 November 2009
09:52 GMT |
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With its hands in every cookie jar in the kitchen, there doesn't seem to be anything that Google isn't doing or planning to do. It's gotten to the point where even the slightest hint or rumor that Google is planning to enter a new market is making established players worry. But do utility companies ha... |
24 November 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Nokia X6, the first mobile phone from the Finnish handset vendor Nokia that comes to the market with a capacitive touchscreen display, is expected to make an appearance on the UK market as soon as this Friday. It seems that Nokia UK has finally decided to unveil the launch date and the price tag the new Comes With M... |
24 November 2009
09:46 GMT |
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David Beckham, Mr. Goldenballs himself, as some of his fans dubbed him a long time ago, suffers from asthma, his spokesperson has confirmed for the media. However, David’s condition is only a mild one and will not interfere with his future performances. Furthermore, his case can be seen as an example for all pe... |
24 November 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Although USB 3.0 will only be truly launched in 2011, by Intel at least, Gigabyte, a first-tier Taiwan-based manufacturer, decided to put together its own 3.0-supporting motherboards. Three in number, the products are part of the 333 series and are compatible with the central processing units belonging to the lines o... |
24 November 2009
09:29 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel is expected to update its line of low-power Atom processors with the introduction of the much-anticipated Pine Trail platform. There have been many rumors, recently, regarding the specifications and design of the first netbooks to adopt the new platform. Joining those rumors is a ... |
24 November 2009
09:24 GMT |
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The race between Mozilla and Microsoft is on yet again to establish positions such as innovation leader and follower, when it comes down to Firefox and Internet Explorer. And it will most probably fall on the two company’s next generation browser releases to help label the two software makers as either leading... |
24 November 2009
09:23 GMT |
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The IBM Corporation has officially entered the lab-on-a-chip market, with the development of its first microfluidic device. Their new instrument could offer a potent diagnostics tool against numerous diseases and virus types, as it makes use of capillary action to draw its conclusions. According to the company, the t... |
24 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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T-Mobile UK is yet another wireless carrier that added the new HTC HD2 to its offering. Following the launch of the device on the airwaves of Vodafone and O2 in the country, the operator also put the new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset on sale for its users, which can already grab this beauty from the company's onli... |
24 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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On Sol 2092 (Saturday, November 21), the Spirit rover received a new set of commands to drive, as experts were trying to move ahead with the plan of extricating it from its trap. The robot drove into a patch of loose soil called Troy in late April, and the powder-like dust did not allow for it to move since. Only rec... |
24 November 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Google is all about advertising when it comes to making money but it's still very dependent on search ads. It's doing more than OK with those, but that's no reason not to expand. One area where Google hopes to capture market share, by providing a fresh approach and better tools to measure the impact o... |
24 November 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Chris Brown has undoubtedly felt the backlash for his short fuse after the February 8 incident, when he lost whatever temper he still had and beat then-girlfriend Rihanna to a pulp. Despite signs to the contrary, it seems that the backlash still continues, with famed singer and producer Timbaland dropping him from a ... |
24 November 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
24 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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There’s no disputing over the fact that Windows 7 brings a consistent overhaul of the graphical user interface that has become synonymous with the Windows operating system. One critical aspect of the Windows 7 GUI redesign is the revamping of the Taskbar, which is now affectionately referred to in some circles... |
24 November 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Although it finished up some of its bigger legal issues when it settled the antitrust lawsuit with AMD, Intel is still far from getting out of all its other legal disputes. One of the more heated litigations that are taking place between it and NVIDIA, the entire quarrel between the two enterprises revolves around wh... |
24 November 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Rondo of Swords is a strategy role-playing video game that will allow one to partake in different quests and adventures of all types. The battle system brings interesting innovations through the "Route Maneuver System." This will have gamers set a specific route, after which they'll have to deal with the events ... |
24 November 2009
08:34 GMT |
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A brochure listing Apple’s planned discounts for Black Friday has reportedly been leaked to people at The BoyGeniusReport who, without fail, posted the document in all its glory. The site claims that the Black Friday deals have been provided by a trusty source, although there is still doubt as to whether the im... |
24 November 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Throughout today, the 12 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), featuring both members of the orbital outpost and the docked space shuttle Atlantis, will conduct the last maintenance work on the facility. This is the last day the two crews will spend together, as Atlantis is scheduled to undock tomo... |
24 November 2009
08:25 GMT |
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A new phishing scam capitalizes on people's trust towards reputed news publications and security companies. The rogue email messages masquerade as a Trend Micro newsletter about a real article on the company featured in PC World back in September.Attacks that try to exploit various subjects attracting a consider... |
24 November 2009
08:23 GMT |
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It's hard to make any progress in social networking without opening up the service to outside developers. Even Facebook, arguably the most closed off social network, knows this and has made the most of its Facebook Connect offering. Now LinkedIn is looking to do the same with the announcement that it has finall... |
24 November 2009
08:22 GMT |
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The Drobo is a product that is able to preserve the integrity of stored data in case of hard-drive failure by using the revolutionary but easily usable BeyondRAID storage technology that protects data against a hard-disk crash. Data will be securely backed up as long as the Drobo itself is equipped with more than a s... |
24 November 2009
08:20 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today the launch of two new slider phones that come with 3G connectivity, the Nokia 6700 slide and Nokia 7230. According to the company, the two handsets can offer users enhanced access to social networking sites, as well as the possibility to easily share content with thei... |
24 November 2009
08:08 GMT |
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Sometimes, companies decide that enough is enough, and, for one reason or another, they begin to dish out bans like it's the end of the world. Earlier this week, we saw Microsoft denying that the number of Xbox Live users banned was around one million, but the number still remained up there, on top of the charts... |
24 November 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Over the years, numerous initiatives that sought to find alien civilizations have appeared around the world. These groups benefit from powerful telescopes and transmitters and constantly broadcast messages that contain our location into deep-space. But for a while, some voices have been arguing that the codes sent in... |
24 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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A recent move from Microsoft is designed to open up the first commercial example of the company’s surface computing technology to developers worldwide. Specifically, the Redmond company is no longer restricting access to the software development kit for Microsoft Surface. As of earlier this month, all developer... |
24 November 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Telstra announced today that Australian mobile phone users have now yet another high-end handset to enjoy on its airwaves, namely the BlackBerry Bold 9700 (Bold 2). The new device comes with support for Telstra's Next G network, the company announced, adding that its customers are expected to f... |
24 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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It seems that the Chinese Ministry of Culture has sent out a letter to a variety of videogames developers and operators, inviting them to take greater care related to the content which is being offered, especially if their games are played online.The letter is quoted as making references to the content not being &ldq... |
24 November 2009
07:00 GMT |
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For an upgrade to the original, the PSP Go doesn't add as many new things from the older model as it loses. The sliding screen is an extra, but so is the cost, and not all previous PSP releases are available to the platform. But the main thing it has lost is the UMD cartridge in favor of the PlayStation Store-on... |
24 November 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Agile Web Solutions has just issued a new update for the young 1Password 3. Out of beta just last week, the password manager and form filler for Mac OS X is now getting more maintenance from its makers, including support for the new Camino 2 release and the addition of special checks, to detect and block frequent aut... |
24 November 2009
06:47 GMT |
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The iHAS524 DVD writer is Lite-On's first optical scribing drive that features the LabelTag technology. But we will get to that later. The product was announced earlier this year, namely in spring, but only now, nearing the winter holidays, does it finally reach the European market segment. The product is design... |
24 November 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Following the launch of the final development milestone of its Cloud platform, Microsoft has made available for download a new release of the software development kit built around Windows Azure. At the Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC 2009), the Redmond company released new build of the Windows Azure Sof... |
24 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft released the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, at the beginning of October. The platform in itself has seen a fair amount of bad reviews, yet it seems that the iteration should be seen only as a minor update to the platform, with a major u... |
24 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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A new scientific study seems to suggest that children are far better at detecting the tricks behind optical illusions than the elderly. This ability may be partially owed to the different way in which the two age groups size up the target objects, and relate their sizes to everything around them. This may also mean, ... |
24 November 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Intel's Core i7 family of processor is currently the chip maker's highest-performing line of central processing units. These chips are designed on a 45nm manufacturing technology and are based on the Nehalem microarchitecture. While being capable of achieving impressive results in all of today's bench... |
24 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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With Twitter getting back in shape in the past few weeks, even though visitor numbers are still down, it's time to play one of Silicon Valley's most popular games again. No, it's not 'how is Twitter going to make money' but 'when will Twitter be sold'. In the past, there have been ... |
24 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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November turned out to be a very busy month musically. Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna are all set to release albums in this period (or have done so already), so it’s almost understandable if one forgets that Susan Boyle too has her first album ever coming out this month. Luckily for fans, she’s not ... |
24 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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The Dukes of Hazard: Return of the General Lee is a videogame developed by Ratbag Pty. Ltd. and published by Ubisoft. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the original Xbox from Microsoft in September 2004. It is classed as an action adventure title featuring driving elements and is based... |
24 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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We already know that IBM, although it didn't get the top position in the Top500 list this time around, did hold the number-one position with its Roadrunner for quite a while. Additionally, the company got the top position in the Green500 list (really, 18 out of the top 20 were IBM stations). Based on these facts... |
24 November 2009
06:02 GMT |
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LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. has announced the launch of its newest product, the LG X120 netbook, on the United States market via mobile-phone carrier AT&T. According to the company, the new netbook is one of the hot products announced by LG at the Mobile World Congress, 2009, held in Barcelona. A unique feature... |
24 November 2009
06:02 GMT |
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For the vast majority of end users the Cloud-based components of the Office 2010 System will be available exclusively via Windows Live Skydrive. As long as they are intimately connected with Windows Live, Office Web Apps are also free, but ad-supported. However, there is yet another flavor of Office 2010 Office Web ... |
24 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Sony's PlayStation 3 is becoming less and less of a gaming console with the introduction of all sorts of applications, but, recently, the platform has become even less of an entertainment system. Just last week, we saw that the PS3's Cell processor was being used by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcemen... |
24 November 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Scientists have known for a long time what the basic process involved in vocalization is. Regardless if we speak, sing or shout, the sounds are produced in the same way. Airflow pushed out of the lungs passes between the vocal chords, which are nothing more than muscular filaments. When this happens, the structures v... |
24 November 2009
05:54 GMT |
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The high-end HTC HD2, one of the nicest mobile phones that reached the market during the ongoing year, is reportedly suffering from some camera-related issues. The main problem is that the pictures taken with the phone's camera show a Pink/Purple hue. It seems that there are already a series of users who experi... |
24 November 2009
05:53 GMT |
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It's not even December yet and companies are already getting the Christmas fever. Who could blame them, the holiday season is the best time of the year for retailers and everyone is gearing up for a piece of the action. Google is not missing out either and is sprucing out its Product Search with several new fea... |
24 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announce that they recently managed to complete a new method of fabricating self-assembling nanostructures. The technology, they say, combines two different approaches, namely photolithography – the same process used in producing integrated cir... |
24 November 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Just a few days ahead of the official debut of AMD's much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU graphics card, the Internet was loaded with pre-launch rumors on the specifications and features of the company's new card. Among those rumors, there were a couple of reports on a second dual-GPU AMD card, specul... |
24 November 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Inno3D's i-Chill series of products is determined by the special cooling mechanisms employed in the temperature management. The product series has its own custom-designed cooler, namely the XStriker3. This cooler is especially designed with top-notch passive and active cooling mechanisms, which makes it especial... |
24 November 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, has launched an initiative called “Educate to Innovate”, aimed at getting more people interested in topics related to the so-called STEM, which is science, technology, engineering and math. And it seems that big companies with a presence in the videogaming... |
24 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The... |
24 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Klausner Technologies, Inc. announced on Monday that it filed suits against Canadian Mobile phone maker Research In Motion and against Motorola, Inc. for patent infringements regarding the Visual Voicemail. Klausner Technologies is a company that owns a number of 25 patents all around the world, on the basic Visual ... |
24 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Microsoft is kicking up a notch a virtualization solution designed to cut both the costs and the time associated with application deployment in corporate environments. As of the past week, the release Candidate of Microsoft Application Virtualization is available for download from Microsoft Connect. The Redmond comp... |
24 November 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The web is build around advertising but, as a medium, it's still relatively new and rapidly evolving at the same time. This creates a need and an opportunity to come up with new models and ad technologies which are better suited for the environment besides the established search and contextual ads, either in te... |
24 November 2009
05:16 GMT |
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This October, Microsoft's monarchic attitude showed itself once again when it decided to limit the possibility of using Xbox 360 addons that were not manufactured by the company itself. Everything that Larry Hryb deemed as "unauthorized Memory Units" became unusable after the update was applied on a 360 console.... |
24 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Graphene is one of the most recently-discovered materials in the scientific community, at the tender age of 5 years old. In spite of only being discovered in 2004, it is already considered to be one of the possible replacements for silicon, the chemical that at this point provides the basis for the world of electroni... |
24 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari, Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title played from a third person pe... |
24 November 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake of the original Kirby Super Star, released on the SNES back in 1996, and it features seven different main games. In addition to the previous one, Ultra includes five new titles and three new sub-games. Some of these are detailed below.In The Arena, you'll be able to face all of... |
24 November 2009
05:05 GMT |
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In a recent blog post, Sophos’ Paul Ducklin sounds the alarm over a new piece of iPhone malware that apparently uploads stolen data to a Lithuanian server, while each device is assigned a unique ID as a reference for the attackers. Although the intent of the worm is yet unclear, the virus apparently searches fo... |
24 November 2009
05:05 GMT |
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The 2009 American Music Awards aired this Sunday from Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater and, for viewers on the East Coast, it came with several very “unique” moments, for lack of a better term. Aside from Adam Lambert’s full, unedited performance of “For Your Entertainment,” the original... |
24 November 2009
05:03 GMT |
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With the many latest releases of high-end hardware products in the lines of graphics adapters and ultra high-end configurations, little time was left for introducing other products with wider functionality. The Radeon HD 5970 and Maingear's SHIFT are only accessible to high-end users, whereas Viewsonic's VO... |
24 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Microsoft applauded President Barack Obama for making science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education nothing short of a national priority, according to Pamela Passman, corporate vice president, Global Corporate Affairs. The Redmond company indicates that it will back government efforts designed to drive ... |
24 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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According to a recent report from The NPD Group, the average purchase price for mobile phones on the US market has been dropping lately. The latest buy-one-get-one (BOGO) offers, as well as other price cuts, have led to a drop of 3 percent in the average selling price for mobile phones in the third quarter of the on... |
24 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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If there was any doubt that social gaming has hit the big time, it was dispelled recently when gaming giant EA acquired Playfish, one of the top players in the market, for $400 million, taking some people by surprise. It may turn out to have been a bargain for EA as the biggest name in social gaming, Zynga, is getti... |
24 November 2009
04:38 GMT |
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In spite of their massive observation capacities, today's telescopes are still limited in the amount of data they can observe. There are structures obscured or partially out of sight and analyzing them is just as important to our knowledge of the Universe as looking at the way the Sun works. But the process can ... |
24 November 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The Facebook staff has been hard at work to squash a new worm propagating on the social networking platform with the help of unwary users. Using the image of a female model in lingerie as lure, the nuisance spread from wall to wall through a Web exploitation technique known as clickjacking.This most recent attack doe... |
24 November 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Long life, high performance and low power consumption are the three elements that today's technological products are struggling to merge together, in some cases more successfully than others. In the case of LCD displays, the merger was done rather well when speaking of LED (Light Emitting Diodes) backlit monitor... |
24 November 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying to create a color e-reader for a long time, but the extreme demands that such a goal imposes of existing technology has meant that progress was slow. It was only recently that a group of experts managed to create a prototype of an electronic reader with a color display, but they admit to h... |
24 November 2009
04:24 GMT |
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The Monster Hunger series is a huge hit in Japan, both on the Nintendo Wii and on the PlayStation Portable, but it seems that the cross over appeal which would also assure its success on Western markets has been lacking until now. Capcom is saying that Monster Hunter Tri, coming in March 2010, will make it big in the... |
24 November 2009
04:23 GMT |
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The goals of any respectable, young Japanese high-school graduate is to enter a famous and renowned university, like the Tokyto University, and then to go on and be recruited by a respectable and powerful company. It may not sound like all that different from the rest of the world, but Japan has a bit of a cult of th... |
24 November 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Adam Lambert made his big musical debut outside the American Idol circuit at the 2009 American Music Awards, held over the weekend in Los Angeles, at the Nokia Theater. Unfortunately, his live performance of “For Your Entertainment,” the title single off his debut album, was not what most fans would have ... |
24 November 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Apple has updated the main page of its web site not only with a shopping-event announcement, but also with three new iPhone adds. The Mac maker confirms that there are currently over 100,000 applications to choose from, for both iPhone and iPod touch, and lauds the networking capabilities of the former by showing how... |
24 November 2009
04:11 GMT |
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Customers looking to buy new hardware or software products, as well as new computers, should look for the Windows 7 logo ahead of anything else, is the advice that Microsoft gives shoppers. Mark Relph - senior director - Windows Ecosystem Team, notes that especially holiday shoppers should be on the lookout for &ldqu... |
24 November 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Google hasn't been making too much inroad into display advertising, certainly not to the extent of its success with search ads. But it's not giving up any time soon and, if it can't deliver on its own, it could always buy a company that can. And this is exactly what it did with the acquisition of Tera... |
24 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Sony has set a target of selling 13 million PlayStation 3 gaming consoles during the course of this fiscal year and Kaz Hirai, who is an executive vice president of the Japanese company, is telling the media that he is very confident that his company will surpass that number of devices sold.During the last fiscal yea... |
24 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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One of the most popular mobile phones running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, that will not have a taste of the recently launched Windows Mobile 6.5 flavor, seems to be the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. There are a wide range of WinMo-powered handsets that saw an upgrade from the 6.1 version to th... |
24 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Buffalo Technology, a leading vendor of consumer storage solutions, has just announced that it has begun shipping its USB 3.0-equipped DriveStation HD-HXU3 external hard drives in the USA. The new drives have been designed to deliver the performance of today's latest hard disk drives, combined with the new USB ... |
24 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Customers already running the latest iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7, along with the Internet Explorer 8 are safe from potential exploits targeting a zero-day vulnerability in older releases of Internet Explorer, according to Microsoft. In an email message to Softpedia, Alan Wallace, security response... |
24 November 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Normally, when people buy a PC, they go for whatever components they can scramble, but one trend that seems to be consistent anywhere is the tendency of purchasing a single, good storage unit. This means that end-users will mostly buy a high-capacity hard or solid-state drive in order to remove the need for powering ... |
24 November 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos, of Amazon.com fame, is currently involved in constructing a new spacecraft, which is designed to be capable of routinely flying numerous astronauts to suborbital flights, at very low prices. The Bezos Blue Origin business plan is currently undergoing testings at a private launch site in Texas,... |
24 November 2009
03:36 GMT |
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This year’s edition of the American Music Awards, held over the weekend at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, was not only the venue where Adam Lambert made his big musical debut outside the American Idol circuit, but also the one where Rihanna made her splashing return into the spotlight. Very high hopes were p... |
24 November 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Just four months after the general availability of the third major installment of its Expression suite of development and designer products, Microsoft is offering the first service pack release for one of the components. Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 is currently up for grabs from the Microsoft Download Center, wit... |
24 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Blizzard has a certain reputation regarding its game releases and how meticulous it is with them. A high standard for quality has ensured that, up until now, the developer has had yet to create a game that hasn't been received with critical acclaim. In its search for perfection, some titles might have been scrap... |
24 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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People living on an island of New Zealand were puzzled to discover one morning a large number of icebergs floating off their coasts. The ice blocks, more than a hundred of them, came all the way from Antarctica, according to a group of researchers, and it may be that they were set adrift more than 9 years ago. During... |
24 November 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Square Enix is continuing its push to conquer the Western gaming market by announcing that it will be releasing Supreme Commander 2, the real time strategy videogame from Gas Powered Games, during the spring of 2010 on the PC and the Xbox 360 home gaming console.
The sequel is set to take place 25 years after the... |
24 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and computer products, has recently announced the debut of its STORY Station Plus, a new line-up of 3.5-inch external hard drives, designed to boast a fast external serial ATA (eSATA) interface and up to 2TB of storage space. The new line-up of... |
24 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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With the advent of graphics processing units that can take upon themselves part of the CPU's computing tasks, developers are slowly researching how GPUs might be used in complicated computations instead of just graphics-rendering tasks. While supercomputers based on this principle are just beginning to appear, C... |
24 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Last week Microsoft made available for download the first public testing Build of the next iteration of its Windows for supercomputers operating system. Following the release of the first Beta development milestone for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, the Redmond company is now offering customers interested in running its... |
24 November 2009
03:08 GMT |
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This year’s edition of the American Music Awards was a celebration of the greatest artists on the US music scene at the moment and, as expected, the live performances matched the caliber of the event. Lady Gaga’s medley of two of the tracks included on her latest album, “The Fame Monster,” mor... |
24 November 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile-phone maker HTC seems determined to sell as many smartphones as possible during this year's holiday season. To make sure it does so, the company has initiated a new campaign aimed at those who want to buy a new HTC smartphone, and will give $100 to any user who makes a purchase from Verizon, T-M... |
24 November 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Two astronauts from the crew of space shuttle Atlantis managed to successfully complete all of the tasks allotted to them in the third spacewalk of the STS-129 assembly mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The third and last extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Atlantis flight took place yesterday, but ... |
24 November 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Just three days after the release of an update to the developer flavor of its open source browser, Google has made available for download a refresh of Chrome through the Dev Channel. “The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.11 for Windows and Linux,” revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program man... |
24 November 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Google Chrome extensions are here for everyone. Well, almost, for everyone who's a developer. The extensions gallery which we've been getting hints of for more than a week now is finally open for business, but for the moment, only to allow developers to upload their extensions. The gallery went live just a... |
24 November 2009
02:48 GMT |
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For a long time, policymakers have dreamed about going to the Moon, or Mars, but also to near-Earth Objects, a class of celestial bodies including asteroids and meteorites, that are large enough to handle a spacecraft landing on them. Over recent months, this plan has been getting increased support from the American ... |
24 November 2009
02:42 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
24 November 2009
02:39 GMT |
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Customers having problems with the Shut Down process of Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client can now turn to the company for a possible resolve. The software giant informed that in certain scenarios users of Windows 7 RTM that attempt to Shut Down, or put their computer into Sleep mode, won’... |
24 November 2009
02:37 GMT |
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The latest flavor of Google's Android operating system, Eclair or Android 2.0, brought to the table a brand new feature for mobile phone users, namely Google Maps Navigation (Beta). The feature was announced as being free, yet the problem was that Verizon's Motorola DROID was the only Android 2.0-based mob... |
24 November 2009
02:36 GMT |
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With an overall dimension of 150 x 85 x 162 mm, Evercool's Armor Hard Drive Cooler was designed to create just the right temperature for the drives to operate properly. Despite what some people may think, HDDs are not like chips. They do not work better if they are supercooled. In order for an HDD to function pr... |
24 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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DRIV3R, which is also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a Game Cube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later port... |
24 November 2009
02:08 GMT |
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