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Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a video game developed by Treyarch and Frey Matter and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Game Cube and the Xbox from Microsoft and launched in 2005. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with se... |
25 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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I must admit that, ever since I got my hands on Space Quest (the first adventure game I have played) I knew I was going to love this genre forever. Tons of other wonderful titles followed, with LucasArts and Sierra battling for the number one spot in my heart.You probably remember those times, too: the era of Maniac ... |
25 July 2008
20:16 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the first nex-gen title to be 100% developed internally by Lucas Arts. After the saga was completed by the final movies, there were some questions about the story and specifically about the period of time between Episode III and IV. Darth Vader has just become the apprentice Darth Si... |
25 July 2008
19:46 GMT |
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Massive Action Game has been announced at E3 by Sony as being the biggest ever multiplayer experience, exclusive to the PlayStation 3. The developers will be the people behind SOCOM, Zipper Entertainment and the game will most likely be marketed as a modern world military simulator. The big selling point for Massive ... |
25 July 2008
19:11 GMT |
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The NSA and Third Echelon have put Sam in charge of training a young operative to take his place. For some reason I simply cannot understand, every time someone picks a young individual for an important task, in any movie I've seen, he has to be an insubordinate prick with no respect toward the chain of command.... |
25 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Call of Duty 3 is a video game developed by Treyarch and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii. The title was launched in 2006. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with seq... |
25 July 2008
18:36 GMT |
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At Gamefest 2008, Alcin Gendrano, who is group manager for Xbox Live Marketplace, and Chris Novak, lead design director for the Microsoft Game Studio, have talked about how paid downloadable content can create an alternative to the used games market, which now seems to be growing, especially as major retailers warm u... |
25 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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The Spiderwick Chronicles is a computer and video game developed by Stormfront Studios and published on the 6th of February 2008. The game recreates the fantastical world of the Spiderwick film and popular book series giving the players a chance to experience adventure and exploration in the Spiderwick universe. Just... |
25 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a video game developed by Spark Unlimited and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Game Cube and the Xbox from Microsoft. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with sequences in first person view. Th... |
25 July 2008
16:46 GMT |
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Apple's best known and by far the most glamorous of all its Retail Stores is the Fifth Avenue Apple Retail Store, in New York City. Folks stop by and admire the huge glass cube with a white Apple logo hanging in the middle like it's one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Those lucky Yanks, they get all the ... |
25 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Nintendo has been for some time involved in a legal battle with Anascape Ltd, a company based in Tyler, Texas. The dispute was built around a patent that the company holds since the 1970's regarding the creation of controllers for game consoles that allow six axis movement. Both Microsoft and Sony are now licens... |
25 July 2008
15:56 GMT |
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East India Company seems to be a very promising real time strategy title which apparently got delayed until the first financial quarter of 2009 (the game was scheduled to be released by the end of the year). Unfortunately, I had never heard about this game, so I can't say I'm surprised by the delay. However... |
25 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006, it is available for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The title is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the video... |
25 July 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Universal is announcing that it is setting up a videogame studio to handle development for some upcoming projects. Universal had a stake in Vivendi Universal, even if that company was not focused on games based on movies, but the merger between Activision and Blizzard means Vivendi Universal is now virtually out of t... |
25 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Everybody was expecting to hear Bungie's huge announcement about a supposedly new Halo game during the E3 media summit last week, but Microsoft had other plans, claiming that E3 stage is too small for Bungie. And by saying that, they kind of confirmed the rumor: what could be bigger than a new game in the Halo f... |
25 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Yesterday, David Recondon announced the launch of the New Open Web Foundation, a virtual place where developers must come to an agreement regarding the development and ratification of web standards. "The foundation is trying to break the trend of creating separate foundations for each specification, coming out of the... |
25 July 2008
12:54 GMT |
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Although you might have wished so, Cut & Paste is not a new feature embedded by Apple in the iPhone 3G. It's a Japanese company that makes cases for various devices, and its latest products are two series of iPhone 3G cases. Weirdly named "Phone Bubble 3G" and "Phone Cube 3G", the new set of cases are made of si... |
25 July 2008
12:10 GMT |
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Everybody knew that Diablo III was in the works but once the game was officially revealed, the true madness began. Of course, the rather lengthy trailer only proved that we'd indeed have a great title, but that was about it: many questions were left unanswered and we were all wondering when we'd get some an... |
25 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Spectral Force 3: Innocent Rage is a tactical role playing game developed by Idea Factory and published by Atlus on the 11th of August 2006 in Japan, exclusively for the Xbox 360. The game is expected to be released in North America, too, on the 29th of July 2008. However, since it was not very successful in Japan, n... |
25 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Beyond any shadow of a doubt, the iPod Shuffle has been one of the trendsetting gadgets during recent years as it came forth with a completely new design and a new approach to the real portability of music; clamped to clothes, belt or shirt chest-pocket, clamped on one of your backpack's strings, the Shuffle has... |
25 July 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Bob Richard, the marketing director of Javelin Marketing, a California based company that specializes in selling promotional material, has recently revealed to the general public that the organization he works for wasted $14,000 on an e-mail address list. It was purchased from Emailappenders and seemed to be genuine,... |
25 July 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Not long after the Pwnage jailbreaking Tool was released for iPhone owners using Macs, the Windows version of the hacking software emerged. Dubbed WinPwn, it offers support for both 1.1.4 and 2.0, custom Image, custom payload and support for iPhone 3G. The tool can be used to jailbreak / unlock iPhone, iPhone 3G and ... |
25 July 2008
11:11 GMT |
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Yahoo!, with its current share price placing around $20, is no longer a matter of interest for Microsoft. Although the Redmond company offered $33 per share in May, when it opened a bid to buy all of Yahoo!, the facts in the next moths proved that Microsoft could have stepped into a dangerous area. The company seems ... |
25 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Those who read George Orwell's famous Animal Farm novel might be familiar with the line "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" - obviously a metaphor for what's happening in the human society. Well, this is also applicable for mobile users, and the latest "proof" is related to RIM'... |
25 July 2008
10:46 GMT |
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A new gas giant exoplanet roughly the size of Jupiter orbiting around a star similar to our Sun has been found by the CoRoT space telescope operated by the European Space Agency. The planet, dubbed CoRoT-Exo-4b, was discovered through a transit method, appears to complete an orbit around its star in about 9.2 days an... |
25 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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According to Click Forensics, company that specializes in traffic quality management, in the second quarter of 2008 PPC (pay-per-click) fraud figures have maintained a relatively stable level of 16.2%. The data has been collected from more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies and it shows that fraudsters prefer... |
25 July 2008
10:30 GMT |
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AOL's Advertising.com along with the other operators owned by the company have proven to be the most efficient Internet advertising platform as a whole, as it reached 89.7% of the total Internet audience in the U.S. in June 2008. A comScore study reveals that, as AOL claims, no other ad provider managed to touch... |
25 July 2008
10:07 GMT |
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The new member of Nokia's Nseries, Nokia N81 8GB, is obviously a multimedia-oriented device. We all have great expectations from Nokia high-end line-up, and the Nseries has always offered a wide range of devices that can fulfill even the most fastidious user needs. Nokia N81 targets youngsters looking for a devi... |
25 July 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Acer is undoubtedly one of the worldwide leading notebook manufacturers - in fact, the company is currently holding the number three spot among all manufacturers across the globe. Because of this, it is also seeking to place itself as the number 3 US notebook vendor, thus taking the spot from competitor Apple. The co... |
25 July 2008
10:00 GMT |
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The first mobile phone to bear the TAG Heuer brand, namely the luxurious TAG Heuer Meridiist, has been approved by the FCC, hence rich mobile users from the US will be able to buy it too (besides the users from Europe, who will be the first to get the handset). Although it does not feature 3G connectivity, the Merid... |
25 July 2008
09:50 GMT |
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The Snowy River, a massive white formation of tiny calcite crystals believed to span over as much as 6.4 kilometers or more inside the Fort Stanton Cave complex (the longest continuous cave formation in the world), is by far the latest and oddest geological finding in the world. In fact, the mineral deposit found sev... |
25 July 2008
09:47 GMT |
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It seems that Apple, company that specializes in consumer electronics and software solutions, is looking for someone who is skilled enough so as to successfully hack the iPhone. Someone could in theory successfully attack an iPhone, since it has recently been revealed that even the newly launched iPhone 2.0 is vulner... |
25 July 2008
09:43 GMT |
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Developed by Monolith Productions, Condemned: Criminal Origins allows players to experience an unnatural level of psychological tension as they use their instincts and forensic tools to track down serial killers and bring them to justice. Players will take on the role of Ethan Thomas, an FBI agent in the Serial Crime... |
25 July 2008
09:12 GMT |
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I guess all Linux users, especially Ubuntu ones, have used or at least heard about Automatix, an application that can install and uninstall the most used and popular programs. From multimedia codecs and archiving tools, e-mail clients and web browsers, to audio/video ripping and burning software, Automatix could do t... |
25 July 2008
09:11 GMT |
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If they are not careful, Yahoo! Music users can lose all their downloaded songs. The Yahoo! Music Store announced today that after September 30, the service would no longer be available, so people are advised to backup their music belongings, by saving them on CDs. This because, after the specified date, without the ... |
25 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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The game Conan for the Xbox 360 should not be mistaken for the recently released MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, as they barely have anything in common. Conan was released exclusively for next-gen consoles (Xbox 360 and PS3) on the 28th of September 2007 in Europe and the 23rd of October 2007 in the United ... |
25 July 2008
09:06 GMT |
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ASUSTek is really taking care of its Eee brand, and we've seen that already on a number of occasions, every time various Eee devices were released or just announced. Not that it could be any other way, especially given the success the Eee PC has enjoyed worldwide, ever since it was released. Moreover, according ... |
25 July 2008
09:02 GMT |
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As promised more than a month ago, SEGA Mobile has now released the official mobile games of the 2008 Beijing Olympic competition. Called "Beijing 2008" and "Sonic at the Olympic Games", the two new titles will allow mobile gamers to feel the excitement of the famous sporting event, directly from their handsets. "B... |
25 July 2008
08:59 GMT |
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First of all, gamers should know that Jericho is a terrifying squad-based horror FPS inspired by an original concept and story by horror writer and film maker Clive Barker. An ancient evil has broken through into our world and is threatening to spread its taint across Earth unless it's stopped. At ground zero li... |
25 July 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Although being the second most abundant element in the universe, making for up to 23 percent of all ordinary matter, helium is one of the most scarce elements on Earth, having a concentration averaging about 5.2 parts per million in Earth's atmosphere. Some studies even suggested that within a few years, the hel... |
25 July 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Championship Manager 2007, often considered just a history making game that lost its depth, was published by Eidos and developed by Beautiful Game Studios. The Xbox 360 version was made available on the 16th of March 2007 and received generally average reviews.Compared to its bigger brother, Footbal Manager, CM2007 l... |
25 July 2008
08:49 GMT |
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Users must know that by setting up an account with Skype in order to make free online calls, they are also exposing themselves to a security problem. The thing is that if you no longer want to use your account and decide to get rid of it, you will find out that deleting it is impossible. The only thing that you can d... |
25 July 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Two days ago, we told you about Toshiba's confirmed plans to enter the netbook market with a product apparently set to impose new standards. Mark Whittard, General Manager of Toshiba Australia, has declared that the company he represents has taken a vivid interest in the netbook market, and that they plan to rol... |
25 July 2008
08:19 GMT |
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Spyglass Board Games is a title developed by Strange Flavour and published by Freeverse on the 1st of August 2007. It was released exclusively for the Xbox Live Arcade and costs 400 MS Points to download ($5). One of the most interesting features of the game is the integration of the Xbox Live Vision camera which all... |
25 July 2008
08:09 GMT |
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Mike Capps from Epic is one of the people invited at Microsoft's Gamefest 2008 to talk about games development using the Unreal 3 Engine, which is the most licensed middleware application in the world of videogames, and to detail the plans that Epic Games has regarding the future development of the engine.Tim Sw... |
25 July 2008
07:54 GMT |
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It has been known for some time that the PlayStation 3 version of BioShock would be the flag carrier when it comes to Trophy implementation on the platform. The feature was introduced in the botched patch 2.40 and support was announced even earlier. It basically means that the Sony gaming console is getting an equiva... |
25 July 2008
07:35 GMT |
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The team from Google Earth is not sparing any effort when it comes to making the application as realistic as possible. Street view, 3D buildings and other features the team has recently come up with are some of the things that contribute to the popularity of Google Earth. The only thing that is missing to achieve a r... |
25 July 2008
07:20 GMT |
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Apple has released the AirPort Extreme 2008-002 update for users of its powerful base station known as AirPort Extreme. The update improves the reliability of AirPort connections and (as if we even have to mention this), it is recommended to all AirPort Extreme users (under Tiger).Using one AirPort Extreme, up to 50 ... |
25 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Glu, the California-based mobile game publisher, announced the future release of HipSoft's popular "Build-a-lot" game for mobile phones. This comes after the signing of a multi-year deal with HipSoft, which allows Glu to offer the mobile edition of "Build-a-lot" for users across North and Latin America. Build... |
25 July 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Elitegroup Computer Systems, or ECS for short, has probably come out with the best graphics offer for all performance-hungry gamers. It is called GeForce 9800GTX+ Hydra Pack and it has just been announced today by the company.ECS' offer includes not one, but two GeForce 9800GTX+ graphics cards, cooled down by th... |
25 July 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Capcom Fighting Revolution is a video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 2 and published by Capcom Entertainment. It was created for the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony and for the Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in 2004. The game is classed as a classic fighting game, which is played from a third... |
25 July 2008
06:54 GMT |
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SN 2008D, a supernova explosion detected by NASA's Swift X-ray Space Telescope inside the galaxy NGC 2770 on January 9, 2009, might have actually been triggered by the gravitational collapse of a massive star into a black hole, say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, who claim that the ev... |
25 July 2008
06:51 GMT |
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If you are a security oriented PC user, then you take the necessary steps to stay safe, such as updating and patching your software regularly, and making sure that your private, confidential information does not fall into the wrong hands. So far it has been thought of encrypted IP calls, such as the ones made through... |
25 July 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Capcom Classics Collection is a video game developed and published by Capcom Entertainment. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the Xbox from Microsoft. It was released in 2006 and the themes in the collection are Anime, Manga, Arcade, Fighting, Horror, Medieval, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Futuristic... |
25 July 2008
06:45 GMT |
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InformationWeek is reporting that Apple's attorneys will meet with Psystar's legal representatives in October. Apple had a few extra requests to make, such as wanting the suit placed before a regular district court judge, not a magistrate judge."Attorneys for Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar will meet for ... |
25 July 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Hands-On Mobile, the famous American wireless entertainment company, has prepared a new and cool service for all the mobile users who like art: mixtART - coming this fall to a handset near you(r pocket). What's mixtART all about? As Hands-On puts it, with mixtART consumers will be able to buy "original works of ... |
25 July 2008
06:25 GMT |
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OK, so you've finally broken the piggy bank and bought yourself a nifty piece of Apple technology in the form of the nicest iPod you've ever dreamed of. What's next? Of course, some neat aftermarket headphones to enhance the acoustic bliss and... a top-drawer docking system with speakers to let you enj... |
25 July 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Spider Man is one of the most acclaimed comics of all times and a pretty decent movie series. The games have had their share of success, being usually the kind of titles that got average scores in reviews. Peter Parker, also known as Spider-Man or Spidey, found some peace of mind and got back together with his girlfr... |
25 July 2008
06:17 GMT |
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HP, a leading systems vendor and the company responsible for the Mini-Note 2133, has announced yesterday plans to release a new version of its high-end netbook that, since it is not yet officially termed in any way, we might as well call 2.0. However, unlike the previous product, the new "mini-note" will be designed ... |
25 July 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Researchers recently invented a new type of compounds, called thermoelectric materials, which could make internal combustion engines and other devices that lose most of the energy they produce through heat more efficient by directly converting the extra amount of thermal energy into electricity. Thermoelectric materi... |
25 July 2008
06:03 GMT |
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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has once again declared that the Child Online Protection Act goes against the US Constitution because it stifles the freedom of speech. It seems that the law is not defined as well as it should be and consequently the use of parental monitoring and filtering softw... |
25 July 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics Co. managed to hold yet for another month the first position on the global liquid-crystal display (LCD) market, says DisplaySearch, the global display research institute. The company registered $1.8 billion in sales during June, which translated into a 26.2 percent of the total LCD sales worldwide... |
25 July 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Calories, a Mac app that lets you manage dishes and tracks your calorie intake, has been updated to version 1.1. When we first covered the app, we noted that NSObjects promised to include custom foods, printing, improved search and localized date and time features, with the next release. As it turns out, the develope... |
25 July 2008
05:44 GMT |
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LG has just released a new phone on the Taiwanese market – the LF KT520. First unveiled by the South Korean company at the beginning of the year, back in February (together with other 11 new handsets), LG KT520 is a mid-end device that looks simple but at the same time elegant, hence it will probably attract lots of ... |
25 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Besides free voice conversations with other Messenger users on both Mac and Windows, and cheap PC-to-phone calls, Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 addresses issues with stealth settings, file transfer, mobile settings, and interoperability features, the company says.Sarah Bacon, Product Manager, states on the Yahoo! Mess... |
25 July 2008
05:23 GMT |
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25% of the world's oldest known Bible is available on the Internet. Codex Sinaiticus dates back to the fourth century A.D. Until now, parts of it were kept for preservation in a couple of libraries and in a monastery in Egypt. The role of these institutions was that of completing the missing parts, as the versio... |
25 July 2008
05:19 GMT |
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As you might have learned by now, NVIDIA is expected to add a couple of new graphics cards to its GeForce lineup, some of which are designed for mainstream and entry-level users. Since the launch date is getting noticeably closer (the GeForce 9800GT is set to arrive next week, on July 29), various versions of the car... |
25 July 2008
05:12 GMT |
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A black smoker hydrothermal vent, measuring some 12 meters in height and ejecting water reaching temperatures of more than 200 degrees Celsius into the icy oceanic waters inside the Arctic Circle, was found by researchers more than 192 kilometers north of other known vents, making it the farther north such geological... |
25 July 2008
04:58 GMT |
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AMD announced a few days ago that the transition to the 45nm process technology is moving as planned, and that we would have the first microprocessors developed under the new fabrication process by the end of the year. It seems that the company is now getting the latest details of the move ready. Also, the first proc... |
25 July 2008
04:58 GMT |
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According to security researcher Aviv Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari software applications are vulnerable to URL Spoofing. What this means is that an attacker can exploit said vulnerabilities and conduct a phishing attack on the user. The problem is not a new one, except that Aviv Raff and a handful of other... |
25 July 2008
04:57 GMT |
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Emblaze, an Israeli group of telecommunications companies, announced the release of a new push email solution for Java mobile phones, named emoze. First released a few months ago, though it only supported Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 handsets, Emoze is now available for more than 800 devices, including lots of ... |
25 July 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Some iPhone fans would think Google's upcoming handset, the Android, will have a fierce competitor once it's out. Google thinks otherwise. In fact, according to the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, Apple's success with the iPhone spells success for their own (upcoming) device as well.Speak... |
25 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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The company known for some of the best point and click adventure games of recent times, Microids, has just announced a rather strange project: it released the official website for the Syberia Series. Yes, we're talking about Benoit Sokal's masterpiece, the same which got its last game released in 2004 (acco... |
25 July 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Recently, it has become somewhat of a common practice for rumors and reports about a new ASUS product that comes to complete the Eee PC family to surface almost on a weekly basis. No matter if we are talking about a new Eee PC model or just about different sorts of accessories, ASUS sure seems to be very enthusiastic... |
25 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Earlier this month, a network admin working for the city of San Francisco, locked everybody out of the fiberWAN network which handled much of the city's private, confidential data. Terry Childs, the admin in question, who previously stated that he was not guilty, has now given up the password, but not to the law... |
25 July 2008
04:11 GMT |
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ASUS is working on getting its latest motherboards series ready, the G45 and G43 line-ups. It seems that the new series will have the P5Q-EM (G45) and P5QL-EM (G43) as their first products to be launched. Both of them are mATX motherboards, and the preliminary news shows them as being equipped with a solid set of cha... |
25 July 2008
04:09 GMT |
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The horse racing track at Olympia, one of the last unsolved puzzles regarding the site where the Greeks first organized the Olympic Games in the eighth century BC, and where the Roman Emperor Nero bought his way to victory was rediscovered by German archaeologists with the help of radar technology, after being lost f... |
25 July 2008
03:58 GMT |
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You are probably already a true Guitar virtuoso, a real Rock Band star, a hero of the karaoke genre in Singstar and you're preparing yourself to start the music wars. In other words, you are surrounded by music and, why not admit it - you love that! However, there is a little problem with all these games: if you... |
25 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Courtesy of Feral Interactive, publisher of Mac ports, a demo of Battlestations Midway is now available for free download. Weighing in at 660 MB, this is a demo of a WWII-themed title heralded as Eidos' top-rated action strategy game for the Mac. In May, Feral Interactive was confirming the upcoming availability... |
25 July 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Gmail offered users, from the very beginning, the possibility to use https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) in order to prevent their data being intercepted by third persons. The idea behind the protocol is that users' data is encrypted before being launched to the Internet. The team from G... |
25 July 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Nokia 6600 Slide, one of the latest mid-end handsets to bear the Finnish manufacturer's logo and touch, was recently approved by the FCC and it might soon be commercially available across the US. The phone works on the 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 GSM frequencies as well as on the 850 / 2100 WCDMA ones, and the FCC a... |
25 July 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Casual game publisher extraordinaire Majesco says that it is planning to make a move to Facebook, in an effort to broaden its portfolio of games and to attract a bigger audience. It has chosen developers Rocketbowl and the Shapshot Studio of Large Animal Games to create Bananagrams. The game, due for an August releas... |
25 July 2008
03:21 GMT |
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As we mentioned before in a couple of articles, Intel's Atom processor has become one of the company's most successful products. And that's mainly because of a number of manufacturers that have announced their intentions of releasing their own Atom-powered, small sized computer systems, most of which a... |
25 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Creative seems to be in a ZEN-player launching spree lately. After announcing the launch of ZEN X-Fi and having delivered it to the market in two models, the company announced the release of a third PMP in a little over a week, the Creative ZEN Mozaic. Depending on the popularity it will gain, the new ZEN Mozaic is l... |
25 July 2008
03:17 GMT |
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The fossilized skeleton of a dinosaur closely related to the famous giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus, unearthed in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in 2006 by Japanese and Mongolian scientists, is now presented by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences as one of the most complete fossils of this species ever found. The... |
25 July 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Fans of the RPG genre will be very excited to hear that Monte Cristo Games will launch a standalone addon for their successful game Silverfall. The new title, Earth Awakening, will offer more action than ever and it is scheduled for a PC release this August. Apparently, the game will take place in a new fantasy world... |
25 July 2008
03:12 GMT |
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After responding to reports of gun fire, the Sheriff's deputies of Bennet, Arapahoe County, discovered the dead bodies of Eddie Davidson, the spammer who escaped from a minimum security prison facility earlier this week, Amy Lee, his 29-year-old wife, and their 3-year-old daughter. The officers also discovered a... |
25 July 2008
03:10 GMT |
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The third alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was made available a few minutes ago. Even if it doesn’t come with any significant modification, compared with the second alpha, which brought just a handful of software updates, we ... |
25 July 2008
03:08 GMT |
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Following a testing period for its security application, EdgeRift has released the full and stable version of RiftVault. The application is designed to hold credit card information, passwords, banking info or various files that are important to you using a 'Safe Deposit Box' feature, which, in its turn, use... |
25 July 2008
03:05 GMT |
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The first alpha version of openSUSE 11.1 was announced last night by the hard working people behind the openSUSE project: "While testing this on a Thinkpad R51, the system didn't boot after first stage installation. We are still looking into this issue (#411937). In addition to that, the default GNOME installati... |
25 July 2008
02:44 GMT |
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If you consider yourself a true Sam & Max fan, the latest release from Telltale is a must have! I'm talking about the Collector's Edition for the second season of the franchise, a collection of the five games filled with lots of bonuses. The Sam & Max Season Two Collector's DVD is available for orderin... |
25 July 2008
02:42 GMT |
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Ubisoft, the France based publisher, has announced that it has exceeded expectations regarding first quarter profits. Sales revenue was up more than 25% to reach 263.7 million dollars, with the biggest overall performer being the casual game division of the publisher, which brought in more than half the revenue.The b... |
25 July 2008
02:40 GMT |
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Red is definitely a good color for dressing about any mobile device on the market, and that's why Apple might consider making a red version of its new iPhone 3G. While this might sound crazy for some, it's not at all a thing that can't be done with ease. Why? Well, because the iPhone 3G, unlike the fir... |
25 July 2008
02:37 GMT |
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The dynamics of explosive magnetic substorms, responsible for generating the aurora borealis and for the interferences affecting both satellites in Earth's orbit and electric and electronic devices on the surface, have now been revealed by NASA's five THEMIS spacecrafts, solving a mystery that has been a ce... |
25 July 2008
02:34 GMT |
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After a few months of hard testing in their labs, Dell announced last Friday that they would start shipping Dell laptops and desktops with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. That will only be available for the XPS M1330N, Inspiron 1525N notebooks, and the Inspiron 530N desktops."In early August, we will also add the XPS M153... |
25 July 2008
02:34 GMT |
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