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Surf's Up is a video game based on the animated movie with the same name. The game was developed and published by Ubisoft on multiple platforms, released on the 29th of May 2007. It is basically a sports game created using the Unreal Engine 2.5, and it is not necessarily related to the story of the movie. An int... |
29 July 2008
21:06 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... |
29 July 2008
20:56 GMT |
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Superman Returns: The Videogame is a video game loosely based on the movie with the same name developed by EA Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts. It brings villains that were not present in the movie, like Metallo, Bizarro and Mongul. The game was launched on the 22nd of November 2006.The release features some ... |
29 July 2008
19:46 GMT |
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Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix is a puzzle game developed and published by Capcom in 1996. The game was later ported to PSN and Xbox Live Arcade, with the Xbox version being released on the 29th of August 2007. An interesting thing worth noting is the fact that even though it holds a "2" in the title, it is no... |
29 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Mirror's Edge has so far managed to impress mainly through its slick visual style and through the way it aimed to turn parkour into a viable gameplay mechanic. DICE, best known for its series of Battlefield games, which just received a new addition with Bad Company, is developing the game and Nick Channon, one o... |
29 July 2008
19:06 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 console from Sony and for the Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in 2004. The title is classed as a classic fighting game, which is played from a third perso... |
29 July 2008
18:31 GMT |
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Dylan Cuthbert, the founder of Q-Games, took the time to mention some of the new features in a blog post on the official PlayStation website. He says that the games they are making at Q have now a quicker than usual development cycle, so they are able to implement features at a much faster pace than other developers.... |
29 July 2008
18:21 GMT |
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Boinx Software has updated its FotoMagico slideshow creation tool for Mac OS X to version 2.5. The new release brings support for Adobe Lightroom libraries, a teleprompter for viewing notes for every slide on a display, and an exporting feature for uploading slideshow videos to YouTube, to name a just few noteworthy ... |
29 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Apple has had two serious problems on its hands after the launch of the iPhone 3G and the transition to MobileMe. The issues surrounding the latter are still being ironed out by the Mac makers, as are those surrounding the former, particularly the shortages.To "accommodate demand," Apple notes on its website, "Apple ... |
29 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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This is not the first time (and, hopefully, it's not the last time, either) I'm writing about a casual game that wants nothing else but to innovate the genre. Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! is its name and you have probably heard about it already: either in one of the previous Softpedia coverages o... |
29 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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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... |
29 July 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Another useful application iPhone users might / should be interested in is Palringo's free rich messaging service (RMS) application. Palringo integrates with most existing IM services and "patches" the annoying lack of MMS support (picture messages) with Apple's iPhone. Best of all, the App Store-downloadab... |
29 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Bionic Commando Rearmed is a re-imagining of the classic game, which Capcom says will create a new look and a new feel for the game while offering younger gamers a chance to experience the unique gameplay of the original title. It was rumored to be launched on July 30 on the Xbox Live Arcade and on July 31 on the Pla... |
29 July 2008
15:56 GMT |
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KDE 4.1 is finally out today, as you probably already know, and it comes with a lot of innovations for the Linux desktop. KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and enterprise computing. The new versi... |
29 July 2008
15:10 GMT |
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The last summer days will bring us a real Xbox 360 mania, since Microsoft plans to offer goodies, freebies and quality products to all the fans of its console. Starting tomorrow, the 30th of July, and continuing for five full weeks, the Summer of Arcade will offer everybody entertainment and prizes through the Xbox L... |
29 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... |
29 July 2008
14:41 GMT |
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There's a huge list somewhere out there of cooking games that have tried to copy the success of Cooking Mama. Moreover, even Cooking Mama has announced sequels and spin-offs aimed at different consoles and meant to bring in more revenue from this particular type of casual game. It goes without saying that, unles... |
29 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You must have noticed that classic video games are making a strong comeback on today's consoles thanks to services like the Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. We all have our favorite titles, and many still remember the good old days when Sega's System 16 or System 24 were the ultimate form of entertainment... |
29 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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HP, Intel and Yahoo! have set the basis of an organization whose purpose is that of creating a global testing environment to promote academic and entrepreneurial research in the field of cloud computing. The test bed will ideally reach a global scale but, for now, only six "centers of excellence," as they were named,... |
29 July 2008
12:41 GMT |
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Revolution for DS or, as it is better known - the R4 chip, is the biggest enemy of the Nintendo DS game developers, since it allows the use of pirated software. Its popularity is so big that, according to studies and surveys, about 90% of the DS games in the United States are pirated! In other words, it costs the ind... |
29 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has just started talking about the successor of DirectX 10 and is, of course, far from having revealed all the details. In fact, the Redmond company has some surprises cooking that it failed to bring to the table in its discussion with the developing community at GameFest 2008. With the evolution towards Wi... |
29 July 2008
11:58 GMT |
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Scrabulous, one of the most popular games that could be found on Facebook, has been shut down. Those who now want to connect to the application receive the message "Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice," although users from outside of America also complain that their access to the g... |
29 July 2008
11:58 GMT |
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Palm, the veteran smartphone and PDA manufacturer, has proudly announced today that its Palm Centro has reached the 2 millionth unit sold. This comes four months after the Sunnyvale company announced the 1 millionth Centro sold, and 9 months after the smartphone first became available. Although it was initially relea... |
29 July 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Stuntman: Ignition is a video game developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by THQ on the 17th of September 2007 in North America, the 27th of September 2007 in Australia and the 28th of September 2007 in Europe. The game is a racing/action title similar with the original Stuntman by Atari.Stuntman: Ignition... |
29 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Right now, the most talked about topic in the UK is the one regarding file sharing and the agreement between the BPI, the Government and major ISPs to combat online piracy. No matter if you support the measures or if you simply feel strongly against them, it is important to make your opinion heard, and this is exactl... |
29 July 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to drop next month, with the final version of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 confirmed for availability by the end of 2008. In this regard, Microsoft is a tad late in terms of this year's browser releases, with rivals Opera and Mozilla having already made available n... |
29 July 2008
11:20 GMT |
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On Tuesday, a Russian mini-submarine set a new world record as it reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, Siberia, the world's deepest lake. "Mir-1 is at 1,680 meters," said one of the members of the crew in a radio link-up to the barge used to lower the Mir-1 and Mir-2 submarines into the water of the lake. Previous... |
29 July 2008
11:16 GMT |
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It looks like the much anticipated GeForce 9800GT and 9500GT are finally out, with several of NVIDIA's channel partners having already introduced their own versions based on them. As expected, the new GeForce cards are designed for the entry-level and mid-range segments, which means that they will be affordable ... |
29 July 2008
11:02 GMT |
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During the International Crime Science conference that was held in London last week, Professor Walker revealed to the whole world that information contained in the CIA, FBI, US Department of Defense (DoD) databases had been compromised. This occurred earlier this year when a partner agency granted zone transfer acces... |
29 July 2008
10:54 GMT |
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Nuance Communications, a leading American software developer, unveiled today a new application for mobile phones, called Nuance Mobile Care. This new software product will allow users to pay their bills, check their balance and perform various other tasks directly from the screen of their handsets - only by calling t... |
29 July 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is bridging the gap between Websites delivering location information and GPS navigation devices via MSN Direct. In this regard, the Redmond giant announced the introduction of a new application programming interface designed to permit website visitors the transition of a variety of data onto their GPS produ... |
29 July 2008
10:40 GMT |
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By studying the scaled armor of a species of fish that have been swimming through the freshwater pools of Africa for the past 100 million years or so, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now revealed the secrets to one of the most effective aquatic armors, which could eventually lead to the devel... |
29 July 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Adobe announced today the availability of a Photoshop upgrade, Lightroom 2, which offers some new features that make photo post-processing and working with pictures easier. One of the enhancements Lightroom 2 brings is the dual-monitor support, which makes manipulation and management of photographs much more convenie... |
29 July 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Canonical is pleased to announce today the official release of Launchpad 2.0, a major hosting platform for open source projects. Those who spend a significant amount of time on Launchpad must have noticed the new interface a few days ago, which, by the way, is easier to use and more intuitive. The new version makes t... |
29 July 2008
10:28 GMT |
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People who live in the UK, and by that we mean any and all neighborhoods in England and Wales, will have access to online maps that present the crime patterns in the particular place they live in, by the end of 2008. This is an initiative by the Home Secretary who reported earlier this month that the UK police force ... |
29 July 2008
10:14 GMT |
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Switchball is a game where players have to conquer labyrinthine mazes as they manipulate the physical properties of an "ever-changeable ball" to solve clever puzzles. Kind of like Mercury Meltdown, I guess, only that the ball remains round. Speaking about it, Sierra says the game features an advanced Ageia-based phys... |
29 July 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Neonode, the Swedish handset designer and manufacturer, has recently announced a special promotion that allows select users to buy the unique Neonode N2 touchscreen phone for half the initial price. The "Friends & Family campaign" (that's how it's named) offers the N2 for only $199 (123 Euros or 99 GBP), af... |
29 July 2008
10:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded a new move designed to give it a tad more pull on the security market against the already established heavyweight players in the industry. Even though it has been offering Windows Live OneCare for approximately a couple of years now, the software giant is yet to gain the same status as its riv... |
29 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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As we already mentioned in a number of our previous posts, the netbook market segment is gradually gaining more and more significance and popularity. In turn, this can't but be a good enough reason for a number of manufacturers to announce the release of their own small-sized, low-cost sub-notebooks. This is als... |
29 July 2008
09:55 GMT |
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If an asteroid were to be discovered tomorrow and proven that it would impact the Earth in less than a week, we wouldn't be able to do much to prevent this from happening. All we can do so far is hope that such events do not occur any time soon. Deflecting asteroids from a possible Earth-threatening trajectory m... |
29 July 2008
09:40 GMT |
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According to Sophos, company that specializes in endpoint security and control solutions, spam messages have started to circulate informing users (erroneously of course) that popular social networking site Facebook is used by the FBI in an effort to track people down. In order to get you hooked and open the spam mess... |
29 July 2008
09:36 GMT |
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At the start of 2007, Microsoft was debuting a new product category dubbed surface computing with Microsoft Surface, a tabletop with a Windows Vista-running machine under the hood and multi-touch, gesture and object recognition capabilities. Now, the Redmond company is gearing up to introduce the evolution of its tab... |
29 July 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless has added a new rugged mobile phone to its line-up of products, namely the G'zOne Boulder. Built by Casio, the Tokyo-based Japanese manufacturer, the new handset comes only one week after the release of another rugged phone, the Motorola Adventure V750. Well, if the Moto Adventure looks like a ... |
29 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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Despite all the recent articles that claim that NVIDIA is due to launch its latest GeForce cards today, the Santa Clara chip manufacturer might actually have a little surprise in store for everybody. The company could actually release some notebook chips today, pushing the desktop GeForce range back for a later relea... |
29 July 2008
09:05 GMT |
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After a long delay and the axing of some content it might just be that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning or WAR, as it is known, has a release date. The Singapore localized site of publisher Electronic Arts mentioned, on a page which now appears to be gone, that the game is slated to launch on September 23, which is... |
29 July 2008
09:03 GMT |
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The vulnerability in question is rated as highly critical, ranking in at 10.0 on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System), and it is the first time since 2005 that Oracle breaks the quarterly update release cycle to address a security issue. The Apache plugin for Oracle WebLogic (you might know it under its for... |
29 July 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Developed by EA Montreal and published by Electronic Arts, Army of Two is a third person shooter game developed using the Unreal Engine 3 and released on the 4th of March 2008 in North America, the 7th of March 2008 in Europe, the 13th of March 2008 in Australia and the 19th of March in Japan. The game was received w... |
29 July 2008
08:47 GMT |
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I'm certain that most of the people reading this article have noticed at some point in time that some of the cables connecting the peripherals to a personal computer have some strange looking 'bumps' (see lower image). If you did, then you might have also asked yourselves what those things are and what... |
29 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Super Robot Taisen XO is a tactical role playing game in the Super robot Wars series developed by Banpresto, a division of Namco Bandai. The games in the series are well known for mixing mecha units from different Japanese cartoons and short movies, all of them battling for the champion position. The first game in th... |
29 July 2008
08:42 GMT |
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is a first-person shooter video game and the sequel to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was announced by Ubisoft on November 20, 2007. The game was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 18, 2008, in North America and March 20, 2008, in Europe, except in Ge... |
29 July 2008
08:34 GMT |
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SyntheFX has released Luminair, a utility application for iPhone and iPod touch. Luminair allows you to wirelessly control, view and manage intelligent DMX lighting fixtures and consoles straight from your handheld device. The touch-sensitive Mixer view, as well as the ability to set Art-Net node options and to manip... |
29 July 2008
08:28 GMT |
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It's been some time since the last Lego title and, with the launch of this new and thrilling Indiana Jones movie, we just had to have a game as well. A Lego character fills in Harrison Ford's shoes perfectly and there is no other better company out there than Traveller's Tales to do this job. LEGO Indi... |
29 July 2008
08:28 GMT |
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Alltel Wireless, the fifth largest mobile carrier in the US, has recently announced that its high-speed EVDO Rev A network will be expanded on the East Coast to cover the so-called Research Triangle region. Situated in North Carolina, the Research Triangle is the area between the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel ... |
29 July 2008
08:20 GMT |
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Everybody loves the Hulk. I'm not sure why, as he is the embodiment of pure rage and of uncontrolled fury. Maybe it's because he is the one that can actually consume those emotions in a "constructive" way by entertaining the rest of us. Yes, once again, New York is ready to get some beating and I start beli... |
29 July 2008
08:18 GMT |
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Patrick Moberg, a 22-year-old New Yorker, and Camille Hayton, a 23-year-old Aussie, entered a romantic relationship after he created a webpage describing her. Sadly, the love story whose main protagonists were the two youngsters has come to an end. Last fall, the New Yorker saw a young girl in the subway and, because... |
29 July 2008
08:13 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is announcing the future of the Vivendi Games properties that it has acquired as part of the merger process. The new company is expected to keep some of the most successful franchises and to spin off or terminate other intellectual properties.The most interesting assets for Activision Blizzard are... |
29 July 2008
08:04 GMT |
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By now, almost everybody has gotten used to the idea that ASUS is really enthusiastic about its Eee family, which can be easily explained by the high number of Eee PC models the Taiwanese manufacturer is currently offering. But even with its already vast Eee PC offering, the company is yet to release additional model... |
29 July 2008
07:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is mid-way on the road from Windows Vista to Windows 7, the next iteration of its Windows client, planned for availability no later than the end of January 2010. And following the release of Windows Vista Service pack 1, Microsoft is finding fertile soil to unveil Windows Codename Mojave - or the Mojave Exp... |
29 July 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Currently available image sensors are still made much in the same way as any other silicon chip, through an expensive etching technique that creates tiny structures on the surface of the semiconductor. But by making the sensor out of a forest of nanowires grown from the bottom up, researchers argue that a new type of... |
29 July 2008
07:07 GMT |
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We were recently reporting that the British Government, BPI, Motion Picture Association and six major ISPs have come to an agreement on how to combat illegal file sharing on the Internet. The thing is that most people will receive a letter informing them that they are involved in an illegal activity, which is not muc... |
29 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Over at ReMoveTheLabels, iPhone 3G factory pictures have emerged after a person bought and unpacked a brand new device at home. Allegedly, these images had already been saved in the iPhone's Camera Roll before the device hit the retail store.TUAW is reporting that Thomas Edwards sent some strange pictures to ReM... |
29 July 2008
07:05 GMT |
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Panasonic, the famous Japanese electronics manufacturer, has recently unveiled a new mobile phone which will surely appeal to all the fashion-conscious users across Japan. Named Panasonic Mirror II, the new handset is a clamshell coming with a glamorous external case that changes its color depending on the viewing an... |
29 July 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Cars is a video game developed by Rainbow Studios and published by THQ Incorporated. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii, the Game Cube, the PC and the Mac. It was published in 2006. The game is classed as a licensed racing title w... |
29 July 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download the July 2008 Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live tools for Visual Studio 2008. Designed as an update to the February CTP, the July release features an expanded package, delivering additional items for developers, with the Redmond giant placing a great deal of fo... |
29 July 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Britons continue to be most interested in portals, search engines and conversational media when they are navigating the web. Although the largest part of the population prefers these three types of online applications, the number of people using them has been rather stagnant over the last months. In June, as a comSco... |
29 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 is a video game developed and published by Capcom Entertainment. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox from Microsoft, the Dreamcast from SEGA and the Game Cube from Nintendo. The title is classed as a fighting game played from a third per... |
29 July 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Intel's roadmap for the Nehalem processors has already showed us that the second half of 2009 would bring to the field two microprocessors the company designed for the mainstream market area. Havendale is one of these CPUs, the first one announced by Intel to feature integrated graphics. While for now everybody ... |
29 July 2008
06:24 GMT |
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According to the Korean police, an unidentified Chinese hacker managed to get hold of 9 million credit records that were sold on for a profit in Korea. The person responsible for stealing these records is known only as Chun, and it seems that he managed to flee to China before the Korean law enforcement agencies had ... |
29 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Samsung Innov8 i8510, the new multimedia monster smartphone unveiled by Samsung on July 24, is now officially DivX certified. This means that the handset is able to provide a high-quality DivX video playback as well as an easy way of transferring video content from it to a PC and backwards. "Samsung Innov8 users va... |
29 July 2008
06:11 GMT |
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In case, for one reason or another, you haven't been paying attention to ASUS’ latest moves on the market, you might have missed the release of one of its most recent products, which is basically an AMD-based motherboard. Designed with technology enthusiasts in mind, it is build to withstand some intensive overc... |
29 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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A new study carried out at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Columbia University in New York shows that former smokers or nonsmokers have increased chances of having strokes as a result of inhaling cigarette smoke exhaled by other people. The research team also points out that being married to a smoke... |
29 July 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Jordan Mechner, best known for designing the original Prince of Persia game, has revealed in an interview that a followup to his first video game for the Apple II computer, Karateka, is under development."There actually is a plan to bring back Karateka," the renowned video game designer told gaming site Gamasutra. "I... |
29 July 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has debuted a limited time offer designed to help customers running Windows for Supercomputers test the performance of their HPC cluster. Phil Pennington, Windows Server Technical Evangelist, is inviting users to access a new tool developed by a member of the Microsoft High Performance Computing team for fr... |
29 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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The problem with web browsers is that they remember the sites you recently visited and then have the quite annoying habit of leaking this information. Although this is not a recent discovery, it is a security issue (or better yet a privacy issue) that has been put to good use by Mike Nolet. He took inspiration from a... |
29 July 2008
05:24 GMT |
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ARTISTdirect, Inc., a leading online entertainment provider, announced the future availability of its own branded mobile channels, following an agreement with Boopsie, Inc., a California-based provider of mobile search clients. Via the Boopsie Mobile Platform, mobile users will have access to ARTISTdirect content, in... |
29 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Technologies that enable people to stay in touch with major sports events, as the Olympic Games are, have been available for decades. This year's situation - with the Olympics taking place in a communist country, implies certain special measures to ensure the liberty of speech is not infringed upon. Although Chi... |
29 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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Apple has issued an update for users of its program designed to assist professional photographers in post-production work known as Aperture. The 2.1.1 update to Aperture supports general compatibility issues, Apple says. The release also improves overall stability and addresses minor issues.From Apple's Support ... |
29 July 2008
05:14 GMT |
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Today is clearly shaping up to be one of Dell's best days, as the American systems vendor has just unveiled one very interesting and highly anticipated product, the Studio Hybrid PC. But that's not all that Dell has prepared for this year's "Back to school" season, as the company has also announced two... |
29 July 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard listed a number of 24 laptop model variations that are affected by the faulty Nvidia graphics chips. According to HP, the problem first appeared in November last year. The company published a list of potentially affected systems which includes Pavilion and Compaq Presario notebook models. As presented... |
29 July 2008
05:11 GMT |
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One of the most expected events of the year regarding suborbital space tourism took place yesterday at Scaled Composites in Mojave with the unveiling of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, a jet powered carrier aircraft that will act as a launch pad for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The event signals the... |
29 July 2008
05:03 GMT |
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Defective By Design, a group of anti-DRM campaigners, issued somewhat of a warning earlier this month telling folks that Apple's iPhone was bad news. Most recently, based on allegations that Apple's reason for DRM on the iPhone is "pure, old fashioned greed," the group has begun encouraging folks worldwide ... |
29 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is hammering away at its Windows platforms beyond client and server in order to establish a bridge between the operating system and the cloud. In this context, the Redmond company indicated that its Automotive Platform is also evolving to find a place into the new Software plus Services business strategy. T... |
29 July 2008
04:42 GMT |
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GeoSentric, a Dutch company specialized in geo-mobility social networking platforms and digital lifestyle applications, announced that it has sealed a multi-year agreement with Samsung, the world's second-largest handset manufacturer, in order to embed GyPSii technologies into its handsets. Starting with Samsun... |
29 July 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced about a year ago that its cost-reduction program intended to turn the company to profitability also includes the reorganization of its manufacturing operations. Although no specific details have been unveiled since then, it seems that the Sunnyvale company is getting close to giv... |
29 July 2008
04:24 GMT |
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It has become somewhat of a trend for various hardware manufacturers to have their products tested and reviewed even days before the official launch. This also goes for Dell, which has rolled out today its small-sized, energy efficient desktop computer system, the Studio Hybrid PC. On that note, it looks like the fir... |
29 July 2008
04:21 GMT |
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It would seem that people who are up to no good and want to get your machine infected, take less time to do so than in the past. By using information available to the general public, they are able to prepare an attack in a shorter time limit. Generally speaking, it takes about 24 hours from the moment a vulnerability... |
29 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Valve holds one of the best and most appreciated multiplayer games ever released: Counter-Strike. This title is still played by tons of people worldwide and its popularity is not fading away yet, even though the visual aspects are not something we could call current-gen. Now, just imagine how cool it would be to play... |
29 July 2008
04:12 GMT |
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We have heard about semantic search, which returns results that are suited to users' intentions, and about contextual display of results, when search engines are guided by the long-term search behavior. But SearchCloud, a search engine that launched a few days ago, uses word "weight," as it was called, in order... |
29 July 2008
04:06 GMT |
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While Microsoft is laboring to produce the second Beta of Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla not only wrapped up Firefox 3.0 formerly codenamed Grand Paradiso, but also moved onward with the development of Firefox 3.1 codenamed Shiretoko. With the earliest builds of Shiretoko debuting hot on the heels of Firefox 3.0's... |
29 July 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Microscopes are not exactly devices you would like to carry around in your pocket all day. They are generally bulky, require proper light sources, are fragile and last but not least, they are expensive. Their place is in the laboratory, not on the road. A new invention could make microscopes not only extremely small ... |
29 July 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Destineer's MacSoft has announced that the second expansion pack for Age of Empires III, "The Asian Dynasties," developed by Ensemble Studios, has gone gold. Mac users and RTS fans should be delighted to hear that new playable Civilizations, new units, campaigns, game modes, and more are headed their way on Augu... |
29 July 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Although it has canceled the G702 (codenamed BeiBei), Sony Ericsson did not give up on producing new handsets from the G-series. The proof is a brand new Sony Ericsson G705, recently appeared on the Web in lots of unofficial but good-looking pictures. Unlike the other three G-series phones currently available on the ... |
29 July 2008
03:39 GMT |
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Everybody was sure that Rockstar was going to present the first Xbox 360 DLC when Grand Theft Auto: ChinaTown Wars' first image got leaked. You can imagine that it was a real shocker to find out that, actually, the developers were working on an exclusive title for the... Nintendo DS handheld! Nobody was expectin... |
29 July 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Dell announced few days ago that the company found a way to patch the problems expected to burst on its notebook models that have an Nvidia G84/G86 graphics card. The solution Dell found to the problem was the regulation of fan speed to prevent GPU temperature fluctuations through a series of BIOS updates. The compan... |
29 July 2008
03:31 GMT |
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According to a recently released study conducted by RedShift Research at the request of telecoms supplier Denovo, businesses turn a blind eye to telecom related security issues. Most companies believe that this type of fraud will not impact them in a significant manner and prefer to focus their attention on other sec... |
29 July 2008
03:30 GMT |
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This may come as somewhat of a surprise for all of you Dell fans out there, but it looks like the Round Rock, Texas-based computer systems vendor will finally roll out one of its highly anticipated products. What we're dealing with here is a new desktop computer system that has been in the news for quite some ti... |
29 July 2008
03:25 GMT |
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The biggest MMO launch of the year so far has been, without question, Funcom's Age of Conan, a game that takes the barbarian setting and turns it into a backdrop for players vs. environment and players vs. player combat.But now Funcom, despite the launch, has seen its share value drop from 54 dollars on launch d... |
29 July 2008
03:20 GMT |
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Last week, we reported that Apple's new retail store at the Liverpool One development was set for its Grand Opening this weekend, Saturday, July 26. According to those who attended, the opening went smoothly. No word on who won the Digital Lifestyle Collection, though.Apple was announcing earlier this spring tha... |
29 July 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Unlike humans, who have to pay the price for drinking too much in the evening the next morning, pen-tailed tree shrews and a few species of other animals that consume small to large amounts of alcoholic nectar on a regular basis do not feel the effects of their habit. This is because these species have evolved to a s... |
29 July 2008
02:53 GMT |
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You've probably heard about Unsolved Crimes before - an exciting project developed exclusively for the little Nintendo DS. What you weren't told in the first place is the fact that developers Empire Interactive consider their title a "new type of game" for the handheld. And, in order to prove us they'r... |
29 July 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Bell Mobility, the second largest Canadian mobile carrier, will soon release a new Sanyo phone, the Katana Eclipse. Bell is no stranger to handsets manufactured by the Japanese company, as it currently has four Sanyo devices in its line-up, including the Katana LX, released at the end of May. Like the already existi... |
29 July 2008
02:48 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, the Debian project announced the immediate availability of the forth maintenance release for its stable distribution, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename Etch). Debian 4.0r4 brings support for some newer hardware components, corrects about 30 miscellaneous bugs, updates more than 100 packages, and fi... |
29 July 2008
02:42 GMT |
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There used to be a time when beta tests were just a chance for developers to check on their titles by using the free manpower of the fan community, rather than the internal quality assurance departments in their companies. Beta testers were often given unpolished version of a game and there are some who never played ... |
29 July 2008
02:38 GMT |
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One of the most active gaming communities, Gaia Online, will be soon releasing a new casual MMO project entitled zOMG! Even though the game's name suggests that it is targeted at tweens (at most), it seems that this MMO actually promises to bring endless hours of fun to adults, too.But we'll get to find out... |
29 July 2008
02:29 GMT |
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