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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter Hints II (PS2)

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is a video game developed and published by Capcom. It was released in 2002 for just one platform, the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony. The title is classified as being a role playing game, with a third person perspective, with influences ranging from anime and manga to cyberpunk ...

3 July 2008
20:51 GMT

Analyze That: Videogames Are Bigger than the DVD Industry

The march of videogames to world domination is not slowing down. In the roughly 30 years since videogames have been around, they have become more and more important, both on a cultural and on an economical level. Some day, all other forms of entertainment that rely on visuals and sound to deliver an experience will h...

3 July 2008
19:46 GMT

Playwatch 1.2 Adds Remote Control Buttons

Playwatch 1.2 is now available from Aquarius Software and it comes with a lot of enhancements such as the ability to place iTunes remote control buttons directly in the menu bar next to the ticker but also new Cover-Art and track views. Another plus worth mentioning is the fact that certain bugs have been fixed as we...

3 July 2008
19:06 GMT

Apple Store Roundup

At least three new Apple Retail Stores are reported to open their doors soon, one of which is Canada's sixth, opening this Saturday. Up next are the Beijing Store, opening on July 19th, and (although not necessarily the next after) a Honolulu Store which has just received its glass facade.Canada Store"Apple'...

3 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Mega Man 9 Coming to WiiWare

Capcom is announcing that it is bringing the Mega Man series back to life, with a new game planned for release as soon as fall. The title is set to mark a return to the roots of what made Mega Man a game loved by millions of fans.Mega Man 9 will be developed by IntiCreates and the Wiimote will be used as the player w...

3 July 2008
18:06 GMT

10.5.4 Raw Camera Support

When Apple issued the 10.5.4 update, we reported enhancements spanned over areas such as AirPort, iCal, Safari, Spaces and Expose and more, with Apple noting that General Enhancements include recent Apple security updates and RAW image support for several cameras (among others). If you haven't had the chance to ...

3 July 2008
16:51 GMT

Basic Computer Protection in Just a Few Steps - Part II

In the second part of our small tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the ways to protect your computer and how to evade getting a computer infected with any kind of malware. As oppose to the first part, this article is not about choosing the best security application; instead you may look at it as a list of pieces ...

3 July 2008
16:11 GMT

Dragon Nest Turns You into a Dragon

Eyedentity Games is announcing that it is developing Dragon Nest, a new MMO which aims to attract both Western and Eastern audiences with a fantasy story and interesting twists. The new company is staffed with veteran game designers that have previous experience designing MMOs for the likes of NCsoft, Gravity, Phatag...

3 July 2008
16:06 GMT

Bratz: Rock Angelz Cheats IV (PS2)

Bratz: Rock Angelz is a video game developed by Blitz Games and Barking Lizards Technologies and published by THQ. It was launched in 2005 for four platforms, the Game Cube, the PlayStation 2 from Sony, the PC and the Game Boy Advance. The video game is based on the movie, which was released on DVD, called Bratz Pass...

3 July 2008
14:31 GMT

LG Secret's 5 Megapixel Camera Relies on a Zoran Processor

Zoran Corporation, an American company based in Sunnyvale, California, announced today that its APPROACH 5C multimedia processor was embedded into LG's latest 5 Megapxel flagship handset, namely LG Secret KF750. The APPROACH processor is also the one that powers another 5 Megapixel phone made by LG, the fashiona...

3 July 2008
13:32 GMT

Dropcast Ready for Nitnendo DS

If you remember a very old (but evergreen, on the other hand) game called Tetris, you might also remember the countless hours you spent (or wasted, as your parents would say) playing it. Probably there are still a few people who would love to get the chance and play once more a next-gen version of the beloved Tetris ...

3 July 2008
13:06 GMT

Firefox 3.1/Shiretoko: Alpha 1 in July, Beta in August, Ships 4Q/08 or 1Q/09

Now that Firefox 3.0 is finalized, made available to the general public since June 17, and already in the history books, with over 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours, Mozilla is focusing on the next iteration of its open source browser. Very early versions of Firefox 3.1 codenamed Shiretoko have already been r...

3 July 2008
12:45 GMT

Nokia Shows It Cares About Bochum

Nokia's factory from Bochum, Germany, is now closed (as of June 30), and it looks like the Finnish company has reached convenient agreements with the German authorities, agreements set to be beneficial for all the involved parties, including the ex-Nokia employees from the Bochum plant. Together with the Ci...

3 July 2008
12:44 GMT

US Government Accused of Exploiting Technology

The EFF (short for Electronic Frontier Foundation) and the ACLU (short for American Civil Liberties Union) have initiated legal action against the United States Government. The above mentioned organizations decided to sue the federal government after the Freedom of Information request that was filed last year went u...

3 July 2008
12:32 GMT

New Platform in Windows 7 Enables Remote Connectivity to Virtual Desktops

Even though Microsoft is yet to officially breathe a single word on the matter, the virtualization capabilities of Windows 7 will also evolve in comparison to what is offered with Windows Vista today. Vista was the Redmond giant's first client for which virtualization was introduced into the End User License Agr...

3 July 2008
12:10 GMT

Dreamlords: The Reawakening Acquired by Aeria Games

You probably know from our previous coverage on Dreamlords: The Reawakening that the game is launched and ready to play in Europe, after a long beta test period. You can imagine how good the it was, since the North Americans wanted to play it, too, but they couldn't. Things will soon change, though, as the MMORT...

3 July 2008
12:06 GMT

Sharp Aquos 923SH Makes Its Debut in Japan

Sharp, one of Japan's main manufacturers of handsets (among lots of other electronic products) has launched a new mobile TV phone on the Japanese market: Sharp Aquos 923SH. First unveiled back in June, the 923SH will be available under the name of SoftBank 923SH, starting July 5, only for the subscribers of Soft...

3 July 2008
11:58 GMT

Explaining the Disfigured Shapes of Asteroids

Unlike most of the individual celestial bodies in the universe, which tend to take the shapes of spheres (the geometrical object with minimum surface area in relation to volume), asteroids come practically in all the possible shapes and sizes, although why this happens remained largely unknown until now. By studying ...

3 July 2008
11:34 GMT

Linux and Mac OS X Eat Away at Windows, Even with XP SP3 and Vista SP1

Even with the latest service pack releases for the two supported Windows clients, rival operating systems Linux and Mac OS X are still eating away at the install base of Microsoft's proprietary operating system. Concomitantly with the retirement of Bill Gates from his day to day role with the Redmond company, Wi...

3 July 2008
11:20 GMT

Successful Slovenian Hacker Attack at Nebraska University

A hacker in Slovenia successfully managed to gain access to nine computers at the University of Nebraska. According to university representatives the incident occurred on the 8th of June and was brought to light the following day. The computers contained info on students and university employees, but no academic dat...

3 July 2008
11:06 GMT

Introducing Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04

The first public release of Ubuntu MID (Mobile Internet Devices) Edition 8.04 was announcesd last week by Canonical. Entitled as a developer's release, this version is based on the Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition and it is a project developed by the hard working team behind the Ubuntu Mobile & Embedded community and...

3 July 2008
11:04 GMT

The Bourne Conspiracy Released for Mobiles

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy is now transformed into a mobile game, thanks to Vivendi Games Mobile, the well-known French-based developer and publisher, and it's released across Europe. Revolving around Jason Bourne, the fictional character created by the American writer Robert Ludlum, the new m...

3 July 2008
11:00 GMT

Dynamics CRM Opened Up to Windows Mobile and BlackBerry Phones

Microsoft has announced a partnership with TenDigits designed to offer users of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones access to Dynamics CRM. The alliance of the two companies will result in TenDigits' MobileAccess 4.0 offering what Microsoft referred to as full-featured mobile integration between Dynamics CRM an...

3 July 2008
10:54 GMT

Intel's Pat Gelsinger Puts Intel Inside Everything

Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group held a meeting with a number of journalists this week. The VP used this opportunity to present its predictions in regard to Intel's future, making four assumptions that set Intel as part of every segment of com...

3 July 2008
10:53 GMT

Samsung SPH-M4655 Unveiled by LG

LG Telecom, the South Korean mobile carrier controlled by LG Group, has recently unveiled a new Samsung smartphone, announced to be launched soon for its Korean subscribers. The handset we're talking about is Samsung SPH-M4655 and it was presented in the same press release that announces the availability of LG S...

3 July 2008
10:00 GMT

Simulation Shows How the Motion of Plate Tectonics Flips

The molten rock inside the planet's mantle is in continuous motion as heat is convected from the inner regions towards the outer ones, forming the so-called convection cells where the hot material is being pushed upwards and the colder one falls back down in the vicinity of the core. The motion of this material ...

3 July 2008
09:59 GMT

12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly in US Airports

A recently published study entitled "Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops" conducted by Dell and the Ponemon Institute brought to light the fact that about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports on a weekly basis, in America alone. The study gathered information from 106 major airports in the US. Out of all thos...

3 July 2008
09:58 GMT

Fibre-optic Broadband to Surpass Cable Globally

UK-based Point Topic has recently conducted a study regarding the expanding rate of fibre-optic broadband connections. According to its study, globally, fibre-based broadband access is expanding for the first time faster than cable. But the downside of this trend is that the relative expense of setting up fibre-based...

3 July 2008
09:37 GMT

Forget Opera 9.5 - Opera 9.51 Final Available for Download

Forget about Opera 9.5, Opera 9.51 Final is now available for download. At the start of July, Opera dropped Release Candidate 3 for Opera 9.5 and indicated that it was moving to the RC4 development milestone ahead of finalizing the first update for version 9.5. As of Build RC3, Opera had introduced tweaks to the brow...

3 July 2008
09:34 GMT

Apple Tells iPhone Devs to Hurry Up with Those Apps

Apple just loves issuing deadline announcements, doesn't it? Today, the company has sent e-mails to all of the developers subscribed to its iPhone Developer Program, telling them to polish up on those apps and have them sent in to be available for the launch of the App Store.World of Apple posted a screenshot of...

3 July 2008
09:04 GMT

How HVDs Work

HVDs, or Holographic Versatile Discs, are a type of optical digital data storing devices bearing a striking resemblance to the construction and operation of more common optical storing devices, such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray, relying on read/write techniques based on the principles of holography. Similar to typical op...

3 July 2008
08:58 GMT

Motorola Invests in Industrial Wireless Network Company Apprion

Motorola recently announced that it had made a $23.5 million investment in Apprion, Inc., a California-based company that has emerged as a leader in "open industrial wireless networks and applications." The investment was made via Motorola Ventures, Moto's strategic venture capital arm, and it's part of the...

3 July 2008
08:56 GMT

Everex to Relese 3G-capable 10.2-inch netbook

Everex Systems is expected to unveil a new mini-laptop with a 10.2-inch screen sometime in November. In addition, the company will also introduce new 8.9-inch mini-laptops that are slated for a late August launch. There will also be a September release of a model which is going to sport a WiMax wireless Internet capa...

3 July 2008
08:45 GMT

Japan Once Again Loses Sensible Information

According to the Japanese Self Defense Force, two officers lost a USB device containing information on a military exercise that was a joint venture of the Japanese and the US military that took place in western Japan in February 2007; the memory stick had maps concerning unit deployment on it. The officers responsibl...

3 July 2008
08:40 GMT

Nokia in New Web Services Deal with Telenor

Nokia and Telenor, a leading global mobile operator, have announced a new collaboration set to fasten the embracing of new Web services for Nokia's Ovi platform. Following the cooperation between the two companies, Telenor's customers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary will be able to enjoy, in a simp...

3 July 2008
08:11 GMT

The Accelero TWIN TURBO Can Cool Down AMD's HD 4870

Every tweaking and overclocking enthusiast out there knows that a high-end graphics card needs a strong-built cooling system. And with all of these new graphics cards that have recently been released, users will be searching for the latest in cooling solutions to help them keep their overclocked graphics cards' ...

3 July 2008
08:07 GMT

Microsoft Parades Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Features

Microsoft is stepping up its game when it comes down to Internet Explorer 8, signaling that the release of the next development milestone of the browser is getting closer and closer. IE8 Beta 2 will be made available next month, in August 2008, with the build advertised as a consumer-oriented release. While Beta 1 dr...

3 July 2008
07:56 GMT

Life Could Have Originated Earlier than Thought

Currently, it is widely considered that life first appeared on our planet approximately 3.5 billion years ago in the outcome of a period that is currently known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, which saw the Earth under a rain of debris coming from out of space. Such an effect would have most likely prevented the evolu...

3 July 2008
07:18 GMT

SQL Injection Exploits Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Site

In the past couple of weeks we have seen a serious increase in SQL injection attacks. Although Microsoft and HP have provided ample guidance and tools to solve the problem with, there are still sites out there that get infected. The latest web page to be attacked is the ATP site (short for Association for Tennis Pro...

3 July 2008
07:08 GMT

MindHabits for Mac Boosts Your Confidence

Based on more than a decade of research and findings by Dr. Mark Baldwin of esteemed McGill University in Montreal, MindHabits is a new game for Mac which presents simple but fun challenges for maintaining a more positive state of mind.Tests run by Dr. Baldwin showed obvious positive results for the subjects. Those r...

3 July 2008
06:51 GMT

New Castlevania: Judgment Is a Fighting Game for the Wii

The big announcement from Konami this week is that the Castlevania project is a Nintendo Wii exclusive called Judgment which is no longer a platform game, but a fighting title. The game will be directed by the series veteran Koji Igarashi, also known as IGA, and the art direction is going to be handled by Takeshi Oba...

3 July 2008
06:50 GMT

Microsoft Aims for the Highest Possible Standards of Open Source

Microsoft is ready to settle for nothing but the highest possible standards when it comes down to open source. The poster child of proprietary software by excellence, the Redmond company is flirting more and more with open source, and has pledged to keep within the lines of OSI's Open Source Definition. The Sand...

3 July 2008
06:48 GMT

Samsung Instinct Announced for Canada

Initially believed to be released only in the US and only via Sprint, Samsung Instinct (model name SPH-M800) will in fact be available in Canada too, as the Canadian website of Samsung has added the elegant touchscreen phone to its "coming soon" section. This is major news for Canadian mobile users, just like the one...

3 July 2008
06:41 GMT

Madden NFL 09 Achievements (Xbox 360)

Madden NFL 09 is the latest game to be developed by Electronic Arts and released on a multi platform format sometime during the fall of 2008 (at the moment of writing, the game has not been released yet). It brings a lot of new and updated features, including revamped graphics, improved gameplay and many more.Already...

3 July 2008
06:40 GMT

Pictures of AMD's HD 4870X2 Surface

Last week AMD went official with its new lineup of RV770-based graphics cards. But besides the HD 4850 and HD 4870 models that have been expected by every AMD fan out there, some even thought that the manufacturer would release a dual-core version of its next-generation flagship model, the HD 4870. Unfortunately for ...

3 July 2008
06:38 GMT

OCZ Launches New DDR3 XMP Modules

OCZ Technology Group announced today that the company is on its way to expand the Intel Extreme Memory modules lineup. OCZ is a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and today, it ads to its portfolio the latest memory solution featuring the implementation of a high-perfor...

3 July 2008
06:32 GMT

Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 Cheats, Unlockables and Hints (PS2)

Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 is a video game developed by Swordfish Studios Limited and published by Codemasters. It was originally released in 2005 for PCs, Mac and the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony. The game is classed as being a sports simulator that is played from an isometric perspective. The t...

3 July 2008
06:26 GMT

Short Circuit Comes Back to Hunt Martian Lander

The first investigation of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Martian soil collected from its surroundings failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to life at all, and although another seven single-use test ovens are expecting further analysis, the next experiment could just as well be the last one for the sp...

3 July 2008
06:21 GMT

Vista SP1 and Widows Server 2008 Virtualization Licensing

Windows is still a long way away from shipping with virtualization as a default component of the operating system. However, Microsoft has made consistent advancing in terms of embracing virtualization with both its server and client operating systems. In the end, whether a copy of Windows runs on physical hardware or...

3 July 2008
06:07 GMT

Google Talk Launched for iPhone

Staying true to Steve Jobs' fondness of web apps, the Google mobile team has released Google Talk for the iPhone. Using the app, even first-gen iPhone users can chat with their Google friends in real time, see their availability and status message, change their status on the go and more."We've just released...

3 July 2008
06:06 GMT

Madden NFL 08 Achievements (Xbox 360)

Madden NFL 08 is a title in the worldwide known franchise developed by Electronic Arts and published by EA Sports. The game was released in August 2007 for all platforms: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360, Windows, PSP, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS. The game is a real delight for football fans all over the wor...

3 July 2008
06:05 GMT

The UK Gets the iPhone 3G at 7 AM

Besides being an ordinary summer day, July 11 will also be the best day of the year for lots of iPhone fans, as the new iPhone 3G is set to be released on this date in 23 markets around the world. While in the US AT&T is offering the iPhone 3G starting 8 AM, local time, on the other side of the Atlantic, in the UK, u...

3 July 2008
05:49 GMT

July's Web Threats According to MX Logic

What can we expect for July in terms of spam, malicious software and other web threats? MX Logic has just released its July forecast that uses recent and historical data to analyze the trends and keep you up to date and as safe as possible in terms of computer protection. The report contains detailed and comprehensi...

3 July 2008
05:42 GMT

Havok Will Not Support GPU Acceleration

NVIDIA is trying to convince us that its PhysX technology is the best way for handling in-game physics, although its technology isn't much supported by current games. In fact, Havok, NVIDIA's competitor in the physics department, is doing quite well, especially since it has support for almost 300 games and ...

3 July 2008
05:41 GMT

Siberian Tiger Population Drops

Once, the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal held one of the biggest populations of Siberian Tigers in the world. Now, the Siberian Tiger is on the list of countless endangered species around the world, with as little as 20 tigers in the respective reserve in 2005 and up to one third or less in 2008. There is no d...

3 July 2008
05:37 GMT

Madden NFL 07 Cheats (Xbox 360)

Madden NFL 07 is a title in the worldwide known franchise developed by Electronic Arts and published by EA Sports. The game was released in August 2006 for all platforms: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360, Windows, PSP, Game Boy Advance, DS. The game is a real delight for football fans all over the world and it...

3 July 2008
05:35 GMT

The Bouncer Hints II (PS2)

The Bouncer is a video game developed by Dream Factory Co. Ltd and published by Square Co. It was released in 2000 on just one platform, the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony. This is a title which mixes action and role playing game elements and is played from a third person perspective. There are elements of ma...

3 July 2008
05:28 GMT

HyperShot (v1.5) 3D Rendering App Improves Performance

Bunkspeed's HyperShot 3D rendering application for Mac delivers revolutionary, interactive rendering in real time, even on laptop, the company claims. Currently at version 1.5 the software performs faster, sports improved rendering and translator and more. The company has also changed the product licensing proce...

3 July 2008
05:27 GMT

Nvidia Announced Faulty Chips, Stocks Going Down

This week seems to be rather a gray one for Nvidia, as the latest stock changes show that the company has received a powerful hit, and its stocks went down with about 25% when news about its defective graphics card began spreading around. The blow came after the company announced its investors that "significant quant...

3 July 2008
05:20 GMT

Vista SP1's Network Map Plays Nice with XP SP3

With Service Pack 1, Microsoft provided fixes for the vast majority of the issues that have now became associated by default with Windows Vista RTM. But softening the rough edges of Vista is not enough, as there are scenarios in which the problems reported by end users cannot be blamed specifically on the latest Wind...

3 July 2008
05:08 GMT

Certain Foods May Actually Make You Smarter

Most people would eat almost anything today, as long as it tastes good and it fills up their bellies, regardless of how healthy it is, the nutritional values or the bunch of chemicals they swallow up. No wonder that the US is currently facing a serious obesity epidemic - people suddenly forgot that food has a nutriti...

3 July 2008
04:59 GMT

With SSD Future Uncertain, 5TB HDDs Could Revolutionize the Storage Industry

For the past few days everybody has been talking about the future of storage, with Solid State Drives replacing current magnetic hard drives. But some recent news, which has surfaced thanks to Tom's Hardware, has put this future in a light of uncertainty. It seems that SSDs aren't all everybody expects them...

3 July 2008
04:59 GMT

The 5 Megapixel LG KC550 Released in Romania

LG KC550, the latest 5 Megapixel handset unveiled by the South Korean manufacturer, was released today in Romania. The new KC550 is a slider that targets users in need of a mobile phone that can also act as a professional photo camera. Of course, the handset won't actually allow you to take photos at a quality t...

3 July 2008
04:52 GMT

This Is Vegas Delayed

Some would really love to know that "This is Spartaaa", but Midway wants to prove that, actually, This is Vegas and it is much better. Dubbed as a game which is able to compete head to head against Grand Theft Auto IV, Midway's sandbox title seems to get its inspiration from Take Two's game even when it com...

3 July 2008
04:50 GMT

OpenMoko Starts Selling Neo FreeRunner in the US

OpenMoko will start selling its Linux-based touch phone, Neo FreeRunner, in the US tomorrow. The device comes with a limited number of applications for calling and text messages, but software can be created or installed for free without paying other taxes (and it has a large community behind it, so you will surely ge...

3 July 2008
04:46 GMT

Kaspersky Top 20 Viruses

Security software provider Kaspersky has just released a top 20 of the viruses that plagued the web last month. The results were not astounding, with the generic Trojan Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q still leading the board. As a matter of fact, out of the total 20 malicious programs, 15 were Trojans. In regard to the co...

3 July 2008
04:45 GMT

Cocktail 4.1.3 Adds OS X 10.5.4 Compatibility

The general purpose utility for Mac known as Cocktail has been updated to version 4.1.3. Cocktail (Leopard Edition) 4.1.3 adds Mac OS X 10.5.4 compatibility, fixes a Firefox 3 bookmark bug and addresses an issue in which Cocktail may stop responding in a certain cache-clearing scenario.Maintain's Cocktail is a d...

3 July 2008
04:45 GMT

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D for iPhone

Vivendi and Polarbit (creators of Raging Thunder for iPhone) have announced their collaboration to release Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D for Apple's iPhone. The new racing title will be made available on the App Store as soon as it's done.According to touchArcade, Vivendi describes the smartphone version of...

3 July 2008
04:15 GMT

ASUS Steps Forward with the ASUS B51

Asus, one of the leading manufacturers of computer hardware products announced yesterday the release of its ruggedized computing solution for mobile professionals. Coming in the form of a compact, Intel-based notebook, the ASUS B51 has been designed to withstand tough environments, while being capable of providing a ...

3 July 2008
04:04 GMT

Nonagenarian Women More Predisposed to Dementia than Men

A review regarding the findings of the 90+ Study in the United States, the biggest study on dementia and other health factors in the country, found recently that women with ages over 90 years are more likely to have dementia than men. The original study involved the investigation of 911 people with ages over 90 and i...

3 July 2008
03:59 GMT

IBM Acquires PSI, CCIA Reveals Antitrust Concerns

The latest acquisition made by IBM, that of Platform Solutions (PSI), a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, ended a law issue between the two companies, but also raised antitrust concerns from an IT trade group. IBM filed a law suit against Platform Solutions in November 2006, accusing it of patent infr...

3 July 2008
03:56 GMT

Nokia Announced Wireless Loopset for Hearing Impaired Users

Nokia is not all about mobile phones, as the Finnish company also has a wide range of mobile accessories, out of which the latest-announced is called Nokia Wireless Loopset and it's targeted at users with hearing aids, being created to help them enjoy a better communication experience. The Wireless Loopset is b...

3 July 2008
03:56 GMT

UK Music Industry to Contact Illegal Music Sharers

In the United Kingdom there are thousands and thousands of people who have broadband Internet access and share music online. This is not exactly legal, nor is it something the BPI agrees with. The British music industry is taking charge of the situation and the first step it is going to take is to send illegal music...

3 July 2008
03:50 GMT

Prepare Your Brain for MindHabits

I was starting to get worried that we'll stop receiving brain training games as it has been a while since such a title was announced. However, Got Game Entertainment decided to save the day and announced MindHabits, another of those brain trainers which promise to keep yours fit with just five minutes of practic...

3 July 2008
03:46 GMT

Firefox 3.0: World Record 8 Million Downloads, Now Close to 30 Million

Firefox 3.0 is now the most downloaded piece of software in the first 24 hours. The publicity stunt that Mozilla has set up with the help of the open source community has been extremely fecund in terms of generating downloads for the successor of Firefox 2.0. On July 2, 2008, the Guinness World Records officially con...

3 July 2008
03:27 GMT

Voyager 2 Confirms Asymmetric Heliosphere Theory

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two of the most important spacecrafts in the history of space and solar system exploration, and currently the only two man-made objects to go beyond the limits of the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock, the area of space where solar wind and interstellar radiation collid...

3 July 2008
03:20 GMT

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Released

One of the best selling games of the last year (Guitar Hero) and one of the best rock bands of all times (Aerosmith) have agreed on a partnership to bring us a brand new product called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. And that highly anticipated product is finally available for purchase from game retailers nationwide, for the...

3 July 2008
03:19 GMT

IBM Info Gets HP Executive Indicted

Atul Mahotra joined the HP team two years ago, in May 2006, as VP (short for vice president) of the printing division. After just four months he was fired after he was accused of leaking private information from IBM, his previous employer, to his current employer. Mahotra was brought to justice and the San Jose court...

3 July 2008
03:06 GMT

The MSI Wind on Sale and in Stock, in the UK

The MSI Wind has been declared a most suitable competitor for ASUS' own Eee PC in the battle of the best netbook on the market, especially since both the Eee PC 1000 and the MSI Wind come with a similar specification list, 10-inch display and the computing power of Intel's Atom processor. But even so, MSI d...

3 July 2008
03:06 GMT

Arc Camera Phone Released by Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile USA, the largest North American MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) has released a new affordable handset named, simply, Arc. The phone is a clamshell that won't wow anyone with its features, but it can still be a good choice for those who only need basic functions. Built by UTStarcom, the new V...

3 July 2008
03:04 GMT

Jonathan Ive Takes Home 2008 MDA Personal Achievement Award

The Mobile Data Association was pleased to announce yesterday the winners in its 2008 Awards ceremony. The MDA Personal Achievement Award was handed to Apple's Jonathan Ive for his work with the iPhone.Jonathan Ive is the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as ...

3 July 2008
03:02 GMT

PlayStation 3 Having Issues with Firmware 2.40, Sony Pulls the Update

It seems that the long waited firmware version 2.40 for the PlayStation 3 gaming consoles from Sony is not all that players wanted. After the update was rolled out on July 2, a host of console users began reporting issues with their hardware on the PlayStation 3 forums and to Sony's call center.The issues ranged...

3 July 2008
02:56 GMT

NVIDIA's CUDA In Shadow By Intel's Larrabee

The competition between Intel and Nvidia becomes stronger nowadays, and it is spread over a few areas in the computing industry. The chipset manufacturing is the first and probably most important battle field between the two companies, but the latest months have brought to us rather the fighting on the integrated gra...

3 July 2008
02:51 GMT

Pre-Order Deals for Soulcalibur IV

Soulcalibur IV is one of the most anticipated fighting games of the year and, since its publisher surely knows that, we're already getting the first details on the deals we will receive if we pre-order the title. This offer we're talking about is only available in the UK, at the moment, but we're certa...

3 July 2008
02:51 GMT

Doodle on Your Nintendo DS with Marker Man Adventures

Majesco, one of the best known creators and publishers of casual games, is announcing its new title, Marker Man Adventures, which is being developed by Glyphic Entertainment. It is based on the concept of drawing as a gaming device, making players use their drawing skills to solve certain puzzle and physics challenge...

3 July 2008
02:46 GMT


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