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Moving onward after the successful delivery of Windows 7, Microsoft is concerned not only with putting together the lines of code that will end up as Windows 8, but also with the evolution of the Windows brand. While the company continues to be largely mum on Windows 7’s successor, and for good reason since Win... |
30 December 2009
23:11 GMT |
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New Year's Eve is just around the corner, and, like always, there's not much you can still play at the end of the year. The big releases have come and gone, and the past weeks have been a dry patch of land as far as new games go. So, it looks like it's time to reach deep into the dust-covered box of ... |
30 December 2009
23:01 GMT |
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According to a new paper released by German researchers on Monday, it may be that custom music therapy could relieve the effects of tinnitus. The condition refers to when people experience ringing in their ears, without any external source creating the noise. This sound running in the background is experienced by mos... |
30 December 2009
22:51 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system has had a great year in 2009. It entered the year with only one device running under it and it ends it with quite a few. T-mobile G1 was the first to run under it, while the latest seems to be the Nexus One, another phone made by HTC and which should land on T-Mobile's airw... |
30 December 2009
22:41 GMT |
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An interesting year awaits Mozilla, with the company’s plans for the evolution of its open source browser beginning to take contour. If until recently it appeared that two, maybe three releases of Firefox were planned for 2010, it now seems that Mozilla has bumped this number to three or four, with the addition... |
30 December 2009
19:51 GMT |
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Everybody knows that whales communicate using very high-pitched sounds that resemble clicks. These sounds can be heard over incredibly long distances, and prove that the creatures are intelligent and able to understand each other. But this discovery, for example, was only made possible through the use of acoustic sur... |
30 December 2009
19:31 GMT |
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It's hard to choose a Game of the Year at the worst of times, when there are few good releases in a year, and even harder in a 2009, which has seen huge critical and commercial successes out, hence the use of “my” in this series of articles, suggesting both the subjective nature of the choices and th... |
30 December 2009
18:21 GMT |
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I've played the Total War series ever since Shogun introduced gamers to the mix of real time tactical combat and turn based strategic decisions. I'm one of those who complained about the shift to a 3D strategic map in Rome, thinking that it would complicate the game needlessly and take something out of the ... |
30 December 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The so-called Google Phone, which we know will be going by the Nexus One moniker, has been making headlines lately with bits of information making their way to the press one way or the other. First billed as an internal experiment by Google, the company didn't really make a convincing case and the evidence kept... |
30 December 2009
16:21 GMT |
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The large number of passenger, cargo and military jet airplanes out there today significantly contributes to global warming and climate change. Primarily, the craft do so by burning fossil fuels and releasing significant amounts of pollution in the air, but they also create contrails. These are exhaust byproducts tha... |
30 December 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Coming to answer the question some of us may have asked ourselves when fantasizing about winning the lotto and being able to move in a fabulous residence complex where we’d get to pick our neighbors, a new poll reveals the Obamas would be Americans’ first choice in this respect. At the opposite poll are r... |
30 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will undoubtedly be the most advanced orbit-based observatory in the world when it will launch. Featuring an innovative design, and planned to operate from the L2 Lagrangian orbital point, the machine will scout the skies in infrared wavelengths. It was designed specifically as a... |
30 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Publisher cdv Entertainment USA is announcing that it is organizing a “Quest for Glory” competition for all those North American players who are interested in the deep role playing experience that will be delivered by Divinity II – Ego Draconis.To get into the Quest for Glory competition, players ne... |
30 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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We may see some religious groups complaining about video games and violence, but it looks like, if Christian Rock can exist, then so can Christian Video Games. While most of your minds just flew with the speed of light to Dante's Inferno and its Mass: We Pray, it looks like this isn't just some publicity st... |
30 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Online music services are hardly new. In one way, the ill-fated Napster was the first online property to shake up the music industry's status quo and it certainly wasn't the last. A big number of music-streaming sites have popped up in recent years, most realizing that it's only a matter of time until ... |
30 December 2009
11:47 GMT |
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Google is moving into new markets almost as fast as it's rolling out new products. Despite its emerging ubiquity though, several areas are getting the most of the attention in the coming year and one of the most interesting ones is voice. Operating systems are also uncharted territory for Google, but seeing how ... |
30 December 2009
11:16 GMT |
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Even though multitouch has been introduced rather recently, capacitive touch technologies can only handle, at most, two simultaneous touch inputs. Stunningly, however, Ken Perlin, Ilya Rosenberg and a team from the New York University’s Media Research Lab have come up with a new touch technology that will not o... |
30 December 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Several black hat search engine (BHSEO) campaigns have emerged in the days after Christmas targeting several subjects of interest for Internet users. Security researchers warn that search results for the name of the "Christmas Day Bomber" or after Christmas sales have been poisoned. News agencies from all over the w... |
30 December 2009
11:07 GMT |
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While most so-called new developments have consisted over the past week of little else besides unconfirmed rumors and reports from undisclosed sources, the Donanimhaber website seems to have gotten its hands on a rumor with a picture to back it up. The slide posted shows the supposedly targeted gaming segments of Int... |
30 December 2009
10:23 GMT |
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The American space agency made public its plans to retire the space shuttles from active duty some time ago. Since then, the idea has been both criticized and praised by officials from NASA, the federal government, the media and space analysts. At the time of this article, the agency remains bent on retiring its thre... |
30 December 2009
10:15 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
30 December 2009
10:11 GMT |
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She has good looks on her side and the ability to generate the kind of publicity few other stars, be they female or male, can generate by doing only very little in this sense. Yet Megan Fox was not popular with moviegoers this year, as a new poll by Moviefone reveals, after counting the votes from 238,000 users.
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30 December 2009
10:09 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that the Fox Sports website has been compromised by unknown attackers, who injected malicious code into a custom error page. There are two separate offensive script tags, each of them created by a different infection.The page was detected by the ThreatSeeker Network system developed and oper... |
30 December 2009
10:04 GMT |
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The year 2010 is almost here, and, with 2009 getting ready to wave bye-bye, round-ups of what we had the chance to see, learn and experience over the past 12 months have also started to emerge into the wild. Since there have been quite a few handsets to enjoy in 2009, one better than the other, we thought of providi... |
30 December 2009
10:01 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobile ph... |
30 December 2009
09:54 GMT |
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Kourtney Kardashian, sister of Kim Kardashian and star of the popular reality show featuring the entire Kardashian clan, gave birth this December, following an intensely mediated pregnancy. Life & Style magazine is the first to offer photos of both the new mommy with her bundle of joy, and the happy father with his n... |
30 December 2009
09:40 GMT |
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The purpose of Feel The Magic: XY/XX is to impress the girl of your dreams in typical high-school-boy fashion, by performing insane and ridiculous stunts. These stunts are the actual gameplay, as there are over 30 mini games that can be performed via the DS mechanics. The touch-screen is used to play games such as ri... |
30 December 2009
09:36 GMT |
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Symwave has already established partnerships with Seagate, OCZ and LaCie for the development of USB 3.0 devices and has now ramped up its efforts by announcing a device developed along with Super Talent. The two companies combined Symwave's storage technology with Super Talent's own flash storage solutions ... |
30 December 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Despite the “home” in Windows Home Server, Microsoft is recommending the product not just to users with multiple PCs in the household, but also to small business owners that are watching the spending when it comes down to a backup solution. The two videos embedded at the bottom of this article have been p... |
30 December 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency announce that their newest telescope, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), managed to successfully jettison its lens cover. The maneuver was the last big step in the commissioning and testing phases of the mission. Now, experts will spend the next few weeks calibrati... |
30 December 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Because the inventory of the holiday rumor shop wouldn't be complete without some supposed developments on AMD's part, Fudzilla has supplied end-users with just about enough o keep their minds wondering. This time, the rumors imply that Advanced Micro Devices may be gearing up to release the six-core Thuban... |
30 December 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Ford, one of the big players in the automotive industry, has issued an official report formally announcing its plans to include HD radios as a standard across many of its upcoming car models. The receivers, capable of pulling in digital radio signals for dramatically improved sound, boast iTunes tagging, a capability... |
30 December 2009
08:45 GMT |
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Scientists analyzing the ancient climate history of the planet warn that the Arctic, the surrounding ocean, and the northern seas risk losing all their ices relatively fast. They add that numerous similarities exist between the expected temperature ranges in the next 90 years, and the records at hand for a period of ... |
30 December 2009
08:39 GMT |
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The Rain Forest Wind Chinese company presented a few days ago their brand-new operating system, a hacked Ubuntu distribution that looks just like the ever-popular Windows XP operating system from Microsoft. Not only has the GTK theme been tuned to be like the Windows XP desktop, but the icons are also identical and t... |
30 December 2009
08:36 GMT |
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One of the most comprehensive lists of additives has been put together by software developer Melon Mobile in its new application called E Food Additives. Containing around 595 additives, the application helps iPhone users find out the risks and effects of each of these additives, which might be dangerous for their he... |
30 December 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Rallen and Jeena's routine patrol mission is interrupted when they pick up a distress call. Upon arriving at the source of the message, they find an ancient escape pod and its passenger in cryogenic sleep. Waking him up, the two officers find out about a horrible threat to the universe – the Krawls are abo... |
30 December 2009
08:28 GMT |
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New fighting-game news is always welcomed, but to hear that a new Guilty Gear should soon surface is far beyond words to describe. Taking a little pre-Christmas stroll down to the NowGamer offices, Tomo Ohno, the Business Development director for Arc System Works, unveiled the upcoming GG game while talking about the... |
30 December 2009
08:14 GMT |
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Even though official releases or news of any kind is hard to come by during the holiday period, the rumor mill is still very much alive and kicking. Rumors have been going around concerning a variety of so-called possibilities. Details on the infamous Google Chrome netbook supposedly surfaced, the FCC leaked info on ... |
30 December 2009
08:10 GMT |
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It has been long rumored that Redmond-based Microsoft plans on making its mobile phone operating system more gaming friendly, and the latest findings among the company’s job listings are meant to confirm exactly that. It seems that Windows Mobile will receive some Xbox LIVE love in the future, and its users will be ... |
30 December 2009
07:54 GMT |
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Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7 is an application designed to extend the default power-saving capabilities, brought to the table by the latest iteration of the Windows client. Developed by Vladimir Plenskiy, the utility is available for download free of charge; however, it is offered as donationware, and the auth... |
30 December 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Gamers and enthusiasts can now breathe a sigh of relief knowing that a 900W 80 PLUS-certified power supply is just about ready for launch. The developers at Huntkey will soon release the X7 all-modular PSU with a wattage of 900W for gaming computers. The PSU is especially designed to provide a stable and sustained po... |
30 December 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Until recently, the widely held view on galactic formation and development was that these space structures tended to form from primordial building blocks. Experts thought that, in the billions of years that passed since the Universe first appeared, these blocs evolved on their own, and that making them out was imposs... |
30 December 2009
07:05 GMT |
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December has marked a critical step forward for Microsoft’s Business Ready Security strategy with the release of such solutions as Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG). However, the company continued to make available additional resources after the RTM o... |
30 December 2009
07:05 GMT |
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Book sales, just like almost all existing businesses, are being disrupted by the Internet. Amazon started out as an online book retailer and built an e-commerce empire from that. Brick-and-mortar books sellers weren't thrilled, but there wasn't much they could do about it. In Germany a rather interesting, ... |
30 December 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are proud today to announce an impressive achievement of the New Horizons space probe, the fastest spacecraft every built. After years of traveling to the boundaries of the solar system, the instrument is finally closer to Pluto – its primary target – than it is to ... |
30 December 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Nexus One by HTC seems to have had its launch date already nailed down on January 5, when Google will hold an Android press conference. However, the upcoming device is not expected to arrive alone, you might already know that. Android 2.1 is also said to come along with it, and it seems that there will also be a wid... |
30 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering free downloads of all its supported Windows clients, including Windows 7 RTM, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Starting with the advent of Vista, customers, partners, IT professionals and developers have been able to take advantage of a variety of offerings involving free releases of Windows from ... |
30 December 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Singer Taylor Swift and “Twilight” heartthrob Taylor Lautner are no longer together, People magazine has learned. The two young stars started dating a while back, after having met on the set of the star-studded romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day,” though they never confirmed being an item ... |
30 December 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Among the many interesting developments of 2009, few are as noteworthy as the spectacular marketing performance of netbook systems. Designed as entry-level mobile PCs aimed specifically at little else besides web surfing and document viewing, netbooks have seen a popularity surge so great that total sales grew by 103... |
30 December 2009
06:23 GMT |
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One interesting aspect about the web is that for every successful venture there is a myriad of others that pop up around it. Some are obvious copies, some just try to cash in on someone else's success, but some actually provide a useful service extending the functionality of the original one. This is made easy ... |
30 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Indie studio Press Start has finished work on its Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard and has got it all ready for download. Twin Blades is a bit of a quirky mash-up of ideas and concepts, the kind that has you tilt your head with a dumfounded look on your face as you try to discern what it is. TB is a side-scrolling, ... |
30 December 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Clearly, Susan Boyle is, right now, one of the hottest newcomers on the music scene. Not only does rapper 50 Cent want her for a duet and she’s reported to sing for the Obamas in January, but she’s also on Lady Gaga’s hot list. In an interview with The Sun, the singer revealed she would love to do a... |
30 December 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint launched the BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone from Research In Motion only a few weeks ago, yet it seems that the company is already determined to enhance the mobile experience of its users. A new operating system flavor is now available for those who purchased the device from Sprint, namely ... |
30 December 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Psychologists have wondered for a long time how it is that people have the tendency to not practice what they preach. As evidenced by countless new studies, those in a position of power, and who claim a solid moral background, tend to slip up the most, and the hardest. This is clear in the case of politicians, econom... |
30 December 2009
05:56 GMT |
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In what has turned into a complete fiasco, Nokia has again slammed Apple, this time filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its portables, including the iPhone, iPods, and even its computers. Apple previously respon... |
30 December 2009
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Microsoft has released a stability update designed to resolve no less than three issues affecting Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Print Clusters. The Redmond company detailed the problems impacting print server failover clusters running Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as the specific sources of the glitches and is of... |
30 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Even though the holiday season is typically slow in regards to news, companies still haven't turned their lights off and are even finishing up work on new kinds of innovative devices. A-Data is one such company. Deciding not to let the final days of 2009 go by without offering a basis for excitement, the DRAM an... |
30 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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BioWare has finally announced a release date for the Return to Ostagar downloadable content package for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game it released earlier in 2009.The new content will arrive on the Xbox 360 home gaming console and on the PC on January 5, while those playing it on the PlayStation 3 will ha... |
30 December 2009
05:44 GMT |
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This year’s winter holiday season brought an overturn in British music charts that surprised even critics. Until now, the singles that usually made it all the way through to the top positions were releases from X Factor alums. Rage Against the Machine intervened this year and managed to turn things around, occu... |
30 December 2009
05:43 GMT |
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Google is very protective of its name, logo and all the things that are closely associated with its brand. Having such powerful branding, which is actually about to undergo some major changes, this makes a lot of sense. In some cases, though, it may get a little overzealous and things may not go the way it intended,... |
30 December 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm released only a few days ago the latest firmware update for its Palm Pre handset, the webOS 1.3.5, and now the company also made available for download the SDK for the new flavor, namely Mojo SDK v1.3.5 Build 368. The new version of the SDK comes around with a series of fixes ... |
30 December 2009
05:37 GMT |
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When Gearbox Software started teasing us with its RPG-shooter, some felt skeptical regarding the outcome of this project, and, in truth, no one could have anticipated just how amazing the game would be. When completed, Borderlands proved to be a fascinating experience, addictive and rewarding at the same time. The g... |
30 December 2009
05:30 GMT |
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Mashup artist DJ Earworm, real name Jordan Roseman, has delivered yet another catchy remix, this time capturing the essence of what the year 2009 was in music. “United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)” is the third remix of the kind in as many years, summing up the 25 hits that have made history in... |
30 December 2009
05:15 GMT |
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After it confirmed that it was investigating reports in the wild of a zero-day(0-day) security hole affecting Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft is now saying that it wrapped up the investigation and that no vulnerability was found. Instead of the alleged security vulnerability, the Redmond company noted... |
30 December 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Parallels Server is a powerful, bare metal hypervisor solution for server virtualization developed by Parallels Inc., a team of experts in virtualization software. Parallels Server provides great value for cost-conscious organizations looking to standardize and optimize their IT infrastructures, according to Parallel... |
30 December 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Even though legal disputes have a tendency to die out in very anticlimactic ways, with most lawsuits ending up being settled through a financial agreement, situations sometimes arise when decade-old legal battles are revitalized. In this instance, an ex-employee of Seagate is refreshing a legal action, initially file... |
30 December 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Bioengineers working in the field of human-tissue repair and doctors trying to get better results with transplants will soon benefit from the advantages provided by the “world's first production model 3D bio-printer.” The new device was produced by Invetech, and the first one has already been deliver... |
30 December 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
30 December 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 7, the next generation flavor of Microsoft's mobile client, is expected to become the next big thing in the platform's evolution, and it seems that the Redmond-based software company is also determined to prove just that. The OS has been heavily criticized already, and some even said that it... |
30 December 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Kim Possible: Kimmunicator is a 3D platformer that runs from a fixed perspective, the only exception being made upon encountering a path choice. Gadgets and weapons that allow the entrance into secret areas can be purchased with the coins that are collected throughout the levels, but there is plenty of hand-to-hand c... |
30 December 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Social media can be a great thing but just like anything else, overuse can lead to sometimes damaging behavior. Facebook pretty much defines online social interaction these days and it's not that easy to let it go. An interesting alternative has popped up, Seppukoo, a website offering Facebook users an honorabl... |
30 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to allow customers running Windows 7’s predecessor to resolve issues that caused backups to fail via a fix offered for download. According to the Redmond company, users of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 can experience failures of the backing up process and the logging of Event ID 122... |
30 December 2009
04:38 GMT |
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People Can Fly may not be a developer that's very famous, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have its share of big names attached to it. Painkiller would be one of them, as well as the PC port of Gears of War, but the name of Gorky 17 might ring a familiar and nostalgic bell as well. Now existing in... |
30 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
30 December 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Even though no confirmation has been made that wife Elin Nordegren attacked Tiger Woods with one of his golf clubs before the car crash at the end of November, reports in the media say the injuries he sustained from it were so bad he needed massive reconstructive surgery. Sports editor Furman Bisher got it from very ... |
30 December 2009
04:25 GMT |
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The Knocking Live Video app is the first iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi connections. It was personally approved by Apple’s CEO earlier this month, thanks to its innovative features. The app’s developers have just announced a major update, one that adds improvements in video qu... |
30 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Recently, the American space agency concluded one of its contests, which sought to bring in new ideas for projects related to space exploration. Three of these ideas are now selected as finalists, with the final decision scheduled to be taken soon. One of the potential missions proposes a scientific trip to the Moon,... |
30 December 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Earlier this month Microsoft made available for download updated variants of its federated identity product, releasing additional development milestones for early adopters. Those interested in the Redmond company’s federated identity solutions have already been able to read on Softpedia details about the evolu... |
30 December 2009
04:07 GMT |
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As most end-users are well aware by now, USB 3.0 is probably the most underrepresented technology on the current IT market. The number of motherboard models with built-in USB 3.0 support is limited and even USB 3.0 express cards aren't available in a wide variety. The same is, more or less, also true for USB 3.0... |
30 December 2009
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Susan Boyle’s debut album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” a compilation of covers, turned out to be the biggest release of 2009, and not only from a newcomer, figures indicate. According to the Daily Mail, the album even managed to block Andrea Bocelli’s “My Christmas” from reaching the numb... |
30 December 2009
04:04 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker kicked off not too long ago its own competition for developers, the Samsung Application Store Developer Challenge 2009, which ended recently with two happy winners: Ompass World Cities and Cinetrailer. The contest was launched back in October, with developers able to compete based on ... |
30 December 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Social gaming has done wonders for Facebook and the market is one of the fastest growing and the most profitable in the web industry. But can Google do the same on YouTube? It remains to be seen, but a patent application that just surfaced indicates that it's at least thinking of it. Filed earlier this year but... |
30 December 2009
03:59 GMT |
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When role-playing games get a sequel, if they make use of the same cast as the original title did, the protagonist usually suffers some sort of physical or mental catastrophe that renders them helpless as they were when they started the first game. This is mainly because character progression is the strong point of t... |
30 December 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Torchlight has been one of the unexpected successes of 2009. People have liked it for a lot of reasons, one of the more prominent being the fact that it offers a Diablo-like fix even as players are getting tired of waiting for the third game in the series, but all reviews of the game talked at length about the &ldquo... |
30 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is expected to start selling at least one smartphone coming form the Sunnyvale-based handset vendor Palm, that's something that most of you might already know. What might haven't been yet unveiled to you is the fact that Verizon is also expected to have the Palm Pixi o... |
30 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 3: Extreme Legends is a videogame developed and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released exclusively for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony in January 2003. It is described as an action title played from a third person perspective featuring some medieval influences.The game is a standal... |
30 December 2009
03:27 GMT |
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While the general availability of Firefox 3.6 slipped into 2010, Mozilla is already planning ahead for the evolution of the next iteration of its open source browser. Nothing is set in stone at this point in time, but Mozilla could start cooking Firefox codenamed Lorentz, aiming for a March 2010 release. And just as... |
30 December 2009
03:24 GMT |
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In a new study conducted on lizard populations that lived at White Sands, New Mexico, it was determined that various species employed different evolutionary paths to reach the same outcome. When it comes to camouflage, there is no strict recipe, experts believe, as each type of lizard tends to evolve its genes in dif... |
30 December 2009
03:23 GMT |
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The recent launch of the Pine Trail platform naturally set the stage for a variety of mobile computer releases, with companies like MSI, HP and Samsung itself, among others, outing, announcing or leaking information on the upcoming release of netbooks built with the Pineview Atom processor. Now, only about a week aft... |
30 December 2009
03:22 GMT |
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While games are obviously growing as an industry and they're slowly but surely becoming a casual means to pass time, some still regard it as outcasts, and are surprised to see them as more than a peculiar hobby. But titles are a lot more than that, and, as The Daily Telegraph has noticed as well, it looks like m... |
30 December 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Fans hoping to enter the new year on the sound of Adam Lambert’s latest tracks will have to wait until his next performance, because his gig on New Year’s Eve at the Paramount Pictures Studio Lot will not be televised or streamed online. Adam himself made the official announcement via his Twitter, saying ... |
30 December 2009
03:15 GMT |
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iPhone developer Joel Comm, of Digital Future Inc., has confirmed that their KaChing application is now in the App Store. Previously rejected by Apple’s reviewer board over minimal user functionality, the KaChing app has finally earned its rightful place among the entertainment titles for iPhone and iPod touch.... |
30 December 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Nexus One by HTC, aka the Google Phone, is expected to become officially available and to go on sale starting with January 5, 2010. This is the launch date that rumors brought forth before, and it seems that the final confirmation is almost here. Google already sent out invites to a press conference regarding the An... |
30 December 2009
03:08 GMT |
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While scanning our solar system's outer asteroid field, known as the Kuiper Belt, astronomers managed to make a very impressing find. They determined the existence of a very small space object among the debris, no more than one mile wide. This finding makes the rock the smallest one ever discovered in our Sun�... |
30 December 2009
03:08 GMT |
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Sony has announced that the distribution duties for the PlayStation 3 home gaming console, which were handled by Sony Computer Entertainment, will be handled by the main company from now on as all the hardware distribution operations will be brought under one roof in order to save money and improve efficiency.A Bloom... |
30 December 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Apple has quietly dropped the price on Education Discounted white MacBooks from $949 to $899. The offer extends to teachers and faculty members, besides students. Some have spotted a pricing as low as $728, according to Engadget. However, the offer was soon confirmed as limited to the University of Maryland, College ... |
30 December 2009
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At this point in time, various lines of stem cells have become available in hospitals for a host of medical procedures, such as replacement therapies and drug development. All of these lines are very genetically diverse, so researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) have taken it upon themselves to create a ... |
30 December 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant is already known to be working on a new version of Windows Mobile, other than Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to land on the market in the second half of the next year, and now that flavor, Windows Mobile 6.5.3, has been spotted on official documentation on MSDN (Microsoft Developer ... |
30 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
30 December 2009
02:35 GMT |
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