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Test Drive Unlimited is the definition of the arcade racing game, oriented mostly on its multiplayer side. The game features 125 licensed cars and motorcycles; however, those are only available for the Xbox 360 and the PC versions. On the PS2, you'll only be racing 62 of them; oh, no bikes are included. That... |
31 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Cars Mater Transnational Championship is a video game created by Rainbow Studio and published by THQ Inc. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii and the PC. It was released in 2007. The game is classified as a racing title, developed using a movie f... |
31 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Ticket To Ride is a video game based on the board game with the same name developed by Next Level Games and published by Playful Entertainment exclusively on the Xbox Live Arcade on the 25th of June 2008. It's basically a turn based strategy title which offers single and multiplayer game modes. It can still be p... |
31 July 2008
19:41 GMT |
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TiQal is a tetris clone developed by Slapdash Games and published by Microsoft Games studio on the 26th of March 2008 on the XBLA. Purchasing the game costs 800 MS Point ($10). The biggest improvement this title brings is the fact that it acts as an educational tool since it offers, in between levels, short lessons a... |
31 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Mabinogi, the free to play MMORPG developed by Nexon America will delight its fans even more, as its creators decided it is time to introduce a few more goodies to the game: a brand new weapon and some pets should be enough for now, but more could come in the future.The Spirit Weapon is the first addition, but using ... |
31 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux is one of the most interesting game designers in the industry. Sure, the first Fable was not all he advertised it to be and some gamers thought that the unrealistic expectations for the title were the direct result of Molyneux's statements while others feared that he might be hyping up the soon to... |
31 July 2008
18:56 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. It was launched in 2005. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective wit... |
31 July 2008
18:26 GMT |
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Speaking as part of a conference call which followed the unveiling of financial results for the first quarter of the year, Electronic Arts top man John Riccitiello talked a bit about Spore and about how his company needed to treat this game carefully in its effort to establish a new franchise that would rival even Si... |
31 July 2008
18:11 GMT |
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VueScan 8.4.79, a new version of Hamrick Software's scanning application for Mac OS X, now supports localized menus and dialog boxes in 24 languages. The application is designed to let users produce better digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents.VueScan works with most high-quality f... |
31 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Dynolicious, an automotive performance meter for the iPhone and iPod touch, is now available for download via the iTunes App Store. Using the accelerometer of your handheld device, the app can measure the performance characteristics of your vehicle, without additional tools or wires.According to BunsenTech, users sim... |
31 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a video game developed by Spark Unlimited and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Game Cube and the Xbox from Microsoft. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with sequences in first person view. Th... |
31 July 2008
16:31 GMT |
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MacSword is a free piece of Mac software that enables one to read and browse many Bible translations into different languages. Just updated to version 1.4.0, the open source app now boasts over 200 modules in 50 languages, all available from the Crosswire Bible Society. Bibles, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries an... |
31 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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A few days ago I mentioned that Q-Games announced Trophy support for their game, PixelJunk Eden, while also detailing how in-game footage can be recorded and uploaded directly to YouTube for other players to see. Now, as the game is released, there's a post on the PlayStation blog detailing the various Trophies ... |
31 July 2008
15:56 GMT |
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We can all agree with the fact that nowadays, the Internet and websites are a very powerful source of information, fun, and entertainment. The number of websites visited by the regular user gets bigger and bigger every day. But if we store or want to visit them again on our hard drive, we will definitely have a probl... |
31 July 2008
15:53 GMT |
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Everybody knows that the Xbox 360 consoles are not too popular in Asia, but I doubt there are many people who have ever questioned the success of Microsoft's gaming device in Europe. Apparently, things don't look really great there either, since less than a quarter of Xbox Live's total members are Euro... |
31 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... |
31 July 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Hell's Highway is again getting delayed. The tactical World War II shooter, which was in development for the last three years, is now expected to reach gamers no later than the end of September, when the original date was set for August. Most retailers are now saying that September 23 will be the final date, but... |
31 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Probably all of us associate summertime with vacation and the time when we all get the chance to go on relaxing holidays, away from the stress or monotony of everyday life. And, usually, people choose to spend their vacation with friends (the more the merrier, right?), the result of that being that we all come back h... |
31 July 2008
13:29 GMT |
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In the majority of cases, mathematics proved to be, at some point or another, a pain in the neck for each of us. No matter if it's geometry, algebra, trigonometry or whatever other fields math might have, we have all experienced bitter frustration when a problem just could not be solved or properly understood. O... |
31 July 2008
13:19 GMT |
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The quote "Everybody loves Pokemon" gets a whole new meaning starting today, since the fantasy world of the anime/games series was finally turned into something as real as possible and not because of a fanboy's tattoo. No, things are very serious: a team of Japanese researchers (from Osaka Bioscience Institute i... |
31 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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ZTE is not among the names well-known by US users when it comes to mobile phones, but this has not stopped the Chinese company from sending one of its latest devices to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in order to be approved for usage across the States. Although it's not clear whether the ZTE A1... |
31 July 2008
12:57 GMT |
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One aspect of the Windows operating system that Microsoft is looking to take to a new level is the Plug-and-Play architecture. According to a member of the group dealing with the Windows Device Platform, the Redmond company is gearing up for the next stage in the evolution of Plug-and-Play. Whether end users will sta... |
31 July 2008
12:53 GMT |
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Are you already tired of the Leopard look and feel? There are many software solutions available that allow you to change the dock style and theme, but the main disadvantage they present is that you usually have to pay in order to use them. SuperDocker, developed by Michael Aubigny, is a very useful software applicati... |
31 July 2008
12:34 GMT |
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Microsoft spells Danger for the new T-Mobile Sidekick. The Redmond company is applauding the addition of a "soul" to T-Mobile's handset, with the solutions developed by Danger, a company the software giant acquired in mid-April 2008. According to Microsoft, the software and services from Danger, included in the ... |
31 July 2008
12:26 GMT |
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Computers have become an indispensable tool in our every day work. Some of us may see this modern tool as an object that only makes our life easier but, still, there are some of us who are really interested in it and, consequently, who would like to know a bit more about it. In order to find out almost all there is t... |
31 July 2008
12:23 GMT |
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Computer speed has always been a problem for all types of users. You never have enough time to waste in front of the computer waiting for applications to start, searching for folders or looking for a specific document. This is why you need to find a solution to speed up your workflow. Developed by the programmers at ... |
31 July 2008
12:17 GMT |
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The protection of your computer against malevolent agents, be they under the form of spyware, viruses or any other type of nasties, must be enforced on the system. Otherwise, you risk infections, which lead to corruption of important data and files or worse, to losing them to unknown third parties. The list of suites... |
31 July 2008
12:16 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just released fresh financial reports and analyzing them was a real pleasure, since we always love surprises. Battlefield Bad Company and UEFA EURO 2008 were EA's best selling games, as we have already reported, but the biggest surprise came after we did the math to see which console brought ... |
31 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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When it comes to web design, we think that it is something we should leave to professionals. We can't know everything about HTML tags or action scripts when we barely use custom made templates or other tools to design our personal webpage or gallery. If you're tired of turning to others to help you design a... |
31 July 2008
11:56 GMT |
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We are in the middle of summer and as we speak almost everybody is thinking of taking a vacation at the seaside or in the mountains. But even if we manage to put things in order when it comes to taking time off work and planning everything for the perfect vacation, there's still something that we cannot control... |
31 July 2008
11:54 GMT |
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Whether you work for a company, or just spend a couple of hours online every day, QuicKeys is a tool that shouldn't miss from your system. Its purpose is to save you time by automating the common simple or even more complex tasks that you have to do in your everyday work. All you have to do to make the daily rou... |
31 July 2008
11:49 GMT |
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Tetris Evolution is the seventh generation (or current generation) of tetris games released by THQ in 2007. The game includes play on Xbox Live and brings a host of visual improvements to the genre, while keeping the classic mechanics which made it so famous. Except for that, there's not much to say about a tetr... |
31 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 recommendation as part of its initiative to unify mobile web development guidelines. This recommendation represents the result of the efforts made by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group to gather and publish practical advice ba... |
31 July 2008
11:42 GMT |
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Nowadays it becomes harder and harder to keep track of the files you have stored on your computer for the sole reason that the HDD capacity has increased considerably. It is obvious that you not only need time to find what you are looking for but also a lot of patience. In this type of situations, ShellLess comes to... |
31 July 2008
11:40 GMT |
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Everyone wants a few extra days of vacation. However, from simply wanting that, to actually misleading the managers of the company you are working at is a long way. An Australia-based website is offering solutions to those who want to take some extra days off work or to get out of a gym membership, on such grounds as... |
31 July 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Nokia announced that its super-mega-hyped N96 smartphone will be available across the UK starting the 1st of October. While this is a bit later than mobile users might have expected, it's still a good thing that the Finnish manufacturer has finally announced an official release date for the new Nseries handset. ... |
31 July 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Welcome to the age of digital revolution, a phenomenon that spans across a multitude of everyday common technologies, transforming forever the way we work, live and even entertain. So, I'll ask you to kindly throw all your vinyl records and tapes in the nearest garbage can as the era of digital music has started... |
31 July 2008
11:19 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, I met an old friend of mine who just got his hands on a brand new Mac and, after about half an hour of showing the ins and outs of the machine, he asked me why the Mac community has so few free applications. If he had known that I would start writing down every piece of free and/or open source s... |
31 July 2008
11:14 GMT |
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When it was made available in November 2006 and in January 2007, Windows Vista brought to the table a plethora of editions, some of which will survive with the next iterations of the Windows client. But one SKU that was officially confirmed by Microsoft for Windows 7, and even Windows 8, is Enterprise. Out of all the... |
31 July 2008
11:09 GMT |
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With the netbook market continuously increasing, the industry harbors high hopes for the nettop segment as well. As we told you earlier today, ASUS is currently the only manufacturer to have officially launched a desktop version of one of its netbook computers. However, the situation is bound to change in the future,... |
31 July 2008
10:58 GMT |
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While planning important management job cuts, Bell Mobility is also preparing to offer a new HTC Pocket PC to its subscribers, namely the HTC Touch Dual. Coming as the successor of HTC Touch (which is already in Bell's line-up of handsets), the Touch Dual is not too different from it. However, the new Touch does... |
31 July 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently cooking Wave 3 of its Windows Live suite of products and services. As of July 30, the Redmond company unveiled Windows Live FrameIt, a new Windows Live service built as an integral part of Wave 3. FrameIt is in beta stage as of yet, but it is open to the general public. The service is designed ... |
31 July 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Common sense tells us that glassy materials, just like typical glass, should form disordered crystalline structures resembling the state of frozen liquids as frustration prevents the atoms from freezing into a well ordered state. However, in spin glasses the disordered crystalline structure is induced by the magnetic... |
31 July 2008
10:17 GMT |
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MMOs are one of the last bastions of power left to PC gaming. World of Warcraft, Age of Conan or the upcoming Warhammer Online are games that are exclusive to the PC and that sport millions or hundreds of thousands of subscribers. There's nothing comparable on either the Xbox 360 or on the PlayStation 3, and one... |
31 July 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Now that AMD's latest Radeon cards have come to be among the company's most successful products, and given that the HD 4870 X2 is expected to drop soon, on-going rumors have picked up on yet another interesting move on behalf of the company. Apparently, AMD is currently working on DirectX 11-support for its... |
31 July 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Tenchu Senran is a stealth action game in the Tenchu series developed by K2 LLC and published by Microsoft. It was released on the 12th of 2007 in North America and the 29th of June 2007 in Europe. It was one of the best games in the series thanks to the host of innovations brought in by the developers.First of all, ... |
31 July 2008
09:54 GMT |
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As we previously reported, Scrabulous, Facebook's most popular game, was removed from the website, because of a lawsuit filed by the legal owners of the board game Scrabble. Hundreds of people expressed their anger at the company, almost wishing they were not U.S. or Canada citizens, because they were the only o... |
31 July 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Although various analysts have predicted that Motorola will fall to the fourth or fifth place in the global handset industry, the American company remains on the third place when it comes to the number of mobile phones shipped in the second quarter of this year. Moto has issued today its financial results for the tim... |
31 July 2008
09:18 GMT |
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A water jet cutter is a tool able to slice into various solid materials with the help of a high speed jet containing a mixture of water and an abrasive material. Basically, water jet cutters rely on the same process that shaped most of the surface of the planet over the course of the past several billion years, water... |
31 July 2008
09:13 GMT |
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Although we’re not too sure what to make of ASUS' claims of having provided the world's first overclocked 9500GT-based graphics card, fact of the matter is that it has just launched two such cards. Both of them equip an overclocked 9500GT graphics processor and are designed to present entry-level users with... |
31 July 2008
09:03 GMT |
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Moving onward from Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up for the death of 32-bit versions of the Windows client. On the server-side, Window's transition to 64-bit only architectures is almost complete, with Windows Server 2008 being the last server opera... |
31 July 2008
09:02 GMT |
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Ok, maybe gamers did not love Tabula Rasa, the latest MMO project from Richard Garriot, the guy who is better known as Lord British of Ultima fame. The game, a sci-fi shooter MMO with a touch of mystique, is said to have had some financial problems, but whether or not those rumors are true is not the issue now. Richa... |
31 July 2008
09:00 GMT |
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Yahoo! has announced that the Yahoo! Network, including Yahoo!'s Homepage, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Sports, has delivered 100 million visits to affiliate newspapers. As most of you must already know, Yahoo!'s properties display news provided by several news agencies and 779 newspapers from all... |
31 July 2008
08:41 GMT |
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Thrillville: Off The Rails is a theme park sim game similar to Rollercoaster Tycon. It was created by Frontier Developments and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to Thrillvile and it was released only in North America on the 16th of October 2007. No plans for another title in series have been made public until... |
31 July 2008
08:39 GMT |
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AT&T, North America's largest mobile operator, has announced that it will offer a $1 million grant for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), US' biggest youth organization. Granted via the AT&T Foundation, the $1 million will be used by BSA in creating a Leadership Development Center in San Antonio, Texas. ... |
31 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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CART Fury: Championship Racing is a video game developed and published by Midway Games. It was developed and published exclusively for the PlayStation 2 gaming device from Sony in 2001, when the console had just been launched on the market. The title is classed as a racing game with a third person perspective. This i... |
31 July 2008
08:25 GMT |
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There aren't many people that haven't heard of Don King, so it's only natural to see a game made after the life of the boxers whose manager he was over the years. You must train, overcome adversity, get promoted and avoid the temptation to be too preoccupied by notoriety, all while watching the story o... |
31 July 2008
08:22 GMT |
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As we all know, the entire planet is divided in six large tectonic plates that are in constant movement. As a result, earthquakes may occur along the boundaries of a tectonic plate. Given the destructive force of a major earthquake, we are all interested in knowing the intensity, place and time of the event. Even tho... |
31 July 2008
08:09 GMT |
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Researchers of the Fermilab announced recently that they have been able to produce and observe one of the rarest diboson processes, the ZZ pair, during proton-antiproton collisions inside the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. The discovery bears significant scientific relevance, since the... |
31 July 2008
08:03 GMT |
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Web services for photo searching and sharing, such as Google or Flickr, are becoming more and more popular amongst users from all over the world. So, what if, instead of having to access these websites separately, we could do so by having them all in one single place? This is the very purpose of the Firefox extension... |
31 July 2008
07:42 GMT |
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Fishlabs, the German-based 3D mobile game developer, announced the release of Galaxy on Fire 2, the sequel to the award-winning game with the same title (minus the "2", of course). Following the success of the first Galaxy on Fire, its second part is set to offer a new and spectacular space adventure. The story of th... |
31 July 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Surf's up for Eye on Earth powered by Microsoft's Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008. A joint initiative of the Redmond giant and the European Environment Agency, Eye on Earth - Water Watch, is designed to provide an online service set up to monitor the quality of bathing water across 27 European countries. ... |
31 July 2008
07:08 GMT |
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As expected, Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS went ahead with the release of the Eee Box, despite rumors of a possible delay caused by typhoon Fung Wong. The company officially launched the desktop version of its Eee PC family yesterday in Taiwan, which means that users over there will soon be able to purchase one from th... |
31 July 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 is a video game produced and published by Capcom Entertainment. It 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 person per... |
31 July 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Following an invitation-based Alpha phase that started four months ago, socialmedian, a social media network, as its name also indicates, has launched today. Backed by the Washington Post, Newsweek Interactive and personal investments, the interactive news network aims at providing users with a news channel which can... |
31 July 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Agile Web Solutions, the makers of 1Password, have again updated their powerful password manager for Mac OS X. Version 2.8.1 improves syncing with native iPhone apps, and adds improved credit car fill on rogers.com. 2.8.2 Beta-1 fixes a crash during sync to iPhone on PowerPCs. More details are available below.1Passwo... |
31 July 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is proving that it's never too early to start gearing up for the availability of the next version of the Windows client. In this context, the Redmond company revealed that it is already hard at work to ensure that consumers would be able to benefit from a new standard of quality when it comes down to t... |
31 July 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Girly-colored Samsung handsets are definitely not something new, hence mobile users should not be surprised to find out that the latest Soul candybar, namely Samsung U800 (also known as Samsung Soulb), will soon be released in a purple version. The purple U800 (which might be mistaken for a pink one) will be launched... |
31 July 2008
06:30 GMT |
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Researchers of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston have recently announced that they might have found a way to fight off the human immunodeficiency virus for good by altering the part of its genetic code than never mutates. So far the laboratory tests indicate that the technique is effective, although u... |
31 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Three attorneys at Carr & Ferrell are listed on the Monday filing that extends Psystar Corp.'s deadline to respond to Apple's lawsuit, Computerworld is reporting. According to the same report, Colby Springer, Christine Watson and Robert Yorio (partner at the firm) have previously beaten Apple in court.It ha... |
31 July 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will provide users with the possibility of customizing their search results depending on three key factors: location, recent searches and web history. The three were also taken into account every time Google returned results to a query but, from now on, people will be given a greater oppo... |
31 July 2008
06:06 GMT |
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PWN to OWN. This is the name of the contest that made most Mac users worldwide seriously think about reading a security book or two to learn about securing their Macs ASAP. During the aforementioned contest a Mac running OS X Leopard was the first to give in to the intrusion attempts. It may not have been the brighte... |
31 July 2008
06:03 GMT |
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A little while ago, Artic Cooling released a new VGA cooling solution, which was designed to provide support for the latest high-end graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD. Dubbed the Accelero Twin Turbo, its design features two fans which are meant to provide an optimum cooling solution even for the highest perform... |
31 July 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Intel managed to ink a large low-cost laptop deal with Portugal's government to deliver 500,000 units of the company's Classmate PC for primary school pupils. The notebooks will be manufactured in northern Portugal and Intel expects them to be shipped during the upcoming school year. The delivery of the hal... |
31 July 2008
05:55 GMT |
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SkyLink, the CDMA Russian mobile operator, has recently announced the future availability of two new handsets: AnyDATA ASP-505 and Ubiquam U800. Undoubtedly, AnyDATA ASP-505 is the device that's worth most of our attention, as it's an elegant Pocket PC that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and packs ... |
31 July 2008
05:30 GMT |
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In its latest legal initiative, Microsoft finds itself in the unusual position of a plaintiff in a patent case, although the company is often a target for IP infringement lawsuits. The Redmond giant has filed a complaint against Taiwanese-based Primax Electronics, with the Intellectual Property and Licensing, allegin... |
31 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Observations carried out with the Cassini spacecraft have once again confirmed the theory that Saturn's moon Titan has lakes on its surface, after picturing Ontario Lacus located in the south pole of the body, an accumulation of liquid methane and ethane with a size larger than that of the Lake Ontario in the No... |
31 July 2008
05:26 GMT |
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While the lawsuit Viacom filed against YouTube is still pending, Google's affiliate has yet another difficult matter to settle on its hands. Mediaset, an Italian broadcasting company, has just announced that it is suing YouTube and Google, asking for €500 million, which means approximately $700 million, in damag... |
31 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Some of today's high-end computer enthusiasts just won't settle for the stock cooling solution for their latest graphics card, since they will probably want to boost its performance level, by overclocking its GPU, memory and Shaders. Specifically for this type of users, Spire has recently announced a new pr... |
31 July 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Sources are reporting that Apple is close to issuing the first pre-release build of the next maintenance update to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Mac OS X 10.5.5 is said to include support for new Mac notebooks due out later this year (autumn)."People familiar with the matter say Apple Developer Connection members and othe... |
31 July 2008
05:02 GMT |
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AMD showcased some of its current products and technologies at a small gathering the company hosted at the London NYC Hotel. A few products developed by AMD's partners were also put on display at the event, along with demos for the products slated for release in the following months. The guys from Hot Hardware a... |
31 July 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Microsoft is constantly evolving the products and services under the Windows Live brand umbrella, and one of the main focuses of the company is, of course, Live Search. Chris Rayner, Senior Product Manager, and Zach Gutt, Senior Program Manager Live Search User Experience team, revealed that the redesigned Live Searc... |
31 July 2008
04:39 GMT |
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After being released in the US (unlocked only), Motorola U9 has now moved a bit to the north and can be bought by Canadian users too. This, thanks to Fido, which has become the exclusive Canadian carrier for the U9 clamshell.The highlights of Motorola U9 (or MOTOROKR U9) are a hidden external display with touch-sensi... |
31 July 2008
04:27 GMT |
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A new study shows that people with mothers having Alzheimer's may themselves be predisposed to the disease, suggesting that the condition could be related to an unbalance in the way the brain handles sugar, which is most likely genetically inherited. "Overall, these findings show that their brains are not workin... |
31 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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The Chinese Government assured international media representatives and human rights organizations that they would have full access to the Beijing Olympic Games and all the information they needed. In defiance of this statement, many online resources that foreign journalists need to report from China have been restric... |
31 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Back when the first Eee PC was released, the purpose of such a device was simple: to provide users on a budget with the computing power of a low-priced, low-power, small-sized portable computer system. Since then, the idea behind the Eee PC concept has changed significantly, as current Eee PC models bring better perf... |
31 July 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Developers enlisted with Apple's iPhone Developer Program are reporting that a second build of the iPhone OS 2.1 is on the loose. Seeded just a week after the first reported firmware 2.1 beta release, the new version includes bug fixes, a previously-existing reference to a new iPod touch model, but no turn-by-tu... |
31 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Current-gen consoles are still years away from becoming "last-gen" according to analysts and sales figures, but this does not necessarily mean that work on the next-gen devices hasn't started yet. Although manufacturers usually love secrets and tend to deny everything until the last minute, it seems that Nintend... |
31 July 2008
04:04 GMT |
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Every once in a while, Apple releases driver updates for hardware generally used with Macs in working environments. It is the case of Lexmark's printers, which are highly popular around offices and big companies. The Mac maker has issued an update to the Lexmark Printer Driver for users of Mac OS X 10.5.3 or lat... |
31 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Telstra, the largest Australian mobile operator, has announced the release of a new LG handset to work on its fast Next G network: LG KF390. The phone will be offered in Australia only by Telstra and it was added to the carrier's Blue Tick family of devices. This means that it can be used in rural and remote are... |
31 July 2008
03:42 GMT |
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Individuals who have been through a traumatic event often tend to associate certain signals coming from the environment with the occurrence of the bad experience. Such signals are able to trigger fear and even panic attacks, but luckily, the brain has the ability to turn off traumatic feelings related to the memory o... |
31 July 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is just around the corner, according to Microsoft. The Redmond company made available the initial Beta build of IE8 at the start of March 2008, a release announced by Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, at the end of his MIX08 keynote. While Beta 1 was a developer-centric Build, Beta 2 w... |
31 July 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Yesterday, the media was ablaze with a little something that most would have liked to believe true but some considered downright impossible to carry out: the $10 laptop designed for educational reasons, a project announced by none other than India's Minister of State for Higher Education. At the time, no technic... |
31 July 2008
03:25 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS handheld is already offering a huge array of products and one can only wonder if there still are classic titles that were not released on the gaming console. Apparently, there are, since Avanquest Software has decided to bring to the DS two of the most popular casual puzzle games in the world: Jewel Q... |
31 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Strike Force Sales, an Australian company that undertakes professional prospectings of the market, conducted a survey to see how promptly companies replied to customers' emails. The author of the study, Chris Moriarty, Managing Director of the company, is still waiting for an answer to an email sent more than 8 ... |
31 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is saying that the first quarter of the year has seen it double its sales to more than 800 million dollars. The best sold games were the recently launched Battlefield Bad Company from DICE and the UEFA EURO 2008 football sim, which sold well because of the European Championship.Losses were reported as... |
31 July 2008
03:17 GMT |
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According to recent rumors on the PC area, Intel is on its way to serve us yet another generation of its already famous Classmate PC. It seems that the company is readying the third iteration of the netbook, one that will probably line-up with famous machines of the industry like the Eee PC or the Wind netbook. The o... |
31 July 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Three weeks ago, Apple was releasing iTunes 7.7, which syncs music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, but also lets users download applications exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch from the iTunes Store. Now, Apple has released an update to its popular media player application, which, according to the electro... |
31 July 2008
03:04 GMT |
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In 1901, divers retrieved a complex mechanism from a Roman merchant shipwreck dated to the 1st century BC. It appeared to be an ancient astronomy calculator that also made references to Greek games, from which the modern Olympic Games have been inspired, and which took place every four years. Now, the discovery of an... |
31 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Besides preparing to unveil brand new products, Sony Ericsson is also readying new color versions for two of its handsets: the slim W890 Walkman and the entry-level K330. More exactly, the W890 will soon be available in a gold edition, while the K330 in a white one. Neither of the new colors are confirmed by the Swe... |
31 July 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Mount & Blade, the role playing game title that made so many people go crazy several years ago with its realistic horse-riding and fighting sequences, is finally going to be released, after completing the beta-stage (which also lasted several years). The game, developed by TaleWorlds Entertainment, will be published ... |
31 July 2008
02:50 GMT |
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On June 17, Nvidia launched version 173.14.09 of its graphics driver, which brought preliminary support for Linux kernel 2.6.26 and improved support for X.org server 1.5. Yesterday (July 30), Nvidia decided to make Linux users happy again, by releasing yet another bugfix version of its graphics driver, Nvidia 173.14.... |
31 July 2008
02:43 GMT |
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Nintendo is again riding high, when it comes to financial results, with profits going up more than 33% to reach some 992 million dollars.Hardware wise the Nintendo Wii continues to be a success while the Nintendo DS is going through a tough period. The Wii is still the best sold console in the world, beating both the... |
31 July 2008
02:42 GMT |
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Following the news about Nvidia's mobility chips being faulty, ATI, the graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has released a statement assuring its partners that the ATI Mobility Radeon graphics cards do not experience issues with packaging, as the competing GPUs do. The company also revealed possibl... |
31 July 2008
02:39 GMT |
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IGA Worldwide is slowly turning into one of the leading in-game advertising companies in the world, bringing ads for titles like Trackmania or Quake Live. They also have numerous projects with other firms, one of them being Israeli developer Invasion Interactive and its MMOFPS Rising Eagle: Futuristic Infantry Warfar... |
31 July 2008
02:29 GMT |
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