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Britney's Dance Beat is a video game developed by Metro Graphics and published by THQ Inc. It was launched in 2002, when Britney Spears' career was at its peak, and debuted on the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony, the Game Boy Advance handheld device and PCs. The game is being billed as a music and rh... |
4 July 2008
20:51 GMT |
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Before any other arguments are brought to the stand, we need to clarify the term addict. Are there gaming addicts? This term is mostly used for Internet addiction and I have recently read a study saying that mobile phones produce a similar effect on people. Are there, in fact, PC and console addicts or are we in comp... |
4 July 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is an action RPG title developed by Raven Software and published by Activision on the 24th of October 2006 in North America, the 1st of November 2006 in Australia and the 3rd of November 2006 in Europe. The game was appreciated for its style on every platform it got released on.Four people c... |
4 July 2008
19:51 GMT |
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Sony has offered a few new details regarding its upcoming MMO project called DC Universe Online. The game is set to take the most important elements of the comics' universe created by DC and translate them into a videogame scenario.Jim Lee, who is the executive creative director of the project says that the game... |
4 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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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... |
4 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 is a video game developed by Codemasters internally with help from Stickman and published by Codemasters. It was originally released in 2007 for PCs, the Xbox from Microsoft and the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony. It is classed as being a sports simulator that is played f... |
4 July 2008
18:36 GMT |
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I, for one, was surprised and excited when Firaxis announced it was remaking the classic Colonization game, which Sid Meier put out in 1994, using the Civilization IV game engine. The original game was the less known cousin of Civilization and focused on a smaller piece of history which was presented in greater detai... |
4 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Major League Baseball 2K7 is a sports game developed by Kush Games and published by 2K Sports on all major consoles. The Xbox 360 version was released on the 27th of February 2007. For the third year in a row, Derek Jeter is the cover athlete and, even though 2K Sports lost the ESPN license to Electronic Arts, the ga... |
4 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Ever felt like doing something good for someone? Ever thought that, even if you did, you wouldn't make much of a difference? Well, now you can, thanks to Flipswap. If you've got an old device laying around, or want to upgrade to iPhone 3G but get rid of the original, the folks at Flipswap will gladly take i... |
4 July 2008
16:41 GMT |
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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. It is classed as being a sports simulator that is played from an isometric perspective. The title b... |
4 July 2008
16:21 GMT |
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PreFab Event Taps Testbench is a Mac utility aimed at software developers. The free application is used to test apps with Quartz Event Taps, and, as of now, the software includes complete support for tablet proximity and pointer events, like examples of tablet event modification on the fly.Developers install event ta... |
4 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Star Wars Galaxies is getting old. Which, in the MMO world, is good news, as it proves that the game has stood the test of time and still enjoys a dedicated following. LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment, the developer and the publisher of the game, are planning quite a few events to mark the anniversary.On July ... |
4 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Aeria Games seems to be getting ready for a full assault on the MMO market - yesterday, the company announced the acquisition and distribution of Dreamlords: The Reawakening and today they announce another massively multiplayer online game called Stone Age 2.Unlike the previously announced title, this one is a full R... |
4 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
4 July 2008
14:31 GMT |
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For those who have been impatiently awaiting the first clone of Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 to appear, that moment has come. Like Chuck Norris, the flourishing Chinese copycatting industry does not sleep and it has delivered a new masterpiece called SongLive X1.Unlike other clones, which reproduce even the tiniest detail... |
4 July 2008
14:27 GMT |
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Distributor SouthPeak Games is saying that it has commissioned developer Atomic Motion to create a new game called Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger, which is set to be a combination of real time strategy and first person shooter. The game aims to offer something interesting to the fans of the two genres.Melanie M... |
4 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In a piece of news that fits well with today's holiday (July 4, the Independence Day), AT&T has announced that, together with CPFS (Cell Phones for Soldiers), it had raised more than $2 million that will be used to offer free phone cards for the US troops and their families. The largest US mobile carrier and t... |
4 July 2008
13:29 GMT |
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Google is not to blame for this, because the data was not stolen from Google offices but from the headquarters of an outsourced HR company called Colt Express. The thieves broke in and stole company computers that contained unencrypted data on them, data such as name, address, Social Security number, basically every... |
4 July 2008
13:16 GMT |
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Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports and former Microsoft corporate vice-president, has updated his official blog, explaining why the company is "against" PC game development. We already had a few hints on that - these are mostly the same reasons why everybody ignores PC systems as game platforms: piracy, piracy and a ... |
4 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, but also of Windows Server 2008, in the form of Windows 7 Server, had been under development over at Microsoft under the lead of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group since 2007. At the end of 2007, the Redmond company made availa... |
4 July 2008
12:56 GMT |
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GlobalFun, a Sweden-based developer and distributor of mobile games, announced that it entered a new collaboration with Sony Ericsson, currently the fifth largest handset manufacturer in the world. Following the new agreement, GlobalFun and another unnamed company will be the two main "content acquisition partners" f... |
4 July 2008
12:39 GMT |
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It seems that somebody has decided to take advantage of the good name of Greg Abbott, the Attorney General for the state of Texas, USA. The whole thing came out when Greg Abbott received a message from Greg Abbott of course; you can imagine his surprise when he opened his inbox. The message uses a picture of his as ... |
4 July 2008
12:27 GMT |
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Gone are the days when end users had to spend hours in order to integrate Internet Explorer into a copy of the Windows operating system. The slipstreaming process when it comes down to Internet Explorer 8 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been simplified to a maximum. Now, putting together a singular image by usin... |
4 July 2008
12:18 GMT |
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If you remember well, we brought you a while ago the news regarding the release of a new PlayStation 2 model in Japan (a really nice red one, too) - and it was not at all a big surprise to find out that Sony does something "Japan only". It seems that we were wrong this time, though, since the company has just release... |
4 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Mozilla has effectively put Firefox 3.0 behind it so to speak. Having wrapped up the successor of Firefox 2.0 and made it available to the general public on June 17, 2008, the focus for Mozilla is now the continual evolution of the open source browser. As far as version 3.0 is concerned, the first step of this evolut... |
4 July 2008
11:53 GMT |
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We've seen lots of Sony Ericsson phone concepts until today, and we'll surely see many others from now on, but one of the weirdest and at the same time nicest SE concept is the so-called Sony Ericsson Video Phone. Like most of the Sony Ericsson concepts, the Video Phone does not come from the Swedish-Japa... |
4 July 2008
11:47 GMT |
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Marathon: Durandal is an Xbox Live Arcade game, a re-imagination of the '95 classic Marathon 2: Durandal. It is a sci-fi first person shooter (FPS) released on the 1st of August 2007 by Bungie. The game costs 800 MS Points ($10) on Microsoft's platform.Apart from being an excellent platform on which indie g... |
4 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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After the British ESRC (short for Economic and Social Research Council) stated a little while back that small and medium business enterprises need to improve data security, Zen Software has already come up with a solution. The company will market a software product called SecurityGateway for Exchange/SMTP Servers ma... |
4 July 2008
11:39 GMT |
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Neuroscientists call 'brain noise' the random activity occurring in the human brain that does not bear any importance to the mental functions. Usually, children tend to have increased brain noise, but as an individual matures into an adult, the level decreases as the intuitive functions of the brain slowly ... |
4 July 2008
11:18 GMT |
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As we presented to you two days ago, ASUTek confirmed the existence of its new Eee PC, dubbed Eee PC 904. Back then, there were few details to talk about except for the fact that it would be made available in the UK and it is going to be equipped with standard hard drive instead of a Solid State Drive.This has change... |
4 July 2008
11:01 GMT |
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The iPhone and the Mac OS are not too far apart; both are Apple products and both use the same operating system, just that the iPhone's is more basic. In terms of security updates and patches, the iPhone is seriously deficitary - the latest update is four months old, it is from February! The device is set up to... |
4 July 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Samsung SCH-W510, the first mobile phone from the second largest handset manufacturer to be made out of bio-plastic materials, was recently presented in South Korea. The plastic used in Samsung W510 is obtained from corn, literally. Moreover, the phone doesn't include hazardous metals like Lead, Cadmium or Mercu... |
4 July 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is cooking patches for a new round of vulnerabilities impacting its Windows client and operating systems and Server software, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. The Redmond company is preparing no less than four security bulletins for release on July 8, 2008, two of them d... |
4 July 2008
10:42 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV is, according to reviews and sales figures, the best game ever released. When GTA IV was launched, if you remember, it was a complete hysteria, with thousands of people queuing to purchase it, with guys going on vacation, quitting their jobs and God knows what else, just to play it. Yes, it was th... |
4 July 2008
10:41 GMT |
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At first glance, black holes and qubits seem to be two completely different entities and indeed they are, although they seem to share a great deal of resemblances. For example, last year, Michael Duff from the Imperial College London first demonstrated a connection between the entropy of a black hole and the ways thr... |
4 July 2008
10:37 GMT |
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The netbook-mania has made portable computer system manufacturers work hard on their offers. ASUS is already rumored to be preparing the release of its 3G Eee PC, which is slated for a September release. And it appears that it isn't the only player in the netbook market that is preparing the release of a new mod... |
4 July 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Windows Server 2003, the Office 2007 System and Visual Studio 2008 are available for download straight from Microsoft via VPC bundles. The Redmond company is effectively defying its proprietary business model and is delivering free offerings designed to permit users to test drive them. The Visual Studio Team System 2... |
4 July 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Entertainment industry giant Viacom initiated a lawsuit against YouTube in March 2007, asking for damages in excess of $1 billion. Louis Lee Stanton, a Southern District of New York judge, has recently ordered YouTube to hand over to Viacom all information regarding uploaded files, viewing habits, user names and IP a... |
4 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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After more than three decades since it was sealed up, archaeologists are now again visiting the cave system located under the Pyramid of the Sun, in an attempt to learn more about the civilization that built it. The Pyramid of the Sun is the third largest pyramid in the world, standing behind the Great Pyramid of Cho... |
4 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Sources are reporting that Apple has allegedly secured deals to sell the new iPhone 3G at Best Buy and Radio Shack locations. However, the source could not put their finger on whether sales will begin as soon as July 11th, or later."We just received unconfirmed word that Apple is going to be shaking things up a bit w... |
4 July 2008
09:53 GMT |
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Vodafone, the giant global mobile operator, has announced it will acquire 70% of Ghana Telecom (also known as Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited) from the Government of Ghana, for a total of about $900 million (274 million Euros or 454 million GBP). Ghana Telecom is the main supplier of fixed telephony service... |
4 July 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The PC is not dead and it's not dying either. This is the position taken by Blizzard chief executive Mike Mordhaime during an interview he did with Eurogamer this week. The company is focused on creating complex AAA titles for the personal computer and it's unlikely that this position will change in the nea... |
4 July 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Micro Star International is one of the leading manufacturers of computer motherboards and its products have been highly awarded worldwide. The company's recently released Wind netbook has placed it in the spotlight, especially since its product has been said to be the best Eee PC competitor. On that note, MSI ha... |
4 July 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Virtual Earth is often the recipient of monster-size multi-Terabyte updates containing new imagery, be it Orthos, satellite or Bird's Eye. But at the same time, Virtual Earth is just a smaller piece of the puzzle for Microsoft, which offers a complex platform covering an array of aspects from mapping to location... |
4 July 2008
09:04 GMT |
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A thermometer is a device that can be used to measure the temperature of a certain object. Some of the most widely used and popular thermometers are the mercury and alcohol ones, although over the years several other types have been built, based on different physical changes that occur with the variation of temperatu... |
4 July 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Those of you crazy about having everything at your fingertips can try out this free widget for Mac called Organized. Its name says it all, but you can have a look below for the full scoop (screens and all) nonetheless.The new widget from iSlayer features a calendar with events, world clocks, notes and to-dos, while t... |
4 July 2008
08:59 GMT |
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According to David Harley, research author with Eset (company that specializes in providing security software solutions), there are older viruses out there that can still infect your PC. The infection may get onto your computer before you get to install security software, or even worse, because your up to date antiv... |
4 July 2008
08:51 GMT |
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After the 923SH clamshell, which will be released tomorrow in Japan via SoftBank, Sharp has unveiled yet another new and advanced handset with an Aquos display: the SH706i. Unlike the 923SH, Sharp SH706i will not see the light of the Japanese market thanks to SoftBank, as it's scheduled for a release via NTT DoC... |
4 July 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood is a video game developed by Gearbox Software for the publisher Ubisoft Entertainment. It was launched in October, 2005 and was launched on the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony, the Xbox and the PC. The game is classed as being a war title with a tactical focus and is played fr... |
4 July 2008
08:27 GMT |
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The war to become the leading graphics card manufacturer has led ATI to lower the price tag for its latest generation products. Although everybody is expecting the graphics manufacturer to beat NVIDIA in terms of performance with its recently rumored Radeon HD 4870 X2 card, that doesn't stop the company from low... |
4 July 2008
08:20 GMT |
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Major League Baseball 2K8 is the lasted baseball simulation released by 2K Sports in North America. The title, developed by Kush Games, is also expected to be released in Australia on the 26th of August 2008. New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes is the cover athlete, replacing Derek Jeter, who had been on the cover for... |
4 July 2008
08:19 GMT |
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In Microsoft's grand scheme of a digital lifestyle, there is absolutely no room for Windows XP Service Pack 3. It's just Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from start to finish. In this context, Microsoft's vision manages to ignore and exclude in excess of 70% of operating system users world wide who are han... |
4 July 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Even before the launch of ATI's latest graphics cards, some manufacturers, including Sapphire, announced their own RV770-based video boards. The new ATI card promised a lot, especially the 55nm technology which is believed to be an evolutionary step in the industry. Given the facts, we have the new Sapphire Rade... |
4 July 2008
07:09 GMT |
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The US press reports that a man by the name of Thomas Beatie, aged 34, has recently given birth to a healthy baby girl. Thomas is a transgender male who became famous in April this year when he stated that he was pregnant, which eventually led to him being dubbed ' the pregnant man'. The birth took place at... |
4 July 2008
07:02 GMT |
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RIM apparently wants its first clamshell smartphone, BlackBerry KickStart, to be a smash-hit in terms of sales, as the Canadian company might be offering the device for only $49.99, with a T-Mobile USA contract agreement for two years. This is no official news yet, but it's highly probable to be true, as Cr... |
4 July 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Major League Baseball 2K6 is a game developed by Visual Concepts and 2K Sports and released on all major consoles: PS2, Xbox 360, Xbox, PSP and GameCube. The Xbox 360 version of the game was released on the 3rd of April 2006 in North America. Major League Baseball 2K6 was, back when it was released, the only official... |
4 July 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work inspiring and building the technology leaders of tomorrow. The end purpose is to save the planet one world-class scientist at a time according to Stephen Emmott, director of Computational Science at Microsoft and head of the Microsoft Research Computational Biology Group. Well, perhaps plane... |
4 July 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Apple isn't very fond of Britain, as far as shipping its new iPhone there is concerned. Few next-gen devices are to make their way into the UK, as a result of Briton's unlocking habits.This Electricpig report claims O2 UK saw less than 15% (original) iPhones sold after the last price drop,... |
4 July 2008
06:29 GMT |
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One of the most popular ways of relaxing in the modern world is probably watching a movie we like. As multimedia content is everywhere around us, especially on the Internet, you probably want to see a movie on your computer without keeping a web browser open or something else that might not do the job of a media play... |
4 July 2008
06:19 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has recently seen itself in the news, putting its business in a rather bad light, as far as stock shares are concerned. But the company hasn't remained arms crossed and clarified that its business was doing well. Lora Ho, one of the company's spokespersons and chie... |
4 July 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Philips Xenium X800, the very first full-touch handset to come under Philips' brand, was recently spotted in the wild, after the device was also seen on FCC's website, not too long ago. Although, in the world of gadgets, "in the wild" generally means just "in live pictures", the new images available with th... |
4 July 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Although the world's attention is focused on Firefox 3, the Mozilla team has not forgotten about the Internet users out there who still have the 2.0 version installed on their systems. At the beginning of July Mozilla's Firefox 2.0.015 was launched addressing a dozen security issues (literally). It seems th... |
4 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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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... |
4 July 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Sudden infant death syndrome, also known as cot death in certain areas of the world, is a condition in which infant children up to several months of age die without warning, although not suffering of any serious known diseases. Cot death is largely mysterious even today, since there is no clear indication to what is ... |
4 July 2008
05:59 GMT |
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The FTC (short for Federal Trade Commission) takes ID theft very seriously and consequently is planning to conduct a survey on identity theft victims that have contacted the organization earlier this year. The goal of this survey is to detect flaws in the system, make crime fighting more efficient and better educate... |
4 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Since the ASUS Eee PC has become the choice of many users since it was launched, its roadmap is always in the center of attention, especially since information on it comes from almost everywhere. For now, we can say that one of the "company's representatives" announced the release of a 3G version of the Eee PC s... |
4 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Windows Presentation Foundation Prism is now available from Microsoft. Prism is nothing more than the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, resources designed to streamline the building of programs aimed at the corporate environment. With architects and developers of the WPF client applications as the target audien... |
4 July 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Two days ago, we brought some news according to which Solid State Drives are not as power efficient as everybody thought they were. Even more, these flash-based drives consume more power than regular magnetic drives reducing laptop battery life. The news came from a Tom's Hardware article that put a series of SS... |
4 July 2008
05:36 GMT |
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The Political Machine 2008 has one deep flaw: it needs to be played by someone who either has a good understanding of how Presidential elections work in the United States or by someone who is interested in learning about them. I sincerely hope that the game developed by Stardock gets into the hands of people interest... |
4 July 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Motorola has revamped (again) its Q9 smartphone and transformed it into "Motorola Napoleon". This new handset will be soon released by Verzion Wireless in the US, bringing a new design as well as new features. According to Boy Genius Report, the royally-named device features CDMA EV-DO Rev. A connectivity in addi... |
4 July 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Marware, accessory maker for Apple products and one of the best in the business, has unveiled the Marware Sportfolio for MacBook Air this week. With the recently revealed price reduction for Apple's sleek laptop, a slim briefcase with roomy exterior pockets is just what you need."The elegant and sleek Sportfolio... |
4 July 2008
05:05 GMT |
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There is a common belief, largely fueled by multiple studies related to climate change and global warming, that Greenland's glaciers are slipping towards the ocean at even faster rates than previously thought. A newly published paper however shows that for the last 17 years or so, Greenland's ice sheet has ... |
4 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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AMD's GeForce killer is coming and, as expected, it will ship as a dual-core graphics card, ready for some serious graphics performance. For the moment details are scarce but even so, the new model promises to unleash a whole new level of power.For starters, the new Radeon graphics card now has an official name,... |
4 July 2008
04:51 GMT |
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TransGaming and Ubisoft have announced their collaboration to start porting and distributing Ubisoft titles for the Mac. The former has also announced recently that its GameTree Online service will offer publishers and developers a cost-effective channel to distribute titles never released for Mac."We are delighted t... |
4 July 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Everybody knows that Blizzard has been working on a new Diablo sequel for a while (some of the rumors must be true!) but what we had no idea about was the possibility of a demo hitting the Internet this year. It seems that, according to the less known website Revolution, an official demo of the most anticipated hack ... |
4 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Samsung is no stranger to resistant mobile phones (M110 and Z400 being among the latest-released ones) and it will soon come up with a new handset of this kind, named Samsung GT-B2700, or simply Samsung B2700. The "GT" part of the phone's name seems to be a first for Samsung, as the South Korean manufacturer mai... |
4 July 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Cantab Wireless published an analysis according to which Mobile WiMAX may have only small chances of spreading widely on the mature mobile broadband markets. Still, the same analysis says that the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries, mainly India, will adopt WiMAX technology in the future. According to ... |
4 July 2008
04:05 GMT |
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There is no doubt that NVIDIA hasn’t had such a tough week in quite a long time. The Santa-Clara based graphics manufacturer has seen its stocks go down significantly after having announced that some of its previous-generation laptop GPUs had been reported faulty. But all this will most probably not affect NVIDIA tha... |
4 July 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Apple has disclosed the content it is making available on the iTunes Store Canada. The company claims to have inked in deals with major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios In... |
4 July 2008
04:01 GMT |
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By making observations on a binary system of pulsars a team of researchers from the McGill University in Montreal measured for the first time the spin precession of a celestial body located outside the solar system. Pulsars are a type of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, emitting electromagnetic radiation th... |
4 July 2008
04:01 GMT |
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All the animal loving gamers will be completely excited to find out that their favorite title, Viva Pinata, will mark its return much sooner than everybody expected - on the 5th of September this year! It seems that Microsoft has really hit the fast forward button on the development of the title (or just kept the sec... |
4 July 2008
03:51 GMT |
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A major update is coming to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, but Microsoft guarantees that end users won't feel a thing. However, they will enjoy the benefits introduced by the refresh, as the very back-end updating infrastructure of the Windows clients will be kicked up a notch along ... |
4 July 2008
03:47 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that spam takes advantage of any possible means to propagate itself and one of the oldest tricks in the book is to play off a current event or celebration, such as the 4th of July. Marshal's TRACE team (short for Threat Research and Content Engineering) warns us about 4th of July related ... |
4 July 2008
03:47 GMT |
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According to ClearMyMail, a British company that specializes in providing antispam solutions, an Orange ISP client named Collin Wells receives 44,001 spam messages per day, thus being the most spammed person in the entire country. ClearMyMail released a top five of the most spammed users and it turns out that three ... |
4 July 2008
03:43 GMT |
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No, this is not a joke! It is the first maintenance release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), which (in case you forget) is supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until 2011 on desktops, and 2013 on servers. Today's release brings to its users a lot of security updates and corrections (over 200), ... |
4 July 2008
03:30 GMT |
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If you are not too interested in the battle between Gran Turismo and Race Driver: GRID and you'd rather spend some quality time enjoying a great gameplay, you might be seeing your dream come true from Viva Media's GTR Evolution racing game which is set to be released by the end of the year. And, in order to... |
4 July 2008
03:16 GMT |
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After spreading the news that the latest firmware Sony has developed for its PlayStation 3 - firmware version 2.40, that is - brings a whole lot of new features, the console maker announced that it is pulling the software back since numerous reports from users showed that it is actually bricking the consoles it has b... |
4 July 2008
03:16 GMT |
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After the Canadian announcement of Samsung Instinct, which will be available starting August from both Bell and Telus, another touchscreen handset is presented now as "coming soon" in Canada: HTC Touch Diamond. Unlike the Instinct, though, the Diamond will apparently be released exclusively via Telus. The third large... |
4 July 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Some ongoing rumors suggest that the Santa-Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA, is planning to resort to some price cuts for its flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX 280. The GTX 260 is also rumored to be heading for a lower price, but things are a bit more uncertain as compared to the GTX 280.These rumors h... |
4 July 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Apple has slashed the price on its high-end MacBook Air (SSD) by as much as $500. The price reduction is most significant for those looking to acquire a unit, especially the model featuring a 64GB, solid state drive.Various reports are noting that the price of the 64 GB SSD drive has been dropped by as much as $400, ... |
4 July 2008
03:09 GMT |
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With one segment of its faithful fan base secured with the announcement of the long awaited Diablo III and with a minor controversy regarding the new look of the game already brewing, Blizzard moved to offer reasons of interest to the biggest segment of players it has, the ones that are enjoying its World of Warcraft... |
4 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Multispectral imaging data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft during its first fly-by in January this year reveals that volcanism was one of the essential factors that contributed to the shaping of the surface of Mercury. The spacecraft was able to distinguish surface rock units that have been linked to la... |
4 July 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is announcing that July 7 is to be declared "Bungie Day" in honor of the brave souls at the game developing company that have sacrificed themselves in order to bring you, faithful gamers, three full Halo games before the pain grew too strong and they had to separate themselves from Microsoft. It's not ... |
4 July 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Probably the first thing that crosses your mind when you think of JoWood is Gothic and it's understandable, since that is indeed its biggest title. However, the company plans to expand its portfolio with brand new quality titles and we're really happy to hear that. And, in order to make us happier, the comp... |
4 July 2008
02:39 GMT |
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As you probably know only too well, home entertainment has become very important over the past few years, the available A/V media equipment being able to deliver a cinematographic experience that reaches (and quite often surpasses) those provided by "classical" theaters. However, it would seem that what we've ex... |
4 July 2008
01:38 GMT |
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