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Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy, a spin-off from Arizona State University (ASU), recently managed to secure the fundings it needed to continue its research into making ionic liquid energy storage feasible, Technology Review reports. According to experts at the company, the metal-air batteries that would result fr... |
5 November 2009
22:01 GMT |
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In a find that could change the way lung diseases are being treated at this point, experts have managed to obtain fully functional lung cells from human embryonic stem cells for the first time ever. The Belgian science team that has been behind the new accomplishment was able to make them differentiate in a very conv... |
5 November 2009
20:51 GMT |
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The University of California in San Diego (UCSD)-based San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) was recently awarded no less than $20 million, in order to start constructing its new supercomputer, entitled Gordon. The money was awarded to the Center via a special grant from the United States National Science Foundation ... |
5 November 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Infinity Ward has become a development studio associated with the Call of Duty brand and the Modern Warfare series. Their collaboration with Activision goes back a lot and players are already talking about Modern Warfare 2 and its 2011 release date. But it seems that the developers themselves might actually be intere... |
5 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Weather, in the strictest sense of the term, does not exist on Mars. The planet is surrounded by nothing more than an extremely thin atmosphere, which is about one percent as thick as our own. In spite of that, freezing temperatures, clouds, and dust storms like nothing seen on Earth exist there, and all these events... |
5 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima is renowned around the globe for the Metal Gear Solid franchise, but, 20 years ago, he was just a simple programmer, making games all by himself. This week, he went through his achievements and hardships from the days of 8-bit glory to present times. His story was unfolded in the Famitsu magazine by talk... |
5 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was a NASA mission that launched to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007, aboard the Delta II 7925 vehicle. It consisted of a robotic station that was to conduct scientific experiments on Mars, and study surface chemistry, weather patterns, atmospheric conditions, and the landscape too. Originally... |
5 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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They say one can tell a woman’s age by looking at her hands. While ladies can choose to wear gloves if they don’t wish to have their real age known, like Madonna does as of recently, another tell-tale sign is the cleavage, which can also wrinkle. With this in mind, a former air hostess from the Netherland... |
5 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Deux Ex has been one of the most important videogames ever created and the man behind it is Warren Spector, the developer who is now in the limelight because of his involvement with Disney on the Epic Mickey Nintendo Wii project. Even at the moment, he is thoroughly dedicated to making the adventure title and is sayi... |
5 November 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Mobile-phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced today the launch of a new mobile phone from LG Electronics, namely the LG Chocolate Touch. The new handset, rumored for quite some time now to be heading towards Verizon, is now available for purchase in the US, offering users the possibility to enjoy patented Dolby Mob... |
5 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Obesity is known to be one of the main causes why people begin to develop a host of other conditions and also become vulnerable to the effects of external pathogens. For instance, those with too many extra pounds may suffer from diabetes, heart conditions, a lack of physical condition and muscle tone, as well as catc... |
5 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Some celebrities really do like pets, which is by now a well known fact. Actually, a single look at Paris Hilton or Britney Spears shows how much some stars love animals of all kinds, as well as the lengths they’d go to just to have one to their liking. The Beckhams, for instance, have recently paid no less tha... |
5 November 2009
15:11 GMT |
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A series of leading companies from the telecommunications industry have recently announced that they managed to define a preferred manner in which voice and SMS services on Long Time Evolution (LTE) should be easily introduced on upcoming networks all around the world. Industry leaders developed a technical profile ... |
5 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Arc System Works just announced that it would expand one of its recent games to another platform. Fans of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, which came out on the arcades in November 2008 and in June 2009 on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, will get to see the game on the PlayStation Portable. This version has been annou... |
5 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Natalie Portman is clearly still in her prime, while also being one of the hottest stars of the moment, part of that league branded “with plenty of potential.” Despite all this, the actress is only too aware of how short-lived a career in Hollywood can be, especially for women, which is why she would neve... |
5 November 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Heavy Rain is a very ambitious project. It sounds mundane at first, with four characters pitted on the trail of the Origami Killer and with promises of cinematic action. But once you factor in the work David Cage and most of his team have done on Fahrenheit earlier in their careers, Heavy Rain becomes one of the most... |
5 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced today its financial results for the third quarter of 2009, and posted OIBDA (Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization) of $1.56 billion, down sequentially but up on a yearly basis, as well as total revenues of $5.38 billion for the time frame, up from th... |
5 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The global market for smartphones is registering steady growth although the world has been affected by the financial turmoil, a recent report for IDC notes. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that a total number of 43.3 million smartphones have been shipped during this year’s third quart... |
5 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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They don’t say “Enjoy your meal” for nothing. As health specialists have repeatedly pointed out and we also noted on a couple of past occasions, chewing food properly is the most certain way of savoring each dish, while also continuing to focus on health and, most importantly, preventing weight... |
5 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Activision, as the publisher, and FreeStyleGames, as the developer, have already outed two new downloadable tracks for their new release DJ Hero and plan to add more DLC every month in order to maintain gamers’ interest. But players have been a bit surprised to see that the two new tracks, which mix Queen with ... |
5 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Samsung Jack, the Windows Mobile-based handset available for purchase in the US on the airwaves of AT&T, has just received an update to the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile platform, namely Windows Mobile 6.5. As many of you might already know, the Samsung Jack has been released on the market earlier this ye... |
5 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Ahead of the general availability of its latest Windows client, Microsoft was shy of making public anything but reserved expectations for the operating system. The tactic was synonymous with the company doing a 180 on how it had managed the forecasts around the commercial success of Windows Vista back in late 2006, e... |
5 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Online mapping services are becoming increasingly popular and useful and, as a result of that, more profitable for those running them. All the big players are present in the space, Google, of course, which started it all, but also Yahoo and Microsoft. They each have their advantages, but what most people don't r... |
5 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T and Samsung Mobile announced today the upcoming availability of Samsung Mythic, a full touchscreen handset with AT&T Mobile TVSM capabilities, and Samsung Flight, a touchscreen slider with a full keyboard. Both handsets were slated for release on AT&T's network as soon as November 8, the t... |
5 November 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Cibrian’s former wife is telling the media that LeAnn Rimes is making plans to move in with her new lover, in a house that is only blocks away from her own place. Be that as it may, the singer might be about to learn a life lesson the hard way, because Eddie Cibrian is already cheating on her – and has be... |
5 November 2009
10:53 GMT |
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Top officials in the Russian Federation announced on Thursday that they gave their acceptance to a proposal stating that the country should pursue the development of a nuclear-powered spacecraft, which is currently set to fly as early as 2012. This would essentially leave the former Communist nation in charge of the ... |
5 November 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Not surprisingly, Fortune Magazine has crowned Steve Jobs “CEO of the Decade.” The magazine posted a video coverage of the CEO’s achievements, as well as a story that truly highlights the importance for Apple (and not only) of having a guy like Jobs around for guidance. The magazine highlights a se... |
5 November 2009
10:48 GMT |
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One of the funny features that many mobile phones are missing is the possibility to add videos as ringtones. ClipTone, developed by Melon Mobile (formerly WebGate JSC), offers Symbian-phone owners the chance to personalize their incoming calls with a video. ClipTone is a standard video-player that enables in Symbian ... |
5 November 2009
10:46 GMT |
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Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is a videogame developed by Level 5 Inc. and published by Square Enix Co. Ltd. The game was released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 from Sony. It was launched on November 27, 2004 and classed as a role playing experience played from a third person perspective with elem... |
5 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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A serious design flaw in the SSL and TLS protocols has been kept secret since its discovery in August. Major technology companies have been privately informed and are working on patches under a non-disclosure agreement since the end of September.The issue is caused by authentication gaps that get created during SSL a... |
5 November 2009
10:40 GMT |
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One of the great things about an online video is that it isn't locked to a specific place, most of the time anyway, and people can easily share one with friends or embed it on their blogs. But, while we have plenty of stats on how many users visit these video sites, data on the embedded videos is harder to come ... |
5 November 2009
10:39 GMT |
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Independent security researcher Denis Sinegubko has recently stumbled upon a new version of the Gumblar Web botnet that has quite a craving for PHP CMS-driven websites. Mr. Sinegubko has discovered that this latest version (“untested version” as he refers to it) has until now affected more than 300,000 PH... |
5 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Over recent years, the level of miniaturization in the electronics industry has increased considerably, with circuits now being printed in the millions on just a few square centimeters. With these advancements, researchers have also made headway in the field of implantable electronic devices, such as cochlear and ret... |
5 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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The HTC DROID ERIS is the second mobile phone Verizon Wireless is set to deliver to the market with Google's Android operating system on board. The new device has been rumored for quite some time to come to the market, but only today Big Red decided to make it official, while tomorrow, November 6, it will put it... |
5 November 2009
10:27 GMT |
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American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert has a very busy month ahead of him, MTV points out. He’s just released his first single off the debut album and is now preparing for the release of the album itself. However, that’s not all that Lambert has been doing musically in recent months, as the singer also... |
5 November 2009
10:25 GMT |
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While Opera Software has rebalanced its resources moving forward with the evolution of Opera beyond version 10.0, the company has yet to deliver the final release of v10.10. Today, November 5th, 2009, a new development milestone of Opera 10.10 with Unite has been made available for download. For the time being, Opera... |
5 November 2009
10:24 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore has confirmed that Apple is now switching to iPod touch for customer checkout at its retail stores. The source earlier revealed that Apple had decided to make a few adjustments with its retail establishments and the employees in charge with selling its products. Changes not only include the replacing of... |
5 November 2009
09:55 GMT |
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Eventually, music is bound to move online completely, no matter what the labels think about that, so a lot of companies are competing for what could finally become a very huge market. The problem is that, today, there isn't that much money being made from it, but this doesn't seem to deter that many. Music ... |
5 November 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Jon Gosselin and his younger girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, from whom he is separated but not quite, have taken their drama in front of the cameras in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight. The two initially met to sit down and talk why it would be best if they ended their romance, but they eventually started to f... |
5 November 2009
09:49 GMT |
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In the past, Viewsonic might have been only about display solutions, but the company has recently expanded its portfolio with a range of new products, including netbooks, ultraportable PCs or ION-based nettops. Now, the company is entering a new market, namely that of media players, with the launch of its VMP70 direc... |
5 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that our Sun allowed for, well, us to exist, astronomers have only recently come to the conclusion that Sun-like stars must be what we should be analyzing, when looking for alien life on other planets. One of the reasons why stars such as our own weren't considered the norm is the fact that ... |
5 November 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers Wireless announced on Wednesday that it would soon add to its offering the Nokia N86 smartphone, which comes to the market with an 8-megapixel photo snapper and with 8GB of internal memory. According to the carrier, the new device will come to an offering that already includes app... |
5 November 2009
09:40 GMT |
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It’s almost that time of the year again, and Microsoft is not wasting any time getting into the holiday spirit. The company has all the ingredients available, Santa Claus, elves, Christmas tree, and even a kid that persistently wants an Xbox 360 and would hear nothing else. Just watch the video embedded at the ... |
5 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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On a recent appearance on Larry King Live, Mariah Carey shattered the misconception about her life having been the stuff that dreams are usually made of, revealing a history of emotional and mental abuse. Because she too was once in an abusive relationship, she was shattered when hearing what had happened to Rihanna ... |
5 November 2009
09:10 GMT |
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Following the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 R2, Citrix moved to provide its own virtualization management and automation solution tailored to the latest iteration of Windows Server. In this regard, while Microsoft delivered the R2 flavor of Windows Server 2008 along with the Hyper-V hypervisor techn... |
5 November 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly getting ready to launch more new devices on the market. The company has just announced the upcoming availability of its first device powered by Google's Android operating system, namely the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, and now we learn that it might so... |
5 November 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Firefox is always evolving and adding new features and changes to the functionality. Most of the times developers try to do the best they can to meet the users' needs, but usually there isn't enough data to really know in what direction to move next. This is why Mozilla has introduced the Test Pilot program... |
5 November 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Measuring dimensions is something that comes natural to a laser, especially if we are talking about small distances. Inside a room, a good laser system can determine everything there is to determine in a manner of seconds. But the main issue plaguing these systems has until now been the fact that they did not operate... |
5 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Intel's P55 chipset will most likely be featured on the majority of Intel-based motherboards that will launch in the next few months, as this platform is aimed at mainstream users and delivers support for the chip maker's Core i7 and Core i5 processors. On that note, DFI, one of the world's leading ven... |
5 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is the fourth game of the series on the DS. Here, players will be able to choose one of two playable characters, Mark or Chelsea, and recover from a shipwreck that has left them stranded on a deserted island. Once populated in the past, the island will now be home to their character ... |
5 November 2009
08:53 GMT |
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Chris Brown’s first studio material ever since the Rihanna incident back in February this year, the one album that skeptics said he would never get to make because of the media and public backlash, has been moved up one week. Instead of arriving in music stores on December 15, as initially planned, “Graff... |
5 November 2009
08:44 GMT |
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Parallels has issued an official statement announcing the availability of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X. As key additions, the company mentions full support for Aero in Windows Vista and 7 through the Windows WDDM driver, including Aero Flip 3D, a more Mac-like experience in Windows applications through the Apple ... |
5 November 2009
08:42 GMT |
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The amazing team of developers behind Intel's Moblin project, through Imad Sousou, proudly announced last night (November 4th) the immediate availability of the Moblin 2.1 operating system for Intel Atom-powered netbooks and nettops. In this release, users will find a new and powerful web browser, support for 3G... |
5 November 2009
08:36 GMT |
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QNAP, a leading provider of network attached storage and video recorders announced today that it had entered a collaboration with Hikvision that would enable customers to take advantage of combined solution-integrating products from both companies. Worldwide customers will be able to use Hikvision's high-perform... |
5 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that MySpace has seen better days, as the once-biggest social network in the world loses even more traffic and users. But at least it had something to fall back on, a $900-million deal with Google running until mid-2010, which would guarantee at least part of its profits. But this isn'... |
5 November 2009
08:34 GMT |
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Ubisoft got hit hard in the sales department over its first fiscal quarter of 2009. Its sales went down 51 percent compared with last year, and, even though the entire industry saw a fell in product sales, Ubisoft has its own fault in the matter. With only one major release in the time frame, the company couldn'... |
5 November 2009
08:31 GMT |
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People get burnt, literally and figuratively, far worse and more often than anyone could imagine. Experts working in hospital Emergency Rooms (ER) often get patients with nasty, second-degree burns that need immediate attention. In some of the more unfortunate cases, people need to be treated with a skin graft, which... |
5 November 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile seems determined to offer as many features as possible to its Android subscribers, and it is now set to soon add carrier billing for the Android Market, as well as its own channel within the software portal. According to the company, this feature will offer recommendations on the content ava... |
5 November 2009
08:24 GMT |
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MSNBot 2.0b will kill MSNBot 1.1 in the evolution of the crawler associated with Microsoft’s search / decision engine. Bing inherited MSNBot 1.1 from Live Search, but even ahead of the rebranding of its search engine, the Redmond company was already working on the next iteration of the crawler. In fact, versio... |
5 November 2009
08:19 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless seems set to offer a great deal of new features to its subscribers as the soon to be launched Motorola DROID becomes available. The latest reports around the Internet show that the operator will offer users the possibility to enjoy tethering along with the fresh mobile phone. Tho... |
5 November 2009
07:53 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft, the biggest subscription MMO in the world, is getting a Pet Store that will allow players to get in-game companions for the price of 10 dollars. The pets offer no clear gameplay benefit for those who buy them and are strictly cosmetic in nature. After the money is paid i... |
5 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Although Microsoft is on the final stretch when it comes down to the general availability of its latest iteration of Exchange Server, the company announced that it would take the necessary steps designed to guarantee that customers would be able to run Exchange Server 2007 on top of Windows Server 2008 R2. Initially,... |
5 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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McAfee, one of the world's leading providers of security solutions and antivirus products, announced today the debut of its new Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5, specifically designed to meet the security requirements of SMB customers. The solution, which integrates both email and Web security solutions in a... |
5 November 2009
07:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is cooking a couple of new high-end editions of its next generation data platform, Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the Business Platform Division, revealed at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit. In this context, the company announced that starting next year, custo... |
5 November 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Converting PDF to plain text is nothing out of the ordinary. You just select the paragraph, right-click it, choose “copy” function and then paste everything in the clipboard in a Notepad document. It is just a matter of copy-paste basic in all operating systems.The only problem is the formatting of the te... |
5 November 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Scientists at the technology company Novateq Guerrero SNL have recently announced the development of a new type of linear transport system, one that is absolutely clean and does not harm the environment. The system draws its energy in part from the permanent magnetic fields that certain magnetic materials generate at... |
5 November 2009
07:04 GMT |
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As we have stated in previous articles, the market for all-in-one PCs continues to grow, as new technologies enable companies to develop new designs with lower costs and a wider range of features. On that note, it appears that ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, hardware compon... |
5 November 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Flower, Sun, and Rain follows Sumio Mondo, a man whose job is to find whatever it is that people lose. After he fails to defuse a bomb placed in an airport, Sumio ends up reliving the same day over and over again, continuously being forced to face his failure. The game seems to follow the classic story of “Grou... |
5 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Google Wave may not be winning over the regular users, but it looks like it might have better luck in the enterprise sector. Novell, a software company specializing in enterprise products and maker of the popular SUSE Linux distribution, has just announced a brand-new, real-time collaboration tool dubbed Novell Pulse... |
5 November 2009
06:48 GMT |
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The Chrome Dev Channel has been updated with a new version of Chrome for Mac OS X. Orit Mazor, Google Chrome technical program manager, reveals that version 4.0.229.1 is Mac OS X-only and includes a number of UI improvements. Although labeled as a Mac-specific release, the blog update does mention a couple of all-pl... |
5 November 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Blizzard has just pulled another rabbit out of its hat and has a new, little gimmick for World of Warcraft fans. The company has introduced the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, where one can buy, as of now, two brand-new, non-combat pets. This way, Blizzard can add the micro-transaction feature to its pay-to-play mas... |
5 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Connie Sieh and Troy Dawson announced last evening (November 4th) the immediate availability of Scientific Linux 5.4, a Linux distribution put together by various universities and labs around the world. Being based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4, the new release of Scientific Linux brings improved support for... |
5 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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M86 Security has announced the acquisition of cloud-based Web security provider Finjan. The vendor's products and technology will expand M86's portfolio of Web and messaging security solutions.M86 Security is a relatively new company formed last November through the merge of UK-based Web security vendor Mar... |
5 November 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is said to be facing problems with supplying its latest Radeon graphics processing units to several PC vendors, according to sources in the know as regards the matter. Said supplying issues are reportedly affecting PC vendors that are consequently forced to delay the... |
5 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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The common conception about celebrities is that, once they sign on to fame, the media and the public owns them, it has often been said. This is also why stars feel somewhat of a compulsive need to talk about their private lives, show personal photos and, in short, make money off every little aspect of themselves. The... |
5 November 2009
06:28 GMT |
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The blogger getting attention for a post regarding Mac OS X 10.6.2 this week has now issued an update saying that the Atom architecture is still supported on Snow Leopard (for Hackintosh purposes). Whether or not the move was a trick to grab everyone's attention remains to be confirmed. However, while Stell (the... |
5 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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As of November 4th, 2009, Microsoft started sending out notifications to 800 of its employees whose positions have been cut. With the latest round of layoffs, the Redmond company noted that it achieved the goals of its job reduction plan announced at the start of this year (via TechFlash). On January 22nd, no less th... |
5 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced not too long ago a new X Series range of mobile phones, in which it has already included two devices, the Nokia X6 and Nokia X3, and now we learn that the former might arrive on the UK market as soon as November 12 is here. At least this is what Expansys shows on its website... |
5 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Experts at the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, have recently managed to electronically preserve a 110-million-year-old dinosaur footprint that was removed from its original location decades ago. The original tracks were excavated from their site, and taken to Texas, where they were built into a bandst... |
5 November 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Google has been as open as any company its size, but, with the number of services and products it has, it can be hard to know what exactly is shared and with whom and what Google really knows about you. Now, though, Google has introduced the “Dashboard,” a tool to centrally manage the security and privacy... |
5 November 2009
06:09 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the leading brands in the computing industry, is expected to update its line of G-series laptops, designed for gaming enthusiasts, with the introduction of a new, 15.6-inch model. Dubbed G51J3D, the new laptop will provide users with some of the latest hardware specifications available for a portable com... |
5 November 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Back at the Tokyo Game Show in September, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers got everybody riled up, as it announced itself as a game that "truly [stood] out both on its choice of platform and within its series." But, in hoping to overcome the lesser game that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echo... |
5 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA has experienced some problems with its network recently, as around 5 percent of its users had no access to the airwaves. However, the company has already managed to get things back in order, and also released an official statement on the issue, saying that the network went down due to so... |
5 November 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari. Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title played from a third person pe... |
5 November 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Scientists and astronomers at the University of Utah are simply extatic, given the fact that, during an upcoming November 11 symposium, they will officially inaugurate their new research telescope, located in the southern part of Utah. The Willard L. Eccles Observatory is a 32-inch reflecting telescope that the unive... |
5 November 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Twitter may have been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to its new Lists feature, but this doesn't change the fact that it's facing a problem that seems to have been sticking with it for several months now. Traffic has stalled for the microblogging service and many users leave after the novelty facto... |
5 November 2009
05:25 GMT |
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All is good in Kirby land as he enjoys his delicious picnic, but all that goes terribly wrong when someone snatches his strawberry cake. It turns out that, once again, the villain behind this insidious deed is none other than his eternal foe, King Dedede. He wastes no time in pursuing him and, along the way, he meets... |
5 November 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 arrives on November 10 and GameStop is one of the companies set to benefit a lot from the launch. The brick and mortar retailer, which has been threatened by the development of digital distribution services, needs this king of big releases to get people in the store and to consolidate its position in... |
5 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Earlier confirmed by Feral Interactive as headed to the Mac, Bioshock is now available as a free download as well, in the form of a demo version. Developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, and originally published by 2K Games, Bioshock introduces gamers to a world filled with fascinating characters, intelligent enemies... |
5 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Just yesterday, Michael Lohan was saying that he had come to the conclusion the only way he could make his daughter see that she needed rehab was to air all her dirty laundry in public. Since then to the time of writing, Mr. Lohan seems to have moved forward with his threat of releasing personal audios in his possess... |
5 November 2009
05:07 GMT |
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If PC gamers didn't have enough reasons to hate Infinity Ward for what it's doing to Modern Warfare 2, the company just gave them a whole-new box of ammunition. Feeling like the PC still had an edge on the console versions of MW2, the company decided to even things out. So, the maximum number of gamers that... |
5 November 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Semiconductor chips, which could be rightfully dubbed the “backbone” of modern society, are at the very foundation of a number of electronic devices including microchips and other circuits. They essentially keep the world moving today and are of invaluable use to humans in most aspects of life. In spite o... |
5 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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PowerColor, one of the world's leading vendors of Radeon-based graphics cards, has just announced the expansion of its family of Radeon HD 5700 cards with the debut of the SCS3 HD 5750 model. The new product has been specifically designed to provide consumers with a 40nm GPU that works on a card with a passive c... |
5 November 2009
04:52 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 also in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobi... |
5 November 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Google News, one of the company's most “feared” products, is about to get even more powerful with a new customization option. Plainly labeled “Custom sections,” the feature does exactly what you'd expect, it allows you to create your own news section based on any topic you want. What... |
5 November 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Columbia Pictures is already preparing for the release of what it hopes will be next summer’s big action blockbuster, the spy movie “Salt,” starring Angelina Jolie. In doing so, the movie studio has released the first teaser trailer for it, first with Russian dubbing and then for English-speaking ma... |
5 November 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Sports, in general, and football, in particular, is huge in the United Kingdom. The weekly videogame chart have been dominated for the last few weeks by FIFA 10, the simulator from EA Sports, which was then displaced by Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, the rival series from Konami.Now, football is again in the top spot but... |
5 November 2009
04:13 GMT |
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As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The... |
5 November 2009
04:13 GMT |
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SPB Software, the leading provider of software solutions for mobile phones, has just released an update for SPB Mobile Shell, the popular software solution that enables users to make great customizations to their handset's user interface. The new version of SPB Mobile Shell is 3.5.1 Beta 1 (build 9666), and the ... |
5 November 2009
04:09 GMT |
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According to a new report released by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), more and more minority students are getting their academic degrees, when compared to the numbers recorded only five years ago. Nearly all categories have benefited from this improvement, the experts explain. The study, entitled “Sci... |
5 November 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Apple developers have received a new build of the second maintenance and security update to Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build 10C540. The incremental update is on track to deliver over 150 code corrections, to which build 10C540 adds fixes for AirPort performance issues on the newly released iMacs, as well as for a... |
5 November 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Activision saw its shares of trouble when it decided to use the late Kurt Cobain's likeness in its Guitar Hero 5, and, since then, troubles with its rhythm games started pouring in. Now, it is once again sued by a band for the unlawful use of likeness in a video game. According to Los Angeles Times, No Doubt are... |
5 November 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has tested Windows 7 RTM and found that the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft is vulnerable to no less than 8 out of 10 viruses currently spreading in the wild. The security outfit put a clean install of the gold edition of Windows 7, which hit store shelves worldwide... |
5 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Digg was one of the most promising sites for news and content discovery thanks to its speed and the fact that it relied on its users to weed out the garbage. But, then, Twitter came along and, all of a sudden, Digg looked like a slumbering dinosaur where things could take days before they reached the main page. Since... |
5 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Geologists analyzing the large number of small earthquakes that occurs in the central parts of the continental United States say that these events may be nothing more than aftershocks from a few very strong tremors that rattled the region in the 1800s. The New Madrid Earthquakes, between December 1811 and February 18... |
5 November 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD) announced today the expansion of its line of 1.8-inch, traditional hard disk drives with the introduction of two new additions designed to meet the requirements of a full range of mobile computing applications. The new additions include a high-performance 5,400RPM family o... |
5 November 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled a few months ago its first handset powered by Maemo 5, the Nokia N900 Internet Tablet, and ever since enthusiasts have been waiting for the device to become available on the market, though the company failed to deliver it until now. However, it seems that the wai... |
5 November 2009
03:31 GMT |
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FIFA is one of the biggest franchises Electronic Arts puts out every year and the edition released in 2009 is quite an improvement over the previous ones, introducing a better and smoother dribbling system and a more complex tactics section. But if there's one market that still seems unassailable for the FIFA fr... |
5 November 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Just recently, Lily Allen joined the fight against illegal downloads of music, saying that artists had all to come together and do something to stop them until things really got out of control. In a new interview with the British media, cited by DigitalSpy, fellow singer Joss Stone lashes out at Allen, saying only so... |
5 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Apple has issued a free update for WaveBurner, a Logic Studio application that lets you assemble, master, and burn audio CDs using a SuperDrive or CD burner supported by Mac OS X. You can also export DDP files using WaveBurner, while audio CDs created with WaveBurner can be played back on any audio CD player, and can... |
5 November 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Firmware updates for the consoles allow the manufacturer to keep its products up to current standards and make all sorts of small improvements and tweaks. As the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii showed, the firmware updates kept the platforms alive for a longer period of time and made sure they were not becoming outd... |
5 November 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Google is aiming for the enterprise and business market with several products and it's slowly making some progress in the sector. Now, it's launching a new product aimed at e-commerce sites, but, this time, based on what it does best, search. The new Google Commerce Search is a dedicated cloud service aimed... |
5 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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The American space agency has great plans for the future, including the prospect of colonizing the Moon and sending astronaut expeditions to the Red Planet. However, all of these ambitious plans are heavily reliant on one thing, and that is the ability to produce things off-world. For example, manufacturing space par... |
5 November 2009
03:12 GMT |
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The International Mobile Gaming Awards recently announced the launch of the sixth edition of its competition. The new edition builds upon the success of the previous five ones, and is expected to be the place where innovations, exceptional quality and trends in mobile entertainment are showcased. No matter whether th... |
5 November 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Singer and aspiring actress Ashlee Simpson has recently been axed from “Melrose Place,” the remake of the once immensely popular television series, as we also reported. The official line was that the part was never meant to be more than a short-lived appearance, but sources familiar with the production ar... |
5 November 2009
02:45 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced that it plans to begin offering demos for a selected few titles distributed via the WiiWare service, which brings downloadable titles to those using the Wii. The idea is that if more people can get a taste of the experience offered by those games, then more of them will pay up and get the full ... |
5 November 2009
02:40 GMT |
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In spite of being scheduled to open around 2012, the first space hotel already allows people to book stays in the Earth's orbit. The planned structure is on track to its scheduled opening date, although actual work on it may be delayed by external factors. Some space pioneers have already went through the necess... |
5 November 2009
02:38 GMT |
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The joint NASA/ESA mission Cassini-Huygens, currently in orbit around Saturn, has recently beamed back some amazing photos of a beautiful geyser eruption that took place on the moon Enceladus. The experts who investigated the images say that the emissions consisted mainly of water vapors, bringing further proof that ... |
5 November 2009
02:23 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver (known in Japan as PRO Race Driver) is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. The game was released on the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and the PC platform in December 2002. The title can be described as a racing and drivi... |
5 November 2009
02:08 GMT |
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The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is, by far, one of the strangest space formations in the Milky Way. For starters, it's one of the youngest supernova remnants in the galaxy. Additionally, its structure is so peculiar that astronomers have been puzzling for a long time over what the celestial body mi... |
5 November 2009
01:24 GMT |
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