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News archive: 5th of December 2009 |
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Wireless operator Sprint announced on Friday, December 4, that it had managed to successfully complete the process of acquiring iPCS, Inc. The transaction had been announced back in October 2009, and Sprint agreed under the terms of the deal to pay approximately $831 million for iPCS, a sum that also included the ass... |
5 December 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just announced that it is bringing back the Medal of Honor series, which has been laying dormant since the release of the rather good but overlooked Airborne. The new game is set to take the player to the battlefields of Afghanistan and focus on the actions of Tier 1 Operators, the tough guys who ... |
5 December 2009
11:41 GMT |
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“This is the last time you’ll ever see me,” sparkly, brooding and androgynous vampire Edward Cullen, played by the equally good-looking British actor Robert Pattinson, tells Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), his mortal girlfriend. Of course, he’s lying, even though critics wish he’d been ser... |
5 December 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22nd, 2009, along with Windows Server 2008 R2, and both platforms made it to customers by October 22nd, 2009, with the client flavor of the OS being the last to reach the general availability stage. Undoubtedly, for the latest iterations of the client and server operati... |
5 December 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Mapping the world online poses a lot of different challenges not only from a technical perspective but also from a political one. Google has some of the best software engineers in the world so it's safe to assume they can tackle any technical issue to overcome and, for the most part, so far they have. Some probl... |
5 December 2009
08:00 GMT |
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Old civilizations can be credited with a lot of things, from setting the basis of modern societies (Sumer), to boosting astronomical knowledge and mathematics. But, at times, the cities and villages inhabited by our ancestors turned into savage grounds, where people would get killed for no apparent reason. This appea... |
5 December 2009
07:21 GMT |
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Secure digital (SDHC) and CompactFlash cards are used for providing high storage capabilities to digital cameras, video cams, MP4/MP5 players and DSLRs among others. Team Group, in line with its reputation as a manufacturer of high-quality storage products, introduced three new storage cards, the CompactFlash 600X an... |
5 December 2009
07:11 GMT |
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When Google decided to create a new browser, it knew it had an opportunity to avoid many of the problems facing existing browsers by coming up with new ways to do things and building a solid basis from the start. One of the smartest decisions was to give each individual tab its own process thread, which would solve a... |
5 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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With her latest album, “Rated R,” fresh out in stores, Rihanna continues to plug it, preparing for the release of a new video, for her “Hard” single. Unlike the one for “Wait Your Turn (The Wait Is Ova),” which focused solely on Rihanna, “Hard” will presumably be a toug... |
5 December 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Ever since astronomers realized the vast number of near-Earth Objects (NEO), asteroids and meteorites surrounding our planet, they started developing and proposing a number of plans that could save us from certain doom in case of an established impact. The experts argued that a number of methods could be used to chan... |
5 December 2009
06:50 GMT |
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A Philadelphia man suspected of armed robbery turned himself in after his picture was circulated on TV. When he used a stolen phone to take a photo of himself, it was automatically sent back to the device's rightful owner. On October 7, a college student walking home from the Fern Rock Transportation Center was... |
5 December 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Although it was founded rather recently, specifically in 2000, as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services, the company was named 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year by Microsoft. In tune with its gold-certified status, MaximumASP not only upgraded the software support of its MaxV dedicated c... |
5 December 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Digg may not be the hottest thing in Silicon Valley at the moment, thanks to Facebook and Twitter stealing all the spotlight, but don't discount the social news aggregator just yet. As it turns five years old, the site is looking forward to a new chapter in its history as the features implemented over the past y... |
5 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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The Tiger Woods controversy, with its vague aroma of domestic abuse, cheating allegations and talk back and forth of how one’s personal life should impact one’s professional career, is ideal material for television and the press. Whoopi Goldberg seems to be the only one to disagree, saying on The View the... |
5 December 2009
06:11 GMT |
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US President Barack Obama has announced for a long time that he will be attending this year's UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, but he recently said that he would no longer attend the works. Rather, he will meet up with other leaders at the end of the conference, in the very last day. The purpose of the new... |
5 December 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble seems to be too successful for its own good. Even though December is already upon us and the world-leading book seller has been trying its hardest to get its Nook E-Book readers into stores, it has been foiled at every turn by its own product's popularity. Although Monday was supposed to mark th... |
5 December 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Vampires are taking over Hollywood: not only are long feature films (“Twilight,” to name just one and the most successful to date) setting the international and domestic box-office on fire, but television shows on the same topic are also seeing a spike in popularity. To join in on the fun and get a share ... |
5 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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More than ten years ago, as experts were investigating a cave system near the UK town of Yorkshire Dales, some of the team members used a nearby abandoned home to store their equipment when not in use. Unaware, they were also transporting spiders to the house. The stowaway passengers were hiding in the bags, and appa... |
5 December 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Windows Mobile phone users now have yet another updated navigation solution available for their handsets, the MobileNavigator 7 from NAVIGON. The new update for the application comes to the market with compatibility with the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, and with the ... |
5 December 2009
05:38 GMT |
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NBC’s “Friends,” telling the story of six friends, three boys and three girls, is officially the most watched television show of the decade, The Hollywood Reporter says, recently revealing the list with the other series that have also made the cut. The show’s finale, “The Last One”... |
5 December 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Google wants to provide users with the most relevant results, it goes without saying and it's obvious why. Better results means satisfied users, but also that the ads served with the search are more likely to be of interest to them. But in order to provide better results, Google needs to know more about them, so... |
5 December 2009
05:19 GMT |
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The PsiXpda ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC) is a Windows XP-running gadget powered by an Intel Atom Z510 1.1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. Although most UMPCs, while quite alluring thanks to their prices, don't usually hit mass production outside of Taiwan (where they are quite popular), the PsiXpda UMP... |
5 December 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Since modern transistors appeared, they were hailed as one of the greatest inventions of our times. As their sizes got smaller, and more could be fit on a silicon chip, the power exhibited by computers increased considerably. But experts warned that, at one point, the miniaturization would reach a limit, under which ... |
5 December 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile-phone maker HTC Corporation is the first handset vendor to have launched on the market a device powered by Google's Android operating system, and has since delivered a few more such smartphones, with a wide range of Android handsets already expected to arrive in 2010. Among them, it seems, we sh... |
5 December 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Ever since it was confirmed that pop star Britney Spears was seeking a divorce from former backup dancer turned rapper and model Kevin Federline, amidst speculation of cheating and leeching, the man the world once knew as K-Fed has been keeping a very low profile. Retired from showbiz and living his life as quietly a... |
5 December 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Over recent years, synthetic-biology companies have become capable of producing very accurate and valid scientific results when it comes to genetic screening. These improvements have allowed them to enter the market, providing customers of all types with the data they need. But, with this ability has also come a new ... |
5 December 2009
04:52 GMT |
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It shouldn't really surprise anyone at this point, but there are now rumors that MySpace will be rolling out Facebook Connect Integration sometime in the first part of 2010. Yes, the arch-enemies of just a couple of years ago are now making “friend requests.” But 2009 is not 2007, Facebook has clearl... |
5 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Although never officially acknowledged, the ABC ban on American Idol singer Adam Lambert has been lifted, with the network extending to him an invitation for an episode on The View, TMZ has learned. The move follows a couple of weeks of scrutiny and criticism for ABC, which has repeatedly cancelled appearances from t... |
5 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Two of the nicest mobile phones the finnish handset vendor Nokia delivered to the market during the ongoing year are now available for purchase in the US: the Nokia E72 and the Nokia N97 mini. The latter has reached the US market a few days ago, and can be purchased via Dell and Amazon, as well as via the Nokia USA o... |
5 December 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Intel's many-core graphics chip Larrabee was designed to compete with NVIDIA's and ATI's products. The graphics processor's launch has been delayed repeatedly, even though it was supposedly going to overshadow NVIDIA's CUDA and even said to have reached the performance level of the GeForce GT... |
5 December 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Next Monday, Virgin Galactic will unveil its new space plane design. Constructed specifically to deliver paying passengers to suborbital altitudes, at the fringes of outer space, the innovative craft, known as SpaceShipTwo, is bound to make a sensation. The luxurious vehicle will therefore be the base of the company&... |
5 December 2009
04:07 GMT |
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When Google says it's in “acquisition mode,” it's not kidding. After staying mostly quiet on this front for the past two years or so, Google made its fourth acquisition in just a month. The company acquired AppJet, the startup behind EtherPad, a real-time collaborative word processor, for an und... |
5 December 2009
04:03 GMT |
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General-purpose processing of graphics processing units (GPGPU) is not a capability held by all current central processors. The GPGPU defines the process through which the CPU's tasks are offloaded onto the GPU, allowing the graphics processing unit to perform computations in applications that would normally... |
5 December 2009
03:51 GMT |
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The Russian space agency RosCosmos has been planning for its new family of rockets, the Angara, for many years. It sees them as the replacements for a large number of its current space vehicles, but the project has been plagued with delays for quite some time now, and progress has been slow. The Angara family was app... |
5 December 2009
03:41 GMT |
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The Redmond-based software giant delivered to the market about two months ago the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, the Windows Mobile 6.5, which is now available on a wide range of handsets all around the world. Among these devices, there are some that appeal to most to users, such as the HTC HD2, Samsun... |
5 December 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is reportedly gearing up to deliver a software update for one of its recently released Android handsets, namely the HTC DROID Eris. The device, as many of you might already know, has been delivered to the market with the 1.5 version of the platform on board (Cupcake), yet it seem... |
5 December 2009
02:42 GMT |
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