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How do you know Nintendo feels in no way threatened by the way Microsoft aggressively cut the price of its Xbox 360 gaming console? It’s easy. You just have to take a look at the statements made by Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata.He spoke to a Japanese site, Touch-DS, saying that “This is my pers... |
6 November 2008
20:11 GMT |
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The Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, the much quoted and very active John Riccitiello, has bought stock in the company that he leads, stock which at the date it was acquired was valued at more than 1 million dollars. The exact number of shares bought was 42,500 and the value per share was 24.50 dollars.Ric... |
6 November 2008
17:51 GMT |
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It's been some time since the last Lego title and, with the launch of this new and thrilling Indiana Jones movie, we just had to have a game as well. A Lego character fills in Harrison Ford's shoes perfectly and there is no other better company out there than Traveller's Tales to do this job. LEGO Indi... |
6 November 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft issued a warning related to the detection of new examples of malicious code in attacks attempting to exploit a vulnerability affecting various Windows client and server releases. In October, the Redmond giant put out an out-of-band security patch designed to plug a vulnerability residing in the Server Servi... |
6 November 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Ever realized how everyone is much, much better off telling the truth, being open and sincere? Can we say Apple is any of these things? Maybe, up to a point. Particularly, up to the point where Apple has something cooking in its labs that no one must know about. However, this secretive attitude is affecting everyone,... |
6 November 2008
15:41 GMT |
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As we all know only too well, Panasonic, like most other display solution manufacturers, doesn't settle for just one product launch, but generally rolls out at least a dozen new devices. Well, perhaps not a dozen, but the company's latest announcement sure is a “large” one, since the Japanese fi... |
6 November 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Microsoft already proved that on the same system configuration Windows 7 would boot a few seconds faster than Windows Vista. But fact is that the evolution from Vista to Windows 7 is not limited to the boosted startup times. In this context, at the Windows hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Mike Angiulo,... |
6 November 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Midway is sending word that its upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe fighting game has gone gold and that the release dates have been nailed down for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. In North America, the game will arrive on November 16 while in Europe, players will have to wait until November 21 in order to... |
6 November 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Red Alert 3 has been one of the most anticipated titles this holiday season, promising players the classic tongue-in-cheek approach to strategy that this series of games, part of the Command & Conquer universe, has offered us throughout the years. The single player campaign shines by the means of a pretty intricate s... |
6 November 2008
14:51 GMT |
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There are no small increments to the content associated with Microsoft Virtual Earth. In fact, because of the way that new and existing content have to blend together, the Redmond company prefers to deliver massive multi-terabytes updates to its mapping, location and search platform. It is the case with the latest up... |
6 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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The idea of rich, developed countries paying poorer nations annual sums of money for the protection of the rain forests is not a new one, and international officials have been considering the pros and cons of this kind of measures for quite some time now. Recently, Prince Charles, speaking on behalf of the United Kin... |
6 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Macvide has updated its Flash-to-video conversion utility, FlashVideo Converter, to version 2.2. The new release improves video quality and movie size optimization. Also, version 2.2 adds a Background Color selection feature.FlashVideo Converter lets Mac users running Tiger or higher convert any Adobe Flash file such... |
6 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Human stem cell research has been a controversial subject all around the globe for many years, because of the fact that the harvesting of viable stem cells has to be conducted on viable human embryos. Religious and anti-abortion groups say that this is a crime, as the embryos would have otherwise grown to become adul... |
6 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Rock Band 2 was supposed to receive 20 free tracks, from various less known bands, as downloadable content sometime today. But it seems that there have been some issues related to getting the songs on Xbox Live and the exact moment when they become available is still unknown.With the official Rock band forums awash w... |
6 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Winter is not exactly very good for the human body, the various climate changes brought about by this season affecting us (both physically and mentally) in a pretty adverse manner. For this reason, the medical-oriented branch of Philips has just launched the goLITE BLU, a device that, by using the power of light, wil... |
6 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Capcom is announcing better than expected financial results. For the three months that ended on September 30, the publisher revealed having seen revenue rise by 16.8% to reach the figure of 1.87 billion Yen, which is about 18.9 million dollars. Operating income was also on an upward trend and the company is seeing a ... |
6 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Even if 2008 and its tendencies are still of public interest, designers have decided that's about time to inform each and every fashion-wise trend-addict of what's new for the 2009 pre-fall season. As a consequence, lots of major brands, including Calvin Klein, have recently presented their latest views on ... |
6 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Justice League Heroes for the Nintendo DS system, developed by Sensory Sweep Studios as a prequel to the console title, lets gamers use the stylus to control and unleash the superpowers of Batman, Superman, The Flash and Wonder Woman. Gamers use objects within the destructible environment against enemies at will and ... |
6 November 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (HIN) evolves on the current street racing scene, letting players experience the culture of the real-life HIN tour, the nation's largest lifestyle custom car show, in an intense racing experience. Featuring track and drift racing at real-world locations around the globe, next-gen AI a... |
6 November 2008
12:21 GMT |
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With every leaked iPhone 2.2 screenshot, the new software reveals more about its tweaks and additions, and this time is no different. A report accompanied by screens of the latest iPhone 2.2 beta builds reveals that Apple has activated new features of the iTunes Store to allow users to download podcasts directly to t... |
6 November 2008
12:14 GMT |
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Far Cry 2 is one of the most expected games this year, being the successor to one of the most breath taking games in the pretty big portfolio of French company Ubisoft. Although the first game was developed by CryTek, which have recently launched the Crysis series, this second Far Cry title was developed by the team ... |
6 November 2008
12:01 GMT |
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The Games for Windows Branding tool is one of the evolved aspects of the DirectX software development kit launched on November 5, 2008 for a variety of Windows releases, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. The November 2008 DirectX SDK delivers the Runtime, along with the additional ... |
6 November 2008
11:57 GMT |
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There was a time when portable computer systems, such as laptops, were considered a way by which people could take their data with them wherever they went. However, with the latest advancements in technology, laptops have received a few more functionalities, which made these devices surpass desktop systems in terms o... |
6 November 2008
11:43 GMT |
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No later than yesterday, we were writing about a possible announcement from Sony Ericsson, which we thought ready to launch a new Walkman series slider handset together with a new music accessory. Today, it was confirmed that Sony Ericsson officially launched its latest Walkman series mobile phone, the W705 aka Rika.... |
6 November 2008
10:53 GMT |
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Harvest Moon DS Cute is a customized version of Harvest Moon DS, which now has content only for girls. The original title is the first in the farm simulation series developed by Marvelous Interactive and published by Nintendo exclusively for the DS handheld consoles. The game was released in Japan on the 17th of Marc... |
6 November 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Now, wait a minute, and say that again, please. Could it be that three NVIDIA graphics processors are powering one of Toshiba’s portable computer systems? If so, this is happening at a time when most desktop computer systems are basically powered by a single graphics processor, while the majority of portable PC... |
6 November 2008
10:50 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be occupying the newly-formed tech advisor position to the president of the United States. Barack Obama created this position just shortly before visiting the Google headquarters during his campaign, and some believe that the reason this happened was because the job was ... |
6 November 2008
10:48 GMT |
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There are probably a lot of people who don’t know about Michael Crichton's work (or if what they watched or read was actually his creation), but, certainly, those who have heard about him are indeed saddened by the recent passing of the beloved Sci-Fi author. "Jurassic Park" (1990) or "Sphere" (1987) are a... |
6 November 2008
10:32 GMT |
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Spy-gadgets in general and covert video or audio recorders in particular have always exerted quite a high level of fascination with a lot of people, especially because just about any person out there (mostly men, obviously) wants to feel like James Bond at least once in their life. And given the consumers' non-s... |
6 November 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is a farm simulation videogame published and developed by Marvelous Interactive in Japan, and released in North America by Natsume exclusively for the Nintendo DS. It is the fourth installment of the Harvest Moon series on the DS and the first one to give players the opportunity to c... |
6 November 2008
10:11 GMT |
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This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise to many technology enthusiasts out there, but almost every motherboard maker has already finished at least one version of their upcoming X58-enabled Core i7-ready desktop platforms. Still, from time to time, it is nice to see what products we should be expecting ... |
6 November 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Team Ninja is one of the most popular game development studios in Japan, largely because it launched some pretty appreciated titles like the Dead or Alive fighting series or Ninja Gaiden. Its former leader, Tomonobu Itagaki, gained a rock star-like reputation and was considered by many to be the driving force for Tea... |
6 November 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Darkwatch is a videogame developed by High Moon Studios Inc. and published by Capcom Entertainment Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the original Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in August 2005. The title is classed as an action game, which has some shooter and horror elements an... |
6 November 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Samsung has managed to keep itself at the top of the LCD PC monitor market by constantly taking into account the customer feedback regarding its products and coming up with innovative products that answer the users' demands. And especially for those office workers in dire need of more desktop space, the Korean c... |
6 November 2008
09:40 GMT |
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Given the stress of daily life and all those all-nighters that we often pull, dark circles are a problem that most of us have to deal with. Even so, truly “dealing” with them is something that still eludes us, in that we can never seem to be able to find the best way to completely eliminate them, and rega... |
6 November 2008
09:21 GMT |
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According to a Reuters article, a recent vast-scale simulation of the creation and evolution of a Milky Way-type of galaxy has indicated some potential places in space where scientists should search for dark matter. Although the existence of the matter that forms a huge part of the universe has been known for a long ... |
6 November 2008
09:17 GMT |
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The precision that ants employ when moving to and from their hives has puzzled scientists for a very long time, in that several hundred thousand individuals exhibited the ability to follow simple and effective commands, so as not to create traffic congestions and slow down the hunters that are looking for their prey.... |
6 November 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Past research has demonstrated that each mammal individual has a certain smell that separates it from its peers. This comes in very handy for a large number of animals in a vast series of actions, such as choosing companions for mating purposes, or delimiting one's own territory. The odor is eliminated by means ... |
6 November 2008
09:08 GMT |
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The KDE community announced yesterday (November 5th, 2008), in a press release, the immediate availability of the third maintenance of the K Desktop Environment, one of the most popular desktop managers, also known as KDE. The new release, KDE 4.1.3 (dubbed Change), ships with numerous bugfixes, some translation upda... |
6 November 2008
09:06 GMT |
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If you aren’t already an owner of a netbook computer system, you are likely waiting for that one device that not only integrates the latest in mobile computing, but is also low on power and comes with a $200-ish price tag. Or, perhaps you are among those that have recently heard about those 2009 Eee PCs that AS... |
6 November 2008
09:02 GMT |
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The lamp will most likely be the first component to break down in the case of any projector, this being also the reason why the estimated functioning life of a lamp is an extremely important issue when purchasing a projector. So how about a device that would provide a "backup" lamp, automatically alternating the use ... |
6 November 2008
08:56 GMT |
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Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 is a video game developed by Z-Axis Ltd. and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, for the original Xbox from Microsoft, the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. It was launched in September 2001. The game is classed as a sports title ... |
6 November 2008
08:41 GMT |
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Customers are reporting that Apple has e-mailed them with an apology for delaying their orders on the new, NVIDIA-based MacBook Air units. The delay only appears to be affecting the entry-level 1.6GHz model with a 120GB SATA hard drive, sources indicate.Apple explains that an unforeseen issue has made it unlikely for... |
6 November 2008
08:40 GMT |
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Most computer users like to keep a close eye on the performance of their systems and try to optimize them in order to get the best out of their PC or laptop. The default tools provided by the Windows OS are often insufficient to supervise each running process or service, to diagnose running applications and, perhaps ... |
6 November 2008
08:31 GMT |
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A new version of a musical robot that plays the flute perfectly could soon turn out to be a worthy competitor to human musicians. Besides the fact that it makes no mistakes, the latest technology allowed its developers from the Waseda University in Japan to equip it with cameras that act as eyes, ensuring a dynamic c... |
6 November 2008
08:07 GMT |
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All computer enthusiasts out there should mark November 17, 2008 date in their calendars, as this day will be quite important for the future of computing technology. Aside from Intel unveiling probably one of its highest-end central processing units, the Nehalem-based Core i7, the next-generation USB specifications a... |
6 November 2008
08:04 GMT |
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Need For Speed is one of the most popular racing franchises out there, bringing its parent company, Electronic Arts, big profits after each title is launched. It brought innovations such as tuning or police to the racing game genre and is considered the most respected series in the field.The next title in the franchi... |
6 November 2008
08:01 GMT |
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For most users, their computer display is just a peripheral, an extension of their machine. However, for others (gamers, especially), the monitor is the gateway to a whole new world and this is the reason why it should reflect, to some extent, its user's personality. That's exactly the case with the monitor... |
6 November 2008
07:59 GMT |
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World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle / construction game. The title has already made an appearance on Nintendo's Wii, and is now available to buy for Mac and PC. Giving the demo a spin, you will yourself come to realize soon that World of Goo is easily the best physics-based puzzle game available for Mac today... |
6 November 2008
07:55 GMT |
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Anticipating the shopping frenzy which will be synonymous with the 2008 holiday season, Microsoft is already starting to roll out products designed to serve as perfect gifts. In addition to the imminent launch of “Gears of War 2” for the Xbox 360, the Redmond company is also delivering new customization o... |
6 November 2008
07:50 GMT |
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As of November 5, 2008 Microsoft has given the green light to debut of the development and testing processes of hardware products tailored to Windows 7. The next iteration of the Windows client was showcased as part of the Windows 7 “roadshow” at the Windows hardware engineering Conference in Los Angeles ... |
6 November 2008
07:26 GMT |
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Chandrayaan-1, the spacecraft launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on October 22, has successfully performed the orbit-raising maneuver that set it on track for the Moon, a week after it managed, upon testing its main camera (Terrain Mapping Camera), to send its first pictures back to Earth. This... |
6 November 2008
07:13 GMT |
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A certain type of bacteria seems to be very effective in holding off other bacteria that would otherwise infest intubated patients in hospitals. When harmless bacteria from the mouth and throat reach the lungs, they regularly trigger a reaction, which comes as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). This affliction ha... |
6 November 2008
07:02 GMT |
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One of the few things most people really hate about winter is the moment when they go out to the car in the morning and find it to be all frozen up, which means that they'll have to spend about twenty minutes in below zero temperatures scraping the ice off the windshield with a flimsy piece of plastic (the scrap... |
6 November 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Animal Crossing: Wild World features a very minimal plot. The objective of the game is to pay off a debt to Tom Nook, who allows the player to move into a house he owns. If the mortgage is paid off, the player's house will expand until the upstairs, left, right, center and back rooms are included. This is slight... |
6 November 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Dark Cloud 2 is a video game developed by Level 5 Inc. and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated. Created exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, it was released in December 2002. The title is classed as an action and role playing game, played from a third person perspective.While Dark Cl... |
6 November 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Together with Telstra, Microsoft is preparing to unleash a new array of business services on the Australian market by mid-2009. The two companies inked a strategic alliance designed to span from software solutions aimed at business customers to integrated computing and telephony services, all of which set up to play ... |
6 November 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Spammers wasted no time in profiting from Barack Obama's victory in the White House race and launched several spam campaigns. The most wide spread one invites users to watch the newly elected president's acceptance speech on a fake website that serves them a password stealing Trojan hidden as Adobe_flash9.e... |
6 November 2008
06:41 GMT |
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The latest images sent by the Martian human-made explorers and orbiters show, in more detail, how the sand ripples scar the planet's surface in some regions, which allows scientists to build up on their existing theories related to their formation, or to come up with entirely new ones. Yet, as we lack more accur... |
6 November 2008
06:38 GMT |
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The severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) has prompted scientists to look for a cure since the disease was first identified. Thus far, they've had little success, and chances are that the next few years won't bring about significant breakthrough in this area. In the hopes of preventing this from happening, Ca... |
6 November 2008
06:37 GMT |
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Dark Cloud is a video game developed by Level 5 Inc. and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated. Created exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, it was released in December 2000. The title is classed as an action and role playing game, played from a third person perspective.Over 400 years ... |
6 November 2008
06:32 GMT |
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While speeding is not exactly the best thing to do when driving, getting spotted by a police radar is even worse. And in order to help drivers prevent this unfortunate event from happening, the Cobra company, a traditional manufacturer of radar detection solutions, has just announced a serious upgrade to its line of ... |
6 November 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Sandisk announced today the introduction of a new flash file management system for solid state disk (SSD) drives. According to the company, the technology will allow for random write rates accelerations at a factor of up to 100x. Still, the net speed will only be leveraged four times in the short term, while the perf... |
6 November 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Though most people would have never believed such an association to be possible, a recent study, analyzing data from thousands of post menopausal women, showed that subjects exhibiting high headache frequencies were 30 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not suffer from migraines. The find... |
6 November 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Getting music, video, podcasts and (probably most important) games onto your iPod touch can be done properly following a few easy steps. You also have the choice to set up iTunes on your computer to sync content in your library, or you can manually manage the media you put on iPod touch.Syncing Content from iTunesYou... |
6 November 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Following the launch of Google's G1 two weeks ago, SMobile Systems announced that it would release one piece of dedicated antivirus software called VirusGuard. The antivirus intends to protect all phones running on an Android platform. No later than last week, an important flaw was discovered into G1's open... |
6 November 2008
05:46 GMT |
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The development the solar industry underwent could now turn against it, as the economical climate prompts more and more investors to withdraw their funds from ongoing projects. The supply of solar cells, panels, and other similar installations, is already higher than the demand, and the economy forces banks to skyroc... |
6 November 2008
05:35 GMT |
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It seems that NVIDIA will add a new card to its GT200 series in December, and this card will be a 55nm one. It is expected to be cooler and faster, while also clocked a little higher than the current GT200 cards. Moreover, some would also expect the green company to pair it in a dual card. The news hasn't been c... |
6 November 2008
05:28 GMT |
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An Apple Discussions poster reveals that FedEx staffers might have tampered with his new MacBook Pro. According to the post, “MacBook Pro Received Today and Tampered With,” Apple is taking care of everything so that the customer gets a new notebook as soon as possible, even though FedEx was to blame for t... |
6 November 2008
05:17 GMT |
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For the inaugural Microsoft Asia High Tech Industry Summit, the Redmond company indicated that Asian companies need to focus on three key areas of growth. The first Asia High Tech Industry Summit catalyzed by Microsoft is designed to generate dialog between the players of the continent's high-tech and electronic... |
6 November 2008
05:14 GMT |
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The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has launched an internal investigation after finding out that a USB stick containing account details was lost. The bank informed the affected customers and placed the accounts under supervision for suspicious activity.According to the bank, a single employee was responsible for the incident ... |
6 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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All-efficient obesity drugs are in high demand these days, as statistics show that selling such pills has become an increasingly profitable business throughout the United States. Unfortunately for people trying to lose weight rapidly, these drugs are not always correctly tested for their impact on human health, and a... |
6 November 2008
05:08 GMT |
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It seems that the new Nintendo DSi, which has just been launched in Japan and will arrive in Europe and North America sometime in 2009, is built so that the usual mod chips that were used with other DS models are pretty much useless. The revelation is good news for Nintendo, which has been wagging a fierce war agains... |
6 November 2008
05:05 GMT |
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The holiday season is rapidly approaching and companies are struggling to make the most interesting offers so that customers will buy their products. Such is the case in the gaming console market, where every manufacturer is offering different sorts of promotions so that users will be attracted to their consoles.Micr... |
6 November 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is said to first install a multiple-electron-beam direct write (MEBDW) lithography system in 2009, which would help it in the development of 20nm and more advanced process nodes, as Digitimes reports citing Burn Lin, senior director of micropatterning division at TSMC... |
6 November 2008
04:46 GMT |
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We've seen plenty of Sci-Fi movies in which the characters gain access to a computer network, for example, by simply pressing their finger against a screen. Well, it would seem that all those movies might turn real soon enough, courtesy of a new type of LCD panel developed by the researchers from AU Optronics, w... |
6 November 2008
04:45 GMT |
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A powerful dust storm, which recently covered the Martian skies, prevented sunlight from reaching Phoenix's hungered solar energy capturing device, and put the lander into a “Hospice Mode.” Technicians on Earth responsible with the mission could do nothing to prevent this from happening, although the... |
6 November 2008
04:42 GMT |
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The natural abilities that peridotite rocks have are no secret to scientists, as researches pointed to their potential years ago. At the time, harnessing the power of the rocks was deemed as a too costly project and the initiative was abandoned. Currently, geologists showed that peridotite doesn't have to be tra... |
6 November 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Guitar Hero is one of the most popular music game franchises out there. It paved the way for this genre to overtake the sports one and was a true innovator in terms of gameplay for these titles. The most recent addition in the series is Guitar Hero: World Tour, which brings even more features than the previous ones.A... |
6 November 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Although the presence of methane in Mars' atmosphere has been positively identified more than four years ago by three different sources, its provenience still eludes scientists. On Earth, we have the biomass to blame, namely the decaying plants and animal flatulence, but since none of these exists on Mars, a via... |
6 November 2008
04:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is touting “Gears of War 2” as the biggest blockbuster of the 2008 holiday season, as the title is slated to hit store shelves in just a couple of days. Already applauded by the Redmond giant as the top entertainment premiere this holiday season, “Gears of War 2” will be released exc... |
6 November 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 is going to be a very massive title for the Xbox 360. Currently the most expected exclusive game for this console, with Microsoft heavily promoting it, it is the sequel to one of the most popular games released for the Xbox 360, which is still played today.The game earned a cult-like following fro... |
6 November 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Intel Corporation is prepared for the official introduction of its newest processors, the Core i7. The chips will feature the company's next-generation micro-architecture code-named Nehalem. The Santa Clara based giant chip manufacturer announced that the new CPUs would come live at a media and analyst event hel... |
6 November 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Dieting is such a common practice in today’s society, for both women and men, that we often tend to forget that a stricter alimentary regime, especially if spanning over a longer period of time, can have disastrous effects on our health and, at the same time, quite the opposite effects from what we expect from ... |
6 November 2008
04:06 GMT |
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I have always believed that there is too much desktop space that remains unused, unless you like crammed places, which I don't. And since I am that kind of person who tries to find a solution to every problem, I started looking for functionality for my desktop background, one that wouldn't eat up my barely ... |
6 November 2008
04:01 GMT |
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The problem of unsustainable fishing was prompted on the West Coast of the United States decades ago, as fishermen and authorities alike noticed severe decreases in fish populations throughout the region, and started working on legislations to prevent this. But, thus far, bills aimed at tackling this issue have not b... |
6 November 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts, one of the most anticipated titles for the Xbox 360 in the field of casual gaming, is the fifth in the Banjo Kazooie series, which started in 1998 as a Nintendo 64 game. It is also the first title that won’t be coming to a Japanese console, being an Xbox exclusive.The demo of the ... |
6 November 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has just announced the financial results for the first quarter during which the company has functioned as a unified entity, following the much publicized merger. Revenues amounted to 711 million dollars during the period and, to some people’s surprise, there was no profit. Actually, Activisi... |
6 November 2008
03:50 GMT |
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Activision announces that it has entered into a partnership with Active Music Distribution, a company based in the United Kingdom, with the aim of offering the latest installment in the Guitar Hero series, World Tour, in music instruments stores across the country.The idea behind the deal is that the popularity of th... |
6 November 2008
03:50 GMT |
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VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading manufacturer of power efficient x86 processor platforms, announced today a public demonstration of its VIA Nano processor and a host of leading edge embedded boards, peripherals and complete systems at Electronica 2008, which will be held in Munich, Germany, on November 11-14. The com... |
6 November 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Besides being one of the world's best-known manufacturers of DSLRs, Canon also has quite a comprehensive line-up of video cameras (or camcorders), ranging from consumer-grade products to professional models. And that's pretty much where the latest two products announced by the company fit, since the XH A1S ... |
6 November 2008
03:40 GMT |
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It appears that two and a half millennia of natural activity were not a problem for the large construction of the Acropolis to withstand, as it successfully faced powerful storms, extreme temperatures, drought, snow and earthquakes. The ruined appearance it has today is rather the work of man than that of nature. Thi... |
6 November 2008
03:38 GMT |
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With the coming of the new administration, the "green" community is now turning towards President-elect Barack Obama and the representatives of the Democratic Party, for new legislation on the matter, as well as for increased government financial support for renewable projects. Obama has already pledged to invest som... |
6 November 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Intel, the Santa Clara based chip manufacturer, announced yesterday that it plans to immediately phase out a few of its 45nm processors, in addition to some of the 65nm chips that are being discontinued. The list of the axed CPUs includes Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Duo Mobile and one Core 2 Quad chip. Moreover, since it is m... |
6 November 2008
03:16 GMT |
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The research inside the causes of schizophrenia is a very complex one, scientists agree, as there are many areas of the brain that are involved in the onset and development of the disease, as well as many neurotransmitters that act on those regions, such as dopamine and glutamate. That's why the orbitofrontal co... |
6 November 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Although Microsoft failed to support in any way past comparisons between development milestones of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, arguing that pre-gold builds are not fit for any sort of OS measuring contest, it failed to hesitate in the least when it came down to throwing the pre-beta b... |
6 November 2008
03:03 GMT |
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Shuttle Inc., a worldwide market leader in the Mini-PC segment and a manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, has recently unveiled a new HD-compatible AMD-based Mini-PC Complete System which features a fresh look, as well as a HDMI interface to allow high-definition playback for movies and sound. This addition t... |
6 November 2008
02:49 GMT |
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Natural reservations were created in national parks across Africa with the express purpose of caring for the wildlife, as well as for endangered species, such as several types of elephants. This usually implies the area is protected and that human activities are reduced to a minimum. This is not the case with the Cho... |
6 November 2008
02:17 GMT |
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Although it is doing better than expected, at least in what the third quarter earnings showed, Advance Micro Devices announced on Wednesday that it would lay off 500 more employees. The company will cut about 3 percent of its working force, a move expected to reduce expenses. This would be the second wave of layoffs ... |
6 November 2008
02:14 GMT |
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The United Kingdom is facing a slightly unusual problem – it would appear that the country's bee populations are dwindling, as a new petition from apiarists shows. The beekeepers say that about one third of their insects died last year, which could pose a significant threat to honey production, as well as ... |
6 November 2008
01:51 GMT |
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