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Many of our readers have already seen Gigabyte’s WindForce 5X cooling system mounted on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 680 GPUs. So now we’re quite surprised to see that an AMD “Tahiti 2”-based design is almost ready for prime time, although we’re still waiting for the GTX 680 WindForce 5X. ... |
6 July 2012
22:41 GMT |
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Video card company Inno3D is not sitting still and it seems to be continuously working on new and innovative Nvidia designs. A GeForce GTX 680 design is in the news now as Inno3D is getting ready to release two new graphics adapters based on Nvidia’s Kepler GPU and feature custom printed circuit boards (P... |
6 July 2012
21:41 GMT |
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Well-known monitor manufacturer, Japanese company Iiyama has just announced a new 24-bit professional monitor on the company’s official website. The new addition to Iiyama’s product lineup is a 27” model that uses WLED technology implemented in a VA LCD panel. Make sure you read the first, se... |
6 July 2012
20:51 GMT |
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This week, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility and KT Powertel announced the release of a new iDEN device in South Korea, namely the Motorola XT626, which will be marketed as the DOUBLE V. The new device comes with push-to-talk capabilities, runs under Google’s Android operating system, and offers dual-mode i... |
6 July 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Like we said, Iiyama’s ProLite XB2780HSU professional monitor boosts WLED backlighting and a VA display panel. We told you that WLED is short for White Light Emitting Diode. Make sure you read the first and second parts of our professional display technologies presentation for more technical info. We also sai... |
6 July 2012
20:11 GMT |
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Swiss company LifeWatch AG has just announced the upcoming availability of world’s first healthcare smartphone. Dubbed LifeWatch V, the handset will be rolled out globally in the following months.
Although the company did not unveil any details regarding the phone’s availability and pricing options, it i... |
6 July 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Sony is getting ready to launch its Xperia GX smartphone on the market in Japan, and has already started to put its marketing machinery in motion for that. Three new video promos with the smartphone are now available for your viewing pleasure, focusing on various appealing features that the new device lands on shel... |
6 July 2012
20:01 GMT |
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The most recent Final Fantasy releases might have not been the hits that publisher Square Enix was expecting them to be, but it seems that the company is now giving up on them and is getting ready to deliver more single-player content for XIII-2 and is also getting closer to the reboot moment for the MMO FF XIV. Mot... |
6 July 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Well-known monitor manufacturer, Japanese company Iiyama has just announced a new 24-bit professional monitor on the company’s official website. The new addition to Iiyama’s product lineup is a 27” model that uses WLED technology implemented in a VA LCD panel. Make sure you read the first par... |
6 July 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Devil’s Third, the upcoming action game from Valhalla Game Studios masterminded by designer Tomonobu Itagaki, is now completely owned by the Japanese studio, after THQ has given up on the publishing rights for the new title. THQ signed a partnership with Valhalla Game Studios back in June of 2010 and confirmed... |
6 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Chinese company Huawei have just launched the Ascend D1 3G smartphone in China. Powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform, the device can be purchased for only 2,499 yuan (395 USD or 320 EUR) outright.
Huawei Ascend D1 3G is equipped with a 1.5 GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4460 processor, which is complemented by ... |
6 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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We can't really say we are upset about the falling prices of NAND Flash memory, since it inevitably means cheaper memory cards and solid-state drives, but Samsung and Toshiba don't share this opinion.
In fact, the two companies want to stop prices from falling down. Making them go up would probably be ide... |
6 July 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Research In Motion (RIM) has just introduced the affordable BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone in Malaysia. Unfortunately, the Canadian company did not unveil any details on the phone’s pricing options, but it mentions that the Curve 9320 can be purchased via authorized retailers.
The good news is that the Curve... |
6 July 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Square Enix has talked about next-generation consoles and has revealed that, if manufacturers like Sony or Microsoft want high quality games on their new platforms, they’ll have to add lots of RAM in order to allow developers to build better experiences.
Square Enix wowed E3 2012 attendants with the Agni&rsquo... |
6 July 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Well-known monitor manufacturer, Japanese company Iiyama has just announced a new 24-bit professional monitor on the company’s official website. The new addition to Iiyama’s product lineup is a 27” model that uses WLED technology and offers a 24-bit color reproduction. There are many importan... |
6 July 2012
18:41 GMT |
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RIM has just announced the immediate availability of OS 7.1 upgrade for BlackBerry Porsche P’9981 in Indonesia. However, only devices purchased through Indosat and XL Indonesia are eligible for this update. Built in collaboration with Porsche Design, this premium smartphone was launched back in December and is... |
6 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Developer CyberConnect2 and publisher Namco Bandai have offered the first playable demo for their upcoming Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 at the Japan Expo 2012 in Paris, allowing fans to see how the new game in the long-running franchise is shaping up.
Those who want to see Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninj... |
6 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics appears set to bring to the market a successor for its LG Optimus Vu handset, only a few months after making the device official. The handset, supposedly called LG Optimus Vu 2, has just emerged in a number of User Agent Profiles and appears set to make an official appe... |
6 July 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Today’s smartphones are more than just communication devices. They represent our means to navigate the Internet and connect with friends on social networking sites too, and are also used for storing great memories. When it comes to sharing these memories with friends and family, things might prove a bit diffi... |
6 July 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Marco Balduzzi, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, has been kind enough to have a chat with us at the Hack in the Box 2012 security conference in Amsterdam. We’ve talked about different things relating to cloud security, but the talk focused on the researcher’s studies on Amazon EC server images ... |
6 July 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Announced back in February, a few days ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012 trade fair opening, LG Optimus L7 hit shelves in May. Although the smartphone was launched in some regions for quite a while, the white version of the Optimus L7 is about to make its debut exclusively at AllPhones. Customers in Australia who... |
6 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Multimedia giant Disney has announced that it will launch a massive online advertising campaign linked to safety in online virtual worlds, after its Club Penguin title was linked to breaches in security, allowing children to interact with a number of convicted sex offenders.
Disney has said that it will be spending ... |
6 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Fans of the Aliens franchise are quite excited about the upcoming Colonial Marines video game, but some of them are rather upset that they can’t play as female characters in the game’s multiplayer mode, and have started a petition to make their voices heard. Aliens: Colonial Marines is being developed by... |
6 July 2012
17:21 GMT |
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One of the hottest dieting fads right now is the juice cleanse (or juice detox or simply juicing). Its benefits in the short-term have already been confirmed but, should you consider sticking to it for weeks or even days in a row, a heads up. The idea of a juice cleanse is that it helps your body “reboot&rdqu... |
6 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: Le Tour de France 2012 is wrapping up its first week and the racing has been exciting in the real world, which means that I will continue to play the official cycling simulation from Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive during the weekend in order to rack up my own virtual wins. At home, I play a fu... |
6 July 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Nina Dobrev isn't just cute as a button and very talented, she can also be quite convincing when she sets out to be. Check out her latest video for Funny Or Die below. Since it's summer and the 4th of July means many will be heading out to the beach for an extended weekend, Nina and Nick Braun came up wit... |
6 July 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Mobile users are fond of Facebook, that’s for sure. Being capable of accessing the social networking website from anywhere at any time is a great feature for them. This becomes even better when the device in question is a real Facebook phone, though it might take a while before one actually lands on shelves. ... |
6 July 2012
16:21 GMT |
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On Thursday, Microsoft made available for download a new tool for developers working with JavaScript in JavaScript libraries. Available for those involved in development of HTML web resources too, the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Custom Code Validation Tool was designed to provide developers with the possibility... |
6 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Seventeen Magazine is taking active steps towards helping girls and young women have better self-esteem and a healthier body image. Editor in chief Ann Shoket has pledged to never allow retouched photos on the pages of the publication. Of course, some form of retouching will still be present, but always only to cle... |
6 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Activision has apparently pushed forward the release date of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, with the company confirming recently that the game will be launched a week earlier than originally planned.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is set to deliver quite an impressive experience based on the highly popular univer... |
6 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Nokia has a lot of great applications to offer to its users through the Nokia Store portal, and is offering some more suggestions for users interested in grabbing appealing software for their devices. The Store is accessible both from Symbian and MeeGo devices, and the company is making sure that users of both plat... |
6 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Canadian carrier Bell has just refreshed its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update schedule. According to the operator, the Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE is expected to receive this update sometime in August. However, the folks over at XDA Developers have just released a CyanogenMod 9 ROM for the Galaxy S II HD LTE. In... |
6 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The upcoming Game of Thrones Ascent from Disruptor Beam will use social game mechanics in order to deliver the best gaming representation of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series from R.R. Martin.
Jon Radoff, who is the chief executive officer working at Disruptor Beam, stated, “I don’t think it’s... |
6 July 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Canadian carrier Koodo Mobile has just released the cheapest Nokia smartphone to run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, Lumia 610.
Customers who wish to give Windows Phone a try can pick this one up for as low as $50 CAD on the TAB. However, the Lumia 610 can also be purchased for $200 CAD without the... |
6 July 2012
15:01 GMT |
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The future prospects of the hard drive and solid-state drive markets are still at odds with each other, even though there are plenty of people who think they can coexist just fine.
Even disregarding the biased beliefs of HDD and SSD makers themselves, opinions are divided almost evenly among researchers and analyst... |
6 July 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Videotron is gearing up for the release of a new Windows Phone for its customers, namely the Nokia Lumia 710. The carrier has already put the new device on its website, and confirmed that it would be released with a price tag of $29.95 attached to it with the signing of a three-year cont... |
6 July 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Facebook's big play on apps, of the web and mobile variety, is just getting started. The core of this push is the App Center which is exactly what it sounds like, a central location for all applications that use Facebook in some way.
Facebook's stroke of genius is that the apps don't have to be on Fa... |
6 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Warner Bros. is seriously not stopping! Just 2 weeks to go until “The Dark Knight Rises” is out in theaters and it's still putting out plenty of promo materials to build even more hype around the film. Above is the latest international TV spot, check it out. You will notice that it includes foota... |
6 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Panasonic announced the Eluga Live tablet a few months ago and confirmed that the slate would be released in Japan via NTT Docomo.
However, it appears that the company may be tempted to push the tablet in the North American market as well. Panasonic Live Tablet has been recently spotted at FCC (Federal Communication... |
6 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Mojang has confirmed the date when the next big update for the hugely popular Minecraft will be released, saying that patch 1.3 is scheduled to appear on August 1.
Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world, managing to reach tens of millions of players across platforms like the PC, Xbox 360, and variou... |
6 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Well-known video card manufacturer Gainward is apparently preparing another factory overclocked GeForce GTX 670 graphics adapter based on Nvidia’s powerful “Kepler” GPU. The new product will feature a full blown GeForce GTX 680 printed circuit board (PCB).Using a GeForce GTX 680 PCB blesses the GTX ... |
6 July 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Windows Phone users have a lot of software available for download through the Windows Phone Marketplace, and a new, fun application is now up for grabs for them, namely Zombies, Run!. Coming from Six to Start, the application comes as a running game and audio adventure and takes advantage of headphones to keep user... |
6 July 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Apple has released updated literature for customers interested in employing the iOS Remote application for use with Apple TV and Mac OS X.
Apple diligently explains that Remote is “a software application for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that allows you to control audio and video playback of iTunes and Apple TV.... |
6 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Google just can't seem to get over the whole Street View scandal. Well, it would get over it in a second if everyone else would let it. But just as the FCC concluded its investigation, others popped up again worldwide. The most worrying, for Google, seems to be the one in the UK.
The Information Commissioner�... |
6 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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The development team at Riot Games has offered details on the next champion to be introduced to League of Legends, called Jayce, who is the 100th member of the roster of the free-to-play Massive Online Battle Arena game.
Jayce is known as “The Defender of Tomorrow” and he will come equipped with high tec... |
6 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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If you're the type of user that has more applications, movies, music and other types of documents on your Mac's hard drive than one can shake a stick at, it's important to monitor the amount of free space available on your hard drive. FreeSpace is a small tool that helps you in this matter and that c... |
6 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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High-quality power supply unit (PSU) manufacturing company Rosewill has just announced a new line of efficient PSUs called Fortress, on its official website. The new series comes with a Platinum efficiency certification that rates the power efficiency of the PSU in the 90% to 94% range. There will be four different ... |
6 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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With Jelly Bean officially announced, Android enthusiasts are now waiting for the first device powered by Google’s latest platform, Nexus 7, to arrive on the market.
On the other hand, Android tech-savvy fans are now trying to port Jelly Bean to as many smartphones as possible. HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S I... |
6 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Two months ago, Canadian carrier Bell offered some details on its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade schedule, and now the operator refreshed the release timelines.
Although there are no new names on the list of upgradable Android devices, some are missing due to the fact that they’ve already received the ... |
6 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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A new version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is now available for download, providing simplicity when it comes to assessing current IT infrastructure for various technology migration projects. This tool was created to serve as a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting utility that would simp... |
6 July 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Wikimedia hasn't been focusing on the mobile front for long, but the progress has been strong. In less than a year, the organization put out a nice Wikipedia app for Android and iOS and more recently a Wiktionary app as well.
Because the content on Wikipedia is created for the web, it made sense to use web tec... |
6 July 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Less-known graphics card manufacturer, Chinese company Unika has just presented its new AMD Radeon 7970 video card design using an impressive water cooling system. The whole setup will likely bring amazing overclocking results while keeping the noise well below that of any air cooling solution. The new Unika product... |
6 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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In addition to providing info on the upcoming flavors of its Windows Server 2012 platform, Microsoft also unveiled that there would be no Windows Home Server Edition available for its customers. The Redmond-based software giant has specifically mentioned this in the new Windows Server 2012 Essentials frequently ask... |
6 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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SlickQuiz is a powerful system for creating online quizzes that can be easy to customize, score and interact with.
Powered by the great jQuery JavaScript library, SlickQuiz boasts many features like the possibility to add unlimited questions and answers, automatic quiz results calculation, ranking system based on th... |
6 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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During a study conducted on a binary system, astronomers were shocked to see the two stars circling each other once every 4 hours. This means that the objects are extremely close to each other, much more so than experts ever though possible.
Before the new discovery, the closest-orbiting binary system was made up of... |
6 July 2012
12:00 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that it is now offering a Gannifari pet and 25 Black Hole Commendations for all those who are willing to take advantage of the new free character transfer service and move to a more populated server.
The new pet, pictured alongside the article, might be cute enough but the ... |
6 July 2012
11:51 GMT |
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IT and social media could play an important role in promoting healthy behaviors. Researchers at the University of Southern California believe that this could be accomplished by taking on a large number of approaches, each of which tuned to the needs of a specific group or circumstance. Already, studies have shown t... |
6 July 2012
11:50 GMT |
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Sony Mobile recently unveiled the affordable Xperia tipo and confirmed the smartphone would go on sale in the following weeks. It appears at least one UK-based carrier started to take pre-orders for Sony Xperia tipo. Unlocked Mobiles is now offering the smartphone for only £135 GBP ($210 or €170) outright... |
6 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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On July 5, representatives from the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) signed an agreement which formalized the institution's commitment to the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters.” The purpose of this charter is to monitor the planetary c... |
6 July 2012
11:30 GMT |
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a leading scientist at the European aerospace company Astrium, believes that we are constrained in trying to imagine how aliens might look like by animals and plants we see around us. She proposes a “design” that is inspired by scientific fact, not fiction. As visible above, the... |
6 July 2012
11:15 GMT |
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It seems like Opera is getting with the program and has started working on its own implementation of the SPDY protocol. It's only available in a Labs release for now, but the aim is to have it in a production version of Opera soon.
It may be a Labs release, but Opera actually offers quite comprehensive support... |
6 July 2012
11:11 GMT |
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We showed you the teardown of Google’s Nexus 7 quad core tablet here and now we can reveal the real manufacturing costs of the popular device. Although both ASUS and Google bragged about making almost no profit on the Nexus 7 and subtly implied that they are probably doing it “out of love” or some... |
6 July 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Paris Hilton has big hopes of making the transition from pop star to DJ, having made her first outing as one a short while ago. If the real DJs have any say in this, it won't happen too soon. After Deadmau5 tweeted that the end of the world was coming after seeing video of Paris DJ-ing, it's DJ Jane Bang&... |
6 July 2012
11:01 GMT |
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American Express customers may be presented these days with an email that asks them if they’ve verified their users IDs or if they’ve reset their passwords. This is the latest spam email that attempts to lure unsuspecting internauts to a website that hosts a variant of the Blackhole exploit kit.
“D... |
6 July 2012
10:55 GMT |
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Rumex Rothschildianus has been on Israel's list of endangered plant species for quite some time now.
However, with the help of teenagers studying at the Ha’kfar Hayarok High School, national parks in this country can now work towards saving the plant from extinction.
Thus, the students collected a few ... |
6 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Sony’s Xperia acro S smartphone, which was made official back in May, has been spotted on the Global Certification Forum website, where it has received all the necessary approvals. The handset is expected to become available for purchase before the end of this quarter, and the fact that it got the GCF blessin... |
6 July 2012
10:45 GMT |
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“Why Stop Now?” made its first outing at this year's Sundance Film Festival in January, where it was received with warm reviews, especially because of Jesse Eisenberg's performance. It's now getting ready for a limited US release in August this year; hence, the trailer above. Eisenberg ... |
6 July 2012
10:44 GMT |
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With the approach of Windows 8, Microsoft has been showing signs of active involvement in the hardware market, brought about by the need to promote the OS on both the PC and mobile device front. Not everyone is pleased about this though. In fact, one of the most notable companies that disapproves is Acer, on the gr... |
6 July 2012
10:43 GMT |
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One of greatest races in the history of physics has concluded this week with the discovery of the Higg's Boson, the missing link in the Standard Model, and it seems that Linux had an important part in it.
CERN or The European Organization for Nuclear Research is the organization running the LHC experiment in S... |
6 July 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Opera has just released the snapshot for the upcoming version of their web browser, 12.50. Codenamed “Marlin,” Opera 12.50 announces some pretty interesting features.
Among the most notable of them is support for Clipboard API, which exposes new events to web applications, such as copy, cut, and paste fo... |
6 July 2012
10:42 GMT |
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The development team at United Front Games and publisher Square Enix have launched yet another trailer for their upcoming Sleeping Dogs, which is focused on George St-Pierre, the Mixed Martial Arts fighter who was consulted by the designers in order to make sure that the combat system is as realistic as possible.The ... |
6 July 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Burning biomasses are now proven to be partly responsible for global warming, although up until recently it was believed that lighter particles released by forest fires might in fact have a cooling effect. Given the fact that during the past few months several parts of the world have been destroyed by massive wildf... |
6 July 2012
10:36 GMT |
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The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that a bank is responsible for not being able to stop fraudulent transactions from taking place from the account of a customer. The decision could have a major impact on other similar trials.
In August 2011, a court decided that Ocean Bank – whi... |
6 July 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Descent|OS, a Linux distribution currently based on Ubuntu and utilizing the GNOME 2 desktop environment for functionality, is now at version 3 Alpha 2.
According to the developers, Descent|OS 3 is aiming for August 29th as a release date. Until then, a lot of packages have been updated in the present development v... |
6 July 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile is reportedly gearing up to come up with a Buy-One-Get-One promotion for some of its 4G smartphones coming from Samsung.
According to a recent article on TmoNews, the deal should kick off on Wednesday, July 11th, and might run until September 9th.
However, it appears that the newly relea... |
6 July 2012
10:34 GMT |
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If you're into beautiful, weird and disturbing indie movies, “The Loneliest Planet” might be just the thing for you, and not only because it stars the always charming Gael Garcia Bernal. Check out the first trailer for the film above. Bernal and Hani Furstenberg play fiancées backpacking i... |
6 July 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone carrier AT&T made available for purchase on its network the most anticipated smartphone of the year, the Galaxy S III. The handset was made official in the United States in the beginning of June, but issues with meeting demand for the international market determined Samsung to push its release b... |
6 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Ever since WikiLeaks obtained large amounts of secret documents belonging to the US government, the Pentagon has been working on a plan to expose those who leak classified information. The solution appears to lie in “Fog Computing.” DARPA researchers have revealed that they’ve come up with a &ldquo... |
6 July 2012
10:27 GMT |
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According to a new study published in the latest online issue of the Journal of Child and Family Studies, it would appear that the intensive style of parenting some mothers engage in can be very damaging to their mental health.
Supermoms, tiger moms and helicopter moms are becoming usual terms in the United States,... |
6 July 2012
10:24 GMT |
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Users currently running a pre-release version of Windows 8 are be able to upgrade to the official flavor of the operating system once it is made official, Microsoft has confirmed. However, they would still need to have a valid license for one of the previous versions of the operating system in order to purchase the... |
6 July 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Radisphere has released an iPhone application aimed at improving the speed and quality of radiology services at its hospital clients. The Radisphere iPhone app provides real-time access to Final Reports, Addendums and Critical Findings, facilitating physician communications via push notifications. Directly from the ... |
6 July 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Twitter has been working on adding translations for more and more languages and has now reached a nice round number, 30, with the addition of Catalan and Ukrainian to the list of languages Twitter is available in. Twitter has been adding support for new languages for a while now with the help of its Translation Cente... |
6 July 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Dutch Internet service provider KPN has rushed to reset the passwords of 140,000 customers, after learning that most of them had failed to change the default ones.
Of a total of 180,000 Z ADSL clients, the accounts of 120,000 were protected by the same password: variations of “welkom1.” Another 20,000 ac... |
6 July 2012
10:04 GMT |
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The Ivy Bridge collection of CPUs is all well and good, but it hasn't removed Sandy Bridge from the equation, obvious from how Chipzilla continues to expand that product line even now.
There are two central processing units that Intel will supposedly release in September this year (2012), both of them belonging... |
6 July 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Archos will have several Elements tablets up for sale eventually, but none of them has been released yet, something that will change this month if this report is anything to go by.
Long story short, the first in the line, called 97 Carbon, will be available starting this month (July, 2012), for $250.
Measuring 9.7 ... |
6 July 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Information recently made public shows that nearly 3200 people living in Guatemala have been evicted from the Polochic valley in order to pave the way for the development of the biofuel industry.
Thus, the lands where these people used to grow their crops and where they built their homes are now to be used for suga... |
6 July 2012
09:56 GMT |
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The first stage of the 2012 Tour de France that conforms to a dreams of the mainstream sprinter is this one and my favorite team, Radioshack Nissan Trek, has no realistic chance of winning it in the real world or in my simulated Gamer Diary.
The stage is 196 kilometers and has no actual categorized climbs and there ... |
6 July 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are still preparing for the wedding but, according to a recent report, this doesn't necessarily mean that things are peachy with them. Far from it, apparently. For some weeks now, the tabloids have been writing up a storm about how insecure Jessica was and how unconvinced on ... |
6 July 2012
09:52 GMT |
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There aren't many tablets with integrated LTE support. It is hard enough to include 3G without pushing the price too high.
One of the slates that do have such connectivity is ASUS Transformer Pad TF300.
As it happens, Germany's O2 network presented a video in which that very tablet is put through a spee... |
6 July 2012
09:50 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft went official with the various flavors of its Windows Server 2012 product that will be available for acquisition once the platform goes generally available. There will be four such versions coming to the market, namely Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, the first of which will be ... |
6 July 2012
09:48 GMT |
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The announcement made by officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Wednesday, July 4, shook the world of physics, but also triggered a massive response from astrophysicists. They say that the finding, if confirmed, could help reveal the nature of dark matter.
More than 3,000 scientists h... |
6 July 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Fujitsu's Stylistic M532 is something we've known about for a while, but a hands-on video of it, freshly taken out of the box, has only now appeared.
Abassin from Mixblog is the one who posted the video online, along with a few others. They show the Tegra 3-powered device in all its glory.
For those who w... |
6 July 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Within the context of a rather gloomy environmental framework having to do with global warming, ocean acidification and pollution, it comes as really good news to hear that dead coral reefs may in fact be reborn, provided that marine chemistry and temperature go back to normal.
Just recently, a team of researchers ... |
6 July 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are currently working hard towards creating new technologies that will enable rovers conducting exploration efforts on other worlds to steer themselves, select their own targets, and then analyze them according to a set of instructions.
Currently, it takes a lot of time for r... |
6 July 2012
09:46 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers announce the development of a new type of optical microscope, which they say is capable of identifying and isolating rare cells inside large populations of mixed cell types. This achievement could have significant implications for biomedical studies. Basica... |
6 July 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Taylor Swift may have found love again. The singer, known for her rather tumultuous love life, was seen hugging it out with male model Patrick Schwarzenegger at the 4th of July celebrations. As was to be expected, rumors about a new hot couple in showbiz immediately started making the rounds online. “Has Ta... |
6 July 2012
09:42 GMT |
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In addition to making available its new music services in India, Nokia also announced the release of a new flavor of its Lumia 800 device in the country today. We’re referring here to a Dark Knight Rises Collector’s Edition Lumia 800 smartphone, only 200 units of which will be available for users. The... |
6 July 2012
09:41 GMT |
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A group of bioengineers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that a recent analysis of cancer cell mitosis (cellular division) revealed the fact that these cells do not split up to form two daughter cells, but rather up to five descendants.
This may help explain why tumors are so prolific, an... |
6 July 2012
09:41 GMT |
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The Lumia 900 is Nokia’s flagship smartphone, but the Finnish company is likely to launch new, powerful Windows Phone devices in the following months. An unannounced Lumia 910 has been recently spotted on Nokia’s Remote Device Access program, which allows Windows Phone developers to test their applicatio... |
6 July 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Since first produced in 2004, graphene has garnered a lot of interest from the international scientific community, especially for its potential applications in the field of electronics. In a new study, experts found a way of producing graphene-based transistors with great efficiency.
The main issue with this materi... |
6 July 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Lenovo has been making good progress towards its goal of becoming the world's top supplier of PCs, but it still has a way to go.
Next on the goal list is to acquire a wider customer base in areas that aren't, yet, firmly taken over by its rivals.
One such country is Brazil. Lenovo actually has its sight... |
6 July 2012
09:32 GMT |
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The shooter genre, whether it’s first or third person, has become one of the most boring ones in the gaming industry, yet, as a complete paradox, it’s still one of the most profitable.
Thankfully, while it may not look like much from the outside, Spec Ops: The Line, the newest third-person shooter from Y... |
6 July 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Glu Mobile Inc. has released Frontline Commando, a free, third-person military shooter, in the Mac App Store. The game features in-app purchases, poor gameplay, and no quit button. Hardcore gamers will not be impressed by Frontline Commando’s mechanics and control scheme. It’s basically one of those rail... |
6 July 2012
09:05 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has announced that it is working on a High Definition remake for platformer NiGHTS into dreams, which is set to be launched during the fall on the PC, the Xbox Live Arcade service form Microsoft and the PlayStation Network from Sony.
NiGHTS into dreams… was first launched on the SEGA... |
6 July 2012
08:42 GMT |
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The owners of websites that were supposed to receive piracy notifications from Copyright Labs, were presented with an email that contained a message from Anonymous. Apparently, India’s anti-piracy organization has been hacked.
India is witnessing an ongoing battle between representatives of the media industry ... |
6 July 2012
08:38 GMT |
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Well-known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte has just announced the new Series 7 mainboards that feature two distinct Thunderbolt ports for external devices, on its official website. The mainboards use Intel chipsets and support Intel processors. The two Thunderbolt ports allow the connection of up ... |
6 July 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The web is evolving at a fast pace and brand new APIs and capabilities spring up all the time. One reason for the fast development is that browsers are not waiting for the official standards to come out before adopting features, in fact, the features that browsers start supporting generally get pushed for standardiza... |
6 July 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Developer id Software is going to reveal some brand new things about Rage, last year’s post-apocalyptic shooter, as the studio has mentioned that it hasn’t forgotten about the game.
Rage was released last year and, while it was a competent shooter and racing game hybrid, it was plagued by glitches and pr... |
6 July 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Centrica and Warwick Energy, two companies which are in the business of energy production and trading, have just been granted permission to build two new offshore wind farms near the Norfolk northern coast.
What is interesting is that these two companies submitted not two, but three such projects for approval.
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6 July 2012
08:18 GMT |
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With just two weeks to go until “The Dark Knight Rises” is out, Warner Bros. still has plenty of surprises for fans up its sleeve. Three brand new posters have just been released. One is the IMAX poster (the Batman one, with “The legend ends in IMAX”), while the other two (both with the film... |
6 July 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Wargame: European Escalation, the real-time military strategy title from developer Eugen Systems and publisher Focus Home Interactive, has received a new downloadable content pack called Conquest.
Those who are interested in it will be able to get the game via the Steam digital distribution service with a 50 percen... |
6 July 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Lumia Windows Phones are Nokia’s only hope to save itself from becoming a minor player in the smartphone market.
Although the Finnish company somewhat confirmed it has a contingency plan in case Windows Phone fails, we’re not sure that Nokia will still have the time to put this backup plan in motion.
T... |
6 July 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Skype announced a new hotfix for Windows and Mac desktop applications. It is a minor revision that brings no significant modifications to the table.
Actually, the details for the new releases, for both Windows and Mac, are pretty much non-existent, since the changes consist in unspecific bug fixes and stability impr... |
6 July 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to report that the third Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3) satellite was launched successfully into a geostationary orbit yesterday, July 5.
The vehicle was carried to space aboard an Ariane V delivery system, which took off from its dedicated facilities at the... |
6 July 2012
07:58 GMT |
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There are three main things that security experts say when they advise regular users on how to stay safe online: beware of suspicious content, install an antivirus, and keep software updated at all times.
This week’s security app is excellent for users who want to abide by this third rule without going through... |
6 July 2012
07:55 GMT |
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As much as it's been criticized and had even diehard fans worried, “The Amazing Spider-Man” proved a hit with audiences in the US and abroad. As such, Sony has confirmed that the franchise is actually a trilogy. That the rebooted “Spider-Man” was never meant to be just a standalone film ... |
6 July 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Next week, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft will start delivering a new set of security updates for its products, as part of its usual monthly update roll-out. Pushed to users as the July 2012 update, the new security package will include a total of nine bulletins, meant to patch various flaws that were found... |
6 July 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Just a few days ago, California's high official issued a ban on foie gras, arguing that this delicacy goes against animal rights. Naturally, gourmet chefs and duck farm owners now filled a lawsuit against this ban, in an attempt to keep the dish on restaurant menus.
For those unaware, foie gras is made from ei... |
6 July 2012
07:33 GMT |
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A new handset from Sony has received certification from the Bluetooth SIG, with model number LT30 attached to it. The handset, previously spotted in a User Agent Profile, is expected to arrive on shelves with Google’s Android operating system on board, and with features that would make it a high-end device. ... |
6 July 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Zombies are undead creatures, monsters raised from the dead to feed on human flesh and thus spread the “disease.” As dead as they might be, they could still breathe new life into the deserted areas of Detroit. We're sorry, this was a joke begging to be made. Marc Siwak's proposal is to turn ... |
6 July 2012
07:17 GMT |
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Google has been one of the few companies that have tried to make the web more accessible to people with disabilities. To say that's a daunting task is an understatement.
Yet, with its captions program for YouTube in particular, Google has shown that accessibility is something you can do at scale and, important... |
6 July 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Samsung is currently pushing out a new software update for its Galaxy S III smartphone, so as to provide users with a few minor enhancements and with increased stability on their devices. No specific changelog for the new update was provided, but some of those who already installed it report that it brings, among o... |
6 July 2012
07:04 GMT |
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With only a couple of days to go until the backup DNS servers are shut down, there are still around 250,000 computers worldwide infected with the infamous DNSChanger Trojan.
Initially, there were 4 million devices affected by the piece of malware that redirected internauts to malicious websites each time they attemp... |
6 July 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Patrick Verner announced yesterday, July 5th, that yet another maintenance release of his Parted Magic Linux operating system for partitioning tasks is available for download.
Powered by Linux kernel 3.4.4, Parted Magic 2012_07_05 comes with the following updated packages: Clonezilla 1.2.12-67, Partclone 0.2.49, ls... |
6 July 2012
06:51 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Identity Developer Training Kit is now available for download for those interested in learning more on how they can take advantage of Microsoft's latest identity and access control developer's products and services. Released as the July 2012 update, the new Identity Developer Training K... |
6 July 2012
06:48 GMT |
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Despite earlier reports saying Miley Cyrus had no intention of putting her career on pause for a couple of years to have a baby, the latest suggests that she's on board with Liam Hemsworth about starting a family as soon as possible. It's been nearly a month that the two confirmed their engagement, and th... |
6 July 2012
06:47 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and DICE have confirmed that a brand new feature will soon appear for Battlefield 3, in the form of the Matches one, which will allow players to create multiplayer sessions with all sorts of customizable settings and invite friends to compete one against another.
Battlefield 3 has been around for qui... |
6 July 2012
06:41 GMT |
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As expected, Nokia Lumia 610 has been officially unveiled today in India. The smartphone will go on sale in the next few hours for only Rs 12,999 (235 USD or 190 EUR) outright.
It’s certain that the black version will be available for purchase, but we’re not sure whether or not additional color will be i... |
6 July 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Brazil’s first Motorola rugged Android smartphone to feature both QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen has just been confirmed for July 15. Motorola DEFY PRO is expected to hit shelves two weeks from now for a price that will be disclosed closer to launch.
The DEFY PRO is a rugged smartphone, so expect this one to ... |
6 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, once considered the handsomest couple in showbiz, had been merely keeping appearances these past couple of years, says a new report. Their romance was basically over in 2010, when their fights became “blazing” and only served to augment resentment on both sides. Us Week... |
6 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Now that it is clear which version of Windows 8 will go where, companies involved in the tablet market have started offering information about their future devices loaded with the operating system.
The info we are going to provide here wasn't actually released officially though. Instead, it reached the web as ... |
6 July 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Nokia is reportedly getting ready to release a new software update for its first Windows Phone devices out there, the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800. At the moment, the company is pushing the Windows Phone 8773 update to these devices, but it should not be too long before it starts delivering a new one, namely build 8779.... |
6 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Lead by Adam Bourassa from the University of Saskatchewan, a team of researchers recently investigated how small-scale volcanic eruptions could help us counteract global warming.
The decision to look into this issue came as a direct result of their realizing that, soon after massive volcanic eruptions, the aerosols... |
6 July 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) say that the month of June saw extensive sea ice melting patterns throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and particularly in the Arctic.
Sea-based ices were a lot less spread in June compared to previous years, and this is just a continuation of a trend th... |
6 July 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Far Cry 3 might use the same name as the previous game in the series, but it seems that some of the core mechanics of the 2008 game will not make a return in this year’s installment.Dan Hay, who is working as the main producer on the first-person shooter, has told Kotaku that the malaria pills system, which ask... |
6 July 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Twitter hasn't always had a very well defined identity. If anything, it let its users define its identity. That's clearly a good thing, but it's probably a good idea to have some notion of "who" you are and what are you doing. Twitter has settled into the role of "information network," i.e. a way for p... |
6 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Dolphin Browser 5.2 is now available for download on Apple’s App Store with tons of new features and enhancements, including options to save preferences for a single tab, bookmarklet support, cache cleaning, background music support, and more. Released for both iPhone and iPad, the updated application brings n... |
6 July 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Kris Humphries is not even out of his marriage to Kim Kardashian yet and life has already taken a more complicated turn. His ex-girlfriend Myla Sinanaj is pregnant with his child, it has emerged. In January this year, Kris started dating Myla but insisted on keeping the romance a secret. The moment word of it got o... |
6 July 2012
05:43 GMT |
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Emails that offer too-good-to-be-true job opportunities can sometimes hide something really malicious, as experts from Solutionary highlight.
It’s not uncommon for users to receive links that point to a shady website that advertises work-from-home jobs. However, this is not the only method preferred by fraudst... |
6 July 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google confirmed on Thursday that sales of Galaxy Nexus in the United States would recommence next week. The handset had been pulled off shelves in the beginning of this week, as Apple won a legal dispute with Samsung and Google and managed to impose a ban of the device in the cou... |
6 July 2012
05:31 GMT |
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A Valve employee has acknowledged that the owner of the very popular Steam digital distribution service will be offering a summer sale during the coming month and a half of the season, but he has not offered any clear date for its start.
Mike Blaszczak, who is an engineer working at Valve, stated on an official foru... |
6 July 2012
05:22 GMT |
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AVADirect is responsible for some of the most ambitious server projects out there and, unlike other supplies of such systems, has managed to keep the press on its toes through the employment of hardware not normally meant for business or data center use.
The server whose photo AVADirect posted on its Facebook page ... |
6 July 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Some time ago, during a meeting of the International Whaling Commission, it was agreed upon that the indigenous people of Greenland should be allowed to carry on with their whale hunting activities.
Apparently, this decision was taken on account of the residents' of Greenland having no other ways of ensuring t... |
6 July 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Malware authors keep deploying interesting mechanisms to ensure that their creations can perform their tasks without being interrupted by antivirus or network intrusion prevention solutions. A perfect example is the Monkif botnet detailed by McAfee experts.
The researchers report that the botnet still has the same c... |
6 July 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Undersea cables are what makes the internet go, though few people realize this. There are quite a few of them, crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific and a few going round Africa, India and so on. They provide huge amounts of bandwidth, but the internet is constantly sucking up more. So more of them are being deploy... |
6 July 2012
05:02 GMT |
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The team behind Dropbox have just released a new update for the Android version. In fact, the software received two minor updates in the last month.
Firstly, Dropbox for Android 2.1.4 got custom-tailored video streaming for users who own Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices. Furthermore, this update also added Kor... |
6 July 2012
05:01 GMT |
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NASA is currently preparing for the launch of its High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) solar telescope, which is scheduled to take place on July 11. This is not a spacecraft, but rather an instrument that will spend only a few minutes out of Earth's atmosphere.
Hi-C will be carried to space aboard a Black Bra... |
6 July 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Activision and Infinity Ward have pinned a date on the upcoming Terminal map for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, as the fan favorite from 2009’s Modern Warfare 2 is making a comeback later this month, for free.
Modern Warfare 3 has received all sorts of new maps in recent times thanks to Activision’s agg... |
6 July 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Google Nexus 7 is the first device to come with Nvidia’s KAI platform inside. However, it appears that the company plans to push its Tegra 3 quad-core chipset into the smartphone market as well.
The folks over at MyDrivers claim that Nvidia’s KAI will power a bunch of upcoming smartphones, which are expe... |
6 July 2012
04:49 GMT |
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At least one of the fabled dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 / 7970 X2 graphics cards has been scrapped, but people can stop worrying about them all having been abandoned.
The board we say has been canceled is ASUS's ARES. Considering ASUS's high status, and the difficulty of making dual-chip high-end cards, the mo... |
6 July 2012
04:48 GMT |
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The Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in India was recently largely flooded as a result of heavy rains in the region. Apparently, this made it easier for poachers to reach the animals that took refuge on higher grounds.
Using a boat, the poachers made their way well into the reserve, where they shot an adult male rhino a... |
6 July 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Well-known memory and SSD manufacturer, Taipei-headquartered company Silicon Power has just announced a new USB thumb drive with fashionable design. The new addition to Silicon Power’s flash drive product lineup is called Ultima U03 and features a “simple yet classic elegant design,” as the company... |
6 July 2012
04:41 GMT |
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The new version for Pidgin is 2.10.5. The changelog is not extensive, but comprises fixes for important issues.
Among the entries, there is also an improvement for the core of the instant messenger, libpurple. It consists in support for reading GNOME3 proxy settings.
As for the repairs available in this release, th... |
6 July 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, are making consistent progress in putting together the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Currently, they are preparing a series of special optical equipment for environmental testing.
In the image to the left, GSFC ex... |
6 July 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Only a few weeks before she filed for divorce from husband of 5 years Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes was dropping hints about her next move in an interview with Elle magazine, out on newsstands now, it has emerged. In the interview, Katie talked about being Mrs. Cruise and how she now knew who she was. This can't bu... |
6 July 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Following the unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at Google I/O last week, Google has started to deliver an updated flavor of its Google Play Store to users. The new flavor of the store application, namely version 3.7.13, is reportedly en-route to all Android devices, with some appealing changes inside. Among thes... |
6 July 2012
04:31 GMT |
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A 13-year-old boy from Akiruno City, Tokyo, was taken into custody by authorities on suspicion of developing a computer virus that forcefully shut down computers.
According to Yomiuri-Shimbun (translation provided via Slashdot), the eighth-grader is also accused of running a hacking forum.
“I was interested i... |
6 July 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Now that monitors and HDTVs have reached maturity, technology-wise, it is time for other projects to receive attention, and we might just know what type of panels are next on the list. As it happens, Digitimes has another piece of information to share with the world, even though it is nearly remarkably devoid of th... |
6 July 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Across the Atlantic Ocean, microscopic organisms called phytoplankton are blooming, coloring the waves, and revealing intricate patches when seen from satellites. Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, experts have recently been able to figure out why the blooms are so extensive now. The phenomenon... |
6 July 2012
04:22 GMT |
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The popular BitTorrent client, Transmission, has been updated to add support for Apple’s Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion, as well as Retina graphics for the new MacBook Pro with Retina display. For all supported platforms (including Mac and Linux), Transmission 2.60 improves scraping behavior for certain trac... |
6 July 2012
04:22 GMT |
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BioWare has just posted a brand new balancing update for the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3, this time drastically improving the difficulty of enemies from the Cerberus faction.
Mass Effect 3 came out back in March and, since then, BioWare took great care of both its single-player and its multiplayer modes with n... |
6 July 2012
04:19 GMT |
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By studying the consequences of the 2011 underwater volcano eruption near El Hierro Island, researchers can make accurate predictions about climate change, pollution and the ways in which these affect the environment.
This is due to the fact that, much like present day's global warming and carbon emission accu... |
6 July 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Epic Mickey 2 might be focused on cooperative play that involves Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Rabbit, but the real innovation in the game lies elsewhere and shows gamers what a potential third game in the series would look like.
Warren Spector, the leader of Junction Point Studios, told IGN that, “This time aro... |
6 July 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has yet to become a mature operating system, but the Redmond-based company is working hard to provide both users and developers an intuitive and easy-to-use environment.
Windows Phone 7 missed lots of features and provided limited usability, but the same happened with Google&... |
6 July 2012
04:10 GMT |
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India’s Cyber Defense Research Center (CDRC), a newly formed organization whose main task is to protect government agencies against cyberattacks and to raise awareness of threats from cyberspace, has managed to fend off an attack that targeted the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI).
According to The Telegr... |
6 July 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Canadian wireless carrier TELUS is gearing up for the release of a new Windows Phone device from Nokia, namely the Lumia 610. The company hasn’t provided a specific release date for the handset for the time being, but a leaked document that emerged over at MobileSyrup shows that it is coming soon. Apparentl... |
6 July 2012
04:03 GMT |
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A report coming from one particularly spotty Taiwanese source says Apple is gearing up to release its sixth-generation iPhone based on Samsung’s Exynos 4 quad-core architecture.The Cupertino giant, however, has secured numerous IPs in the ARM department in the past few years, allowing it to design and optimize ... |
6 July 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Capcom has officially announced Marvel vs. Capcom Origins, a collection of two great classic games, in the form of Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
Capcom partnered with Marvel many years ago and spawned an impressive fighting game franchise in the form of Marvel vs. Capcom.
Now, af... |
6 July 2012
03:45 GMT |
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They've been one of the most mediated and photographed young couples in showbiz but chances are they're already going their separate ways. Various reports indicate that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are pretty much over. Only a short while ago, TMZ said that the two young pop stars had broken up. Today, ... |
6 July 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Although desktop AMD Trinity processors are still not available in the distribution channel and only big OEMs like HP or Acer can acquire them and shell out systems powered by them, there are smaller PC builders that are working on interesting designs. Today we had the chance to take a quick look at an interesting d... |
6 July 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just released a new dataset compiled by the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity, which consists of an incredibly beautiful, 360-degree panorama of the robot's current location.
The composite image was stitched together fr... |
6 July 2012
03:40 GMT |
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We can't say we've been suffering from a shortage of weird gadgets, but there never seems to be too many of them. At least Thermaltake doesn't think so.
What the company did was launch a mouse unlike any other made before, and we aren't referring to performance and shape here.
Instead, what ca... |
6 July 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just made available its Music Store and the Mix Radio application for Lumia devices in India. The Mix Radio software was previously available for Lumia phone users in various other countries around the world, but it arrived in India only today. However, it appears that Nokia h... |
6 July 2012
03:29 GMT |
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A few days ago, the world learned of the existence of the first ever Android spam botnet. However, Google, along with other security firms, argue that this isn’t actually an Android botnet.
The situation has become somewhat controversial, with a number of security solutions providers rolling up their sleeves t... |
6 July 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Just yesterday, we reported on Korea's decision to begin hunting whales for research purposes. At least this is what they claim.
Apparently, neither other nations present at the International Whaling Commission nor the environmental group known as Sea Shepherd actually believe what Korea's representatives... |
6 July 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Unveiled last month along with Google’s next version of Android platform, Jelly Bean, Nexus 7 tablet could start shipping as early as next week.
The search giant did not mention exactly when it might launch the slate on the market, which is why Nexus 7 could arrive sooner in some regions, while some countries ... |
6 July 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Mandriva S.A., through Charles Schulz, posted a very interesting announcement on their blog, asking users to vote for the new name of the Mandriva Linux distribution.
Wait, what? Why a new name? Well, long story short, it looks like Mandriva S.A. wants to separate the Mandriva community and the distribution from th... |
6 July 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Sony Mobile is expected to continue the roll-out of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to more devices that were launched this year, including the Xperia P, now said to be on track to receive the software in early August. The company has already delivered the update to its Xperia S users, and should star... |
6 July 2012
03:19 GMT |
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“Magic Mike” might be a film about male dancers and the strong bonds they come to share in time, but there was literally no love lost between leading man Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer on set, says a new report. Quite the contrary actually: the two have grown to hate each other, with Tatum even swear... |
6 July 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Transmission 2.60, the open source cross-platform BitTorrent client that strives to be as simple as possible, has been released last evening, July 5th.
Transmission 2.60 is an important milestone in the progress of the famous torrent client used in many of today's Linux distributions, bringing improvements and... |
6 July 2012
03:15 GMT |
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A problem with crashing applications downloaded from the iTunes App Store has been rectified, according to an official statement provided by Apple to the press. The WSJ-owned All Things D has obtained the following statement from an Apple spokesperson, regarding a bug affecting a number of applications downloaded fr... |
6 July 2012
03:11 GMT |
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At the moment the core business for Nintendo is to create innovative hardware platforms and then create video games that take advantage of their possibilities but that might change in the coming years, according to the designer behind Zelda and Mario.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the main video game developer at Nintendo, has ... |
6 July 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Mojang has confirmed that its Scrolls project is now in alpha stage and that it’s begun sending out invitations to those who registered for access to the upcoming game.
Scrolls got quite a lot of attention last year, not just because it looked like an interesting take on the card game genre, but also because B... |
6 July 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is pretty happy with the work its manufacturing partners have done so far with devices running under Windows Phone 8, and it does not feel that it should come up with its own hardware. A few weeks ago, the company unveiled its own tablet PC running under the Windows 8 operatin... |
6 July 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Pidgin, an IM program that lets you log in to multiple chat networks simultaneously, has reached version 2.10.5.
Pidgin 2.10.5 has a handful of changes and fixes, but some of them are quite important, so users are advised to upgrade as fast as possible.
Highlights of Pidgin 2.10.5:
· Support for GNOME 3 pr... |
6 July 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Just recently, the University of Colorado Boulder made public the findings of a study conducted on alpine vegetation and the ways in which it reacts to pollution.
This particular research focused on the plant species found in Rocky Mountain National Park and on the effects nitrogen emissions have on them.
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6 July 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Rumors on a Facebook phone have come and gone, but there is still no confirmation as to whether or not Zuckerberg really plans on getting into the smartphone market with his own device. Anyway, it appears that Facebook is not the only company interested in the mobile phone market. Bloomberg reports, citing two relia... |
6 July 2012
02:48 GMT |
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By now, we've resigned ourselves to the idea that a large part of the HDD “crisis” concerns were overblown and that prices won't get back to pre-flood levels. Curiously, though, even record HDD sales don't seem to have met Seagate's hopes.
The HDD crisis passed a while ago, regardles... |
6 July 2012
02:42 GMT |
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A new version of Apple Configurator is now available for download featuring improvements to the apps installation module, new preferences, tweaks to the profile editor, and better handling of VPP codes. Apple says Configurator 1.1 is a recommended update for all users of the iDevice management app. Available free of... |
6 July 2012
02:41 GMT |
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The CyanogenMod team, which is involved in the development of custom ROMs for Android devices, has just announced that they would be engaging in work with the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. For the time being, this is only a planned initiative, since the source cod... |
6 July 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Version 0.8.59 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on July 6th, with some important new features and fixes.
Calibre 0.8.59 comes with a lot of minor fixes and improvements, including some drivers for various devices.
Highlights of Calibre 0.8.59:
• Drivers for Samsung SGH-T989 ... |
6 July 2012
02:36 GMT |
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After showing off the Hitman: Absolution Professional Edition earlier this year, Square Enix and IO Interactive have confirmed an even more special Deluxe Professional Edition of the upcoming game.
Hitman: Absolution puts players into the elegant suit of Agent 47, who must once again use his special skills to dispos... |
6 July 2012
02:35 GMT |
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The development team at High Moon Studios and publisher Activision Blizzard have released yet another trailer for the upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, focusing on the character of Metroplex.Metroplex is the robotic embodiment of Autobot City and is usually described as dwarfing in size even the biggest Autob... |
6 July 2012
02:33 GMT |
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There have been a lot of rumors regarding the release of a successor for Samsung’s largest smartphone out there, the Galaxy Note, and a new one has just emerged. Dubbed Galaxy Note 2, the sequel to Samsung’s 5.3-inch smartphone is expected to make an official debut in late August in Germany, roughly one... |
6 July 2012
02:11 GMT |
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Indian company Karbonn Mobiles has just announced the immediate availability of a new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, the Smart Tab 1. This would be the third budget-friendly Android tablet launched in the last three days in India. The only thing that makes the Smart Tab 1 stand out is the fact that it comes ... |
6 July 2012
01:36 GMT |
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