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Motorola Mobility continues to boost its market share in South America. The next country to get the company’s RAZR Android flagship smartphone is Peru. Beginning today, Android fans living in Peru can purchase the Motorola RAZR through major carriers in the country. Unfortunately, Motorola did not disclose any... |
7 May 2012
20:01 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita has now been out all over the world since February, but the device has failed to find a solid audience and seems to be dropping sales on a weekly basis even on the home Japanese market. Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the leading video game developers at Nintendo, a company that manufactures the rival ... |
7 May 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Three weeks ago Nokia officially announced the rollout of the Lumia 610 in Asia. Unfortunately, things did not work as planned, at least in Philippines where the device has been delayed “indefinitely.”
The good news is that Nokia Lumia 610 has just hit shelves in Malaysia and is now available for purchas... |
7 May 2012
19:01 GMT |
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The entry-level Lumia 610 smartphone has just made its debut in China. The smartphone was recently delayed in the Philippines, but hit shelves in Malaysia.
According WPDang, Nokia Lumia 610 is now available for purchase at Nokia’s flagship store in Shanghai for only 1,699 Chinese yuan, which is about 270 USD (... |
7 May 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Korean giant Samsung is reportedly the ruler of the dual core ARM mobile processor market. This is no surprise, since the company is holding most of the smartphone market that is not Apple based. The analysis was done by Strategy Analytics and the results represent the market status of the year 2011. Dual core mob... |
7 May 2012
18:17 GMT |
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Modern video games have made us soft, weak players who expect the mechanics of the real world to be quickly and simply replicated in our virtual experiences, allowing us to use the same kind of thinking that enables us to move around when it comes to the physical space.
Legend of Grimrock is a game that actually tau... |
7 May 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Bad news for Nokia fans living in Australia as the company decided not to bring its 808 PureView camera phone in the country. Australia is the second continent that won’t get the Nokia 808 PureView, after the Finnish company noted it wouldn’t launch the smartphone in North America either. While North Am... |
7 May 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Fido plans to expand its portfolio of Android smartphones with Sony’s Xperia U. We already reported a few days ago that Fido was also expected to launch the LG Optimus L7 in the following weeks.
The guys over at MobileSyrup have been recently tipped off on the upcoming availability of the Xperia U at Fido, tho... |
7 May 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a couple of hours ago, May 7th, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.3 kernel series. Linux kernel 3.3.5 includes some ARM, X86 and PowerPC fixes, lots of drivers (USB, wireless, etc), as well as NFS filesystem improvements, and... |
7 May 2012
17:17 GMT |
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ASRock wants to expand its operations to include the Chinese market, so it has prepared a budget of NT$100 million for that purpose.
That's $3.4 million / 2.61 million Euro, according to exchange rates.
ASUS will help the company compete with Gigabyte, according to Digitimes, by offering motherboards through i... |
7 May 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Sony Xperia U is now available for pre-order in India and is expected to hit shelves sometime this week. Today, Sony has quietly made the Xperia U available in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In addition, the Japanese company introduced the Xperia sola in the same countries as well.
According to XperiaBlog, customers who wan... |
7 May 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Social software provider “harmon.ie” has announced a new iPad application allowing business users to join the existing harmon.ie desktop users in sharing documents, getting real-time document and colleague status updates, and connecting with colleagues on the fly. The company acknowledges that Apple has ... |
7 May 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Assassin’s Creed III might be the game to wrap up the overall story arc of the series, but that does not mean that the development team at Ubisoft will offer less detail when it comes to portraying the American Revolutionary period that is its new setting.
Alex Hutchinson, who is the creative director working ... |
7 May 2012
16:21 GMT |
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It seems that a lot of info was reportedly shared during OCZ’s recent financial results conference. The company expects two more SSD controllers to be integrated in shipping products this summer. Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group Inc. said that “we’ve recently achieved a tape-out of two un... |
7 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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ESET, one of the leading developers of security software, has just released its Mobile Security application for Android devices. A trial version of the application is available in the Google Play store, but requires purchase after 30 days. According ESET, the latest version of Mobile Security can be used for both An... |
7 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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It seems that even pirates tire of the same old movies after a while as this week's top 10 most downloaded movies has three new entries, two of which sit at the top two spots. This Means War is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent in the week ending May 6th.
The movie proved very popular as it shot up to the... |
7 May 2012
15:51 GMT |
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HTC One V is not the only Android smartphone to come at Koodo Mobile in the following weeks. The much better featured HTC One S appears to be en-route to Koodo Mobile as well.
The folks at MobileSyrup got their hands on an internal document, which confirms the upcoming release of the One S at Koodo Mobile.
In addi... |
7 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Getting a laptop cooling stand is one of the most common things that people think about when wondering how they could make it possible to hold their laptops in their, well, lap, without suffering slight burns.
Portronics didn't make one of those. Instead, it decided to just come up with a comfortable lapdesk.
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7 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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It's one thing to play in a normal sandbox and other to have one that lets you build things on a massive scale without any chance of getting sand and water all over you.
Kids, of course, love to play in sandboxes anyway. Some even prefer being dirty to cleanliness, for some obscure reason. Maybe they feel more... |
7 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The cheapest HTC One device, the One V has just been confirmed to land in the US sometime this summer. Although the Taiwanese handset maker did not reveal which carriers would offer the smartphone, it did mention HTC One V as being expected to be available “through a variety of U.S. partners.”
This means... |
7 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be the first title in the series that is not linked to any movie release and the development team behind it believes that the game can succeed as long as it promotes the tone seen in the initial trailer, revealed during the VGA ceremony.
Greg Agius, the marketing manager working ... |
7 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Nokia’s Asha 302 and Asha 303 are getting a taste of the Mail for Exchange application that the Finnish handset vendor is preparing for its S40 devices. The application is available in a beta flavor at the moment, so that users can have a look at it and provide feedback on the experience it can deliver. How... |
7 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Made official back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG Optimus L5 might have been spotted at FCC (Federal Communications Commission).There’s a certain diagram filed at FCC, which fits perfectly to LG Optimus L5’s specs, the folks over at Engadget claim. This device has been approved ... |
7 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Boeing has announced its first iPad app, Boeing Milestones, which depicts advances that have transformed the world and made Boeing one of the most respected airline companies. Now available on the App Store as a free download, the app brings nine decades of aviation innovation to iPad users through an interactive ti... |
7 May 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Aliens: Colonial Marines has long been in development and that means that it will arrive in a year, and meanwhile the franchise will also get a new movie, something that might diminish the impact of the video games.
But speaking to Kotaku, Randy Pitchford, the leading developer working on Aliens: Colonial Marines, s... |
7 May 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Famous SSD manufacturer OCZ Technology Group, Inc. has just announced the launch of the new release candidate firmware v1.4RC, which dramatically improves the performance of its Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 Series SSDs. The most significant improvement is the fact that v1.4RC nearly doubles sequential write performance for lowe... |
7 May 2012
14:01 GMT |
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HTC One X has just hit shelves in the United States via AT&T. The smartphone is now available for purchase for as low as 199.99 USD (155 EUR) with a new two-year agreement.
However, Android enthusiasts who are willing to wait a couple more days in order to get the HTC One X a bit cheaper can check out Amazon’s... |
7 May 2012
14:01 GMT |
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With the UK blocking The Pirate Bay, talk of proxies, VPNs and countless tricks to get around the blockade are very popular once again. With millions of people left without access to their favorite site, a lot of them are looking at alternatives.
And when there's a lot of people, not necessarily tech-savvy, try... |
7 May 2012
13:41 GMT |
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GraphOn Corporation has announced its new GO-Global iOS client which adds support for the 3.5-inch screens of the iPhone and iPod touch. The software natively supports the 10-inch iPad display as well. A new release of the GO-Global iOS client replaces GraphOn’s popular GO-Global iPad-only client by becoming a... |
7 May 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has just presented its practical implementation of the well-known Doppler effect. The technology is called SoundWave.Everybody that has seen it in action is comparing it to the company’s Kinect movement detection system. Yet SoundWave is much different from Kinect, because it doesn’t use any opt... |
7 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Last week, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung unveiled to the world its latest flagship device powered by Google’s Android operating system, the Galaxy S III. The handset was made official during an Unpacked event held in London, UK, and packs state-of-the-art technology to deliver a better experience th... |
7 May 2012
13:11 GMT |
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They may not be going through the same type of supply strain as hard disk drives did early in the year, but large-size TVs aren't exactly in abundance right now.
That isn't to say that there aren't enough of them to sell, because the world isn't in that kind of bind just yet, and hopefully never... |
7 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The former co-founder of the EA Tiburon studio says that he chose to move to social game company Zynga because he was where gaming was heading in the near future. John Schappert, who is now a COO at Zynga, told Develop that, “When I was at Electronic Arts I worked very closely with the group that had casual, m... |
7 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia 808 PureView was confirmed for a May release in Europe.
Unfortunately, the Finnish company mentioned that the smartphone would not be launched in North America, or at least not in the near future.
Given the fact that Nokia is trying to conq... |
7 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus has just been released by Sprint and the smartphone is now available for purchase for $199.99 USD (155 EUR) with a new two-year agreement.
However, Amazon has just slashed the Galaxy Nexus’ price, so Sprint new customers can now grab the smartphone for only $149.99 USD (115 EUR) on contrac... |
7 May 2012
12:31 GMT |
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CyanogenMod Compiler (CMC) GUI is a new tool that allows users to build their own CyanogenMod with just a few mouse clicks. The tool is designed to simplify the building of a CyanogenMod for an Android phone, from source code. CyanogenMod Compiler allows users to select the device they are compiling it for and the ... |
7 May 2012
12:11 GMT |
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As expected, Sprint has started to take pre-orders for HTC EVO 4G LTE, though the carrier has yet to announce the smartphone’s availability. Only customers who are willing to commit to a long-term contract can now pre-order the HTC EVO 4G LTE for $199.99 USD (€155) with a new two-year agreement. Sprint di... |
7 May 2012
12:04 GMT |
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Today, AT&T and Samsung went official with the release of a new Windows Phone-powered device on the wireless carrier’s network, namely Samsung Focus 2. The main selling point of this mobile phone is its support for AT&T’s LTE network, being the very first Samsung Windows Phone to include it. The new s... |
7 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Chinese storage and peripheral connect specialist Orico has just launched the ORICO 7-Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card, on its official website. This is a 7 USB 3.0 port add on PCIe card that will allow your computer to directly handle up to seven USB 3.0 SuperSpeed devices. It is powered by two VIA Labs controllers, b... |
7 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The Koottam Social jQuery Plugin is a powerful developer tool to be used when creating our own custom set of social media sharing buttons.
The plugin wraps various social networks APIs and allows developers to create their own social sharing apps.
Koottam is extremely flexible, being easy to style via CSS and adapt... |
7 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Apple has reportedly ceded to settle with Proview over the iPad trademark dispute by agreeing to a sum of money that Proview believes is appropriate. The news comes from Proview’s lawyer, Xie Xianghui, who reportedly told Chinese news outlet Xinhua, "We feel that the attitude of Apple Inc. has changed. Althoug... |
7 May 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Barracuda Labs experts have come across spam emails that lure users to a malicious site that tries to replicate a service similar to OpenID, hoping to gain the trust of potential victims.
OpenID is considered to be a practical solution by many website owners because it saves them the hassle of creating their own use... |
7 May 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Here's GA-P75-D3P (rev. 1.0), another board from Gigabyte, complementing the existing range of new-generation motherboards that can run with Intel's 3rd generation Core processors.
This motherboard is based on the B75 chipset and can accommodate both SandyBridge and IvyBridge CPUs, for no-nonsense flexibil... |
7 May 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Although HTC has previously declared its allegiance to unlockable bootloaders, it looks like at least one Android smartphone won’t get its bootloader unlocked.
HTC has recently released source code for One X. However, the Taiwanese handset manufacturer has the AT&T version’s bootloader locked.
Even thou... |
7 May 2012
11:01 GMT |
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MindTree Limited, a company with expertise in global IT and product engineering services, has developed a unified corporate intranet portal using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PeopleHub. The new portal was meant to help it ease the management of the load of intranet applications and portals that were deployed u... |
7 May 2012
10:53 GMT |
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In a paper published in the May 6 issue of the top journal Nature Neuroscience, experts demonstrate that brain networks have the ability to switch the frequencies at which they operate, in order to avoid the jamming of electrical signals through busy interactions.
Everyone knows that the human brain is tremendously... |
7 May 2012
10:52 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is nearing the release of a new flavor of its mobile operating system, namely BlackBerry 10. The company has provided a variety of details on this OS only a few weeks ago, but it appears that it hasn’t delivered all of them. A leaked internal document from the ... |
7 May 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs have noticed that one of their honeypots has recorded a number of attempts to exploit the recently uncovered PHP-CGI vulnerability. For now, no successful exploits have been identified, but it’s clear that cybercriminals are probing systems in search for ... |
7 May 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Google is expanding its Hangouts on Air feature to everyone, after being available only to a few broadcasters on Google+. The feature enables anyone now to hold a hangout viewable by anyone, essentially a live video stream. The feature is an important step forward for Hangouts as Google+ now challenges a number of li... |
7 May 2012
10:35 GMT |
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RIM’s BlackBerry World 2012 has just closed its gates and developers who attended are still getting acquainted with their newly received BlackBerry 10 prototype devices.
For those who don’t know yet, RIM promised that each developer attending this year’s BlackBerry World event will receive a protot... |
7 May 2012
10:31 GMT |
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According to scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), it would appear that Type Ia supernovae can arise from two independent mechanisms. Until now, astronomers believed that these objects could only be created through a single process, and debated what that process was.
Over the years,... |
7 May 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has just announced a series of enhancements brought to its Windows Azure Marketplace. The enhancements brought to the portal are expected to result in a far better experience provided to all involved parties, including publishers, developers and their customers. Among the ch... |
7 May 2012
10:27 GMT |
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The Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate is getting closer to its summer 2012 launch date on the PC and iOS-powered tablets and the development team working on it believes that it can create an experience that mixes the best of both gaming worlds.
Cameron Tofer, who is the chief operating officer at Overhaul Game... |
7 May 2012
10:21 GMT |
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French law makes it a violation to publish election results before the ballots close in an effort not to skew opinions. But the law was created more than three decades ago when there were few who had the ability to speak of these things to any significant number of people.
But with Facebook, Twitter and everything i... |
7 May 2012
10:12 GMT |
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Google Chrome is the new kid on the block, in regard to the other heavy hitters on the market, but it's the richest one. It's backed up by one of largest corporations on the planet and it became an important player in a very short time. We can't question the Google's decision to develop its own ... |
7 May 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Daniel Chase Hooper’s keyboard concept has become a reality for jailbreak fans, who can now download a tweak called SwipeSelection from Cydia and text faster and more reliably than ever before. Demoed by iDownloadBlog in the above video, SwipeSelection enables iPad owners to move the cursor and do text selecti... |
7 May 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Officials at Sierra Nevada Space Systems announce that a scale model of Dream Chaser, the reusable space plane it is developing under a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA, is ready for wind tunnel testing. The model is already affixed to a scaled-down version of the Atlas V delivery system.
The launch configuration... |
7 May 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Nokia has identified the presence of an issue in its Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone, affecting its screen usage. The flaw manifests through making grey graphics appear purple at times when the screen's brightness is set to the minimum level. The problem was found to affect only a small number of devices, but ... |
7 May 2012
10:01 GMT |
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An unknown hacker demonstrated that Mark Ruffalo, the actor that plays The Hulk in The Avengers movie, is not that tough when it comes to the Internet and took over his Twitter account. Forbes informs that the hacker used the compromised account to post links to adult services in Hollywood, but also criticized the ... |
7 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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In addition to desktop and laptop accelerated processing units, Advanced Micro Devices has chips for servers and other industrial applications. One series of such processors has just gained a broader software support.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company dedicated a whole press release to the G-Series embedded A... |
7 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Iowa announce the discovery of a massive crocodile species that lived in what is now Kenya, East Africa, between 2 and 4 million years ago. The reptile may have grown to around 8.2 meters (27 feet) in length, exceeding the size of the largest known Nile crocodile.
The latter was ... |
7 May 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless went official with a new Android-based device on its 4G LTE network, namely the DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE by HTC. This is the twenty-third 4G LTE-enabled device to hit shelves at Verizon, capable of a great experience for the operator’s customers, regardless of whet... |
7 May 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Nintendo has so far refused to confirm which video games will be released on the Wii U home console once it is finally out all over the world, but a leaked form United Kingdom based retailer Blockbuster seems to show a number of announced and unannounced titles that are linked to the platform.
The screens show the f... |
7 May 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Japanese company Donya seems to know what the average laptop user needs, and today it is launching the DN-69810 SATA adapter used to mount a 2.5" drive in the optical drive bay. It comes in two versions, one normal 9.5 millimeter thick and one measuring 12.7 millimeters. We’re not usually so delighted with som... |
7 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 managed to squeeze past the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in benchmark tests, but AMD might not allow this ranking to last much longer.
If what AtomicMPC says is true, then the Sunnyvale, California-based company will release a card that attains higher clocks on the same voltage.
The manufacturin... |
7 May 2012
09:26 GMT |
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A collaboration of European researchers has demonstrated that the climate responds to periods of intense solar minimum on the scale of several centuries. Investigators also suspect that periods of less-intense solar activity also lead to different regional responses on the surface.
What this suggests is that the sc... |
7 May 2012
09:24 GMT |
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As expected, Sprint has just kicked off pre-orders for HTC EVO 4G LTE. The smartphone will be available for purchase for only $199.99 (€155) with a new two-year agreement. Although Sprint has yet to announced the EVO 4G LTE exact release date, rumor has it that the smartphone is slated for a May 18 launch. Asi... |
7 May 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Google is working on expanding the parts of Google Play that warranted its name change, the movie, music and book stores, internationally. It seems that the Google Play eBookstore will become available in Brazil within a few months and that the music store will follow soon. Google's product management director f... |
7 May 2012
09:14 GMT |
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If last year Hack in the Box participants were challenged to put their imagination to good use by utilizing LEGO pieces and robots, this year the security conference will host an event in which contesters will have to use Kinect’s tracking features to create a system that can translate movements into words. Th... |
7 May 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Reportedly aiming to take on Intel’s upcoming ultra-books priced around $700 US (roughly 538 EUR), Apple is said to be planning the release of a $799 MacBook Air model in the third quarter of 2012. Citing the usual industry sources from Apple’s upstream supply chain, the hit-and-miss DigiTimes has a new ... |
7 May 2012
08:55 GMT |
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The next generation of computer dynamic random access memory is getting closer with each passing day, and now we get to see Micron's first module based on it. Micron isn't the first company to demo a DDR4 memory module. Hynix went first, last month, even before JEDEC revealed some key details about the sp... |
7 May 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Filipino officials are once again trying to convince hacktivists to stop the cyber battles for the domination of the controversial Panatag Shoal (Scarborough Shoal) area. According to Manila Bulletin, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte didn’t point the finger at anyone, but urges both sides to put ... |
7 May 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Gimp 2.8.0 is finally here, after a couple of years in the making, the next major update to the popular open source photo editing and graphics software has arrived. Those willing to put up with the possible bugs and instability have been able to check out the new features in action for a while now.
But it's onl... |
7 May 2012
08:36 GMT |
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All major news outlets have confirmed that Japan has shut down its last operating nuclear reactor over the weekend. Today, May 7, represents the first time in decades when the Asian nation no longer utilizes electricity derived from nuclear fission.
Saturday evening, at 11:03 pm local time, the No. 3 reactor at the... |
7 May 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Apple gives every new staffer a motivational note to get him / her started with tremendous spirit and confidence. An Instagram user says the note pictured above has been so inspirational to him that he keeps it hanging on his dresser’s door. It’s been there for two years. The note has Steve Jobs written... |
7 May 2012
08:30 GMT |
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The comic book and movie-oriented teams at the Marvel Studios were intimately involved with the development of the upcoming Avengers Chronicles expansion for Marvel Pinball, giving the developers ideas on how to translate the superhero experience to the classic medium of pinball.
Chris Baker, who is the interactive ... |
7 May 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Google is slowly changing its role from provider to content creator with YouTube. It hasn't started creating its own shows, just yet, but it has been funding creators for a while now. And now, there is talk of Google investing in Machinima, the company behind one of YouTube's most popular channels, with the... |
7 May 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Software programmer Mohsen Ektefa introduces “M Portable Anti-Copy,” an application that can be used to protect content stored on portable storage devices such as USB memory sticks, or portable hard drives. The software represents a great way for copyright holders to protect their assets. “This is... |
7 May 2012
08:12 GMT |
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A study covering more than 50 years of data suggests that the current clinical practice of given schizophrenia patients antipsychotic medication is indeed the most beneficial course of action.
People who are treated with these drugs have a lower chance of being hospitalized on account of their condition, suffer few... |
7 May 2012
08:02 GMT |
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Mobile game publisher Gameloft is getting ready for the release of two new titles for devices powered by Google’s Android operating system, namely Asphalt 7: Heat and Men In Black 3. The company hinted at the upcoming availability of the new Asphalt 7: Heat last week in London, when Galaxy S III was made offic... |
7 May 2012
07:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready for the release of great Windows Phone 8 devices later this year, the latest reports on the matter suggest. Following rumors on the possibility that the company was considering using Galaxy S III hardware to power the Windows Phone 8 products, some more info ... |
7 May 2012
07:46 GMT |
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A new device being developed by a team of scientists at Stony Brook University will soon be able to detect conditions ranging from diabetes, asthma and kidney problems to lung cancer by analyzing a single breath patients blow into it.
Called the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, the instrument is bein... |
7 May 2012
07:32 GMT |
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It looks like there’s a new software update available for Nokia Asha 303. Unfortunately, we don’t have an official changelog available for the moment.
So far, the only information we have is the fact that this update is pretty consistent (85 MB) and brings the firmware from version 14.38 to 14.60.
The ... |
7 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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As they promised, hacktivists launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on the site of the UK Supreme Court at the end of last week. Another target of the same operation was the website of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “#TANGODOWN for those who have just joined us supremecourt.gov.uk &... |
7 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Google Maps is no stranger to controversy, anything that has to do with borders and neighboring countries is going to get dragged into decades or centuries old conflicts. Google's approach is to stay neutral, use the generally accepted nomenclature, mark disputed borders or display different names in different c... |
7 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would now appear that people who exhibit a neuropsychological phenomenon called synesthesia are more likely to be among those claiming to see auras around other people.
Researchers at the University of Granada Department of Experimental Psychology,... |
7 May 2012
07:09 GMT |
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With Call of Duty: Black Ops II now officially announced by publisher Activision Blizzard, analysts have estimated whether the game has the sales potential to match, in 2012, the records set by Modern Warfare 3 and the first Black Ops during previous years.
Jesse Divnich, an analyst watching the video game industry ... |
7 May 2012
07:08 GMT |
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Apple is revamping its well-known “One to One” customer service program, extending and / or decreasing the time allotted for some sessions, improving certain aspects about Personal Projects, and updating the web site dedicated to One to One training.Training sessions can currently be scheduled for one hou... |
7 May 2012
07:06 GMT |
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MJ Penner Consulting, a web development company, commissioned the creation of MJP Security Tools, a plugin that’s designed to address a number of security issues that might affect WordPress sites.
Developed by zackdesign and ElbertF, the plugin contains features such as file permissions checking, POST request... |
7 May 2012
06:36 GMT |
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Richard Collins from Canonical Ltd demonstrated a few days ago how easy is to open, edit and resume a LibreOffice document using Ubuntu for Android on an Android smartphone. What more can we say? The above video will show you a Motorola Atrix 2 phone running Ubuntu for Android while opening a LibreOffice document. ... |
7 May 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Porteus, a portable Linux operating system which can be installed on an USB device, CDROM, SD card or hard drive, and based on the Linux Live Scripts, has just reached version 1.2 RC2. Porteus 1.2 RC2 has been released for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and brings a lot of changes and updates, such as: · L... |
7 May 2012
06:25 GMT |
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Google is reportedly taking over our TV sets with its Android operating system. LG will start shipping these Google TVs beginning with 17th of May this year. The TV sets are powered by a custom quad core ARM processor most likely based on the Cortex A9 design. The operating system is not exactly Google’s well-... |
7 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T has made available on its network a new high-end Android-based device from HTC, namely the One X. The new device can be acquired from AT&T’s website with a price tag of $199.99 (155 Euro) attached to it, with the signing of a two-year contract agreement. Made official in February at th... |
7 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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SolusOS, a modern operating system based on the popular Linux distribution, Debian, which works out of the box, with great support for all modern day computing needs, is now at version RC4. According to the developers, SolusOS “Eveline” Release Candidate 4 has quite a few new features, fixes, and up to ... |
7 May 2012
06:18 GMT |
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We can see that it is only a matter of time before everything we build somehow gains touch-based or touchscreen interaction.
What Disney Research came up with only enforces this idea. The Touche is a new touch input technology that senses capacitive signals across a range of frequencies instead of a single one.
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7 May 2012
06:13 GMT |
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Hackers from TeamGhostShell have initiated an operation called Project GhostShell. The first victim is the site of Forex Traders (fxtraders.eu), a company advertised as being a currency and money market, from which they leaked a large part of the database.
“Hello again, did you miss us world governments? We�... |
7 May 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Sharkoon decided it was time two of its cases got upgraded, so instead of re-branding or otherwise trying to make them unique, it added the lacking features and sent the enclosures on their way.
The two cases that have received extra functionality are Sharkoon Nightfall and Sharkoon Rebel9 Aluminum.
They used to ... |
7 May 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Despite the fact that we are already in May, video game publishers are not too eager to deliver new content to retail and this week the biggest and most interesting release is Warlock: Master of the Arcane, a PC release that might be the spiritual success to Master of Magic.
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Warlock - Master of the Arcane PC - P... |
7 May 2012
05:48 GMT |
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An international consortium of universities from the United States and Italy has just been awarded a 5-year, $15 million research contract for developing more efficient, lighter batteries. The US Army is very interested in reducing the weight its troops have to carry into the battlefield.
At this point, an average ... |
7 May 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Mac owners who used FileVault encryption prior to upgrading to OS X Lion and kept their data encrypted using the old version of FileVault are affected by a security issue, experts warn. Security researcher David Emery with DIE Consulting explains that, “Someone, for some unknown reason, turned on a debug switc... |
7 May 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Incorporated has put out a press release this morning announcing worldwide availability of its Creative Suite 6. Mac users looking to employ the studio kit require a multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support. The tech specs page for Adobe’s new CS6 holds the system requirements for both Mac a... |
7 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Atakan Peker, a co-inventor of the amorphous metal alloy thought to be used in the next iPhone, has been “off” Liquidmetal for years. CBS News reveals to the world that Peker hasn’t worked at Liquidmetal since 2007, which means the man wasn’t around when Apple acquir... |
7 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Scientists with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) say that they have developed a new computational technique for correcting the aberrations inherent in a medical imaging technology called optical tomography.
This means that imaging may soon become a three-dimensional, real-time process, capable ... |
7 May 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Adobe has announced that the latest addition to its Creative Suite family, CS6 is now available for purchase. If you've been waiting for the latest and greatest CS, the wait is over, as long as you've got the pockets to pay for the rather expensive suite, in any of its forms. CS6 was officially announced a... |
7 May 2012
05:24 GMT |
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The next major software update for BlackBerry 7 operating system has been released a couple of weeks ago. However, until recently, the availability was limited to Canada and a few other countries.
Today, RIM has quietly made BlackBerry 7.1 update available in the UK. BlackBerry fans living in the UK probably know th... |
7 May 2012
05:18 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced that its Lync 2010 service was selected by the Institute for Emergency Medical Service (EMS) in Novi Sad, Serbia. EMS’ services needed an upgrade, as patients calling for assistance had their details taken down on paper and then delivered to teams in the field via radio station or p... |
7 May 2012
05:07 GMT |
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The zombie-ant fungus is renowned for its ability to infect ants, and then make the insects spread its spores before finally killing them. A new study demonstrates that the ants may not be alone in their fight against this invader. Another parasite that can infect them has “anti-zombification” effects.
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7 May 2012
05:06 GMT |
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As expected, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister for the past four years, has reclaimed his position as the country’s president after the elections that took place on May 4. However, Anonymous Russia don’t seem to welcome his re-election and as a result they have launched an operation that targe... |
7 May 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Aerospace Robotics and Control Laboratory (ARCL) announce the successful development of a flying robot capable of perching on a human hand at landing.
This is made possible by sophisticated control algorithms, coupled with an innovative design of th... |
7 May 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard carefully tested the Inferno difficulty level for their upcoming hack and slash title Diablo III but then decided to base their decision on how hard the game will be on the player base expectations rather than on the information it had gathered.Jay Wilson, who is the lead designer workin... |
7 May 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday afternoon, May 6th, that the sixth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing. Linux kernel 3.4 RC6 contains many updated drivers, ARM and PowerPC improvements, as well as networking changes. "Another week, another -rc - and I think w... |
7 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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After all the other GTX 670 press shots or PCB photos, we aren't surprised to see that Point of View has also allowed a shot of its model to leak to the web. The GeForce GTX 670 graphics cards will be powered by GK104 GPUs that didn't quite make it. More than a few of them have been revealed so far, eve... |
7 May 2012
04:35 GMT |
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A 71-year-old woman from East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, fell victim to a fraudster group that managed to convince her to voluntarily hand them over $34,500 (26,000 EUR).
According to The Advocate, the scheme began when the victim was approached at Home Depot by a man wearing a suit and a tie who claimed that he... |
7 May 2012
04:25 GMT |
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Well-known professional storage solution manufacturer Fusion-io reportedly found a way to make MLC flash NAND behave like SLC cells. Many thought it was a scam, or an expected marketing trick, but it really seems the company’s experts are on to something. Currently, flash NAND-based storage is the fas... |
7 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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One of the main developers working on Blizzard’s Diablo III revealed that early in the development process the team explored the idea of creating a game that would use the first- or third-person view rather than the isometric perspective of the previous two titles in the series.
Jay Wilson, who is the game dir... |
7 May 2012
04:15 GMT |
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One of the most popular Android smartphones launched last year, Motorola RAZR has yet to receive the promised Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Although the US-based handset vendor previously stated that Motorola RAZR owners would be able to upgrade to Android 4.0 ICS in early 2012, the update has been pushed t... |
7 May 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the availability of the final flavor of its 3.26 Store client for Series 40 touch-and-type. The mobile application was made available in beta not too long ago, so that users would have a taste of it beforehand. In fact, the enhancements included in the gold version ... |
7 May 2012
03:59 GMT |
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LG Electronics may have just offered businesses the type of solution they sought in their quest to reduce infrastructure costs without butchering their productivity.
There are many work positions nowadays that require employees to have their own computer, but LG may have removed this need.
Its P Series, new VMware... |
7 May 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Slackel, a Live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware and Salix OS featuring the latest version of KDE in the repository, is now at version KDE 4.8.2-1. Even if the name is a dead giveaway, Slackel KDE 4.8.2-1, it is based on the latest KDE Software Compilation released at the beginning of the month and includes... |
7 May 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Scientists say that the memory loss diabetics experience as a result of their condition can be staved off by caffeine, the main active element in coffee and some teas. This study highlights an unobtrusive way in which memory decline can be addressed in those suffering from diabetes.
The research also shows how this ... |
7 May 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Apple’s 20GB offer enticing MobileMe subscribers to switch their assets over to the iCloud has been extended by three months, allowing existing customers to take their time in making the switch. Apple originally launched the free-20GB deal to convince customers to drop MobileMe and start using iCloud. The stor... |
7 May 2012
03:51 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations is currently analyzing the breach that affected the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, the Sun Sentinel informs.
As a result of the breach, the organization’s website was shut down for three days and all the employees were requested to change their passwords to ... |
7 May 2012
03:44 GMT |
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A new version of Blaq, the popular Twitter client for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook, is now available for download, namely 1.8.1. The tablet PC did not arrive on shelves with a native Twitter client inside, but Blaq does the job beautifully, those who took it for a spin claim. In fact, it appears... |
7 May 2012
03:38 GMT |
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A group of experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech) announces the development of a robotic arm that can identify and record signals passed between neurons in the living brain.
In a series of experiments conducted on unsuspecting lab mice, the ... |
7 May 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Arvind Bhatia, who is an analyst watching the video game industry at publisher Activision Blizzard, has estimated that the upcoming Diablo III hack and slash will manage to sell no less than 3.5 million units during the current calendar year and a further half a million during 2013.
In a note addressed to the indust... |
7 May 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Since we established that Nvidia is confident enough that their Kepler GPUs are cool and it’s safe for Nvidia’s partners to play around with the card’s design, we’re not really surprised with Gigabyte’s own custom cooled GeForce GTX 670 implementation. The card reportedly has the same C... |
7 May 2012
03:33 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GeForce 670 graphics card will be available worldwide sooner or later, but that doesn't mean the world has to keep waiting for information about it. The same goes for pictures. The press shots of Colorful's card were seen not long ago and, now, we get to glance at the PCB itself (printed cir... |
7 May 2012
03:28 GMT |
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It’s nice to see that some authorities are really working on innovative ideas. A Spanish company and the authorities are reportedly implementing a project where the pavement will contain networking infrastructure and hotspots in most areas of the city of Madrid. The cabling and transmission devices are install... |
7 May 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Barry Kauler announced a couple of days ago, May 5th, the immediate availability for download of the Puppy "Slacko" 5.3.3 Linux distribution, based on the Slackware Linux 13.37 operating system. Puppy Linux "Slacko" 5.3.3 is an update of the 5.3.1 version, bringing fixes and improvements. It is now powered by Linux... |
7 May 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Vyatta, an OS that can connect and secure physical networks as well as virtual and cloud computing infrastructures, is now at version 6.4. Vyatta 6.4 brings a lot of changes, especially for the GUI, NAT, connection-syncing along with CLI, op-mode enhancements, and connection tracking. Highlights of Vyatta 6.4: ... |
7 May 2012
03:10 GMT |
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God of War: Ascension is confirmed as ready to launch on the PlayStation 3 during 2013 and it seems that at least one veteran developer believes multiplayer can add quite a lot to the action game as long as it is properly executed.
David Jaffe, who created the first two titles in the God of War series and is now wor... |
7 May 2012
03:03 GMT |
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On May 4, a group of hackers calling itself “l3g4nd crew” claimed to be in possession of Symantec’s Norton Internet Security 2012 source code. They tried to blackmail the security firm, but Symantec representatives determined that the code was not from their products.
This is not the first time whe... |
7 May 2012
03:02 GMT |
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An international collaboration of investigators says it has recently developed a new explanation for how stars known as brown dwarfs form. These objects sometimes blur the difference between very large gas giants and small stars, so explaining how they appear and why has been very difficult.
Astronomers have been tr... |
7 May 2012
02:58 GMT |
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A complaint has been filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on behalf of Apple Inc. regarding the domain name iphone5.com. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant selling world’s most craved-for smartphone has filed a complaint with the aforementioned IP-centric group to secure... |
7 May 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Neither Acer nor Advanced Micro Devices has formally spoken about the Aspire E1-421, but that didn't stop retailers and watchful people from revealing its existence.
In fact, we have something better than a rumor to report on in this instance: the Brazos 2.0-based laptop has been caught on photo.
The AMD acc... |
7 May 2012
02:45 GMT |
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Last week, Samsung launched a new Android-based device in its highly popular Galaxy S lineup, the much expected Galaxy S III. The latest flagship Android-based mobile phone from South Korean handset vendor is expected to make its debut on shelves in Europe at the end of this month, while set to arrive in the United... |
7 May 2012
02:32 GMT |
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It seems that the new issue of the real world magazine PC Gamer includes a reveal linked to Company of Heroes 2 that Relic is currently developing and that still uses World War II as a setting.
The article reveals that locations for missions in the single-player campaign will include well-known cities like Stalingra... |
7 May 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Motorola DROID RAZR, the thin and powerful Android-based device that made a debut on Verizon’s network last year, is expected to arrive on shelves in a new, blue shade. The mobile phone was already made available in three different color flavors, namely Black, White and Purple, but it appears that Motorola an... |
7 May 2012
02:15 GMT |
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