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Designer Federico Ciccarese has come up with yet another breathtaking mockup of a futuristic Apple product, this time envisioning a wearable device that Apple was said to have been prototyping internally.Confusingly dubbed “iPhone 5 new,” the device pictured above hardly has anything in common with Apple&... |
7 July 2012
21:41 GMT |
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The powerful Scanner Pro which transforms your iPhone or iPad into a portable scanner has been updated with an all-new interface and iCloud integration.Developer Readdle has been working around the clock to deliver a consistent application design and experience on both iPhone and iPad. In short, Scanner Pro is now un... |
7 July 2012
20:51 GMT |
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This week, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has announced a series of enhancements brought to its network in the New York Area.
Thus, the carrier has announced that it has activated new 4G LTE sites in Albany, Schenectady, Saratoga Springs, Altamont, Berne, Brunswick, Clifton Park, Coeymans, Cohoes, Delanson, ... |
7 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Virgin Mobile and Cricket Wireless are among the first carriers to offer Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S on prepaid. However, it looks like the Cupertino-based company allows more carriers to sell its smartphones on prepaid.Regional operator nTelos has recently announced it now offers the iPhone 4 and 4S on prepaid. It ... |
7 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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In terms of success and number of games that appear within it, the shooter genre is probably the most popular in the gaming industry nowadays.Even so, in the past few months, a variety of dungeon crawlers have appeared or are getting ready to be released, ranging from blockbuster efforts like Blizzard’s Diablo ... |
7 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a new service for its users, providing them with the possibility to block stolen devices.
The new service is reportedly set to kick off on July 10th, which is next week, and will involve the creation of a block list of stolen devices, which will h... |
7 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Video games disappoint me all the time, but they rarely manage to explore the feeling and then make it a central part of the interactive experience. Regret is rarely something that developers try to understand and create.
Most of the modern video game world is concerned with empowering the player, which is done vi... |
7 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Verizon has finally confirmed the Samsung Galaxy S III will hit shelves on July 10, after moving back and forward the release date of the smartphone a few times.Although the South Korean company has yet to release the official factory image of the ROM, it appears like the folks over at SamsungUpdates manged to get th... |
7 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has a very clear view on its mission, to make it easier for people to experience the web, in all it forms, and to make the web better. Part of that means creating better web technologies and standards and part of it means making Firefox better.One thing that Mozilla wants is to free up users from having to re... |
7 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has been pushing global roaming capabilities to some of its 4G LTE smartphones lately, and is planning to continue doing so. According to phoneArena, the recently released DROID Incredible 4G LTE from HTC will be among these devices, being set to taste the capability via a soon... |
7 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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There's no doubt about it, HTC Desire C should be the cheapest ICS-based smartphone launched by the Taiwanese handset maker.The budget-friendly device was officially unveiled back in May and hit shelves one month later. However, the Desire C is only available in a some countries, though HTC is currently rolling ... |
7 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Facebook Inc. has released an updated version of its Messenger app for iPhone and iPad adding bug fixes and a new option to see more top friends.There are just two changes in version 1.8.1: “fix bug causing friends and profile photos to load slowly; see more top friends in the compose view,” according to ... |
7 July 2012
12:51 GMT |
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The last major new addition we’re featuring in our iOS 6 Features series, Safari is poised to become the world’s best mobile web browser, with stuff like iCloud tabs, offline reading lists, photo uploads and full screen view - all coming in the next major release of iOS this fall. Apple is keen to delive... |
7 July 2012
12:48 GMT |
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Despite the skydiving and the gadgets, Google I/O is really geared towards the developers. After the flashy keynotes are over, dozens of lectures and sessions take place. This also when the things more interesting to developers are revealed. But few people outside of developers would spend an hour watching any of the... |
7 July 2012
12:21 GMT |
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A report from Japan says Apple has ordered its Chinese manufacturers to start producing the chassis of its next-generation “iPad mini,” with plans to have it assembled in Latin America.A somewhat reliable source of Apple rumors, Japanese blog Macotakara is citing its sources as saying that the rumored 7.8... |
7 July 2012
12:07 GMT |
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JAWStats is a traffic analytics PHP script. It does not run on its own and requires an AWStats installation to take data from.
The main role of JAWStats is to re-interpret AWStats recorded data and present it in a nicer, more organized and legible way.
JAWStats is extremely easier to skin than AWStats, i18n friendl... |
7 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Vimeo LLC has announced “the official all-new and super-improved Vimeo iPhone app” packing initial support for the vimeo:// url scheme, better localizations and the usual bag of fixes for more reliability.Vimeo version 2.0.5 is now out in the App Store with “initial support” for the vime... |
7 July 2012
11:37 GMT |
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Two months ago various retailers across Canada started taking pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, but no details on the availability of the slate have emerged until recently.
Today, Samsung has come forward with an official statement confirming that both Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) and (7.0) are now available for purchase ... |
7 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Sony Mobile has made three of its latest Android-based smartphones available for purchase in the United States unlocked and SIM free, namely the Xperia S, Xperia P and Xperia sola. The company did promise a while ago that it would make the move, to provide users in the country with the possibility to take advantage... |
7 July 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Pandora Radio, the personalized radio app that only plays music you love, has received a major update this weekend containing an improved interface, lyrics, artist bios, and more.Pandora Radio 3.2 arrives with a “visual refresh and design enhancements,” according to Pandora Media Inc.Starting today users ... |
7 July 2012
11:05 GMT |
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BitTorrent is a wonderful technology, for all the bad rep it gets for its use in copyright-infringing file sharing. The problem is getting more people to use and making it easier for those people to use it. One of the big hurdles is that it can be quite confusing to the average internet users. You need a dedicated cl... |
7 July 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Galaxy Nexus is one of the first smartphones to be launched to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onboard. Verizon's variant hit shelves back in November and received a few minor software updates that fixed some of the phone's issues.However, it appears that Verizon plans to push another maintenance update to G... |
7 July 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Apple has issued a snippet to EPEAT telling the environmental group that it is withdrawing its products from the registry. The Cupertino giant will no longer be submitting its products to for environmental rating, the organization said.As the leading global environmental rating system for all electronics in this sola... |
7 July 2012
10:52 GMT |
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It seems that 343 Industries, besides putting the finishing touches on the upcoming Halo 4, has begun working on a remastered version of Halo 2, as a follow-up to last year's Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition.
Microsoft's Halo franchise has been around for quite some time and has produced a variety ... |
7 July 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Following the release of Ice Cream Sandwich for its Xperia S handsets, Sony Mobile announced the availability of the source code of that platform.
The files are currently available for download through Sony Mobile’s own website, tagged “Open source download for Xperia S (Ice Cream Sandwich); software ve... |
7 July 2012
10:41 GMT |
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In an attempt to improve its image among smartphone manufacturers and communication service providers, Research In Motion (RIM) has just announced its BlackBerry App World exceeded 3 billion downloads.The new milestone is pretty impressive for RIM especially if we take into consideration that the previous 2 billion m... |
7 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Wikipedia has been running a small experiment to make the "freshness" of an article more obvious to users via a simple addition, a prominent timestamp. All Wikipedia pages already feature a timestamp, at the end of the page, indicating the last time it was updated. But few people notice it or know it's there.In ... |
7 July 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Professional cycling grand tours, which take place over 21 stages and three weeks, are weird beasts, traditional in many ways but at the same time always looking for innovation.
One of the traditions is that the first week is dedicated to sprinters, with long stages that allow for breakaways to form only to then see... |
7 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier US cellular has announced plans to begin shipments of pre-ordered Galaxy S III units as soon as next week.
Moreover, the company announced that it planned to begin the in-store shipments soon after that.
“Good news! We'll begin shipping the GSIII pre-orders next week, with in store... |
7 July 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Twitter set the stakes high when its engineering manager said that its search and discovery are "set to change forever" and that "few understand today" the enormity of the impact of this. Now that the official announcement came and the new features were revealed it's easy to see that much of that was true, the s... |
7 July 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving closer to making its Windows 8 operating system available in a final flavor, but will have to get through the RTM milestone first, and some more info on the builds that will emerge in the process has been recently unveiled.
Apparently, the final RTM flavor of Windows 8 won’t land as build ... |
7 July 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Valve is set to debut its yearly Steam Summer Sale soon, perhaps next week on July 12, if current rumors are to be believed and, thanks to some leaked update files, a variety of bundles designed for this promotion have already been revealed.Steam is the most popular digital distribution service on the PC and Mac plat... |
7 July 2012
08:41 GMT |
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An X1.1-class solar flare was produced by the Sun on Friday, July 6. Experts say that the event – which was the most intense recorded this summer – originated in the same sunspot, called AR1515, that triggered two M-class solar flares earlier this week.The new event occurred at 7 pm EDT (2300 GMT). Expert... |
7 July 2012
08:03 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announced yesterday, July 6, that the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is now less than a month away from the Red Planet. It is scheduled to touch down on the slope of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater, on August 6 GM... |
7 July 2012
07:48 GMT |
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As expected, the Yahoo vs. Facebook dispute came to an end with the two companies shaking hands and becoming better friends than ever. At least that's what they're saying officially.
Behind the fake smiles, though, there are hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Facebook acquiring patents to fight back ... |
7 July 2012
07:31 GMT |
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This week, Galaxy Nexus, the latest Google phone out there, has been present on the Google Play Store only with a "coming soon" tag next to it.
The reason is that Apple won an injunction against sales of the device in the United States, and Google and Samsung had to take it off shelves.
However, it appears that t... |
7 July 2012
07:21 GMT |
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We spoke of Compal's situation and now we look at another company that finished analyzing its recent financial evolution, namely ADATA.
According to this report, ADATA's revenues reached NT$2.4 billion (US$80.4 million / 65 million Euro) last month (June 2012).
That's a rise of 44.8% compared to th... |
7 July 2012
07:11 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and NASA the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) last month inaugurated an advanced imaging system on the Palomar Observatory, in California.
The high-tech instrumentation and software pa... |
7 July 2012
06:53 GMT |
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The International Energy Association has recently decided to look into the future of renewable energy sources, and its findings are quite encouraging: over the next five years, green power generation is likely to increase by nearly 40%.
It is noteworthy that emerging markets are presumed to be the ones that will bo... |
7 July 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Compal is a company that builds notebooks which subsequently get sold under brands such as Acer, ASUS, Samsung, Lenovo and Dell.
According to Digitimes, the manufacturer has an idea of how much its shipments will increase, sequentially, during the July-December period.
Long story short, there will be a 50% (or high... |
7 July 2012
06:39 GMT |
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The official website of the Presidency of Paraguay (presidencia.gov.py) has been breached by Paraguay Unlocker Security, a group of Anonymous-affiliated hackers.
The site’s main page has been defaced to host a couple of images and a message to the government.
“[Expletive] this [expletive]. Government... |
7 July 2012
06:32 GMT |
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The color-coded map displayed above documents the changes in atmospheric aerosol concentrations caused by the wildfires currently sweeping through the United States. The natural calamities in Colorado and the Fontenelle Fire, in Wyoming, are the primary sources for the extra aerosols.
The Suomi National Polar-orbiti... |
7 July 2012
06:24 GMT |
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Thunderbird hasn't been a nest of innovation for years now. Mozilla has had people working on it, but new features were added at a slow place. Then again, there wasn't much mode to add, Thunderbird is a desktop email app and accomplishes that job well. Anyone still using desktop email clients is probably mo... |
7 July 2012
06:23 GMT |
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Next week, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless will make the latest flagship Android-based smartphone from Samsung, namely the Galaxy S III, available for its users. The handset has been available for pre-order for the last several weeks, and is currently shipping to those who reserved it, while being set to hit ... |
7 July 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Bulgarian authorities have made public the results of an investigation that targeted Cyber Warrior Invasion, a cybercriminal organization seen as the “most powerful hacker group in Bulgaria.”
The Ministry of Interior has revealed that officers from the country’s Cybercrime Unit and ones from the Ch... |
7 July 2012
06:03 GMT |
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A team of students from Universiti Sains Malaysia decided to take green driving one step further and developed an electric vehicle made from plywood. While most electric cars are environmentally-friendly because they require no fossil fuels in order to run and therefore do not release carbon gas emissions, this Asi... |
7 July 2012
05:48 GMT |
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The High Rate Data (HRD) antenna aboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite has recently been turned on, and is now relaying significant amounts of meteorological data back to mission controllers on Earth.
Suomi NPP is a next-generation spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Cor... |
7 July 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Technology isn't quite at the point where it can respond to mental commands, but it is getting there, thanks to experiments like the one we are about to detail. The Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-embodiment (VERE) group succeeded in adapting fMRI brain activity-sensing technology to their goal. Said goal wa... |
7 July 2012
05:43 GMT |
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After publishing a large number of email databases allegedly obtained from Trend Micro and partner company Sykes, the hacker known as C0mrade returns with another massive data leak. Two files, totaling around 6 gigabytes of information have been posted online, presumably obtained from a number of high-profile compani... |
7 July 2012
05:26 GMT |
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A group of scientists at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that they have recently been able to draw inspiration from nature, and think of an entirely new approach of harvesting energy from the Sun. Their work could lead to new solar conversion technologies.
At this point, commercia... |
7 July 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Ultrabooks have been dragging themselves along, due to being too expensive, among other things, but there are some models that deserve a mention or two. Toshiba's U840W is one of them, even though it does nothing to convince the common man that ultrabooks are what he should buy. In fact, it is one of the more... |
7 July 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Nokia’s latest Symbian device out there, the 808 PureView, is now available for purchase in the United States through Amazon, featuring a price tag of $699 (€570). The smartphone, made official in February this year during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, comes with a 41-megapixel photo snapper on... |
7 July 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park has recently witnessed the birth of a rather large litter of European gray wolves: a total of five pups belonging to this species were born here, making mother Elara and father Puika quite proud.
In the past, gray wolves used to roam the wild areas in this part of the world.
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7 July 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Following the wide range of announcements and events it held last month, Microsoft is getting ready for some more interaction with the world, as its annual Worldwide Partner Conference approaches next week.
The event will take place in Toronto between July 8th and 12th, 2012, and will bring together many of the comp... |
7 July 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have just released this new image of an object called Camelopardalis (U Cam). This is, in fact, a star that is nearing the end of its burning cycle, and is currently producing a nearly perfect sphere of gas as a result.
The star is located at the center of t... |
7 July 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Gearbox Software has revealed the unlockable heads and skins from Borderlands 2 that will be available to players who already experienced Borderlands 1.Borderlands 2 is set to drastically improve upon its predecessor by adding even more weapons, tweaking the level progression system and generally making enhancements ... |
7 July 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Just yesterday, the 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) came to an end.
A bird's eye view over the decisions taken there seems to indicate that, although marine mammals are still left without the sanctuaries they need, there is this hope for the survival of these species.
Most o... |
7 July 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Ultrabooks sales are weak enough even without quality problems, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. In fact, a pair of ASUS models are exhibiting “light bleeding.” “Light bleeding” is when scattered light from the backlight of the display comes through the screen wrong and dist... |
7 July 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Publisher Atlus has announced that Persona 4 Arena, the fighting game spin-off from its anticipated role-playing series, will be region-locked on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and on the Xbox 360. This means that gamers who were planning to buy the Japanese version of the game and then ship them to their own homes wil... |
7 July 2012
04:27 GMT |
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It’s been a while since Microsoft released any new personalization features for Windows 7 users, but a new customization option is now available for those who want to bring some more life to their desktops. Made available for download as the Peru theme for Windows 7 computers, the new personalization option w... |
7 July 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Wine, a piece of software that aims to provide Linux users the “luxury” of running Windows software, is getting more and more important games to work. We’ve figured users would like to know what important titles they can play. A few years back, users could run only a handful of Windows games and m... |
7 July 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Recent studies targeted at public opinion show that, at least in America, there are still quite a lot of people for whom climate change and global warming are merely “tales” which have nothing to do with reality.
Given the record breaking temperatures experienced by American citizens these past few week... |
7 July 2012
04:04 GMT |
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After members of the Tor Project revealed that they found a vulnerability in Cyberoam’s deep packet inspection (DPI) devices, which could allow for traffic to be intercepted, the company responded to the allegations to reassure customers that it was unlikely for this to happen. “HTTPS Deep Scan Inspectio... |
7 July 2012
04:00 GMT |
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28nm chip supply is not at the level where everyone in need of them can get enough, so Globalfoundries figured there is enough room for it among the foundries who manufacture such units. Back in June, we reported on Globalfoundries intention to become the world's top foundry, despite its relative youth. This... |
7 July 2012
03:48 GMT |
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We have previously reported on Japan's restarting its nuclear power plant at Ohi, in spite of numerous protests against this decision.
In an attempt to put an end to the country's use of this rather dangerous energy source, Japanese citizens filed a lawsuit against the government's nuclear energy pol... |
7 July 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Publisher Activision has announced that it is working with developer Terminal Reality on the development of a first-person shooter based on The Walking Dead television series that is airing on AMC.
The show is itself based on the comic book with the same name and the game will be focused on Daryl Dixon and his mothe... |
7 July 2012
03:41 GMT |
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The Olympic Games are about to kick off in London, and Android users unable to go to the UK to attend will have the possibility to stay on top of news from the event, courtesy of a new mobile application.
Available now in the Google Play Store as the Official London 2012 Results app, it was designed to deliver news... |
7 July 2012
03:18 GMT |
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LibreOffice, a free power-packed open source personal productivity suite that provides users with six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base) is now at version 3.6.0 Beta 3. LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta 3 comes with a lot of bugfixe... |
7 July 2012
03:17 GMT |
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There's a new Android malware running in the wild in China, the folks at TrustGo Mobile claim. It looks like the mobile security company announced recently that its TrustGo Security Labs app has discovered a virus aimed at China Mobile's Mobile Market.The new malware is dubbed Trojan!MMarketPay.A@Android, a... |
7 July 2012
03:15 GMT |
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In the end, it appears that Galaxy S III does not have a heating issue, as we were led to believe a few weeks ago when a user reported that his unit had exploded.
The South Korean mobile phone maker has issued an official statement today to confirm that an external source was the actual cause of the explosion.
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7 July 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Developer Funcom believes that, regardless of the means, gamers need to pay in order to get access to a MMO experience with solid mechanics and long-term plans for content.
Ragnar Tornquist, who is the creative director and senior producer at Funcom, has told Rock, Paper, Shotgun that, “We have content plans f... |
7 July 2012
02:47 GMT |
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Flipboard, the application that claims to bring together global news and social news in a stylish magazine, has just received a new update which promises better overall performance.With Flipboard, Android users can browser through their favorite news categories via Twitter timeline as well as from outlets, such as US... |
7 July 2012
02:45 GMT |
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The state of the gaming industry this year isn't that great, as lackluster software sales have made a couple of analysts predict that not even a blockbuster release, like that of Grand Theft Auto V, for example, might improve the situation.GTA V has been awaited for quite some time and, like always, the develope... |
7 July 2012
02:21 GMT |
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Larian Studios has announced that after hitting real brick and mortar store shelves ten years ago, their role-playing game Divine Divinity has been launched on the Steam digital distribution service from Valve, allowing long-term fans to pick it up once again and relive the adventure it offers.Divine Divinity allows ... |
7 July 2012
02:15 GMT |
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Koelnmesse, the organizer of the upcoming Gamescom 2012 convention has just shared some interesting facts about the new expo that takes place between August 15 and 19, including the fact that over 370 exhibitors will be present on the show floor.Gamescom 2012 is set to improve upon the already impressive convention w... |
7 July 2012
01:31 GMT |
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Robert Shingledecker announced a few hours ago, July 7th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.6 Linux operating system. Tiny Core Linux 4.5.6 is yet another small maintenance release, which updates various packages and tools, such as: · Apps GUI was updated to call Busybox md5sum, i... |
7 July 2012
01:25 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that it will attend the San Diego Comic-Con 2012 expo next week and that it's going to bring not just plenty of swag for fans, but also showcase a new downloadable content pack for Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode.The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off next week from July 11 until July 15 ... |
7 July 2012
00:31 GMT |
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