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Red Alert 3 Multiplayer – Allied Air Power

You've seen how the Empire of the Fading Sun fights and that the Soviets have quite a few tactical aces up their sleeves. Now we're here to talk about that faction which will probably be the least played in multiplayer matches: the multinational Allies.While the Soviets have gotten beefier as a result of th...

7 November 2008
22:01 GMT

Stardock Announces Elemental: War of Magic

Stardock has finally revealed that almost secret title they were alluding on in their report on upcoming titles. It's called Elemental: War of Magic and is set to arrive on the PC in February 2010. The development team is the one that created the Galactic Civilizations II games.The title is set to be a turn base...

7 November 2008
19:51 GMT

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Unlockables II (DS)

The epic story of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker continues, as Link finds himself, in this new adventure, lost and alone in unknown seas. Featuring intuitive, touch-screen controls and innovative puzzles, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass offers new challenges for fans of the series, and an easy-to-grasp in...

7 November 2008
16:21 GMT

Halo Wars Collector's Edition Detailed

Microsoft has announced the details regarding the launch of Halo Wars, the new real time strategy title from Ensemble, which would be the last title the studio ships before closing down. The game is set in the Halo universe, before the adventures of Master Chief as seen in the Halo shooter trilogy.You can get the gam...

7 November 2008
15:21 GMT

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning Unlockables (DS)

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning offers four stunning worlds, each with three distinct levels, providing extensive gameplay. As they evolve throughout the game, players take to the skies with Spyro to battle ruthless enemies, acquire more power and gain new abilities. The game has been developed by Krome Studios ...

7 November 2008
15:01 GMT

Windows 7 Remote Computing Ubiquitous Via One Feature

With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is introducing a new feature designed to make remote computing nothing short of ubiquitous. DirectAccess is essentially set up to bridge remote machines running Windows 7 clients with Windows Server 2008 R2 to the point where Virtual Private Network connections bec...

7 November 2008
14:41 GMT

Sega Announces Mega Drive Collection

Sega is a very popular company, having gained a lot of fans in the 1990s when it was one of the biggest developers and publishers of games for the consoles of the time, like the SNES or PlayStation 1. Although not a lot has been heard about the company these days, it still manages to release quite a few titles that a...

7 November 2008
14:01 GMT

Download the Tool That Helped Bulletproof Windows

Microsoft has made the internal security tool that helped bulletproof the Windows operating system available as a free download. In September 2008, Microsoft announced that it planned to share not only its secure development practices but also the tools it was deploying in order to increase the level of protection fo...

7 November 2008
13:21 GMT

United Kingdom is Wii Fit

The United Kingdom weekly videogame sales chart is dominated, somewhat surprisingly, by Wii Fit. In a week when titles like Fallout 3 and Red Alert 3 were available to players, the fitness oriented release from Nintendo has managed to top the chart, having its third best week of its lifetime in the United Kingdom.Wii...

7 November 2008
12:41 GMT

Electronic Arts Creates New Sims and Casual Label

The casual game market is an extremely big one, and gaming companies are trying everything they can to attract the vast number of casual gamers who tend to like simpler titles and easier to play games.Electronic Arts has been a publisher that was always keen on releasing casual games, and promoting them in order to g...

7 November 2008
12:21 GMT

King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie Hints (DS)

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a first-person shooter-action-adventure game, based on the 2005 film King Kong. It is a collaboration between the film's director, Peter Jackson, and the famed video game designer Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil), remarkable in that such ...

7 November 2008
12:21 GMT

Stylists Weigh In – The Good and Bad of Dark Roots on Blonde Hair

Whenever there’s a movie premiere or some other, star-studded, fancy gala, women know they must keep an eye out for a parade of awesome gowns, sparkling pieces of jewelry and impeccable hairstyles. As of late, however, things seem to have taken a different direction, especially in the case of pop icon Madonna a...

7 November 2008
12:11 GMT

Insight on the Virtual Earth - Photosynth Marriage

Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth has grown with the integration of content from Photosynth. Essentially, Microsoft is now integrating synths into its mapping, location and search platform. This means that Virtual Earth users will no longer be able to explore only aerial, Bird's Eye and satellite imagery, but also ...

7 November 2008
11:24 GMT

Softpedia Recommended Mac Apps of the Week – 07.11.2008

New apps have made their way into our hearts this week. As usual, all three items featured in today's piece are free to download and use – and use them you will, once you hear what they're capable of.SoCal – easily access and manage your iCal tasksEven a 164 KB program can make it as a recommend...

7 November 2008
11:16 GMT

A Communication System for the Outer Space

Mobile Satellite Ventures has been a pioneering company in the field of communication systems. In 2003, they received the first Federal Communications Commission license for their hybrid satellite and ground system, but they had been tapping the possibilities of the concept even before that. Among the approved patent...

7 November 2008
11:16 GMT

Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.18 Drop Next Week

Mozilla is gearing up to make available the next releases of Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0. At the end of September 2008, Firefox 2.0.0.17 and Firefox 3.0.2 stability and security updates were made available for download. By the end of that month, Mozilla was also releasing Firefox 3.0.3, an update designed to resolve ...

7 November 2008
11:03 GMT

Climate Change Forces Turtles to Break Their Cycles

Rising global temperatures seem to affect animal species differently, as proven by the adaptive path turtles in the United States set on in the last decade. While in the 1990s, their nesting period was somewhere in early June, a new extended study, focused on more species, found out that, currently, the amphibians st...

7 November 2008
10:54 GMT

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Unlockables (DS)

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is a farm-simulation video game, published and developed by Marvelous Interactive, in Japan, and released in North America by Natsume, exclusively for the Nintendo DS. It is the fourth installment of the Harvest Moon series on the DS, and the first one to give players the opportunity...

7 November 2008
10:51 GMT

Motorola EM35 – Good on the Music Side

If we were to compare the Motorola EM35 to the movie business, it would go in the category of musicals for this is what the EM35 is best at: keeping you in a good state of mind by listening to music.It is said to be the successor of the EM30 and, surprisingly or not, it's a smartphone running on Linux Montavista...

7 November 2008
10:50 GMT

Ancient Rome in 3D

Passing by the Colosseum or by other ancient Roman ruins always sparks the same dreams, and makes the same questions pop in our minds: “What was it like back then? Is it really true what they say...?” For those who don't have a very vivid imagination, but also for those who do, Virtuality, a high-te...

7 November 2008
10:28 GMT

20 Megapixel Cameras on Mobile Phones from Ericsson

Only four more years and mobile phone maniacs will accomplish their so much desired dreams, something that only few were able to think of - a 20 Megapixel full HD video camera for mobile devices. Of course, nothing is certain but many will surely be tormented by the news until the moment it becomes real.In a rec...

7 November 2008
10:15 GMT

Stalagmite Reveals Parts of China's History

An unusual discovery could provide historians and environmentalists with new ways of looking at China's history and at the way its monsoon cycles influenced the prosperity or the downfall of dynasties, respectively. In an underground cave, explorers discovered a stalagmite that started forming some 1,810 years a...

7 November 2008
10:10 GMT

UFO-Like CPU Cooler Ready for Core i7

There are many ways in which a computer enthusiast can modify their high-performance computer system, ranging from the common modification of the chassis to the integration of different accessories that not only make the PC look more interesting, but also have the potential of improving the system's overall perf...

7 November 2008
10:00 GMT

Speedy Mac 3 Enhances Text Clipping Handling

Altomac has updated Speedy Mac, its utility that allows users to quickly access items necessary for everyday work, by organizing them in a menu. Speedy Mac 3 (build 081) adds the ability to put multiple text clippings into a clipboard, in order to access them from the menu. Other improvements and fixes have made thei...

7 November 2008
09:30 GMT

The Personal Details of Millions of American Patients Stolen by Hackers

Express Scripts, number 135 in 2008's Fortune 500, has announced that, in October, it received a letter through which unknown persons were trying to extort money from the company by threatening to disclose a major security breach. According to the letter, the hackers got their hands on the personal details of mi...

7 November 2008
09:17 GMT

Sunlight Influences Ocean Circulation

A new study, conducted by scientists at the Department of Earth Science from University of California, in Santa Barbara, blatantly contradicts previous theories on the influence of the spread sheets of ice in the Northern hemisphere. The new model, analyzing data as old as 425,000 years, argues that sunlight plays a ...

7 November 2008
08:48 GMT

CyberPower Also Unveils CrossFire X-Enabled Gaming Laptop

Earlier this week, Alienware was ever so proudly announcing the official release of its CrossFire X-enabled M17 gaming laptop, which combined the latest Intel processors with the graphics performance achieved by two ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 GPUs. Now, it seems that Alienware's high-end gaming laptop has...

7 November 2008
08:43 GMT

Mac Mini Fans, Be Patient

In what seems to be an Apple-reply frenzy, a customer who expressed his concern over reports that the Mac mini was dying allegedly got a reassurance call from Apple. The user, interviewed by AppleInsider, claims to have been told to “be patient.”Reports saying Apple is all set for the holiday were apparen...

7 November 2008
08:31 GMT

China Builds World's Biggest Fixed Spectrometer Telescope

Chinese researchers' long dream of building a facility better but still relying on the technology used on a national scale for astronomical search purposes has finally come true. Housed in a building that looks like a nuclear missile silo and a messed up PI symbol lies their latest achievement, the Large sky Are...

7 November 2008
08:29 GMT

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 Cheats V (PS2)

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 is a video game developed by Z-Axis Ltd. and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, for the original Xbox from Microsoft, the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. It was launched in September 2001. The game is classed as a sports title ...

7 November 2008
08:21 GMT

iPhone MMS 'Bridges the Gap'

iPhoneMMS, a web app for iPhone users on O2 in the UK, makes viewing MMS messages easier. It requires an Internet connection, and retrieves your messages from O2 much like o2.co.uk/m, but in a far more user-friendly way, optimized for the iPhone's screen and bandwidth.Basically, iPhone MMS offers users what Appl...

7 November 2008
08:20 GMT

Obama's Space Views

The newly-elected president of the United States will have to come up with a thorough but quick decision related to the fate of the space shuttle retirement program, which, in turn, will also affect the remaining missions, as well as a part of NASA's “Constellation” program referring to the replaceme...

7 November 2008
08:18 GMT

Google's Android Has Been 'Jailbroken'

This translates into very good news for G1 owners who now have a way to use the few inaccessible portions on the phone's Linux-based OS, which were, according to the manufactures, created to protect the system from any type of infestation.After some voices claimed that people should have complete ...

7 November 2008
08:09 GMT

Installing Ubuntu 8.10

Ubuntu 8.10, also known as the Intrepid Ibex, arrived exactly one week ago (on October 30th, 2008), and is the ninth release of Ubuntu OS. The following tutorial will teach you how to install the Ubuntu 8.10 operating system on your PC, and is addressed to people that have just heard about Ubuntu, people that have ne...

7 November 2008
08:05 GMT

Harvest Moon DS Cute Hints (DS)

Harvest Moon DS Cute is a customized version of Harvest Moon DS, which now has content exclusively for girls. The original title is the first game in the farm simulation series developed by Marvelous Interactive, and published by Nintendo, exclusively for the DS handheld consoles. The game was released in Japan on th...

7 November 2008
08:00 GMT

Windows 7 Boot and Shutdown Evolution

In the Windows Vista vs. Windows 7 boot drag race, Microsoft proved the superior performance of the next iteration of the Windows client compared to its precursor. At the Windows hardware Engineering Conference this week, Jon DeVaan, Senior Vice President of the Core Operating System Division, together with Mike Angi...

7 November 2008
07:57 GMT

Microsoft Has Windows Azure Cloud OS, Google Has Nothing

When it comes down to cloud platforms, Google is no contest for Microsoft. During the User Conference for Microsoft Services in Japan, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer pointed out that despite the fact that “Google [is the] number one search company from the cloud,” it “has yet to int...

7 November 2008
07:35 GMT

Animal Crossing: Wild World Hints XXV (DS)

Animal Crossing: Wild World features a very minimal plot. The objective of the game is to pay off a debt to Tom Nook, who allows the player to move into a house he owns. If the mortgage is paid off, the player's house will expand until upstairs, left, right, center and back rooms are included. This is slightly d...

7 November 2008
07:11 GMT

TSMC to Ramp Up 32nm Production in 2009, Plans 22nm for 2011

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is planning to offer to its customers the 22nm technology by 2011, while the 15nm fabrication process is said to go online sometime in 2013. The company also plans to ramp up 32nm production in 2009, according to its latest roadmap. However, these new technologies are...

7 November 2008
07:09 GMT

Rambus Tries to Ban NVIDIA in the US

Earlier this year, when things started to look very bad for the Santa Clara, California-based graphics maker NVIDIA, we reported on a lawsuit involving both the green company and Rambus. Back then, Rambus sued NVIDIA for an alleged infringement of 17 patents, including memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDD...

7 November 2008
07:08 GMT

Autism Can Be Identified with Toys

Diagnosing autism is a challenging task for doctors, which is precisely why the average age for the discovery of the disease is about 3 years for children in the Untied States. These statistics are very concerning, as the affliction can be better treated if it's discovered early or even before it sets in. Recogn...

7 November 2008
07:01 GMT

The World's Biggest Robo-Truck

The Caterpillar 797 model, weighing 700 tons, is already known as the largest truck in the world and used in tasks that require dimensions that support a load of 240 tons. But such tasks, like mining, for instance, are usually highly dangerous jobs and provide extremely difficult environments to drive through. That&#...

7 November 2008
06:59 GMT

Steve Ballmer Confirms Windows Mobile 6.5

Arrived in Australia for Liberation Day, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was invited at a Telstra conference to debate on the future plans of the Redmond giant. After the announcement that delayed Windows Mobile 7.0 for 2010, I was a little disappointed and thought it would not see another update to the current 6....

7 November 2008
06:52 GMT

Darkwatch Unlockables II (PS2)

Darkwatch is a videogame developed by High Moon Studios Inc. and published by Capcom Entertainment Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the original Xbox from Microsoft. It was launched in August 2005. The title is classed as an action game, which has some shooter and horror elements an...

7 November 2008
06:51 GMT

The Windows 7 Operating Systems – Better Together

Ever since Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, Microsoft's Windows client and server operating systems have been virtually joined at the hip. As a future product development strategy, the two platforms will evolve together, an aspect valid not only for Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 ...

7 November 2008
06:48 GMT

Titan Moon from an Air Balloon

Although it's been orbiting Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, for four years now, the Cassini probe hasn't been able to map more than 25% of its surface, because of the atmospheric limitations, as dense fog obscures it from view. Still, together with the Huygens probe, which was sent to roam on the moon, i...

7 November 2008
06:47 GMT

WPA Encryption No Longer Secure

Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe. The two hackers will demonstrate their feat at the upcoming PacSec security conference in Tokyo, Japan.WPA is a protocol that has been widely adopt...

7 November 2008
06:46 GMT

Young African-Americans Are More Affected by Family Issues

Popular belief has it that African-Americans living in poor neighborhoods are more prone to committing crimes than other races. This is not necessarily true, objectively speaking, because their living conditions don't quite match the cozy, suburban lifestyle associated with lower infraction rates. Recent studies...

7 November 2008
06:34 GMT

Intel Mobile Chips Moving to G0 Stepping in 2009

The recent news on Intel unveiled the fact that the giant chip manufacturer plans to release revisions of some of its processors that would feature G0 stepping. According to the news, three of the company's Napa mobile processors, namely the 2.16 GHz T7400 and 1.50 GHz L7400, both Core 2 Duo, as well as the Cele...

7 November 2008
06:33 GMT

Sandvox 1.5.2 Adds New Background Works, Hidden Preferences

Karelia Software has updated Sandvox, a website-creation tool for Mac OS X. Version 1.5.2 adds five new features and a truckload of tweaks and bug fixes. Among the new additions are new background capabilities (autosave and snapshots), the ability to read Firefox cookies for the auto-detection of registration codes, ...

7 November 2008
06:22 GMT

Palm Treo Pro Available Through Vodafone New Zealand

In an attempt to save its smartphone sales, the US-based company Palm announced that it would launch its latest high-end device, Palm Treo Pro, in New Zealand. The smartphone is available through Vodafone New Zealand for a recommended retail price of $760 USD or $1,300 NZD. Treo Pro is the first Pocket PC developed b...

7 November 2008
06:16 GMT

Moon's Volcanic Activity Longer Than Previously Believed

Images recently sent from the Japanese Moon orbiter KAGUYA (Japanese for “SELENE”) show that the volcanic activity on the far side of Earth's natural satellite may have ended later than scientists previously thought. Latest estimations appreciate that the last such activity occurred in the region ab...

7 November 2008
06:00 GMT

Supermodels Make Men More Attentive to Themselves

Some people say that magazines featuring supermodels cause feelings of insecurity in most women buying them. They try to change their appearances so that they would closely resemble their idols. However, no one would have guessed that the same thing applied to men. Don't get the wrong idea, they don't want ...

7 November 2008
05:58 GMT

Powerboat Challenge Makes Waves on iPhone

FISHLABS has released Powerboat Challenge on the iTunes App Store. iPhone and iPod touch users, running firmware 2.0 or higher, can grab the title for $3.99, and choose from four cool characters with stylish racing boats, which they can also tune for more speed and excitement.Reports emerged, after the game's re...

7 November 2008
05:47 GMT

Larrabee for Workstations in 2009, No XP Drivers

The latest news on Larrabee unveils that it will come as a workstation product. It seems that Intel intends to release it in the second half of the next year, targeting the high-end market. The giant chip manufacturer appears to be planning to have the new chip on that segment of the market considered to be the most ...

7 November 2008
05:43 GMT

The New Samsung Line of Phones Uncovered in the US

Samsung is ending 2008 strong with a new line of phones in the US, the Behold T919 from T-Mobile, the SGH-A777 and the Eternity A867 from AT&T, the SCH R600 Hue II from Alltel, the Saga I770, the Omnia I910 and the Renown U810 from Verizon Wireless.The Behold T919 will probably make a lot of people interested in it a...

7 November 2008
05:37 GMT

Microsoft to Patch Just 1 Critical Vulnerability in Vista SP1 and XP SP3

Microsoft plans to patch a single critical vulnerability impacting Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 next week. The update will be released as an integral part of the company's monthly patch cycle scheduled for release on November 11, 2008. It will be an easy month for Microsoft, as the ...

7 November 2008
05:29 GMT

Nintendo DSi Is Big in Japan

The big news for us videogame lovers is not the United States presidential election but the launch of the Nintendo DSi on the Japanese market. The new Nintendo made handheld is supposed to represent an evolution of the DS concept. The main draw of the console is that it adds not one but two cameras to the device, as...

7 November 2008
05:25 GMT

The Link Between Social Interaction and Gene Expression

Biologists conducting studies on the behavior of social animals found that gene expressions change depending on the situation, so as to modify the overall behavior of the animal. This connection was hinted at in previous studies, dating as back as 1992, and genetics say it's no surprise that genes are influenced...

7 November 2008
05:23 GMT

Direct3D 11 with New Features in Windows 7

Microsoft has issued a paper that summarizes the new features and enhancements brought to desktop and graphics architecture in Windows 7, and also provides guidelines and system design recommendations. The paper has been issued for system designers, display driver developers, and test managers at OEMs and IHVs intere...

7 November 2008
04:54 GMT

Sparkle Adds GeForce Overclocking Utility

Sparkle, one of NVIDIA's largest board partners, has just introduced a new overclocking tool designed for the company's high-end graphics cards, expected to be bundled with the Sparkle-designed GeForce cards. The software utility will allow NVIDIA graphics card owners to easily overclock their car...

7 November 2008
04:54 GMT

Europe Gets Uncensored Version of Mortal Kombat vs DC

Mortal Kombat vs DC is going to be a pretty interesting title, promising to put the fighters of the extremely popular Mortal Kombat game series against all of the superheroes and villains of the DC comics universe.The game is set to be launched on November 16 in the United States and on November 21 in Europe and othe...

7 November 2008
04:51 GMT

Arginine Deprivation Stops Pancreatic Cancer Development

New scientific studies, conducted by researchers at the University of California – Davis (UCD), showed that the amino-acid arginine is essential to pancreatic cancer cells, in that they need it in order to be able to divide and multiply. By artificially reducing arginine levels in culture cells, using modified ...

7 November 2008
04:48 GMT

X3: Terran Conflict Gets Patched

Egosoft announces having released the 1.2.1 patch for X3: Terran Conflict, the space sim set to offer the definitive X experience to PC gamers. You can get the game from Steam if you are interested in digital download; in fact, you don't need this patch as the Steam service will automatically update all the game...

7 November 2008
04:45 GMT

IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 Beta Supports Mac OS X

“The wait is over... Lotus Symphony 1.2 delivers beta support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel),” IBM has announced. So as to be able to release an enhanced, “Generally Available” Mac version in Q1 09, IBM encourages everyone who owns an Intel Mac to try it out and provide feedback.IBM's Lotus Sy...

7 November 2008
04:45 GMT

Microsoft Applauds 1.1 Petabytes SQL Server 2008 Database

Officially launched in February 2008, but released to manufacturing in early August, SQL Server 2008 is already at the top of the data warehousing and transaction processing game worldwide. The Redmond company applauded the fact that its data management and business intelligence platform could support applications ca...

7 November 2008
04:43 GMT

Organize Photos at Light Speed

Photon is a super-fast image organizer that is designed for both beginners and professionals in the art of photography, allowing them to organize, view, sort and convert images at light speed. The intelligent on-demand caching engine provided by Photon will load high-resolution, extra-large images and make them avail...

7 November 2008
04:41 GMT

Dark Cloud 2 Hints X (PS2)

Dark Cloud 2 is a video game developed by Level 5 Inc. and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated. Created exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, it was released in December 2002. The title is classed as an action and role playing game, played from a third person perspective.While Dark Cl...

7 November 2008
04:31 GMT

Here's the Fallout 3 Patch 4.7 Million Users Have Been Waiting For

Fallout 3 was one of the most expected titles this year, largely due to the massive fan base that this post apocalyptic series has. Although there were some worries regarding the fact that Bethesda Softworks, the company responsible for the hit RPG series The Elder Scrolls, took this project from the original develop...

7 November 2008
04:26 GMT

The US Is Running Low On Nuclear Residue Disposal Sites

Disposing of nuclear wastes is a tricky business, and countries wanting to get rid of the used fuel of their reactors must find appropriate places to do this, and must also build suitable facilities, to prevent any contamination to surrounding areas. The best way to do this is in an underground deposit, where thick c...

7 November 2008
04:25 GMT

Players Always Come Back to WoW, Says Blizzard

The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is a very tough one, dominated by Blizzard Entertainment's hugely popular World of Warcraft. This game holds over 65% of the market, and, although other titles have appeared, like Age of Conan or Warhammer Online, it still maintained its populari...

7 November 2008
04:14 GMT

France Wants to Ban Videogame Pirates

The French Senate, one of the two bodies which must approve a bill before it can become law, has just passed a measure aimed at banning “persistent pirates” from using the Internet. The measure was passed with an overwhelming majority. There were 297 votes for it and only 15 votes against it.The idea is t...

7 November 2008
04:10 GMT

Windows 7 Available 2009 Holiday Season, RTM Mid-2009

Microsoft continues not to commit to an official release date for Windows 7, while managing to just send out signals indicating that the next iteration of the Windows client would ship next year, and would be available to the general public ahead of the 2009 holiday season. During a presentation of the Velocity progr...

7 November 2008
04:02 GMT

ASUS Intros 12-inch N20A Ultraportable

ASUS first released its non-Eee N10 notebook in September this year and, as some of you might remember, this small-sized, ultra-portable computer system was powered by the same Intel Atom processor, running at 1.6GHz, that was featured in almost every other netbook on the market. With the official unveiling of the N...

7 November 2008
04:00 GMT

Hybrid Technology Unstable under Windows 7

The upcoming operating system designed by Microsoft, dubbed Windows 7, promises a lot in terms of performance when compared to the currently available products of the company, and this is the software developer's position as well. Thus, the Redmond giant partnered with hardware manufacturers so as to provide cus...

7 November 2008
03:44 GMT

Robotic, Non-Invasive Surgeons on the Way

Patients who need surgery, especially those suffering from prostate-related illnesses, will be happy to know that technology has made a great step forward towards the incision-free, robot-controlled surgery. New devices will use natural orifices and the vast inner-body network to find the ailing spot and perform pre...

7 November 2008
03:43 GMT

A 6°C Rise in Temperature Would Mean Annihilation

Our ever-increasing demand for electrical energy may be our downfall as a civilization, energy economists announced in IEA's report 2008 World Energy Outlook. More and more burnt fossil fuel means increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which in turn trap sunlight and create the warming effect ...

7 November 2008
03:40 GMT

StuffIt Compression Utility Improved – V. 13.0.2

Smith Micro Software has updated StuffIt, its powerful archive utility. All three versions of the compression tool have received improvements, all of which are listed below, followed by download links for you to update your current version, buy your own license, or try the software for free for a whole month.StuffIt ...

7 November 2008
03:39 GMT

Rock Band Leads MTV Profits

MTV ratings are plummeting as more teenagers listen to music on the go or online. Paramount branded movies are not doing great at the box office. But MTV Games and Harmonix are going strong and making money for all the involved parties.Viacom's profit went down by 37% this year. But the weirdly named “anci...

7 November 2008
03:33 GMT

Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 Arrives on November 17

The competition in the music game genre is a very tough one, with the two major titles, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, having a big market share. There are other games, like Wii Music, that try to make it on the market, but the loyal fans of the aforementioned two can't be constrained to abandon their favorite title...

7 November 2008
03:32 GMT

NVIDIA Unveils New Quadro FX GPUs for Professional Workstation Graphics

With NVIDIA having lost the number one spot in the high-performance consumer graphics card market, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker is now concentrating its efforts on its professional business segment, with the Quadro lineup of graphic processors. The green company has just introduced two new products, s...

7 November 2008
03:20 GMT

Wii Music Development Was Easy, Says Miyamoto

The music game genre is in full development and has gained a massive amount of popularity in a relatively short time. The two big leaders of the market, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, already have a pretty loyal fan base that can hardly wait to get their hands on the new songs launched as DLC (Downloadable Content).With ...

7 November 2008
03:12 GMT

Beta-Alanine Restores Muscle Vitality in the Elderly

Muscle deterioration is one of the main discomforts that older people experience with age, as falls and fatigue occur often. This limits their movement and, sometimes, doesn't allow them to take care of themselves. So elderly suffering from muscle problems experience health issues and mental discomfort at the sa...

7 November 2008
03:11 GMT

Galcon Lite Is Free for iPhone and iPod Touch

Developer Phil Hassey released Galcon for iPhone and iPod touch a while ago, pricing it at close to ten bucks. Later on, Galcon saw a substantial drop in price, down to $4.99 (the fee users currently have to pay for the app), while a Lite version was also released recently. The latter is free to download and pla...

7 November 2008
02:58 GMT

The Leopard Features Your Friends Don't Know About

Every Mac user likes to think that he knows every trick in the OS X book and I’m sure that you are one of those who do know what Leopard really is about. I wrote this article for the newly arrived users in the Mac community, those who might not know every new feature Apple has delivered to the Mac desktop with...

7 November 2008
02:51 GMT

NVIDIA's Q3 Profits Dropped Sharply

NVIDIA, a leading manufacturer of graphics cards, has registered a rather bad third quarter this year, as showed by the announced quarterly earnings. Even so, while the profits went down compared to last year, the revenue the company registered is better than what was forecast. The green manufacturer ended on October...

7 November 2008
02:45 GMT

Microbes as Biofuel Sources

A microbe that thrives inside the trunk of a tree could prove to be the future source of biofuels. It was discovered by mistake in an undisclosed location in the northern Patagonian woods. The team of researchers who came upon it and who tapped the potential of their finding have dubbed the resulting hydrocarbon com...

7 November 2008
02:43 GMT

Gears of War 2 Developer Talks About Weapon Balance

Gears of War 2 is going to be a massive game, promising to bring back the mindless fun of the first title with a more intricate and developed story, and it is set to hit the worldwide store shelves today, with a lot of retailers holding midnight launch events to celebrate this very popular game.One of the key aspects...

7 November 2008
02:42 GMT

Solar Panel Production Releases Dangerous Chemical

Recent scientific studies have discovered that a byproduct of the solar industry, a gas called Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3), has 17,000 times the potential of carbon dioxide, in trapping heat inside Earth's atmosphere. The worst part about this is that there are currently no regulations to limit or prevent the use...

7 November 2008
02:36 GMT

Dark Cloud Hints X (PS2)

Dark Cloud is a video game developed by Level 5 Inc. and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated. Created exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, it was released in December 2000. The title is classed as an action and role playing game, played from a third person perspective.Over 400 years ...

7 November 2008
02:15 GMT

Fujitsu Siemens Computers and OMV Partner

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has been selected by OMV AG, leading oil and gas group in Europe, as technology partner. The two entities have signed a contract for IT infrastructure and services spread across 30 countries. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has been chosen from a list of major IT vendors and will take care of the ...

7 November 2008
02:10 GMT


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