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German researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) announce that they have made important progress in the development of an ultra-high-resolution imaging technique for biological samples. The new method would use X-ray diffraction to peer inside living cells, and determine the way they are put together,... |
8 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Flying domestically is no longer a luxury in the UK, where the constant price cuts have made this a habit more than anything else. As plane tickets continue to cheapen, environmental advisors are sounding the alarm on the need to put a green tax on all flights, and in particular on the domestic ones, so that pollutio... |
8 December 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Telecommunications solutions provider AT&T announced on Monday that its AT&T U-verse and AT&T High Speed Internet customers could enjoy a new offering for the holiday season. Starting with December 7, anyone who subscribes to the “AT&T ConnecTech Support Plus monthly tech support service” will enjoy a $5... |
8 December 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Though a relatively large number of investigations have revealed that being aboard an airplane while the aircraft flies through the middle of a large thunderstorm is perfectly safe, a new work begs to differ. A number of experts feel that, while flying through large atmospheric fronts, lightning strikes can easily pr... |
8 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The Source engine proved to be an incredibly versatile and flexible tool. The first time it came to light was in 2004, in Counter-Strike: Source and, shortly after, there was Half-Life 2. Now, five years later, the engine is still being put to good use and delivering great games. The recently launched Left 4 Dead 2 h... |
8 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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High heels come with health risks that experts constantly stress, from back pain, to pain in the ball of the foot and sores. Because their love for towering heels can at times be something that they can’t – or don’t wish to – resist, more and more women are turning to the wonders of modern med... |
8 December 2009
15:31 GMT |
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After the videogaming world was left to speculate for some time, Electronic Arts has announced that its Visceral Games studio has been tasked with developing Dead Space 2, a direct sequel of the action title with horror elements published in the fall of 2008. The new iteration is set to be released for the PlayStatio... |
8 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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An unwritten rule says that women with straight hair wish for curly locks, while those with curly hair dream of one day being able to wake up and have it straight without doing damage to it. Researchers have made the first step towards this by discovering a gene that is responsible for curliness, with hopes that, soo... |
8 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Just in time for holidays, the wonderful developers at Google announced a few minutes ago that the Chrome browser for Linux is finally in a beta state and has been added on the official Chrome website for download! The actual version is Google Chrome 4.0.249.30 and it comes with binary packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fe... |
8 December 2009
14:18 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research in Motion announced on Monday the signing of a distribution agreement with Digital China Holdings Limited. Under the terms of the agreement, the handset vendor's BlackBerry smartphones will be delivered to the Chinese market via Digital China, the two companies mentioned. At... |
8 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Jamie Oliver has traveled the world and has done what many thought to be impossible, promoting a healthy lifestyle by healthy eating habits, but even he, an experienced cook, knows that preparing Christmas dinner can be quite a difficult task to accomplish. Experience, Oliver says in a Daily Mail column, has nothing ... |
8 December 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Strategy First Inc. is announcing that it has entered into an agreement with Valve, the company that maintains the Steam digital distribution service, to offer the title 9th Company: The Roots of Terror for download. All gamers who are interested in a tough strategy title dealing with events in the Soviet occupation ... |
8 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Keeping in touch with your friends' activities becomes harder and harder these days and I believe that is the reason why social networking is suck a big success. Unfortunately, not everyone uses the same network and the time you spend checking all your accounts, news and comments grows every day. And, since you... |
8 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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First there was Hulu, the professional content video site which showed that the web was a real alternative to TV. Then came the Hulu for music videos, Vevo which is set to launch later today. Now we're getting the so-called “Hulu for magazines” which, in case you haven't guessed it, aims to do ... |
8 December 2009
12:41 GMT |
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With all the complaints video games received for twisting and destroying the mind of the young and online games, especially MMORPGs being shoved against the walls and blamed for alienating kids, many developers have taken special steps to protect themselves from further accusations. One perfect example is World of Wa... |
8 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The One Laptop per Child organization will soon see its website outfitted with a new online community which will serve as central resource for the global members of OLPC. The non-profit organization enlisted the services of Isobar_Molecular in its plans to develop a suitable platform for this community, which is set ... |
8 December 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Google wants to recreate the world online, at least that's what it looks like, as it's been adding all manner of imagery and data to Google Maps. At first, it was satellite imagery of most parts of the world making for a very interesting perspective one that wasn't available for the public prior to th... |
8 December 2009
11:41 GMT |
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50 Cent is a man driven by ambition, and he’s been so all his life, which is why he’s now come to be known not only as a rapper but also as a businessman. As such, he knows a good opportunity when he sees one and, according to the Mirror, the rapper has set his eyes on Britain’s biggest musical sens... |
8 December 2009
11:25 GMT |
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Samsung's Visual Display Division can now boast a 90% increase in the efficiency of product loading and design. ESI recently implemented its Simulation-Based Design environment, based on the VisualDSS, which aids in the automation of project workflow. The installment automatically generates standard reports, in... |
8 December 2009
11:22 GMT |
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New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Wii, which has just been released on the Japanese market, has managed to sell 936,734 units in its first week in order to break the record for the highest sales registered on debut by a Wii release. The numbers are coming from Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu that also mentions ... |
8 December 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Even though it's not a new software, FlexMail greatly helps users manage their multiple email accounts. Developed by iambic, the application is fully compatible with POP3 and IMAP4 service clients, but also features support for SSL and SOCKS proxies. Further, FlexMail enables users to connect to a wide range of ... |
8 December 2009
11:09 GMT |
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As the year is drawing near the end, the inevitable charts of “Best…” and “Worst…” are starting to pop up in the specialized media. For those wondering which was the biggest one-hit wonder of the decade, Billboard has the answer with the unveiling of the official list of one-hit ... |
8 December 2009
11:09 GMT |
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Earlier this month, OPTi Inc. announced that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued the final judgment in the patent-infringement action between it and Apple. Following the jury’s debate, Apple was found guilty of infringing OPTi’s U.S. patents covering its “pre-sn... |
8 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Experts working with the AIDS Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently announced that they managed to find a type of stem cells that could fight against HIV. The cells can be activated in such a manner, that they instantly start searching and attacking all cells that have been inf... |
8 December 2009
10:57 GMT |
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DataViz, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and leading provider of Microsoft Office compatibility solutions, announced today that it would deliver the Documents To Go Viewer Edition software solution for the users of the newly launched Nokia N900, which is powered by the Maemo 5 operating system. At the same ... |
8 December 2009
10:56 GMT |
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The new Sun Fire X4640 server may use up to eight Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and is the most compact 24-to-48-core system available from tier-one vendors. The server delivers enterprise-class performance and also allows for significant cost savings through combining the Solaris operating system with Sun's i... |
8 December 2009
10:49 GMT |
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While Google is making strides in real-time search, Yahoo has to sit back and work mostly on the front end and the user experience, as the underlying technology is pretty much a dead end facing an imminent replacement once the Microsoft deal gets underway. But it doesn't mean that there's nothing to show, ... |
8 December 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has seen its roadmap for the first half of the next year leaked into the wild a few days ago, and now some additional details on one of the leaked devices emerged. The handset in question is the HTC Bravo, a Snapdragon-powered Android phone, which is now said to turn o... |
8 December 2009
10:39 GMT |
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Announced on December 7th by Warren Woodford and the hard working MEPIS developers, the first Beta release of the upcoming SimplyMEPIS 8.5 operating system is now available for download, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. SimplyMEPIS 8.5 is still based on the Debian Lenny Linux distribution, but it is now powe... |
8 December 2009
10:39 GMT |
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Adam Lambert is one of Barbara Walters’ most influential people of 2009, as we also informed you a short while back. Having made the cut on the television personality’s list, Adam also agreed to do an interview with her, from which bits and pieces have already been revealed to the fans on the ABC official... |
8 December 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Earlier this year (in July, to be precise), developer Realmac Software announced plans to offer Snow Leopard compatibility across its entire lineup of applications, including programs like RapidWeaver and LittleSnapper. The former, now at version 4.3.1, has finally added full support for Snow Leopard, as well as many... |
8 December 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Apple has opened a new section in its iTunes Store, which looks back at the top selling albums, songs, movies, TV shows, apps, audiobooks and Podcasts from 2009. iTunes Rewind, as the section is called, is a feature that gives a glimpse into trends for the past year, with content being presented in the form of editor... |
8 December 2009
10:17 GMT |
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As it has become rather customary, when one hardware manufacturer releases a slightly customized version of a reference product, other rivaling companies would quickly follow suite. In this case, the Radeon HD 5770 graphics adapter from AMD (ATI) was released at a very short interval by not only Sapphire, but also by... |
8 December 2009
10:12 GMT |
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The leading provider of wireless telephony services in the US, AT&T, has seen its fifth iPhone application approved in the App Store. The app, housed in the Utilities segment, offers customers the means to provide feedback regarding their experience with the network. The app’s official App Store description h... |
8 December 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile has just made another high-end smartphone available for its users for free upon the signing of a two year contract agreement, namely the Samsung Memoir. The handset has been unveiled officially to the world back in February 2009, and it is available for purchase from the carrier since the e... |
8 December 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Mariah Carey is, for many, not just a singer who can say she stood the test of time, but also a very strong woman, a woman who overcame obstacles others would have probably crumbled under. Mariah is also an icon of our generation but, at the same time, a woman like all others out there in that she’s a happily m... |
8 December 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Seagate supplemented its launch of the Pulsar solid state drive aimed for enterprise use with the introduction of its upcoming product intended for use in ultraportable mobile PCs. No details on the product's specifications or pricing have been given, but we do know that it will be officially launched on January... |
8 December 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is the first US operator to deploy a 4G network in the country based on the Long Term Evolution technology, and also one of the first around the world to make the move. The carrier already announced its plans to roll-out the network in 25 to 30 markets in the US next year, and n... |
8 December 2009
09:36 GMT |
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“Transformers” director Michael Bay has been handpicked for what many say is the most fortunate job in the world: direct a commercial for Victoria’s Secret, the company making the gorgeous women’s lingerie. This also means, of course, working with stunning models like Marisa Miller and other g... |
8 December 2009
09:21 GMT |
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A person keeping in touch with the iPhone photography blog Iphoneography has sounded the alarm over a developer’s unfair practices of posting positive reviews and five-star ratings to his own apps. Apple was quick to act and removed all 1,000+ applications developed by Molinker. This is not the first time Apple... |
8 December 2009
09:19 GMT |
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Scientists working to innovate the field of nanotechnology are arguing that, in the near future, nanomachines – as in small robots capable of operations at the nanoscale – will undoubtedly be used to fix our bodies, in the hospitals, in the military, and in space exploration. They say that one of the main... |
8 December 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Craigslist and eBay are set to fight it out in the court room as a trial between the two companies gets underway in Delaware, US. eBay has filed a lawsuit against Craigslist in 2008 as the two companies argue about eBay's share in the classifieds site. The auctions site claims that Craigslist diluted its stake ... |
8 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Fujitsu Group aims to aid in the establishment of a worldwide low-carbon society by 2020 and, to this end, it plans to turn its Green Policy Innovation project into a worldwide effort. World leaders decided, during the most recent Group of Eight Summit, that efforts should be made to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by... |
8 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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The world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, Amobee Media Systems, headquartered in Redwood City, California, has announced the successful delivery of a global mobile advertising and campaign management platform for Telefonica. The deployment was made in all 18 of Telefonica's markets, the com... |
8 December 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab's online presence in Portugal has been targeted by a Romanian hacker, who used SQL injection to obtain unrestricted access to the database. According to the attacker, the website contained, at the very least, product licensing information.The self-confessed grey hacker goes by the moniker of "TinKo... |
8 December 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Earlier this year, in October, Robbie Williams officially marked his return to the music scene with a much hyped performance on the popular ITV competition the X Factor. It was supposed to be a once in a lifetime event but, instead, it turned out to be a disappointment to many. Now, Williams is poised to give it anot... |
8 December 2009
08:56 GMT |
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the development of a new method of producing and fine-tuning terahertz quantum cascade lasers. The scientists argue that terahertz radiation has been on experts' minds for many years, but that elusive radiation could not be generated easily, usi... |
8 December 2009
08:50 GMT |
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King Arthur – The Role Playing Wargame is one of the nicest surprises of the later half of the year. Sure, we've reviewed a lot of good games lately but most of them, like Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2 or Dragon Age: Origins, were known quantities when they finally arrived, after months of hype, media pres... |
8 December 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
8 December 2009
08:29 GMT |
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Activision and Infinity Ward's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 proved to be the biggest entertainment launch of all times, in spite of the entire PC controversy that surrounded it. And, with a single-player campaign of just a few hours, it's understandable that the game's community focused on multiplayer... |
8 December 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Everyone loves to play the guessing game when it comes to Facebook's, and other social networks', revenue and worth. Some are more informed than others, but at the end of the day, without any official figures, all they can do is speculate. Not that this is stopping anyone and the Wall Street Journal is rev... |
8 December 2009
08:17 GMT |
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Even though the launch of the next-generation CUDA architecture known as Fermi was postponed until next year, it seems that there are already working samples of the GeForce 100 Fermi-based graphics cards. Earlier today, a picture was posted on NVIDIA's twitter page, which showed the NVIDIA Director of Technical ... |
8 December 2009
08:14 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has, at last, issued Patch 1.24c for fans of its real-time strategy title available for Mac OS X and Windows. The single-player campaign in Warcraft III is laid out similarly to that of StarCraft, being told through all four of the game's races in a progressive manner. A multiplayer mode i... |
8 December 2009
08:05 GMT |
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Every Windows user is well aware of the limitations of the Windows Explorer file managing software delivered with the operating system. Although it has been improved in the latest editions of Windows, there are still drawbacks some users can’t get over. Alternatives to what Windows offers come in different shap... |
8 December 2009
07:26 GMT |
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Supercomputers are generally large collections of processors that work simultaneously on solving complex problems, such as disease cures, global warming, natural-phenomenon analyses, and so on. Naturally, the higher the combined computing power, the faster the solution is found. IBM's Power7 microprocessor, whic... |
8 December 2009
07:15 GMT |
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Web apps can be great for many things and Google is a big supporter of anything that lives in the cloud. But they have one major disadvantage, if there's no Internet connection there's no app. Broadband is becoming ubiquitous in some countries and wireless connections are increasingly available and reliabl... |
8 December 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University Medical Center recently announced that they might have discovered a new explanation for why one of the most common types of anxiety disorders appeared. They argue that the condition may be caused by scrambled neural connections between regions of the cortex dealing with integrati... |
8 December 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced on Monday that it put in place a new promotion for its AT&T U-verse customers. According to the company, new U-verse customers can enjoy $200 promotion cards that can be used for the purchase of a free smartphone from the carrier, as well as other savings options. The carrier also not... |
8 December 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Brain Age 2 is the sequel to the Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training – How Old Is Your Brain, more simply known as just Brain Age in North America. The title is basically a puzzle game, with several others meant to bring the brain out of its vegetative state. It also features some games and tests made to estima... |
8 December 2009
06:52 GMT |
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This week's download update from Nintendo adds more games to your collection, and the first one on the list is My Dolphin for the Wii. Published by T&S Ltd., the 500-Wii Point title will let you enter the world of animal shows, as you step in the shoes of a dolphin trainer. With the use of the Wii Remote and the... |
8 December 2009
06:47 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), working together with colleagues from Sweden, managed to draw amazing correlations between cardiovascular health levels in teenage boys and the likelihood that these individuals would accomplish something later in life. The inves... |
8 December 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Dynasty Tactics 2 is a videogame created and published by KOEI Ltd. Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on September 23, 2003. It is classed as a hybrid between a role playing experience and a strategy game with elements taken from real life history, which is being played fro... |
8 December 2009
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No matter how large or how powerful it is, any corporation is eventually faced with failure. Intel confirmed this on Friday, when it announced yet another, albeit vaguely explained, setback in its development of the Larrabee chip. Still, how a company comes out of such a situation is what defines it in the end, and I... |
8 December 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware’s head of mobile phone virtualization, tells Computerworld that the company plans more than just dual booting smartphones into different OSes. VMware, an expert in desktop computer virtualization solutions, projects that it’ll have such a solution for smartphones by 2012. Mic... |
8 December 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has had some issues recently with two of its latest handsets, the Satio and the Aino. Both of the phones have been struck with software issues, Satio apparently having been affected the most, as retailers from UK pulled it off the shelves. However, the comp... |
8 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Google Analytics has evolved over the years to become a very powerful tool if used to the full extent of its capabilities. The free tool allows webmasters to get detailed information on the visitors to their websites and how they engage with the content. One of the strengths of the product is the possibility to cust... |
8 December 2009
06:19 GMT |
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One of the latest features that the users of BlackBerry smartphones can now enjoy is the availability of various BlackBerry themes at the App World. Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has released a BlackBerry Theme Studio both for consumers and developers, and now some of the first developer themes have... |
8 December 2009
06:04 GMT |
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'Back to Sleep' was an initiative devised by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) some years ago, to make parents aware of the fact that they needed to put their babies to sleep on their backs. This was extremely important, NIH officials said at the time, because it was the only known way to reduce th... |
8 December 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
8 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Google launched Wave to a wider audience a couple of months ago, though it mostly failed to live up to the hype. People were expecting the next-generation communications system, the email killer and got instead a rather complicated service which doesn't really know what it wants to be when it grows up. Neverthe... |
8 December 2009
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Blizzard has just confirmed that it will be releasing the 3.3 patch for World of Warcraft today at a later hour, which was not specified. Meanwhile, all those interested can check out the official patch notes in order to make sure that they are prepared when the patch goes live and the changes are implemented in the ... |
8 December 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Many chip makers are set to withdraw from actual manufacturing and, as a result, the foundry market will likely grow substantially for those which will retain their foundry businesses. Although, currently, Samsung's foundry business only yields a few hundred million dollars per year, with 2007 sales reported to ... |
8 December 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Brain damages are extremely difficult to treat, and the healing process, even when effective, usually takes a long time to complete. Now, researchers say that a diet rich in proteins could be very beneficial for the condition, promoting and accelerating healing. The work was conducted by scientists at the University ... |
8 December 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Google has just announced a new feature for mobile phone users, namely visual search with Google Goggles. While this comes as a brand new and great option for those using the search engine from their mobile phone's browser, there are some other novelties the company brought to its services. Among them, we can c... |
8 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Grey hats hacking for reputation have turned their attention to websites hosted in the nasa.gov domain name space. Websites administered by two NASA centers were compromised in the last few days through SQL injection attacks.The first two incidents involve the websites of the Instrument Systems and Technology Divisio... |
8 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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At the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Tecmo announced that it would be making its play for the third-person shooter market, with its PlayStation 3-exclusive Quantum Theory. The game makes use of the Unreal Engine 3 and showed right from the beginning a blatant similarity with Gears of War 2, Epic's hit that... |
8 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Surprisingly, there is less and less talk of an upcoming iPhone OS update, with Apple fans now focused on “Apple Tablet” talk. Still, security issues plaguing the software keep emerging, while new functionality is always welcome, and Apple loves to innovate. With these two factors on the table, a new iPho... |
8 December 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Forbes magazine named Angelina Jolie the most powerful celebrity of the year. Now, coming to show that recession too makes some exceptions every once in a while, The Hollywood Reporter informs that Jolie remains the highest paid actress in Hollywood, as well as the only one who can actually get the... |
8 December 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Building on its experience with Blade and other enterprise server types, Seagate worked long and hard to put together a powerful and reliable solid state drive, which would offer unparalelled data reliability and security. The Pulsar single level cell NAND solid state drive does not have storage capabilities any high... |
8 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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A new scientific study seems to suggest that cigarette cravings that people who have just quit smoking have may be hindering their ability to concentrate and understand a simple task, without them even knowing this. The cravings also increase the chances of that person's mind wandering. The science group behind ... |
8 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Google made a big splash with the announcement of the real-time search features it's rolling out over the course of a few days. Apart from the feature itself, there's another announcement that warrants some attention, Google has signed a deal with Facebook to integrate data from the world's biggest so... |
8 December 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Leading mobile phone carrier China Mobile and Canadian handset vendor Research In Motion announced today a partnership aimed at supporting the TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE technologies on RIM's BlackBerry smartphone operating system. At the same time, the duo also announced that they planned on launching the BlackBerry ... |
8 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV was a real head-turner back in 2008 when it was launched, but the spinoffs and additional DLC that were made this year just didn't rise to the same results. Ben Schachter, a Broadpoint AmTech analyst, believes that GTA has reached its milking quota for now, as The Lost and Damned and GTA: Chi... |
8 December 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Take Two surprised some videogame analysts by saying that it will lose more money than expected during the current fiscal year. The company is stating that it will be getting less revenue, down to about 950 million dollars, with losses of 1.10 to 1.15 for each share. The outlook for 2010 is also a bit gloomy, as the ... |
8 December 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Two weeks after golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV on his neighbor’s lawn, smashing into a fire hydrant and then into a tree for reasons that are yet under investigation with the police and amidst speculation that he’s been anything but faithful throughout his marriage, his wife seems to have had enough o... |
8 December 2009
04:23 GMT |
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In recent years, Canadian officials have been happy to discover that their country has a large reserve of oil at its disposal, which means that the precious stuff no longer has to be carried from far away and imported at high prices. The only catch is that the oil they found was trapped inside tar sand. Extracting th... |
8 December 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to deliver a wide range of appealing devices during the upcoming year 2010, and some of you might have learned already what the company has in store for us for the first half of the year. A recently leaked presentation from the company unveiled to the world HT... |
8 December 2009
04:10 GMT |
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According to a new set of pieces of evidence, it may be that the asteroid that is thought to have hit our planet more than 65 million years ago, extinguishing most dinosaur species, did not cause widespread fires, as first thought. The data seems to suggest that the impact simply caused our planet's surface to b... |
8 December 2009
04:08 GMT |
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The new release from Dell is a low-priced laptop powered by an Intel processor and the Mobile Intel GS45 Express Chipset ICH9M-Enhanced. This product focuses on low cost and low power usage by making use of a power-efficient and ultra-low voltage CPU. The processor can be either the ultra-low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo... |
8 December 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Few slices of the gaming industry pie-chart are as competitive as the MMO ones. Ever since World of Warcraft proved that it could recruit an army for itself, every other developer has been wanting one too. As such, it's no wonder that Cryptic Studios and Atari have not only announced special incentives meant to ... |
8 December 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it plans to release a new entry in the Lips series in spring 2010, bearing the name Party Classics. The idea is to introduce a new line up of songs more oriented toward singing in the living room with friends and battling to obtain the biggest score. The game will contain more tracks than... |
8 December 2009
03:49 GMT |
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If there was any doubt that real-time was becoming one of the biggest things in search they've been dispelled now that Google has entered the ring all guns blazing. The company held a “Search Event” to make several announcements, though it was scarce with the details beforehand, and it certainly del... |
8 December 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Mobile phone users that enjoy Google's services on their handsets already have now yet another appealing feature available for them, Google Goggles. What this is all about can be resumed in a simple phrase: visual search. In other words, one can benefit from the photo snapper available on the device to take a p... |
8 December 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Boxee, a very attractive service + application for videophiles, is on track to emerge as official public Beta next month, the people in charge with development say. Available as a free download for Mac OS X users, Boxee provides an unmatched entertainment experience. The Beta will deliver not only tons of bug fixes, ... |
8 December 2009
03:35 GMT |
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While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon horde of... |
8 December 2009
03:31 GMT |
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Amid fears that environmental and animal rights groups might have retaliated violently, administrators and other officials running the Oklahoma State University (OSU) decided to pull the plug on an anthrax-vaccine study. The investigation would have claimed the lives of dozen of baboons, which would have been used un... |
8 December 2009
03:27 GMT |
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The much expected and heavily mediated Royal Variety Performance finally took place at the Opera House in Blackpool. Among the many entertainers featured on the bill this year was also Lady Gaga, the eccentric American singer and performer known for her off the wall style of dress and ideas for live shows. Not only d... |
8 December 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Hideki Kamiya may be the founder of Platinum Games, but he is better known as the creator of some of the most original and interesting IPs out there. These include the likes of Devil May Cry and Okami, but also the cheeky Viewtiful Joe. After the original idea was conceived, Capcom was the one that took responsibilit... |
8 December 2009
03:22 GMT |
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A few days ago, Intel disclosed the fact that the development of its Larrabee chip with integrated graphics circuits had failed to progress at the intended pace. Intel, as is the case with such announcements, did not give any specific reasons for the delay, nor did it estimate just how much longer the chip would take... |
8 December 2009
03:15 GMT |
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With Portal 2 not yet confirmed as being in development at Valve, one of the main people behind the first title has announced that she is leaving the company. Kim Swift, regarded as one of the most innovative game designers in the industry, has said that she is moving to developer Airtight Games, which is currently w... |
8 December 2009
03:09 GMT |
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In an interesting turn of events, scientists have determined that taking antidepressants tends to change the personalities of patients, but they say that the changes are probably for the best. The investigation has relied on studying a number of medications that are widely used to treat depression these days. The gro... |
8 December 2009
03:04 GMT |
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It’s just days that Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty caused a ruckus with the German media and authorities after getting up on a stage and singing a banned version of the national anthem, and he’s again in trouble with the law. The rocker was arrested in Berlin a few days ago after making a scene at a p... |
8 December 2009
03:01 GMT |
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On some fronts, it is believed Apple spent as much as $80 million on the recently closed Lala deal. However, others firmly uphold Lala was, in fact, purchased for $17 million by Apple. With the music-streaming company holding around $14M in cash at the time of the acquisition, reports suggest, the Mac maker supposedl... |
8 December 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Cupertino, California-based company Apple was reported about three months ago to plan the official introduction of its highly popular iPhone on the market in Israel, and it seems that users in the country can finally prepare for the device's arrival. This week is said to be the lucky time frame for the iPhone e... |
8 December 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
8 December 2009
02:44 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
8 December 2009
02:37 GMT |
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In what witnesses describe as an impressive, out-of-this-world experience, Virgin Galactic unveiled last night its amazing, new spaceliner prototype, named SpaceShipTwo. After about five years in the making, the spacecraft, which is capable of reaching the upper limits of the atmosphere, can now carry six passengers ... |
8 December 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless promised not too long ago that it would release a software update for the Motorola DROID during the coming weeks, and the operator already started delivering the said new OS flavor. The new software version AP:ESD56/BP:C_01.3E.01P comes towards DROID userrs with a series of impr... |
8 December 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced roughly two months ago the launch of the first mobile phones powered by the latest flavor of its operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, as well as new services for these handsets, such as the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. During these months, we've seen a wide r... |
8 December 2009
02:05 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobi... |
8 December 2009
02:02 GMT |
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When it comes to studying older Sun-like stars, astronomers suddenly find themselves in a bind. They say that their instruments start picking up unusual fluctuations in the stars' brightness. They add that, if they investigate the phenomenon even deeper, then more mystery is added to the original one, and very l... |
8 December 2009
02:02 GMT |
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