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Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006 and available for the PlayStation 2 consoles from Sony, and also for the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii, it is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the v... |
9 July 2008
21:06 GMT |
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T-Mobile UK has added to its line-up of handsets the Nokia 6650 (no, not the old one), a phone first announced back in March, during CeBIT 2008. Following an exclusive partnership with Nokia, T-Mobile is the only carrier that gets the 6650 and it will soon release it in other countries besides the UK. Nokia 6650 is ... |
9 July 2008
21:02 GMT |
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With fast-paced gameplay and state-of-the-art player likenesses, crazy venues where you will be able to test your skills against the NBA pros and intense one-on-one and two-on-two action, NBA Ballers: Chosen One promises to offer an entertaining experience, while confirming Midway's position as the graphical lea... |
9 July 2008
19:41 GMT |
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When was the last time you sat down in front of a computer to fire up a role playing game or an adventure title, and then spent the next 6 hours staring at the screen as you leveled up, talked your way through dialog scenes and battled monsters? I bet that most of you will not remember the last occasion this happened... |
9 July 2008
19:36 GMT |
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NBA Street Homecourt is a streetball game developed by Electronic Arts Canada and published by EA Sports BIG on the 19th of February 2007 in North America, the 22nd of March 2007 in Australia, the 23rd of March 2007 in PAL territories and the 24th of May 2007 in Japan. An interesting thing about the release is that i... |
9 July 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Burnout is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was released in 2001for the PlayStation 2 consoles from Sony but also for the Game Cube and for the original Xbox. The title is classified as a racing and driving game which can be played from a first person and a th... |
9 July 2008
18:31 GMT |
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BurnAgain FS, a CD/DVD multisession burning application for Mac OS X developed by Freeridecoding, has reached version 1.0.2. The software enables users to change the content of their CD as it mounts like a hard drive. The latest release contains several bug fixes.Since BurnAgain FS mounts your data CD or DVD like a h... |
9 July 2008
18:11 GMT |
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After Team Fortress 2 proved to be one of the biggest successes of 2007 as far as multiplayer shooters are concerned, Valve has begun to offer updates for the game, focusing on what could be called "character development". Instead of focusing on only providing new maps and gameplay tweaks, the guys over at Valve have... |
9 July 2008
18:11 GMT |
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Both Apple and AT&T have posted guides for potential iPhone 3G customers to help them see which is the closest Apple Retail Store or AT&T outlet to them. iPhone 3G will be available at over 1,800 AT&T locations across the United States, while only Apple Retail Stores will offer Personal Setup for your new 3G device.N... |
9 July 2008
17:11 GMT |
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When asked about their dream job, a lot of the kids out there want to become doctors. Most of them, though, change their plans along the way because of various reasons. However, most of us still have the feeling that we could've been "excellent doctors" and we would've saved lots of lives and so on. Well, i... |
9 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is a video game created by Eurocom Entertainment Software, and published by Vivendi Universal Games. It was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2 gaming platform from Sony, for the Xbox and for the Game Cube. Billed as an action title, it is played from a third person perspecti... |
9 July 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Speaking during the keynote address at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Brad Brooks, Microsoft's VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing, disclosed the company's plans to counter Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads. The campaign is called "Free the People" and refers to making computing so... |
9 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Atlus is announcing that the launch date for its Persona 4 role playing game is set for December 9. The game, developed for the PlayStation 2, even if most of the mainstream titles tend to move to the PlayStation 3, is set in the same game world as Persona 3, with the action apparently taking place two years after th... |
9 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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You've got to love all these secret projects which get leaked whenever a huge game conference is ready to kick off. Except for tons of rumors regarding a lot of projects that probably never existed, there are still a few that prove to be real - The Last Guy is one of them. And we must admit that we're compl... |
9 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Sony Europe is announcing that Siren: Blood Curse has received a release date and a price. The episodic content game represents the reinvention of a successful PlayStation 2 survival horror title for the PlayStation 3.Because of the episodic nature of the game, it will be split up into four chapters, each consisting ... |
9 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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By the end of this month, Microsoft will give not just a taste of the evolution of its graphics technology by an entire DirectX 11 feast. While so far the Redmond giant has served nothing but crumbs of the successor of DirectX 10.1, the situation will change on July 22-23, and the GameFest 2008 Microsoft Game Techno... |
9 July 2008
13:21 GMT |
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If we are to listen to the ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association), there are two major problems when it comes to the UK's games industry: the rating system, which should be PEGI and the lack of government support, which encourages game developers to migrate to Canada or France, where t... |
9 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The recent history of electronics has been filled with all sorts of devices inspired by some of the most successful movie and TV franchises around (lightsaber remotes, R2-D2 projectors, Batman-inspired gadgets, we've seen them all). And since this year, the hit TV series "Knight Rider" is making a big comeback, ... |
9 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Rogers, together with its subsidiary Fido, the only carriers to offer the iPhone 3G in Canada, will launch Apple's new handset starting 8 AM local time, in six Rogers Plus stores as well as in Fido's flagship store from Montreal. Also, both Fido and Rogers will offer a promotional data plan of 6GB per month... |
9 July 2008
12:58 GMT |
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At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 on July 8, in Huston, Texas, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing, announced that Microsoft was going to go live with the Windows Vista Compatibility Center. It is clear that the Redmond company is fighting the bad aura that is clinching to... |
9 July 2008
12:56 GMT |
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On July 8, 2008 Microsoft gave the green light to the automatic distribution of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V via Windows Update. The hypervisor component of the latest Windows server operating system was finalized at the end of June 2008, and at that time, it went live on the Download Center. Now the Redmond giant is ... |
9 July 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Google has introduced a new feature in order to help its advertisers have a better view of the market. The search volume data are statistics that show the number of queries performed in the past on Google and the affiliate search network that matches the current keywords. Trevor Claiborne, Inside AdWords team member,... |
9 July 2008
12:23 GMT |
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Following the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft seems keen of throwing its entire weight behind its latest Windows client. As far as pushing Vista to the foreground goes, the Redmond company's main gambit was to discontinue offering Windows XP through the retail and OEM channels as of June ... |
9 July 2008
12:09 GMT |
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If you are a football fan, you probably already love Midway's Blitz game - one that takes the beloved sport to a whole new level by bringing the pain to the game. And we all know that whenever violence is involved, we're in for a treat! The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will get a brand new and ... |
9 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Sprint's current and future subscribers will probably be happy to find out that their carrier intends to release at least ten new handsets in the next few moths. Well, two of them are only new color versions of already existing devices, but they can still go as "new products," right? The upcoming handsets are l... |
9 July 2008
12:00 GMT |
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NBA 2K7 is a basketball simulation game published by 2K Sports on the major consoles of the time, including the Xbox 360. One of the most important features brought by the game was the signature player animation, which turned it into a close to reality title.This chapter of the NBA 2K series elevates the standard for... |
9 July 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Server virtualization is an uprising phenomenon for European companies. Surveying enterprise IDC conducted two studies, in 2007 and in the first quarter of 2008, regarding the spread of virtualization, along with the intentions of further use of the technology. On a large sample of big companies and small organizatio... |
9 July 2008
11:22 GMT |
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A few days ago, we were reporting that the EU Parliament would submit Telecom Package to voting. The law in itself was not such a big threat to online privacy, but the amendments were and consequently, numerous privacy watchdogs promptly reacted. Well, it seems that the members of the Parliament voted in favor of th... |
9 July 2008
11:20 GMT |
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The McAfee team has just recently finished analyzing all the data from the S.P.A.M. (short for Spammed Persistently All Month) and a report has been made available. Entitled "Global S.P.A.M. Diaries", the report includes a detailed and comprehensive presentation of all the McAfee findings. Jeff Green, Senior Vice Pr... |
9 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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New York is not the only city where iPhone enthusiasts started waiting in front of the stores for the iPhone 3G. A queue is now formed in Tokyo too, in front of SoftBank's store from the Harajuku district, where the first Japanese iPhone 3G handsets will be sold. Of course, Japan will only get the new iPhone at ... |
9 July 2008
10:36 GMT |
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Fonix Speech has announced a voice-based application for Apple's upcoming iPhone 3G. Fonix iSpeak will enable iPhone 3G users to initiate operations like calling a person or skipping a song in the playlist, simply by speaking the command in natural language. Pricing and launch date are still to be announced, but... |
9 July 2008
10:20 GMT |
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New Rally-X is a classic maze arcade racing game developed by Namco Bandai back in 1981 and Published by Midway. It fits perfectly the Xbox Live Arcade service, though, so it has been re-created and updated to fit today's standards and released on XBLA for all the young Xbox fans to enjoy. The game was a real su... |
9 July 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Producing carbon nanotubes is easy - scientists cracked that secret more than a decade ago, albeit making them grow in an orderly fashion is somewhat more complicated. Or at least it was, because two teams of researchers have recently proven new methods through which carbon nanotubes can be sorted and organized so th... |
9 July 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Peter Moore continues to issue statements regarding the future of EA Sports, maybe the most important division that the gigantic publisher has, and is now talking about how difficult sports games should be in the future.Moore talked to IGN and he stated: "With the 360 and PS3 versions, the real movement you're g... |
9 July 2008
10:14 GMT |
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The ubiquity of the Office productivity suite along that of Windows makes Microsoft's flagship products some of the preferred targets for attacks. In this regard, the Redmond giant warned Office users of new exploits identified in the wild targeting Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3. Bill Sisk, Microsoft Security R... |
9 July 2008
10:03 GMT |
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Motorola VE20 is the name of a new handset that will be soon offered by Sprint, the third largest US mobile carrier. The VE20 was not yet officially announced, but it has recently appeared on the FCC website, together with a Sprint User Manual. The new VE20 is a CDMA EV-DO clamshell that doesn't look too dif... |
9 July 2008
09:58 GMT |
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NCAA Football 07 is a college football video game developed by EA Tiburon and published by EA Sports on the 18th of July 2006. It features USC player Reggie Bush on the cover. Except for that, the fans of the series did not get too many changes and were quite disappointed to find out that they basically got the same ... |
9 July 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Burnout 2: Point of Impact is a video game developed by Criterion Studios and published by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. It was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 gaming consoles from Sony but also for the Game Cube and for the original Xbox. The title is classified as a racing and driving game which can be played f... |
9 July 2008
09:27 GMT |
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It seems that the Gmail's developers truly care for the security of its users. Since you can sign in to the Google account from different locations at the same time, there is the possibility you could forget to sign out of one and then be faced with an invasion of privacy. Thanks to the new feature from Gmail, y... |
9 July 2008
09:26 GMT |
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Without a doubt, Windows Vista, even after Service Pack 1, is at the center of a consistent volume of "Pass" decisions, especially in the corporate environment. Judging by the slow pace of the operating system, which barely crawled over 160 million sold licenses worldwide at the end of June 2008, customers are not ex... |
9 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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The date of retirement for NASA's famous space orbiter draws ever closer by the day; thus, the US space agency has decided to publish the dates of launch for the last eight space shuttle missions expected to take place in 2009 and 2010. The other two flights that will be carried out by the space shuttle this yea... |
9 July 2008
09:23 GMT |
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The Indian authorities are very concerned about the fact that e-mail messages sent through BlackBerry devices cannot be intercepted and the encryption cannot be broken. Why would the Indian Government want access to such private information? It seems that this method of communication was recently used by militants a... |
9 July 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Motorola Z8m, the more advanced South Korean edition of the RIZR Z8 slider, has now new color versions: white and all-black, added to the black/silver one already available. The white version, which has only its margins covered in the pure color, makes the phone look quite distinct. Released in South Korea at the e... |
9 July 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Damn Small Linux (DSL) 4.4.3, the versatile mini desktop Linux distribution, was announced today by its maintainer, Robert Shingledecker. This new version introduces a handful of system modifications:￭ editor.lua was replaced by the Fltk editor;￭ calculator.lua was replaced by flminicalc;￭ exit.l... |
9 July 2008
08:40 GMT |
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According to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology the increase in the number of men suffering from infertility could be directly linked to the increasing number of men suffering from diabetes. Apparently, the DNA damage in sperm cells of men with diabetes is harder to repair by specialized genes,... |
9 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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It would seem that in order to make a few bucks the Russian hackers are not satisfied with the traditional means anymore and are turning to recruitment sites. A nice profit can be made by harvesting all that information and then selling it to interested parties on the black market. The group of hackers responsible fo... |
9 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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NBA 2K8 is a basketball simulation game developed by 2K Sports released in 2007 and considered to be better than its main rival, NBA Live 2008. 2K8 features slam dunk contests and three point shootouts, similar to EA's game. The athlete chosen by 2K Sports to appear on the cover is New Orleans Hornets' Chri... |
9 July 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Out of the 3.7 billion searches conducted in Germany in May 2008, an average of 80.5% was performed with Google sites. Google's supremacy puts to shame the rest of the top ten sites. eBay is second, with 6.2% of the market share, followed by a German property, ProSiebenSat1, whose sites account for 2.4% of the p... |
9 July 2008
08:11 GMT |
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The DNS flaw refers to the way web page addressing is handled on the Internet, and the one who discovered it by accident was Dan Kaminsky. An attacker can take advantage of this security issue and redirect the user to any site, no matter what address the user is trying to access. It would be a great opportunity for ... |
9 July 2008
07:59 GMT |
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Not too long ago a hacker group from Turkey, calling themselves the NetDEvilz, managed to redirect traffic from the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) web pages to another site where they claimed that they were in control of the net. The corpora... |
9 July 2008
07:55 GMT |
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After the recent 4th of July campaign, Storm related spam is once again making the news. The latest Storm spam messages inform you that the US military has invaded Iran and you are of course invited to click on a link and watch video footage directly from the battle scene, but if you do, you will be infected with ir... |
9 July 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Lord Broers draws attention to the fact that UK legislation has serious deficiencies in terms of security. The British Government must take action with regard to three major issues: there is a need for a law that will force organizations to report any data... |
9 July 2008
07:46 GMT |
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On July 8, 2008, Microsoft released a total of four security bulletins plugging soles in both its Windows operating systems as well as in its Server solutions. Even the latest versions of the supported Windows clients, namely Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Window XP Service Pack 3 are affected. However, the Redmond... |
9 July 2008
07:43 GMT |
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A little while back two scientists from Radboud University in the Netherlands, Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs, decided to prove that the Oyster card is not as safe as you may think it is. They managed to surmount all the security features of the card which uses NXP Mifare technology, then took a cloned card and used i... |
9 July 2008
07:43 GMT |
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I'm going to make this easy and simply say that a breathalyzer is a drunk driver's worst nightmare. You might have seen one on television, used on a person or even on you, but how does it work? A breathalyzer is a simple device used by law enforcements to determine whether or not a person driving a certain ... |
9 July 2008
07:36 GMT |
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Samsung announced the release of its i780 smartphone (also known as SGH-i780) for the Indian market, in a partnership with The MobileStore, one of India's largest chains of mobile retail stores. Running on Windows Mobile 6.0, Samsung i780 is a business-oriented handset that packs lots of nice features su... |
9 July 2008
07:25 GMT |
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Delish.com (also delish.msn.com) is designed to be nothing short of a finger licking website, currently cooking and planned for launch in the fall of this year. Hearst Magazines is fully responsible for all the aspects of the baking process, including not only the development and design, but also the editorial appro... |
9 July 2008
06:57 GMT |
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iPhone / iPod touch owners, prepare to get yourself a free game much like Sega's Super Monkeyball, and start tilting your device from left to right to roll a ball through an obstacle course running against the clock - Neverball for iPhone is HERE!The gameplay is fairly similar to that of Sega's Super Monkey... |
9 July 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has removed the "coming soon" sign from the official presentation page of its R300 handset, which means that in the next few days the phone should be available for purchase, probably in India and Europe at first. The R300 was unveiled by the Swedish-Japanese company back in January, at the same time as... |
9 July 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Until now, the only way photographers who posted their pictures on Flickr could get paid was by means of a private negotiation between them and those who wanted to use their ''all rights reserved'' work. Things are about to change. Flickr has just signed an exclusive partnership with Getty Images,... |
9 July 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 is a video game developed by Swordfish Studios Limited and published by Codemasters. It was originally released in 2005 for PCs, Mac and the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony. It is classed as a sports simulator played from an isometric perspective. The title benefits from t... |
9 July 2008
06:37 GMT |
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The brain's ability to make fast decisions in threatening situations may sometimes literally make the difference between life and death. In our more primitive past this would have translated into fast decisions destined to help us escape from the claws of a predator; the situation is analogue even today, even if... |
9 July 2008
06:31 GMT |
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The Bouncer is a video game developed by Dream Factory Co. Ltd and published by Square Co. It was released in 2000 on just one platform, the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony. This is a title which mixes action and role playing game features, and is played from a third person perspective. There are also elements... |
9 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Through the release of Service Pack 1, Microsoft has now added what it referred to as seamless Voice over Internet Protocol integration to its Response Point solution. Starting with the first quarter of 2008, the Redmond giant offered repeated indications of plans to position SP1 as a major feature update to Microsof... |
9 July 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Nvidia seems to finally give us an answer to whether it will make its next generation graphics cards DirectX 10.1 ready or not. The company simply says no to this only because it plans to jump over ATI's DirectX 10.1 and go straight to DirectX 11. Also, its latest PhysX drivers, believed to cheat on 3DMark Vanta... |
9 July 2008
06:16 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Bloomberg scored an interview with Apple retail chief Ron Johnson, who shed more light on how Apple employees will handle the crowds, activate the iPhones and more. Apparently, activating an iPhone with AT&T will take no longer than 10 to 15 minutes, according to Johnson, while iPhone 3G supplies are stil... |
9 July 2008
05:49 GMT |
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AT&T, the largest mobile operator in North America, has announced that, together with a group of famous musicians, it will record an "AT&T Team USA Soundtrack" in order to support and inspire the US Olympic Team participant in this year's edition of the Olympic Games, held in Beijing, China, between August 8 and... |
9 July 2008
05:35 GMT |
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It is generally believed that mosquitoes basically lay their eggs in just about any body of water that they can find. A team of researchers from Tulane University in collaboration with colleagues from several North Carolina State universities however, revealed that yellow fever mosquitoes require precise concentratio... |
9 July 2008
05:34 GMT |
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VoIP is a global application that became popular as a business tool and that, afterwards, was easily adopted by domestic users. While the American and European market for the program are expanding rapidly, the evolution of the Australian one is a bit delayed.The reasons for this vary from the lack of broadband in som... |
9 July 2008
05:32 GMT |
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It seems that following the long teaser campaign with gradual reveals that Blizzard employed before the announcement of Diablo III, Epic, the creators of Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, are also implementing a viral teaser strategy prior to the big announcement at E3 regarding Gears of War 9.The image that accomp... |
9 July 2008
05:32 GMT |
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A few more details on Nvidia's MCP7A chipsets have been revealed, along with some core speeds for the GeForce 9300 and GeForce 9400 boards. The IGP motherboards are expected to come during Q3, as previously announced this year, and they are said to be fully packed and competitive.The two motherboards are also kn... |
9 July 2008
05:29 GMT |
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You probably know that Microsoft is not a total stranger to odd Xbox 360 repair stories, consumer service issues and lots of similar problems. Well, it could be that we just found out the most unbelievable story of them all (and it seems that it's also a real one): a gamer and Xbox 360 fan just got his console b... |
9 July 2008
05:19 GMT |
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Memoires is your very own journal on the Mac. Sporting nothing but two buttons and a search field, it provides the same entry features as TextEdit, allowing you to embed images and insert multi-page PDF documents. The free app has reached version 1.2.43, adding an iCal-styled look, a default font selection in Prefere... |
9 July 2008
05:14 GMT |
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After unveiling the existence of its new Arc clamshell phone (last week), Virgin Mobile has now also made the handset commercially available. As previously announced, the Arc is a basic-featured device that will drain only $49 out of your pocket, credit card or any other place where you usually keep your money. W... |
9 July 2008
04:50 GMT |
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The long debate over a complexly colored fossilized feather belonging to a species of bird that flew in the Earth's skies some 100 million years ago has been settled recently by scientists after they revealed that the coloring patterns were of biological origin, and might contain clues to some of the hues displa... |
9 July 2008
04:38 GMT |
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Square Enix, the developer of some of the most popular console games ever made, has announced the release of Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes for iPod. Apple's iTunes Store has it on sale now in both English and Japanese versions.The plot says that "from the days of old, Melodica was a land of music, a land of f... |
9 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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Intel's Pat Gelsinger stated in a recent interview with the German tech site heise.de that the original Pentium core design had been used as the base of the processor cores featured by Intel's forthcoming Larrabee GPU. Larrabee proves to be a bunch of P54C Pentium cores, pre-MMX, which make the foundation o... |
9 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Whenever you leave your home for a business trip, a laptop (or notebook) is a mandatory accessory. However, most users also pack other devices as well, such as a portable MP3 player, portable printer or projector, or any other accessory that's powered via USB. So, how to accommodate all of these things when you&... |
9 July 2008
04:21 GMT |
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For some users, July 11 is not just the big day when Apple's new iPhone 3G gets to be released, but also the day when AT&T will offer a new version of Palm Centro, which comes dressed in "electric blue". I'm not sure why Palm and AT&T decided to come up with the new Centro exactly on this date (which, by th... |
9 July 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Rockstar has managed to create some of the most controversial games ever and to offend tons of people who had nothing to do with gaming and could not understand that virtual worlds and real life are two completely different things. Anyway, as a result of the offended people's complaints, many ads for Rockstar�... |
9 July 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Jonny Gladwell from Auckland New Zealand is indeed the first iPhone owner... "technically." He's still waiting in front of Vodafone NZ for the launch, but he'll be the first to grab it. Other sources say the first iPhone 3G reviews just came in.Engadget is reporting that Jonny Gladwell from Auckland New Zea... |
9 July 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Believe it or not but Windows 7 will only better Windows. Already labeled as the agent of the evolution of Windows, rather than the platform's revolution, Windows 7 is getting better and better, due mainly to its advances through the stages of the development process, a growth which will guarantee that the final... |
9 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest and most powerful type of electromagnetic radiation that can be emitted in the universe in the outcome of a violent stellar explosion, whose afterglow remains extremely bright up to several hours after the occurrence of the event that generated it. A new study found that afterglows ... |
9 July 2008
03:42 GMT |
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For those who are no longer thrilled by their social online experience, Google has developed something more exotic. Lively is the name of the new project, a 3D animated world for all of us to enjoy. Although the product is not a pioneer of the genre, its strongest point, at the moment, is that it costs no money. With... |
9 July 2008
03:38 GMT |
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If you have watched any of Frank Miller's movies (Sin City, 300 or Spy Kids), one thing must have impressed you a lot: the visual effects. And I know quite a few people who started to wonder why games can't look that, too (of course, there are a few exceptions here, but it's not what we're talking... |
9 July 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Nokia 8208 and Nokia 3608 are two brand new CDMA phones that will be released soon by the Finnish giant manufacturer. The handsets have quietly appeared on Nokia's official website and are presented as running on a Series 40 Users Interface. The 8208 model comes with a dual-sliding design and it's the only ... |
9 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Introversion is announcing that it has entered a partnership with a film production company, called 1066 Productions, and with the television network Channel 4, based in the United Kingdom, to produce a videogame that will be titled Chronometer.Chris DeLay, lead producer at Introversion, has detailed the process that... |
9 July 2008
03:19 GMT |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG has decided to choose Intel as its supplier for chips and other technology related products the company uses for computer-animation operations, deserting its former supplier, AMD. Following the deal, the studio's computing hardware, which includes 1,500 HP server systems, and 1,000 works... |
9 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Japan's SoftBank, the only mobile carrier empowered by Apple to sell the new iPhone 3G in the "The Land of the Rising Sun," issued a report mentioning it would start selling the new device at 7:00 a.m. on Friday.SoftBank, situated at the heart of the Harajuku district, will be opening its doors on Friday morning... |
9 July 2008
03:14 GMT |
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There's a reason why the Hubble telescope was placed in orbit around Earth, and it's a pretty good one too. The lack of any interference from the planet's atmosphere allows it to see objects that modern ground-based telescopes probably never will - such as a newly discovered galaxy that seems to be fil... |
9 July 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Publisher Activision has announced that its shareholders, who had been asked to vote in a special meeting, approved the merger between the company and Vivendi Games, which has ownership of Blizzard and Sierra Games. The announcement did not mention the ratio of the vote or what other steps the two companies have to t... |
9 July 2008
02:41 GMT |
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Cradle of Rome is one of the best selling PC casual titles of 2007 and it only seems natural to learn that a Nintendo DS version will be released by Rising Star Games. Developed by German company carasus.media, the game is expected to be launched in October this year and promises to be at least as addictive as its PC... |
9 July 2008
02:37 GMT |
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OnyX, by Titanium Software, is a free maintenance, optimization, and personalization utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to verify the Startup Disk, the structure of its System files, run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, configure hidden parameters, delete caches, and more. The latest version adds a dozen e... |
9 July 2008
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SSDs (or solid state drives) will represent the next big boom in storage, and for this reason, the main players on the market are already ramping up their production capacities in order to meet future demand. And in order to prove their commitment to this market segment, the Korean giant Samsung has announced that it... |
9 July 2008
01:37 GMT |
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