http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Global Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2010 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:55:38 GMT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:55:38 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Passions-Come-Naturally-for-Children-134484.shtml A new study has revealed that parents seeking to get their children interested in a certain activity are better off letting them explore whatever they want, before finally deciding on what they want to do full-time. Passions for things such as music, sports and a variety of other hobbies are not instilled in the young ones, but are discovered, and researcher... (read more)]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:01:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Passions-Come-Naturally-for-Children-134484.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Passions-Come-Naturally-for-Children-134484.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Secure-Voice-Solution-for-BlackBerry-from-SRA-134495.shtml Leading provider of strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients SRA International, Inc. announced today the launch of its SRA One Vault Voice solution for BlackBerry smartphones. According to the company, the new encrypted voice communications technology is meant to offer users the possibility t... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Secure-Voice-Solution-for-BlackBerry-from-SRA-134495.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Secure-Voice-Solution-for-BlackBerry-from-SRA-134495.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mass-Effect-2-Up-the-Stakes-BioWare-134479.shtml After finishing Mass Effect 2 for a second time, with the stated aim of actually getting as many members of my party killed as possible, and after getting a bit more time to reflect on the game, one element of the experience appears as a clear setback when compared with the first game in the trilogy: the actual final battle.

Sure, it's got a big gu... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mass-Effect-2-Up-the-Stakes-BioWare-134479.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mass-Effect-2-Up-the-Stakes-BioWare-134479.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Use-of-Electronic-Media-Not-Linked-to-Headaches-134468.shtml According to a new scientific study, the use of electronic media is not directly linked to the increase incidence of headaches that children, adolescents and teens experience today. The investigation revolved around youngsters, because they are most likely to get affected if these devices were to pose any harm. The study analyzed the influence tha... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Use-of-Electronic-Media-Not-Linked-to-Headaches-134468.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Use-of-Electronic-Media-Not-Linked-to-Headaches-134468.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Madden-NFL-Coming-to-Facebook-134460.shtml Tired of seeing a variety of messages pop up on your Facebook page without them actually meaning anything to you personally? Soon, some of them will be Madden-themed if EA Sports has its way and manages to move the complete American football simulation experience to the popular social gaming platform.

Peter Moore, who is the president of the EA Sports di... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:21:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Madden-NFL-Coming-to-Facebook-134460.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Madden-NFL-Coming-to-Facebook-134460.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Mobile-Payment-Solution-Comes-from-Mobile-First-134471.shtml Worldwide leader in mobile-billing solutions Mobile First, Inc. announced today the release of Mobile First Mobile Payment processing for all developers and providers of social-networking sites, virtual currency platforms and online games. According to the company, the new solution is available in 40 markets around the world, and can prove a g... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:51:02 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Mobile-Payment-Solution-Comes-from-Mobile-First-134471.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Mobile-Payment-Solution-Comes-from-Mobile-First-134471.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Ultra-PDF-Tools-Review-133881.shtml From the variety of document file formats on the market, the PDF is one of the most versatile and universally used. Apart from the output filesize that can be quite big sometimes and can stress your CPU and RAM, this format is highly customizable. It allows you to insert various images and drawings, regardless of their size, contains various text-editing methods and even ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:11:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Ultra-PDF-Tools-Review-133881.shtml Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Ultra-PDF-Tools-Review-133881.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Cosmin Anton) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Last-Chance-in-the-Social-Web-War-Buzz-for-Gmail-134497.shtml
The way Google sees it, the social web today is like... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:08:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Last-Chance-in-the-Social-Web-War-Buzz-for-Gmail-134497.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Last-Chance-in-the-Social-Web-War-Buzz-for-Gmail-134497.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Revenues-from-Embedded-and-M2M-Devices-to-Top-18-9Billion-by-2014-134456.shtml A recently published report from Juniper Research shows that the revenues from Mobile Connected M2M and Embedded Devices are expected to increase all around the world up to $18.9 billion by 2014. Moreover, the research firm also notes that consumer and commercial telematics applications, as well as in vehicle solutions will acco... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:51:02 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Revenues-from-Embedded-and-M2M-Devices-to-Top-18-9Billion-by-2014-134456.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Revenues-from-Embedded-and-M2M-Devices-to-Top-18-9Billion-by-2014-134456.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Media-Cope-Review-130259.shtml We deal with multimedia files almost on a daily basis. Whether we’re talking about the newest album of our favorite singer or about a new movie, we all want cool multimedia software for our computer. Media Cope is a program that promises to be complete multimedia software by covering all specific areas: video, audio and still pictures.

You can download the app... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:21:02 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Media-Cope-Review-130259.shtml Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Media-Cope-Review-130259.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Raluca Burlacu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Teens-View-on-Suicide-134463.shtml Curious about what teens perceive as grounds for suicide, a scientist has traveled to Australia, Italy and India to find the answer. She was also curios about the values and social significance that teenagers gave to this action, as well as about the attitudes associated with it. The investigator interviewed more than 700 people, aged 18 through 24, in order to get to the ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:01:03 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Teens-View-on-Suicide-134463.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Teens-View-on-Suicide-134463.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/LG-Mini-the-Slimmest-3-2-Inch-Touch-Phone-134442.shtml Worldwide leading technology innovator in mobile communications LG Electronics announced today the launch of a new mobile phone, dubbed LG GD880, or LG Mini. According to the company, the new device comes to the market with a nice range of intelligent features, while also sporting a trendsetting design to complement them.

The new mobile... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:11:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/LG-Mini-the-Slimmest-3-2-Inch-Touch-Phone-134442.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/LG-Mini-the-Slimmest-3-2-Inch-Touch-Phone-134442.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://news.softpedia.com/news/L-A-Noire-Comes-to-the-Xbox-360-134443.shtml L.A. Noire, the mystery thriller that is being created by Team Bondi (for quite some time now) and set to be published by Rockstar, has been confirmed as being in development for the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft, as well as for the PlayStation 3 from Sony, which it was initially announced for.

The game is set to re-create the entire atmo... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:11:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/L-A-Noire-Comes-to-the-Xbox-360-134443.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/L-A-Noire-Comes-to-the-Xbox-360-134443.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Arsenal-of-Democracy-Deploying-on-February-23-134448.shtml Paradox Interactive, as the publisher, and BL-Logic, as the developer, have announced that their World War II strategy title, Arsenal of Democracy, is now code complete and has a release date set for February 23. The grand strategy title should arrive on the PC via digital distribution and will cost interested gamers 19.99 dollars.

Arsen... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:01:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Arsenal-of-Democracy-Deploying-on-February-23-134448.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Arsenal-of-Democracy-Deploying-on-February-23-134448.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Acronis-True-Image-Home-2010-Review-130834.shtml Acronis has made a name for itself in the computer backup and restore business through their flagship product, True Image Home. The application provides an easy means to create backup images of your data, including entire volumes or hard disks, offering a neat way to restore them at a later time.

It can also help you avoid reinstalling the operatin... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Acronis-True-Image-Home-2010-Review-130834.shtml Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Acronis-True-Image-Home-2010-Review-130834.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Ilascu) http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Acronis-True-Image-Home-2010-Review-130949.shtml This is the largest area of Acronis True Image Home 2010, containing all the little things that give extra value to the package. At the top of the list is Startup Recovery Manager, an instrument that lets you boot directly into Acronis instead of Windows by pressing F11 key.

Once enabled, it will allow you to start a limited-featured version of Acr... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Acronis-True-Image-Home-2010-Review-130949.shtml Global http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Acronis-True-Image-Home-2010-Review-130949.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kyocera-to-Demo-Lightest-Smallest-LTE-Base-Station-at-MWC-134399.shtml Kyocera Corporation announced on Monday that it aimed at showcasing the first Long Term Evolution (LTE) micro base station in the world at the upcoming Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, between February 15 – 18. According to the company, its prototype LTE micro base station is expected to prove the world's smallest, ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kyocera-to-Demo-Lightest-Smallest-LTE-Base-Station-at-MWC-134399.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kyocera-to-Demo-Lightest-Smallest-LTE-Base-Station-at-MWC-134399.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Sharing-Goes-Through-the-Roof-134496.shtml To say Facebook is growing isn't really news and it's even somewhat of an understatement. The social network has been adding users like there's no tomorrow and has now reached the 400-million-user mark. However, in certain aspects, Facebook has been growing even faster than it's been adding new users and, every week, there are five times more shared items... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:37:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Sharing-Goes-Through-the-Roof-134496.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Sharing-Goes-Through-the-Roof-134496.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Optimus-is-Here-134494.shtml Back in late 2008, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA surprised everybody with the launch of a new product aimed specifically at the low-end netbook and nettop market. The NVIDIA ION was widely acclaimed as one of the outfit's most interesting products, as it basically enabled OEMs to create low-priced PCs that offered better graphics, compared with what Intel's Atom pl... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Optimus-is-Here-134494.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Optimus-is-Here-134494.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Traian Teglet) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-to-Unveil-bada-Phone-on-Sunday-134493.shtml South Korean mobile-phone maker Samsung seems set to unveil to the world the first mobile phone powered by its newly launched bada operating system this Sunday, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The company already put in place a teaser web page pointing out at February 14 as the day when “A new mobile from Samsung is born,... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:17:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-to-Unveil-bada-Phone-on-Sunday-134493.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-to-Unveil-bada-Phone-on-Sunday-134493.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-LHC-Results-Are-In-134491.shtml When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was reopened, not two months ago, the high-energy physics community was excited that the largest scientific experiment on the planet was operational. Then came the milestone that everyone wanted to see, namely the fact that the machine became the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, exceeding Fermilab's Tevatron. Now, sci... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:05:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-LHC-Results-Are-In-134491.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-LHC-Results-Are-In-134491.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leading-Indian-IT-Provider-Has-Its-Domain-Name-Hijacked-134492.shtml Unidentified hackers were able to hijack the domain name of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest IT and outsourcing provider in India. The DNS servers were apparently altered in order to redirect the domain to a different server.

The attack happened last Sunday, when www.tcs.com displayed a message reading, "This domai... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:02:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leading-Indian-IT-Provider-Has-Its-Domain-Name-Hijacked-134492.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leading-Indian-IT-Provider-Has-Its-Domain-Name-Hijacked-134492.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Cambodia-Labels-Google-Professionally-Irresponsible-in-Border-Dispute-134490.shtml Google is no stranger to controversy. If it isn't Google Books that's getting the company in trouble, it's Street View. And every once in a while, a seemingly innocent product, Google Maps, also puts Google in the middle of the worst type of arguments, politically charged border disputes. Last year, it was India that had a b... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Cambodia-Labels-Google-Professionally-Irresponsible-in-Border-Dispute-134490.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Cambodia-Labels-Google-Professionally-Irresponsible-in-Border-Dispute-134490.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Global-Warming-To-Bring-more-Fragrance-in-the-World-134488.shtml In addition to threatening the low-lying coasts of the world, and bringing about climate changes that would instill extreme weather patterns, global warming will also change water patterns, the way in which land is used, as well as the amount of precipitations that usually befall a certain area. When this happens, plants will start emitting hi... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Global-Warming-To-Bring-more-Fragrance-in-the-World-134488.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Global-Warming-To-Bring-more-Fragrance-in-the-World-134488.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Will-Be-Completely-Different-134487.shtml Even before the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft was hard at work planning the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms. But even though the successor of Windows 7, commonly referred to, even by Microsoft’s own employees, under the codename Windows 8, was in planning, the Redmond company is not sharing any details on the release with ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Will-Be-Completely-Different-134487.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Will-Be-Completely-Different-134487.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-SBSH-FExplorer-Pro-2-1-for-S60-134489.shtml Owners of a mobile phone running under the Symbian S60 operating system have now yet another appealing application available for them, namely SBSH FExplorer Pro 2.1 for S60. SBSH announced today the launch of a new flavor of the software solution, which now includes new touch-designed toolbar, a great addition for those using touch-enabled handsets, as w... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-SBSH-FExplorer-Pro-2-1-for-S60-134489.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-SBSH-FExplorer-Pro-2-1-for-S60-134489.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://news.softpedia.com/news/VTX3D-Also-intros-HD-5570-Graphics-134486.shtml TUL corporation has already released a rather large number of HD 5500 graphics cards through its PowerColor brand, but it seems that its VERTEX3D brand isn't going to be overlooked. VTX30 revealed that its product lineup had expanded with the addition of its ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card. Predictably, similar to all other releases, the card is described as ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:45:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/VTX3D-Also-intros-HD-5570-Graphics-134486.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/VTX3D-Also-intros-HD-5570-Graphics-134486.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Mobile-Accounts-for-18-Market-Share-in-US-134483.shtml According to as recently published report from comScore, Windows Mobile, the operating system delivered to the market by the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, was present in around 18 percent of the smartphone on the United States market at the end of December 2009. The new market share the mobile platform accounts for is one percent lowe... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:33:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Mobile-Accounts-for-18-Market-Share-in-US-134483.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Mobile-Accounts-for-18-Market-Share-in-US-134483.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire) http://news.softpedia.com/news/PowerColor-Branded-HD-5500-Cards-Debut-134482.shtml AMD has only just announced its ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics adapter and already its partners have started launching their respective versions. PowerColor, however, did not limit itself to only the “small” number of four HD 5570 models, but also chose to launch two HD 5550 cards. All devices feature DirectX 11 capabilities and consume less than ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:28:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/PowerColor-Branded-HD-5500-Cards-Debut-134482.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/PowerColor-Branded-HD-5500-Cards-Debut-134482.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Firefox-3-7-Alpha-1-Candidate-134480.shtml With Firefox 3.6 Final made available for download in the second half of January 2010, Mozilla has moved onward and is offering a taste of the evolution of its open source browser. And ‘a taste’ is just the way to describe the pre-Alpha version of Firefox 3.7 that is currently up for grabs for early adopters via the company’s FTP servers.... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Firefox-3-7-Alpha-1-Candidate-134480.shtml Global http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Firefox-3-7-Alpha-1-Candidate-134480.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga)