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Film Captures One Day of Life on Earth

“Life in a Day” is the name of one of the most impressive projects ever carried out by YouTube. In collaboration with National Geographics, producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald, Internet users compiled a 90-minute film about the things that happened on Earth on July 24th, 2010. The goal of ...

1 November 2011
04:30 GMT

NPD Group: Overall Game Spending in 2010 the Same as in 2009

The NPD Group, the company that tracks hardware and video game sales for the North American market, has announced that internal projections show that overall spending on gaming during 2010 has reached between 15.4 and 15.6 billion dollars, which is pretty much the same number as reported for 2009. The number stand...

20 January 2011
17:51 GMT

107 Trillion Emails Sent in 2010

The internet is hardly a novelty at this point yet, for something many are now taking for granted, the internet continues to grow at a huge pace in all aspects, from the number of sites to the number of people using it. Website monitoring company Pingdom has gathered some of the most interesting stats of the last yea...

13 January 2011
05:31 GMT

Twitter Reveals the Most Powerful and the Most Retweeted Tweets of the Year

Twitter is continuing its 2010 review with a couple of charts to summarize the year for the site. The top 10 most powerful tweets, according to Twitter, have now been revealed and there's some pretty interesting, though predictable, stuff in there. Twitter also revealed the top 10 most retweeted tweets or the ye...

15 December 2010
11:56 GMT

Facebook's 2010 Memology, the Year's Biggest Topic is 'HMU'

All web companies, big and small, are gearing up for some sort of year in review for the end of 2010. Google, Yahoo, Twitter have all started the deluge of information and analysis. Facebook now joins the fray with the release of its 2010 Memology report, the second in the site's history. The report analyzes the...

14 December 2010
06:53 GMT

Top Twitter Trends for 2010

Twitter is continuing its 2010 Year in Review, after first revealing some of the biggest new names to join the site, with a list of top trends for the closing year. The biggest trends of 2010 are rather predictable, a mixture of global events, new technologies and popular entertainment, but the more interesting data ...

13 December 2010
09:24 GMT

100 Million New Twitter Users in 2010 Including Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama

2010 is coming to a close and it's time for the year-end reviews. Yahoo was the first, Google published its Zeitgeist and Twitter is following. It is now looking back at the year and showing off what it achieved. Despite worries about growth slowing down, the site claims 100 million people have joined Twitter th...

10 December 2010
10:08 GMT

Apple Highlights the Top iOS Apps of 2010

iTunes is featuring the top iOS applications for the year. Broken down by categories including top paid, top free, and top grossing, apps are highlighted for each device in part (Phone, iPod touch, iPad). Featuring six categories - top free, top paid and top grossing - the titles are listed as “for iPhone an...

10 December 2010
06:02 GMT

Google’s 2010 Bill for Acquisitions: $1.8 Billion

For anyone not following Google very closely, it would seem that the company is on a somewhat of a acquisition spree of late. It’s buying a new company once a week most of the time and it has made several large acquisitions this year. Google only spent $148 million on the 11 companies it managed to buy in the s...

3 August 2010
07:17 GMT

Ubuntu Developer Week 2010: End Notes

The second and last Ubuntu Developer Week online event for 2010 took place between July 12th to July 16th and covered various aspects of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu development process, from crash-courses in getting started with development to more advanced topics, such as Ubuntu hacking, creating applications for Ubuntu ...

20 July 2010
10:53 GMT

Earth Hour Takes Place March 27

Over the past couple of years, the Earth Hour initiative has become a true phenomenon. The project, which originally started out small in only a few cities, grew year by year to become one of the most impressive displays of people's willingness to fight global warming and climate change. Things will be no differ...

26 March 2010
06:37 GMT

Natural Disasters Already Made 2010 Stand Out

Statisticians show that the current year, 2010, is already well outside the limits of what some would call a “normal” number of casualties produced by natural disasters. Many people have already died due to catastrophe, and Mother Nature unleashed a series of devastating events on us, ranging from earthqu...

12 March 2010
05:59 GMT

Microsoft Released Its Lineup for 2010

It looks like Microsoft's PR just got back from holiday, and while it's back at work, it might still be suffering the after-effects of shore-leave inebriation. Besides being incredibly enthusiastic about their 2010 lineup, the people over at Microsoft are also wishing us a "Happy New Year!" and, while we si...

26 January 2010
04:31 GMT

Apple Posts Record Earnings for Q1 2010

As expected, Apple has announced its financial results for the fiscal 2010 first quarter ended on December 26, 2009. Posting a revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion (or $3.67 per diluted share), the company confirmed an all-time highest revenue and profit. According to the company hea...

26 January 2010
03:05 GMT

Apple Announces FY 10 Q1 Results Conference Call

The company headquartered in Cupertino, California developing the Mac operating system is gearing up for the disclosure of its quarterly earnings for fiscal 2010, as revealed on its web site mere minutes ago. Apple’s FY 10 First Quarter Results Conference Call is scheduled for Monday, January 25, 2:00 p.m. PST/...

21 January 2010
13:14 GMT

Top Web Trends for 2010 - Part III - Programming Trends

This is the third and final part of the Top Web Trends for 2010 editorial in which we previously discussed, analyzed and presented some of the rising general trends taking place in web-based sectors. We first analyzed the top industry trends that have a big chance of changing the way the Internet influences our lives...

21 January 2010
04:58 GMT

Top Web Trends for 2010 - Part II - Web Design Trends

This is the second part of the editorial “Top Web Trends for 2010.” The first part was dedicated to industry news and some of the things we believe will happen in general. We left the more accurate details and predictions to more serious and qualified experts.In this part, we will deal with some trends th...

21 January 2010
03:32 GMT

Apple to Disclose Q1 2010 Financial Results on January 25

Apple’s conference call webcast discussing Q1 - 2010 financial results will begin at 2:00pm PT/5:00pm ET on Monday, January 25, 2010, the company’s website reveals. As usual, attending the conference requires QuickTime. The Mac maker is also believed to have scheduled an event just two days later (January...

12 January 2010
03:00 GMT

GTA V Could Tease Us in 2010

In spite of its attempts to put on a good show and look really brave, Take-Two has proven that a year in which it doesn't have a Grand Theft Auto game to publish is going to be an unprofitable one for the developer. Even with its Borderlands selling more than two million copies, the company ended up below zero o...

28 December 2009
02:39 GMT

Apple Launching Next-Gen iPhone at WWDC 2010, Industry Sources Say

Reports have emerged saying Apple has been ordering yet more parts for a next-gen iPhone set to launch in the second half of 2010, making it likely that Apple will lift the curtain off the device at next year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). A 9to5Mac report informs that Taiwanese sources are suggest...

23 December 2009
09:08 GMT

2010 Will See New Technological Trends

This year was undoubtedly a good one for advanced technologies, in spite of the global economic downturn that saw a lot less money being spent on electronics. But experts estimate that 2010 will be even better. Sneak previews of the products to be displayed at next year's shows and conventions reveal a huge push...

17 December 2009
11:04 GMT

The Cyberathlete Professional League Will Play a Big Role at the Shanghai World Expo of 2010

The next e-sports event involving the Cyberathlete Professional League and Sweden's DreamHack is just next week, but their gathering planned for next year is the more anticipated one. The two organizations will get together at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, and, this time around, it looks like they have more than...

30 November 2009
05:16 GMT

DRAM Shipment to Be Dominated by DDR3, Say Memory Backend Suppliers

Although DDR3 will continue to be rather scarce until next year, suppliers are already busy putting together forecasts, and marketing strategies based on them, concerning total DRAM shipments and the corresponding revenues. Despite the fact that DDR3 has only just been introduced and still isn't widely available...

16 November 2009
07:45 GMT

It's the Swiss Army Knife of Splinter Cell Conviction

In October, a Collector's Edition of Splinter Cell: Conviction made an appearance on an Australian retailer's website. The pack, meant for the PC and Xbox 306, included a bonus DVD, a comic, a Sam Fisher figurine, and a code to download the original Xbox game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory over Xbox Live. Not ...

4 November 2009
04:51 GMT

iPhone 4 in Development, Casing Revealed by Manufacturer (Rumor)

Chinese wholesale and dropship company China Ontrade claims to have received parts that will make up the 2010 iPhone model. The company was the first to start supplying iPhone 3GS parts directly from factory, and was accurate in predicting the phone’s existence before it had been introduced. A wholesale and dro...

3 November 2009
08:41 GMT

Nokia Has Given Up on the N-Gage

There are some things out there that refuse to die and you don't know whether to admire their persistence and refusal to drift away with the tide or disapprove of the old man that won't let go of his empty existence. The Nokia N-Gage is one of them and, if there is a time for the long-forgotten to come back...

2 November 2009
04:24 GMT

The Next Ghost Recon Will Be the Predator

Quite a few games that were under development at Ubisoft have turned out as endless working projects and have yet to come out of the basement. The company’s biggest title that has seen delays after delays is of course Splinter Cell: Conviction, but that doesn't mean it's the only one. After Ghost Reco...

21 October 2009
02:47 GMT

Heavenly Sword's Ninja Theory Makes Postapocalyptic Game

Namco Bandai and Ninja Theory announced back in August, during GamesCom, that they would be working together on a mysterious project. The project, in all its mystery, still received a release date scheduled for 2010. The cat finally came out of the bag today, when Namco Bandai officially announced the game. Ninja The...

30 September 2009
08:36 GMT

EA Sports Puts Frank Shamrock in The Ring

Electronic Arts' newest fighting game, EA Sports MMA, has just landed another famous name for the roster. With an almost fairytale-like, childhood story, Frank Shamrock has quite an image of the American Dream. Placed in several group homes, foster homes and crisis centers from the age of 12, Frank Alisio Juarez...

21 September 2009
05:43 GMT

Holiday Rush of Games Is Due to Lack of Coordination, Michael Pachter Says

As the year is drawing to a close, you can clearly see just how many new video games are lining up to be released at the end of it, right before the winter holiday season. We've already seen many titles be pushed back into 2010 and the trend is still keeping up, and, if we're out of luck, we might see very ...

13 August 2009
02:39 GMT

E3 2010 Show Announced by the ESA

The Entertainment Software Association declared this year's E3 a success and already announced plans that the 2010 edition of the E3 trade show would take place June 15-17 at the same Los Angeles Convention Center. Apparently, the current format of the show will be maintained for the foreseeable future.This year...

9 June 2009
02:35 GMT

IDG World Expo Shifts Macworld 2010 to February

IDG World Expo has responded to feedback from the Mac community of exhibitors, attendees, media and fans of the Macworld Expo announcing that the popular trade show is scheduled to take place February 9 - 13, 2010, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In addition to moving the event to February, Macworld 2010 will...

31 March 2009
05:57 GMT

Be a Part of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics with SEGA

SEGA has sent word that it has extended its partnership with the International Sports Multimedia and the International Olympic Committee in order to be able to create a videogame simulating the various disciplines in which real athletes will compete in the coming winter.The developer of the game will be Eurocom Enter...

16 March 2009
05:26 GMT

Gears of War Movie Is Coming Out in Two Years

Way back in March 2007, New Line Cinema signed a preliminary deal with Microsoft regarding the rights to use the Gears of War intellectual property for a movie or a series of movies. After the game broke all sales records for the Xbox 360, with over 4,5 million units shipped, it seems that the movie project is gettin...

1 April 2008
03:22 GMT

LG Promises to Bring Mobile Projectors by 2010

LG has taken the commitment of making mobile projectors hit the market in 2010. That leaves little time to wait until the small screen of handsets becomes a drawback for this device. Mobile phones tend to "fusion" with other devices towards packing evolved capabilities in the little space of their compact cases. This...

11 September 2007
04:19 GMT


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