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Apple has confirmed plans to open its newest retail store yet on Saturday, November 14, at 10:00 a.m. Located at 1981 Broadway, on the corner of West 67th Street (New York Upper West Side), the store lies beneath what Apple calls “a breathtaking all-glass arched roof.” The Apple Store Upper West Side is j... |
13 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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A hybrid collective company combining rockstar application and game developers with corporate infrastructure going by the name of acrossair has submitted New York Nearest Subway, an application specifically tailored for the capabilities of the new iPhone 3G S. Described as being one of the first augmented reality ap... |
17 July 2009
04:00 GMT |
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At the beginning of this year, an airplane was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters of the Hudson river in New York. The pilot managed to land the plane safely on the water, after a flock of birds hit one of its engines, forcing it to shut down. Now, using a sophisticated chemical analysis, experts have ... |
9 June 2009
01:42 GMT |
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On Saturday, June 20, an American couple will get married in the weightlessness of an aircraft dive, inside a plane known as The Vomit Comet. The two New Yorkers, Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan, will tie the knot in this fashion because they have both been fascinated by space since their early years, and also because ... |
4 June 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Softpedia has learned that the cover of the June 1, 2009 edition of the New Yorker magazine will feature a picture drawn by artist Jorge Columbo, who only used his iPhone to achieve what you see pictured left. This is the first time a magazine's cover is completely drawn using the Apple handset. While there are... |
26 May 2009
04:47 GMT |
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The current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences may hold insight that could potentially help homeland security agencies in the United States and other western countries untangle the intricate connections of terrorist cells. According to the paper, some similarities may exist between the way social... |
5 May 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Has anyone noticed how much we have been talking about used games lately? Our favorite story related to the subject is the news that there's a fresh charity, named quite simply Donate Games, which aims to get used games from players and sell them in order to get the money needed to support patients suffering fro... |
4 March 2009
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Yesterday morning, Paul Zolezzi, an aspiring male model, committed suicide in the Brooklyn Park in New York, after leaving a suicide note on Facebook, the latest event in a growing trend of announcing one's death via social network websites. The 30-year-old was found hanging on the monkey bars of a playground, i... |
21 February 2009
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Probably terrified of having no other means of resolving New York State's $15 billion deficit, governor David Paterson has recently proposed the implementation of a new tax, one that would virtually address all downloads from the Internet, regardless of their content. Naturally, the announcement has raised... |
17 February 2009
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The tragedy that struck the United States on September 11, 2001, registered such a massive death toll in the end partially because people trapped inside the buildings panicked and ran to windows for salvation, instead of following a carefully-organized evacuation plan, which should have been available for a building ... |
27 January 2009
10:13 GMT |
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The governor of the state of New York, David Paterson, has announced that he plans to introduce new taxes aimed at creating revenue streams for the embattled budget. One of the newly introduced taxations will be aimed at video games, which will be tariffed more in this territorial division, if the state budget for 20... |
19 December 2008
12:01 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, New York's Empire State Development Co. and Public Authorities Control Board have recently approved the plans to transfer $650 million in incentives to the Foundry Company, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s manufacturing spin-off. The funds were given to AMD back in 2006... |
19 December 2008
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On Monday, the New York state economic development arm approved $1.2 billion in state incentives for an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plant to be built in Malta. All five members of the Empire State Development Corp. were in favor of the deal, and took the decision at a special meeting in Manhattan. The incentives rega... |
4 December 2008
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A Grand Jury from the Eastern District of New York has indicted Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, reports Threat Level. He is being accused of conspiring to commit and committing access device fraud and faces a maximum of 30 years in prison. Tenenbaum was arrested last month in Canada, where he is currently being detain... |
31 October 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Although THQ's new sandbox Grand Theft Auto-like game, Saints Row 2, has been on the store shelves for just two days, the title is already surrounded by controversy. Even though it was bound to happen, this one seems pretty serious, as it doesn't come from anti-game fanatics like Jack Thompson, but from the... |
16 October 2008
12:01 GMT |
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The North American division of LG Electronics has recently announced the opening of a new design center in Union Square, New York. This is actually a relocation of LG's old Design Center from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and it comes in order to strengthen the South Korean company's presence in the US. F... |
4 August 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Apple's best known and by far the most glamorous of all its Retail Stores is the Fifth Avenue Apple Retail Store, in New York City. Folks stop by and admire the huge glass cube with a white Apple logo hanging in the middle like it's one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Those lucky Yanks, they get all the ... |
25 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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We all know that Apple's new iPhone 3G will be released on July 11 in the US (and other 22 global markets), so there are about six days left until then. Well, six days don't seem to be enough for some US iPhone fans, as the line in front of Apple's Store in New York has already begun to take shape. Acc... |
5 July 2008
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It only takes one shopping trip and you're completely addicted. That's the way it worked for me and for just about all my friends who braved the distance, went shopping in the UK and were wise - or crazy - enough to cross the threshold of at least one Topshop store. With its distinctively cutting-edge style... |
17 June 2008
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Rumor has it that Apple is planning to film a commercial inside its Fifth Ave Retail Store in New York for the presentation of the new iPhone model. Folks over at the iLife went down there and obtained quite a wealth of clues as to what products are involved in the commercial.The news further fuels suspicions raised ... |
30 May 2008
04:50 GMT |
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Sources are reporting that Apple's clever Back To My Mac feature, available with Macs running the latest version of Apple's OS (Leopard), has helped the New York police catch thieves that ran off with some Macs. Kait Duplaga, an Apple store employee, used the feature to remotely operate one of the stolen Ma... |
12 May 2008
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While New Yorkers are adding two more Apple Retail Stores to the dozens they already have, Mainland China is getting its first. And it's not even a standalone Apple Retail Store, but one that will be situated in the Best Buy store in Shanghai's Xuhui area. That's not bad though, at least for Apple and ... |
21 April 2008
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Activision has just confirmed the rumors about a new Spiderman video game by releasing a teaser trailer (you can download and watch it following the link at the end of the article) and an official website which still lacks most of the information needed, as expected, since the game has just been announced.Dubbed Spid... |
18 April 2008
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Not long ago we revealed that Electronic Arts had commissioned the creation of both an animated movie and of a comic book title to help promote its upcoming Dead Space game. Now Sierra is aiming to do something similar with a comic book that's set to launch in August to endorse its Prototype game.It casts the pl... |
16 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Paris Hilton may be head over heels in love with her new beau, lover boy Benji Madden - however, unfortunately for the socialite's ego - "ordinary" people in the street seem to have no love for her. As you might have heard, the blond disaster named Paris has her own reality show in the making, which will try to ... |
10 April 2008
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Last weekend, the big "wedding story" doing the rounds on the Internet was the alleged marriage of tabloid sweethearts Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Almost a week later, another rumored wedding is taking the media by storm; this time, everybody admits it's only a rumor. However, let's not forget that hip-ho... |
4 April 2008
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The New York Comic Con will feature a special game summit day, on April 20, the last day of the comic convention. The summit is being organized by Epic Games (oh, how I loved that company when it was named MegaGames) and apparently a showcase of Gears of War 2 is being prepared for the attendants.The New York ComicCo... |
3 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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For all the ladies out there with an inclination for shopping in outrageously expensive shops, who have a loaded credit card and care for an extravagant adventure on American soil, here's the ultimate challenge: dig deep in your pockets and fish out no more and no less than $24,000 (plus airfare from wherever in... |
1 April 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Madonna has always been hailed as some sort of glamorous chameleon queen. She never hesitated in taking chances with her looks and her approaches to art (music or otherwise) were often shocking and innovative in style and concept - so when she decided to morph (yet again) from an all-American girl into a would-be Bri... |
17 March 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices officials were reported to have paid a visit to the Malta Town Hall yesterday, in order to present the town officials with an updated version of its plans regarding another semiconductor manufacturing unit in the Luther Forest Technology Campus.The update plans reveal that the company will buil... |
26 February 2008
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It's Britney mania taken to a whole new level! Have a look at this nice compilation put together by one of my favorite gossip sites out there, and you'll see what I mean. If media attention was what Britney was after, then she sure got what she asked for - and then some. Saying that she is the talk of the d... |
10 January 2008
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Kate Moss is sure losing her touch. I mean, really. Not that it's such a huge shock as such, but I would have thought that it would all happen in a more discrete way. You know, gradually. First of all she'd pretend to give up all her modeling contracts, her endorsement deals and the likes. Then she'd c... |
11 December 2007
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Kim K. seems to be doing her best to keep herself in the news lately. And it's sure working out - only this time, it's not another Playboy party or another night of tush-shaking under the lustful eye of...well, every man in this country. Kim, it seems, has grown up and started playing with the big toys now ... |
28 November 2007
03:35 GMT |
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Poor little Paris! Life in Los Angeles has become such a boring, empty activity. Before you think I've gone completely crazy (actually, I was just being ironic), just take a moment and think about it. The Hilton heiress has pretty much done everything she could do in order to keep herself in the news: she starre... |
20 November 2007
04:28 GMT |
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Welcome, everybody, on a stroll through darling Britney's daily madness...that is, life. Today is as good a day as any other for some pretty outrageous rumors, and you'll be glad to hear I decided to offer you some more concentrated Brit news and gossip installment every day from now on and try to sum up th... |
12 November 2007
09:47 GMT |
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Nokia has just started a recycling campaign that will be active until the America Recycles Day 2007, on November 15th. The company looks to diminish the "greenhouse gas" effect through mobile phone recycling.The US Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Benefits Calculator reached the conclusion that, b... |
8 October 2007
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Sprint has chosen Samsung for introducing the mobile WiMAX network infrastructure in New York City. The results of their partnership will be clear towards the end of the year 2008, when the Xohm mobile Internet service will be available. Sprint Nextel has already picked Samsung to provide the solutions and equipment... |
28 August 2007
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The Mountain View company and the New York authorities are working together to build a new technology that would bring several changes to the city's traffic, NY reportedly being the most crowded in the entire world. BigMouthMedia wrote that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is currently collaborating wit... |
24 August 2007
09:03 GMT |
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Diverging from previous Driver games, Parallel Lines takes place in just one city, New York, instead of multiple cities. Due to the underwhelming performance of DRIV3R, particularly the often-derided on-foot sections, Parallel Lines returns to the formula used in earlier games in the series, focusing on driving, alth... |
29 June 2007
10:22 GMT |
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3-D imagery of New York City has been added to the Microsoft Live Search Maps, and can now be accessed from the comfort of your own home with the desktop as your window. With this move, the Redmond Company has filled in the missing cityscape from Virtual Earth's catalog of 3D imagery. While the Big Apple was ind... |
29 May 2007
03:52 GMT |
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Enough Sci-Fi shooters and futuristic racing through outer space. "From the streets that sold over 14 million...designed exclusively for the PSP...40 customizable vehicles...head to head multiplayer," is Driver 76, back and furious to set your handheld gaming system from Sony on fire.The mission-based driving game fr... |
3 May 2007
18:36 GMT |
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Remember the first articles hitting the web with news on the new Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer? They created quite a stir and everyone started casting opinions on whether the game would launch to be another controversial title from Rockstar, or maybe a softer one, leaving out the Hot Coffee scenes. But people know what... |
4 April 2007
05:50 GMT |
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“New York, New York” could be considered the song of every New Yorker, which is why it also is the main theme of this game as well. If you ever imagined yourself hitting it big in the Big Apple, Tycoon City New York could be the place to start for you. Now, if you were 20 years old, had $100,000,000 and lived in Manh... |
7 March 2007
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