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Video game publisher SEGA has released new information about the upcoming London 2012 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games, including a slew of new screenshots that detail the kind of events that players will be able to take part in.The big news is that motion control, meaning both the Kinect for the ... |
17 January 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Samsung has recently announced an exclusive agreement with famous football player David Beckham. According to the agreement, David Beckham will be Samsung's global brand ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Starting this week, Beckham will play a key part in raising awareness of Samsung’s spon... |
10 May 2011
12:31 GMT |
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It seems that publisher SEGA is working on a mysterious new sports title, with the title not yet disclosed, which could again use the highly rated partnership between popular characters Mario and Sonic.
In an interview with Gamesauce Him Selletin, who is a producer working at the Australian studios of SEGA, has re... |
6 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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An international collaboration of architects, engineers and artists has recently released its plans for the new “digital cloud” that will adorn London's skyline pretty soon. The giant, inflatable structures would essentially float on its support pillars, and would be used primarily for displaying mul... |
11 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced today the launch of its Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) communications platform. The company, which is the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in Wireless Communications Equipment, is delivering publicly a solution that has been built to offer users the possib... |
4 November 2009
08:48 GMT |
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A number of scientists, academics and private sector investors in the United Kingdom are at this point testing their newly-developed anti-terrorism weapon, a shoulder-level gun that can immobilize speeding boats. The system it uses is quite ingenious, albeit fairly high-tech. It essentially shoots a net at an incomin... |
14 August 2009
20:11 GMT |
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A new form of fitness is currently being considered for inclusion among the sports at the Olympic Games. While the routine itself dates from many years ago and comes with connotations that would make some blush to the roots of the hairs, the founder of the Pole Fitness Association, Collette Kakuk, is telling Marie Cl... |
11 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Completely taken aback by the massive success they registered with cleaning Beijing's air during the 2008 Olympic Games, authorities in the Chinese capital have now recovered, and are moving towards extending the exemplary accomplishment around the country. The Communist government has for a long time stated tha... |
4 July 2009
07:01 GMT |
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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 |
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SEGA and Nintendo have officially announced that they plan to cooperate on creating a new game partnering up Sonic and Mario. The new game will be titled Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and will be developed for both the Nintendo Wii home console and the Nintendo DS handheld. It is set to be based on sporti... |
13 February 2009
12:41 GMT |
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SEGA announced having entered into a worldwide exclusive agreement with both International Sports Multimedia and with the International Olympic Committee in order to gain an exclusive license related to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, which are to be held in Vancouver. The agreement will allow the publisher to create ... |
10 February 2009
02:17 GMT |
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SEGA is but a shadow of its former self. And so is Sonic the Hedgehog. The only big thing the spiky mammal has done well in the recent years is to partner up with Mario in order to compete in the Olympic games.The team was very successful for SEGA and the company is in no doubt thinking of a sequel. And it seems... |
22 January 2009
17:31 GMT |
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For centuries, researchers have been trying to understand exactly what it is that drives people's facial expressions in specific situations, such as a victory or a defeat in a sports game, or in an award ceremony. Most psychologists thus far believed that this behavior was learned through the power of habit, as ... |
29 December 2008
02:31 GMT |
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This year's Olympic Games saw a number of world records go up in flames, including those for 100 and 200 meter sprints, both knocked down by Usain Bolt. This made Mark Denny, a researcher at Stanford University, wonder how much more humans could gain in speed over the years. He was curious especially about wheth... |
28 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games will debut today (August 8); this is why the Mobile version of Google's official website has undergone through some changes. These have enhanced the search engine in such way that it is now optimized to offer users the best-possible Olympic coverage. More exactly, when sear... |
8 August 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Iusacell, the only full-CDMA mobile carrier from Mexico, announced that it now provides roaming services across China, just in time for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games that will debut on the 8th of August. The services are offered together with Aicent, Inc., a California-based company, which deployed its C... |
6 August 2008
07:23 GMT |
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The Chinese Government assured international media representatives and human rights organizations that they would have full access to the Beijing Olympic Games and all the information they needed. In defiance of this statement, many online resources that foreign journalists need to report from China have been restric... |
31 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Technologies that enable people to stay in touch with major sports events, as the Olympic Games are, have been available for decades. This year's situation - with the Olympics taking place in a communist country, implies certain special measures to ensure the liberty of speech is not infringed upon. Although Chi... |
29 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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As promised more than a month ago, SEGA Mobile has now released the official mobile games of the 2008 Beijing Olympic competition. Called "Beijing 2008" and "Sonic at the Olympic Games", the two new titles will allow mobile gamers to feel the excitement of the famous sporting event, directly from their handsets. "B... |
25 July 2008
08:59 GMT |
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The horse racing track at Olympia, one of the last unsolved puzzles regarding the site where the Greeks first organized the Olympic Games in the eighth century BC, and where the Roman Emperor Nero bought his way to victory was rediscovered by German archaeologists with the help of radar technology, after being lost f... |
25 July 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Shortly after announcing it was named 2008 North America Company of the Year, AT&T has also unveiled that it will offer its customers all the Olympic action from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (August 8 - 24). This will be possible thanks to an agreement with NBC Universal, the giant media and entertainment American ... |
17 July 2008
04:13 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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The title is an interesting, if not great, addition to the Asterix and Obelix gaming universe. The Olympic Games are the perfect venue in which the two protagonists can demonstrate their special capacities, fuelled as they are by the strange concoction brewed by the druids. There are a lot of Olympic events to compet... |
8 July 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Bell Mobility has released an exclusive Samsung handset, named Samsung m530 Canadian Olympic Team Edition. The phone was rumored, since last month, to come via Bell, and now it's officially released and available for purchase from the second largest Canadian mobile operator. With Samsung m530, users can watch ... |
7 July 2008
03:40 GMT |
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As many of us already realized, the worlds of fashion and sports are not as far removed as we might have once believed. In fact, in recent years we have witnessed a definite tendency for collaboration and mutual endorsement between various athletes and labels other than Nike or Adidas, which have long been active pla... |
24 June 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Bell Mobility and Samsung seem to be pretty involved in Canada's participation at this year's edition of the Olympic Games (celebrated in Beijing, China, between August 8 and August 24), as the companies have announced that they will offer Samsung Ace smartphones for every member of Canada's Olympic Te... |
24 June 2008
10:28 GMT |
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The Russian division of Samsung announced today the release of a Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition, which will be the official phone of Russia's Olympic team for the Beijing Olympic Games held in August. The handset will be commercialized as a limited edition, starting the 8th of August � the date when the 200... |
20 June 2008
07:00 GMT |
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With the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing starting in less than two months, Glu Mobile and SEGA have partnered to release two new mobile games that will bring the Olympic adventure to your (or our) handsets. The first game is called, simply, "Beijing 2008" and it's the official mobile game of the famous event, wh... |
18 June 2008
13:29 GMT |
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Just like LG's Secret, which got a new version for South America (KF755, as opposed to the KF750 European version), Samsung TouchWiz has been now announced in a version especially made for Asia: TouchWiz F488. The European edition of the handset is called F480 and, aside from the slightly different name, it'... |
13 June 2008
08:05 GMT |
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What are supercomputers very good at? Well, among other things like simulations, resolving math problems, pattern recognition and so on they are very good at predicting weather changes, so all the weather forecasts for the Beijing Olympic Games will be based on an IBM supercomputer that will continuously update its f... |
27 August 2007
06:19 GMT |
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In a recent interview with Reuters, Sega's corporate director, Masanao Maeda, claims that Sony is compelled to substantially cut the PS3's price by the end of the year to stimulate low demand, as I found via CVG. Earlier talk was about Sony cutting the console's price by Christmas, but it's practi... |
4 July 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista will be absenting from the IT infrastructure built around 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. For the next year's Olympic Games, Windows Vista has lost the race to its predecessor operating system Windows XP. Xie Long, director of Olympic sponsorship for ... |
30 May 2007
05:16 GMT |
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