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Prototype is one of this summer's most anticipated titles, promising to deliver a massive open-world game in which gamers will play as Alex Mercer, a normal everyday man who, due to an unfortunate turn of events, now has mutant superpowers and must escape an Army-filled New York by using his powers against them ... |
7 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer, has begun selling the Nintendo Wii version of World of Goo that until now was only available through the WiiWare service handled directly by Nintendo.The fact that only one game is being sold at the moment suggests that Amazon is testing the waters as it is preparing to l... |
24 April 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Amazon has just made another foray into the videogame market by introducing an Xbox Live Store, which allows all those interested to buy games that Microsoft puts on Xbox Live through the popular online store.It seems that this is only a step and that Amazon is also working on agreements with Sony, which publishes ga... |
9 April 2009
02:54 GMT |
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The Brazilian government seems determined to build a number of dams on some of the largest tributaries of the Amazon river, the mightiest flow of water in the world. The first to enter the eyesight is, naturally, the Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon and home to more than 600 species of fish, of which ... |
6 April 2009
09:46 GMT |
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NeuStar's UltraDNS service, used by many important businesses and organizations worldwide, has been the target of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, making several popular websites hard to reach or completely inaccessible. The company has contained the attack and operations have returned t... |
2 April 2009
05:46 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is a phenomenal console, as it has managed to dominate all of its main rivals, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, in terms of sales ever since its launch. It introduced new concepts to gaming and, with a big library of titles, has almost single handedly created a new type of gamer, the casual one.Se... |
31 March 2009
03:07 GMT |
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T-Mobile's G1 is now reported to get an updated operating system, namely the highly expected “Cupcake” Android update, as soon as next month. As many of you might already know, the new platform was expected to surface in the wild about two months ago for the first time, yet it seems that this time it... |
12 March 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Let's do a little recap: GameStop has been reporting very good financial results, in part as a consequence of the used games business that it sustains and being the only big retailer on the market; Toys R Us begins a test run in New York stores, trading in videogames for in game credit; Best Buy is also reported... |
10 March 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Amazon has released Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch. The new app is available for free from Apple's App Store and lets users browse and download / buy over 240,000 books. Via a simple interface, users wirelessly transfer the books to their iPhone or iPod touch, including New York Times Best Sellers and most new... |
5 March 2009
09:31 GMT |
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A new computer model shows that droughts triggered by global warming will in the future affect the Amazon so hard, that it could cause a widespread drought, which will in turn have devastating consequences on the world. If the rain forest in the Amazon region burns, then the rain patterns throughout the globe will ch... |
10 February 2009
06:55 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Amazon is “working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, available on a variety of mobile phones.” The latest version of Kindle, the electronic book reader, is expected to launch next week, and the company seems ready to make the books ava... |
6 February 2009
09:22 GMT |
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On account of the economic downturn, several states are pondering the possibility of starting to collect taxes on Internet purchases, in an attempt to address the worsening state of their budgets. Naturally, the move sparked vivid controversy, and online stores are thoroughly displeased with the proposed measure, as ... |
13 January 2009
02:12 GMT |
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Amazon and other retailers are set to ship Apple's new iLife '09 and iWork '09 suites to customers everywhere, offering free shipping, 9to5mac reports. Customers can pre-order either one, or both of the application suites, including a Mac Box Set Family Pack. iLife '09, slated for a February 20, 2... |
9 January 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Does anyone need more proof regarding the impact of the world wide economic crisis on the videogames market? Those who do should look no further than the recent data offered by Video Game Price Charts, which is a pricing data site watching the way the so called “gray market” is evolving. Basically, the si... |
8 January 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Amazaon.com announced that, at the begging of this year, it would integrate Roku Digital Video Player in its range of services, in order to offer users the possibility to view the movies or TV episodes they want to buy or rent, online, using the popular Amazon Video on Demand service.Customers will be able to view an... |
6 January 2009
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Greenpeace announced that over 200 people and 100 logging and charcoal companies faced prosecution in Brazil for their involvement in a large-scale fraud case. The companies allegedly contracted hacking groups that broke into the government's network and altered the records in order to allow for excessive defore... |
13 December 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Although analysts didn't have high hopes for Apple's Black Friday sales, the company's products reportedly sold well. Fortune reports that Amazon, America’s largest online retailer, saw the biggest sales. Those included quite a few Apple products. Particularly, Apple's funnest iPod, the touc... |
1 December 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Amazon will be selling the OLPC XO laptop in 30 countries starting on Monday, according to the latest news reports. This would be the first time when the laptop is made available to the general public from areas other than U.S. and Canada. As previously reported, the laptop will also be relaunched on Amazon for the U... |
15 November 2008
04:40 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO mobile PC will begin to be sold on Amazon starting November 17th. According to Amazon, the XO laptop will be available in the same manner as its previous Give One, Get One (G1G1) program, which will allow customers to spend $400 for two laptops, one of which g... |
12 November 2008
06:36 GMT |
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The official numbers released recently by the Brazilian government show a bleak statistical representation of species dynamics throughout the country. As opposed to 1989 numbers, when some 218 animals were classified as about to go extinct, the newest list, compared with data collected this year, shows that approxima... |
5 November 2008
10:14 GMT |
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The Amazon is one of the richest areas in the world, in terms of tree diversity, recent studies show. On a single patch of soil, measuring about 25 hectares, researchers managed to identify more than 1,100 species of trees, whereas the same area was populated by 600 species of birds and some 170 species of mammals. S... |
24 October 2008
07:55 GMT |
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We've already reported that Google is interested in getting into the in game advertising business, with Google AdSense for Games being launched in public beta, with the intention of targeting Flash, downloadable and casual games. Now, YouTube, which is owned by Google, also reveals that, in order to create new w... |
9 October 2008
08:39 GMT |
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As you might know from one of our previous articles on the subject of Amazon's Kindle portable eBook reader, rumor has it that the company is preparing the launch of a successor to this device, designed to mend everything that was wrong about the first one and add a few extras on the side. And while Amazon itsel... |
6 October 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Despite being best-known as one of the biggest players on the e-commerce market, Amazon.com has also attempted a (rather successful) foray into the portable electronic device market, launching back in the first half of 2007 the Kindle, an e-book reader like no other before it. And that's because this rather unat... |
26 August 2008
08:16 GMT |
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Amazon.com has just launched two new pay services for firms. Checkout, the first of the two, offers different features, such as the 1-click experience. Whenever people are searching for something to buy on an Amazon.com partner website, they are given the possibility of placing the order without leaving the page. The... |
30 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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For a while now, the general opinion has been that ASUS is the worldwide leading vendor of netbooks because of its vast Eee PC lineup. But nothing can prove that better than the Bestsellers in Computers and PC hardware list on Amazon.com. According to this chart, five out of the many Eee PC models available are among... |
28 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Many people feel the impulse to buy a product when they see it being advertised during commercial breaks in their favorite TV show or in the show itself. Until now, there were two solutions in such a case. The first meant running to the computer and ordering the product in the middle of the broadcast, while the secon... |
23 July 2008
05:25 GMT |
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The tropical Atlantic Ocean could become a net carbon dioxide sink, say the results of a study which found that seasonal blooms of ocean plankton fertilized by the waters of the Amazon river absorb more carbon dioxide than previously estimated. The waters extending from the mouth of the Amazon into the Atlantic ocean... |
22 July 2008
04:08 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
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Last week a team of anthropologists and uncontacted tribe experts revealed a series of images showing what is considered to be one of the one hundred or so uncontacted tribes currently living around the world. The pictures were taken during a flight over the tropical jungle located near the border between Brazil and ... |
3 June 2008
05:20 GMT |
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According to Reuters, Amazon.com, the largest Internet retailer, is expected to launch a streaming video service in the weeks to come. The company plans to use the new product in order to augment its digital offerings.Nevertheless, while speaking at The Wall Street Journal three-day conference, which was held north o... |
29 May 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Google has just rolled out what seems to be the most powerful web service for Amazon: App Engine. It is addressed to developers around the world and allows them to "run their applications on Google's infrastructure," as the provider explained in a press release published today. "In the same way that Blogger made... |
8 April 2008
02:17 GMT |
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If you were looking forward to getting yourself an iPod touch, you might want to consider taking your business to Amazon, as the giant online retailer is now offering two iPods for the price of one. Buy a 32GB iPod touch ($494) and get a 1GB iPod shuffle ($49) for free."You qualify for a free 1 GB iPod shuffle with t... |
26 February 2008
03:08 GMT |
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The digital music store that Amazon is building added another category and provider to its offerings, late last week. And an expensive one at that, with 300 million dollars being paid for Audible Inc. The company adds to bigger names from the music industry that have partnered with Amazon MP3, such as Warner Music Gr... |
5 February 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Put this one in the category of games that we've never thought we'd see on some consoles... We were surprised to hear that Gears of War had received a PC port and we were surprised to hear that we'll probably see Far Cry on the Wii. However, this here piece of info announcing a PSP Oblivion manages to... |
21 January 2008
04:35 GMT |
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By this point you must have heard about Amazon.com and in case you haven't I just hinted you where it's at. Pepsi, one of the leading brands in the world when it comes to cola, is no stranger either. Now they've teamed up and by their powers combined… no, there's no Captain Planet racing across t... |
15 January 2008
05:47 GMT |
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One can easily consider this a very good, if not the best, financial year for Apple. After the launch of the iPhone, Apple has only seen the good side of life on the financial market. Its products have been waited for mainly due to the innovative multi-touch interface introduced by Steve Jobs in January. At that mome... |
28 December 2007
07:47 GMT |
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The download part of the music industry is pretty much divided, but somewhat monopolistic. I know that sounds weird, but it's pretty much comparable to the situation Yahoo! and Google have going on between them, when it comes to covering the Internet services that each provides.The top dog is, of course, Apple&#... |
28 December 2007
06:28 GMT |
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If you were thinking of getting one of the fancy Amazon's wireless reading devices, you'd better think again. Apparently, Philippe Starck's remarks (" Kindle is almost modern", "its interface just wasn't well done") haven't affected its popularity that much. Amazon announced Kindle as being t... |
27 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Amazon's e-book reader gadget has often been sized up against Apple's portable media players, a rather futile comparison considering the very different purposes of the devices. However, it looks like this has given Apple an impulse, to add new book reading functionality."The Hindustan Times" reports that A... |
10 December 2007
09:31 GMT |
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Several Amazon buyers who connected to the service to buy books could be invited to the police station for investigations after the federal prosecutors demanded private details about their activity on the Amazon website. However, the prosecutors decided today to cancel the request after a judge considered that it may... |
28 November 2007
04:19 GMT |
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Parents sometimes find it hard to get into the minds of their offspring and offer them what they want for Christmas, or for their birthday. Even though they know kids (and especially boys) love video games, they still have trouble in choosing what's right for them. That's why WhatTheyPlay.com has issued thi... |
27 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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It seems we are not going to see any e-book readers fight too soon, as Sony and Amazon share something in common. Remember Taiwan-based Prime View International, also known as the PVI? Apparently, the same company is supplying the electronic-paper (e-paper) display Amazon used in the Kindle manufacturing process.The ... |
21 November 2007
09:56 GMT |
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The eBook format made its entry in the computer world a while ago, although the result was less than expected. It's somewhat difficult to replace the paper feeling while reading a digital book but all it takes is some good technology to switch to. The revolutionary portable reader from Amazon, Kindle, has just b... |
20 November 2007
03:09 GMT |
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We all know that the online shopping industry grew up a lot and it is going to become even more popular very soon, the analysts think. Market researcher JupiterResearch said that it expects to see a huge number of US online shoppers in the upcoming holiday season which might spend no less than $39 billion on the thin... |
23 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Microsoft hasn't even managed to roll out the official specs list for the newly announced Xbox 360 Arcade and a well known website has already unboxed the machine, thanks to tipster Emanuel. The respective console still needs to be dated for launch but engadget.com claims you'll be able to pick one up for $... |
15 October 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Amazon.com officially released Amazon MP3, a new web-based service which sells music content to the Internet users for prices starting at 89 cents. According to the parent company, the digital store currently has no less than 2 million songs created by approximately 180,000 artists so the collection might also includ... |
25 September 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The famous website Amazon rolled out Amazon Widgets, a simple way to customize your blog or page with tiny utilities which provide valuable information related to this service. For example, you can create a product cloud or a wish list related to Amazon and publish it straight on your blog. Obviously, for free. As fa... |
18 September 2007
05:26 GMT |
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HTC Advantage has just hit the market and also received pricing. As expected, the device is quite expensive, although Amazon is currently offering it at a lower cost, as part of a special offer.This HTC smartphone is more of a laptop than a handset, if considering its sizes and performances. Still, it runs on Windows... |
8 August 2007
06:14 GMT |
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The iPhone has been spotted on the website of a German supermarket, Media Markt. The electronics retailer has advertised Apple's phone as a sure thing to come towards the end of the year in their shops.The title for the iPhone announcement states that "Touching is Believing", which shows that the retail store ha... |
24 July 2007
05:18 GMT |
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