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Weekend Reading: Nintendo 3DS and the Price Cut of the Year

Nintendo has cut the price of the Nintendo 3DS handheld by a third on all the markets to 169.99 dollars and, considering that the platform is available starting with the middle of March, this is the fastest after launch price cut in the history of video game hardware.Nintendo also gave out 20 video games to those who...

20 August 2011
04:31 GMT

Madden NFL 11 Gets Massive Roster Update

Electronic Arts, the publisher of Madden NFL 11, has released a roster update for its football simulation title which introduces a huge number of changes to the players present in the video game, with no less than 232 players taken out of Madden and 165 added.There are 40 players who have received rating changes, wit...

13 September 2010
05:29 GMT

NPD Hardware: Xbox 360 Is Better than DS, Wii, PlayStation 3

The NPD Group has released its sales data for the North American market for the month of August, showing an overall decline in sales of about 10 percent, and the newly relaunched Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft selling better than the DS line of handhelds, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii.The ent...

10 September 2010
06:07 GMT

Analyst: Hardware and Software Sales Will Decline in August

Analyst Michael Pachter, who is working for Wedbush Morgan, has predicted that the NPD Group numbers that will be released later in the week will show a drop in both hardware and software sales on the North American market for the month of August, accentuating the slump in the video game industry that has been taking...

9 September 2010
05:34 GMT

EA Says Madden NFL 11 Is the Biggest Game of August

Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it is very pleased with the initial performance of its sports simulation title Madden NFL 11, saying that the video game will be the best selling title in North America for the month of August and that overall sales are up over the same period of last year by about 5 perce...

1 September 2010
16:11 GMT

Most Babies Are Born in August

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has kept statistics that say that most babies are born during the summer, and there is a birth peak in August. The latest year for which these statistics are available is 2006. That year, August had the most US births, just like in 10 out of the 16 previous...

29 July 2010
09:37 GMT

iLife ‘11 Contains a Mystery Application - Report

According to a report by Mac4ever, Apple is on track to update its iLife suite of applications on August 7, 2010, Dubbed iLife '11, the package is said to include a number of new features, and a mystery new application. The last major revision to iLife was version '09, announced at Macworld 2009.Last week, ...

26 July 2010
09:52 GMT

Analysts: August, Last Month of Decline When Compared to 2008

2009 has been a pretty miserable year for videogames up until now, with sales lagging behind those registered in the same months of 2008 in both the hardware and the videogame departments. It did not help that in spring 2008 some really big titles were released, like Wii Fit, Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid ...

10 September 2009
12:58 GMT

T-Mobile's myTouch 3G and Touch Pro2 to Come Soon

According to some of the latest news on the Web, wireless carrier T-Mobile plans on releasing the Android-powered myTouch 3G on its airwaves somewhere between July 29 and August 3, with a price tag of $199.99. Undoubtedly, the handset (also known as the HTC Magic) is a great device, yet it seems that there are some v...

8 July 2009
10:34 GMT

O2 UK to Soon Launch Samsung i7500 and Palm Pre

Samsung's i7500 mobile phone, the first device from the South Korean mobile phone maker to come to the market running under Google's Android operating system, has been launched in several markets around the world, and is already available for purchase in Germany via O2. However, it seems that the wireless c...

6 July 2009
08:23 GMT

Emails with Picasa Links Attachments Unsafe

For a while now, the mainstream media has been reporting on the upcoming ability of Google's Picasa photo organizer to recognize faces, thanks to a revolutionary technology. While everyone is focused on the new feature and the possibilities it presents, security experts recommend users stay away from any unsolic...

3 September 2008
09:54 GMT

2001 Worm, Still the Most Common Source of Infection

Kaspersky has just published the list of the most common threats detected on its customers' computers during the month of August. Out of the 20 most popular malicious code items that were employed by attackers, 13 were trojans, which shows that these threats (which can actually trigger other problems as well) ar...

2 September 2008
06:48 GMT

Electronic Chips Selling in Droves

Just like most industries, the computer and general electronics consumer ones are expected to post lower sales during the summer and high figures in the winter period when the Christmas shopping spree acts as a global catalyst increasing sales across the chart. This time, something went a little different as various ...

2 October 2007
11:09 GMT

The Virus Chart

This is the hot top 10 viruses, containing the old Netsky.P that is still holding up against Storm and with the Kobcka Trojan as a new-entry. Many viruses pop up every day, others fade away, while still others plague us for a very very long time. The Netsky.P is dubbed as 'ancient' by the BitDefender expert...

13 September 2007
08:15 GMT

August's Threat Review

August has passed and a lot of security experts have been writing reviews on the threats of the month. One of the best reports I've seen was made by the Sophos researchers. I gotta hand it to 'em, they really did a nice job. In any case, I was looking at the rankings of the roughest and toughest web-based m...

6 September 2007
10:01 GMT


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