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On Sunday, Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm announced that the 1.3.1 version of webOS, the mobile platform present on its Pre and Pixi devices, has been just released for users in Europe. It comes shortly after the 1.3.1 flavor was released for users in the US, something that happens just before the Palm Pixi ... |
23 November 2009
08:50 GMT |
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The economical worldwide crisis is said to have affected every aspect of life on the planet. Economy, culture, religion, commerce, everything had to suffer because of it. Everything except the data-center outsourcing, that is. Europe has seen a huge number of emerging data centers and the total revenue for 2010 is an... |
13 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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It was only this morning that we learned the Motorola DROID might arrive in Europe as the Motorola MILESTONE, and now it is already official. The high-end Android 2.0-based handset will become available on the old continent under that name, and will sport about the same features and specs as the model that will reach... |
2 November 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Online shopping isn't exactly something new these days, but some of its greatest potential still hasn't been attained, especially in the fragmented European market. In the US, sites like Amazon have built huge businesses around online retail, but in Europe the sites have remained much localized. A new s... |
23 October 2009
11:40 GMT |
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Today, October 5th, 2009, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer starts his five-country visit to Europe. By the end of this week, Ballmer is scheduled to tour the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Netherlands. According to Microsoft, the CEO’s tour debuts today, October 5th and will last until October 9t... |
5 October 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Vodafone announced on Monday that its users would get access to DRM-free music from all four major labels through its music catalogue. According to the company, the new offer is available through a partnership with Warner Music and makes Vodafone the first carrier in the world to come with such an of... |
22 September 2009
02:34 GMT |
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It seems that the fall of 2009 might be remembered by videogaming history as the period when cloud-based gaming went from interesting idea to working reality. OnLive, the service that promises a portal to play games without ever installing them, has already started its open beta phase and is tweaking the parameters o... |
11 September 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Archaeologists working at a site in the Dmanisi hills of the former Soviet republic of Georgia have recently discovered a number of skeletons that have been dated back to 1.8 million years ago. Experts believe that the new find may change the established timelines on when the earliest humans began to move out of Afri... |
10 September 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Google Books has been getting a lot of attention in the US lately, most of it unwelcome, but it is also raising concerns on the other side of the Atlantic, though for slightly different reasons. Authors and publishers in Europe are worried that books published and commercially available in the Old Continent could be ... |
7 September 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Micro- and nanotechnology are two of the fields of research with the largest following to date, as they hold the keys to creating the most advanced devices of the future, on principles that do not necessarily pertain to physics as we know it. From a certain level of miniaturization forward, interactions between parti... |
1 September 2009
11:03 GMT |
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A new scientific study conducted by experts at the University College London (UCL) has determined that the first human populations able to digest dairy products appeared in communities in central Europe, and not in the northern parts of the continent, as first thought. The paper, which is published in the latest issu... |
28 August 2009
18:01 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is a fairly popular console as it managed to beat its arch rival, the PlayStation 3, in terms of sales thanks to its low price, and is still trying to catch up to the huge success of the Nintendo Wii, which reigns supreme over the current generation of consoles. But there was at least one reason to be h... |
24 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life for a large percentage of the population, especially in the more developed regions, and Europe is no exception. Nearly half of European citizens use the Internet on a daily basis now but one third of them still have never gone online. The findings are part of ... |
5 August 2009
06:43 GMT |
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For the first time, researchers studying the behavior of the Asian super ant Lasius neglectus have discovered that the small insects seem to have a rather morbid attraction to electrical installations. This liking that the ants have taken in wires, which the experts plastically call the “kamikaze attraction,&rd... |
3 August 2009
02:01 GMT |
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Research In Motion is one of the mobile phone makers to come up with an app store for its BlackBerry devices, the App World, which was launched publicly back in April. While at launch the app portal included around 1,000 software solutions, we now learn that the number of those available there has doubled, and users ... |
13 July 2009
02:23 GMT |
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In an international research effort, featuring scientists from four institutes, experts analyzed the fossilized remains of a mammoth that was discovered as low as 37°N latitude, which is far away from the higher northern latitudes where these beasts were thought to exist. Generally, when people think of mammoths,... |
10 July 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has announced today that its recently launched high-end mobile phone Palm Pre will come to the market on the old continent. According to the company, the device will be introduced initially in the UK, Ireland and Germany, exclusively via O2, as well as in Spain, via Movistar, a... |
7 July 2009
08:26 GMT |
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More than 41 research and industrial organizations in Europe have recently joined efforts in their attempt to create the world's largest quantum key distribution network, through which data are transfered using only quantum inscription. This is by far the largest such network ever built anywhere on the globe, an... |
2 July 2009
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European officials, decision makers and space authorities are all quite undecided about the faith of the Galileo satellite project, which was supposed to bring 28 observation and communication satellites in orbit as fast as possible. The system, which is part of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) class, is... |
23 June 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Earlier this week, MySpace announced that it would lay off several hundreds of employees in the US, confirming speculation. Now, according to TechCrunch, the social networking company plans to do the same for its international outlets although how, when and how many will be let go hasn't been decided yet. MySpac... |
20 June 2009
12:22 GMT |
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Facebook, like any other social network out there, is looking to increase its revenue stream and one important focus has been on third-party apps using its API and data. However, European privacy regulators have expressed concerns about how social networking sites share private user information with third-party compa... |
18 June 2009
11:27 GMT |
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe has released new data on online advertising in Europe for 2008. The research was conducted in collaboration with PirceWaterHouseCoopers and showed some worrying figures as growth in Internet advertising slowed down in 2008 in the majority of the European Countries surveyed."W... |
11 June 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Bigger is always better in astronomy, experts say, and the phrase especially holds true for telescopes. Making use of new technologies that allow for virtually instantaneous connections between any points on Earth, experts from more than 16 observatories on six continents have joined their resources together, and hav... |
9 June 2009
18:41 GMT |
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With its next-generation search engine, Microsoft will not be limited to a one-size fits all approach. Instead the Redmond company is opting for a strategy that involves tailoring the successor of Live Search to specific markets around the world. In this context, when it launches on June 3 worldwide, Bing will come i... |
29 May 2009
08:32 GMT |
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The largest facility for celestial observations owned by Europe – the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) – has recently received the first of its new upgrades, with the installation of the X-Shooter spectrograph, one of the many second-generation devices to be installed ... |
26 May 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Klaus Holse Andersen is the new Area Vice President of Western Europe and Microsoft Corporate Vice President, according to Microsoft. The Redmond company announced the move on May 22, 2009, in Paris, France. Andersen will take on his new role immediately, in fact, his official bio has already been updated to reflect ... |
22 May 2009
12:12 GMT |
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If you are looking for the best large workplace in Europe in 2009, look no further. The Great Place to Work Institute considers that Microsoft successfully fulfills all the necessary criteria and recommends the company for the Best Large Workplace in Europe 2009 award for the second year in a row. Every year, the Gre... |
22 May 2009
06:28 GMT |
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We live in a very advanced world where transport and localization for different products can happen in the blink of an eye. This is especially true with video games, which appear on the same day or with a few days between launches all around the world. But one company doesn't seem to follow that trend, namely S... |
11 May 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Austrian science minister Johannes Hahn has recently announced that the nation would withdraw from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), seeking to reinvest the money it has caught up in the scientific project into other endeavors. The announcement comes at a very bad time, just six months before the... |
9 May 2009
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Hollywood has a very fruitful relationship with the gaming industry, as the two branches of the entertainment industry have collaborated on several occasions, either on game-based movies or on movie-based games. The latest big franchise to get a video game adaptation is Ghostbusters, the classic movie series that ha... |
7 May 2009
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According to the most recent archaeological discoveries, the first modern Europeans, of the homo sapiens kind, lived in the ancient forests of the Carpathian mountains some 35,000 years ago, on what is now the territory of Romania. The bone fragments indicating this were found in the Pestera cu Oase (the cave with bo... |
5 May 2009
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Axiotron, the company best known for producing the Modbook (a touchscreen-based Mac tablet), has recently announced a newly established, Germany-based subsidiary – Axiotron Europe Inc. & Co. KG (“Axiotron Europe”). The subsidiary will manage sales, service and support of Axiotron’s products in... |
22 April 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Orange and Nokia have announced today that the partnership between them has been extended with the offering of a new, simple-to-use email service to consumers, namely the Nokia Messaging by Orange, a co-branded solution that will come to a series of Orange Signature devices, aimed at providing mobile email to all mob... |
16 April 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Recently, games have been considered somewhat of a very serious hobby and a lot of players have forgotten that, in the first place, games should entertain us with pure, mindless fun. That was the case with the Worms series of titles, which introduced us to a variety of tiny worms that packed a huge arsenal of convent... |
7 April 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Opera is announcing that just as the Nintendo DSi is being launched in North America, on April 5, and in Europe, on April 3, the well-known browser will be offered for all those interested in accessing the Internet from their new handheld.The developer is saying that it has built the application from the ground up, m... |
3 April 2009
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One of the main arguments brought by critics to renewable energy such as solar and wind power is that these methods of generating electricity are very expensive, and that continuing to produce the needed amounts of power from oil and coal is justified by the lower costs, especially in the crippled economy. Now, new a... |
16 March 2009
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Seishu Hanaoka is the name of the first surgeon in the world to have placed his patients under a general anesthetic for major surgery, more than 40 years before the first European medics were able to do so and claim all the credits for their achievement. Dated October 13th, 1804, the surgery saw 60-year-old Kan Aiya ... |
6 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 currently has the upper hand on its rivals as, despite the very low price it currently has, there are a lot of features that will attract people who might be interested in other consoles like the Wii or PlayStation 3, most important being the Netflix deal that Microsoft made in order for people to view t... |
5 March 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft hasn't been doing so well in terms of finances, as the global recession had an impact on the Redmond-based corporation also. Although it has announced that it will lay off over 5,000 people in next few months, the company is still bent on promoting its best products, including both software and video g... |
2 March 2009
02:30 GMT |
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It seems that Palm has put its upcoming Pre handset on a number of its international websites, a move that might suggest that the company readies the mobile phone for launch in those areas. The phone maker hasn't made any official statements regarding the availability of the device in any of those markets, nor a... |
24 February 2009
08:29 GMT |
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Piracy has always been a very prominent problem for quite a lot of countries. Video game pirates believe that because of the restrictive DRM (Digital Rights Management) software with which a lot of games come bundled is something illegal and, by pirating the title, can keep their own computer safe and teach the compa... |
18 February 2009
08:41 GMT |
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The console war has been going for quite some time and, if we take a look at the current state of mind of quite a lot of executives from the three major manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, things will stay that way in the future, with statements cleverly aimed at rivals bound to appear.Microsoft has recently... |
17 February 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has recently announced that the deadline for the completion of the repairs currently being made on its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator near Geneva has been pushed back until late September, amidst concerns that the helium cooling system may fail a... |
10 February 2009
03:39 GMT |
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A new scientific study showed on Wednesday that global warming and climate change play a major part in triggering an increase in the frequency of arctic storms in the regions surrounding the North Pole, a phenomenon that may have severe repercussions on the way oil and natural gas exploitations in the area function, ... |
7 February 2009
07:27 GMT |
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There was no warning of the catastrophe. In early January 1709, the worst cold spell to hit Europe in 500 years reigned down unexpectedly on people and animals, bringing about devastation. Throughout the continent, from Norway to Italy and from Romania to France, rivers froze, seas caught ice, animals died in their b... |
7 February 2009
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Fear of terrorist attacks has prompted a redefining of the concepts of security and safety throughout the world, and especially in Europe and the United States, the largest potential targets. After 2001, more and more retinal scanners and fingerprint-recognition devices have been installed in sensitive areas such as ... |
6 February 2009
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An Oxford study, published in The Lancet, shows that nearly one million working-aged men and women died in Eastern Europe due to the sudden transition from nation-owned businesses to the private sectors in the years following the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. Countries that were a former part of the Sovi... |
16 January 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Killzone 2 is one of the most expected games that will be launched at the beginning of this year. This PlayStation 3 exclusive promises to bring back the same non-stop action that made the first Killzone installment in the series a great success among Sony fans. However, although it is slated to appear on February 2... |
7 January 2009
03:53 GMT |
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There's a pretty tough console war going on out there, with the top three producers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, fighting for every customer. But it seems that, slowly but surely, the winners are starting to reveal themselves, according to the recent sales charts and studies made by industry analysts. Micros... |
6 January 2009
02:37 GMT |
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According to recent investigations, Iraqi scientist al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham is the father of optics and the scientific method, having experimented with both of them around the year 1,020, which is more than 700 years ahead of Newton's time. The reason why this is unknown to Western teachers and professors is th... |
5 January 2009
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