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Windows Live Update Rollout Now Complete

Microsoft has completed the worldwide rollout of the latest update of its Windows Live suite of services and applications. Announced just last week, the refresh is designed to stretch Windows Live across the social networking universe, and to position Microsoft's services as a hub designed to centralize users&rs...

29 April 2009
03:00 GMT

Cupcake Comes in May, T-Mobile Says

It seems that G1 mobile phone users will finally have a reason to rejoice next month, as the long-expected Cupcake update for the Google Android operating system is now stated to come to them as soon as May. And this time around it's not just another rumor about a possible release date for the firmware update, ...

25 April 2009
07:00 GMT

Speculation: Team Fortress 2 Update Prepares Game for Hats

Valve has released a new update for its multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2, set to offer some small changes to gameplay while also preparing the game for an even bigger update, which should come soon, tweaking the way all the classes in the game behave.Some of the direct consequences are that players can now permane...

22 April 2009
07:24 GMT

New BlackBerry Storm 9500 OS 4.7.0.131 Leaked

BlackBerry Storm 9500 users can now enjoy yet another firmware update that leaked into the wild for their handsets, namely the version 4.7.0.131. The new firmware release is not official yet, but it seems that some more improvements over previous versions are arriving along with it for those who are willing to give i...

22 April 2009
06:46 GMT

Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Now Available, Here Are the Changes It Brings

Zombies have been an integral part of the video game industry for quite some time, as a lot of titles have prominently featured them as the main targets of the player, in which he or she needed to shoot all of their ammunition. Left 4 Dead is one of the most recent titles to feature the undead, but it has also broug...

22 April 2009
02:58 GMT

Killzone 2 Receives New Patch Today

Killzone 2 was one of the most expected titles by PlayStation 3 users at the beginning of the year, because it promised to take first-person shooters on Sony's big black box to a whole new level in terms of quality and graphics. It experienced some pretty big sales, making Sony very proud of it, saying that it t...

22 April 2009
02:26 GMT

City of Heroes Doubles Its Content in Just 24 Hours

Comic books have played an important part in a lot of people's lives, especially gamers, who have been offered a wide variety of titles based on popular comic book characters. From Marvel and DC to any other comics company, the market is filled with them. NCsoft, a company specialized in online games, has decid...

21 April 2009
15:01 GMT

Download April 2009 Security Release ISO Image for Windows

On the heels of the April 14, 2009 security bulletins, Microsoft has made available for download the ISO image with the patches released this month. A couple of days ago, the Redmond company made available for download no less than eight security bulletins patching a total of 23 vulnerabilities. The plugged security ...

16 April 2009
13:30 GMT

Windows Live SkyDrive Evolves

Microsoft has added new features to its storage service in the cloud. The evolution of Windows Live SkyDrive is marked by the release of several updates earlier this week, with a focus on enhancing the management capabilities available to end users. As the new updates to Windows Live SkyDrive are gradually rolled out...

16 April 2009
07:54 GMT

Nokia Updates Share Online to Version 4.3

The Nokia Beta Labs have recently announced that the Nokia Share Online application, which allows users to easily share photos or videos from their mobile phones, has been updated to version 4.3. The app integrates with Ovi by Nokia, as well as with other media-sharing services, and now it has reached version 4.3 bet...

16 April 2009
05:17 GMT

WipEout HD Update Now Available for Download on the PSN

Racing games have always been popular because they let players push some of the most expensive cars to their limits in virtual cities. But developers didn't stop at just modeling cars and let their imagination fly off into the future and created sci-fi racers.Such is the case with the Sony Computer Entertainment...

9 April 2009
02:33 GMT

Nokia Updates Friend View

Many of you might already know about Nokia’s Friend View, the experimental location and micro-blogging service that was released a few months ago. The Nokia Beta Labs has recently announced that the S60 application has been updated with a Friend alerts feature, allowing users to feel even closer to their friend...

7 April 2009
04:15 GMT

The Sniper Gets the Next Team Fortress 2 Class Update

Online games are extremely popular on the PC as they usually don't require a lot of resources and you can play them alongside your family and friends. Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer-only title released by Valve, which has taken a very unique tongue-in-cheek approach to online shooters, representing classes wit...

3 April 2009
12:21 GMT

Killzone 2 Cheaters Will Have PSN Account Deleted, Patch Incoming Next Week

Killzone 2 is one of the PlayStation 3's biggest titles for the beginning of this year and, at least until now, has achieved good sales but hasn't reached the level that Sony was hoping for. Because of a lot of glitches, alongside the rather awkward lag between the controls and the action on the screen, a l...

31 March 2009
15:01 GMT

21Terabytes Virtual Earth Ortho Imagery Update

The March 2009 update introduced to Virtual Earth is less than half the size of that in February, but still, the coverage is nothing short of impressive. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist Microsoft, the March 2009 Virtual Earth update is focused exclusively on making a vast volume of ortho i...

30 March 2009
10:13 GMT

Firefox 3.0.8 Available for Download

Mozilla is currently working its way to Beta 4 of Firefox 3.5, what was until mid-March 2009 Firefox 3.1. With Firefox 3.5 looking like a summer 2009 release with the next Beta scheduled for the coming, Firefox 3.0 is the sole version of the open-source browser still tended to after the support lifeline was cut for F...

30 March 2009
07:56 GMT

Nokia Releases New Update for 5800 XpressMusic

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today the release of a new software update for its flagship model Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The new firmware is meant to provide further performance improvements and new functionalities to the handset, and it is already available for download on the Nokia Software Update websi...

30 March 2009
05:42 GMT

REDFLY Sees New Driver Release

The REDFLY driver set has seen a new update recently, as Celio works on providing users with more improvements and compatibility options. One thing that should be noted about the new version 01.04.00.147 of the REDFLY driver is that users should perform the update on both the mobile phone and REDFLY so that they make...

26 March 2009
06:14 GMT

Nokia Updates Mail for Exchange

Nokia has recently updated its Mail for Exchange to version 2.9.158. As many of you might already know, the company's offering includes push email and PIM sync, as well as a wide range of other nice-looking features, all of which are turning the phone maker's Eseries devices into handsets better fitted to i...

24 March 2009
11:10 GMT

BlackBerry Internet Service Updated to Version 2.6

BlackBerry users in North America are now able to rejoice given the fact that Research in Motion has updated its BlackBerry Internet Service to version 2.6. There are a few improvements that the new version offers users, and, although the service is not the BlackBerry Enterprise Service, which offers even more featur...

24 March 2009
08:59 GMT

BlackBerry Users Can Now Enjoy Yatca 1.2.1

One of the rather attractive Twitter client applications for BlackBerries that have been updated recently is Yatca, which stands for Yet Another Twitter Client App. Now available for download is version 1.2.1, which comes with a wide range of changes over its previous versions, and the list might make some users out ...

24 March 2009
06:28 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Receives Patch for Multi-Core Processors

PC gaming has one big problem as opposed to consoles, due to the wide variety of components and hardware configurations that are used by gamers across the world. That is why developers who create games for the PC need to take into consideration a base level of the PC and then improve the title for people who have mor...

19 March 2009
03:20 GMT

How to Update iPod shuffle Using Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Mac OS X

Addressing users of an iPod shuffle (1st and 2nd generation), or iPod shuffle (3rd generation), Apple has updated its Support section with new information on how to update your player's software.Apple outlines that it is very important to understand the difference between "update" and "restore.” Failing to...

17 March 2009
09:46 GMT

No Android 'Cupcake' Update in April Either

It seems that the Cupcake update for the Android-based mobile phone will not come to G1 users in April after all. The highly anticipated update for Google's mobile operating system has been rumored a few times before to be heading towards users, and the latest report from Pocket-lint unveiled a few days ago that...

16 March 2009
03:08 GMT

TealOS Gets Updated to Beta Version 1.31

Many of you might already know that TealPoint Software is working on a multifuctional application launcher meant to make Palm devices running under the PalmOS platform have the same look as the WebOS has on the Palm Pre handset. The launcher is called TealOS, and we have just learnt that the development team has brou...

14 March 2009
06:44 GMT

Internet Explorer Mobile 6 Comes with Treo Pro

According to the latest news on the Web, the long-expected Windows Mobile 6.1-based Palm Treo Pro will come to Sprint's network featuring the Internet Explorer Mobile 6 browser. This is great news for users of Microsoft's operating system, as the earlier projections only showed the browser coming along with...

9 March 2009
01:24 GMT

55 Terabytes (TB) Virtual Earth Update Refreshes All Bird’s Eye Vector Overlays

The latest update to Microsoft's Cloud mapping, search and location platform manages to refresh all of the Bird's Eye vector overlays. The Virtual Earth Imagery & Map Data Release, February 2009, is a massive refresh, even though just half the size of the new content introduced by Microsoft just a couple of...

6 March 2009
06:30 GMT

Zune.net Evolves

Zune users are now able to enjoy new features and functionality via Zune.net courtesy of an update introduced by Microsoft on March 3, 2009. As a result of the implementation of the update, Zune.net was offline for a part of the day, but back online as soon as the refresh was finished. Even ahead of finalization, the...

5 March 2009
08:57 GMT

Windows 7 Beta Application Incompatibility Behavior

Microsoft is not only serving Critical security updates designed to patch vulnerabilities in pre-release versions of Windows 7, but also refreshes meant to boost the operating system's compatibility level. With Win 7, the Redmond company placed a strong focus on delivering backwards compatibility with Vista-tail...

27 February 2009
13:23 GMT

Gmail Multiple Attachments Upload Capabilities

Google has simplified the process of adding very large or multiple items as attachments to emails in Gmail. As of February 25, Gmail users are able to enjoy additional flexibility when it comes down to email attachments, by no longer having to attach files one by one without any estimate as to when the attaching woul...

27 February 2009
05:57 GMT

Nokia Beta Labs Updates Ovi Contacts Software

The Nokia Beta Labs has announced today that that the Ovi Contacts client software has been updated. According to Kristian Luoma, product manager, Ovi Contacts, the development team has been focused lately mainly on delivering enhancements for quality of the S60 3rd Feature Pack 2 version of the client. The new ver...

26 February 2009
09:16 GMT

Update for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Microsoft continues to evolve its home server operating system. In this context, the Redmond company has made available for download an update designed to integrate with Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. The refresh, which went live on February 24, 2009, is now up for grabs via WU. “The Windows Home Server team...

25 February 2009
04:47 GMT

HTC Releases New ROM for Touch Pro

Last week, HTC made the headlines mainly due to the launch of two new mobile phones, the HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2, which were unveiled at the Mobile World congress in Barcelona along with a new G phone, the HTC Magic. While displaying the new handsets at the mobile show, the phone maker also released a s...

24 February 2009
04:05 GMT

Get Ready to Update Windows 7 Beta Build 7000

Get ready to update Windows 7 Beta Build 7000. The first public Beta of the next iteration of the Windows client became available for download at the start of 2009, with Microsoft applauding millions of downloads. As the company has moved onward with the development process, and started focusing on Builds in the Rele...

20 February 2009
14:11 GMT

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Upgrade Available for Download

At the start of January, Microsoft shipped the RTW (Release To Web) of the latest iteration of its instant messaging client. A month later, the Redmond company is offering an upgrade, having made available for download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) version 14.0.8064.0206. For the time being, the update is being o...

13 February 2009
16:51 GMT

4 Security Bulletins Patch IE in Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Exchange, SQL Server and Visio

As an integral part of its monthly patch cycle, Microsoft made available on February 10, 2009, a total of four security bulletins patching vulnerabilities in a range of software products including Internet Explorer running on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3, but also Exchange, SQL Server and Visio. Two of the se...

11 February 2009
11:40 GMT

Konami Announces Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Update

Konami is saying that its much loved football simulator, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, is set to receive a new free download pack at the end of February. The new content will arrive on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC and will aim to make the game more interesting by bringing the player database up to date wit...

10 February 2009
04:39 GMT

Home Gets 1.10 Update

In the console war, every producer, be it Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony, is desperately trying to lure in customers by offering great deals for their consoles and, most importantly, new features that they can experience when they start them up.  As such, online interactivity has been a pretty decisive factor for ...

10 February 2009
02:22 GMT

New Windows Live Hotmail Update Adds Fresh Features

Windows Live Hotmail is evolving yet again, following the introduction of Wave 3, which debuted in the fall of 2008. The past week, Microsoft started rolling out a new update for Windows Live Hotmail designed to add new features, but also tweak the service in accordance with user feedback. The sof...

9 February 2009
11:31 GMT

Microsoft Releases Dashboard Update, Gives Sound Back to Consoles

Microsoft has been experiencing a very good period in the last few months, in terms of gaming, as its Xbox 360 console has been selling quite a lot, due to its price cut and the wide variety of bundles that were introduced ahead of last year's holiday season.But one of the most important and expected additions t...

3 February 2009
13:11 GMT

New Title Update to XNA Game Studio Connect

Microsoft revealed that a new update for the XNA Game Studio Connect application is cooking and will be made available, but failed to provide a timetable or any sort of deadline. Michael Klucher, program manager – XNA Community Game Platform, revealed that the title update to XNA Game Studio Connect would be of...

3 February 2009
10:28 GMT

Windows Home Server PP1 Update Boots Backup Abnormalities Repair Capabilities

Microsoft is kicking the backup repair capabilities of its home server operating system up a notch. On January 27, 2009, the Redmond company released an update capable of making Windows Home Server deliver superior results when dealing with backup abnormalities. Ahead of the update, users of Windows Home Server could...

28 January 2009
05:25 GMT

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Is Preparing for a New Update

The PlayStation 3 didn't really start off on the right foot in the console war as it didn't have that many triple A-quality titles at launch. But fortunately for the Japanese company, both Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm provided a very solid experience and sold quite a lot of consoles when they were...

28 January 2009
02:23 GMT

New Free Update Will Be Available for Burnout Paradise

The racing game genre hasn't always been one of the most innovative ones out there, as most gamers would tend to identify it with Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise, which has really shaped the way we play racing games. But, as time passed, the yearly development cycle began to take its toll and idea...

26 January 2009
16:51 GMT

Football Manager Live is the Future of Sports Games

Gamers who are also football enthusiasts might be playing FIFA 09 from Electronic Arts, if they are more interested in taking on the role of the footballers as they play the beautiful game on the field, or Football Manager 2009, if they are more keen on the managing aspect of football, but the real future of gam...

13 January 2009
12:41 GMT

Update Windows 7 Beta and Fix MP3 File Corruption Issues

With Windows 7 Beta 1 officially available for download from Microsoft as of January 10, 2009, along with the associated product keys, one of the first things that users will have to do following installation is to update the operating system. On January 9, Microsoft started offering an update for both the 32-bit and...

12 January 2009
06:09 GMT

PlayStation Home Gets New Content and Red Bull Island

The war between consoles has become an ever bitter fight, and the three large manufacturers, that is to say Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, wage a fierce battle for every customer, trying to attract them with various highlights, promotions, or smaller price tags. One of the most important features, in which Sony has b...

8 January 2009
03:51 GMT

Massive 48 Terabytes (TB) Virtual Earth Update, the Last Refresh of 2008

As far as its mapping, search, and location Cloud platform is concerned, Microsoft is wrapping up 2008 with nothing short of a bang. Not only did the Redmond company take the Holiday celebration to a whole other level by housing Santa Claus' North Pole village in Virtual Earth and allowing users to track his jou...

30 December 2008
15:04 GMT

Apple Addresses Dozens of MobileMe Issues, Documents the Work

A new knowledge base article has appeared in Apple's Support section, following last week's updates to MobileMe. New additions to the cloud-based service include updates to Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk, Account, and the login screen, all of which are detailed by Apple as you will find below. The comp...

23 December 2008
10:24 GMT

Sony Gives Voice Chat Back to Home

Sony isn't going to have a happy holiday season, mainly because its PlayStation 3 console isn't registering the sales the executives of the Japanese company were hoping for. Between the massive amount of popularity that the Nintendo Wii has and the low price of its arch rival, the Xbox 360, the PS3 doesn�...

23 December 2008
02:14 GMT


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