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  • Create Your Own Greeting Cards - Cute, witty or simply colorful, a greeting card always brings a smile on the face of the recipient. iGreetingCard pushes things farther by allowing you to give your cards a really personal touch. Suitable for probably any occasion, greeting cards are amazing because they can go from expressing very personal feelings to quite formal messages, relieving you from...
  • Kingston DT4000-M Secure USB Flash Drive Review - Over these last few years, Kingston has come out with quite an important number of secure USB Flash drives, but few of these are more advanced than the Data Traveler 4000-M that we are taking a look at today. The Data Traveler 4000-M is part of a new breed of secure USB drives that are not only FIPS (Federal Information Processing Sta...
  • Dustforce Review (PC) - Seeing as how we’re faced with another small game drought, as no big developer or publisher wants to release titles this close to the beginning of the year, Hitbox Team has decided to trump the trend and has just deployed Dustforce on the PC. The game focuses on a team of four janitors that need to navigate all sorts of environments that are filled with di...
  • Vuze 4.7.0.2 Review - Vuze is a BitTorrent client that can be used to download torrent files. It uses the Azureus engine and it's one of the most used applications of its type on the Linux platform.We reviewed other BitTorrent clients, like Transmission, and when you get to the basic level, all the applications are basically identical. They offer the same type of options, the only ...
  • MyLok Personal Edition Review - MyLok is an unconventional alternative as far as password management solutions are concerned. It is completely portable, like most software in this category, but the application works only in correlation with a custom USB storage device issued by the developer, ii2P. Sensitive information is not stored on the USB device, though. There is a built-in sma...
  • Super Crossfire Review (PC) - Super Crossfire is a title made by Radian Games that was recently a part of the Indie Royale New Year Bundle, alongside other impressive independent games.  Promising to innovate on the traditional arcade shooter genre by allowing your ship to teleport from the bottom of the screen to the top, and vice-versa, the title does sound pretty appealing and,...
  • A Video Converter for Everyday Use - With so many devices to play with nowadays, the number of file formats has increased as well. To make the most of our technologically-advanced devices, we obviously need to supply them with media files. Unfortunately, they can't be played across all devices or applications, but that's not really set in stone – all you need is a media converter.
  • Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review - When it released the DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 Flash drive, Kingston said that its USB 3.0 dongle could offer SSD-like performance without the bulk of a regular solid state unit. We were so intrigued by these claims that we decided to take the drive for a spin to see how well it performs in the real world. The DataTraveler ...
  • Simple Solution for Deleting Junk Files - How many times did you have to search for useless files on your Mac to delete in order to save space? Or wanted to remove all the the user cache files at once? MacCleaning is a lightweight application that will allow you to do all these things from the menu bar.

 There are various applications out there that allow you to remove unneeded files. Why would you inst...
  • Rochard PC Review - In the last half of 2011 we were flooded with an array of high quality download games, ranging from truly stunning ones, like Bastion, to impressive titles like Orcs Must Die. Now, after a bit of a delay, it’s time we took a look at Recoil Games’ Rochard, a sidescrolling platformer with various physics-based puzzles. While the game looks quite impressi...
  • Gratuitous Space Battles Review - Gratuitous Space Battles is a game that refuses to fall in any given category. It's developed by Positech Games, a company from United Kingdom, that also did both Kudos games (1 and 2), Rock Legend (an RPG/life-sim/Tycoon game) and Democracy 2 (a political strategy game). Their pedigree couldn't be more varied. It's no wonder that when they've chosen ...
  • Aomei Partition Assistant Professional Review [Giveaway] - The professional version of Aomei Partition Assistant has been designed as an easy to handle, comprehensive approach to disk partitioning. There used to be a time when it would have been tough to get your hands on a good partition manager that did a great job and was also easy to handle. Those days are long gone and, now, you ...
  • Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Android Review - While it may be hard to believe for quite a lot of older gamers, over 10 years separate us from the initial release of the iconic Grand Theft Auto III, a title that pretty much changed the way we view open world titles, as well as games in general. Now, as a testament to how much technology, not just games, has progressed since then, ...
  • East-Tec DisposeSecure Review - It is a well-known fact that deleting the data on your hard drive does not really send it into oblivion. Specialized software can recover files even after formatting of the storage devices has been performed. One way to ensure that everything is completely wiped is to appeal to dedicated solutions that integrate special algorithms that can destroy ...
  • Grandview - Ready, Steady, Write - Ideas come and go, so capturing their essence on the spot is extremely important. Grandview is a basic text editor that allows you to enter its full screen mode via a simple keyboard shortcut,  that is available throughout your system. Being creative is not an easy task, and even when you do get good ideas, you can easily be distracted by a new email, various ...
  • Sonic Generations (3DS) - To celebrate 20 years of Sonic, Sega has launched the latest game in the series, Sonic Generations, on multiple platforms including the Nintendo 3DS. Now, the legendary hedgehog meets his classic counterpart in a new adventure where old and modern merge. Story As it turns out, a mysterious new creature comes into play and starts creating “time holes,” which take Sonic and with his friend Tails back in time, just as they were celebrating his birthday. Enco...
  • Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony Review - Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony is a top down shooter game developed by Final Form Games which tries to emulate older games, from 20 years ago. In an era when all the games are about glamor and nice graphics, Jamestown is all about gameplay and fun. The arcade games were practically a second home in my youth and shooters like...
  • Shank Review - Shank is 2D beat-em-up aimed at a mature audience. It was produced by Klei Entertainment and initially was only available on consoles, but eventually it made its way onto the PC, and now, with the help of Humble Indie Bundle, on Linux platforms. There aren't many games like Shank available today. Once upon a time, titles like Final Fight and others before it u...
  • Anno 2070 Review (PC) - The Anno series started life deep in medieval times and players were tasked with guiding the destinies of some rather cute villagers, building up their stocks of resources and making sure that they had the most comfortable lives possible given the situation of the civilization at the time. The game had overall objectives for scenarios and some were difficult to achieve but gett...
  • Gish 1.6.1 Review - Gish it's a not so popular game released back in the 2004 by Chronic Logic studio and developed by Alex Austin, Edmund McMillen and Josiah Pisciotta. It can be considered that Gish is the hipster of the indie game universe, being probably one of the first games of its type to be developed with melancholy initiative in mind. As most indie games, melancholy is very importa...
  • An Elegant, Outside the Browser Alternative to YouTube - YouTube's domination on the market of video-sharing is quite obvious, so numerous applications, such as HUDTube, have emerged to improve the interaction with the popular website. YouTube is easy to use and provides a multitude of features, so you can enjoy watching your favorite clips online. Still, it can be tweaked.Two areas explored by HUDTube are accessibility and...
  • Uninstall Tool Review - Having more and more dedicated software available, the task of uninstalling software on your computer becomes less and less of a hassle; especially since there are also freebies that can take care of the task quite gracefully. Uninstall Tool is one of the paid solutions if you’re looking for removing software more thoroughly the default solution in Win...
  • digiKam 2.4.1 Review - An era of technology is upon us and now we take more pictures in one day then our parents took in 20 years. They had perhaps one picture album, maybe two, for their entire lives. Today, we take so many pictures in half a day, but they need sorting and this is were applications such as digiKam comes into play. According to the developers, digiKam is a KDE applica...
  • Trine 2 Review (PC) - I bought Trine a while ago during a Steam sale but neglected it for quite some time. After hearing that the sequel is coming, I tried it out to see if it’s worth getting excited about its successor. That was probably one of the best decisions I made last summer, as its top notch platforming and puzzles delighted me throughout that traditional drought of new releases. ...
  • Find and Stream New Music - Sometimes, you just want to pass the time listening to music, creating playlists or searching for new bands. Mielophone is a small application that helps users do these things, while also providing them with the means to listen to their favorite radio stations.

Mielophone is an open source application that redefines the way you listen music by implementing feature...
  • Sonic Generations (PC) - How long can a series get by on sheer exploitation of nostalgia intermingled with an appreciation of speed? If you believe that respecting the pat and repackaging it for a new generation is OK and you have good reflexes you will probably enjoy Sonic Generations, the new platformer from publisher SEGA and the developers at Sonic Team. If you believe that what’s old...
  • OneWaySync - Automatically Synchronize Folders - The easy or the hard way, we have all learned that backing up data is essential, and that there are at least two aspects to consider when doing so: speed and frequency. OneWaySync tries to meet both requirements while keeping things simple.Storing backups on multiple locations in order to prevent data loss is by far a common practice nowadays. The launch of Mac OS X 10...
  • BitDefender Total Security 2012 Review - Total Security is the most complete protection suite from Bitdefender. It encompasses all the components in the other bundles and also offers something on the side. As far as the layers of protection are concerned, there are no additional elements.  The additional options compared with Internet Security edition refer to PC optimization ta...
  • Blocks that Matter 1.0.0.8 Review - Blocks that Matter is a puzzle adventure game that is built for people with lots of free time and have a huge brain that remains largely unused during the day. Gamers need to be relaxed and on top of their game, in oder to play Blocks that Matter. It's not a really hard game, bu the nature of the puzzles means that there is a lot of trial and error...
  • Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Review (PC) - I liked the original Assassin’s Creed, was amazed by Assassin’s Creed II, and loved Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Now, Ubisoft and its array of studios have come up with Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, the game that promises to close the loose trilogy of games that focused on Italian assassin Ezio Auditore, while answering question...
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  • Facebook IPO could value it among top companies (AP) -

    FILE - In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 that Facebook is preparing to file initial paperwork for an offering that could raise as much as $10 billion and value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)AP - When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.
  • Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP) -

    This screen shot shows a portion of the Twitter blog post of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in which the company announced it has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money. But Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or 'tweets,' remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a gauntlet of different laws around the world. (AP Photo/Twitter)AP - Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.
  • Samsung 4Q profit rises 17 pct on smartphone sales (AP) -

    Shoppers look at Samsung Electronics devices at the company's showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of sales in flat panels and smartphones even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of smartphone sales even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple's iPhone.
  • Apple CEO responds to allegations of Chinese worker abuse (Yahoo! News) - Yahoo! News - Is Apple finally getting tough on their abusive Chinese suppliers? Maybe. Intent on stemming the increasing complaints from the public and investors alike, Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off an email yesterday to combat claims from "people questioning Apple's values," detailing what …
  • Just Show Me: Great free to-do apps for your iPhone (Yahoo! News) - Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you two amazing to-do apps for your iPhone. In addition to the Reminders …
  • Flashpoint Demo Day a Glimpse of How Entrepreneurs' Dreams Come True (Mashable) - Mashable - A gathering of entrepreneurs in the Bay Area on Thursday offered a window into how ambitious techies' visions become reality. It started with a presentation from a go-getter named Adam Ghetti. Dressed casually in a dark tee-shirt, Ghetti stepped to the front a conference room at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz on Thursday afternoon. He launched into an intense, rapid-fire pitch and test drive of his cloud security startup Social Fortress.
  • Twitter's new censorship rules face opposition (Reuters) - Reuters - It was only two weeks ago that Twitter was protesting online censorship in the form of anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Now the social networking site faces a surge of opposition to its own censorship practices.
  • Hacker group Anonymous targets Mexican websites (Reuters) - Reuters - The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing.
  • RIM CEO eyes "significant" plans for BlackBerry (Reuters) - Reuters - Research in Motion's Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker's chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company's future in just a matter of weeks.
  • DoCoMo to ask for changes in Android -Nikkei (Reuters) - Reuters - NTT DoCoMo Inc (9437.T) will ask Google Inc to modify its Android operating system so that smartphones using it would put less pressure on networks, a move that could spark wider protests against the leading mobile software platform, the Nikkei reported.
  • Tweet lightly: How social media could someday affect your credit score, insurance, and more (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - Did you know January 28 is Data Privacy Day in the United States, Canada, and the European Union? The intention behind Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information—not just amongst individual users of things like social networking, but also amongst businesses, organizations, and corporations that collect, retain, and access information about their clients, customers, and users. Companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have been drawing the attention of privacy advocates and regulators in recent years, but the reality is that there are tens of thousands of companies out there collecting, processing, and distributing personal information about individuals all the time. Increasingly, those companies are looking to things like social networking for cues about individuals’ behaviors, lifestyle, interests, and activities.
  • Google Privacy Policy Raises Red Flags Again (ContributorNetwork) - ContributorNetwork - Google has decided to unify all 60 of its services under one umbrella privacy policy. Records of searches done on Android phones, the Internet and YouTube will be combined to create ultra-personalized advertising. Users won't be able to opt out of the policy, although web browsing history settings can be changed to avert the use of web browsing statistics for advertising purposes.
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to criticism about iOS device factory working conditions (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to criticism about iOS device factory working conditions
  • America Movil to get control of Brazil's Net (Reuters) - Reuters - Cell phone company America Movil, owned by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, said on Friday it had approval from Brazil's telecom watchdog Anatel to take control of cable television company Net Servicos de Comunicacao.
  • Detroit Symphony offering series of free webcasts (AP) - AP - The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has launched a webcast player that will allow music lovers to enjoy an upcoming performance of Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 and other concerts online for free in the comfort of their homes.
  • Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers (Reuters) - Reuters - Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing.
  • McAfee rejects Symantec claim about market share (Reuters) - Reuters - Security software maker McAfee rejected a claim that several large corporate customers had recently switched over to using products from rival Symantec Corp.
  • Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation system (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.”
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  • Google Privacy Policy Raises Red Flags Again (ContributorNetwork) - ContributorNetwork - Google has decided to unify all 60 of its services under one umbrella privacy policy. Records of searches done on Android phones, the Internet and YouTube will be combined to create ultra-personalized advertising. Users won't be able to opt out of the policy, although web browsing history settings can be changed to avert the use of web browsing statistics for advertising purposes.
  • Fresh iPhone Apps for Jan. 27: Frequency, Steam Mobile, RAGE HD update, Baseball Superstars 2012 (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Start your weekend with all the best videos the Internet has to offer with Frequency, an iPad app that makes finding and organizing great videos from all over the place a snap. It’s our top Fresh App today, followed by Steam Mobile, an iOS app that ties to the popular digital video game download portal and lets you impulse-buy during Steam’s crazy game sales no matter where you are. A big update with new levels to RAGE HD tops off our games picks for this weekend, followed by a new, free edition to the Baseball Superstars series from Gamevil.
  • DirecTV settles dispute with Sunbeam over blackout (Reuters) - Reuters - DirecTV and Sunbeam Entertainment have broken bread and ended the carriage dispute that caused customers in Boston and Miami to miss both the Packers-Giants NFL playoff game and the Golden Globes earlier this month.
  • DirecTV, Sunbeam resolve dispute over fees (AP) - AP - DirecTV Inc. and the owner of TV stations in Miami and Boston have resolved a dispute over fees the satellite provider pays to run broadcast programming.
  • YouTube Changes Again: Video Editor, Browse Page Updated (Mashable) - Mashable - Building off its homepage redesign in December, YouTube is rolling out design updates to other aspects of its site. The changes include updates to the Browse page, Video Editor and Video Manager and align with the overall rebranding that Google has pushed out to the majority of its sites and products.
  • Meet the Man Behind the 'Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger' [VIDEO] (Mashable) - Mashable - Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
  • Netflix wins over Wall Street with subscriber growth (Reuters) -

    Netflix's Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings speaks during an interview with Reuters in Buenos Aires September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Enrique MarcarianReuters - Netflix Inc won back Wall Street's affections on Thursday after adding more U.S. subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter, a rebound that prompted analyst upgrades and the company's biggest one-day stock jump in two years.
  • 5 Essential YouTube Channels for Gamers (Mashable) - Mashable - Sure, on YouTube, you've got your IGN and G4 videos that keep you updated with the latest in gaming news and technological eye candy. But what about the deep cuts lurking within the rest of the gaming section? The platform is full of speed runs, time trials, reviews and play-throughs by lifelong gamers who have cult followings. These are the elite of that set. Promoted by some of the best gaming websites, such as ScrewAttack and Machinima, these gamers are known for bringing in-depth knowledge, radical gameplay and a dash of humor for good measure. Some of them are gonzo, some are straight-laced, and still others are so mind-blowingly ridiculous that they can border on NSFW. What you won't see here is the same hot video game everywhere you look: from old-school classics to underground indie games, every platform gets its moment in the spotlight.
  • Comedian Crashes at iJustine's and 12 Other Celebrities' Homes [VIDEO] (Mashable) - Mashable - Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
  • Vimeo announces big changes to website (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - A day after news emerged that video streaming website YouTube now gets a colossal four billion video views a day, rival Vimeo announced it has undergone a major overhaul of its site and will begin rolling out the changes to users over the next few weeks.
  • Super Bowl Ads Will Get a Second Life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable) - Mashable - If you were a Super Bowl viewer in 1984 who left the room during Apple's famous "1984" ad introducing the Mac, you would have soon discovered you made a massive mistake. In those days before YouTube, if you missed a Super Bowl ad, you really missed it. That was especially true for Apple's ad, which ran only once. In 2012, of course, it's a different story. With about two weeks before the big game, some ads are already available online. As for the rest? Try not seeing them after the game.
  • Academy Awards Launches Digital 'Celebrate the Movies' Campaign (Mashable) - Mashable - Just in time for the 84th Academy Award nominations, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is rolling out a digital campaign, entitled "Celebrate the Movies." Starting Monday, iconic moments from 84 films in Oscar history will be showcased online and on digital billboards in New York and Los Angeles. Fans can view digital images at Oscar.com and at YouTube.com/Oscars. Film fanatics can also share their favorite movie-going experiences using social media.
  • Justin Bieber's 5th YouTube Anniversary: The Road to Bieber Fever [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable) - Mashable - Whether you love or despise 17-year-old international pop star Justin Bieber, you have his mom to thank (or blame) for thrusting him into the spotlight five years ago this month. On Jan. 19, 2007, Pattie Mallett uploaded a video of her son performing Ne-Yo's "So Sick" in Stratford, Ontario, to Bieber's YouTube channel -- kidrauhl.
  • Anonymous Threatens Facebook Shutdown Jan. 28 (Mashable) - Mashable - Anonymous is planning to target Facebook in an attack Jan. 28 -- at least that's what a video uploaded to YouTube Monday is claiming in the name of the hacker network. And you thought a day without Wikipedia was bad.
  • YouTube: Now serving 4 billion+ video views daily (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - Google’s ubiquitous video-sharing service YouTube currently serves more than 4 billion video views every day, the company told Reuters. This is a 25 percent increase over the past eight months, according to Google.
  • Consumers Want Online Video Ads No More Than 15 Seconds Long (Mashable) - Mashable - Want to capture customer attention with online video ads? They'd better not be more than 15 seconds long, a new poll suggests.
  • Exclusive: YouTube hits 4 billion daily video views (Reuters) - Reuters - YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.
  • TiVo updates HD user interface, adds multi-room streaming (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - Announced on the official TiVo blog earlier this week, the DVR service company is rolling out a new user interface for owners of the TiVo Premiere, TiVo Premiere XL, and TiVo Premiere Elite. Called version 20.2, the new update overhauls the previously translucent high definition grid guide and live guide as well as introduces a mini-guide, info banners, speed improvements, a revision to the discover bar, improvements to the search algorythm and the ability to stream content between TiVo boxes on the same home network. Multi-room streaming is a popular trend that’s been introduced by a handful of media companies over the past year.
  • Crowdsourced 'Star Wars Uncut: The Director's Cut' Debuts on YouTube [VIRAL VIDEO] (Mashable) - Mashable - [More from Mashable: Obama Sings Al Green at the Apollo Theatre [VIDEO]]
  • 5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity (Mashable) - Mashable - This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The Internet is a black hole of procrastination. It's a rare occasion when we open up our web browsers and just do work without checking Facebook or getting sucked into YouTube.
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  • New Tomb Raider Game Won’t Appear on Nintendo Wii U - Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind the upcoming reboot of the Tomb Raider series, has confirmed that the title won’t appear on the Wii U, partly because development on the game had already started before the new home console from Nintendo was unveiled. The Tomb Raider series has entertained millions of fans from all over th...
  • ‘Pulse News’ for Android Gets Bug-Fixing Update - The folks at Alphonso Labs have just updated their newsreader application for Android devices. This is a small update fixing some bugs that were previously reported by users.   Although the latest update does not bring any new features, the developers recommend users to install it for a better news reading experience.
  • Samsung GT-i9070 Spotted at FCC En-Route to China - Unveiled a year ago, one of the most popular Android smartphones available on the market, Samsung Galaxy S II still makes headlines from time to time.   Due to customers’ high demand for Samsung Android products, the Korean handset m...
  • Incoming 2012: Touch My Katamari - What we know: The Katamari series is a perfect example of the kind of gameplay that only Japanese developers could dream and then create. The series launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2004 and has since then appeared on the iOS powered devices, the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 3, and now Namco Bandai has also brought it to the new PlayS...
  • Nikon D400 DSLR May Arrive in Late March - Wondering what will replace the recently discontinued D300S in Nikon’s DSLR lineup? So are we, but apparently Nikon Rumors has managed to figure this one out. According to the website, there’s a strong chance that the camera will be called the D400 and some sources seem to suggest that it will be introduced by Nikon in late March 2012. No info regarding the specs of the DSLR accompanied this report, but if we were to guess we would say that improved video ...
  • This Year’s Assassin’s Creed Game Will Be the Biggest in the Series - Ubisoft has already begun teasing its next Assassin’s Creed game, promising that it will be the biggest one the series has seen so far. The Assassin’s Creed franchise has been around for quite some time, with Ubisoft delighting millions upon millions of action adventure fans from all around the world, e...
  • 3DS Is Fastest Selling Product for Nintendo - Nintendo might have posted a series of financial results for the last nine months of 2011 that were below expectations and included losses, but the company was proud to announce that the much-maligned 3DS handheld was now the fastest selling product that the company has ever launched worldwide.Satoru Iwata, the president and the chief exec...
  • Quick Look: Ballistic (With Gameplay Video) - Radian Games has decided to follow up on its highly successful Super Crossfire arcade shooter with quite a few new games. Among them, there is Ballistic, a gorgeous twin-stick shooter that tasks players with surviving wave upon wave of different types of enemies. We decided to give Ballistic a try and see if it’s worth investing in the shooter or if your twin sticks are better suited to other types of experiences. In case you’ve played other games from Rad...
  • Motorola Recruits ATRIX 4G Owners for Soak Test - Shortly after Motorola managed to gather enough Motorola DROID RAZR owners for its new project, the company decided to start sending invites to Motorola ATRIX 4G users who want to participate in a soak test.   Obviously, only Motorola Feedback Network members are eligible for this soak test. Although the handset maker did not reveal any...
  • If You Missed This Week’s New Mac Firmware Updates, Here They Are - This week Apple rolled out several updates for Mac users owning either a MacBook, a Macbook Pro, or a Mac mini. The updates didn’t come in bulk, so in case you missed them, you can grab them right here, right now. The three new firmware releases this week all have a common goal - to enable Lion Recovery from an Internet connection. Recovery is an exclusive feature introduced in OS X Lion that lets you restore system software to your Mac with a few clicks, no install discs, ...
  • Asus Transformer Prime Runs Ubuntu Linux, Video Included - Asus may ship the Transformer Prime with a locked bootloader, but this hasn’t stopped hackers from running Ubuntu Linux on the 10.1-inch tablet. As always, this Android hack came our way via the XDA Forums, where a user going by the name of Zedomax created a video demoing Ubuntu running on the Prime, together with a step-by-step tutorial that explains how to install the OS on the Asus tablet. As you can certainly see, the GUI is quite slow since VNC is used to c...
  • Moon Had Own Dynamo Effect - In a paper published in the January 27 issue of the top journal Science, experts propose that the Moon's magnetic field in fact endured for a lot longer than previously estimated. At the same time, its strength may have been underrated in past investigations, the same team indicates. But the most important conclusion researchers came to was that the Moon...
  • EndWeekGame: January 27 - Andrei Dumitrescu: The first video game I wanted to play this week is now out and I have plans to dig as deep as possible into King Arthur II – The Role-playing Wargame, the strategy title from developer Neocore Games and publisher Paradox Interactive. Until now I have played the intro mini-campaign, which deals more with the Romans and the aftermath of...
  • McDonald's Changes Burger Recipe to Exclude 'Pink Slime' - His show may have been canceled by ABC in mid-season but it seems that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is still making a difference: McDonald's has just announced it will no longer use the ammonium hydroxide process in the making of burgers. While the fast food chain makes it a point of underlining that the decision to exclude the ...
  • Android 4.0 Kills the Menu Button - With Android 3.0 Honeycomb, came along the lack of a menu button on devices. In Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, no hardware button means that developers need not map it in their applications anymore. Before Honeycomb, the button was used for applications to deliver various options that were relevant to the user, using the activity’s built-i...
  • Virginia Schools to Conduct First Ever Algebra 1 Pilot on iPad - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and the Virginia Department of Education have teamed up to conduct the first-ever 18-month pilot of HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 for iPad. Using the world's only full-curriculum Algebra app for Apple tablet computers, the pilot encompasses the 2012 Spring semester and the 2012–2013 school year to help evaluate the degree to which students show measurably improved performance and more favorable attitudes toward math. All content and technic...
  • Google and Mozilla Working on SPDY Standard for a Faster Web - Google is working on all fronts to make the web faster. It's constantly optimizing its websites and services to squeeze out every last inch of performance, but it's also working on improving the underlying architecture of the web. One project that attempts this is SPDY a version of the HTTP protocol built with speed in min...
  • Steam Mobile App Now Available on iOS and Android - Valve has just released a mobile version of its Steam digital distribution program, allowing users to check out the online store, purchase games and browse their library or screenshots, while interacting with their friends. Valve’s Steam is the most popular digital distribution service on the PC and Mac platforms, delighting t...
  • French Elle Accused of Shameless Racism for Michelle Obama Piece - That First Lady Michelle Obama is a fashion icon, that she supports young black designers and that she's a trendsetter is not a secret. According to a recent editorial on Elle France, Michelle Obama is also the reason why African-Americans finally know how to “dress up.” In a piece called “Black ...
  • The Lord of the Rings Online Gets Riders of Rohan Expansion in Autumn 2012 - Video game developer Turbine and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced that they are working on a new expansion for the MMO The Lord of the Rings Online, which will be called Riders of Rohan and is set to launch at some point during the autumn of this year. The new expansion will al...
  • Fingerprint Security Coming to Mac OS X via Eikon-TrueSuite - AuthenTec has announced a two-piece fingerprint security solution which includes an Eikon fingerprint sensor and TrueSuite identity management software that works with MacBook computers. Supporting both OS X Snow Leopard and Lion, the new Eikon-TrueSuite from AuthenTec boasts one-finger website-logon, QuickLaunch (launch to favorite websites; associate websites with different fingers), easy fingerprint enrollment/setup, fast user switching, and automatic updates. The ...
  • World's Largest Cut Emerald Goes Up for Auction - A stone branded the “world's largest cut emerald” is going up for auction in Canada while, at the same time, causing heated debate among experts on whether it's really worth upwards of $1 million (€761,846.7), its estimated value. Teodora (meaning “gift from God”) was discovered in Brazil and was cut in ...
  • Developer Suggests Story Based DLC for Final Fantasy XIII-2 - A comment from one of the leading developers working on the JRPG Final Fantasy XIII-2 suggests that the rumors about Lightning-based downloadable content for the game might have a lot of truth in them. Yoshinori Kitase, the producer working on Final Fantasy XIII-2, has told the Square Enix blog that, “There is more DLC items coming that we’ll reveal when the time is appropriate.” He added, “We’re not just planning boss battles or costumes...
  • Aliens: Colonial Marines Delayed Once Again, Now Arrives in Fall - Sega and Gearbox Software have confirmed that Aliens: Colonial Marines, their tactical shooter that’s been a long time in development, has been delayed once again and is now scheduled to arrive this fall. Aliens: Colonial Marines was announced many years ago by Sega, with the team at Gearbox Software working hard ...
  • DROID RAZR MAXX Now Only $199.99 at Amazon - DROID RAZR’s chunkier brother is available for purchase at Verizon Wireless for $299.99 (230 EUR) with a new two-year agreement. Although the smartphone was launched only yesterday, it looks like Amazon already slashed DROID RAZR MAXX’s price to only $199.99 (150 EUR). 
  • Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus Down to $99.99 on Contract - The first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in the world, none other than the Galaxy Nexus, is now available for purchase on Verizon’s network for only $99.99 with the signing of a contract agreement. Amazon was the one to reduce the phone’s price tag, and users interested in taking advantage of the deal should head over to its website for that. One certain thing is that the Galaxy Nexus does seem to be one of the most appealing smartphones on V...
  • The Witcher 2 for Xbox 360 Out on April 17, Gets New Cinematic Trailer - CD Projekt Red together with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, has just revealed a concrete release date for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings on the Xbox 360, with the RPG finally arriving on the console on April 17. The Witcher 2 delighted millions of PC gamers last year with its great role playing mechanics and stunning visuals. Shortly after that, CD Projekt Red, the developer, confirmed that it would release the game on the Xbox 360 together with Warner Bros.
  • Facebook Only Has 9 Countries to Go for Global Dominance - Facebook is taking over the world. No, it isn't replacing governments just yet, but it is the largest social network in most places around the world. The last holdouts are falling one by one and in the few places where Facebook isn't number one, the site is completely blocked in the country. Blogger Vincenzo Cosenza has been ...
  • Analyze 3D Dinosaurs on Your iPad with This App - M5859 Studios has launched Inside the World of Dinosaurs, a new education app for  iPad users, narrated by Stephen Fry. The publishers believe it’s one of the most exciting and content-rich apps in the world of interactive publishing. A fully-interactive digital dinosaur encyclopedia, Inside the World of Dinosaurs leverages...
  • EA Games Coming to Nokia Lumia Smartphones - Nokia and EA are working closely on the release of a series of mobile games to Nokia devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. The two companies already went official with plans to launch a series of games on Nokia Windows Phones, but they did not unveil the specific titles that will be launched as part of t...
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  • DoCoMo to ask for changes in Android -Nikkei (Reuters) - Reuters - NTT DoCoMo Inc (9437.T) will ask Google Inc to modify its Android operating system so that smartphones using it would put less pressure on networks, a move that could spark wider protests against the leading mobile software platform, the Nikkei reported.
  • Android app makers can boost revenue with price cuts, promos (Appolicious) - Appolicious - It’s tough being an Android developer these days. Not only do you have a variety of devices and OS versions to consider, but there’s also some 500,000 apps you’re competing with in the Android Market. You have to be creative, thinking of new marketing strategies and design implementations to launch an app that stands out. Discounted app prices, for instance, have shown to boost revenue, and this is particularly true for the Android Market. ...
  • Fresh Android Apps for Jan. 27: Eventbrite, Kaiser Permanente, Pyxxis 2 (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Heading to an event over the weekend? Download Eventbrite before you go! Dive into healthcare with Kaiser Permanente and, in games, help the Pyxxis 2 go home.
  • Evi tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious) - Appolicious - There’s been a second wave of Siri clones on the rise this week, with the launch of Evi gaining plenty of attention. While Android users seek their own version of the popular iPhone 4S artificial intelligence assistant, Evi, SimSimi and others have continued to gain traction in the Android Market. Lookout Labs unveiled a great app for visualizing mobile security threats, giving you deeper insight to malware behavior over time. Apartments.com also broke out with an Android app this week, joining the top real estate resources in the Market.
  • Valve ventures into mobile with Steam on iOS and Android (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - Launched earlier this week and announced on the Steam site, Valve has started a closed beta for Steam Mobile on the iPhone and Android phones. The mobile application brings a vast amount of core functions found within the PC and Mac version of the Steam software, the most notable being the ability to make purchases through the application. This will allow any mobile Steam user to take advantage of the frequent sales that cut popular games up to 90 percent off. Assuming the user agrees to notifications from the application, Steam will also be able to feed mobile alerts to the user when a game on a user’s wishlist goes on sale. The interface offers the familiar Steam categories of new, featured, popular and specials. In addition, there’s a search interface allowing the user to find games by price, title or genre. 
  • Motorola posts loss, awaits Google deal approval (Reuters) - Reuters - Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility Inc posted a fourth quarter loss on weak revenue on Thursday in what could be its last report before a planned takeover by Google Inc.
  • Report: Android accounts for 39 pct of tablet market (Digital Trends) - Digital Trends - Market analysis firm Strategy Analytics has released its analysis of the worldwide tablet market during the fourth quarter of 2011, and finds that while the Apple iPad continues to dominate with a 58 percent share, Android tablets are catching up, accounting for 39 percent of the market. And even Windows tablets put in an appearance, accounting for roughly one percent of the global market. The figures represent a solid year-on-year improvement for Android, which Strategy Analytics pegged at holding 29 percent of the tablet market a year ago.
  • Casio’s new smartphone looks like an oversized watch; might survive the apocalypse (Yahoo! News) - Yahoo! News - Looking for the most rugged smartphone on the planet? Well then, meet the new Casio — yes, that Casio — Android G-Shock. It's the kind of smartphone that Lewis and Clark would have taken with them had there been 4G cell service in 1804. …
  • Nokia's Windows Phones Rising Slowly, CEO Hints at Tablet (Mashable) - Mashable - The reinvention of Nokia is going slowly, if the last financial quarter is any indication. The Finnish cellphone giant lost nearly a billion euros in Q4 2011, or $1.3 billion. On top of that, Nokia sold 31% fewer smartphones than over the same period last year. Despite those troubles, the company's push toward the Windows Phone platform appears to be gaining some steam, selling "well over" 1 million phones under the Lumia brand -- though that's out of 19.6 million smartphones sold worldwide. Windows Phone is expected to make greater strides this year, though, and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop hinted at one point during today's earnings call that the company may soon extend the partnership beyond just phones.
  • Nokia loss tempered by Windows phone launch (AP) - AP - Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of euro1.07 billion ($1.38 billion) as sales slumped 21 percent even as the company's first Windows smartphones hit markets in Europe and Asia.
  • Android tablets approach tipping point, mimic smartphone rise (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Google’s winning smartphone strategy was to make Android open source and invite anyone and everyone to create a device for their mobile platform. It worked, as HTC, Motorola and others jumped on the opportunity to create smartphones to rival the iPhone. However, the market was reset when Apple released the iPad. Yet another game-changer, the iPad set new standards for tablets, and is already prepping for a third generation release. All the while, Google’s been building an Android platform designed for tablets, eventually releasing Android 4. ...
  • Japan's NEC slashing 10,000 jobs worldwide (AP) - AP - Japanese electronics company NEC Corp. says it is slashing 10,000 jobs worldwide amid deteriorating earnings due to weakness in its mobile phone business and flooding in Thailand that hit its platform business.
  • Fresh Android of Apps for Jan. 26: Red Hot Chili Peppers, GBikes Demo, Sonic 4 Episode I (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Today’s fresh apps all go fast! Fast music (Red Hot Chili Peppers), fast driving (GBikes Demo), and fast spiny mammals (Sonic 4 Episode 1). Slip an anti-shock cover over your Android and press INSTALL.
  • Nokia profits dive as new phones slow to take off (Reuters) - Reuters - Nokia Oyj reported a 73 percent fall in fourth-quarter earnings as sales of its new Windows Phones failed to dent the dominance of Apple Inc's iPhone or compensate for diving sales of its own old smartphones.
  • Android tablets closing in on iPad: researcher (Reuters) - Reuters - Tablet computers using Google's Android software narrowed the lead of Apple's iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.
  • New CEO for Digicel in Haiti (AP) - AP - Haiti's biggest employer has named a new chief executive to run Digicel, the mobile phone company announced Wednesday.
  • Raditaz Android app offers a creative way to discover new music (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Looking for a new musical app experience? Tired of listening to the same song over and over? Check out the free, radical and super-fun musical Raditaz app for Android. It’s similar to Pandora, as in you can start by picking an artist to create a station. This allows you to listen to music by that artist and similar artists. Only Raditaz says it has 15 times the number of songs as Pandora! And, the Raditaz app doesn’t have any ads. Wow, it beats Pandora in my book right there alone. So how is it free? Raditaz employees working in a basement, or so it says in the ad copy.
  • 5 Things Tech-Savvy Business Travelers Need (ContributorNetwork) - ContributorNetwork - With close to half of business travelers now from Generation X and Generation Y, gadgets geared toward the tech-savvy business traveler now cater to nearly every tech niche. Whether your travel-tech packing list includes an entire mobile office or just a mobile phone, here are five tech gadgets every business traveler needs.
  • O2 accidentally exposes customers' phone numbers (AP) - AP - An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks.
  • Apple sees massive revenues to end 2011, edges past Android in U.S. (Appolicious) - Appolicious - Apple had an earnings call this week running down the numbers for its first quarter of 2012 (which was actually the October through December quarter of 2011). They were mind-blowing: the company doubled its revenues and its profits over the same period from just a year before.
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  • New app promises wireless sync for iPhone — if Apple approves it (Ben Patterson) - Ben Patterson - Zune users have been able to sync their music and videos over Wi-Fi for years now — not so for patrons of the iPhone or iPod Touch, which can only sync up files via USB tethering. That said, an enterprising developer is looking to change the game when it comes to wireless iPhone and/or iPod Touch syncing ... if Apple will let him, that is.
  • BlackBerry's new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad (Ben Patterson) - Ben Patterson - What's the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to a BlackBerry? For me, it's Research In Motion's iconic QWERTY keypad, or at the very least the modified "SureType" keyboard, which crams a couple of letter keys on each number key. So it's a little jarring to get a load of RIM's new, pumped-up Pearl 3G — the first BlackBerry ever with a standard alphanumeric keypad, same as on many garden-variety cell phones.
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