Archive for January, 2011 - Page 8

Microsoft Won’t Rule Out Office For Mac App Store [Office Might Be Coming To Mac App Store According To Microsoft]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While Microsoft is not yet offering its flagship program in Office in the Mac app store yet, the company has said it will not rule out doing so in the future. Amanda Lefebvre of Microsoft says that doing so is [...]

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Amazon Security Flaw Allows Similar If Not Exact Passwords [Amazon Flaw In Online Security Allows Passwords That Are Close To Real Ones]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

When most of us are inputting new passwords to various websites around the net, we know that one of the things that is most important is that we make sure that we have the caps lock key on or off [...]

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Modders Get Honeycomb Running On NookColor [Barnes & Nobles' Secret Android Tablet Once Again Proves Its Functionality When XDA Developer Dweller Gets Android 3.0 Running On The Versatile Device]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

Yeah, we knew that Barnes & Noble’s NookColor eReader would be running Android. But did we suspect it would do this much? Modders have managed to root it, install the Android Market on it, and do all sorts of things [...]

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OpenLeaks Opens Its Internet Door [Wikileaks Like Site OpenLeaks Launches Friday]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While Wikileaks has been successfully vilified in the court of public opinion thanks to the slapdash way they seem to release information, a new site that is purported to be very similar launched yesterday with some caveats the site administrators [...]

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Egypt Turns Off Its Internet Connections Amidst Revolution [As Populace Rallies Against Government, Government Shuts Off Internet]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

In response to several different protests that turned violent as the police were called in, the government of Egypt took steps that few countries have been able to manage. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak basically cut his country off from the [...]

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Sony Releases New Firmware For PS3 [Sony PS3 Has New Firmware, Challenging Hackers To Do Their Thing]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

The battle between hackers and Sony continues. The latest salvo fired off by Sony is that they have launched a new firmware upgrade that is mandatory for all users to download. This upgrades the Sony PS3 firmware to version 3.56 [...]

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Dead Space Movie Could Be Possible, Says Visceral [Visceral Games Talking About Possibility Of Live Action Dead Space Movie, Determined To Actually Make It Good]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

Anyone who has even a passing interest in video games probably knows that game-to-movie-adaptations have a history of failing miserably. I don’t know exactly why Hollywood can’t seem to get it right (though I’d guess it mostly has to do [...]

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Samsung Sells 2 Million Galaxy Tabs In First Three Months Of Existence [2 Million Galaxy Tabs Fly Off Shelves Since Launche Three Months Ago]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While the sales numbers may not be all that impressive when you stack them up to the Apple iPad, the fact that Samsung has sold over 2 million Galaxy Tabs since they were first put on the market three months [...]

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Google Begins Display Ads In Emails [Google Bringing Display Ads To Users Emails]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While companies like Google are always looking for new ways to bring in a little extra revenue any way they can, the newest way they have decided to get money might be a little more annoying to their users. While [...]

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Nintendo Head Says He Is Not Worried About Sony’s New PSP [Nintendo Head Says Nintendo 3DS Won't Be Really Challenged By Sony]

By on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While there has been plenty of competition of late between Sony and Nintendo in the hand held video game fields, the head of Nintendo says that Sony’s latest announcement of the new PSP does not worry him at all as [...]

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