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| Divorce Is the New Pink |  | I don't know what it is that makes the divorce of two stars so important to us, but the point is that such a thing soon enough becomes public knowledge, with tens or even thousands of[ADMARK=1] newspapers and news agencies covering the story. Many say that it's man's unstoppable and unsatisfied curiosity the cause that makes us all read with rapt attention each headline or stay with our eyes glued to the television set when the anchorman reads the announcement: 'X has ... [read more >>] | | Category: Editorials Date: 18 November 2006, 18:31 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Hands-On Mobile and Emdigo to Deliver New 3D Graphics Content Experience |  | Emdigo, a provider of mobile media content and technology, announced that it has entered into an agreement with mobile publisher Hands-On Mobile to launch an exclusive new category of mobile lifestyle products utilizing fully interactive 3D graphics.
The first product to launch under the agreement will be ActionScreens 3D, ... [read more >>] | | Category: Communications Date: 18 November 2006, 17:16 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Cingular Introduces the Firefly Phone for Kids |  | Cingular Wireless and Firefly Mobile announced the availability of the Firefly phone, a mobile phone specifically [ADMARK=1]designed for kids with ages under 12.
The Firefly phone was designed with just five keys instead of a regular keypad. Parents use a private PIN to program up to 22 outgoing numbers into the p ... [read more >>] | | Category: Communications Date: 18 November 2006, 16:06 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Cheaper Than Expected PS3 Bundles on Sale |  | As the PlayStation 3 next-gen [ADMARK=1]console just launched in the US, following a series of violent events (PS3 campers get shot, retailers get robbed), here comes the first PS3 bundle via GameStop.com website.
The PS3 bundle has gone on sale on the evening of October 17, and it costs just US$ 994.29, not including tax and ship ... [read more >>] | | Category: Play Station Date: 18 November 2006, 14:58 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Samsung C417 Entry-Level Clamshell |  | Samsung has finally stopped coming with new and amazing mobile phones that have left us drooling and now has released the C417 for the people that want[ADMARK=1] a phone with a low-level price justified by a pretty basic set of features.
No problems in this area for this one, because the first thing you can be sure of is t ... [read more >>] | | Category: Communications Date: 18 November 2006, 14:01 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Linux Infringes Microsoft's Intellectual Property |  | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer accused the Linux operating system of infringing on Microsoft's intellectual property at the Professional Association for SQL Server conference. “We've had an issue, a problem[ADMARK=1] that we've had to confront, which is because of the way the GPL (General Public License) works, and because open-source Linux does not come from a company -- Linux comes from the community -- the fact that that product uses our patented intellectual property is a ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 14:00 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Nintendo Wii Should Cost US$ 100 |  | Let’s forget for two seconds about the PS3 (if you can) and focus more on the Nintendo Wii. As you probably know, the Wii launch is a couple of days away and I bet that - once you read this - you'll go to stand in line to get one.
The official price for the ... [read more >>] | | Category: Nintendo Date: 18 November 2006, 13:47 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| LG KE260: Strikingly Familiar |  | LG has always found a way to make us do the big-eyed face full of surprise and now the time has come again. Not because we're talking about a phone with looks beyond belief or with a spec sheet to be desired but, instead, because today the phone that is the subject of this article, namely the LG KE260, has the “strange ... [read more >>] | | Category: Communications Date: 18 November 2006, 13:38 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Google Reminds Us: 38 more Days until Christmas! |  | Black Friday is that first day after Thanksgiving and it represents one of the most important days of the year, [ADMARK=1]because it marks the start of the winter holidays.
“Black Friday, (also known as hell in the retail world) is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive ... [read more >>] | | Category: Search Engines Related Date: 18 November 2006, 13:37 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Is Celebrating the Hispanic Culture |  | For a suggested retail price of $49.99, Microsoft's Rare Viva Piñata for Xbox 360 is available in the United States. Concomitantly, the Redmond Company has revealed that it will host a multicity[ADMARK=1] tour in New York, Miami and Los Angeles to celebrate the lanching of the game.
“The Xbox 360 game ‘Viva Piñata’ inspired us to take the spirit of the game and expand the concept to create learning tools to help kids experience more about their Hispanic heritage in a fun and enga ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 13:21 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Orc Dancing in World of Warcraft In-Game Press Conference |  | Started out as a joke, a way to make fun of SecondLife in-game press conferences, the press conference on WoW servers has become reality. But - as Ross Mayfield from Socialtext writes on his blog - this will not be a regular press conference, but it will have a set of wacky rules.
First of all, no ninjas are allowed! As a further “restric ... [read more >>] | | Category: PC Date: 18 November 2006, 13:10 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Zune to Become Vista Compatible |  | Microsoft has disputed reports that the Zune portable media player is not compatible with Windows Vista, contradicting information posted on the Zune website. “Zune software is compatible[ADMARK=1] with the following operating systems: Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2,” reads a message informing of the operating systems that are currently compatible with the product. In fact, Zune's support of operating systems is limited exclusively ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 13:09 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| What's the Role of Junk DNA? |  | A team at University of Iowa has made a study about the role played by the so-called "junk DNA" that represents most of the human genome while genes, DNA segments coding proteins, represent only a small percent.
The team found that some junk DNA is not junk at all, encoding - amongst others - microRNAs, short RNA sequences that do not play any role in protein synthesis, but in tuning protein production; microRNAs could be expressed in a different way than previously known.
... [read more >>] | | Category: Science Date: 18 November 2006, 13:03 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| The Daily Dose of Rumors: Nokia N97 |  | Did you have enough rumors on your daily diet lately? No problem, here is one more to complete the daily rumor dose of anyone that lives on such information. The N97 might be going through the development process at the Finnish headquarters of the Nokia mobile phone manufacturer[ADMARK=1], but as one could see fr ... [read more >>] | | Category: Rumours about mobile phones Date: 18 November 2006, 12:54 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Your Daily Share of Pussy, Courtesy of Lindsay |  | Maybe some of you thought that Lindsay could never top Paris in terms of crotch flashing! Ha! The young starlet is now becoming more and more famous for her intimate parts rather for,[ADMARK=1] I don't know, acting gigs or the things other celebrities do, like charity or side things (fashion, perfumes, ad campaigns and so on and so forth).
From this point of view, Miss Lohan is far behind her class: she doesn't have a clothing line, she doesn't have a personal fragrance, ... [read more >>] | | Category: Fashion police Date: 18 November 2006, 12:44 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Valve Bans 10,000 Accounts |  | Apparently, Valve knows if you have been naughty or nice. I don’t know what’s gotten into them, but you [ADMARK=1]can count your lucky stars if you were using cheats on Valve and didn’t get banned.
Valve just updated their Steam Hardware Survey this week, and on this occasion, they decided to collect some new data from Steam users ab ... [read more >>] | | Category: PC Date: 18 November 2006, 12:42 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Unveils Windows Media Photo |  | The Redmond Company has unveiled HD Photo still image codec Feature Specification also known as Windows Media Photo. Including container, metadata, image formats and Windows programming[ADMARK=1] guide HD Photo is a file format for continuous-tone still images. With Windows Medias Photo, Microsoft aims to expand the limitations of the current image formats.
Here are a few of the features supported by HD Photo:
• Multiple color formats for display or print
• Fixed or floating point ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 12:36 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Tina Fey: Paris Is a Piece of S**t! |  | These days, it has become more and more popular to garner some free publicity by slamming Paris Hilton. After all, she is the one that gets the most publicity, apparently for nothing, so[ADMARK=1] no one would ever come to her defense.
The last celebrity to attack Paris on the record is Tina Fey, a former star and writer for 'Saturday Night Live'. Fey said that, for the brief period of time that Hilton spent on the set of the show as co-host, she proved that she is the most d ... [read more >>] | | Category: Television & Reality shows Date: 18 November 2006, 12:19 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Smoking Plus HPV Increase Risk of Cervical Cancer in Women |  | Women who smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day and carry the human papillomavirus 16 (the most common form of HPV) are almost 14 times more likely to develop cervical cancer symptoms than their peers who are also heavy smokers but are not infected with the particular virus. According to the findings of a recent study carried out by a team of researchers at the Karolinska Institute, women who smoke and are HPV-16 positive also have a double-fold risk to develop cervical cancer as compared ... [read more >>] | | Category: Diseases & Conditions Date: 18 November 2006, 12:07 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Petey and Katey Not Good Enough to Mix with Royalty |  | So, the latest installment of the Bond series, 'Casino Royale', starring Daniel Craig, premiered in the UK and set a new record for the suave spy: the movie became the best-selling Bond[ADMARK=1] adventure in England, topping the ticket sales Brosnan made in 2002 with 'Die Another Day'.
While the producers can now rest at ease in what respects the reaction of the public and - above all - of the critics (who were more than set to tear the latest Bond to pieces, both ... [read more >>] | | Category: LIVE Celebs Date: 18 November 2006, 12:02 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Updating Brand-New Vista |  | The Windows Vista DVD has been released to manufacturing with in excess of 19,500 device drivers. In comparison, its predecessor, Windows XP has been launched with only 10,000 device[ADMARK=1] drivers. But still, Microsoft claims there is room for improvement with windows Vista. Moreover, the Redmond company is promising that its latest operating system will continue to improve even after RTM.
“But, what is even more significant is that at the RTM for Windows Vista, we already had an ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 11:50 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Naked Hillary Swank Does Pirelli |  | Sophia Loren was not the only one to lose some clothes and pose for the extra-special Pirelli Calendar. Among other actresses and supermodels was also Hilary Swank, who showed a much[ADMARK=1] softer and sexier side in this year's edition of the calendar, titled 'A Bed and Five Stories'.
The concept behind the calendar is that it should and must never be sold to anyone. It dates back from 1964 and the 'Pirelli tradition' says that, each year, it is to be distri ... [read more >>] | | Category: Side careers Date: 18 November 2006, 11:38 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| The Aztec Monolith May Hide an Imperial Tomb |  | It seems that the Aztec stone monolith depicting a fearsome, blood thirsty god, recently discovered in Mexico City might cover the tomb of an Aztec emperor. “It would be the first burial site ever found of a leader of the 1427-1521 Aztec empire”, said archaeologist Eduardo Matos. "We think this could be a gravestone covering the place where this ruler was laid to rest," Matos said.
The stone was discovered at the foot of the western face of the ruins of Templo Mayor, the Az ... [read more >>] | | Category: Science Date: 18 November 2006, 11:36 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| US Watchdog Greenlights Silicone Breast Implants After a 14 Years Ban |  | The Food and Drug Administration has recently announced that they raise the ban on silicone gel breast implants temporarily, while they are deeply looking into the risks, effectiveness and safety of such plastic surgery. Throughout time, the FDA cautioned that resorting to plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes is severely restricted, therefore women who wanted to enlarge their breasts through silicone implants[ADMARK=1] should not be very enthusiast when hearing the news.
The US watch ... [read more >>] | | Category: Cosmetics Date: 18 November 2006, 11:24 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Update vs. Windows Updates |  | Windows Update has come a long way since its initial launching when it delivered a centralized service and location for the Windows-related updates, but did little else as the users were[ADMARK=1] forced to install the patches manually. Only with Windows XP Service Pack 2 did Microsoft introduce automated features with download and install capabilities even as part of the shutdown process. In this regard, the Redmond Company modified the recommended settings for Windows Update with the Au ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 11:20 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| 'Batman' Release Date Set for 2008 |  | After so much debate whether to continue the 'Batman' franchise with another installment with Christian Bale, Warner Bros. decided that he made such a perfect superhero that the[ADMARK=1] opportunity could not be passed.
Thus, talks about the sequel for 'Batman Begins' began and the heated debate revolved now not around Christian's ability to portray again that goody-goody superhero, but around who was going to take on the villain part. Finally, after many disc ... [read more >>] | | Category: Cinema Date: 18 November 2006, 11:07 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Google Enterprise Search Superstars |  | Google entitled Enterprise Search Superstars the companies that included Google Mini and Google Search Appliance[ADMARK=1] on their site to offer customers and employees a faster and better access to Google Search.
“Google customers have implemented our enterprise search solutions in any number of ways, including on employee intranets, customer support sites, partner extranets and for product search on e-commerce sites,” Google said.
“Google Search Superstar Award winners receive a ... [read more >>] | | Category: Search Engines Related Date: 18 November 2006, 10:53 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Vista-ready Flash Player 9 Integrates with IE7 Protect Mode |  | Windows Vista-Flash Player 9 has been released just in time, as Microsoft has made Vista available for download via MSDN subscriptions. The Redmond Company, through the voice of Marc[ADMARK=1] Silbey, Program Manager, has welcomed the result of the close partnership between Microsoft and Adobe.
Aside from being designed with Windows Vista in mind, the brand new Adobe Flash Player 9 also works with Internet Explorer 7 protect mode serving as a model of implementation for additional bro ... [read more >>] | | Category: Microsoft Date: 18 November 2006, 10:39 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Asus Will Release a RD600 Motherboard |  | Asus is aiming pretty high these days. Maybe they’re thinking that after the success they’ve had with p965/975x motherboards, they could do the same with more exotic yet powerful solutions coming from the outsiders. First, we have “Striker Extreme” based upon Nvidia[ADMARK=1] 680i chipset, which has already proven to be quite a success especially when concerning overclocking capabilities, exceeding in some cases the results produced by motherboards with INTEL chipsets.
And if they will ... [read more >>] | | Category: Hardware Date: 18 November 2006, 10:36 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| AMD Renames Crossfire Chipset Again |  | AMD’s continuous hunt for the Ati logos is starting to give me a headache. First, they announced that “Ati” will remain on the video cards but not on other[ADMARK=1] products. What “other products” means is not so clear but I think it has something to do with the motherboards. In the hurry to prove that they can also produce motherboards which can successfully fight with Nvidia’s products, AMD officials have not only converted the older Ati motherboards to the “AMD” brand but have also re ... [read more >>] | | Category: Hardware Date: 18 November 2006, 09:31 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Gateway Will Use Opteron CPUs for Its Servers |  | Dell was the first manufacturer to integrate the Opteron CPUs into its line of performance servers and rack-mountable clusters. And it seems that when one such as Dell sets the trend, it’s hard not to do the same. Following the path, Gateway jumped to the other side and[ADMARK=1] announced its first Opteron based servers.
The 1U-sized Gateway E-9422R is available with two AMD Opteron 2xxx dual-core processors and uses 12 memory slots with NUMA capabilities. NVIDIA MCP55 Pro powers the ... [read more >>] | | Category: Hardware Date: 18 November 2006, 09:26 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
| Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Get My Face Closer to Apply Some Make Up On |  | As you might have noticed, most of the gadgets presented in this daily column don't have a specific target, as we wish to satisfy all of our readers, both male and female. However, the device you're about to see as follows is aimed especially at the ladies, since the Power Zoom Vanity Mirror from First Street is a device that will help the users get a closer look (5x closer, actually) at their own face by simply touching a button.
The manufacturers present it as the “most cu ... [read more >>] | | Category: Daily Gadget Date: 18 November 2006, 09:06 | (c) 2006 Softpedia |
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