I know that we have been clamoring for 3rd party applications on the iPhone and there are some awesome applications available. However, the stable days of pre-iPhone 2.0 may be gone forever and Jobs may not like the can of worms that he has opened up. It is particularly a shame when the native applications on the device can’t even perform reliably.
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For a period of several hours on 11-Aug-08, both MobileMe Mail and Google’s Gmail were both inaccessible for many users, although Gmail reportedly remained accessible for those retrieving email via IMAP and a standalone email client. MobileMe’s outage was not accompanied by any acknowledgment but after a few hours it was back up.
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From the outside, Electronic Arts’ Los Angeles studio, just a few miles from LA’s main airport, could be the offices of any number of blue chip IT firms. Just one of the 16 developer studios it operates around the world, the building’s anonymous grey and steel exterior speaks of hi-tech and analytical operations, not creativity and video games.
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The most popular games online are Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3. You know that, I know that, everyone knows that. So what happens to the lesser known games as time marches on and the smaller games are squeezed off the shelves? Do the communities live on? Do the hardcore refuse to let go? Do newcomers to Xbox Live wander into empty. . .
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In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked. After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday that their online activities were hijacked without them catching on.
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A tech demo based on particle fluids for NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated PhysX technology.
This video was recorded on a machine running an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics card with Forceware 177.83 drivers and PhysX 08.08.01.
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Intel Corp. said Sunday it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established “Core” brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7.
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Hector Ruiz’ time at the AMD as we know it today is coming to an end. Ruiz recently stepped down from his role as CEO, but kept his position as chairman of the board with the purpose of launching AMD’s Asset Light and Asset Smart strategies, which are expected to split AMD into two entities.
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Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, as the new TorrentPrivacy tool offers, you can bypass almost every firewall or traffic shaping application, while making sure that nobody can see what you’re downloading.
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A vulnerability described as ‘critical’ has been discovered in versions of uTorrent and the official BitTorrent client. The ‘buffer overflow’ vulnerability can be exploited to compromise a user’s computer for the execution of arbitrary code. It is suggested that users should immediately update to uTorrent version 1.8 RC7 or higher.
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