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Team Fortress 2 is free to play
Developer Valve has the lwa ber Update released for Team Fortress 2. The patch brings as the main change is that the game immediately free to play. The client is free via Steam download. The Über Update, which developer Valve released, the biggest update since the game is on the market in 2007 appeared, Valves…
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LA Noire appears in the autumn for the pc
Rockstar has announced that LA Noire this fall for the pc will appear. The pc version of the detectivespel get opportunities to make adjustments, and the graphics are polished. This version will also include 3d images support. The pc port of LA Noire is being done by Rockstar Leeds and not by the original developer…
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Court of auditors: is a Lot wrong with it-performance police
The ict problems in the police have many causes, including a complex ict organisation, legacy systems and poor supervision of the ministry. Minister Opstelten believes that the introduction of a national police lead to success. The General Court last Thursday, his report ICT Police 2010. The instance brought at the request of Minister Opstelten of…
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American justice rolls scarewarebendes on
In a coordinated lwa coordinated action, among others, the FBI and the High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch National criminal Investigation department are two gangs rolled up. The criminals would be on a large scale scareware and malware have offered. One of the two rolled-up gangs would be nearly a million victims duped by…
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Solar Team Twente fits nanotechnology in solar car
The Solar Team Twente has put Thursday’s solar car 21Connect shown. Through the application of nanotechnology in the coating hope the builders of the aerodynamic properties of the car even further. The new solar car with a weight of 180kg according to the Solar Team Twente’s 30 percent lighter than its predecessor 21Revolution. The three-wheel…
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Images of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handset the Sea Ray leaks out
Nokia ceo Stephen Elop during an internal meeting at Nokia’s first Windows Phone smartphone from the Finnish manufacturer is shown. The device, codenamed Sea Ray, reminiscent of the this week announced N9. According To Technet.hu showed Elop the device during an internal meeting for employees of the manufacturer. One of the staff took part in…
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OPTA leave television alone
The OPTA does not see any reason the cable connections to break open for television services. The importance of analogue tv takes up compared to that of digital television and there would be on the tv market, plenty of alternative infrastructures. The OPTA decided earlier that UPC and Ziggo competitors on the analog cable connections…
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Club 3D and PowerColor introduce Radeon 6870 X2
Club 3D and PowerColor have both a video card announced with two gpu’s from the Barts series. The cards each have two Radeon HD 6870-gpu’s on board and will be the Radeon HD 6870 X2 graphics cards called. The card from PowerColor is simply Radeon HD 6870 X2 ” and is equipped with two Barts…
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Nokia confirms that 1400 jobs will disappear in Finland
For the end of the year disappear in Nokia 1400 jobs, so you made the Finnish manufacturer is known. Possible still more, later dismissed. It’s been a long time not good with the Finnish phone maker, which is struggling with a declining market share. The redundancies at the department for Symbian – and Meego-development in…
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Dungeon Siege III gets better pc control via update
According to lead designer Nathaniel Chapman works in Obsidian Entertainment to a patch that allows the controls of the pc version of Dungeon Siege III is improved. He also wants to explain more about the properties of items. In an interview with Eurogamer reveals Chapman that he had more time to spend at the controls…
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Winklevoss brothers abandon Facebook lawsuit
The brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are going to still agree with an earlier settlement over the idea of Facebook. The twins received 65 million dollars, but wanted to go to the High Council in the USA steps to a new deal to enforce. The Winklevoss twins have decided not to the U.s. Supreme Court…
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‘Government is unable to cope with hackers’
The government can not cope with a large-scale weiter. During an exercise in which such ict-crisis was simulated, was the government mainly to the gathering. The impact was underestimated and co lwa coordination was lacking. That are the conclusions of an evaluation report of the Cyberstorm III exercise, where a large-scale attack with a computer…
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Kojima: Japan western talent to hire
Hideo Kojima, the man behind the Metal Gear series, says that Japanese publishers are obsessed with success in the West, but not the necessary steps to make that happen. The hiring of western talent should offer a solution. If the Japanese games industry, also outside of the home success want to achieve, they need western…
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Wired pci-e standard is going to Thunderbolt to compete with
The organization that stands for the pci-express standard, the PCI Special Interest Group, or PCI SIG, the competition with Intel’s Thunderbolt technology directly affect through a wired version of the pci-express interface. A working group of the PCI SIG, the new standard should define, already in July of this year are set. The develop interface…
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New alloy converts heat into electricity
Researchers say a material that allows heat to convert to electricity. The metal alloy that would be no intermediate steps to achieve, but the research is still at an early stage. The material that heat directly into electricity can convert, is an alloy of nickel, cobalt, manganese and tin. The metal was developed by the…
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EA: pc version of FIFA 12 is equal to consoleversies
Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that the pc version of FIFA 12 are of the same quality as the version on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to play. The new features will also be in the pc version are processed. The Player Impact Engine will except in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version…
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‘Manufacturers consider release notebooks with ARM quadcores’
Samsung, Toshiba, Acer and Asus would continue this year, laptops with quadcores on the basis of the ARM architecture wish to release. The price of the notebooks must be lower than 299 dollars. Asus would be a 13″version in the pipeline. ARM processors are cheap and offer a long life, but earlier attempts, among other…
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Electronic Arts wants to PopCap take
Gamesontwikkelaar PopCap, known for online games, is about to be acquired, for an amount of more than a billion dollars. The buyer would Electronic Arts, that last year of Angry Birds publisher Chillingo bought. According to TechCrunch, is PopCap soon taken over; the interested buyer would, according to ‘several sources’ Electronic Arts. The publisher would…
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Apple receives broad patent on touch screen update
The Us patent office USPTO, Apple has granted a patent that describes how an interface responds to vingeraanrakingen. It seems to be a general description of the operation of a device with a touch screen. The granted patent describes a method in which movement of a finger across the touchscreen of a device ensures that…
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Ov-chipkaart displaces ticket final – update
From July 1, the ov-chipkaart the only valid ticket in public transport in the Netherlands; the ticket is then definitively abolished. To this end, the Second Room Wednesday decided. The support of the PVV was the deciding factor. At the end of last month, the PVV, like many other parties, even against the abolishment of…
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Original Nokia programmer brings modern version of Snake from
The programmer who was responsible for the game Snake for Nokia phones, Taneli Armanto, together with gamebedrijf Rumilus Design on may 14, a new version of the game for smartphones. Games on the basis of the principle of Snake appeared in the seventies, but it was Nokia that the game as a mobile game made…
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Lego shows Millennium Falcon of 250,000 bricks on Star Wars day
In the run-up of ‘Star Wars Day’ on the fourth of may, built Lego Masters and Christ Steininger the world’s largest Millennium Falcon out of Lego bricks ever. In addition to Han Solo’s ship, they built two TIE Fighter-ruimtejagers The American father and son Steiniger were by Lego Australia specially flown in to Star Wars…
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Boeing 787 have will be rebooted to protect against integer overflow
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a rather striking softwarebug. There arise problems as to the systems of the plane, not even by 248 days to be ‘rebooted’. If that does not happen, the electric generators fail to work. The Guardian reports that the American aviation authorities a warning is issued. There is a problem in…
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NASA test successfully drone with characteristics of both a helicopter or plane
NASA is working on a drone that has both properties of a helicopter as a plane. For example, the from a helikopterachtige zweefmodus switch to airplane mode. And that is exactly what NASA recently successfully demonstrated. The drone is called Greased Lightning, but sometimes also the designation of the GL-10 is used. According to NASA,…