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Bioshock for Xbox Review

Friday, August 31st, 2007
 


Recovering from a plane crash on a coastal island your body must be further punished as you swim to the distant mainland shore. Approaching a lighthouse and taking the elevator on a one-way trip down below the sea to Rapture, an underground city torn apart by civil war. Rapture was once populated by the world’s [...]


 
 
 


 
 


Daewoo DBP-1000 Blue-ray disc player on display

Thursday, August 30th, 2007
 


Daewoo’s first Blue-ray disc player, the slinky DBP-1000, has been shown confirming the company’s commitment to the format.
The player supports the full BD specification including the following:

Access to BD Live online content
Picture in Picture
Full BD interactivity features
1080p picture via HDMI port
Scale up DVD and JPEG photos to fill screen
DivX compatible
All major record and rewrite DVD [...]


 
 
 


 
 


Nokia N-Gage game service is here

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
 


Nokia today in London announced their new game service saying:
“As we expand our focus from a dedicated game phone to a gaming service, we are making getting and playing games even easier. The N-Gage service combined with powerful devices, world class titles and brands, and interactive social networking features, takes the mobile gaming experience [...]


 
 
 


 
 


Warhawk released today for PS3

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
 


Retail stores today received the long-awaited and long-hyped Warhawk from Sony Entertainment America today. Warhawk is a multiplayer PS3 shooter centered on aerial combat, ground vehicle assaults, and infantry offensives. The game can be purchased as a download from the Playstation network or on a BD disk which includes a black Jabra Bluetooth headset allowing [...]


 
 
 


 
 


Skype wants your etc/passwd data (and your Firefox plugins)

Monday, August 27th, 2007
 


Zaphod8 on Skype’s forum reports the following:
I’m using Skype 1.4.0.99 in my Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe-4, and I decided to setup an AppArmor profile to isolate skype from the rest of my system (since Skype access the network, I would like to protect my system against a potential 0-day remote flaw in Skype, by restricing Skype [...]


 
 
 


 
 


iPhone unlocked!

Friday, August 24th, 2007
 


It has been only six weeks or so and the national monopolies negotiated by Apple in the US, UK, Germany and France has been broken. Apple has attempted to tie the iPhone to AT&T, O2, T-Mobile and Orange in these countries respectively. A new software hack gives iPhone owners the freedom to use the device [...]


 
 
 


 
 


iPods to get OS X says Apple

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
 


AppleInsider reports that Apple will carry out a technological consolidation next month in the form of iPods that run OS X.
This will result in the Apple core OS product powering every segment of the company: Mac computers, the iPhone, Apple TV — and now the iPod in place of the Pixo-like system which powers current [...]


 
 
 


 
 

 
 
 
 

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