EA Confirms Dead Space 2

From PC World: Celebrating 'necromorphic' alien dismemberment with verve, Visceral Games today announced Dead Space 2, sequel to last year's space-based survival horror game about slicing renegades from John Carpenter's The Thing into giblets.

As Isaac ("Asimov Arthur C.") Clarke...

Google backtracks on EtherPad closure

From CNET News.com: AppJet, the company behind the EtherPad collaborative online editor that was acquired by Google on Friday, said the service won't be closed down as originally announced.

Instead, it will be maintain until it is open-sourced.

The original plan was to delete...

Apple confirms acquisition of music site Lala

From CNET News.com: Apple has acquired struggling streaming music service Lala, an Apple spokesman told CNET News on Sunday.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the acquisition but did not disclose the terms of the deal or what the company intends to do with the 4-year-old Lala...

Intel Cancels Larrabee GPU, Focuses on Future Graphics Projects

From DailyTech: Intel Corporation may make some of the best CPUs out there, but it has had limited success in making GPUs. It is the largest supplier of computer graphics thanks to its integrated chipsets, but performance has always been a big problem. It introduced the i740 discrete...

APH Networks Reviews: NZXT Panzerbox Computer Case

Ingenuity and great designs have revolutionized the world. Time and time again -- from the very first computer, to the first tanks that were rolled out during the First World War. Speaking of tanks, one of the most famous tanks of the Second World War was the German built Panzer IV...

Microsoft revamps browser ballot as EU antitrust deal nears

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case told Computerworld today.

As first reported Thursday by the Bloomberg news service...

Lawsuit Alleges Palm Pre Violates Copyright

From PC World: Artifex Software is suing Palm over the PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, it said on Thursday.

Artifex alleges that Palm has copied Artifex's PDF rendering engine, called muPDF, and integrated it into the Palm Pre's PDF viewer application...

Microsoft to plug critical IE hole targeted by exploit code

From CNET News.com: Microsoft said on Thursday that it will offer six updates for 12 vulnerabilities next week including a critical hole in Internet Explorer that affects Windows 7 and other current versions of the operating system for which exploit code has been released.

Late last...

Sony unveils online plan for recovery

From CNET News.com: Sony's chief executive, Howard Stringer, has a grand idea: an all-in-one online network that pipes Sony's films, music, games, and other content to its TVs, Walkmans and PlayStation game machines.

In an interview on Thursday with reporters, Stringer promised to...

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