Weekend Reading: Wait for the Price Drop for Kinect or Move
Microsoft has confirmed that the basic bundle for its upcoming Kinect motion tracking system will cost 149.99 dollars and will include the device itself and Kinect Adventures, a game which is set to show off the capabilities of the new device. Sony had previously made clear that the starter package for its own PlayStation Move system wi...

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Scareware Pushers Put Out Fake Press Release
Security researchers warn that a gang of cyber crooks is abusing legit press release distribution services in order to increase the credibility of the rogue antivirus program they distribute. The scam also capitalizes on people’s awareness of the ZeuS banking trojan.According to a report from antivirus vendor Sunbelt Software, the ...

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How to Manage Playlists and Songs on Your iPod
Lots of iPod users keep their devices stacked up with a lot of songs and playlists but, when having to manage them all, they usually discover that this task is a huge time waster. There are also people that hate playlists and only copy to their iPods the music they really wan to listen and let the it play randomly.To make everyone happy...

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Motorola GRASP (WX404) Now Official
Mobile phone maker Motorola has recently made official on its airwaves a new handset, namely the Motorola GRASP, previously spotted into the wild as the WX404. The new device comes to the market with a QWERTY keypad, complemented by eco-friendly features, including a recyclable eco design and more. Moreover, the device was designed so as to offer fast access t...

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Largest Dark Matter Concentration Found Nearby
A group of investigators has recently discovered the galaxies containing the largest concentrations of dark matter in the known Universe. The cosmic structures reside very close to the Milky Way, and are practically located in our back yard, experts at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California say. The report their findings in the July 28 ...

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Kanye West on Twitter: 5 Ways He’s Better Than You
Ever since the “Imma let you finish” incident with Taylor Swift, Kanye West has been keeping a very low profile, making as few public appearances as possible and even cutting down on the posts on his official blog. The other day, Kanye has joined Twitter – and has already taken over, boasting about everything and anything, whic...

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New Step for Preventing and Curing Alzheimer's
Scientists from DZNE - the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases and LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich have discovered that a protein called the ADAM10 can inhibit the formation of beta-amyloid, the peptide that triggers Alzheimer’s. Research showed that ADAM10 is a key molecule in Alzheimer's treatment, as it cut...

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RCA Stealthily Readies 10-Inch Portable Blu-ray Player
Normally, when traveling somewhere, those in need of a so-called computerized traveling companion usually opt for a netbook or ultrathin laptop. There are even a fair number of netbooks with decent multimedia capabilities nowadays. Still, for those that want full HD video playback on the move, there is a certain other type of device that, ...

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Samsung SGH-i917 Cetus WP7 Device Spotted at Bluetooth SIG
South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is among the first companies to come to the market with a handset powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system, that's for sure. The handset vendor already pushed such a prototype device into the wild, one that included pre-production hardware and pre-release Windows Phone 7 flavors, b...

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Showcase Your 360 Degree Photos with Picasa
Picasa is showcasing an interesting feature which, in essence, enables you to flip through an album by dragging with the mouse. While this may be a convenient way of moving from one photo to the other, it’s also a great way of showcasing 360 degree product photos. Now Google is releasing an open source photo viewer, the Swivel Viewer, that does ...

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