The next installment of the Final Fantasy game became an instant hit in Japan, by breaking sales records within the first few days of its launch. While analysts peg a sales of 5.6 mn units worldwide, Square Enix, the Japanese co-developer is expecting domestic sales to top 2 mn units. The release in Europe is [...]
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Pranika Kalra
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Time to jettison wirelines – AT&T
In response to comment sought on ‘transition from circuit-switched network to all-IP network’ by Federal Communications Commission, AT&T has urged the regulator to abandon the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and plain-old telephone service (POTS) terming them as ‘relics of a by-gone era’. AT&T told the FCC that the death of landlines is a matter [...]
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Never heard of it, says court, rules in favour of Apple
Apple emerges victorious in iPod noise lawsuit A Federal Appeals court in San Francisco upheld a 2008 decision of a lower court and ruled in the favour of Apple – the maker of the iPod digital music player, alleging that iPod and it ear buds could cause hearing problems. The lawsuit, filed by an iPod [...]
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Russians invite Americans and Chinese to torpedo ‘Apophis’
Will asteroid hit Earth? The threat of an asteroid crashing into Earth and an Armageddon like situation has always captivated the imaginations of movie makers, however, the teams of Russia space scientist is working to develop a very real plan to counter such a threat described as ‘plausible’ by Russian space research, Chief, Anatoly Perminov. [...]
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Twit’ Tweetup diction!
The Oxford University Press-commissioned ‘word of the year’ project has revealed micro-blogging site Twitter’s dominating contribution to the list of 2009. According to the press, Tweeter-related words like Tweetup, Tweetarati, Twitterverse and Tweet have gained considerable popularity. However, Unfriend was nominated as the word of the year. Unfriend, which means removing someone from the friend’s [...]
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Nokia ups ante against Apple
In a move, which alleges Apple of infringement of patents in all almost all its products ranging from computers, to cell phones to music players; mobile phone manufacturing giant, Nokia, has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission. As per the estimates this lawsuit involves millions of dollars in royalties. This step is [...]
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Once in a blue moon!
You might have come across the proverb ‘once in a blue moon’ as well as the phenomenon quite some times. But this time its special and you have got a chance to experience it as the world crosses over to the second decade of the current millennium. Blue moons are experienced when there are two [...]
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German computer scientist infiltrates into GSM mobile phone code
One more Security loop? Well! May be Yes as a German Computer engineer Karsten Nohl, with his dozen henchman claims to have published material that would crack the A5/1 algorithm, a 22-year-old code used by GSM carriers. The ‘belated’ code, if Nohl were to be believed, was designed to prevent phone calls from being intercepted. [...]
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O2 joins the chorus of bashing iPhone usage for network congestion
For service providers, the decade ends on a clogging a note Another service provider succumbed to ‘excessive data demands’ of iPhone, this time on the other side of Atlantic. O2, one of the leading providers of wireless service in the United Kingdom, has apologized to customers for recent network issues including the inability to make [...]
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AT&T goofs-up with iPhone… Again!!!
The iPhone fixation received a sporadic jolt in the New York City Area as AT&T, the network carrier of Apple’s iPhone stopped the online retailing of the cult device in the area. Considered to be one of the many public relation and strategic goof-ups by the service provider, AT&T termed it as a “modification to [...]