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Army of Two
EA Montreal, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced a demo for ARMY OF TWOTM: THE 40th DAY will be available as a free download on the PlayStation®Network and Xbox LIVETM Marketplace on December 17th. The demo will include most of the first level in the game, where the iconic two-man private military team of Salem and Rios find themselves trapped in Shanghai as it falls under attack. Players will experience the focused co-operative action that has made The 40th Day one of next year’s …

Some 240 workers will be affected by shutdown
GEORGE TOWN: NEC Computers Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd is closing its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Bukit Tengah Industrial Estate, Penang.
Executive vice-president Bernard Saw said some 240 workers would be affected by the shutdown.
“We will initiate the shutdown process in May and the whole exercise should be completed before the year ends.
“After the shutdown, we will still maintain through our authorised service providers support for our laptop and personal computers (PC) users,” he told StarBiz.
Saw said demand for its products in Asia-Pacific was not large …

CeBIT (Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik; German for “Centre of Office and Information technology”) is the world’s largest computer expo. It is held each spring on the world’s largest fairground in Hannover, Germany, and is a barometer of the state of the art in information technology. With an exhibition area of roughly 450,000 m² (5 million ft²), over 6,111 exhibitors and more than 755,000 visitors in 1995, it was larger than COMPUTEX and the no-longer held COMDEX. By 2008, the CeBIT expo attendance was at 495,000and was held from 4 …

2-Year Plan to Focus on Leading-Edge Technologies
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 10, 2009 – Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today announced the company would spend $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities in the United States. The investment funds deployment of Intel’s industry-leading 32 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology that will be used to build faster, smaller chips that consume less energy.
The commitment represents Intel’s largest-ever investment for a new manufacturing process.
“We’re investing in America to keep Intel and our nation at the forefront of innovation,” …

Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the completion of KEB’s mainframe migration to IBM System z10 which will enable the bank’s credit card business (KEB Card) to create an advanced and smarter IT environment to improve efficiency and customer service.
Under the agreement signed in October 2008, IBM provided KEB Card with three units of the System z10 Enterprise Class (EC), the most advanced IBM System z mainframe with the equivalent capacity of nearly 1,500 x86 servers, with an 85% smaller footprint, up to 85% lower energy costs.
IBM …

You’re taking the plunge and buying a laptop. If this is
your first, you probably are a little considerate about what
you should be buying, what to avoid and what the big dollar
sign is going to tell you. While there are a number of
things to consider when it comes to buying a laptop, you can
easily work your way through knowing what those are. Many
people get a little worried about purchasing any type of
computer. Follow these tips and you’ll get the right laptop
for your needs.
Tip One: Know what …

CAPTCHA or the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart is widely advertised but one wonders if it is really useful or not. But, before we discuss its practical utility, let us see what CAPTCHA is all about. It is a test, which helps the computer to distinguish between machines and human beings. It creates and grades tests that automatically accept all humans and reject all machines.
It gives you a test to decipher distorted numbers and letters, which are pretty easy for a person to do, …

Have you ever had pop up after pop up on your computer screen? Or have you ever seen it happen on someone else’s? This is something that is happening everyday. What is it? It is either Adware or Spyware.
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users do on their computers. They then send the information that is gathered over the internet back to companies. The companies then bombard computers with advertisements.
What is Adware?
Adware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users …

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet combines internet, GPS navigation, and recorded music in a practical large screen device. The inclusion of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard enables easy and fast text entry. The large 4.13 inch by 2.47 inch WVGA touch screen displays high quality images on its 800 by 480 pixel, 65,000 color screen. The transflexive screen with its ambient light sensor provides clear pictures in bright daylight and dim conditions. The N810′s 2.83 inch height, 5.04 inch width, 0.55 inch thickness and 7.97 ounce weight is small for a …

A company called Psystar has started advertising a $399 computer called “OpenMac” which claims to be a fully Leopard compatible Mac built from standard PC-parts. For $399, you get a tower computer with the following specs:
- 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 2GB of DDR2 667 memory
- Integrated Intel …
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