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bit-tech November PotM winner announced
The photo "Odds Of Survival" by Silver51 wins the November bit-tech Photo of the Month competition.
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MySQL creator decries latest build
Monty Widenius, creator of the open source database MySQL, has lambasted his superiors at Sun Microsystems over the premature release of MySQL 5.1.
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gOS and Gigabyte to launch Cloud netbook
Good OS has announced a deal with Gigabyte that will see the 'Cloud' Google-themed operating system pre-installed on netbooks.
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Rumour: Ubisoft, EA to buy out SCi, Eidos?
Rumour on the grapevine is that a 92 percent drop in stock price for SCi has prompted takeover negotiations from EA and Ubisoft.
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Burnout Paradise to get paid DLC
Criterion has finally announced the first paid-for DLC for Burnout Paradise, dubbed Big Surf Island.
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App Store hits 10,000 apps
Apple's App Store has beaten all expectations with the news that after just 142 days the service has reached 10,000 iPhone and iPod Touch applications.
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EA announces Dungeon Keeper MMO
Electronic Arts has announced that it will be creating a new Dungeon Keeper game - one that's an MMO.
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New screens promise 40-hour notebooks
Pixel Qi has announced a new range of low-power LCD displays that could boost laptop battery life up to ten times - meaning 40 hours between charges.
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GTA IV PC to use SecuROM
The upcoming PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV is set to use SecuROM copy-protection. Details within.
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Black Mesa Source trailer released
The Black Mesa Source team have released a new trailer for their Half-Life 1 remake.
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Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
The infamous iPhone-Dev team has managed to get a working copy of Linux to boot on an iPhone, although the hack is very much at the proof of concept stage.
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AMD's Phenom II X4 920 & 940 processors listed
Way ahead of schedule, More Computers here in the UK has already listed AMD's next generation Phenom II processors.
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YOYOTech drops Cooler Master UCP 900W price
Following our UCP 900W review, YOYOTech has dropped the unit's price by £20. And that's before Alistair Darling's VAT cut comes in!
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Sony refuses to comment on PSP2
Sony is adamantly refusing to either confirm or deny the rumour that the new PSP model, the PSP2, is readying for release.
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GTA IV PC to have 32-player multiplayer
Rockstar has announced that among the updates and improvements to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 4 is support for extra players.
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Quake 3 multiplayer now hostable on Nokia phones
Crafty coders have updated the mobile phone version of Quake 3 for Nokia phones so that games can now be hosted from a handset.
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Greenpeace: Nintendo hates the environment
Greenpeace has called the business practices of Nintendo into question, claiming the company is inadequate on many levels.
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Nokia leaves Japanese market
Blaming the "current economic climate", Finnish mobile giant Nokia has announced it is to leave the Japanese market to others - aside from a small range of luxury handsets.
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Apple advises use of Mac anti-virus
Apple has updated its support site with a suggestion that users of Mac OS X employ some form of anti-virus defence in the wake of several Mac-based trojans.
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Resident Evil 5 demo 'unlikely' this year
Capcom has said that although Japan will be getting a co-op demo of Resident Evil 5 this December, fans in the West will have longer to wait.
