Gears of War 3 Trailer Released

Gears of War 3

It’s brothers to the end, according to the latest trailer of the long-awaited third person shooter from Epic Games, Gears of War 3, that was recently released. The one minute video teases the action-packed conclusion of the series as Marcus [...]

Google plugs Chrome security holes

Google Chrome

Search giant company Google on Tuesday fixed a number of security issues in its popular browser, Google Chrome. Ironically, among the vulnerabilities are two exploits that could be used to avoid getting caught by the browser’s anti-exploit measures, according to [...]

Duke Nukem Forever goes gold

Duke Nukem Forever

What was deemed vaporized finally became solidified: the action game Duke Nukem Forever goes gold and becomes internationally available on retail June 10. Gearbox Software, the dev company that brought us the popular games Half-Life, Brothers in Arms, and Borderlands, [...]

Google, Mozilla test hidden URL bar for Chrome, Firefox

Google Chrome

When you own a large display for your computer, surely you would not think of how packed in the contents are on screen. But for owners of netbooks and tablets, the value of additional viewing space is ever high. Google [...]

It’s Official: Microsoft Buys Skype

skype

The people behind Skype now answer to Microsoft, as the latter has bought the voice call and chat program for an enormous $8.5 billion. The deal becomes the most expensive purchase by Microsoft thus far. Without any doubt, the money [...]

Bin Laden’s Death Generates Malware Threats

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Hackers wasted no time taking advantage of terrorist Osama Bin Laden’s death by spreading malware to computers through fake photos and alleged videos, many security firms report. The chief research officer of F-Secure, Mikko Hypponen, was not particularly shocked by [...]

Google Preps Canary Build of Chrome Browser for Mac

chrome canary

Previously only available in Windows, the Canary build for Google’s popular Chrome web browser will soon arrive at Mac OS X. The Canary build is the least known channel in the development of Chrome. Three other channels are commonly used: [...]

PopCap Games Acquires ZipZapPlay

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PopCap Games, the developer that brought popular video games such as Bejeweled and Plants versus Zombies, has bought ZipZapPlay, a startup social game company. According to the PopCap cofounder and vice president of corporate strategy and development, John Vechey, the [...]

Google apps numbers to surpass Apple’s by July

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In terms of available applications in its App Store, Apple is king. But the company’s reign is about to end, as rival company Google takes the top spot. It actually already did in the mobile OS market. Research firm Distimo [...]

Major Chrome update adds speech-to-text functionality

Google Chrome

Search giant Google has released version 11 of its popular web browser, Chrome. Besides the usual bug fixes, one major feature – which allows the browser to translate a user’s speech into text – is introduced in this new version. [...]