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Russian Patent Authority finally laid down the effort of a Russian business man, Oleg Teterin, to trademark winky emoticon ;-). Oleg Teterin is the president of the mobile advertising company Superfone. Oleg wanted to secure a trademark of the emoticon but promised not to burden ordinary folks in using it non commercially. But large businesses who want to package the …

BioWare released the first trailer for its upcoming title Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Knights of the Old Republic-informed MMO. The Old Republic was announced in October, and currently has no expected release date.

Sir David of Pinoygaming.net and Ragnarok Game Hero will be a guest in Level Up! Game’s live Christmas webcast show on Dec. 15, 2008. Watch out for live announcements of new stuff coming for Pinoygaming.net on the show. Master Diwa also of Pinoygaming.net and another honored Ragnarok Game Hero will follow on Dec. 17, 2008 fresh from his win of …

Bit9, Inc. released its research entitled “2008’s Popular Application with Critical Vulnerabilities,” that lists popular consumer applications which most likely pose security threats that may compromise your PC. Bit9’s list named Firefox to be the most vulnerable application.  Top 12 consumer application are as follows: Mozilla Firefox Adobe Flash & Acrobat EMC VMware Player, Workstation and other products Sun Java …

One of the most awarded First Person Shooters in recent memory is back, waaayyy back, to World War 2. Following the success and cult following of Call Of Duty 4: Modern warfare, it’s a big surprise that the next installment bring us back to World War II instead of progressing forward. Is this move worth it? Let’s find out!

I recieved an RSS feed from Opera Development Team informing that Alpha 10 of Opera Browser is now available for download on their website.  The new Alpha boasts new features and standards including scoring a perfect score 100/100 at ACID3 test. Features so far for the Alpha 10 are as follows: Presto 2.2 Engine Performance boost 100/100 and pixel-perfect on …

Microsoft released the first beta of its Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Vista operating system both for 32 and 64 bit.  SP2 includes all the hot fixes and security updates from the time SP1 was wrapped up through October 2008. SP2 includes numerous improvements to Vista including better power management, Windows Search 4 and Blu-ray data recording. The latest beta …

A rumor is circulating across the net saying that NVIDIA will release a single dual GPU graphics card that will compete against the current fastest single dual GPU graphics card of AMD/ATI. It is rumored that NVIDIA may release an X2 card sometime January 2009.  It will be based on GTX 200, perhaps a GTX 260 Core 216 which proves …

Microsoft announced the inclusion of WARP to their upcoming operating system Windows 7 to debuted late 2009. WARP or Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform enables your system, with proper hardware support, to boot even without a graphics card sitting on your AGP or PCIe slot.  The new software tecnology also enables you to run games that require DirectX 9, 10, 10.1 …

The controversial anti-piracy measure called SecuROM has given gamers a lot of problems in the past. Most recently it has spawned several online petitions, angry gamers and a lawsuit in its implementation. We’ve recently gotten word that the Grand Theft Auto IV PC Edition will get SecuROM. GTA IV was released for the xBox360 and the PS3 only. Now that …