New Diablo 3 Screens Showing Brutal Fights
Diablo 3 was announced just a few months ago and after the first trailer, Blizzard did not reveal too much new information about the game.
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27.8.2008 Diablo III Officially Announced - Trailers and Screenshots Available
All the conspiracy theories can be put aside now because it’s here: Diablo III has been officially announced.
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29.6.2008 Why the Vista Capable Lawsuit Has No Class
The Windows Vista Capable lawsuit is over, but it shouldn't be.
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23.2.2009 Class Action Lawsuit Claims 'Vista Capable' is Misleading
A lady in Washington state who apparently purchased a computer in late 2006 bearing the "Vista Capable" sticker, and who only later discovered it was only capable of running Vista Home Basic, has filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft in her home state, seeking in excess of $5 million.
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4.4.2007 Vista Capable lawyers push to revive class action
As expected, lawyers for the plaintiffs in the long-running "Vista Capable" lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. have asked a federal judge to reinstate the case's class-action status.
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1.3.2009 Nvidia Hit With New Class Action Threat Over Windows Vista Glitches
A New Yorker is seeking support for a class action suit against the video card manufacturer because he says drivers for the company's high-end 8800 card have caused him problems.
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25.4.2007Efficacy of Activision + Blizzard merger will be tested with Diablo III
Much to the delight of gamers, Blizzard Entertainment finally confirmed Diablo III is in development, and also showed off screenshots and game
play during the 2008 WorldWide Invitational (WWI)...
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01.07.2008Diablo III Hints?
Thanks to
Shacknews for the heads up.
Diablo III is one of those
games that most people assume
has to be in development, but
has still yet to be announced.
Now, several Blizzard and
Diablo fan sites have hosted
an online chat interview with
Diablo novelization author
Richard A. Knaak containing
numerous tidbits suggesting
that a third main game in
Blizzard's acclaimed hack and
slash RPG series is on the
way. Some choice quotes:
Q - Medievaldragon:
How much of the book is
creation of yours, and how
involved is Chris Metzen
behind the canon storyline of
Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy?
Do you think the ramifications
of this book impact in the
storyline of Diablo 3 the
game? A - Knaak: This is a
pure collaboration between
myself and Chris/Blizzard. All
that is written is passed by
him and the others there. This
will be canon and has adjusted
earlier info. The
ramifications here will be
used for any future
project...and I ain't writing
for a dead game. Q - Deathshade|EU:
So... Diablo 3? A - Knaak: I am not
writing for a dead world...but
a world with dead. nuff
said
Sweet, Diablo III. Now
all we need is Starcraft II
and Warcraft IV!
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26.10.2006Study: Online games more captivating
Role-playing games with an Internet element are so much more captivating than equivalent electronic games that they change users' lives, cutting into
their sleep and boosting the time they spend playing, a new study shows.
So-called massively multiplayer online role-playing
games, or MMORPGs, have become a huge phenomenon in the game world in the last five years. The largest, "World of Warcraft," has more than 9 million
players.
The study by Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, says one reason for their success is they really
suck in players.
Smyth divided 100 student volunteers randomly into four groups. One got tokens to play at a local arcade, a
second played the adventure game "Gauntlet: Dark Legacy" on a Sony Corp. PlayStation 2 console and the third played role-playing game "Diablo II"
on computers.
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18.10.2007Hellgate London: DX10 vs. DX9 Gaming Experience
On Halloween,
Flagship studios (the same people who brought us the classic Diablo
series) shipped their latest game,
Hellgate: London. Published by
EA Games, Hellgate: London has the somewhat unique distinction of being half
single-player action RPG, and half MMO action RPG.
Admittedly, the MMO portion of the game is currently lacking population to
make it truly massive, but the game is yet young. In addition, online play is free, but a subscription service with extra perks (such as a larger
stash and high-level raid content) is available. The game is played almost entirely in the third person perspective, with all of the proper attitude,
rotation, and zoom controls needed for such a game. When a player equips just a single firearm (without a shield), the first person perspective
becomes available, and the game is transformed into a first-person shooter. Even with the genre-bending, experienced gamers should have no trouble
picking up on the familiar "WASD" keyboard controls, and new gamers won't be hard pressed to learn them either.
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26.11.2007Windows XP SP2 IE6 Workaround for security update 942615
Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require
that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
| 1. | Click
Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. |
| 2. | Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet
ExplorerMainFeatureControl |
| 3. | On the Edit menu,
point to New, and then click Key. |
| 4. | Type
FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367, and then press ENTER. |
| 5. | Right-click FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367, point to
New, and then click DWORD Value. |
| 6. | Type
an asterisk (*), and then press ENTER.
Note The asterisk (*) represents any process name that uses the Urlmon.dll file. If you want to make
this change for an individual application that uses the Urlmon.dll file, use the name of that application instead of the asterisk. For example, use
Appname.exe. |
| 7. | Right-click the asterisk, and then click Modify. |
| 8. | In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK. |
| 9. | Exit Registry
Editor. |
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20.12.2007Code Secure: Another Look at
the SafeInt Class
David LeBlanc revisits the
SafeInt Class and discusses
relevant updates since his
last article on this topic...
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27.05.2006Verizon soon to face the biggest class action lawsuit yet
Yesterday, a class action suit four years in the making was certified against Verizon Wireless over the company's unfair early termination fees...
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30.01.2008Motion denied: Class-action suit against Apple, AT&T continues
The class action antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple and AT&T last year for their strict control over the iPhone has withstood the companies'
motions to dismiss, Northern California District Court Judge James Ware has ruled...
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09.10.2008Harvard class takes Constitution-based run at RIAA
A Harvard Law School class led by the head of the school's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is pursuing a counterclaim against the RIAA after
it targeted a Boston University graduate student for alleged illegal downloading...
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19.11.2008Intel denies new iMac has new 'Montevina' platform
Is it a first peek at an entirely new class of Intel CPU that Apple is offering in its latest refresh of iMacs, or is it an older class of CPU that is
being overclocked at customers' requests? Intel is indicating that the iMac's new high-end CPU is neither...
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30.04.2008Google Offers Click Fraud
Settlement
Google will pay $90 million in
order to settle a nationwide
class action lawsuit over
accusations that it was
overcharging advertising
customers by billing them for
false clicks. The class action
suit comes from an Arkansas
state court case filed last
year...
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09.03.2006AMD Expands Upcoming Processor Branding
With the launch of Advanced
Micro Devices Incorporated's
Athlon X2 BE-2350 and 2300
processors on June 5th, AMD
will debut its new naming
scheme for its product lineup.
The new naming scheme
designates the first letter as
the processor class: G-class
processors are designated as
premium processors under the
Phenom X4 and X2 names,
B-class processors are
intermediate models and
L-class processors carry the
AMD Athlon or Sempron names.
The second letter in the model
designates thermal design
power class: P-class
processors have TDPs greater
than 65-watts; S-class
processors have TDPs of
approximately 65-watt while
E-class processors have less
than 65-watt TDPs.
Under the new naming scheme,
upcoming Stars-family dual and
quad-core processors will
carry the AMD Phenom X2
GS-6xxx and Phenom X4 GP-7xxx
names. Value-priced AMD Athlon
and Sempron processors will
carry the Athlon X2 LS-2xxx
and Sempron LE-1xxx names. AMD
Phenom FX processors will not
follow the new class
designations; however, AMD is
undecided on the model
numbers.
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05.06.200711 open-source projects certified as secure
Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as
free of security defects.
Eleven projects made the list:
Amanda,
NTP,
OpenPAM,
OpenVPN,
Overdose,
Perl,
PHP,
Postfix,
Python,
Samba, and
TCL.
San Francisco-based
Coverity, working in collaboration with Stanford
University and under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, is analyzing source code to certify that open-source projects written in C,
C++, and Java are secure. Coverity has not disclosed the amount of the DHS contract.
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08.01.2008TechNet Search Gets Better
IT Pro tribal wisdom says that Microsoft gets it right at about version 3. TechNet has a new
release of search (3.0, 'natch), with new
"refinements" that allow you to easily scope to forums, or the KB. The
events
and errors db is now indexed! You can get nifty tips as well such as:
Search Tips
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20.02.2008Netgear Settles Class Action
Wi-Fi Suit
Networking manufacturer
Netgear said on Monday that it
would add a disclaimer to its
packaging, offer a 15 percent
discount on its online store,
and pay $700,000 in legal fees
in order to settle a
class-action lawsuit over
misrepresentation of the speed
of its wireless products...
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29.11.2005iPhone Battery Target of Class-Action Suit
The iPhone has only been out
for a month, yet there's
already a class-action lawsuit
against it over its battery
life. Jose Trujillo claims the
iPhone can only be charged for
300 cycles, and says he
wasn't made aware the battery
is not user-replaceable...
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30.07.2007Forget the classics, try a Facebook college course
Stanford students can try to borrow a Web page from a Harvard dropout this year thanks to a course in building software for Facebook, the wildly
popular social network.
"This is a class for people who want to create start-ups," said Dave McClure, a high-tech entrepreneur
and one of two instructors for the class. "Facebook is more of a lab environment for figuring out how to build those start-ups."
Stanford, situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, appears to be the first university to offer a class on developing applications for Facebook,
which is based in nearby Palo Alto. Initial enrollment for the class was more than double what the classroom could hold.
Facebook, founded in 2004 by then-undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg as a socializing site for fellow Harvard students, is now the
ninth-most-trafficked U.S. site, according to Web measurement firm Hitwise Inc. It counts 43 million users, up 80 percent in just the past four
months, and 200,000 more join each day...
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28.09.2007New 'Xbox Experience' Too Much For Some 360s
There's a lot to look forward to in the upcoming
New Xbox Experience -- set to launch
on November 19 -- but for those who own
Xbox
360s without a hard drive or a
256MB memory card, you may have to go through a few
headaches before you can download it.
Speaking to Xbox360Fanboy ,
Microsoft's Larry
"Major Nelson" Hryb revealed that the full download size of the NXE will be 128MB, which will make it too large for a "small percentage" of 360
owners sans hard drive.
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13.10.2008Google opening up online office suite to nonprofits
Today, Google is opening up
its educational tier of
Google Apps to
nonprofit organizations within
the United States. Registered
501c3 nonprofits will be able
to use and deploy the
educational version of Google
Apps, which gives
organizations unlimited users,
free phone support, API
integration, and e-mail
migration (to transfer
existing in-boxes to the Apps
version of
Gmail).
The
company made the announcement
this evening at the Google
campus in Mountain View, CA
where several
nonprofits--including
Mercy Corps,
Idealist.org,
N
TEN, and the
East Bay Community Recovery
Project--announced their
planned adoption of Google
Apps.
The move is
the latest in Google's public
service programs, which
include
Googl
e Grants and
Goo
gle Earth Outreach.
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13.07.2007SoCal college offers YouTube class
Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may
be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and
post their comments.
Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance,
posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.
Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, said she
was "underwhelmed" by the content on YouTube but set up the course, "Learning from YouTube," to explore the role of the popular site...
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