After months of eager anticipation, the long wait is finally over as Icefrog releases Dota’s latest patch 6.68b with lots of balance changes and additional 4 new heroes namely: You can download the latest patch/map here. Defense of the Ancients (commonly known as DotA) is a custom scenario for the real-time strategy video game [...]
Microsoft is working on a new tablet computer design. With the early success of the Apple iPad–more than 3 million sales and counting–and a batch of Android tablets scheduled to arrive by the end of the year, Microsoft is coming to the party late. Unfortunately, Microsoft plans to retrofit Windows 7 to run on slates. [...]
Looking to make room for the 24 hours-plus of videos uploaded to the Website, as well as to protect copyrights for these videos, YouTube has boosted its upload time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. Number of View :741
In this tutorial, we use High Pass Filter of the Adobe Photoshop CS. High Pass filter is one of the obscure Photoshop filters that tries to determine the edges in an image. When you blend the High Pass layer with the original unsharpened image, you get a great looking image. 1. Open your image and go [...]
Facebook launched its new “Facebook Questions” service today. This feature allows users to ask a question and anyone in the Facebook community can take a crack at answering it. A new “Ask Question” button on a users profile is provided where questions are posed and are visible to all of that person’s friends, as well [...]
Japan’s largest Internet portal operator will adopt Google’s search engine refusing to follow Yahoo Inc. in choosing Microsoft as a partner. Yahoo Japan, which currently uses Yahoo Inc’s search technology, and Google together would control almost all of the search market in the world’s second-biggest economy. Yahoo Inc, which owns roughly one-third of Yahoo Japan, [...]
Why do people jailbreak phones? Despite how shady and against the rules it sounds, “jailbreaking” mobile phones is now legal in the United States, according to its new government ruling. But why is it? Why people need to jailbreak phones? The simple answer is to gain more control. Some mobile phones, particularly the iPhones, are [...]
Blizzard’s sequel to 1998′s StarCraft went on sale at midnight openings across the country, and with sales expectations of about 7 million copies worldwide in 2010 and pull in revenue of $350 million. Most of that would come from South Korea, where Blizzard could sell as many as 5.5 million units, (Koreans consider StarCraft a [...]
The HTC Desire and the Samsung Galaxy S boost Android in the UK mobile phone market. GFK Retail and Technology figures show Android’s share in the UK mobile contract market grew from three per cent in the first quarter of 2010 to 13.2 per cent in the second quarter, or a huge 350 per cent [...]
Apple on Monday said that it would launch the iPhone 4 in 17 countries—including Australia, Canada, and Switzerland—on Friday, July 30. At present, the iPhone 4 is available in five countries: the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, and Japan. Also included on the list for July 30 are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, [...]
State of the Nation Address of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines to the Congress of the Philippines, Session Hall of the House of RepresentativesJuly 26, 2010
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 13, 2010 – Intel Corporation reported second-quarter revenue of $10.8 billion, up 34 percent year-over-year. The company reported operating income of $4.0 billion, net income of $2.9 billion and EPS of 51 cents. “Strong demand from corporate customers for our most advanced microprocessors helped Intel achieve the best quarter in the [...]
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