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Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word by Judge
Published in News, Other News | Written by Richard
A court in Texas has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, after coming to the conclusion that the extremely popular program infringes a patent owned by a company in Canada.
50 Cent in COD: MW2
Published in Gaming News, News | Written by Rhys
50 Cent’s voice will be used in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2; which is due for release on the 10th of November.
Dashboard Update includes ‘Games on Demand’
Published in Gaming News, News | Written by Rhys
Microsoft has added new games to the ‘Games on Demand’ section of the new dashboard update which was launched to all Xbox Live users today.
GM and eBay to launch new-car sales site today
Published in News, Other News | Written by Rhys
In hope to help the company stay afloat, General Motors will be moving the sale of some vehicles online, an industry first.
California will be the first state to trial the deployment where 225 of California’s GM dealers will offer Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Pontiac cars on a co-branded page of eBay Motors.
Lian Li launches Tyr PC-X1000 midi-tower case
Published in Hardware News, News | Written by Rhys
Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd Ltd has launched the the Tyr PC-X1000 chassis designed as a stylish midi-tower chassis. The Tyr PC-X1000 follows in the prestigious footsteps of its predecessors, namely the PC-X500 and the PC-X2000. Both of a controversial design with side mounted ODD bays. The PC-X1000 however has three traditional front mounted ODD bays as well as three front mounted 140mm fans down the front of the case.
Activision boycott grows
Published in Gaming News, News | Written by Richard
The boycott of Activision originally started when the company decided to raised the RRP of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to £54.99 in many European countries. It is blaming the weak pound for the price hike.
Cat blamed for kiddie porn
Published in News, Other News | Written by Rhys
A man from Florida who has been accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his pet cat. Detectives found more than 1,000 images on his computer which accounts for 10 possessions of child pornography.
Western Digital gets 2TB drive ready
Published in Hardware News, News | Written by Rhys
Following on from Hitachi who has just launched their 2TB hard drive, Western Digital should start shipping the RE3 fairly soon. If your not familiar with the RE3, it’s a RAID version of a SATA II hard drive and compliments 32MB of cache and an 8.7mb seek time.
“Office Politics” Delaying BF2 Patch
Published in Gaming News, News | Written by Richard
The release of the highly anticipated 1.5 patch for BF2 has been delayed by ‘office politics’.
Win a CoolIT Domino A.L.C Water-Cooling Kit
Published in Hardware News, News | Written by Rhys
Our last competition ended all the way back in July. Even though the number of entries was slightly disappointing, it certainly helped to kick-start the Tech-Reviews Forums. But now we’re back, back with another competition. Going up for grabs is a CoolIT Domino A.L.C Water-Cooling Kit.