July video game sales show sharp decline

NEW YORK — Hurt by the recession and few hit game launches, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in July, showing an even bigger decline than what many analysts were expecting.

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If MySpace can have a Lite View Version why not Facebook?  In a bid to take on its arch-rival, the Social networking giant rolled out a slimmer version of its web site to the test audience. Facebook Lite is the new face of Facebook targeted at narrowband users. Although Facebook had opened up access to lite.facebook.com for test only to some selected users, it got temporarily exposed to a larger set of users by mistake.

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Curtain over Windows 7 RTM would be raised for today. Now on the English version of Windows 7 would be available for MSDN & TechNet subscribers to download. The version would be available in other languages from October 1st. A day after, the Volume License (VL) customers possessing Software Assurance (SA) license will be able to download the Windows 7 RTM in English using the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). Within a week the remaining languages will become available to them. For more information on Windows 7 availability check out the dates.

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Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next?

Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one since last fall, when they picked up "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed."

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Arrival of high speed broadband USB modems has refashioned the way people access and used Internet. You can just plug and play with USB modems on the go. With big players like BSNL, Airtel, Reliance and TATA indicom involved in the Plug2Surf game it is getting highly competitive. We had already done a comparative study on various wireless broadband Internet providers.
In a closer-tie, two giant telecoms companies Reliance and TATA indicom are hyped to be going neck-and-neck with their USB Modem services.  Reliance Netconnect broadband + and TATA Indicom Photon + are being widely discussed and compared in different forums. Let's take a comparative look at the high speed broadband USB services.
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LONDON - Classic literary works by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are now being shortened into 140-character "tweets", as part of the latest diversion of the popular Twitter website. Bookish readers of the micro-blogging site are now boiling down such great works into a single sentence, and what is coming out is a whole new trend of 140 word synopses of some of the most classic novels.lthough the brevity of the summaries could appeal to modern readers more, the trend of using Internet slang might just offend literary purists.

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LONDON - Intelligence chiefs have cautioned the Gordon Brown Government about the possibility of China launching a cyber attack on Britain's telecom system.

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Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to. Without much ado lets login to the wonderful hidden world of Windows XP. Full article (1694 words) »

To monitor CPU temperature in Linux you will need to install lm_sensors package and then install gnome-applet-sensors (assuming you are using gnome) to get a nice graphical display. The devil is in the details. The shipped lm_sensors doesn't work on Fedora Core 6 with 2.6 kernels. It also doesn't support core 2 duo.

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I am the (sick) owner of an Electrolux product, a washing machine EW1045F, which was supposed to be the top of the line product when I bought it.
It had given us trouble all along for three years, been to repair shop for more hours than it probably gave us.

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