Rude Gameware introduces Fierce Laser Gaming Mouse

If you are one who takes your gaming seriously, then the Rude Gameware Fierce Laser Gaming Mouse is definitely something you might want to look into, if you have decided to forsake other more notable names such as Razer and its offerings. The Fierce Laser Gaming Mouse is already in its second iteration, which means the original is now cheaper if you are one who can live with older technology, so to speak.What makes the Fierce Laser Gaming Mouse so special? For starters, it will come injected with...

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Pentel airpenPocket digital pen

Pentel has something extremely interesting up their sleeves this time around, where what they are offering is definitely different from what you would expect. Instead of the business-as-usual stationery, along ambles the airpenPocket digital pen. Yup, by its name alone, you can tell that this is definitely something more than special.Just what the heck is the airpenPocket, you ask? For the uninitiated, this is actually a digital pen which is capable of wirelessly transmitting characters as well...

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How to hack your Facebook profile picture: a step-by-step guide to 'refacing' your profile

A French artist has kicked off a new trend by ‘refacing’ his Facebookprofile. Alexandre Oudin tweaked the photos on his Facebook page to make them look like pieces of one large photo. Since then, other Facebook users have been repeating the trick to create their own versions: see our gallery here.If you want to ‘reface’ your Facebook page, here’s how you do it.• You’ll need to have activated the new Facebook profile page - if you have, you’ll see your basic biographical information at the top of...

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Apple's iPhone and iPad to push app sales beyond $15bn in 2011

Sales of applications for iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices are forecast to exceed $15bn (£9.4bn) this year.Downloads of popular games, such as Angry Birds and Doodle Jump, are expected to lead to a near-tripling of global app sales, according to research firm Gartner.Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner, said the big rise in expected sales from $5.2bn in 2010 was due to the popularity of the iPad and other tablet computers."Something massive has happened," she said. "It's...

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Money goes mobile with Orange

As near-field communications payments hit the headlines thanks to Apple, Orange and Barclaycard announce that they will be first to the UK market 2011 is the year that the mobile phone is set to finally start replacing the credit and debit card: Apple’s forthcoming iPhone is widely expected to contain ‘near-field communications’ (NFC) technology to make payments possible by simply swiping the handset over a reader on a shop counter. Google’s new Nexus S already has NFC built-in. And today Orange...

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Amazon Kindle ebooks outsell paperbacks

Analysis: Why Amazon may be selling lots of ebooks but not so many Kindles.Amazon may not disclose how many Kindles the company has sold (using just the vague term "millions" in its latest earnings report), but the company has no problem playing up sales of ebooks to users of the Kindle platform. The company noted that it has sold three ebooks for every hardcover title and that ebooks are even outselling paperbacks (Amazon notes that it sells 115 ebooks to every 100 paperbacks).The news isn't a...

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Microsoft Claims 2 Million Windows Phone 7 Shipments

A Microsoft executive said this week the company shipped more than 2 million copies of its revamped operating system, Windows Phone 7, in the most recent quarter. The careful admission at once triggered another spasm of misconstrued, misinterpreted, mistaken, and misanthropic speculation on the success or failure of Microsoft's smartphone platform.The same executive, Greg Sullivan, a senior product manager at Microsoft, in a story reported by Bloomberg, cited results of Microsoft's internal surveys...

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Facebook has ‘no plans to introduce additional app security measures’, despite internet experts’ warnings.

Dan Rose, Facebook’s head of platform marketing said the company was happy with the security tools it had place to prevent ‘rogue apps’ from spamming users across Facebook.Responding to a question at UK press conference at Facebook’s European headquarters, about whether the social network would consider introducing vetting measures similar to Apple’s App Store, which forces third party developers to jump through several security loops before admitting their app to the shop, Rose replied: “The tools...

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7 Tidbits About Sony's NGP

In typical Sony fashion, the newly-announced "next-generation portable,"or NGP, brings the kitchen sink to the console wars. It's got every type of gaming input possible, hardware that beats any smartphone or portable game console and a 5-inch OLED screen.I'm not in Tokyo, where Sony held a press conference for the new portable game console, but I've been digesting the press releases and news reports. Here's what I think are the big takeaways from Sony's NGP reveal:Beastly HardwareThe NGP's quad-core...

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Star Wars Darth Vader headphones

You know the Force is strong with this one – the£34.99 Star Wars Darth Vader headphones, where the Dark Lord of the Sith will most probably tell his subordinates, “I find your lack of bass disturbing.” This item is still in pre-order status though, so it will ship to you the moment it arrives in stock when February 2011 rolls around.These officially licensed headphones will come with an adjustable strap that is touted to fit most (human) head sizes, and also accompanied by a 1.2 meter coiled cord...

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CyberPower releases new gaming rigs for the masses

CyberPower knows that gamers tend to take their gaming rigs (super) seriously, and this is why the new bunch of releases intend to appeal to a wide range of gamers since it comes in a variety of prices. The manufacturer of custom gaming machines has come together with Newegg to construct a trio of pre-built desktop gaming rigs, and as mentioned earlier, will be able to cater for all price-conscious gamers or overclocking enthusiasts.The systems that we will be looking at are the Gamer Ultra 2073...

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Tardis Mug is the perfect drinking accessory for you.

Love time traveling? Then the Tardis Mug is the perfect drinking accessory for you, although you won’t be using this to guzzle down beers, but rather, sip your favorite hot beverage. This Tardis-style mug will definitely have the Dr. Who mood, since whenever you pour some hot tea or coffee in it and then take it somewhere cold, you will be able to enjoy watching steam pouring out of it. Heck, it looks so real, it even comes complete with the St. John Ambulance badge as well as white notice on the...

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Government disconnects Egypt from internet

John Gilmore, internet activist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, famously said "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." But what happens when all online routes are cut off?At around 10.30 pm GMT last night, the Egyptian government shut down the entire country's connection to the internet, leaving its citizens unable to access websites hosted in the rest of the world. Attempts to access Egyptian sites from outside also fail - for example,http://egypt.gov.eg/...

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