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This is an application which can be useful for getting information from DVD media and other formats are supported.

Some of the Elements:

• Blu-ray and HD-DVD support
• New System Information feature with accurate cpu speed calculation
• New Samsung PIPO parity scanning.
• New Benq fast PIPO scanning for 8x and 16x drives
• New PIPO data & graphical save formats (PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP>
• New Colour options for graphs and plotting via colour picker
• New DVD-RDL, DVD+RDL (Double Layer) support added
• LG, BENQ, NU, NEC, BTC, Liteon, Micro Advantage bitsetting added
• Access to new DVD-R/RW bitsetting functions added by Nu, BTC and Micro Advantage
• New Media revision field added to Media info
• CD/DVD Speed & Error Test functions
• Expanded Drive & Media Info sections.
• Recognition of DDCD, HD-BURN & Mt Rainier technologies
• Check for program update on web feature.

Download it here

Africa needs to embrace wireless broadband as a potential solution to the digital divide.

Chairman of Intel Craig Barrett has said. “It’s cheaper, easier and more efficient to communicate wirelessly,” he told the BBC News website.

Less than 1% of Africans have access to broadband and only 4% use the net.

The International Telecommunications Union has predicted that the Intel-backed Wimax system could become the dominant mobile standard in Africa.

The continent’s geography and political barriers have made it difficult to roll out wired broadband.

There is a shortage of fibre cable links between African countries and very few states have extensive copper wire networks for ADSL broadband.

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I might even start using this piece of software, what it is - right, is an application which can create flash banners or movies/cartoons, used by both professionals and novices to create rich interactive content for web sites.

KoolMoves is a popular Flash authoring tool with rave industry reviews!

As Flash has developed into the standard for animation on the web, KoolMoves has emerge as an advanced but low cost alternative to Flash.

Combining ease-of-use with a wealth of powerful animation effects, KoolMoves makes it easy and inexpensive to create professional quality Flash animations for web sites.

Software is aimed at Windows computers, unfortuntley I can’t tell you if Vista is supported, but it will work with WindowsXP SP2 (SP2 = Service Pack 2)

Download it here

Set in the not too distant future, TimeShift the new game from Saber Interactive will take the first-person genre to an entirely different dimension, where the world as we know it has been erased from history and the very memory of us will be wiped out like tears in the rain.

Our descendants will never be born - our existence will become but a mere dream and the future as we know it will never come to be.

You assume the role of retired Colonel, Michael Swift, who has been selected by the US Government to test two of the most significant inventions of the century - a time-control device called the “Quantum Suit” and a time machine called the “Quantum Transporter”.

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 Nvidia is ready for its next-generation GPU launch. According to sources at graphics card makers, the company plans to launch its GeForce 9 series GPU after the Lunar New Year in February.

The first chip to rollout of in GeForce 9 family will be the D9E, a high-end product that adopts 65nm manufacturing. The new product will also support DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1, revealed the sources.

In addition to the D9E, Nvidia will roll out a mid-range GeForce 9 family product named D9P in June 2008. The new GPU will adopt 55nm processing, the sources pointed out.

Thanks to the DigiTimes for this.

In 2326, rival gangs form an ultra-violent streetsports league Speedball to settle their deadly disputes.

Two teams face each other in bloody battles for a steel ball: Nine on nine – in an all-out rush on the opponents’ goal. Almost any malicious move is permitted.

The winner of the matches secures supremacy over the city.

The highly anticipated PC revival to the legendary Amiga classic transforms the futuristic game setting with state-of-the-art technology into a high-speed online sports spectacle.

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