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Ride like the world champions! Dip into the most extensive and graphically complex riding simulation, which gave it ever for PC.

Action filled challenges in jumping, dressage and crosscountry wait for you and your horse.

A Training station for they riders and horses will lead you piece by piece to success.

The World Champioship stadium in Aachen (largest riding stadium of the world) loads to the packing final.

An innovative control underlines the realism of the simulation.

Game Features:

* High Res 3D horse model, featuring state of the art real time software rendering
* Realistic horse and rider animations
* Realistic sound effects and atmospherics
* Authentic commentary during alll events
* Easy to follow navigation guides in all event

Download it here

PC and Mac versions will match their console counterparts with explosive new content and features including a multiplayer action-inspired battle mode, grueling boss battles, a host of exclusive unlockable content and visually stunning rock venues.

With more than 70 songs in the set list, and more original master tracks than ever before, players will be able to shred from many of the freshest and hottest artists today, along with many of the most popular rock songs ever recorded.

Expanded online multiplayer game modes will also allow PC and Mac enthusiasts to rip head-to-head against players around the world and across either platform, raising the level of competition for true legendary rock status.

Guitar Hero 3 is the first game in the Guitar Hero series to be released on PC’s as well as consoles.

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AMD reached its lowest share price for more than four years last week and, as a result, its market value dropped to around US$5 billion – that’s $400 million less than it paid for ATI in July 2006.

Intel, AMD’s major competitor in the CPU business, has been on a roll for the past 18 months and is now worth around US$162 billion, which makes the chip giant more than 32 times the size of AMD in monetary terms.

Even worse for AMD is that its partner-cum-archrival, Nvidia, has a market cap of around $19 billion, which makes it almost four times as valuable as the struggling platform company.

It’s fair to say things haven’t been going well for AMD since the middle of last year, as its two major rivals launched products that remain largely uncontested even today.

Neither the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 nor the GeForce 8800 GTX have been truly surpassed in terms of performance yet and it’s not going to happen until next year.

There are no two ways about it: the Phenom launch was a disappointment.

This was largely down to the fact that the company found an erratum in the L3 cache Translation Lookup Buffer, which could cause serious system instabilities in certain scenarios and it prevented the company from launching a 2.4GHz Phenom CPU at the eleventh.

Thanks to Bit-tech for this

The ET Blog will be restructuring its panel links to add more, and also create even easier navigation to the post’s you want to see.

The restructure will make it easier to find most of what you want.

Just as a pure example:

At the moment we have DVD-Rip, DVD-R5 which is okay, its all in one group, but then telesync and telecine are way at the bottom somewhere.

This restrucutre will enable the following:

   Movie-DVD Rip, Movie-DVD R5, Movie- Telesync etc.
This upgrade will happen before the end of the year, you will notice no difference until its done, this process needs to happen for the expansion later next year.

I’ve got big plans

Thanks
magic.

The beleaguered music industry is beginning to show more enthusiasm for free, advertising-supported business models.

The latest sign: Universal Music Group has agreed to provide its songs to online social network imeem.

Imeem now boasts deals with all four major record companies, including Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group, all of which have already inked deals with the social network.

It’s a sharp turnaround from earlier this year, when none of the majors were willing to sign on to imeem’s new ad-supported interactive service.

In fact, Warner sued imeem, arguing that by allowing its members to upload and share MP3s of Warner music, it was infringing on its copyrights.

But in July, Warner dropped its suit and struck a partnership with imeem under which the major label allowed free, full-song streaming of its music in exchange for a cut of imeem’s advertising revenue.

Sony-BMG Music reached a similar deal with imeem in September, followed by EMI in October and now Universal.

A source familiar with the Universal pact said the label is also receiving a small payment each time one of its songs is streamed.

Fueling the shift is the music industry’s continuing struggle with sliding sales of compact discs, which still account for the vast majority of their recorded-music sales.

Revenue from paid music downloads continues to grow, but isn’t close to making up the difference.

Imeem claims to have 19 million users; deals with major labels and leading independent music companies will help it grow that audience further.

Finally some good news!!

Thanks to Forbes, eweek for this. 

In “Awake,” a psychological thriller that tells the story of a man (Christensen) undergoing heart surgery while experiencing a phenomenon called “anesthetic awareness,” which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation.

As various obstacles present themselves, his wife (Alba) must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

I personally havent seen this so I can’t say too much about it.

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Japanese electronics maker says new Portege is the first tablet PC with a backlit LED display. Toshiba announced on Monday the introduction of the Portege M700, a tablet PC which it claims is the first to incorporate a touch screen LED display.

Most laptops and tablet PCs use LCD (liquid crystal) displays, which are generally cheaper to manufacture but are susceptible to glare and awkward viewing angels.

By using LED (light emitting diode) technology, the Portege M700 produces bright image quality even in bright sunshine and from different angels.

The 12.1-inch WXGA display is meant to mirror the layout of a standard piece of paper for tablet fans who like to the ability to manipulate documents through the touch screen interface.

The M700 also uses the Intel Core 2 Duo and the Santa Rosa edition of Centrino. Other features include a DVD SuperMulti Drive, 1.3 megapixel webcam, a shock absorbing design, a spill-resistant keyboard and “sleep-and-charge” USB ports that can charge compatible electronics (cellphones, MP3 players) whether the system is on or off.

The Portege M700 retails for $1,800 (2.2 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 160GB drive, Intel GMA).

Thanks to infosync for this.

Christmas time is a great moment to gather with your family, spread the love and also spend loads of money.

And that’s where advertisements come into the play. Microsoft Corp. began on Monday to place advertisements on its U.S. MSN Mobile page, moving into the nascent mobile phone advertising business.

Computer-based Web usage dwarfs mobile Internet use in the United States, but companies like Microsoft, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. see advertising tied to mobile phones as potentially more lucrative than the $40 billion online advertising market.The company will start with advertisements from Bank of America, Paramount Pictures and Jaguar.

Microsoft already sells mobile phone advertisements in Belgium, France, Spain, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Microsoft’s idea is to offer customers the option to place advertising across a wide range of platforms from the Internet to mobile phones to its Xbox Live online video game service.

Microsoft also plans to bring new features such as astrology and movie ticket buying to its MSN Mobile page. You can’t hide from the advertisements anywhere in these days…

Thanks to Reuters for this.

After the tragic death of his son, Kane leaves his family and becomes a member of The 7 - an elite mercenary group.

After years of being at the top of their game, a mission in Venezuela goes terribly wrong.

Kane escapes with the loot as the only survivor, but is caught and sentenced to death.

But not all of The 7 did die. They want the loot back and they want to deliver the punishment due to a traitor - death to him and his family. Kane is busted out of the prison van and offered a deal by The 7.

His wife and daughter will be spared if he returns the loot. He will still be killed.

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Shadowgrounds Survivor is a spin-off/sequel to the underground PC hit Shadowgrounds.

The game tells the story of three survivors who join forces with the last remaining human resistance in the heated battle against the ongoing alien onslaught.

The acclaimed atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return armed with a new feature set!

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