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The well known Virus Bulletin organization has made public the latest test results of the most famous anti-virus programs.



As many of your were probably expecting, BitDefender is in the top of the best anti-viruses, together with NOD32, F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008, Grisoft AVG and McAfee.
The bad news is that my favored antivirus, Kasperski, has failed the test because it didn’t find a specific virus during the full scanning.


Because of this failure the ramous program has lost the VB100 certification, but it is not alone in this, being accompanied by other complex programs such as Avast and Avira AntiVir.


The VB100 award was introduced in 1998 becoming widely recognized within the industry, and the anti-virus products participating at this event must detect all In the Wild viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning, and to generate no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.

After the 64GB Solid State Drives of 1.8 inches from Samsung, now comes Toshiba’s new modules with a capacity ranging between 23GB to 128GB.


Toshiba Solid State Drives will be released on the market in February 2008 and in spring next year we will be able to get our hands on the 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs.
The SSDs come with a reading speed capacity of 100MB/sec and a writing speed of 40MB/sec.
Japan will be the first country to welcome the latest 128GB SSD from the company.

The Docent Personal Exhibit Guide is a prototype created by designer Ryan Olson who exposed it at the Swissnex Gallery in San Francisco for the 2007 IDSA Connecting conference.
Ryan Olson from San Francisco has a solid background in Industrial Design, 3-D Modeling and Design Management, and its latest concept is gathering all his knowledge for his master degree in industrial design.




The scope of this innovative device is to allow visitors in museums or different exhibitions to access a comprehensive source of information about specific items with no stress and as quick as possible.
The handheld exhibit guide is designed as a classic looking glass capable of overlaying information onto live onscreen video taken from its rear-facing camera.



With the use of supplemental multimedia commentary, the person can choose to explore specific details of items.
A mesh of sensors is localizing each Docent device and records permanently the exact location and the proximity to items.
The video overlays are synchronized by the internal piezoelectric micro-gyroscopes.
Unlike the existent user interfaces that have a limited available options or overwhelm the user with a deep hierarchy of content menus, the Docent Personal Exhibit Guide works by combining the video camera display with RFIG-based identification of physical objects to allow the person to select items of interest through a combination of inference and explicit selection.



The user is able to choose items or part of them on the video display.
The device has a multi-direction thumb control to permit the simple navigation through the interface, a stylus which is actually the detachable lower handle that can be used for handwriting, the built-in camera with up/down tilt, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and the USB port for flash drives, data sync and charging.

Transcend Information is a company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on development of memory modules, flash memory cards, USB pen drives, MP3 players, digital photo frames, portable HDDs, multimedia products and accessories, that has just announced the launching of M5, its latest multi-card reader.




M5 has a compact modern design and supports all memory cards used in the present such as Microdrive, CompactFlash Type I/II, SD, xD cards, Memory Stick, microSD/ TransFlash, miniSD, SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity), miniSDHC and MMC 4.0 standards for hi-end memory cards.



The modern card reader provides data transfer rates of up to 480Mb/s and it is available in two vivid color options, as the company started to improve to the image of its latest products.

M5 is fully compliant with the high-speed USB 2.0 specification and it doesn’t require any external power or battery.

Spike TV has announced the winners of this year’s Video Game Awards event, the 5th edition of the celebration hosted by the famous actor Samuel L. Jackson.


BioShock from 2K Games was the star of the evening, receiving the most important awards including Game of the Year, Best Xbox 360 Game and Best Original Score.



This is the full winners’ list:
GAME OF THE YEAR: BioShock (2K Games/ 2K Boston - 2K Australia)
STUDIO OF THE YEAR: Harmonix
BEST SHOOTER: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision/ Infinity Ward)
BEST RPG: Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios/ BioWare)
BEST MILITARY GAME: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision/ Infinity Ward)
BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME: skate (Electronic Arts/ EA Black Box)
BEST HANDHELD GAME: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
BEST GRAPHICS: Crysis (Electronic Arts/ Crytek)
BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW: The Simpsons Game (Electronic Arts/ EA Redwood Shores)
BEST RHYTHM GAME: Rock Band (MTV Games/ Harmonix)
BEST DRIVING GAME: DiRT (Codemasters/ Codemasters)
BEST ACTION GAME: Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME: Madden NFL 08 (Electronic Arts/ EA Tiburon)
BEST SOUNDTRACK: Rock Band (MTV Games/ Harmonix)
BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY: The Orange Box/ Portal (Valve/ Valve)
BEST XBOX 360 GAME: BioShock (2K Games/ 2K Boston - 2K Australia)
BEST WII GAME: Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
BEST PS3 GAME: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Sony Computer Entertainment/Insomniac Games)
BEST PC GAME: The Orange Box (Valve/ Valve)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: BioShock (2K Games/ 2K Boston - 2K Australia)
BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME: Halo 3 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Bungie Studios)
MOST ADDICTIVE VIDEO GAME FUELED BY DEW: Halo 3 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Bungie Studios)
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