Conquer Online Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Events and Content
Developer TQ Digital announces that its MMO Conquer Online is ready to reach the ripe age of 10 and that will mean all players are invited to return to the title in order to celebrate with new in-game content and events. The big competition for players is the World Fighting League contest which the team says will allow “players from over 10 versions of CO will fight to decide who is the supreme champion and earn their spot in the free trip to China.” Devel...

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The Firefox Marketplace Gets Makeover, as Firefox OS Looms Closer
The Firefox Marketplace is going to be Mozilla's app store. It's already Mozilla's app store, but it won't be all that useful or used until Firefox OS comes out. That's not necessarily a bad thing; it means Mozilla has time to work on it. In fact, the Marketplace has gotten a redesign, a complete revamp, even if the big Firefox OS launch is months from now. The new design is cleaner and sleeker looking, which is a good thing, as Firefox OS needs to look as profession...

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iPhone Thief Poses as Customer, Grabs Three Handsets and Walks Away
An Apple retail store on Knox Street (Dallas, TX) continues to remain an attractive target for burglars as another person has managed to rob the store and walk away unapprehended. The target of at least three other break-ins, “The Apple Store on Knox Street has been struck by a thief once again — this time, a man stole iPhones worth nearly $2,000,” the Dallas News’ Crime Blog reports. That’s $2,000 (€1550 or roughly £1300), whi...

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Doxygen 1.8.4 Released with Multiple Changes
Doxygen, a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D, is now at version 1.8.4. Highlights of Doxygen 1.8.4: • Scrolling with mouse wheel no longer affects the values in the expert view; • Support has been added for "clang assisted parsing". This will allow the code to also be parsed via libclang (C/C++ frontend of LLVM); • Support has been added...

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Microsoft: Surface Is the World’s First Productivity Tablet
Surface is the first tablet in Microsoft’s history, so it’s no surprise that the tech giant is struggling to make it successful. Part of this plan is a worldwide marketing push that includes not only commercials, but also campaigns and official statements praising the device. This time, Brian Hall, ...

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Google Penalizes Sprint.com for Spam
Sprint is the latest big-name website to get hit with a Google penalty for spam. Like in previous similar cases, with Mozilla recently or with the BBC before that, the penalty is for a page open to the public for comments. Obviously, this page was abused and it probably started piling up a ton of spam, since Google doesn't take action against a single page on very large websites unless it really is a problem. Like in previous cases, the penalty seems to have been app...

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Ubisoft Confident in Nintendo's Wii U, Will Continue to Make Games for It
After Electronic Arts publicly distanced itself from Nintendo's Wii U home console, Ubisoft has issued a statement saying that it's quite confident in the Japanese company and that it will continue to make games for the device. Nintendo released the Wii U last November and, while it had been supported by many third-party companies, some decided to no longer focus on the Wii U.For example, EA confirmed that, due to low sales of the games that had already been released o...

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The Sims 3: Island Paradise Gets Developer Walkthrough Trailer
The development team at Electronic Arts working on The Sims 3: Island Paradise is delivering a new trailer for the game, with a producer working on the game showing players much of the new content and gameplay mechanics that they will be able to enjoy. The team states, “Explore the sunny shores and glistening waters of Isla Paradiso. Learn how your Sims can build and customize houseboats and resorts.” Gamers will also be able to teach their characters to l...

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Script of the Day: Social Likes
Providing social sharing buttons has become a norm these days in Web development, and an annoying one if I might say so myself. Social Likes solves this problem by providing a wide set of share buttons that work out of the box with very little setup needed. Supporting Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, Mail.ru, and Odnoklassniki social sharing buttons, the Social Likes plugin is the perfect solution for deploying social sharing toolkits that...

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Tile-Based Start Menu for Windows 8 and 7
Even if Windows 8 adoption rate could use some boosting, third-party developers continue to capitalize on the operating system’s lack of a start button for the desktop part. Start Menu Reviver is one of the latest additions to the category and promises to deliver a fresh experience, in tune with the modern UI design promoted by Microsoft in the touch...

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