Softpedia News - GlobalSoftpedia News - GlobalFIFA 09 Announced, Detailed- July 1, 2008 When we found out earlier today that FIFA Manager 09 would hit the stores this autumn, we also started to dream about the new FIFA 09 and wondered how much it takes until Electronic Arts announces it, too. As you can see, we were not left waiting for too long, since the official announcement is here, filled with details: platform-specific features, overall revamps of the game and basically everything else you want to know regarding the new iteration in the successful soccer franchise. The...http://news.softpedia.com/news/FIFA-09-Announced-Detailed-88947.shtml Lost Cities Achievements (Xbox 360)- July 1, 2008 Lost Cities is a video game developed for the Xbox 360 console by Sierra Online Shanghai and published by Sierra Entertainment. This XBLA arcade title was released on the 23rd of April 2008 and it is still available for purchase for 800 MS Points ($10). It is based on the card game with the same name developed by Reiner Knizia. Lost Cities features multiplayer game modes through XBLA services as well as online leader boards for those who like to win and show that to the entire world. The...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Lost-Cities-Achievements-Xbox-360-88986.shtml Amazon EC2 Spreads Malware- July 1, 2008 Over the last couple of days, Sophos has detected a normal amount of spam messaging traffic. The spam messages informed you that you needed an "Important Windows Update", which is one of the oldest and best known tricks in the book, but in fact linked you to a malware spreading site. The intriguing thing is that the spam was not coming from a well known botnet, but from Amazon EC2 (short for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). After further study Sophos found out that in fact it was a spam campaign..http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-EC2-Spreads-Malware-89014.shtml Hutchison 3G Enhanced Its Austrian Network- July 1, 2008 Hutchison 3G Austria, subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, has recently enhanced its network, allowing its subscribers to benefit from faster and more reliable mobile Web browsing. The upgrade was made by Nokia Siemens Networks which, in order to improve Hutchison 3Gs network, used its flat-network solution, especially developed to work with high-speed data traffic. Nokia Siemens Networks leveraged on an innovative "direct tunnel functionality", which simplifies...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hutchison-3G-Enhanced-its-Austrian-Network-89013.shtml Firefox 3.0 Has Slaughtered Internet Explorer- July 1, 2008 June 2008 will go down in history as the month of Firefox 3.0, this despite the fact that Opera 9.5 was also dropped the past month. But while the presence of Opera 9.5 was felt only superficially, and with the Internet Explorer giant lying dormant, Firefox 3.0 reaped the browser market to shades leaving rivals in the dust. The successor of Firefox 2.0 exploded to over 8 million downloads in just the first 24 hours after launch and climbed over the 20 million downloads milestone at the end of...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-3-0-Has-Slaughtered-Internet-Explorer-89012.shtml More Affordable SSDs from OCZ- July 1, 2008 As we already stated a couple of times now, Solid State Drives are the way of the future, even if most of us still have to wait a while until the cost per gigabyte becomes more affordable. Until that happens, we can only hope that the technology is going to advance and will eventually improve the lifetime of the flash-based drives. In this respect, OCZ, one of the leading manufacturers of memory devices, has decided to join those manufacturers that have already introduced their SSD...http://news.softpedia.com/news/More-Affordable-SSD-from-OCZ-89011.shtml Why Doesn't Nokia Withdraw E90 Communicator v1- July 1, 2008 The sequel to the old 9500 Communicator, Nokia E90 Communicator was launched on the market only last year in June. Everyone had been patiently waiting for the latest Communicator series device; alas, it was a total disappointment. After a 3-year break, Nokia &039;managed&039; to offer us a defective device and doesn&039;t seem to have the decency to withdraw the incriminated handset. Moreover, Nokia confirmed one month later that the microphone incorporated within its business oriented pho...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Why-Nokia-Doesn-039-t-Withdraw-Nokia-E90-Communicator-v1-89... Hubble Sees Giant Gas Ribbon from Ancient Supernova- July 1, 2008 The particular image featured here, showing what appears to be a large ribbon of gas floating through our galaxy, shows in fact only a small section of a much larger circular structure originating from a supernova explosion that took place somewhere in the spring of 1006 A.D., dubbed SN 1006. The progenitor star, a white dwarf, would have to been located about 7,000 light years away, while the optical emissions generated by the explosion would have been bright enough to be visible in broad...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hubble-Sees-Giant-Gas-Ribbon-from-Ancient-Supernova-89009.s... Google Calendar Targeted by Phishing Attacks- July 1, 2008 It would seem that Google Calendar is plagued by all sorts of problems, the most recent of them being phishing attacks. 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