DEVICE DOCTOR (FREEWARE)

Device Doctor is a freeware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for "unidentified devices" in the Windows Device Manager.
NOTE: This tool was designed to be very simple and easy to use.
Just click on 'Begin Scan' to detect your hardware; Device Doctor queries our manufacturer driver database and immediately fetches the correct driver files for your computer.
Device Doctor version 1.0 is now available, download the free driver updater.

New! We have just published Device Doctor Portable, a special version of Device Doctor that can be used on multiple computers from removable drives without installation. Check out our portable updater...

Source:www.devicedoctor.com

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Snake Camouflage: Japan Gets Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 3DS System

Resident Evil isn’t the only big video game series that made the news in Nippon today: Konami announced [JP] the so-called METAL GEAR SOLID SNAKE EATER 3D PREMIUM PACKAGE for the Japanese market. The set includes a special 3DS system, a copy of Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D, and two clear files in MGS design.

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Advertising Report: Facebook Now Earns 23% More Per Impression Than In Q1 2011

     Facebook is making significantly more money per ad now, charging 23% more per 1000 impressions than at the start of 2011. There are still cheap ad clicks to be had on Facebook — you just have to keep traffic bouncing around within the social network. Facebook appears to be incentivizing advertisers to grow their Facebook applications and Pages, with cost per click campaigns that point internally costing 29% less than those linking offsite. These figures from a new study by ad agency giant TBG Digital show strong monetization performance and potential for Facebook as it prepares for an IPO this summer.

The Q4 2011 Facebook Advertising Report form TBG Digital looked at 326 billion ad impressions ran by 266 of its clients across 205 countries. The findings are statistically sound, having been vetted by the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre.

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Ticketmaster’s New Facebook App Recommends Concerts From Your Listening Activity

Of all the new Open Graph apps launched tonight, Ticketmaster’s new Facebook experience is the most impressive. Sure it can share that you’ve “bought” tickets, but lots of apps have similar publishing functionality. What makes Ticketmaster’s app cool is that it pulls your Facebook profile’s music app activity from services such as Spotify or Rdio, and recommends nearby concerts of artists you actually listen to, not just those you say you Like.

Ticketmaster has come a long way in the two years since Nathan Hubbard became CEO following its merger with LiveNation. It now shows you its service fees up front rather than tacking them on as you checkout. This pissed off artists and venues who thought it would scare away sales, but Ticketmaster did it in the name of transparency.

Executive VP of ecommerce Kip Levin tells me that for a long time the company was scapegoat for all of the live event industry’s problems. Now it’s pushing back and putting the customers first — something people might not expect just because it charges those pesky service fees.

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Facebook’s New Timeline Apps Introduce New Actions Like “Bought,” “Want” And “Love”

          Facebook has partnered up with sixty different startups to add their “stories” to Facebook Timeline, through apps that span different verticals from Food, Fashion to Travel.

Already apps like Fab.com, Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, and TripAdvisor have signed on to share these stories — which go beyond what we’re used to on Facebook.

“When we say anything we really mean anything,” Facebook Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen said as he took the stage and announced that verbs like “knitting,” “shared” are now a part of Timeline story options.

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Facebook In Brazil: A Big Ending To 2011 Finally Pushes It Past Orkut

      First there were the stories about Facebook taking over your college campus, then it was your high school or workplace, then your country… now the stories are starting to be about how Facebook has used up all the new users and only has engagement left to gain. But that’s in older markets like the US. The company is still growing worldwide every month on its way to a billion users, and it’s because of places like Brazil.

In 2011, according to a new study out from leading web measurement firm comScore, Facebook added nearly 24 million new users in the country passing incumbent Orkut in December to reach 36.1 million monthly uniques. The Google-owned social network isn’t seeing any drop-off, though, in contrast to US incumbent MySpace’s fate – and in contrast to India, Orkut’s other big market that was lost to Facebook years ago. Instead, Orkut just grew slowly from 32.7 million to 34.4 million in Brazil during the year.

ComScore notes a few more specific aspects of Facebook’s gains: Southeast Brazil started to grow first but now traffic is coming from all over the country; women are spending more time on the site than men, and younger demographics are more likely to be on than older ones.

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Hulu To Debut Its First Original Scripted Show “Battleground” Next Month

      Hulu is launching its first-ever original scripted series with its 13-episode order of Battleground, a political comedy following the campaign trail of a third-place candidate in Wisconsin angling for a seat in the Senate.

The show is kicking off Hulu’s foray into scripted programming, and will be followed by two other original shows: a second season of documentarian Morgan Spurlock’s A Day in the Life series, and Up to Speed, a travel show from Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater.

Battleground will debut on February 14th, Hulu says, and will be available to all users of Hulu’s free service and its paying customers on the premium version. The company also told Bloomberg that it’s planning to raise money to fund further expansion into original shows. According to Andy Forssell, Hulu’s Chief Content Officer, the company has a “very healthy business.”

“When you have a healthy business, capital is not a problem. There are plenty of people who want to help,” he said.

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