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June 24th, 2012, 13:59 Posted By: wraggster
Social magazine app is now available from various Android app stores, comes in five new languages, and offers YouTube and Google+ conversions.
Flipboard was originally launched for iPad, before it rolled out onto sister iOS device, the iPhone.
It allows users to transform their social newsfeeds from Twitter, Facebook et al into a flippable magazine, and now it has arrived on Android.
That means users Google OS-powered devices can now download the app from Google Play, the Amazon AppStore for Kindles, and the Barnes & Noble Nook App Store.
Meanwhile, Americans purchasing a Samsung Galaxy S III from 'leading carriers' will find the app pre-installed on the device – which perhaps explains the app being displayed on the phone in its promotional photo.
Flipboard has also expanded the format in conjunction with the Android launch, enabling the magazine-like conversion to work across Google+ and YouTube.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...android/018397
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June 22nd, 2012, 01:06 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's own advertising blog (yes, it exists) has revealed how its going to frame ads inside incoming Metro-themed apps. While announcing partnerships with six different ad design teams, Microsoft threw up an example, above, that ties together a Seattle Sounders FC app with a panel showing off a pair of Adidas' latest Predator cleats. The adis located at the far edge of the apparently scroll-able app and clicking / tapping on the side will launch into a dedicated page, with a back button visibly ready to swing you back. While it looks relatively unobtrusive at the moment, the background of the app will also be up for advertising grabs, able to integrate videos, text and other media. Let's hope it doesn't ruin those delicate Metro lines when Windows 8 finally arrives.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/w...dvertisements/
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June 21st, 2012, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster
Hard drive prices have yet to return to normal after last year's Thailand flooding. There's good news on the solid-state front, though. The current generation of SSDs has steadily become much cheaper over the last year or so. SSD prices have dropped an average of 46% since early 2011. Intel has largely shied away from discounting its drives, but the aggressive competition between other players in the market seems to have forced its hand. There's no indication that competition is waning, suggesting the downward trend will continue. Right now, an impressive number of drives are available for less than a dollar per gigabyte.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...-46-since-2011
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June 21st, 2012, 23:39 Posted By: wraggster
A day after Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8, a company executive explained why the company never implemented native code in Windows Phone 7, declined to say whether Windows Phone 7.x would be upgraded beyond version 7.8, and said Microsoft has no plans to acquire an OEM to manufacture smartphones in-house. Of course, in theory that wouldn't stop Microsoft from building its own hardware in-house, similar to what Google did with the Nexus One. In any case, Microsoft's decision to construct its hardware and software in-house for the Surface tablet project has led to some chatter that it could do the same for smartphones.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/06...windows-phones
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June 21st, 2012, 00:09 Posted By: wraggster
Over on Ebay.com on their deals section, Rims BlackBerry PlayBook 16GB Tablet has been discounted down to $169 from 499, which is around 66% off, heres more info about the playbook and the link:
The Blackberry Playbook is the brand’s entry into the world of tablet and it sets a high precedent for its competitors. This ultra-portable Blackberry Playbook tablet PC is armed with a dual core 1GHz Cortex A-9 CPU, which when coupled with 1GB RAM, makes multitasking a breeze. A 7-inch, multi-touch capable capacitive display on this Blackberry tablet PC renders crisp images in 16M colors. Web browsing is a treat on the Blackberry Playbook thanks to Flash 10.1 and HTML5 support. Dual cameras (3 MP in the front, and 5 MP on the rear), expandable memory and Wi-Fi support allows this Blackberry Playbook tablet PC to replace most netbooks. For sharing important data, this Blackberry tablet PC can also connect with other Blackberry devices via Blackberry bridge.
Product Features
•Professional grade performance
Full computing power in a tablet format; symmetric multi-processing.
•Web without limits
Ideal for games, media, apps and everything the real Internet offers. Built-in support for HTML 5. No-compromise rendering of text, graphics and video.
•Amplified BlackBerry experience
Wirelessly connect to your BlackBerry smartphone for real time access to: Email, calendar, address book, task list and BBM.
•Best-in-class media
3 MP high-definition forward-facing camera. 5 MP high-definition rear-facing camera. Codec support for superior media playback, creation and video calling.
•Super convenient
7" LCD display, 1024 x 600 screen resolution. Multi-touch capacitive screen.
More info at ebay here --> http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-RIM-Blac...-/380448474390
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June 20th, 2012, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's plan to build its own Windows 8 tablets puts longtime allies in peril — and it may be the right thing to do. 'In announcing the Surface tablets, due to be released this fall, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer cited Apple's advantage (without mentioning Apple) of integrated software and hardware. "Things work better when hardware and software are considered together," he said. "We control it all, we design it all, and we manufacture it all ourselves." ... Like Apple, Microsoft will hire a few PC makers to do the actual production work. But the need for 20 brands of me-too laptops, tablets, and convertibles is low. Manufacturing sophisticated electronics is a skill requiring manufacturing innovation. But all those branded-but-otherwise-undifferentiated PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones just aren't needed in the vision Ballmer sketched out yesterday.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...not-our-future
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June 20th, 2012, 23:53 Posted By: wraggster
Thought Do Not Track was strictly a geeks' issue? Think again. After Microsoft was slapped down for enabling DNT by default in Internet Explorer 10, the co-chairs of the US's Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus have sent a strongly-worded letter to the W3C urging it to reconsider. As webdev360.com points out, it's an interesting (unprecedented?) example of Congress interacting with the standards body: 'Whether members of the [working group] will take kindly to the Representatives' interference remains to be seen. Ed Markey's legislative director, Joseph Wender, has brought the letter to the attention of the group's mailing list, but, as of the time of writing, he hasn't received any replies.'
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/1...efault-in-ie10
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June 20th, 2012, 23:52 Posted By: wraggster
Five years after it was first introduced, Google's Safe Browsing program continues to provide a service to the 600 million Chrome, Firefox, and Safari users, as well as those searching for content through the company's eponymous search engine. According to Google Security Team member Niels Provos, the program detects about 9,500 new malicious websites and pops up several million warnings every day to Internet users. Once a site has been cleaned up, the warning is lifted. They providemalware warnings for about 300 thousand downloads per day through their download protection service for Chrome.
http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/...-sites-per-day
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June 20th, 2012, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster
Popular dungeon-crawler may be released on console, says Edmund Mcmillen
Indie hit The Binding of Isaac has surpassed more than 700,000 downloads in just nine months, the game’s developer has revealed.
The figure means that since its September release, the dungeon-crawler has sold approximately 2,600 copies a day.
"Who would have thought a game about an abused child fighting off his mother with his tears could ever sell 700k copies in less than a year?" said the game’s developer Edmund McMillen, as reported by Joystiq.
"Not me, that's for f*cking sure."
McMillen added that given the impressive number of sales, the he may adapt the game to console.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...0000-downloads
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June 20th, 2012, 23:35 Posted By: wraggster
A new report claims that National Security Agency, the CIA and Israeli all worked together to develop the Flame malware, with the aim of collecting information about Iran’s nuclear program.
Citing unnamed Western officials, the Washington Post has reported that the collection of intelligence was in preparation for cyber-sabotage, aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon.
The apparent joint effort was codenamed ‘Olympic Games’, which Kaspersky Lab reported contained a chunk of code found in an early version of Stuxnet.
Disguising itself as a Windows software update, Flame turned an infected computer into a sophisticated spying device, sending data from hard drives, computer microphones, webcams and nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Spokesmen for the CIA, the NSA and the office of the director of National Intelligence, as well as the Israeli Embassy in Washington, have all declined to comment so far.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...-report/028537
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June 20th, 2012, 23:34 Posted By: wraggster
Google Maps users will soon be able to plan a trip through the waterways of England and Wales.
Teaming up with the Canal and River Trust, the US search engine will be adding around 2,000 miles of canal and river paths to its mapping application.
"Canal towpaths offer green routes through our towns and cities, and by working with the Canal and River Trust we're adding towpaths to Google Maps and encouraging people to discover their local waterway," commented Google UK’s geospatial technologist Ed Parsons.
Earlier this month, Google unveiled new additions to its mapping technology, which includes fly-over views and 3D rendering. Just a week later Apple announced that its latest mobile operating system, iOS 6, would no longer run Google Maps. Instead Apple has developed its own mapping app.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...-routes/028538
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June 20th, 2012, 00:32 Posted By: wraggster
The PC gaming market have nothing to fear over the impending launch of powerful next-gen consoles, the CEO of Crytek has said.
Speaking to CVG at E3, Yerli said that one change he expects to occur in the PC space is an evolution of business models to free-to-play - and the Crysis studio is trying to fuel the transition by offering 'Crysis quality' games for free.
 "I think PC gaming should never fear. PC gaming is always going to be on the public's eyes," he said."The only thing that will happen is that PC gaming is going to change and adopt different business models - and we are trying to change it ourselves with high quality, premium free-to-play titles.
"There is absolutely no reason why gamers shouldn't get triple-A games for free. Absolutely no reason. But we're going to bite the bullet and do it. Somebody has to lead the way."
Yerli described Western devs' hesitation to adopt F2P for its traditional titles as "a typical industry problem."
He explained: "How can you justify 10-30 million in production going in to a game that people are going to play for free? There is no royalty calculation possible in traditional minds.
"What everybody needs to do is look at the Eastern world and how they make their royalty calculations and business plans, and literally bring that to the West, but apply the Western quality standards."
And that's what Crytek did, adds Yerli, and is now applying to its new free-to-play venturesWarface and its G-Face social platform.
"I went to Korea in 2006 and I was blown away by the way people play games - online, connection and social... that's their lifestyle. There are pro-gamers making more money that some sports guys.
"So in 2006 I saw the future. A Future with crappy quality at that point, but with games that were creating revenues and business models that were astonishing. So when I came back I said, 'I want that kind of business model in the Western world with the quality of a Crysis.'
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ys-crytek-ceo/
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June 19th, 2012, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster
Listening to LucasArts' creative team talk about Star Wars 1313 brings a growing sense of hope that this game is going to be the real deal. Of course, we've been slightly disappointed by Star Wars games from LucasArts in recent years, but it's possible that one of the reasons for this malaise is a certain problem with the Star Wars universe as a whole, the lack of vulnerability among its central characters.
Look, the Star Wars universe is very cool - futuristic space opera, trans-species interactions, powerful political machinations, some fantastic characters - it's great fun. However, (and I realize this is a personal view) the mystical stuff just leaves me cold. I really don't care about super-human beings roaming the worlds and moving furniture with their minds or communing with the ether to create spangly magic weapons. I like my heroes merely slightly-more-powerful than the rest of us. Human (or whatever) except more-so.
In Star Wars 1313, the protagonist (unnamed, as yet) is a bounty hunter on a quest. He has gadgets and weapons but no special-powers My colleague Anthony Gallegos described it as "Star Wars meets Uncharted" adding, after a demo at E3 that the game "just might be a new hope."
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/06/1...thinking-gamer
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June 19th, 2012, 23:40 Posted By: wraggster
Blizzard has patched Diablo III to version 1.0.3, which makes adjustments that should affect all users in noticeable ways, but seems mostly designed for high level players.
If you’re creating a new character, leveling up your Jeweler and Blacksmith artisans will be far cheaper after 1.0.3, as Blizzard has dramatically reduced the gold cost for ranking up artisan levels, as well as reduced the crafting costs for everything from levels 1 to 59. A number of class changes have also been implemented, including giving Monks the ability to use spears and two-handed swords and maces along with multiple skill rune adjustments.
So while lower level players will have more gold available because less will be spent at the Jeweler and Blacksmith, higher level players will find more significant changes. Blizzard has adjusted item drop rates so the most powerful items in the game, item level 63, have a chance of dropping in Act I of Inferno setting. This is significant because it reduces the need to go to the Auction House to buy more powerful items in order to progress through the most challenging setting of Diablo III.
Alongside the adjusted item drop rates, Blizzard has lowered the damage output of monsters in Act II, III and IV, so it should be easier to progress through Inferno without having to substantially gear up before starting a new Act. If you have bonuses to attack speed on your gear, however, progress might not be as easy, because Blizzard reduced the AS values on weapons and armor by 50 percent.
It seems Blizzard also wants to encourage players in Inferno to continue killing champion and rare packs of monsters after building a five-stack of Nephalem Valor, as they’ll drop an additional guaranteed rare item. One stack of Nephalem Valor is awarded after reaching level 60 for every pack of rare monsters killed, and stacks up to five times, boosting magic and gold find percentages. It lasts for 30 minutes and refreshes with every additional champion or rare kill, and will stay active as long as you don’t switch your skill build, rewarding you for continuing to sweep dungeons and take on challenging foes. In order to keep you more focused on fighting monsters, magic find bonuses won’t apply when smashing open vases and barrels and overturning corpses.
Bosses should also be more challenging after the patch, as Blizzard has listed enrage timers for bosses like Belial and Zoltan Kulle, as well as modified existing behavior, such as Izual’s frozen bombs and giving Siegebreaker a reflect damage affix on Inferno.
Check out the full patch notes to see all the changes, including "Weapon racks will no longer drop weapons 100% of the time".
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/06/1...ablo-iii-patch
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June 19th, 2012, 23:28 Posted By: wraggster
With Microsoft having a 94 per cent market share in business software, how will the sector embrace its hardware?
Last night Microsoft announced its first ever branded tablet aimed at pretty much everyone from the average gaming fan to IT professionals. But the buzz on the web is that the Surface Tablet could be an ideal solution for businesses already relying on Microsoft software.
Jon Milward, director of Managed and Support Services at IT consultancy Northdoor believes that Surface will be a convenient device for businesses.
“Microsoft has developed Windows 8 (the new PC operating system) to give the same user interaction whether it’s used on a PC, laptop, phone or tablet. Therefore, the new Microsoft Surface tablet equipped with Windows 8 will give business users all the convenience of a tablet and the same level of integration with their business systems as a PC.”
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...usiness/028535
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June 19th, 2012, 16:59 Posted By: wraggster
One of the world’s leading developers sees Microsoft’s new Surface tablet as a viable games platform for the years ahead.
Epic co-founder Mark Rein has expressed his desire to get his company’s Unreal Engine – one of the cornerstones of modern games development – up and running on the device.
“Microsoft NAILS IT!” Rein wrote on Twitter. “Way to go Microsoft! Surface looks AWESOME! Can't wait to get some Unreal Engine games on those babies!”
Furthermore, Rein speculates that Surface’s gaming aspiration may run even deeper, with possible support for console hardware.
“Microsoft: I suppose, being a proper Windows 8 device, that Surface will fully support the Xbox game controller. If so: bravo!” he added.
“Future looks even better for gamers on all sorts of awesome platforms and I'm super happy that we'll power all sorts of great experiences...”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/epic-...entials/098145
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