Mar
11
2010
Gaming, Technology By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Sony introduced the PlayStation Move @ GDC in San Francisco

Sony used the GDC in San Francisco to introduce its PlayStation Move. Is it true that its a simple evolution of the Wiimote competitor to Nintendo?

PlayStation Move will be marketed by Sony’s famous wand. Controller motion recognition copied on the Wiimote, which allows Nintendo to dominate the current generation of consoles.

Microsoft has chosen to invest in Natal, more technologically advanced by removing the handle, Sony merely a vague plagiarism of what works at rival Nippon.

So what does the PlayStation Move Will be able to do better than the Wiimote? More specifically, this seems already acquired since no latency should be seen in the movements.

However, what continues to amaze is the choice of technology, Sony PlayStation as its Move needs to be coupled to the PlayStation Eye (the webcam for the PS3) to work. If one adds to this the Sub Controller (Nunchuk, Sony, wireless), it’s getting a lot of accessories …

Sony will operate differently PlayStation Move, and offer more sophisticated games that are compatible mini-games to Nintendo sauce. Recently David Cage, creator of the game Heavy Rain let such hearing that Quantic Dream could soon make an announcement about the PlayStation Move. But oddly, for the moment to leave the GDC conference which was introduced PlayStation Move is the looming concern among gamers. Indeed, the only “real” game was introduced as compatible SOCOM 4.

For the rest, Sony has clearly shown the ambition to come walk on the flat strips of Nintendo, with the archery (using two PlayStation Move), golf, tennis, fighting with swords a fighting game … From Wii Sports, in other words! And Sony also introduced Eye Pet and LittleBigPlanet to be compatible.

Sony has stated that many third-publishers are already working on titles compatible with the PlayStation Move, including Activision, Konami or Electronic Arts has confirmed this week that his Tiger Woods 2011 would be compatible with this technology, but not Natal with the X360, lack of time. It will therefore probably wait until E3 to see what other kinds of games that exploit PS Move that, after feeding the column for months, is finally a reality.

PlayStation Move out this fall, sold bundled with a game. There is no declaration on the price factor.

Mar
11
2010
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Opera Mini 5 landed on Android smartphone

Already offered on Windows Mobile for 1 week, Opera Mini on Android arrives in its new version 5.

Also effective as Opera Mini does not replace the standard browser for Android but remains an interesting software that takes full extent if you are not lucky enough to have an unlimited data plan or you’re not in a coverage area 3G, because the volume of transferred data is optimized through treatment achieved by the servers it operates.

A software writing Smartphone France recommends although it is regrettable that the software is currently only available in English and that to truly exit the software vulnerability he used a “Task Killer”.

Opera Mini 5, as the previous version, is totally free and can be downloaded from the Android Market.

Mar
11
2010
Business By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest man

For over 15 years, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, had monopolized the list. This is the first time a Latin American is headed. “The race with Bill Gates has been very fair, but Carlos Slim has finally won by just 500 million dollars in the world of millionaires is a very small margin,” announced today the publishing group president of Forbes, Steve Forbes , in a press conference in New York.

Carlos Slim’s fortune amounted to about 53 thousand 500 million dollars, according to Forbes. He overtook Bill Gates and Warren Buffet after 15 years. For the second consecutive year, the count of Forbes magazine includes Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. This list is published annually by Forbes magazine for the last 24 years and in which there are a total of 36 Latin Americans, mostly Brazilians, and that includes the second time Mexican drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo “Guzman Loera. Last year ‘El Chapo’ was listed on the site 701, the site went down this year although his fortune estimated 937 billion dollars in remains unchanged.

The Mexican businessman Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world with a fortune of 53 thousand 500 million dollars, according to Forbes magazine said today, which is in second and third Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

According to the Forbes list, there are 11 thousand billionaires in the world in year 2010, an increase over the 793 last year. Of these, 89 are women, up from the 72 of 2009.

The new president of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, and Brazil’s Eike Batista, is also highlighted among the wealthiest men in Latin America.

“The region has a spectacular year, with Carlos Slim has been done with number one on the list, Sebastian Pinera who became President of Chile, and Eike Batista as the big winner,” said today the coordinator of this research was U.S., Luisa Kroll.

The 20 richest men in the whole world:

* Carlos Slim (Mexico) – 53 thousand 500 million dollars, telecommunications

* Bill Gates (USA) – 53 billion dollars, Microsoft

* Warren Buffett (USA) – U.S. $ 47 billion, Berkshire Hathaway

* Mukesh Ambani (India) – 29.000 million, petrochemical, oil and gas

* Lakshmi Mittal (India) – 28 thousand 700 million dollars, steel

* Larry Ellison (USA) – 28 billion dollars, Oracle

* Bernard Arnault (France) – 27,500 million dollars, LVMH

* Eike Batista (Brazil) – 27 billion dollars, mining and oil

* Amancio Ortega (Spain) – 25 billion dollars, retailer

* Karl Albrecht (Germany) – 23 thousand 500 million dollars, supermarkets

* Ingvar Kamprad & family (Sweden) – 23 billion dollars, Ikea

* Christy Walton & family (USA) – 22 thousand 500 million dollars, Walmart

* Stefan Persson (Sweden) – 22 thousand 400 million dollars, Hennes & Mauritz

* Li Ka-shing (Hong Kong) – U.S. $ 21 billion, diversified

* Jim Walton (United States) – 20 thousand 700 million dollars, Walmart

* Alice Walton (United States) – 20 thousand 600 million dollars, Walmart

* Liliane Bettencourt (France) – 20 billion dollars, L’Oreal

* S. Robson Walton (United States) – 19,800 million, Walmart

* Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (Saudi Arabia) – 19 thousand 400 million dollars investment

* David Thomson & family (Canada) – 19 billion dollars, news and information

Mar
10
2010
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Microsoft, HP and Adobe are preparing anti-Apple iPad

Apple’s rivals seem determined to parasite the launch of its iPad by unveiling their own multimedia touch tablets. Adobe has released a video showing the future HP Tablet Slate ran it perfectly on flash technology.

“85% of websites and 75% of Internet videos using Flash. With Flash Player, HP Tablet Slate provides access to the entire Web, “insists Alan Tam, head of marketing at Adobe Flash, which shows examples of video sites, games, video clips, d ‘photo albums or digital newspaper exploiting this technology.

Adobe is not the only vendor to parasite the launch of the iPad, including marketing to begin on April 3 in the United States. The U.S. webzine Engadget, for example, released earlier this week a mysterious video revealing Courier, a concept of dual screen tablet Microsoft close Booklet already announced by the Redmond company, the future Asus Eee Reader or the Nintendo DS XL.

According to Engadget, this double slate could adopt the same operating system as the Zune and especially Silverlight competitor to Flash by Microsoft, whose mobile version will be unveiled in late March at the MIX conference organized by the publisher.

Despite the false start of Tablet PCs and other Smart Display, Microsoft and its partners in any case seem determined to impose on the segment of touch pads, a market that could also invest Google or Sony in the coming months …

Mar
10
2010
Technology By Simone Meier | No comments yet

Panasonic revealed price for first 3D-TV set

Panasonic announced on Wednesday that $3,000 is the amount which people would have to pay to be among the first to watch 3-D movies in the home.

The company put its first 3-D sets on sale at an event in New York on Wednesday.

The sales debut comes as moviegoers have shown considerable enthusiasm for the latest wave of 3-D titles in the theater. Last weekend, “Alice in Wonderland” grossed an estimated $116.2 million at the box office, beating the first-weekend receipts of “Avatar,” the winter’s 3-D blockbuster.

Panasonic’s suggested retail price is $2,900 for a 50-inch plasma set, one pair of glasses and a 3-D Blu-ray player. An extra pair of glasses costs $150.

Its South Korean rival, Samsung Electronics Co. announced that its 3-D sets would go on sale this week. For $3,000, buyers get a 46-inch set, two pairs of glasses, a 3-D Blu-ray player and a 3-D copy of “Monsters vs. Aliens”.

Both manufacturers plan to expand their 3-D lines rapidly.

The sets can switch between 3-D and regular 2-D mode, which doesn’t require glasses

Mar
10
2010
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China Mobile will pay high for stake in Shanghai Pudong Bank

China Mobile, the world’s largest phone operator announced that it would pay about 5.8 billion US dollars for a 20 percent stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.

This announcement comes as a part of China Mobile’s plan to enter into wireless banking.

The firm said that it would work with the mainland Chinese bank on products that would let customers pay bills or transfer money through their mobile phones. payments and mobile e-Commerce would become one of the major means that people make their spending in the future, which would eventually present unprecedented development opportunities to mobile telecommunications operators in the country.

China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou told a news conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday that the deal is an extension of our core telecom business.

China Mobile in a statement said that mobile handsets have changed from a simple tool for communications to a valuable device for communication, entertainment and shopping,

He also said that cell phone payments and mobile e-Commerce would become one of the major means that people make their spending in the future, which would eventually present unprecedented development opportunities to mobile telecommunications operators in the country.

Few experts though questioned this new idea and said that shareholders would prefer that the company pay them dividends.

The agreement would see Shanghai Pudong issue 2.2 billion new shares.

China Mobile described Shanghai Pudong as a good investment bet, adding that the fundamentals of SPD Bank were favourable and its profitability was steadily increasing.

Mar
10
2010
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HP MediaSmart server now linked to TiVo devices

HP has announced a new application that allows TiVo-users to link an HP MediaSmart server located anywhere on their home network to their TiVo device and transfer content.

So now one can let your TV show and movie collection spill out of the box, across one’s home network.

HP MediaSmart Servers can be used as central storage devices and can automatically back up data from multiple computers over the home network.

 However, MediaSmart drives are especially adept at streaming videos and music to other networked devices, including Mac and Windows PCs or iPods.

Content movement between the TiVo and the server is controlled via the Windows Home Server Console on the server.

HP home servers include the $549 HP MediaSmart EX490, which has a 2.2 GHz, 64-bit Celeron processor and a 1TB hard disk, a MediaSmart EX495 which comes with a 2.5 GHz, 64-bit Dual Core Pentium processor and a 1.5 TB drive.

Network-attached-storage (NAS) devices have become immensely popular for home and small business networks since they are relatively easy to setup and connect.

HP MediaSmart Expander for TiVo is available free via the Windows Home Server Console on the MediaSmart server.

Mar
10
2010
Technology By Simone Meier | No comments yet

Google announces partnership with Italian cultural ministry

Google announced a first deal of its kind with Italian culture ministry. It will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence. Officials from Google and Italian culture officials informed that the project would be the first time Google Books and a culture ministry has had such a partnership. Resca, official of Italian Cultural ministry, reported that this project would help save the contents of those books forever. Pointing to the1966 Florence flood which destroyed thousands of books in the Tuscan city’s library, he said that digitizing books from before 1868 would help spread Italian culture throughout the world. Google will cover the costs of the scanning of the books, all of them out-of-copyright Italian works, including 19th-century literature and 18th-century scientific volumes

Mar
10
2010
Mobile By Gary Singer | No comments yet

LG Electronics released Android mobile phone LG-KH 5200

LG Electronics in South Korea Wednesday released a Google Android OS-based smart phone LG-KH 5200. The company hopes to promote the relatively weak sales of smart phones.

LG is currently facing competitors including Nokia, RIM and Apple, which plans to launch 20 models this year, about smart phones, of which about half will use the Android system.

LG hopes by 2012, the company will own the global smart phone market share to over 10%. Now, the three major mobile phone makers are in control of three-quarters of the global smart phone market.

LG today introduced the LG-KH 5200 to be South Korea’s second largest mobile operator KT is responsible for sales, it will work with Motorola earlier this year by South Korea’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom announced Android smartphone MOTOROI in competition.

Samsung Electronics also plans to introduce Android phone this month.

LG is offering a smart phone equipped with a 3-inch touch screen, 500-megapixel camera and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, priced at about 573 U.S. dollars each.

The need to increase marketing expenditures in order to promote sales of inexpensive smart phones, LG mobile phone business last year’s fourth quarter, profit margins have been closer to zero. It is hoped that through the high-end smart phones to increase profit margins continue to decline in mobile phone.

LG and Samsung control 30% of the global handset market share, but they have not been able in the development of faster, more profitable market share in smart phones.

Samsung announced last month that it plans to sell smartphones in 2010 increased by two-fold.

LG mobile phone sales target for this year is 140 million, which last year sold 117 million mobile phones in the global handset market share of about 10%.

Mar
10
2010
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A ‘router’ to 322 terabits per second

Cisco introduced the CRS-3 with 12 times more capacity than its competitors. According to the manufacturer, Cisco CRS-3 is the world’s fastest router. It has 12 times more capacity than its competitors, 322 terabits per second (a whopping 322 million bits per second). Breakneck speed that would download the entire contents of the Library of Congress in just a second or even the entire population of China simultaneously participates in a video call. CRS stands for “Carrier Routing System,” a reference to the device’s use by large telecom providers. John Chambers, CEO of telecommunications manufacturer, has indicated that CRS-3 is developing to enhance management and data traffic in next generation fixed networks and mobile. Also, its implementation by the operators can make energy savings of 60%. In fact, the U.S. carrier A & T has completed tests on its infrastructure with the new router reaching a speed of 100 gigabytes per second.

Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers announced the new router on a Monday conference call, during which he said the CRS-3 would be available in the third trimester of the year. Field testing is underway and pricing for the new router is said to start at $90,000.

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