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Friday, May 31, 2013
Sony Forced to Close PlayStation Network
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Through its official blog, Sony announced the PlayStation Network is still closing. Online services for users of the PlayStation 3 is disrupted since 20 April 2011.
As quoted from the official PlayStation blog on Sunday (04/24/2011), the closure was caused by external threats.
"An intrusion from outside of our system has affected the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity," writes Patrick Siebold, Sr.. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media, Sony Entertainment, United States.
For the sake of doing a thorough investigation, Siebold said, PSN and Qriocity been turned off. He claimed not to know when service will be alive again.
"Our efforts to overcome this problem including rebuild our system to be more powerful. Although it spends a lot of time, we decided that this needs to be done for the sake of security," he wrote.
PSN closure occurred shortly after Sony settle its legal case with Georgo Hotz aka Geohotz. When the case was crowded, the group called Anonymous had launched an offensive to Sony.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Acer to Launch 99 Android Tablet
Brace yourself, this is going to get confusing. Not because the story is difficult to follow, but rather because the reasoning is a little suspect. Asus has been rumored to be releasing a $99 Android tablet for a while now, and the Slate was by all accounts going to be that device. Instead, the 7-inch Slate is being bumped up to something closer to the $129-$149 range, because according to Asus they don’t want to cannibalize their own profits on the Nexus 7, which they also manufacture. Even though it doesn’t look like we’re going to see the Slate from Asus at this price point, Acer is filling the gap with a new $99 7-inch Android tablet, the Iconia B1.
The Iconia B1 isn’t a powerhouse, but that helps explain its low asking price. Here’s what we know so far about the specs:
- 7-inch screen
- 1024×600 Resolution
- 170ppi
- 1.2GHz Processor
- Android 4.1 (speculated)
- Sim-card Slot (speculated)
What did you notice in that list? For starters, the resolution probably sounds familiar if you made the mistake of picking up a BlackBerry PlayBook, which featured a similarly poor showing in the resolution department on a 7-inch device. The second thing to catch your eye was probably the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean listing, if only because I’m assuming you’re reading the list from the top down. This may be the real kicker, so to speak, that convinces people in the market for a low-cost Android tablet to pick the latest offering from Acer instead of the Kindle Fire, iPad Mini, or the Nexus 7.
The last interesting bit of information is the speculation that the Iconia B1 might include a Sim-card slot, offering up the ability to get cellular data service with your budget device. There’s been no word from any carrier if they plan to offer service for a new Acer device, so there’s no way to tell if this could end up as a free device with new service. The Iconia B1 is expected to release in Q1 of 2013. So, would you pick up this low-cost Acer tablet over a Nexus 7 or any other tablet? Perhaps the bigger question is whether upping the price on the Slate is going to have the desired effect of creating two price levels which don’t cannibalize each other, can did Asus make the right decision?
Source: DigiTimes
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Bridge Laptops ASUS Primed to Release Sandy
ASUS is good and ready with Sandy Bridge being on desktops but it comes as no great surprise that the company would be trying to integrate Intels latest technology into their mobile computing platforms as well. According to Notebook Italia, there seems to be some concrete evidence of four separate models of ASUS laptops getting the Sandy Bridge treatment, including a hefty gaming rig known as the G73SW.According to information out now, the G73SW will be based on the Intel Quad Core processor with Huron River Sandy Bridge. The device will also have Intel Core i7-2630QM, 8GB of DDR3 RAM at 133MHz, a 17.3-inch LCD screen with 1920x1080 pixel resolution Full HD, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and USB 3.0 dual storage bays. Data storage can also be carried out by up to 2 hard drives. ASUS has decided to use two SATA 500GB 7200rpm signed Seagate Momentus XT series hybrid drives with a 4GB SSD.
Adding more to this already great device, ASUS is adding a Blu-ray drive and a dedicated graphics card in the form of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460m 1.5GB GDDR5 graphics card. The G73SW is available online for a price somewhere between $2,500 and $2,700. In addition to the G73SW news has also trickled out about the more compact G53SW.
This device is already available in some online shops and will come with an Intel Core i7-2630QM, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of data storage space on the hard disk, the GeForce GTX 460m graphics card, Blu-ray, webcam, microphone, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth and a 15.6-inch HD screen. Both of these devices run Windows 7 OS Home Premium 64bit and come with a carrying case, gaming mouse and guaranteed two year warranty. Alternately, you can get a lesser version of the G53SW which comes with 6GB of DDR3 RAM, 640GB of hard drive space and a DVD burner for around $1,700. Expect to see more details about these products at CES 2011.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Tablets to outsell netbooks by 2012 report says
Tablets instrument begin to outsell netbooks in 2012, and by 2014, more consumers gift use tablets than use netbooks, according to a new story.
According to a Forrester Explore describe released on Weekday, tablets are predicted to constitute 23 proportionality of PC organization income in 2015.
"Tablet growing instrument uprise at the expense of netbooks, which acquire a quasi grab-and-go media phthisis and Web browsing use sufferer as tablets but dont operate assemblage crossways services suchlike the iPad does," psychiatrist Wife Rotman Epps said in a statement.
Many exciting takeaways from the describe:
* Consumers "didnt ask" for tablets. Apple is successfully doctrine consumers to impoverishment the iPad.
* Nearly half a cardinal PCs module be sold to consumers in the U.S. between now and 2015.
* Over the incoming squad geezerhood, PC organisation income crosswise all appearance factors - desktops, notebooks and laptops, tablets, and netbooks - testament amount by 52 proportionality.
* Tablet sales in the U.S. faculty go from 3.5 cardinal units in 2010 to 20.4 1000000 units in 2015.
Desktop income are predicted to gutter over the succeeding squad period, from 18.7 cardinal units oversubscribed in 2010 to 15.7 units in 2015, according to the inform.
By 2015, Forrester forecasts a U.S. PC mart that looks equal this:
* Notebooks, 42 proportionality
* Tablets, 23 percent
* Desktops, 18 proportionality
* Netbooks, 17 proportionality
The big shocker, in my judgment: netbooks and desktops give still constitute, in enumerate, many than a 3rd of the unit marketplace.
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