Archive for October, 2008

World Of Warcraft: The success continues

Friday, October 31st, 2008

World Of Warcraft is really a special game. Its success and longevity make an exception in the area where everything is as a rule very volatile. And Blizzard Entertainment does not prevent exposing its success, and today is huge: WoW has 11 million members!

World Of Warcraft WoW mmorpg

During the last ten months, enrollment has increased by 10%, and all these people have paid their subscription or purchased a prepaid card, which does the business of Blizzard. WoW is now available in eight languages and has 60% of the market shares of all MMORPG games.

Windows Mobile 6.5?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The CEO of Motorola, Sanjay Jha, has said too much. Or not enough. In any case, it has clearly mentioned the existence of a version 6.5 of Windows Mobile, which suggests that Microsoft is not yet ready to launch a version 7, which would still paired with Windows 7…

Motorola will therefore propose a mobile phone based on that version 6.5 in the second quarter of 2009. Stay tuned…

Windows Mobile 6.5 logo

Ubuntu 8.10 arrives

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Because it is an obligation to know it, know that the Ubuntu 8.10 arrives on servers around the world today. On the menu of this new version, a better support og the 3G/3G+, the installation from a USB key, the arrival of guests sessions, the version 2.24 of Gnome environment, the version 7.4 of X.org, the new instant messaging client multi-protocol, Empathy, Totem player and many other small things. To download it, it’s here for U.S. servers.

Ubuntu Logo

The Cowon O2 available in the U.S.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Here is the O2, the mobile media player from Cowon. The new O2 offers a touchscreen of 4.3″, a capacity of 8GB, 16GB or 32GB, a T-DMB tuner, an electronic dictionary, compatibility with multimedia formats on the market, a SD/SDHC port, 18 hours of reading audio, 8 for video, built-in speakers and a TV output, and sizes 119×73x18mm.

Cowon O2 Video portable

But be aware that it is now available at JetMall, Amazon or NewEgg (to mention only the most important) for viewing price of $219.99 for the 8GB version, $249.99 for the 16GB version and $299.99 for 32GB.

Microsoft Office 14 will also be online

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Microsoft Office 14It is also at the PDC that Microsoft announced that the version 14 of Microsoft Office will also be online, to titillate a little Google Docs. The desktop applications are Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and editing documents will be part of the course without forgetting the versioning. And finally, the new Web Apps would be compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

New concepts by Pantech

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Pantech continues to work its design department and especially with academics this time. And so we discovered in Korea these new concepts of mobile phones with an original dock in the case of this artwork.

Pantech Concept Mobile Phones

Pantech Concept Mobile Phones

Pantech Concept Mobile Phones

Hitachi W63H

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

One more clamshell for Hitachi, the W63H, equipped with a 3.1″ OLED display (resolution 480×800 pixels), 1-Seg support, all sizes of 50×110×17.4mm, for 123g. No price, but 3 colors: orange, black or white.

Hitachi W63H

Brando also has its dog

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

It’s Brando which improves the principle with now 8GB of internal memory, the ability to turn the head of the dog to see the evil in its eyes, as well as the ability to shut it down, which is not stupid! Price: $39.99 HERE.

Brando dog USB storage Gadgets

Windows 7 Ultimate Build 6801: images

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Some images gleaned from the website of Cnet of a Build 6801, it did not refuse huh? In all cases, we can not say that the transition from Vista to Windows 7 is too steep that it could be between XP and Vista…

Windows 7 build 6801

Windows 7 build 6801

Windows 7 build 6801

Windows 7 build 6801

iGameBoy, GameBoy theme for iPhone

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

MacThemes has provided free for the owners of jailbreaked iPhones a theme that will please the most nostalgic of them. Embodying the characteristics of the screen graphics of the famous Nintendo GameBoy portable console (4 shades of gray – 160×144) you can choose between 2 Old-School themes of the most beautiful effect.

iGameBoy iPhone Theme