Archive for March, 2010

Sony unveils its PS3 motion controller – Move

Sony unveiled Move, its motion controller, at a press conference during GDC in San Francisco on Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO–Sony on Wednesday unveiled Move, its motion-sensitive controller.

A small device that looks like a microphone–but with something on top of it that looks like a ping pong ball with an LED inside–Move is Sony’s bid to gain control over the motion controller wars that are currently led by Nintendo, with its Wii controller, and which many think will be dominated by Microsoft and its Project Natal controller system.
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PS3 Gets All 6 Major Studios for HD Movies download service

HD movies PSN-studios- Techlivez.com

PS3 has become the first console to sign up with all major Hollywood Studios to deliver high definition movies download service, Other than its own Sony Pictures, Sony has signed up with Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal and Warner for releasing new HD movies on the PSN, all you have to do is, login into your Playstation store and rent/purchase your favorite HD movies, ofcourse you will require a good broadband connection to download the HD content.

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Twitter to block malicious links

Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.

The company will route all links submitted to the site through a filter created to catch links that lead to malware, the company said on the Twitter blog on Tuesday.

“A couple weeks ago, Biz [Stone, Twitter co-founder] explained how Twitter users were being victimized by phishing scams spread primarily through links in direct messages,” the post said. “Basically, people click the link and bad things happen. My team can only detect these scams after malicious links have already been sent out.”
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Location-Sharing from Facebook

Photo by Mr Ush via Flickr/CCThe biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday.

Citing unnamed sources, The New York Times’ Bits blog says there will be two components, “a service offered directly by Facebook that will allow users to share their location information with friends,” and a set of APIs other location-sharing services can employ to allow Facebookers to update their location info using outside services.

NYT’s Nick Bilton says Facebook will shed light on the new service at the company’s upcoming f8 developer conference in April.
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New Geocoder for Google

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Google has announced a new geocoding web service app authors can use to better plot locations on a map.

The new Google Geocoding Web Service includes some enhanced capabilities that not only make it possible for app developers to provide more accurate and granular locations in their apps, but it also lets them increase the performance of their apps through precaching.

First off, the new service employs the Google Maps JavaScript API version 3, which has a handful of improvements over the previous versions. Users will get more well-formed and easier to parse data from each request. The service can return full names as well as local-language abbreviations for countries, states and territories. Users also have the ability to apply multiple tags to each address component.
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Intel 8-Core Nehalem-EX based Xeon server CPU coming soon

Intel 8-Core Nehalem-EX based Xeon server CPU

Back May last year Intel announced the Nehalem-EX Octal Core processor, but later this month the monster server CPU is set to hit the market. The company hyped the new Nehalem-EX-based Xeons processor to be the “single greatest generational jump in its history”. Hit on the continue link for more blood-pumping details.
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