July 31st, 2010 by admin
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Yeap. That’s what I am busying with at the moment :p It’s really awesome. If you were a Starcraft player, you will be amazed how much better the graphics are now. Protoss Carrier with its Interceptors is a much sleekier and alien-mean looking machine. It’s definitely a fun game to play with your friends. Graphics wise, Blizzard has thrown out everything that is possible with today’s technology, making it a whole lot “prettier” than WarCraft.
Alrite, my friends are nudging me now. Will end off this post with an awesome starcraft 2 screenshot.
July 31st, 2010 by admin
Everybody’s scrambling to get their iPad competitors out. Most recently, we heard what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had to say about his comany’s plans. Research in Motion (RIM) will apparently have its iPad competitor out in a few short months.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports the BlackBerry maker intends to have one out in November. Hugo Miller writes:
The device will have roughly the same dimensions as the iPad, which has a 9.7-inch diagonal screen, said the two people who wouldn’t be identified because the plans haven’t been made public. The device will include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technology that will allow people to connect to the Internet through their BlackBerry smartphones, the two people said.
Will it be called the BlackPad? As Mobile Crunch pointed out this week, RIM has purchased the BlackPad.com domain.
iPad sales have been impressive, to say the least. However, it has yet to really be faced with competition, and that will soon change. The iPad-like tablet market is going to get flooded with new products and choices for consumers, and there is no doubt that some of them will be much more competitive with pricing. This is one thing that has helped Android grow (which is powering its own iPad competitors).
As the holiday season arrives, it looks like the iPad isn’t going to be the only one getting looked at by consumers.
July 31st, 2010 by admin
Microsoft feels threatened by the iPad. That was made clear by the words of CEO Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s financial analysts meeting. Microsoft intends to come out swinging with Windows-based iPad rivals. It’s just a matter of when, and if customers will have anywhere near the same enthusiasm they have had for the ipad.
Of course, Microsoft isn’t the only company that has to worry about winning that enthusiasm. Any other player in the tablet market has a lot to live up to after the iPad’s phenomenal sales. However, whereas Google, for example, may be able to ride on some of the building enthusiasm for the Android operating system, Microsoft is hoping familiarity with Windows will be the ticket.
Here are some of the things that Ballmer said (based on a transcript provided by Fortune). "There is a category that we’ve had Windows on for actually a long time. We’ve had Windows 7 on, tablets and slate machines now for a number of years, and Apple has done an interesting job of putting together a synthesis and putting a product out, and in which they’ve — they sold certainly more than I’d like them to sell, let me just be clear about that. We think about that. We think about that in competitive sense."
"Just like we had to make things happen on netbooks, we’ve got to make things happen with Windows 7 on slates. And we are in the process of doing that as we speak. We’re working with our hardware partners, we’re tuning Windows 7 to new slate hardware designs that they’re bringing them to market. And, yeah, you’re going to get a lot of cacophony. There will be people who do things with other operating systems. But we’ve got the application base, we’ve got the user familiarity. We’ve got everything on our side if we do things really right."
Microsoft also appears to be relying on Intel to help boost consumer enthusiasm for whatever products it launches. "We’ll get a boost sometime after the new year when Intel brings its new Oak Trail processor to market," Ballmer said. "Oak Trail is designed to be lower power. Lower power is good in a lot of ways. It leads to longer battery life, no fan, lower kind of noise levels, a lot of less weight — a lot of things that people like."
It will be interesting to see how Windows Phone 7 does, and if it is able to drum up further enthusiasm as well. Either way, look for Microsoft to bring Windows to a variety of new mobile computing devices.
