Great games producers see Facebook as a communication and marketing channel. Facebook and online games such as Mafia Wars Farmville attract more and more Facebook members. 400 million Facebook members are 400 million potential players, and thus 400 million potential customers. Or so thought have in recent months, many games producers have chosen Facebook, and therefore their favorite platform. Industry giants such as EA, Ubisoft and Namco give accordingly no openings and are one of the party. Wave height of the Games: In November of last year, EA bought the forged Up Games Play fish – at a cost of approximately $ 400 million!

Playfish previously stood behind the two Facebook games “Who has the biggest brain?” And “Pet Society”. Only a short time later, EA announced savings of up to 1,500 jobs to want to. On the one hand a clear contradiction, the other a sign of how important social networks have become for the gaming industry. Even in difficult times, no way around Facebook and Co. out of this. Even further acquisitions include EA made in this connection.

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The Amazon Kindle also speaks Spanish. The world’s largest digital library, which also currently dominates the sale of digital reader’s e-books via the Kindle, announced Friday that its desktop publishing platform is also open to books in Spanish. So far their software allowed only books in English, French and German, but since this week the company is also open to Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

The announcement not only means that Spanish publishers now have the door open Amazon but also self-published authors who want and reach across the globe without leaving home and without having to be blessed in advance by a publisher can publish their books online thanks to Kindle Digital Text Platform. Like MySpace for years became one of the key platforms for self-promotion from unknown parties, Amazon now allows any author to publish his own book online and sell it at your bookstore. ”We are pleased to offer more languages in which content owners can offer their books for the Kindle growing audience,” the company said in a statement released yesterday. Just have a customer account at Amazon and can prove ownership of copyright in order to upload to the virtual library’s own work. On its website describes step by step how to do and how to resolve any doubts.

Amazon’s announcement comes just days after important news for the market of e-book: the entry of 40,000 titles from Amazon in the world of Blackberries. With that decision, and marketing with the same titles for iPhone, Amazon starts to open trade horizons beyond Kindle. Following the successful presentation of the iPad, the e-reader from Apple, which presumably will become the main competitor to the Kindle, Amazon has chosen not to close down and open your store e-books to other digital tools. Both iPhone and blackberries are much more ubiquitous today than digital readers and despite efforts to commercialize e-reader, remains to be seen what the gadget who wins the battle and imposing on the rest.

One of the schools in China accused by the U.S. media have launched cyber attacks against Google has denied any responsibility for the facts to thin earlier this year the relationship between the multinational and the Asian giant.

Lanxiang Vocational School, cited as one of the managers by the newspaper The New York Times, recently said the official publication Global Times did not have the equipment necessary to make cyber attacks of this calibre. The media information indicated that the U.S. assault on Google and 30 other companies were hatched in a specific class, taught by a Ukrainian teacher. The school has ensured that “never has invited foreign lecturers.

The article also noted a connection to the Chinese Army, to what a military expert quoted by the Global Times said that “if the fact that students enlist centre means that trains soldiers, then all the world are supported by the armies. “ The New York Times then obtained testimony from experts who claimed that electronic espionage attacks from China, and more particularly, the elite university in Shanghai and the aforementioned Jiatong Lanxiang. The experts left the door open for teams to be manipulated from outside the country since the charge was not the Chinese government. Google reported on 12 January that he had been the target of cyber attacks, probably from China, to access the correspondence of dissidents and stealing from the company code and trade secrets. The multinational therefore threatened to abandon the Chinese market, the worlds largest with 380 million Internet users. The search still continues to operate in the People’s Republic.

Microsoft confirms that it will take quickly to requests from EU Antitrust in the browser market. Meanwhile, new details emerge on IE 9

Microsoft wants to put Internet Explorer on the track, in trouble for months, according to statistics online (the only good news of recent weeks is that IE 8 is the most popular browser). On the one hand Microsoft must comply promptly to requests EU Antitrust in the browser market: it has released details on the ballot screen (the opening to rivals to IE browser) to enable European users of Windows to choose the preferred browser (Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari). On the other hand, is already working on the future of IE: Internet Explorer 9.

Microsoft will announce further details on Internet Explorer 9 on Mix 2010. A taste of IE9 was offered last PDC at that time in the opening keynote at PDC, the Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie promised that Internet Explorer would be the best browser ever.

Steven Sinofsky, Windows unit president, had also shown text and graphics on IE9 hardware-accelerated. IE9 peak acceleration: to challenge Google and Mozilla WebGL Native Client and to put the turbo on the 3D graphics. Moreover, from August, Microsoft is trying to join the HTML 5 standard and has sent a team of IE to World Wide Web Consortium meeting. The acceleration IE9 works by exploiting the Microsoft interface Direct2D rather than its GDI (Graphical Device Interface).

A mix 2010 new details emerge about Internet Explorer 9.

Although still not been commercialized a U.S. retailer has put up for sale for $ 8,000 new AMD Opteron processor with twelve native processing cores for servers and workstations.
Oakville Mehlville integrator Computers anticipates the launch of the first buses of 12 cores in the industry by selling a model of “Magny Cours” often working from 2.2 GHz. The price – $ 8,000.
It also sells a server with four sockets G34 to include up to four next-generation Opteron processors that will total 48 cores of processing, along with chipset AMD SR5690 + SP5100, quad channel DDR3 memory for a total of 64 Gbytes installed.

Dell has compared KaceNetworks, a company dedicated to systems management devices, for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Dell hopes to expand its supply management systems to SMBmarket.

Kace offers devices designed to help companies perform tasks such as inventory management or asset management. Moreover, the devices of Kace KBOX also improve security of the ‘endpoint’ through patch management, policy enforcement and finding security vulnerabilities. Since Dell also claim that the KBOX family of appliances are simple to use and deliver rapid return on investment.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is subject to customary legal conditions. At the moment there have declined to comment on possible layoffs, but Dell is expected to take the team Kace once the purchase is completed.
Dell has been moving in the field of servers, expanding the number of services that could increase the income of the company and the purchase of Kate could help Dell to offer remote management services

AMD and ATI have again a series of new Radeon HD 5570 Video Cards unveiled and this is already the eighth-series graphics cards, which is equipped with support for DirectX 11th The new line falls into the low-end segment and the new models will be launched for about 75 € or less in the trade.

The facilities and the specifications enable Redwood 40nm GPU, 400 stream processors, 20 texture units is one, a 128-bit memory interface, the GPU clock speed of 650MHz, 1GB of GDDR3 graphics memory and 1600MHz/1800MHz in clock frequency. The power consumption is estimated at 42.7 watts under full load and terminals found in the form of D-Sub, DVI and HDMI. Already in the coming hours we will deliver you to new models of various manufacturers present, and until then yes you can have it once the reviews at AnandTech and HotHardware .

One of the brands that have dominated the cell phone markets for years is Nokia.  The nokia accessories that come with the phone are those which make the usage easier as well make the cell phone unique to the user.  The nokia accessories include the batteries, chargers, cases, faceplates etc that make it look trendy as well as provide comfort in usage.  The iPod touch charger is a great way to keep the iPod singing all the time.

The travel charger set is a great accessory for all those who use iPod.  These chargers could be used to charge the iPod while on the drive or at home too.  This kind of charger offers 45% charge up in a very few minutes time.  Another kind of accessory for an iPhone would be the iPhone leather case.   This is designed is such a fashion that it gives the iPhone a classier and professional look.  They come in various colors and sizes.

With the growing versatility of the mobile phones, it has become impossible to buy cell phone in a simple manner as it used to be.  Finding the best cell phones has itself become an impossible task.  This is because there are so many cell phones and cell phone services.  One phone that is very expensive to buy is the blackberry phones.  But buying unlocked Blackberry phones could be the best way to lay hands on.

These phones are provided by many service providers.  But if a phone is branded to a particular service provider then there is no choice of switching to another service provider.  One of the models of the blackberry phones is the Sprint Blackberry.  This comes in a liquid silver look.  The icons in this phone are said to be arranged in such a way that the user can find a difference every time it is switched on.

Buying wholesale cell phone accessories is the best deal because the accessories sometime might cost more than the mobile phone itself.  While buying these accessories at a wholesale price the consumers can get them at an 80% lesser price and this add value to out product also.  Thus, the retail merchants can gain up to 80% of the bought price.  Cell phone batteries are the accessories that are most essential.  This accessory must however be checked before purchase.

The battery should be compatible with the cell phone that is bought and the battery that is used should be the one that is recommended by the manufacturer.  This is the best way to ensure that the phone and the battery are working at the maximum level to give the best performance.  Blackberry phones are one of the most expensive phones that are available in the market today.  These phones come in only black shades thus the personalization of the phone becomes a must.  Blackberry faceplates are the best way to personalize as well protect the cell phone.