Console Wars

The three classic games Jak & Daxter, the Precursor Legacy, Jak II and JAk III that were originally launched on PS2 have been given a 3D look along with HD feel. Do the games developed will get applauds from the crowd?

The Precursor Legacy is a light hearted game with standard environments which usually all the games have. The game Jak II is a bit continuation of the first one with Jak being captured and tortured. The add-on to the game is GTA style elements and voice modulation of Jak. Jak III removes all free-roaming elements and ads shooting to it.
All the three games were quite liked by the Audience and the thin to watch how much they like the newer version of it. The HD effect is nice done with not much of 3D effect. The best part is it gives 3 games in one pack.

All three games are still enjoyable and have well stood the test of time. It’s incredible how much of that humour still sounds fresh. The HD treatment is well done overall. The 3D, however doesn’t add much to the game. The good thing here is that unlike most HD compilations, this one gives you three different games in the package.

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Developer: Naughty Dog
Platform:  PS3
Price: Rs 2,199

It has been almost 8 years since MaxPayne 2 was released, now after much await for mobile users, this game is releasing on the original mobile platform this month.
The dubbed version of Max Payne will feature all the levels with few changes in the graphics. It will have touch capability and if you are not comfortable with the default settings, you can change the controls as well.

It will be supportive with iPhone 3GS, iPad and Rockstar will soon display the list of Android supporting device. The price of the game is not yet enclosed but it is quite sure that the range might not exceed $5. The newer version of Max Payne i.e. Max Payne 3 is set to launch on May 15^th on PlayStation and Xbox with PC version releasing on 29^th. After a much applauded version of Max Payne, it is quite sure that the mobile version will make the gamers happy as well.

The battered social network faces further cuts. Owner News Corp. will cut jobs again in order to make MySpace a sale fit.

Almost half the 1,000 employees had already MySpace beginning to go now stands, according to the Wall Street Journal a fresh job cuts into the house. As the Business Journal has its sources know of, News Corp. negotiated the sale of the social networks – how many employees will be laid off, depend on the buyers from all before.

Discussions are therefore with the Chinese Internet company Tencent, the video portal Vevo, MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and venture capitalists Gores Group and Criterion Capital Partners, which already is the social network Bebo. According to WSJ scenarios are discussed, where MySpace is sold together with another site.

MySpace was once the star among social networks, which is why News Corp. read to cost over $ 580,000,000 in 2005 imposing. With the rise of Facebook MySpace began the descent, however, the membership shrank from 180 million in 2007 to become 130 million.

Already in 2009 there were massive job cuts before last fall, the position changed. Just look at not more than Social Network, but as an entertainment platform , it was then known, with more music, films and TV shows they wanted to lure Internet users.

The Norwegian browser developer has its social networking service “MyOpera” now expanded to a mail service.

The new service My Opera Mail goes into beta, customers can register who have already bought the other Opera services, it can get started immediately and an email address »Nutzer@myopera.com” menu.

How John Borg from Opera Mail team write t is the goal behind the service, a fast and user-friendly device to provide mail service for each – with specialist surfaces such as smartphones or Tochtablets. The PC desktop version have viel4 shortcuts, the version for large touchpad, confortable icons offer for the operation.

The service relies on technology the company acquired last year Fastmail.fm back, all the e-mail services for companies offering before.

The renewed surface is allegedly faster than the previously used features of Fastmail.fm and, like Google Mail automatically groups all conversations on issues – either instead of Google compulsorily.

With new apps and features to Android show that it is business-ready. Encryption, theft protection, facilitated contact management and more professional features at the center of Google -developments.

Google shows improved Apps criticisms from business to the world at rest.

A policy management tool with theft protection, new encryption capabilities, to mobile devices customized features of Google Apps and a new contact management tool for mobile devices to Android “pave the way for the” post-PC era of corporate IT.

The new version of ” Google Apps Device Policy “- such as from Android 2.2 app offers the option of remote control device password or PIN reset by, and so avoid data theft – to make it more difficult at least. Stolen devices can also locate – the user needs the device to ring only, and even GPS data can be retrieved.

The automatic encryption, which was demanded by many business users, has tackled Google. In Android 3.0, administrators can now enable the encryption settings of the memory.

The new application ” Google Apps Lookup “eventually link the contacts in the Google Apps in Android device – who is looking for contacts, find it very quickly, regardless of whether the device or on Google Apps are available in. The selection can immediately initiate a call or a mail call.

The two major network and Internet service providers are converging. The purchase is paid in its own shares: The Global Crossing’s shareholders will receive for each Global Crossing Level3 Share 16 papers. Together they want to be a central part of cloud computing and, with lower costs even more.

Level 3 is under Internet providers, fiber-optic infrastructure vendors and operators of a U.S. data center of the greats. Now he is still growing a little further and swallows Global Crossing .

The business is a pure stock deal. Level 3 will pay in addition to the distribution of own shares to the Global Crossing’s owner also debts of $ 1,100,000,000 Global crosing.

Both companies said the construction of the “connected world contribute “: In their joint global network operator to more than 50 countries and offers connections to 70 more. Together to save on operating costs for network operation and the necessary investments in network expansion and could provide employees with the common networks and significantly expanded services, especially for global clients.

Not only software-as-a-Service will Collmex with “My accountants offer,” but the wire right to the accounting partners. In short, SMEs need to do is scan your receipts and upload the rest is a certified partner for a fixed price.

Accounting records must not dominate any business, outsourcing could become uncontrollable expensive to an external accounting service, however. Collmex wants to remedy this with a fixed monthly price – the price but is particularly suitable for smaller companies with 50 documents in the month for each additional document costs 0.99 € – and this could be expensive if your own company is growing too fast .

The Saarbrücken provider of commercial cloud solutions Collmex starts with the product ” -Collmex my accountant, “the new service for business owners who do not want to make their records themselves. For a basic price of € 49.95 a month plus tax, kill this one of the tested Collmex-partner accounting for up to 50 documents for that price. The financial statements can be created either with the software itself or the accountant are transmitted.

The service can be used either via the fee-based accounting software Collmex or directly via a free version for small data exchange. The integrated document management, users could scan your documents quickly and easily and make the accounting partners in digitalized form, says Collmex.

Attached files in the formats PDF, TIFF and JPEG are possible, bank statements could be accessed via the integrated online banking – and served together with the supporting documents as the basis for the postings.

The co-founders of Twitter are playing musical chairs. Jack Dorsey returns as director in charge of product development and Evan Williams turned to other projects.

While Twitter has just celebrated its fifth anniversary , one of his co-founders Jack Dorsey, returns to the executive team of micro-blogging site, taking the direction of product development service, in place then occupied by Evan Williams, co-founder of the group, which has more than 200 million users.

Jack Dorsey, who attended the launch of Twitter in 2006 along with Biz Stone and Evan Williams, left the leadership of the group in 2008 to found shortly after the start-up Square in 2010 , specializing in mobile payment services.

Even if Jack Dorsey returns to the head of Twitter, it will continue to hold the reins of Square.

This realignment within the micro-blogging service also signs the withdrawal of Evan Williams. Already last October, he stepped down as CEO Dick Costolo.

Now confident in his estate to Jack Dorsey, he confessed on his blog , wanting to “cut [his] role in society.” Evan Williams nevertheless retain its seat on the board of Twitter.

“There are other problems, opportunities in the world that need attention and there are other people with whom I have the opportunity to work,” he said, without revealing more about its future projects.

According to a Symantec study, French Internet users spend too careless about choosing passwords. A boon for cyber-criminals.

Symantec released the results of a study conducted on its behalf by YouGov among French Internet users. It shows that management of passwords becomes really problematic, notes Silicon.fr .

Thus, users must take an average of five passwords per day, despite the presence of tools to not re-enter it each login.

To address this constraint, 45% of users choose passwords that are easy to guess: the name of their pet, partner, date of birth, etc.. Information easy to find by browsing the profiles in social networks.

Worse, 52% of French Internet users use the same password for at least half of their online accounts. If one of these services were to be corrupt, a whole set of Web sites would be open to hackers. In the end, only 21% of Internet users make the effort to create strong passwords, mixing random numbers and letters.

Ideally, it should use strong passwords and to renew them regularly. Symantec admits, however, that applying such a policy has an impact on business, estimated at 125 million hours of productivity per year for all French companies.

Impact can be reduced by adopting advanced technologies for strong authentication . whose firm has done – you guessed it – a specialty.