At its conference, Sony has said little about his Vita. Why?
- The answer is simple: offer the conference shortly, and it is not possible to say everything. But it's not because we have said little about that there are not many new titles. Sixty new games arrive on Playstation Vita this year including "Assassin's Creed III Liberation", "Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified", "Fifa 13" and "Little Big Planet". Much has criticized the Playstation Vita. I heard and understood some comments, but the Vita was launched, in comparison with the Playstation 1, 2 and 3, with the most basic of big and beautiful game.
What about the Move controller, also absent from the conference?
- There are currently 250 games compatible with the controller. Arrive "Book of spells" and "Fifa 13" which can be played with the Move. Following "Sports Champions" also will land this year. In short, many games will be launched.
Your interactive book project "Wonderbook" plot, especially the first book, "Book of spells", is written by JK Rowling (author of "Harry Potter"). What is the history of this project?
- We are looking for a while a new augmented reality technology. After the success of "Invizimals" on PSP, we really understood the value and the opportunities opened up by augmented reality. We therefore examined an interactive book project. But the project is mainly due to the strategic partnership with JK Rowling. We were in contact about his book project on spells, "Book of spells", and she was very excited about our technology. It therefore decided to publish his work on "Wonderbook".
When will he launched and at what price?
- "Wonderbook" will arrive before Christmas. For the price, we have not decided yet. "Book of spells" will be the first book in a long line. The accessory will last, but set its price is not easy because the configuration is the need to have both books, the Eye camera and the [controller] Move. We must be vigilant to reach the younger target. [+ Pound pack game should be sold under 60 euros, according to two sources at Sony, Ed]
With the announced partnership with HTC, you decide to open the brand "Playstation" to all candidates smartphones?
- The application support is rather a bonus Playstation whose details will only be given Monday. But this is a step for us to pass the closed world of consoles to open phones. Many people do not yet adhere to the proposal Playstation and can not experience this quality game. By testing the brand on Android phones, then they can jump to the PlayStation ecosystem.
Talk about Google Android, but one day this gratification "Playstation" Could reward the Apple iPhone?
- I will not enter this debate. The possibilities of the Android platform are considerable. With HTC, this is the first step. We'll see where that leads ...
Your competitors are betting on entertainment, including partnerships. What about the Playstation?
- We already offer many services that are not in the game on the PlayStation Network, we offer a musical, with Unlimited Music and Video. We also have partnerships, but let's talk about games. E3 is the appointment of an entire industry around the game
Where is the strategy "social"?
- We offer social games in the true sense of the term for a number of years. From the Playstation 2, we franchises [karaoke, Ed] "Singstar" and "Eye", which were based on social interactions. But, yes, the Playstation 3 is getting older. And curiously it increasingly interested families. Social games are so meaningful. So yes, given where we are, the office is a logical follow.
If the Playstation 3 ages, when the Playstation 4 will happen?
- [Laughs] Nice try ... We have very good games on the Playstation 3, and that's all we need to talk for now. They will occupy us until 2014 and it's not so bad ...PlayStation 4-Xbox 720-XboxPhone-high mass E3-technology
Video games: the promise of high mass E3
Each year in June, Los Angeles becomes a Mecca of gaming. All eyes of fans of the console to focus on for a week on the Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as "E3".
In the Convention Center, a huge exhibition center (67.000m ²) in the city center, are presented and all the new trends of the game with the blockbuster classic, vintage 2012 promises some surprises on the side games. The sensation could instead come from new consoles. Passion, excitement, patience, disappointment ... "Le Nouvel Observateur" cover all week this high mass of gamers.
New on consoles
Side consoles, Nintendo should pull the covers in more detail by unveiling its U Wii, new console with a joystick is a tablet comprising a touch screen surrounded by buttons. A funny that replaces the remote controller of the Wii. The Japanese giant is also expected to present, in addition to the final design and functionality of the console, the first playable games like Mario, Zelda or Metroid.
During E3 2012, "we will present the final format [console] and discuss many details and the software line-up," says Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's CEO, in a briefing to investors. But the Japanese warns: no release date or price will be announced. We only know that the Wii U should leave by the end of the year.
PlayStation 4, Xbox 720, XboxPhone?
Faced with Nintendo, the responses of Microsoft and Sony are eagerly awaited. Respectively aged six and five years-far more than the lifespan of previous consoles, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are old. Reportedly, Sony does not plan to submit or even to announce a Playstation 4. More blur is maintained by Microsoft, while rumors circulate of a powerful Xbox 720 with touch pad in extension. Speculation also evoke a portable console made in Microsoft like an iPhone, whose name would be "XboxPhone".
If nothing is certain concerning the presentation of the new consoles "next-gen", several U.S. publishers have already scheduled games release "to the end of 2013 on 'Xbox 720' and 'PS4'," the jeuxvideo.fr site. He is sure that developers know how to put the mouth water with games "next generation" carefully avoiding mention of future machines.
Each year in June, Los Angeles becomes a Mecca of gaming. All eyes of fans of the console to focus on for a week on the Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as "E3".
In the Convention Center, a huge exhibition center (67.000m ²) in the city center, are presented and all the new trends of the game with the blockbuster classic, vintage 2012 promises some surprises on the side games. The sensation could instead come from new consoles. Passion, excitement, patience, disappointment ... "Le Nouvel Observateur" cover all week this high mass of gamers.
Side consoles, Nintendo should pull the covers in more detail by unveiling its U Wii, new console with a joystick is a tablet comprising a touch screen surrounded by buttons. A funny that replaces the remote controller of the Wii. The Japanese giant is also expected to present, in addition to the final design and functionality of the console, the first playable games like Mario, Zelda or Metroid.
During E3 2012, "we will present the final format [console] and discuss many details and the software line-up," says Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's CEO, in a briefing to investors. But the Japanese warns: no release date or price will be announced. We only know that the Wii U should leave by the end of the year.
PlayStation 4, Xbox 720, XboxPhone?
Faced with Nintendo, the responses of Microsoft and Sony are eagerly awaited. Respectively aged six and five years-far more than the lifespan of previous consoles, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are old. Reportedly, Sony does not plan to submit or even to announce a Playstation 4. More blur is maintained by Microsoft, while rumors circulate of a powerful Xbox 720 with touch pad in extension. Speculation also evoke a portable console made in Microsoft like an iPhone, whose name would be "XboxPhone".
If nothing is certain concerning the presentation of the new consoles "next-gen", several U.S. publishers have already scheduled games release "to the end of 2013 on 'Xbox 720' and 'PS4'," the jeuxvideo.fr site. He is sure that developers know how to put the mouth water with games "next generation" carefully avoiding mention of future machines.
"Kawaii!" This Japanese adjective - which means "adorable" - became the mantra for an entire population of adolescents who access fame through YouTube videos and posting them there. These girls often anonymous in search of fame opt for the path of doll making eyes at their webcams. Most need a voice talent to emerge, just good makeup.
Every morning Kamijyo Naoko, 19, spends two hours to "prepare", that is to say, to turn into living doll in order to shoot to the delight of his fans. A generous layer of foundation, the blush in abundance, lenses that magnify the iris, false eyelashes, lip gloss ... It starts:
For four years, the cult of the headstock emerges in Japan by hundreds of young girls become heroines of manga and do not hesitate to be photographed in provocative poses. This is called the lolita complex, called "lolicon", linking sexuality and naive girl. If the phenomenon was taken over by the erotic manga, it now inspires in western lolitas we like a lot of recognition described as "Attention Whores", literally "the attention of prostitutes".
Perfect incarnation of this phenomenon, Dakota Rose, an American of 16 years, has published nearly six months of pictures of her dress, hair and makeup as "lolicon", égrainant boards to be like him. Relayed on a blog, a Facebook page, Twitter and Tumblr, videos attract millions of Internet users face the stunned girl porcelain complexion.
Her enormous eyes and plunging necklines have ensured its popularity. Discrete, the teenager simply said "fascinated by Japanese culture" and calls blogger fashion. Its English equivalent, Angelic Venus can boast to post videos that are viewed more than 10 million times.
For this generation of teenage Facebook, the will to stand out through the exhibition with the aim of fleeting glory. Titiou Lecocq, co-author of "The Encyclopedia of Web culture," But behind these Whores Warning, the journalist specializing in web culture, Elise Costa, sees above all a desire "to be adoubée peers". More than an exhibition, Moinet Christine Gaillard, a clinical psychologist specializing in adolescents, seen in these Lolitas "a refusal to grow"
But the revelation also has its share of risks. Girls overexposed in a few days can be pilloried digital. Jessi Slaughter or Kiki Kannibal (11 and 13 years) and have paid the price: after posting videos, they were victims of a virtual lynching, then a real harassment accompanied by death threats.
The world of the collector is very particular. In most cases they are more than willing to teach their efforts and share information about each of your precious items, but the idea of ??selling is not something that passes through their minds, unless they are in a critical situation or wish to face a far more ambitious. Apparently someone has reached that point, because Sotheby's auction in mid-June as much as Apple I computer running. The system includes cassette interface, diagrams and manuals, and can be yours ... provided you have between 120 and 180 thousand dollars.
Now we know that Apple is a company known to rewrite some rules, but this "behavior" did not begin with the "iDevices" today. It was July 1976, and these two men, both named Steve, had a computer that did not use no lights or keys to be programmed. If you want to know even the smallest detail of the Apple I computer history (or should we say "motherboard" Apple I), under any circumstances can not miss Ariel wrote the article on that system. It has been almost 36 years since the launch of this system to market, and its value as a collectible item has skyrocketed. Are believed to be about fifty Apple I systems in existence, and only six in operation around the globe. In 2010, a unit with serial number 82 was sold for over $ 200,000 at auction at Christie's, in the presence of Woz himself, who added the prized item autographed letter.
Within a few days will be auctioned another Apple I computer, with the difference that this time will be Sotheby's who is responsible for the operation. The condition of the computer is functional, but also has a cassette interface, three manuals (interface, operation and Apple BASIC) and an advertisement which shows both the computer and the cassette interface. The document with the official description of the lot talking about an estimate on the price located between 120 000 and 180 thousand dollars, some experts believe that within reason given the status of the computer and the amount of extras that come with it. Still, this contribution is relative. The Apple I was sold by Christie's were not original parts of the system, but included a letter signed by the time Steve Jobs, which completely changed the conditions of sale.
The computer will not be alone, because in another batch any interested party may make an offer on a memo handwritten by the same supervisor Jobs for Stephen Bristow, during his brief stint at Atari. The price of the memo has an estimated value ranging from ten to fifteen thousand dollars, but again, that's relative. Sotheby's was responsible for selling the original contract marked the creation of Apple, signed by Jobs, Wozniak and Ron Wayne, who encouraged Jobs to found his own company. It was thought that the contract does not meet more than $ 150,000, when in fact the bidding ended at 1.6 million. With this reference, I honestly can not say exactly at what price will sell the Apple I, if it is sold. We'll find out next June 15.
An eBay user called aaps69 sold in the auction page of the first prototype iPad by $ 10,200. This tablet has two load ports (one on the bottom and one on the side) and uses the software used by Apple to test the performance of their devices, SwitchBoard.
The bidding started at $ 4,800, 10 times more than it costs the simplest model of the new iPad from Apple. However, throughout the day the price was rising to reach $ 10,200 in which closed sale. On the product, is "a functional representation" of one of the prototypes tested before Apple shipped the first ipad, according secures your vendor. For this reason, your hardware is unique because it has two connectors, but so is its software, it includes SwitchBoard, the test program of the company.
However, the ipad has been restored (Apple dismantles these prototypes with obzjetivo that can not be used), although the seller could not fix the screen, which responds only occasionally.
However, the prototype, whose identification number is intact despite not appear in photographs, with the beta version of ipad OS 3.2. Also, the seller said he had to include a new battery.
The application, Facebook Camera, is free and opened only for IOS operating systems Apple, said the California company on his blog. The tool basically reproduces the process of posting photos on Facebook but incorporates some new features like the fact that it is possible to climb the social network multiple snapshots simultaneously.
Facebook Camera offers access to the pictures published by the user in their profile as well as charged by your contacts, is based on "tag", "like" and allows comment. The application includes editing software with a menu of predefined options very similar to that in Instagram.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in announcing the acquisition of Instagram that the objective of the operation was "to provide the best photo sharing experience" because that is "one of the reasons why so many people like Facebook ".
Technically the purchase of Instagram by Facebook is not complete and is awaiting approval by competition authorities in the U.S. Technological media in the U.S. are in direct competition Camera Facebook to Instagram that boasts over 30 million downloads on Apple devices and in 2011 was named the best application for iPhone, and now some analysts say the acquisition of a defensive move by the social network.
"Instagram was taking control over the photos on facebook mobile and could not wait and see how that company got every one of the users while they were still working on perfecting the Camera Facebook application," said Mike Isaac's blog All Things Digital Group The Wall Street Journal.
Isaac asks what place will Instagram when his integration into Facebook and if Facebook merged with Camera, which ruled the social network when it announced the purchase.
Apple is the most valued company worldwide, not just in the technology sector
Going back to speak again and milestone marks because it seems that now the apple still beating its own record. Today we know that Apple has become the world's most valuable brand, and as we show in the chart above, incredibly, no one is put in front of Apple in the sector of large enterprises, ie , which is the most uses worldwide.
But make no mistake, because if you look though the list of marks on the screenshot, we're not just talking about the technology sector, if not all companies that are, for what Apple not only surpasses all its competition or IBM's great if brands like Coca Cola, McDonald's or any other big you can think of.
For those who like the numbers tell them that in the case of the consolidation of Apple as the world's most valuable brand, the figures are more than generous for the block, because in total, the capital of the company is just under than $ 183 billion, representing a 19% increase over last year. So there will be a lot of global crisis, but it seems that the Cupertino-based company, just affects you.
Shares of Facebook, the largest social network in the world, fell over 12% today on his second day in bag to change by more than $ 33 each, which lost the price of $ 38 reached in his historic debut Wall Street last Friday. Half an hour after the start of the session on the Nasdaq, shares of the social network that directs Mark Zuckerberg left the 12.27% or $ 4.69, which were exchanged for $ 33.54 and the value Company stock fell below the 100,000 million, up about 96,000 million.
With that fall, shares of Facebook were exchanged last even below the price range calculated by the firm before going public, between 34 and 38 dollars. The social network that connects more than 900 million people worldwide debut on the stock exchange on 18 May after raising at least 16,000 million with its initial public offering of shares (IPO), a figure that could potentially increase to 18,400 million.
In the midst of an unknown expectation on Wall Street in years, shares of the company began to exchange this Friday $ 42, up 11%, but minutes later he was slowing down to almost no record changes in what had to partly to do some technical errors on the Nasdaq.
Finally, Facebook ended the day with a minimal rise of 0.6%, so that their stock closed slightly above its starting price at $ 38.23 on a day which changed more than 500 million their actions. In any case, the premiere social network was the largest on Wall Street of a technology, well ahead of Google, which in 2004 raised 1,900 million dollars, and the third largest in the history of any U.S. company , behind only General Motors, who joined 18,140 million, and Visa, who pocketed 19,650 million. "Right now this all seems very important. Going public is a milestone in our history, but our mission is not being a listed company, our mission is to make the world more open and connected," Zuckerberg said at the premiere.
Samsung has announced a new RAM technology that will make mobile phones with 2GB of memory a reality very soon, possibly within the next year 2013. While there are already some terminals that use this RAM, Samsung's new design will put everything at once on a single chip, which is certainly what the manufacturers want.
This will allow virtually all manufacturers of mobile terminals can have 2GB of RAM on the market. In today's mobile phone sector, 1GB of RAM has become the standard. And it's a high figure, since only a year ago was the standard 512MB. If everything goes the same way in 2013 to see phones with 2GB of RAM will be as usual.
Add more RAM means a faster multitasking and processing more efficient, with the ability to have many more applications open at once. A number of 2GB of RAM means being able to take handfuls of applications open and running simultaneously without the mobile phone suffer slowdowns or problems of any kind.
The new Samsung memory technology will not only have 2GB on each chip, but these chips themselves are thinner and more efficient energy use thanks to a 30nm design factory. Samsung says the phone with 2GB of RAM will become 13% of the market in 2012, but in 2013 the figure will rise dramatically to 50%. By 2014 the forecast is even more positive for the 2GB of RAM. This has already led to people from referring to the successors of smartphones as superphones, although it is possible that the term does not change.
Moving on, consumers 'normal' operating Apple products as follows, and I mean those who bought iPod touch, iPhone or iPad, happy after buying his new toy head to connect it to your computer iTunes and sync your content between the two teams, surf the internet, view email, and stop talking, they go up there, enjoy your purchase and speak wonders of his aparatico.
Other curious, which I call "intermediate" level, and begin to explore the world of applications and discover the great potential of productivity that you can earn in everyday use. This type of user starts with free applications as complete and iTunes is going deeper into the world of games, magazines, applications, etc..
Shortly after "time" credit card is a partner in the acquisition of gaming applications and payments, which because of its low cost are readily available in their full versions. This is the kind of user that I will call "legal" is the one who does everything according to the rules and parameters designed by Apple to use their equipment manufactured.
There are other types of Apple users, those same fans to the previous ones but insatiable and demanding when using your device, I see that are like those who want to get the most out of their newly acquired equipment, unrestricted, restrictions and without paying a single penny for the software, for those people enough money they paid to have the equipment, ie, why pay for software if enough money is already paid for the hardware?
Well, at this point there is a new concept called jailbreak, not known for the first group of people I described, or ignored in some cases. According to Wikipedia jailbreak is "the process of removing the limitations imposed by Apple on devices that use the IOS operating system by using modified kernels. Such devices include the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPhone and Apple TV second generation.
Jailbreak allows users full access to the operating system, allowing you to download applications, extensions and themes that are not available through the official App Store. Jailbreak A device can still use the App Store, iTunes and all other functions, such as making phone calls. The Jailbreak is a privilege escalation and the term has been used with other computer systems "
This definition of jailbreak can not be better described, but I would go into a couple of new concepts that are mentioned and which are probably unknown to you: let's start with the kernel, this is the heart of the team responsible for controlling the operating system by the hardware and software work in sync. What they call IOS is the operating system are those icons, buttons, tabs controlled by a kernel. Another concept worth mentioning are "extensions and themes not available in App Store" is that there do not know how many thousands of applications that are not available on Apple's official AppStore, mostly because "do not meet the requirements "and for some reason are not accepted in the official app store, as a result, application repositories have created" unofficial "available to be downloaded on Apple machines with IOS operating system. These applications in most cases are free.
The difference between the legal and the "not so legal".
CYDIA: is the software application that allows the installation of programs that are not on the AppStore. Enables the user to be able to download applications for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPhone with Jailbreak. It was developed by Jay Freeman (aka "saurik"). Cydia is considered the "worm" biting the apple, but that allows you to install unofficial applications does not make users "pirates" or in "bad trip". At this point the jailbreak is "healthy" using Cydia.
Installous: In my personal concept worm that is the "rotten" apple. This application allows you to install for free pay almost any application available on the AppStore, piracy or not an application repository "crakeadas" that may be in its final version, but who are available for installation.
Strangely, a feature that Microsoft has never deigned to add software to its popular office suite fee (and expensive) is the tabbed browsing through open documents. Tabbed browsing is much more convenient than using the icons in the taskbar. But, as always, you can rely on developers to correct "omissions" from Microsoft. Thus, Office Tab free version adds tabbed browsing to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. For other major Microsoft applications (Publisher, Access, Project and Visio), it will leave your bank card or credit to buy one of two paid versions (moderate prices).
Office Tab you can set to tell it how to open a new document, how close the tabs and how to manage them. You can also set the overall appearance of the tabs: position, style, color, size and font. For more advanced functions like individual coloring of the tabs, blocking, backing up all documents or bookmarking, you will also get one of your plastic cards.
But with the free version, you can still place the tabs in the order of your taste, hide and know when a file changed is not saved (an asterisk appears after the filename in the tab ).
Why should only the financial pundits would they benefit from the IPO of Facebook? The so-called "small shareholders" also want to take part in the phenomenon of the Internet economy. But many obstacles lie ahead of them.
Before 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 18, impossible for an individual to claim the purchase of one of the 421 million shares "FB" on sale at 38 dollars on the Nasdaq market. No special treatment is planned for the 900 million social network users. But even at the fateful hour, it is primarily institutional investors and the wealthiest investors, who will be favored. Insurance companies, pension funds and other mutual funds are tailleront and the lion's share.
"The actions Facebook will be a very good investment"
The "small investors" can then access a lot of shares reserved. Only the definition of "small" is relative: Brokers face a huge demand and announce that they will favor their best customers. Fidelity in the U.S. broker, the actions Facebook will first be reserved for customers with at least $ 500,000 in their account or those who perform at least 36 transactions per year. "It's certainly not a system where a first come first served," said one employee. Same story at brokers TD Ameritrade, which require at least $ 250,000 in his account or 30 transactions in the last three months.
Let's face it: [small shareholders] are unlikely to have Facebook shares at the time of IPO, "notes the analyst Rocco Pendola The Street. But," there is still plenty of time to take the train on. This is a long-term, very durable, and with good growth prospects.
In the days following the listing of social network, any individual may purchase shares through their bank or by placing an order to purchase shares by telephone or Internet, either via a website dedicated to the Exchange. Anyway, "the actions Facebook will be a very good investment," said Philippe Torres, head of technology watch The Workshop. "The high-tech companies like Google and Apple keep the distance with the stock market turnover exponential."
