Filed under Sci - Tech by Vishal Lakkabathini on June 17, 2010 at 10:36 pm
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In what was being termed as one of the best response for any Electronic gadget ever released, Apple responded rather negatively and just pushed the delivery date of its much Hyped and awaited product, iPhone 4 to July 12. The delivery was originally supposed to be on July 2.
Apple is reportedly facing trouble in fulfilling the existing orders. The iPhone was made available on pre-order by Apple and its partners on 15th June. Apple has also stated that the response was overwhelming and that it has already sold more than 600,000 iPhone 4s on pre-order basis. Earlier on account of the huge response from the customers, AT&T has reported that its website crashed, unable to take the load, Apple’s own preordering website later followed the suite and crashed as well.
Meanwhile some of the eager customers became frustrated for not being able to order an iPhone and have blamed Apple for its efficiency in anticipating the response. Apple however has apologized on its part for its Customers who faced technical difficulties in booking their iPhone and those who failed to book one and has hoped that the customers would get back, when the product is available at retail, once it has enough numbers in its inventory. The product is scheduled to be launched on 24th June, across various retailers in US.
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Filed under Entertainment, Sci - Tech by NewsXonline on June 17, 2010 at 7:34 pm
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The ‘King of Pop’, who passed away last year, still has the world rocking to his music and trying to imitate his dance steps and French Computer game developers Ubisoft is giving all a chance to continue doing so.
Ubisoft has partnered with the late pop star’s estate to develop a new video game featuring MJ. Still untitled, this video game will rate players on their ability to dance like the pop star. The players will need to replicate MJ’s iconic moves and their scores will be based on the quality of their performance.
On the occasion of the announcement of the game, Ubisoft Chief Executive, Yves Guillemot said “We have signed a legend”.
This video game will use motion detection technology which will allow the gamer to play without holding a controller. The game also includes a karaoke feature, in which gamers can sing MJ songs such as Billie Jean and Beat It.
Ubisoft is trying to match the game release date with the release date of MJ’s new album featuring his previously unreleased tracks. The latter is due for release this November.
This isn’t the first time that the legendary singer has featured in a video game; he has earlier appeared in the game Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker in 1989.
The singer who also holds the title of ‘King of Music Videos’ will soon be out to conquer the world of video games as well.
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Filed under Business, Sci - Tech by NewsXonline on June 17, 2010 at 7:32 pm
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Nintendo makes a rather surprising bash at the ongoing E3 expo when it revealed its all new 3DS handheld gaming device. The Device for now is still in development stage. Nintendo earlier had announced its intentions to develop 3D gaming devices, and this pre-revelation further confirms their future approach. Although the timing came has a rather surprise as no buzz was heard in the regard.
The 3DS device embeds a glassless LCD panel, which adds a unique distinction to the product enabling the users to toggle the 3D feature in or off. The device opens like a notebook, and the screen on the bottom panel is the only touchscreen. The Device embeds in 3 cameras, one in inside capable of video chat, and two on the outside panel capable of 3D capturing. All the cameras though are VGA. The device also sports an analog stick a first for Nintendo portable but a must for 3D Gaming. The Device is capable of playing 3D movies and videos; well we got more reasons to watch the Avatar once again.
The device also comes in with accelerators and Gyro sensors, which are certainly built for future gaming experiences. Nintendo has also hinted that the previous gaming titles in the series will still be compatible on the gadget.
Nintendo for now as managed to gain its own limelight at the time when the gaming world was reviewing the new X-box, but how far this device can go, and will it manage to create its own segment in handheld 3D gaming devices, certainly depends on how the Gaming- freaks receive when the product will finally be retailed, which is not going to be very soon. With Microsoft and Nintendo making their bang, we are expecting something from Sony’s gaming section, or will we have any surprise new entrant?
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Filed under Entertainment, Sci - Tech by NewsXonline on June 16, 2010 at 1:23 am
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After being in buzz for quite a long time, twitter as finally added the location feature to your tweets. Now the users can Tweet to their followers, and at the same time show them their location and the best part, it does not eat into your 140 words limit, which the most users feared of. The services or the feature will be rolled out through next week to its users in more 65 countries. The feature was one of the most recommended and waited by its users.
Twitter is generally a social-networking site, but unlike most other Socio-networking websites the users don’t need to share their personnel information, but yes gives you a rather open platform to Interact with people across the globe and at the same time update your current status to your followers. Of course there is a limit of 140 characters, but there are many tweaks in case you have a lot to tweet. A very important feature that separates this service from its counterparts is that you don’t need a two-way approval to track the updates of the other. The concept has gone well with celebrities and it’s the presence of the celebrities that has made twitter a quick hit.
With this new feature the users will now be able to check the current location of the users they follow. The location or the place will be visible below the message as a link and won’t be a part of the tweet. The feature perhaps won’t be on by default, but the users will have to enable it in their settings, by simply checking “Tweet with your Location” feature. Users can tag their tweets with places existing in the twitter’s directory or else they can still add their own places, in case it doesn’t exist in their list.
The feature for now will be available only on the web based twitter interface, and its availability on mobile and various other applications might just take some more time. Well if you are a crazy twitter addict do check this feature whenever it’s available and do make a point to check the location of your favorite celebrity.
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