The Simpsons Tapped Out a Settembre su App Store

Forse alcuni di voi ricorderanno il gioco The Simpsons: Tapped Out, un clone di Simcity infettato dai giochi social e vestito di Simpson che è uscito qualche tempo fa per le piattaforme Apple, e che poi ritirato per problemi prestazionali. Ebbene il titolo sarà di nuovo disponibile nell’App Store a partire da Settembre.

Il titolo sarà inoltre disponibile anche per piattaforme Android e quindi si potrà scaricare anche allo store di Google Play.

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New mobiles have gadgets for the elderly

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As the mobile world booms with complex technological smartphones and tablets, two rival firms are carving up a growing but largely ignored market for the elderly.

Their priority is not so much to zip their users from the Internet to Facebook or from MP3 songs to photos and videos.

Instead, the gadgets they pack into their phones include a night torch that also flashes when the phone rings, or a pull-out pad for writing down notes with an actual, real pen.

"In Spain, France, Britain or Italy, there are 10 to 15 million people aged 60 or more," said Christophe Yerolymos, head of Austrian group Emporia's French subsidiary.

"Of these 15 million, about half don't use mobile phones," he added.

Even among the half that do, nearly two-thirds had devices that were not appropriate for their needs, he said at his stand in the mobile industry's annual congress in Barcelona.

Emporia, celebrating its 20th anniversary, and the Swedish group Doro, which launched mobiles for seniors in 2007, share a market which is otherwise mostly ignored.

Their phones have the same size and styling of other mobiles but with more readable screens, larger buttons and compatibility with Vodafone made an attempt with mixed success in the mid-2000s with its Vodafone Simply.

Emporia's customers are dynamic people who surf the Internet but mostly from home, Yerolymos said.

The Austrian business, which offers mobiles for 50 to 100 euros ($70-140), expects to move one million devices between 2010 and 2011, and twice that in the following year.

Doro boasts of 1.2 million sales since 2007.

Focussed more on health, Doro offers two models -- the Easy, which is a lot like the simple-to-use Emporia phones; and the Plus, which has four buttons, A, B, C, and D with memorized numbers along with an SOS button.

Ryan Trendell, head of Doro's British business said the Plus was "very specialised, very, very easy to use. Maybe for someone who is 80, 90, maybe someone suffering with dementia or loss of memory."

Prolimatech Intros Black Series Genesis CPU Heatsink

Wacky, high-end heatsink designer Prolimatech announced a new black variant of its Genesis CPU heatsink, famed for its asymmetric design. The new Black Series Genesis has been launched exclusively through a certain European retailer, and will be generally available soon.

The new Black Series Genesis, apart from its matte-black anodised aluminum fins, is identical to the original, launched back in February, 2011. It is a large category CPU heatsink, which uses a dual aluminum fin tower design, except that while one of its fin towers is arranged perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard (like most tower-type heatsinks), the other one is arranged parallel to that plane (like most top-flow heatsinks).

At its base, six nickel-plated copper heat pipes make indirect contact with the CPU. The six then convey heat to each of the two aluminum fin towers, where under the air-flow of 120 mm or 140 mm fans, heat is dissipated. The perpendicular tower focuses on cooling the CPU, with most of its exhaust making its way out of the case, while the parallel tower could end up cooling other components on the motherboard such as memory and VRM, under its air-flow.

The Black Series Genesis supports a full range of CPU socket types, including LGA2011, LGA1155/LGA1156, LGA1366, LGA775; AM3+/AM3/AM2+/AM2, FM2/FM1; although you should ensure your case and motherboard have just enough room for it. Apart from the heatsink itself, major parts of the mounting kit are black.

As mentioned earlier, the Black Series Genesis from Prolimatech, is launched exclusively by a European retailer, Overclockers UK. It is priced at£59.90 (US $93, SG $119). It will be generally available a little later.

Thecus Presents D0204 Portable Storage Device

Storage experts Thecushas announced the D0204, adding on to its line-upof portable external storage.



Measuring 86 x 55.3 x 132mm, the compact plastic/ aluminum directattached storage (DAS) features a USB 3.0 interface, hot swappable drivebays, RAID 0/ 1/ LARGE modes, and supports up to two 3.5”/ 2.5” SATAHDDs/ SSDs up to 2Tb in capacities. Pricing and availability has notbeen announced yet so stay tuned for more updates.

“With full USB 3.0 compatibility, the new D0204 brings incredibleperformance and data protection to a remarkably tiny and easy-to-usedevice,” said Florence Shih, Thecus® Technology General Manager.“Offering impressive storage capacity in a small size, the D0204 is theideal storage device for the user on the go.”


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Samsung Announced Two New Digital Camcorders

Seoul (Korea Newswire) April 30, 2009 -- Samsung today announced two new ergonomically designed, compact digital camcorders -SMX-C14 and SMX-C10.Both camcorders feature Samsung’s stylish Crystal Design with a touch of color that was first introduced in the company’s line of flat panel HDTVs.

The SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 are ideal for the on-the-go user and offer an impressive 10x optical zoom paired with Hyper Image Stabilization to help reduce blurry footage. Both camcorders also feature a swiveling 2.7-inch wide LCD screen thatallows users to effortlessly frame their subjects and review their footage. Similar to the Full-HD HMX-R10, the new SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 boast Samsung’s Active Angle Lens.

The new SMX-C14 features 16GB of internal flash memory and is expandable via an SD/SDHC memory card slot. Thanks to H.264 compression, which drastically enhances recording times when used with standard definition video, users can record over six hours of footage with the highest video quality at Super Fine Mode directly to the SMX-C14’s 16GB of built-in memory. The SMX-C10 does not feature internal memory and requires the use of SD/SDHC media. Bothcamcorders also offer substantial battery life, providing more than two hours and forty minutes of record time on a single charge.

The SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 also incorporate Samsung’s play-edit-sharing program called intelli studio. The built-in intelli-studio program allows users to connect the camcorder to any computer via USB,edit and play their video without having to install supporting software. The intelli-studio also facilitates the process of uploading users’ content to popular video sharing Web sites.There is alsoa one-touch “upload” button, available directly on the SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 fordirect connection to YouTube™.

The SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 will be available from May in European, CIS and Asian countries.

Source: Korea NewsWire

The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 31 May 2011

Hardware news

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX Motherboar?d Review @Hi Tech Legion

Description: The Crosshair V Formula is designed for hardcore gamers and overclockers who want the best and latest AM3+ motherboard. The ASUS Crosshair V Formula ROG motherboard is equipped with the 990FX/SB950 chipset, featuring native SATA 6Gb/s support and full compatibility with upcoming Bulldozer based 32nm AMD processors.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 and HD 6670 review

Description: In recent weeks we have analyzed many proposals for home desktop AMD mid-range and high: starting from products such as Radeon HD 5750 and 5770 (now renamed to HD 6750 and 6770) and reaching the heights represented by the maximum number of Radeon HD 6950 CrossFire and 6970 and annexed solutions dual GPU (HD 6990).

MSI 990FXA-GD8?0 Motherboar?d Review @ Legit Reviews

Description: MSI today launched their AMD 9-Series chipsets products: the 990FXA-GD80 and 990FXA-GD65 mainboards. Both of these boards are ready for AMD 'Bulldozer' octa-core AM3+ CPUs when they arrive later this year.

Xigmatek Gaia SD1283 Heatsink Review

Description: Xigmatek's SD1283 Gaia heatsink comes with a one 120mm PWM fan that operates at speeds of 1500RPM to 800RPM. The fan is mounted to the aluminum cooling fin tower with four vibration absorbing rubber posts, a second fan (not included) can be mounted to the rear of the heatsink since additional fan posts are included.

Patriot Memory Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ Bigbruin.c?om

Description: The Patriot Memory Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive performed just about as expected, which means a new level of performance when upgrading from a USB 2.0 capable flash drive. The write speeds were almost as good as the published specification (70MB/s), while the read speeds actually exceeded Patriot Memory's specification (100MB/s).

Gigabyte G1.Assassi?n Gaming Motherboar?d Review

Description: The XL-ATX size Gigabyte G1.Assassin lives up to its name not only thanks to its speed and native support for 3-Way SLI and 4-Way CrossfireX graphics cards configurations but also because of the integrated Sound Blaster X-Fi CA20K2 audio processor and the Killer E2100 Gaming Network Adapter.

Consumer Electronics and Software news

Apple’s CEO Jobs to Unveil Apple ICloud, New Software Next Week

Description: Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will make a public appearance June 6 to unveil a cloud-computing product and a new version of the operating system that powers its iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices.

Intel Says Ultrabooks Will Dominate, Launches New Instant-On Technology

Description: Here at Computex 2011 Intel coined the term "Ultrabooks" for what it expects will take over 40 percent of the laptop market share in the next six to nine months.

Twitter to launch photo-sharing service

Description: There are plenty of third-party photo-sharing services available to Twitter users, but soon there may be a new one — made by the social media network itself.

Google uses new tool to track dengue fever hubs

Description: Google is using search patterns about dengue fever in an attempt to help health officials prepare for outbreaks. It hopes to develop an early-warning system by monitoring dengue-related search terms by users in Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Singapore.

Facebook poised to hit 700 million users

Description: Facebook is poised to hit 700 million users, according to analysis from the Facebook statistics blog SocialBakers. If Facebook were its own country, it would be the third-largest in the world.

Gaming news

Sony to fully restore PlayStation Network by end of week

Description: Sony says they will fully restore all services for the PlayStation Network by the end of this week, more than one month after a major data breach knocked out the company's online video game hub.

StarCraft II – Heart Of The Swarm Gameplay and Teaser Video

Description: The next campaign for the StarCraft II trilogy will focus on the Zerg, the 10 minute video shows the teaser in HD and gameplay of the first single story campaign. Kerrigan is back and is trying to regain her control over the brood and unify them once again.

WWE '12 Rises

Description: It's been a fun ride, but as with any franchise, fans have complained about annual aspects over and over again. Turns out the developers were listening, killed the series, and are planning on fixing things with WWE '12.

Microsoft pulls security update for Windows 2000 from servers

Microsoft is pulling a certain security update for the aging Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system from its servers after receiving claims and feedback from the public that the update had failed to fix the very issue it was designed to patch.

In a blog posting made on the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), Group Manager Jerry Bryant said that the problematic patch (MS10-025)only affected “Windows 2000 Servers in an non-default configuration”, explaining that only machines that had Windows Media Services would be offered the security update; other servers running on Windows 2000 without Windows Media Services were not affected.

No definite date was given for the re-release of the update, but Jerry said that once the team has agreed on it, the information will be announed Microsoft's own MSRC twitter account (@MSFTSecResponse).

Still, given Windows 2000's age, it is rather unlikely that the botched security update will have little (if any) adverse impact on most servers, as most Windows-based servers should have already migrated to Windows Server 2003 or newer.

Source: Microsoft Security Response Center blog viaPC Pro