XBMC (Xbox Media Center) is an excellent, well-reputed and free open-source cross-platform media player. The software is quite popular among the open-source community and is widely used. The developer team of XBMC has now expanded its horizon further. The team has now extended its support for the Android platform. And, it is a full featured version of XBMC for Android.
Recently, research firm Nielsen has published a research report about the growing rate of smartphone users. According to the report, two third of new mobile buyers are now settling for smartphones instead of feature phones. Smartphone users have also reported to be the majority (54.9%in June 2012) among US cellphone users. No doubt, smartphones are dominating the mobile phone market. The market is, however, fragmented among different platforms and vendors.
USA Today reported yesterday that Microsoft may unveil Office 2013 (aka Office 15) beta in a news conference to be held in San Francisco on Monday (on July 16, 2012). The newspaper said that the news is supported by unnamed industry sources. The report also claimed that the final version of the Office suite will be available from May 2013.
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GAME PREVIEW – A new legend will born in Assassin’s Creed III after Ezio Auditore. His name is Connor Kenway. Ubisoft already confirmed that Assassin’s Creed III is going to be the biggest among the series. Retail edition of the game will be available very soon.
GAME PREVIEW- In Splinter Cell: Conviction, we saw old Sam Fisher set out for his quest to find his daughter Sarah Fisher and to make the score even over the Third Echelon. After that he vanished from the world. Ubisoft Toronto confirmed that Sam will come back in 2013 with his new third person action-adventure stealth game “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist”. And this time, he is more aged than Conviction but more dynamic, more fluid, and more brutal than the previous games.
GAME PREVIEW- Darksiders: Wrath of War was one of biggest hits of 2010. Vigil Games and THQ announced back then that they were working on a parallel sequel of the game which was scheduled to release in 2012. The time has come my friends. Darksiders II will be released next month. The lead role of Darksiders II is Death, another Horseman of the Apocalypse and also the brother of War. The gamers must take the role of Death and explore vasterworld; fight most powerful and bigger enemies than the previous game; take out an action-packed journeyfull of thrill and adventures through the worlds.
It is common knowledge that more often than not, the same web exploit does not work on machines running different operating systems. This is precisely the reason why authors of different web exploits tend to write multiple versions to penetrate multiple OS with them. Now, a live web exploit has been found which can intelligently determine the OS of its victim before targeting it with its payload.
Earlier, we have seen that Asus Transformer AiO dual boot system with 18.4-inch display. Recently, Japanese-based electronic manufacturer Kouziro has introduced a gigantic 21.5-inch full HD display Android tablet. Its 21.5-inch display makes it one of the biggest Android devices around. The tablet is officially known as FT103 and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on a dual-core TI OMAP 4429 processor. The display resolution is 1920 x 1080 with a fairly low pixel density of 102ppi where the Google Nexus 7 clocks in at 216ppi.