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Game Technology sometimes old is good

With all the rush for the latest and greatest game consoles, XBOX 360 , the Playstation 3, Wii among others, the old mainstay is back at it with a new dew and new games. The PS2 redux.

Limited Edition Sony White PS2

PS2 is far from dead with more than 160 new titles expected to be launched in North America by the end of March 2008. Sony has just announced a new limited edition white PS2 that will be bundled with a white DualShock 2 controller, the SingStar Pop game and two microphones.

The new PS2 will begin launching in stores this weekend and be available everywhere by November 4th, it will retail for $149.99. The launch of the white limited edition PS2 is timed with its 7th anniversary, it was originally launched on October 26th 2000.

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo November 8-9 2007

Something new for bloggers:
Join Blog World Expo

The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld will feature the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. If you are currently blogging, vlogging, podcasting, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or just want to know what the blogosphere is all about, then you need to be at the most comprehensive blogging convention–BlogWorld & New Media Expo. The inaugural event will take place November 8th and 9th at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with an exclusive “Executive & Entrepreneur” conference beginning November 7th. Las Vegas Convention Center is located at: 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109

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The Dark Corners of the Web

We all know there is bad ware on the internet. But this is getting to be a problem.

It’s getting harder and harder to know who to trust on the World Wide Web the bad guys are finding new ways to place their malicious software on our computers. These are often times by compromising Web sites that we trust.

With the help of one of its sponsor companies, Google and StopBadware maintains a list of 200,000 Web sites that are known to be associated with malicious downloads. These are the sites we nuke in the case of computer issues like in terminator

Delivering malicious software on legitimate sites has been a disturbing trend over the past year,

We as Web surfers know that visiting gambling or pornographic sites could harm your computers, but lately attack code can be downloaded from almost anywhere. I had one down load from an anti-virus site.

The way cell phone communicate a person’s techno-awareness to the others, the use of cell phones, a digital cameras or any type of laptop computers and scanners printers tells about a persons knowledge of the world today.

StopBadware has seen this happening with Web advertising networks, which can easily be subverted by attackers to serve up maliciously encoded scripts and images.

eBay is looking into ways of curbing a similar problem. The online auction giant allows users to put their own images and HTML code on its site, but sometimes this leads to “bad code”. Under the proposed system, eBay power sellers with good security ratings would be given more free rein on the types of features they could add to their stores.

Another growing source of concern is social networking.

Users should also be wary of fake accounts, we all know there is no such thing as a fake account, wink, only legit ones :),  set up on legitimate social networking sites, which are often designed with one thing in mind: to lure unsuspecting users to malicious Web sites.

So with all this badware, is the Internet a more dangerous place to be? We just need to protect our selves and need some thing to seek and destroy the bad.

Off with their heads

Zune Does Flash

New Zune Lineup does flash, Wireless Syncing

Microsoft’s new Zune lineup includes 4GB and 8GB flash players, an 80GB hard-drive model, and wireless syncing with your PC.
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Zune Does Flash

Red, green, pink, and black flash players

Time for some increased portability. The 4GB and 8GB flash-based Zunes come in black, green, pink, and red. Each sports a 1.8-inch glass screen and the same touch-sensitive control as the new hard drive player.

Both models let you view photos or play video, share or sync tunes using their included Wi-Fi connections, and listen to FM radio. If you own a Media Center or Vista PC that records TV, any of the Zune players will be able to automatically sync those recordings as well.

Ever since Wi-Fi-equipped media players like the Zune came out, users have been clamoring for wireless syncing. Few players have delivered, so Microsoft will undoubtedly make some waves by adding it to the Zune lineup.

Some new tweaks to the Zune’s wireless music sharing feature. Originally, shared tracks could only be played three times over a period of three days and couldn’t be passed on. After the new players arrive, you’ll be able to pass along shared tracks to other users and play them up to three times over any time period you like.

Return of the Social

Break out the ice cream. The Zune’s oddly named Social is heading for its own set of upgrades, which take a page from the Gamer card feature on the Xbox’s Xbox live online service.  Zune Cards will allow you to collect and share information about the music you’re playing, much like services such as Last.fm.

Revamped Zune software

Rounding out the list of Zune updates are some significant changes to the look of the Zune software and the Zune Marketplace music store that goes with it. The app and the store come with a cleaner look (right), and when the new version launches in mid November, Microsoft will add a selection of over one million DRM-free MP3s to its catalog.

It’s clear that Microsoft has at least attempted to address many of the concerns about the original Zune. As soon as we can get our hands on the new hardware, we’ll let you know if their updates can turn the player into a real competitor to Apple’s iPods.  This is the one for me, I saw a bronze colored one that I would like.

I am wait for another software upgrade.

New Organic Light-Emitting Diode TV is Here

Sony Unveils First OLED TV. The superthin-screen unit, launched at CEATEC show, is scheduled to ship in December. I have got to have one of these TV’s. I am afraid they will be expensive. Who care lets get one anyway. But I will have to move to Japan to get one.

Sony unveiled the world’s first OLED (organic light-emitting diode) television on Monday, pushing the limits of thin-screen displays further than ever before.

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This TV is aimed at the top end of the consumer market, Sony’s XEL-1 television offers an 11-inch OLED screen that is just 3-millimeters thick and will go on sale in December. The screen is thinner than a LCD or  (plasma display panel) set because no backlight is required: OLED materials, which are carbon-based, emit light on their own when an electric current is applied.

The XEL-1 will accept up to a 1080p video image, although the 11-inch screen has a resolution of just 960 pixels by 540 pixels. Just what is need for a good computer monitor or TV screen.

OLEDs offer other advantages over LCD and PDP technology, including wider viewing angles, faster response time, and better contrast and colors. However, the technology is difficult to manufacture and the OLED material degrades over time.

The XEL-1 has a viewing life of 30,000 hours, which allows a user to watch eight hours of television each day for 10 years. The television goes on sale in Japan on Dec. 1, and will cost US$1,740. Currently, there are no plans to sell the television outside Japan, Darn,  Sony plans to manufacture just 2,000 sets each month.

I will put this on wish list for the next chrismas