Changes for Battlefield Heroes

EA and DICE have surprised many fans of the popular game Battlefield: Heroes since the price for items that use the money in these games has increased while prices of assets that are bought for real money down. Based on the new changes that were introduced players now have to pay to be able to use the same weapons that they have long used free of charge or have to work hours to earn them. The players probably did not spend enough money so he decided that this is a correct way. What remains is the players or for hours and hours every day playing the game to save his position, or simply pay.

Virtual Box 3.1

Virtual Box software company Sun recently won a new version - 3.1. The new release brings many new features including support for live migration and a significant improvement snapshot capabilities. VirtualBox is created by the company Innotek, a German manufacturer of the software purchased last year by the Sun's. While VirtualBox is designed primarily for conventional desktop virtuelizacione scenarios, developers have him add a few features designed for use in enterprises, which highlights its growing potential for use in servers. New features for live migration entitled "Teleportation" and is a true example of further software developments.

IBM helps green data centers

IBM has partnered with the State of New York and Syracuse University with the aim of opening, as the company name, one of najekološkijih data centers. Green Data Center at Syracuse University provides a number of modern technologies that are designed to reduce energy consumption and emissions. This data center cost $ 12.4 million and has its own power for electricity, heating and cooling systems. In data centers IBM has implemented a Blade Center, and Z10 Power 575 servers, which are expected to jointly spend about 50% less energy than the data center the same size using older hardware.

Skype opens up a SIP service business

Each business customer who has korporatvni VoIP systems can now use Skype's SIP service as a way to reduce the corporate phone bills. Skype for SIP program fell into the general beta testing program after the summer was in limited beta. With this service users can enable click-to-call buttons on Web sjatovima, receive incoming calls from Skype endpoints at no additional cost, set your outgoing calls directly to Skype phone numbers and Mogo it yet. Users, in order to use this feature, you must have a broadband Internet connection and configure the SIP settings on your IP PBX.

Lucrative Thanksgiving

Video games industry has for the past Thanksgiving recorded excellent results. Recently, the three largest manufacturers in this field, including Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, announced financial reports related to this holiday. According to these data, Nintendo sold more than 550,000 Wii consoles, which is an excellent result, and that should add more and sales are recorded by the Nintendo DS and the DSi is slightly more than a million devices. Sony has also expressed its satisfaction with the achieved sale stating that it sold 440,000 devices, while Microsoft had no need to emphasize the number of devices sold stating that it is the best indicator of success.

Chrome OS and printing

Many challenges that were before Google when it comes to creating Chrome OS are solved, but there is one with which the company had a great torment and it is printing. Driver support for printers is a problem that is significantly tortured and Microsoft Vista when it appeared, and Google has turned particular attention to this problem because it wants to Chrome OS works best when the netbook computers connect to the printer. Unlike USB and other devices that have a universal driver printers are special because almost every device is unique and it is generally a problem. Google therefore has to provide a solution that will be universal for all devices.

New broadband network

Virgin Media has unveiled a new mobile device that allows access to broadband speeds up to 7.2Mbps. It is a device which can connect to the USB port laptop or desktop computer and is available for users of the network who sign a contract on the use of the Internet in 18 months. In this case, the device costs about 10 pounds, while, if you do not want to bind this peroid of service, then the device will cost about 35 pounds. The company Virgin Media say that they are very satisfied customers that can offer extremely fast mobile Internet, which allows you to virtually anywhere you connect to the Internet.

YouTube and Facebook stifle the flow of

Research conducted by the company Network Box in July in August this year, revealed the significant impact that YouTube and Facebook have the bandwidth to corporate networks. The survey which included 19 billion URLs visited by about 30,000 end users at companies that use the services of this provider discovers that the address was the most visited site YouTube, which took a total of 7.8% bandwidth network companies. Right behind is Facebook with 4.4%, Yahoo search engine with 2.8% and 2.7% with Google. What employers can concern is that sites that have secure connections with business concerning a huge percentage.

Use of the settlement with Intel

The recent settlement agreement between Intel and AMD will bring in new business from AMD and its customers benefit, the company announced. Although it will still need to pass the year before AMD become fully competitive to Intel, the company expects its market share begin to grow, including the products such as processors for notebook PCs, said CEO Dirk Meyer . He said that potential buyers have the freedom to choose AMD's products as it could in the past. Intel and AMD last month reached an agreement on the rejection of all claims and change production practices Intel.

Microsoft helps train soldiers

The soldiers would be able to go to the tasks better trained and will know better how to handle the equipment after they were subjected to simulation exercises using the war to originate from Microsoft technology. Namely, the software giant and the company Lockheed Martin have signed a licensing agreement that will allow this company access to technology vizulenih simulation of Microsoft. Agreement on the use of inteletualne property between the two companies focuses on Microsoft's ESP, the games based virtual simulation for PC. Lockheed Martin is the first company to license this technology after being shut down Microsoft ESP business in January this year.