Popular Xbox 360 games for Christmas

According to the Guardian Games Blog, the top xbox 360 games for christmas are the following.

1.  Fifa 10

This is a great football game which is slightly more methodical and more realistic then most other football games out there on the games market. It has all the right teams and players and more online options so its easy to play over the net.
  
2.  Dragon Age: Origins

This game is apparently an excellent role-playing game that will appeal to patient gamers who want to sink their teeth into something a little meatier than the normal shooting sport games out there.

3.  Forza Motorsport 3

Forza is a serious motor sim game that lets you tweak the engines and adjust nearly everything an excited petrol-head could ever want. This is a game that looks great too and has an excellent range of online features available to the game player. Simply excellent for all the motor sport lovers out there.

4.  Modern Warfare 2

This is a best selling game of the year and a must have if you play online. If you are just starting out at this game, beginners should prepare for a steep learning curve as better equipped foes with experience constantly take you down.

5.  Gyromancer

This is a game where you dont have to get online to play it. This is one of the best new releases you can download. Like the excellent Puzzle Quest before it, Gyromancer mixes a "match 3" like gameplay like Bejeweled – with a hefty slab of role-playing (RPG) depth. This gives both context – there's a typically hokum story – and strategy to the puzzling. A game that was made by popcat and Square Enix and is sure to take up some of those post Christmas lunch hours.

For a more in-depth analysis of the games that are listed please visit the Guardian Games Blog.

Windows 7 Mobile coming out late 2010

 





Microsoft’s Phil Moore, the head of mobility in the UK, has stated to technology magazine "Network World"  "that the company’s latest iteration of the Windows Mobile will not be ready for launch until a later part of the year 2010."

With all the hype being around Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7, they have certainly taken a backward step when it comes to the mobile phone market. Google has just released their Android phone which is set to gain a lot of the market share, it already has 3.5 percent of mobile users converted to the phone while Microsoft is just maintaining a little over 8.5 percent. Windows 7 mobile is expected to be feature rich giving exactly what they want from the package, which will include easier touch-based user interface (UI) and updates to its browser that brings the rendering engine of Internet Explorer 6 onto Windows Mobile. That update is still expected this year, which should pave the way for Windows Mobile phones to display feature-rich web pages with AJAX and Flash.

Microsoft is also making a push to have their own carrier service which has a lot of other carriers worried, this is where they might gain more popularity and offer a better service because they state that Microsoft's business model is friendlier to hardware makers and cell phone carriers than those of rivals, including Google.

What do you think as the reader? Will this phone every gain popularity or are they to late due to fact it wont be released to latter 2010?

The Future of TV's in 2010

In 2010 TV's are going to be bigger and cheaper to buy. The market for energy efficient TV's will become a lot more popular for consumers to buy and for companies to make and design TV's that are ultra thin. Large LCD's and plasmas will use less power and with the climate changing, consumers are getting to grasp an understanding that large TV's consume a lot more power within their house.

During 2010 a TV will easily be able to connect to the homes broadband internet connection combining the very best in broadband and broadcast. Movie watchers will easily be able to browse movies in a "media-center" like environment with the use of the remote control and be played instantly. Maybe the use of a internal hard drives within a TV so that programs can be download to view at a later time will become popular.

Big Brand Companies will include new technology for a TV which will include more LED back-lighting for a lot crisper, brighter visual appeal and a faster refresh rate to keep up with the latest sport and action movies which will reduce motion blur. TV's in 2010 should be expected to rate as low as 120Hz to 240Hz for 3D graphics will become available so console games and live sport will take advantage of this technology.

Microwave Oven with Youtube

Now this is a microwave with a difference, for those that love to be up to date with the latest kickenware then this microwave is sure to keep you entertained while your re-heating some left over rice from the night before.

It's could the CastOven and comes with the following hardware.

• M-E10B MUJI Microwave Oven
  
• M-E10B Microwave Oven Controller
• 10.4' LCD Display
• Dedicated Inverter Module
• Dedicated Display Controller
• USB Stereo Speaker
• Personal Computer

 A video presentation of the CastOven.

Red Hat to SPICE up the Desktop

The largest Linux company in the world Red Hat is about to release its source code for the SPICE.
SPICE stands for Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment and is used for gaining remote access to a desktop computer, somtimes could a thin client. Being like the Remote Desktop Protocol within Winndows, SPICE is optimized to use the desktops graphic card of the client computer to its fullest advantage, normally one would have to set a lower resolution to access the computer.

Within the Red Hat Server, SPICE depends on a Kernel Virtual Machine for its power and this is the virtualization software that Red Hat does focus on.  SPICE will be a major boost to its desktop operating system with this virtualization software and is expected to sell more server licences aswell, but wont be available to ubuntu and windows 7 because of competition.

As the Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens said in a recent inteview "The SPICE protocol is designed to optimize performance by automatically adapting to the graphics and communications environment that it is running in, so vendors have a terrific opportunity to enhance it for their specific applications."

New Music at Vevo is a Hit

Vevo.com is a fresh new and popular music video website to hit the market. It has just come online in the last few days on the 6th of december 2009 and is proving to be very popular amongst its users. Vevo's videos are hosted by youtube, sony, and google for music lovers to view on the internet. Vevo is expected to become the largest music website on the internet and makes sense because some of the content is hosted on youtube.com.

The team at Vevo is currently working on expanding the current hardware infrastructure it has because of a high demand for online video and the amount of users using the website. Not all users can view the website because its only available to certain geograhical places, but you can be notified by email when Vevo becomes available to your area.
The need for Vevo has come about due to the high amount of competition of music videos on youtube. Apprently Warner Music Group removed their content from youtube for this reason, and now thats why this website is becoming more popular.

It should be a great place for online advertising as well and will increase revenue for music artists.

Google Chrome OS on netbooks for 2010

Google has announced on its official Google Chrome OS blog that it will be available on netbooks to use in mid 2010. The Chromium Operating System is a lightweight, open-source Linux distribution with its own windowing system that a user will be able to boot off a usb memory stick to run the operating system. The Architecture that the OS will support will be x86 systems and ARM chips, so it will compatible with most home and office computer users.

The OS has been designed for the internet in mind, with more and more applications going online it makes sense to build a operating system that can host all your files online so there is no need for a hard disk to be available.
With Google already hosting its own office applications online like Google Docs, Calender, and Reader all online it will replace the use of microsoft word, excel, and mail client like outlook.
Cloud Computing is the term used by were all files and software applications are stored online, thus reducing the memory load on the computer clients and more load on the servers.