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Facebook signed an agreement with Zynga, the creator of Farmville

May 19th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Internet, Software

The social network Facebook just sign a partnership agreement with the creator of one of its most popular applications, Farmville. Zynga, which is the name the company behind the popular farm, has started a “long-term relationship” with Mark Zuckerberg’s company which will run for five years.

Fruit of the accordance of Zynga users may use the Facebook Credits on purchases for both initial FarmVille to other games of its manufacture in the near future, as Treasure Isle, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, YoVille, Coffee World, and PetVille FishVille . Furthermore, conditions are expected to be extended to other areas such as the inclusion of advertising.

“We are pleased to reach an agreement with Zynga to improve the experience of the Facebook users who use these games.,” Said Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook. “We will continue working with Zynga and all our developers to create more opportunities in our platform.”

Zynga, based Potrero Hill (San Francisco) was born three years ago and now their games are enjoyed by 230 million active users each month.

Both firms, with an obvious symbiotic relationship since the incorporation of social network FarmVille hope to attract more traffic and users with this partnership, whose financial details were not disclosed.

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Crysis Release 2 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in November 2010

April 10th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Gaming, Software

For Crysis 2 Electronic Arts and Crytek have committed the science-fiction writer Richard Morgan. Richard Morgan writes the story of the highly anticipated Crysis successor. The recently introduced Crysis 2 Trailer looks very professional and raises high expectations for the new first-person shooter.

Recently, the development company Crytek and Electronic Arts have a trailer for Crysis 2 at New York’s Times Square had demonstrated. The impressive trailer has now been officially published. Exciting is not so much the graphical representation of the story as a prelude to the game. For if there was never a doubt, then the fact that Crysis 2 will have to offer much more graphically. At the high hardware requirements for the first part of Crysis PC gamers some have failed.

With more experience and technical progress in developing the graphics engine but this time the hardware requirements are intended to represent any particular hurdle. Crysis 2 works with the new 3rd Cryengine Now Electronic Arts has revealed that the story for Crysis 2 from the pen of best-selling author Richard Morgan is. Morgan has established himself as a writer of science fiction novels like “The Unterblichkeitsprogramm” and “Fallen Angel” a name. As for video games, this is his first project as an author. (more…)

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Microsoft changes the choice of browser screen

March 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Internet, Software

After continued complaints from minority browsers, virtually invisible in this ‘ballot screen’, the Redmond have changed the algorithm that randomly sample the possibilities.

Microsoft has bowed to complaints from minority browsers developers have put on the table because their options were virtually invisible in the browser window choice that Redmond began deploying last week.

Although the company has declined to disclose specific changes in the algorithm that randomly sample the different browsers, most likely from the new update for users to appear not only the five most popular, but as many minority as Avant, Flock, Maxthon, Slim, Sleipnir and Green, who initially appeared but also practically hidden.

With this modification of the code are now two which has had to take out Microsoft as it initially planned to display a list of computer browsers by market share, something that competitors like Firefox, Opera, Safari or Google Chrome I seemed unfair.

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Internet Explorer 9 comes with DirectX acceleration and HTML5

March 8th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Software, Windows

At the developers conference MIX 2010, Microsoft will introduce the new version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 9 is likely to support HTML5 to a greater extent than previously thought. Microsoft is to present some new products to fall back to other browser vendors do not continue. In mid-March will be held in Las Vegas the MIX conference Developer 2010th On the two events HTML5 Now: The Future of Web markup Today and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web, Microsoft will probably reveal interesting details of the Internal Explorer 9th. The events scheduled for this content can be combined with previous information from the Internet Explorer guess 9 Team of Microsoft, in what direction the development of the browser is. More HTML5 support and better CSS support, and generally a focus on web standards are expected.
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Windows 7 without a valid license to continue available

February 26th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Software, Windows

Microsoft has begun to distribute the update to the authentication of Windows 7 on the update function.

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Source: microsoft.com

Earlier this month Microsoft announced plans to transform the authentication of Windows 7. From the Windows Genuine Advantage is Windows Activation Technologies is (WAT). More than 70 well-known hacks of the activation function of Windows 7 will be turned off so that future new hacks are detected by updates over the Internet as well.

Communicated, the software giant, the new authentication as a benefit for users. Activation exploits very often contain trojans, viruses and other malware. Anyone who uses Windows 7 without a valid license, it’s a high risk, argues Microsoft. Ultimately, however, Microsoft only a little more difficult for illegal use of software and thereby protect against piracy.

After all, the computer remains fully functional if the Windows installation WAT deems to be illegal. Although he is constantly reminded, obtain a valid license, as well as the desktop background is black. In contrast, use no more to fear but no one has before, suddenly his Windows computer. This is especially important in light of falsely classified as illegal installations. In this regard, there had been in the past, severe symptoms of affected users. (more…)

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