August 13, 2010

Online game economy

Video Gaming industry hasn’t been this popular ever, average video game users are just climbing up by minutes. Video game industry is already a huge economical power house and it’s getting huger. The scenario is a lot different than what its used to be 5 years ago. Console games are not making money, while online and mobile games are taking over the market. Currently online and mobile games generates about 35% of total game industries revenue, and it’s market share growing. The way it’s going Consol game will be a relic like thingy in near future. So why is such a boom we are seeing in gaming economy? Console games revenue model was typical selling the game model, which …

 
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You are not seeing ghost! That’s right Adobe flash can be run on iPhone 4.0, not just any flash the latest version. Hold your horses before you run over people or something, there is a catch! This can be done only by certain hack ;) Comex, the same infamous (to Apple)/ renowned (to millions of consumers) hacker who developed the browser-based JailbreakMe tool, has done what should have been impossible and brought Flash video capabilities to the iPhone 4, and he claim that it will work on iPhone 3GS and the iPad as well. This Frash lets iPhone users view Adobe Flash content on their phones. This is certainly not any windows …

 
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Microsoft’s upcoming Smartphone OS, Windows phone 7 officially dubbed as Windows Mobile 7 will be unleashed to consumers by October. Lots of hype going on around it, as for Microsoft this is a breakthrough initiative to get a hold onto the mobile market share that it never got, leaving the past failure behind. But truly could it be MSFT’s (Microsoft) Mobile hero just like iPhone for Apple? Or this will be just another villain like Windows Vista? Since Developer demo is out, all speculation around Windows Phone 7 started to shape …

 
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Two years in creating, one and a half months in market with a cute little unique name, with stylish design and emphasized on trendy social network tools couldn’t save Kin from crashing. Just for the intro ‘Kin’ is the smart phone device that supposed to prove that Microsoft could build the right product at the right time for the ever changing tech savvy youngsters. But surprisingly less than two months after the Kin’s arrived in stores, Microsoft decided to kill it. Most probably the fastest ever end of a product by a tech giant. …

 
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We all aware of that finding an open source software based on Microsoft technology is like searching for needle in a hay stack, let alone a suitable one. dashCommerce is one of those very rare open source .NET ecommerce platforms in the wild, other two available option you have- DotShoppingCart and nopCommerce (we will come to these two in the future).
dashCommerce formerly known as the Microsoft Commerce Starter Kit, is a complete CMS (Content Management System) and ecommerce open source solution. Current stable version dashCommerce 3.0 is quite flexible and robust in nature, as it’s incorporates all three major components of an ecommerce application:

Product Catalog

Shopping Cart
Order Fulfillment …

 
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ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the sole authority for domain names and categories globally finally after years of discussion approved (on conditions) creation of .XXX TLD (top label domain) alongside already existing .com, .net, .org etc. Well this approval of creation of virtual red-light district wasn’t well received by everyone. Some members of the pornography industry and the Christian conservative lobby voiced concerns for this move by ICANN that will create a dedicated virtual red-light district. The long-awaited decision comes at the end of vigorous lobby by companies …

 
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This Tuesday Microsoft officially released Microsoft Office 2010, which includes all version of the productivity suite. With around 755 million of user worldwide Microsoft office definitely dominate Office productivity market share, closest match are way behind down the line. The last office suite, Office 2007 was released by MSFT way back in January 2007, so definitely it has been long awaited version. User can now upgrade to their choice of new Office versions: the $149.99 Home and Student bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote; the $279.99 Home and Business edition, which adds Outlook; or the $499.99 Professional release, including all of the above plus Access and Publisher. With a new version available, consumers are deciding whether to upgrade …

 
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might sounds like another Apple product spinoff, but it’s no way anything like that. IDrive is an online backup solution by Pro Softnet Corp. a company specialized in the fields of Online Backup, Storage, and Remote Access. Online backup system and services are in demand and gaining significant momentum recently yet remains expensive when it comes to reliable backup. IDrive might be the change we all have been longing for. There are couples of high profile online baking systems out there like MSFT’s SkyDrive, Carbonite Online PCBackup, HP Upline, SOS Online backup etc. Some of them offer huge amount of free space for free or some even offer unlimited backup …

 
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Most anticipated “Caffeine”, Google’s new Web indexing system has been switched on, which promises to deliver results 50 percent faster. This new architecture was introduced a month after Microsoft gained in the search war by extending its new Bing search engine to all of Yahoo’s Web properties. The Yahoo Web portal is the number two player in search. Under the old system, Google would crawl the entire Web to update large batches of Web pages in its index. Updates of individual pages in a batch could not be made available until the entire batch was updated, which meant there was a significant delay between when Google found or updated a page and made it available to the user. …

 
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Desktop blogging client, if you are wondering what the F is that- it’s not replacement of your blog but a tool that helps you to blog from your desktop without logging into your blog/ blog admin. Desktop blogging clients allows you to manage multiple blogs regardless of platforms, write posts on the fly, as well as perform some limited administrative tasks. Why Desktop Client Desktop blogging clients keeps the published posts on the local hard drive and thus one has got the backup of each and every post which is posted through, blogging client and thus in worse situations like data loss, you’ll not be worried about losing all the posts. Blogging clients easily integrate images and easily …

 
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