3D Brick Breaker Revolution Makes Its Debut on Apple App Store

3D Brick Breaker Revolution Makes Its Debut on Apple App StoreSAN MATEO, Calif.CA-DIGITAL-CHOCOLATE
Digital Chocolate, a quality leader in mobile gaming, today announced that 3D Brick Breaker Revolution is available on the Apple App Store. Redesigned and adapted specifically for Apple's revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch, Brick Breaker Revolution was an IGN Awards Winner for Best Artistic Design.
"We are proud to bring 3D Brick Breaker Revolution, an innovative brick breaking game that sets a new standard of fun in the genre, to Apple's App Store," said Trip Hawkins, CEO of Digital Chocolate.
3D Brick Breaker Revolution features ground-breaking elements for brick and paddle games. These innovations include the level progression through the tower of bricks where players can advance upwards, sideways, discovering bonuses and other surprises. The game allows players to pick up all-new power-ups to give the paddle unique abilities such as Gun Turrets, Laser Beam, Mines and more. 3D Brick Breaker Revolution delivers an abundance of content and literally infinite levels for endless replay value.
3D Brick Breaker Revolution is available for $5.99 from Apple?s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. There is also a free version available on the Apple App Store that will provide a limited number of levels and modes.

Linux On The Playstation 3

The PlayStation 3 is capable of running Linux as well as other operating systems if installed on the console’s hard drive. Because it’s so powerful yet so cheap with Linux installed, it’s actually become somewhat of a favored research tool in academia. Many distributions are compatible with the console, including Yellow Dog Linux, Debian, Fedora 8, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. However, this isn’t the experience for the faint of heart but definitely a cool little hobby if you are the tinker type.
Your user profiles and account information will remain on the XMB, but remember to back up any saved games or media files you want to restore after formatting the PS3 using a USB stick or an external hard disk. Your game saves are located under Game > Saved Data Utility. All downloaded games you paid for can be downloaded again without having to pay for them. They’ll be in your account history in the PS Store. Attach your PS3 to a HDTV or monitor using an HDMI (digital) or Component (5 RCA jacks) cable. Composite (yellow RCA jack) is not supported as the resolution is too low.
Before you install anything, it is most important to follow these steps:
· Connect the ethernet cable to the PS3. Be sure the network has a DHCP server on it. If this is a fresh-from-the-factory PS3, go through the setup steps as it prompts you on your first bootup, including setting the language, time, and a username for the PS3 system.
· Go to Settings, then System Settings, and choose Format Utility.
· Select Format Hard Disk, and confirm your selection twice.
· Select that you want a Custom partitioning scheme.
· Select that you want to Allot 10GB to the Other OS. This will automatically reserve the remaining disk space for the PS3’s game operating system. When finished, it will restart the system.
· When the system restarts, go to Settings then System Update. Choose Update via Internet.
· Follow the screens for the system update to download and install the latest system updates. Some screens only have cancel buttons, with no instructions on how to move forward. In order to move forward on those screens, use the X button on your controller.
· Once the PS3 restarts, it’s ready to have Linux installed on it.
Most newcomers should probably try Yellow Dog Linux (extremely helpful installation PDF) or an Ubuntu version for PS3 (incredible PS3 Ubuntu install resource) burned on a CD. For information on how to burn iso file to a cd/dvd, see this page. For install help with other Linux distros, try putting “(linux distro name) install ps3″ into Google and you should be able to figure it out from there.
Some helpful sites that I’ve found include PSUbuntu, an unbelieveably awesome Yellow Dog Linux FAQ, Wikipedia’s Linux on the PS3 article, PS3 Linux World, and more. Feel free to leave your links in a comment in this topic to help others.
Advanced users: There are several projects, like spu-medialib [sourceforge.net] and mesa3d [sourceforge.net], which accelerate PS3 graphics/video on the Cell’s SPEs. spu-medialib is actually a general framework for acceleration, while mesa3d offloads OpenGL onto the SPEs as a GPU.
There’s a narrative tutorial [linux.yes.nu] for installing the spu-medialib mplayer driver, with links to files, that plays video on the SPEs quite well, including 1080p HD videos.

Samsung: Solid state will match hard-drive price

PRICE:$100 and $600

Samsung expects solid-state drives to reach price parity with hard-disk drives within the next few years amid steep annual price declines in flash memory chips.
Solid-state drives, which use flash memory chips as the storage medium, typically offer much better performance than hard-disk drives. But they cost more. Currently, opting for an SSD instead of a hard-disk drive will add anywhere between $100 and $600 to the cost of a laptop, depending on the capacity of the SSD.
Dell's Alienware Area-51 laptop (above) and Dell's Studio XPS 16 come with a 256GB solid-state drive option(Credit: Dell)
In a phone interview, Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor, said reaching price parity with hard-disk drives is just a matter of time. "Flash memory in the last five years has come down 40, 50, 60 percent per year," he said. "Flash on a dollar-per-gigabyte basis will reach price parity, at some point, with hard disk drives in the next few years." Samsung makes both SSDs and HDDs.
Beard explained why a cost gap persists between solid-state drives and hard-disk drives. "The difference in cost is fundamentally very different. A hard drive has a fixed cost of $40 or $50 for the spindle, the motors, the PCB (printed circuit board), the cables," he said. "To make the hard drive spin faster (increase speed) or to add capacity doesn't really add a lot of incremental cost to the drive." (The price for most laptop-class hard-disk drives on the market is between $60 and $100 at retail, Beard said.)
"When you contrast this with SSDs, they also have a fixed cost for the PCB and the case and the controller, which is lower than the fixed cost of a hard drive," according to Beard. "But as you scale the capacity of the SSD up, the cost scales linearly. For example, if the spot price of the flash chip itself is $2, a 64GB drive is going to cost $128 just for the flash and then you would add the fixed cost of the PCB and the case, he said. So, the cost will double as you double the capacity, according to Beard.
This argument, however, works in favor of lower solid-state drive pricing too--as flash memory prices drop and densities and capacities increase. And Beard added that "there's a lot of pressure for OEMs (PC makers) to match the price to the traditional pricing in the hard-drive industry." Samsung is also a PC maker and faces the same pressures.
And what will happen to the price of SSDs this year? "The rest of the year is quite unpredictable. Because the SSD price is directly tied to the price of flash, no one knows. Everyone is just giving their best guess as to what will happen in the flash market," he said. To date, flash memory prices have dropped so much that chipmakers can't make money.
"Every major flash manufacturer posted major losses in Q4. So flash and SSD manufacturers are under a lot of pressure to make a profit," Beard said.
Where is the price-per-gigabyte sweet spot for solid-state drives going to be later this year? "On the business side, the sweet spot is 64(GB) moving to 128. On the consumer side it's definitely 128 moving to 256," he said.
Samsung SSDs with a capacity of 256GB have been shipping since January. Dell offers these drives in some laptop models already. 256GB drives are just now "rolling out into mass production," Beard said. "We'll start shipping it to some of our smaller customers about right now."
Note: Currently, on a Dell Studio XPS 16, opting for a 128GB SSD instead of a 7200rpm 320GB HDD adds $200 to the price of the system. Opting for a 256GB SSD adds $400.

Epson introduces PowerLite G5000 installation projectors

PRICE:$2499

Epson America Inc. launched Monday the Epson PowerLite G5000, the latest in Epson's line of installation projectors designed to provide flexibility, performance and easy installation for executive boardrooms and educational institutions.
Offering XGA (Extended Graphics Array) resolution and 4,000 lumens white light output and 4,000 lumens color light output, the network-ready PowerLite G5000 utilizes 3LCD technology to deliver advanced image quality and visual presentations, Epson said in a statement.
The PowerLite G5000 provides easy installation using greater positioning flexibility with a centered lens design, vertical/horizontal lens shift mechanism, and Quick Corner, an adjustment tool allowing for individual corner manipulation to fit the image to the screen.
This new projector is also engineered to interface and integrate with programming and controller applications, as well as work with modules and drivers for systems, including touch-panel screens and multiple content devices.
Epson offers an array of image capture and image output products for the consumer, business, photography, and graphic arts markets. The company is also a supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS) printers and transactions terminals for the retail market.
Founded in 1975, Epson America Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality technology products that meet customer demands for increased functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. Epson America Inc. is headquartered in Long Beach, California.
"The PowerLite G5000 represents Epson's commitment to creating high-quality projection technology that produces astounding quality, reliability and precision control," said Edgar Jimenez, associate product manager, Epson Projection, Epson America. "The easy maintenance and low cost of ownership features, coupled with powerful projection technology, make this an ideal choice for cost-sensitive installations that require professional performance."
To assist with greater flexibility, the Epson PowerLite G5000 provides Epson Easy Management, as well as RJ-45 connectivity, which gives system administrators the power to remotely monitor and control the projector through the network. In addition, the projector offers one-touch filter replacement for convenient maintenance, saving time even on installed units, and easy side lamp access for quick lamp replacements, all resulting in a low total cost of ownership (TCO).
The Epson PowerLite G5000 features Epson 3LCD Technology which uses Epson's latest, 3-Chip LCD optical engine to deliver amazing color and detail for powerful presentations. 3LCD technology also provides true-to-life image quality using an optical engine that works without a spinning color wheel so there's no possibility of "rainbows" or color break-up, delivering true-to-life color registration, as well as crisp and detailed video and data images. The Epson PowerLite G5000 also features closed captioning which offers built-in closed captioning decoder which makes presentations accessible to viewers with hearing impairments with no added cost.
The Epson PowerLite G5000 also features flexible lens positioning which offers centered lens design, vertical and horizontal lens shift mechanism and 1.8x wider zoom standard lens allow integrators to easily position the projector and screen in any environment. It also features adjustable image through the Quick Corner, which allows for individual corner manipulation in order to fit an image to the screen, even in difficult installation locations, and includes a 30-degree tilt operation for single off-axis installation.
The Epson PowerLite G5000 also offers high contrast ratio which offers a 1000:1 contrast ratio for greater shadow detail, and direct on and off for powering an installed projector on and off with a flip of a power switch.
The Epson PowerLite G5000 comes at an estimated street price of US$ 2,499, and is currently available through national resellers, pro audio/visual dealers, mail order, and distribution. The projector includes a two-year limited warranty with two technical support services, including Epson PrivateLine phone support for projector owners to directly access an expedited support telephone line by using a phone card that is included with the product, and a Road Service projector replacement program that includes projector exchange in one business day.

LSI Tarari T1000 content processor expands support to multicore processors

LSI Corp. announced that its line of Tarari T1000 content processors support an expanded range of embedded multicore processors. In addition to Intel and AMD x86 processors, the T1000 can be coupled to other processors such as the RMI XLR Processor and XLS Processor lines of multicore processors, enabling low-overhead, deep packet inspection at multi-gigabit data transfer rates.
In addition to previously announced support for PCI Express and PCI interfaces, the T1000 provides full cross-packet inspection in hardware for PCI-X systems operating at data rates up to 3 Gb/s (gigabits-per-second).
LSI of Milpitas, California, a provider of silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software.
The LSI Tarari content processor line is a comprehensive set of solutions providing security, quality of service, content-based billing and bandwidth management functions for high-speed networks. Tarari solutions support common industry interfaces and a common application programming interface, resulting in shorter design cycles and faster time to market.
"The RMI XLR Processor family of MIPS64 multicore, multithreaded processors has already secured a number of design wins when coupled with the T1000," said Mark Litvack, director of business development, RMI Corporation. "Now that both PCIe and PCI-X bus support are available, our customers can take advantage of our full range of XLS and XLR processor families."
The T1000 series allows networking OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to develop a single content processing solution for the entire performance spectrum, from entry-level to high-end systems. Using the same regular expression rules, OEMs can deploy any device in the LSI content processor product portfolio without significant additional effort, saving engineering expense and shortening time to market.
"The addition of PCI-X to the T1000 series opens up a new market of embedded applications," said Randy Smerik, senior vice president, Network Components Division, LSI. "Now, more OEMs can deploy a wider range of multicore processors by designing systems that provide more intelligence, better control and tighter security than ever before."
In addition to providing real-time performance, Tarari solutions offload the system CPU (central processing unit). Designers have the option to reduce CPU clock frequency or to decrease system cost and cut power consumption by using fewer CPU cores.
LSI Tarari T1000 support for PCI-X is available now.

Motorola M55 Newest shock resistant phone

Mobile phone companies manufacture various kinds of phones. the common disadvantage in mobile phones are , if you drop it to the floor, it may broke. but as a solution Motorola has made shock resistant phone to rough usage. this phone operates between -10C to 50C.This is a another upcoming phone which may be available on middle of year 2009. M55 is a 2G phone which has 3.5 inch TFT touch screen. it's a PDA device and runs with windows mobile 6.1 OS. even this phone is bit large, it has full QWERTY keypad at the front. M55 has 2MP camera with LED flash. Motorola M55 has very powerful hardware features. it has Intel PXA270 520 MHz CPU and 256Mb RAM. the internal memory is 128Mb but you can extend it up to 8GB with SD memory cards. M55 has another special feature. it has 1D and 2D barcode scanners. also M55 has full featured GPA receiver with A-GPS support.

All Features

- Shock resistant

- Drop-to-concrete resistance up to 1.2m

- Operating temperature

-10C to 50C

- Push-to-talk service

- Snap

-on magnetic stripe reader

- 1D and 2D barcode scanners

- MP3/AAC music player

- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Asus nuvifone G60 the full face touchscreen Linux powered phone

After launching apple i-phone, the new trend has born. that is full face touchscreen phones. now Samsung and LG are pioneers of these kind of phones. now asus has launched this type phone, but is it very special one. this phone is very similar to apple i-phone in features. but it runs with Linux operating System. there are lot of mobile phones which runs with linux OS, but most of them are not popular brands. but remember Google Android is also a linux based OS.Asus nuvifone has 3.55 inch full face TFT touchscreen. the internal memory is 4Gb and it supports up to 16Gb memory cards. nuvifone is a 3G phone which supports three 3G bands. also it allows 7.2Mbps HSDPA internet connectivity. G60 has built in full featured GPS receiver with A-GPS support. also it has built in Google maps application. Asus nuvifone has good business features. it has full featured organizer and Document viewer which suppports many file types such as PDF,Word and exel. the camera is 3.15 Mp and maximum picture resolution is 2048x1536 pixels.