cyrenepenya: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

E3 2012: Geoff Keighley ‏teases major publisher reveals for Microsoft press conference

While we did our level-headed best to provide our thoughts and logical assumptions on Microsoft’s E3 2012 announcements at the company’s press conference on June 4th, Spike TV and GameTrailers’ Geoff Keighley has today teased that a series of exciting new reveals will be made by major publishers during the show.

Publishers and developers such as Capcom, Harmonix, Square Enix and more are said to be unveiling new content (and perhaps even new games?) as part of Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, ‘Xbox Entertainment Evolved.’

Don’t take our word for it - The Dean has the scoop in this teaser trailer:

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Whatever could these content reveals be? New tracks for Harmonix’s Rock Band Blitz or the studio’s Dance Central 3? Exclusive features for EA Sports’ Madden NFL 13 or FIFA 13? Something new and exciting for Resident Evil 6 or Hitman: Absolution?

Set your mind free with speculation below!

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Google Voice Search learns Latin American Spanish, Indonesian, and Malaysian

Google Voice Search has just introduced localizations for Latin America, Indonesia and Malaysia, enabling native language search for hundreds of millions of users.

Google's official blog post offers some interesting insights into the process of collecting and analyzing the speech data needed to expand support. Thousands of hours were spent gathering voice samples and choosing key regional accents to analyze, and International Program Manager Linne Ha is clearly very appreciative of the Google users who helped the company complete the expansion. Without an enthusiastic base of users to lend a hand, Google Voice Search's polyglot powers would have been nearly impossible to deliver.

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Samsung Galaxy S III lands at independent UK retailers

With the launch day buzz dying down, and handsets finally making their way out to consumers, the Samsung Galaxy S III has gone on sale at Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U stores across the UK today. Carphone sends word that the phone is available in-store and online, with on-contract prices starting at £28 per month with no up-front cost on certain networks. Meanwhile Phones4U says that Samsung's new flagship is its "biggest-selling handset of the year" across its 600 UK stores, though the retailer offers no specific pre-sales numbers.

Elsewhere, all five major UK networks are offering the Galaxy S III on-contract, though the phone is only available in "marble white" for the moment, due to production issues with the "pebble blue" version.

Keep watching AC for exhaustive coverage of the phone, its hardware and its software in the days ahead.

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Google bids $900 million for Nortel's patents to protect against litigation trolls

Nortel, once one of the biggest telecoms company in the world but now in the death throes of bankruptcy, has selected Google's $900 million bid for its patent portfolio as the stalking horse bid. This doesn't mean that Google will automatically win Nortel's massive array of telecoms patents, but it does mean that Google is the preferred buyer.

Google, which has a history of lobbying for patent law reform, has been the target of many patent litigation suits. Google's relative infancy means that it has a lot less patents in the vault than big-hitters like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM, and buying Nortel's portfolio of 6,000 patents could provide better protection against patent litigation in the future. It's worth noting that both Apple and RIM have showed interested in the portfolio, too.

Mashable speculates that the patents -- which are nearly all telecoms-related -- will be used to defend against Oracle's attacks on Android's use of Java. We reckon that Google is simply looking to cover its future endeavors in the world of networking. In the absence of patent law reform, and continued threats to net neutrality, owning a bunch of telecoms patents sounds like a very sensible move.

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A Great Firewall? Google Now Warns Chinese Users When Search Terms Could Cause “Connection Issues”

Those who don't live or haven't recently traveled to China may not have experienced this first hand, but Google Search has been known to be "inconsistent and unreliable" in mainland China -- to use Google's words. Error messages like "This webpage is not available" or "The connection was reset" are common and those errant queries then prevent users from searching again for a period of time. In a blog post today, Google's search team said that, after "taking a hard look" at its own systems, the problem isn't emanating from Google's end, and is instead "closely correlated with searches for a particular subset of queries." As a result, Google search will now be notifying Chinese users when their search terms are likely to cause these interruptions.

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Lenovo K800 Intel phone launches in China

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Back at CES in January, we went hands on with the first consumer Android device powered by Intel. While it can no longer claim to be first -- the Lava Xolo beat it to market -- the Lenovo K800 has now finally made it on sale, albeit in China for now.

Powered by a 1.6GHz Intel processor over a 4.5-inch IPS display with 1GB of RAM, the K800 should stack up quite nicely. It does launch running Gingerbread, but as Intel demonstrated themselves, this is a highly optimized version of Gingerbread. The K800 is available for RMB 3299 ($524) but as yet there is no word on availability elsewhere.

There is still no sign of any Intel powered Android devices hitting North American shores, but the UK market is set to receive its first in the near future. Orange UK will be releasing their own brand device, codenamed Santa Clara, which on specs at least is a match for the K800. Orange will be pulling the wraps off the Santa Clara on May 31 in London, and of course Android Central will be there to go hands on.

via The Verge

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Video: Watch Toyota celebrate UAE launch of GT 86

Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Performance, Etc., Videos, Toyota, Middle East

Toyota has officially launched the company's GT 86 sportscar in the United Arab Emirates. The Japanese automaker rolled out the rear-drive hero with a fancy new video shot in the hills around Fujairah. With plenty of drifting, tire smoke and slow motion, the clip serves as a proper introduction to the lightweight coupe. Judging by the quick video, there are a few market-specific changes to the UAE Toyota GT 86, including the availability of one very massive rear wing. The piece has more than a passing resemblance to the exaggerated aero work found on the lusty Subaru WRX STI sedan.

Will the Toyota GT 86 find favor in the UAE? We certainly think it's got a shot. If there's a more car-obsessed culture on this planet than the one found in the U.S., it lies in the well-funded Middle East. You can check out the launch video for yourself by scrolling below, or head over to the Toyota UAE Facebook page for a little more information.

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Add playback hotkeys to Amazon Cloud Player with a Chrome extension

Sure, Amazon's Cloud Player works -- as long as you're in the U.S. or willing to do some tinkering -- but it's fairly simplistic at the moment. There are plenty of features missing which we'd like to see added -- but since Cloud Player is a Web app we don't have to wait for Amazon!

Google Chrome users, for example, can add playback hotkeys with an extension called keyMazony. Once installed, you'll have keyboard control of your Amazon Cloud Player queue. keyMazony commands will work as long as you're in the same Chrome window as Cloud Player, even if its tab doesn't have focus. The key combinations are customizable as well -- just make sure you don't set up a combo that conflicts with another extension or Chrome's built-in keyboard shortcuts.

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Official: Mercedes-Benz releases 2013 GL63 AMG details for U.S.

Filed under: Performance, SUV, Mercedes-Benz

Up until now, there has never been a proper AMG version of the high-and-mighty Mercedes-Benz GL-Class. That all changes for the 2013 model year, as the automaker has just released the full slate of details about the upcoming GL63 AMG, set to arrive in U.S. showrooms in the first quarter of next year.

Cool as this GL63 may be, the upcoming G63 AMG (and not-for-U.S. G65 AMG) indeed win in the absolute awesomeness department.

The GL63 AMG formula is simple: take the new-for-2013 GL-Class and add Mercedes' potent 5.5-liter twin-turbo V8 engine. Here, the fire-breathing eight-pot produces 550 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque, meaning the big, all-wheel-drive SUV can sprint to 60 miles per hour in just 4.9 seconds on its way to an electronically limited top speed of 155 mph. Start/stop is standard with this engine, and all that grunt is routed to the ground via Merc's seven-speed AMG Speedshift transmission.

Visual cues like more pronounced front air vents topped with LED running lamps set the GL63 apart from its lesser kin, as do the aluminum trim on the lower front fascia and aggressive-looking 21-inch five-spoke wheels that hide new red brake calipers. As you would expect, the interior is fitted with sporty upgrades like a new steering wheel, AMG sport seats and leather-wrapped everything.

Pricing has yet to be announced, though we fully expect it to command well over $100,000. Scroll down for the full details in Merc's press blast.

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Apple orders iCab iOS browser to cripple JavaScript modules

The developer of iCab Mobile, a feature-rich alternative to the Safari Web browser on iPad and iPhone, has been ordered by Apple to remove its ability to download and install JavaScript modules.

Presumably it's not the fact that iCab can execute JavaScript that's causing Apple to apoplectically puff and splutter, but rather its ability to download modules. Both Apple and Google frown upon apps that contain market-like functionality, and someone at Apple probably thought that iCab's JavaScript modules looked like a bit too much like discrete apps.

Alexander Clauss, iCab's developer, has rather a lot to say on the matter. "Maybe if I would have called the modules 'smart bookmarks' and would have made installing them much more complicated, Apple would have never asked to remove the ability to download them from the internet. The great user experience of installing modules has probably created a suspicion that these modules are more than just a piece of JavaScript code. From a pure technical point of view, if Apple does not allow to download modules (JavaScript code), Apple would also have to disallow to load web pages in general, because these do also contain JavaScript code."

In conclusion, to circumvent Apple's draconian decree, iCab Mobile now simply comes bundled with some 20 JavaScript modules. The ability to download modules made by third-party developers has been disabled, however -- but even then, Clauss says that you can simply contact him and ask for your module to be bundled with the next version of iCab.

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E3 2012: All-female assassin crew featured in Hitman: Absolution teaser image

Ahead of E3 2012 in Los Angeles next week, Square Enix and IO Interactive have sent out a teaser image for an upcoming Hitman: Absolution trailer, due for release tomorrow.

The all-new Hitman: Absolution E3 2012 trailer goes live this afternoon (May 30th) and, judging by the teaser image, we can expect to see an all-female squad of soldiers and/or assassins featured in the video:

Will series protagonist Agent 47 have to defeat this collective during the events of Hitman: Absolution? Perhaps work with the crew to complete objectives? Does the image point to a different game mode entirely, or even multiplayer or co-operative play?

We’ll find out later today, but you’re free to speculate until then.

Hitman: Absolution is due out on November 20th around the world, across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC - and we’re very excited for it!

Look over El33tonline’s extensive previous coverage of Hitman: Absolution to get yourself ready with gameplay videos, in-game screenshots and lots more details.

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Report: BMW banking on carbon fiber costs to broaden M range

Filed under: Hybrid, Performance, Plants/Manufacturing, BMW, Electric, Diesel, Luxury

There once was a time when BMW only produced a handful of its models in high-performance M guise. There was the M3, the M5, and that was pretty much it. Now, however, it offers M models based on the 1 Series, 3 Series, 5 Series, 6 Series, X5 and X6. And that's only expected to grow.

The first on the docket, says BMW North America CEO (and former M chief) Ludwig Willisch speaking with TheDetroitBureau.com, will be an M7. The Bavarian automaker has long resisted going down the same road as the Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG and Audi S8, but that's slated to change in the near future. But while the X5 M and X6 M have been hot sellers, Willisch rules out the possibility of M versions of the smaller X1 and X3 crossovers, as well as bringing the M550d xDrive super-diesel-sport wagon (or presumably its crossover counterparts) to North America.

Of course, BMW could opt to apply a similar sub-M formula to the 7 Series like it's doing with the M135i. Either way, BMW is counting on the reduced cost and labor involved in manufacturing carbon fiber components for the viability of both its performance vehicles and its environmentally friendly i range.

As our compatriots at the Bureau note, the engineers at McLaren needed some 3,000 hours of labor to produce the carbon fiber components for the McLaren F1 over a decade ago. By the time it started building the SLR for Mercedes-Benz, it had cut that down to 400 hours. And with the new MP4-12C, it takes them less than six hours. As a result, costs have come down too, resulting in a lower street price for each successive model: $1 million, $400,000 and $250,000, respectively. And that's a model on which other automakers - like BMW - can seek to capitalize.

BMW banking on carbon fiber costs to broaden M range originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Windows 8 getting a built-in PDF reader, Metro-style

For what seems like an eternity, Download Squad readers have reacted to news of security exploits targeting Adobe Reader with a common sentiment: why doesn't Microsoft build its own secure PDF reader into Windows? Apparently the Windows 8 team agrees, and they're working away at an application called Modern Reader which is exactly that.

From the handful of screenshots Paul Thurrott has shared, it's clear that Modern Reader has been built with Metro in mind. You can see the Reader back button in the top-left corner of the yellow image and the minimal page navigation bar on the right. We've posted some larger images we managed to scrape from Google's cache after the break.

Thurrott also mentions that Modern Reader is the first program spotted which is built using AppX -- a packaging technology that may allow developers to roll a single build to both Windows 8 desktops and Windows Phone 8 mobile devices.

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Mac OS X Lion Preview 2 released, introduces mega exciting leather bound iCal skin

This is one of those posts that could probably be condensed into a tweet: Apple has released the second Preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. If you're running Preview 1, it looks like you'll first receive a small update via Software Update, and then you can download Preview 2 from the Mac App Store.

There has been some speculation that Apple is getting close to a release or Golden Master build, but judging by 9to5 Mac's initial findings there's definitely some way to go. The Golden Master will probably appear at, or just before, the Apple WWDC in June.

So far, it's looking like the only changes in Preview 2 are the leather bound iCal skin that you can see above, and the main iChat window now combines your AIM, Bonjour and Jabber contacts, like Adium. We're sure that more details will emerge throughout the day, though, and there's bound to be lots of invisible changes, too. We'll update this post when we find out more.

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Add playback hotkeys to Amazon Cloud Player with a Chrome extension

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Massive PixelJunk sale brings $1 games to the PlayStation Store today!

If you’re a fan of Q-Games’ PixelJunk series then make sure you stop by the US PlayStation Store sometime during the next few days. All seven PixelJunk titles on PSN will be receiving crazy discounts, with Racers, Monsters, Eden, and Shooter only costing a dollar apiece and Monsters Deluxe (PSP), Shooter 2, and SideScroller each selling for half their usual price.

These specials will be available when the PlayStation Store updates later today and will run for one week until May 15th.

Dylan Cuthbert, founder of Q-Games, says the sale is to celebrate five years of PixelJunk and to get people excited for the release of innovative PlayStation Move title PixelJunk 4am when the PS Store updates next Tuesday.

Here’s a trailer showing a montage of the charmingly retro Pixeljunk games that will go on sale later today: