The next Twitter? -BBC News

14 March 2011 Last updated at 23: 49 GMT By Matt Danzico BBC News, Austin, Texas Scvngr's Seth Priebatsch on how the "game layer" could help societyYou can almost feel a buzz on the fingertips of attendees shaking hands at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival in AustinTexas - one of the world's biggest networking opportunities for the web community.

A little micro-blogging site Twitter launched here called as a start-up in 2007 - and there are plenty of people attending this year who want to emulate their success.

The technology enthusiast behind a myriad start-up companies have flocked to Texas this week for one reason: to get their applications on to the mobile phones of trend-setting early adopters.

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare, a mobile application allowing users to "check-in" at rentals, from cafes to concerts to office buildings, and send that information to friends also using the app.

Foursquare launched here in 2009, picked up 5,000 users in four days and is now a sizeable social media player, boasting some seven million users. Mr Crowley says there are few other events where start-ups can accelerate both excitement about their companies and growth.

"It's a great little laboratory for developers," Mr Crowley says.

"[For us] it's one of these things where it really quickly spread in four days of the conference." It has turned into a really good launchpad for start-ups because you have just the right amount of people that are in this early adopt community, and they're down there specifically not so much to go to the conference, intended to go to the partieshang out and socialise.

"And a lot of the tools that people are really interested in building are tools that allow people to go out and socialise."

So what are some of the hottest applications in town this year - and who are the people behind them?

Scvngr is a location-based mobile app similar to Foursquare that asks individuals checking in to a location to complete challenges created by businesses, institutions or fans of the application.

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The reason we're at South by Southwest, and the reason everyone else is here, is that it's the most concentrated influx of exciting, fun, early adoption, tech people who are willing to try out anything at least once"

End Quote Seth Priebatsch Scvngr When a Scvngr user checks in to a locationlike a gym or restaurant, the application presents a list of real-world challenges - asking the individual to answer a question or riddle or to accept a dare to earn points and seek a reward. Discounts on products or free goods are then sometimes given to those that accomplish the tasks.

Scvngr chief executive Seth Priebatsch, a 22-year-old who refers to himself as the company's "chief ninja", gave the keynote speech this year at SXSW Interactive in front of 2,500 attendees and some 3,500 others who watched from screens in 11 other rooms at the convention centre.

He says that although the application was officially unveiled to consumers nine months ago, "the reason we're at South by Southwest, and the reason everyone else is here, is that it's the most concentrated influx of exciting, fun, early adoption, tech people who are willing to try out anything at least once."

"They are going to try it out at least once, and it's our job to try to win them over and try it out again and again."

Like Mr Crowley, Mr Priebatsch is interested in pushing characteristics typically associated with video games into a physical space through the company's app, which already claims 1. 2 m users.

Mr Priebatsch says social media companies, like Facebook, have built a "social layer" around the world that works successfully.

He now expects the next 10 years to be devoted to creating "the game layer" on top of society, which he thinks could fundamentally change how people interact with their environments.

The networking service Hashable, launched in October 2010, is attempting to do away with physical business cards and to work as a platform to facilitate business introductions, prompting people to leave their comfort zones and meet others.

Hashable CEO Mike Yavonditte on how his app could help change business networking

The service was built from the organisational functionality of Twitter tweetgift and uses these tags, like # lunch, # businessdrinks or # SXSW, to remind users where real world connections took place.

When a Hashable user meets a potential business connection, the e-mail address or Twitter username of that person is noted along with the location of the meeting, and that information is then sent to other friends and business colleagues using the application.

Users are also prompted to introduce people within their network whom they think would benefit from knowing each other. Making a connection earns the user credits known as "hash cred" and rankings based on the the amount of credits are led by those in your network.

Hashable chief executive Michael Yavonditte, who has spent much of his time at SXSW Interactive speaking to other tech heads about the new service, says the New York-based team is adding close to 1,000 users a day and has already signed up tens of thousands of business-minded individuals.

"We kept looking at number of gestures that normal white collar professionals perform on a regular basis: meetings, breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, drinks." "all of those things are incredibly important events, none of which make it to the internet," Mr Yavonditte says.

"and so we decided to create hashable in order to structure that information and share it with friends."

The start-up Instagram, has developed a photo-sharing application for the iPhone which enables people to take photographs and immediately share them with friends through a Twitter-style feed.

Instagram's Michael Krieger: ' We wanted to liberate photographs from mobile phones'

The San Francisco-based firm debuted only five months ago and already claims an astounding 2. 5 m users.

Co-founder Michael Krieger says the company is helping to explore the future of the digital photograph by allowing individuals to instantaneously post and receive feedback on each of their photos.

"We thought back to the 1950s and 60s when instant cameras started coming out, and even earlier with the Polaroid camera," Mr Krieger says, adding that people were excited because the cameras offered immediate ways to share photos with friends and family.

Goal, he says, the problem with digital photographs has been that many people upload them infrequently, so they can be left sitting on devices for a long time and not be seen.

The application is already in widespread use among the tech elite and has been used by many during the past four days as a way to SXSW Interactive catalogue.

Mr Krieger says part of the reason he is attending SXSW is because "it has the potential to launch you into a pretty awesome spot".

"this is our first sxsw, so there are people we wanted to correspond with and users with wanted to meet up with," he told the BBC over the phone, while attending a meet-up photography in downtown Austin to see how people are using the app.

"we wanted to get in front of people who have not seen us yet."

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The city of money of style - Toronto Star surf

Cathy Young, who uses Facebook, Twitter, Skype and other forms of social networking, said that for two years she did not buy anything online.Carlos Osorio/The Toronto Star

As 60 years who has taken a "little hard knocks," Cathy Young approached social media and trade online with extreme caution.

But once convinced progress in encryption and verification had made the web a safer place to do business and pursue social links, she jumped in with both feet.

"Two years did not purchase anything," said the resident of Toronto, a singer and actress who won a Juno for most promising female vocalist in the beginning of the 1970s. "But they have done much more secure servers and browsers, and it is so convenient."

After talk of measures to protect themselves, to establish a separate web identity and set up a p.o. box for deliveries of products, Young is now a regular visitor to auction online, Facebook and the MayoClinic.com, among other regional settings of the web.

And it is far from alone.

The 75-year-old makes the font bigger on his iPad, so it can read the text on the device of baby boomers who have become their own online travel agents, the so-called silver surfers are especially oriented USA respectively on the web in record numbers.

"They were later adapters," said McLean Greaves, Vice President of interactive media at base of Toronto ZoomerMedia Ltd. "but when they feel that the bugs have been established, they are around it."

He noted the data which show the boomers represent the demographic growth in the use of social media, text messaging and expenditure on equipment, including computers tablet, smartphones and e-readers.

It is a shift that represents a "tremendous opportunity" for Facebook online marketing experts and social media more boomers-centric and less crowded sites seeking to leverage their community of users in a stable source of income.

The question is whether relatively circumspect baby boomers will be more resistant than their younger counterparts to advertising on social networks and share their personal information and surfing stories with marketing specialists.

Greaves said the age group 60 70-plus is "highly suspicious" of online marketing, especially if it is formulated, a position as a "friend" in a group on Facebook.

"They don't want be unwanted messages and that they do not want be manipulated.".

Added Greaves boomers to marry an e-commerce, with fewer reservations if they had control over the use of their personal data.

Still, according to Young, Facebook banner ads can be useful if the products or services meet its specific needs, adding that she saw the marketing of social media as the inevitability.

Mary Furlong, whose companies advice firm in reaching senior markets, said boomers breathe a new life in the web business.

"This is the first cohort of elderly Internet savvy and they seek not to retire," she said.

Born between 1946 and 1964, and associated with the redefinition of traditional values, a boomer turns 60 the United States every 11 seconds, Furlong added.

"This is a generation that has a level of mental acuity that has not been seen before."

Individuals aged 65 and more are still less than 20 per cent of the active Internet universe, but their number is increasing rapidly. The number of elderly people online at the United States increased by more than 55%, 11.3 million of active users in November 2004 to 17.5 million in November 2009.

Among people over 65 years, the growth of women online in the period exceeded the growth of men by six percentage points.

The age group 70-75, according to Pew Internet and American Life Project was the largest increase of the use of the Internet since 2005. The survey found that 45 per cent of this age group is now online, compared with 26 per cent in 2005.

Search for health information are the third most popular online activity with the highest age group, after email and online research.

In addition, many seniors find exciting social networking and enjoy connecting with family and friends in the virtual world. They are the creation of their own blogs and, more often, to connect with their family and friends by joining Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

"Social media are giving the elderly a voice, and for a generation who felt isolated and sometimes overlooked, is no small feat, said Sarah Hoit, CEO of my Village of way".which designs social networks online for seniors.

And research published last week shows that Canadians continue to devote much more time online than people in other countries, with a growing number of older users, the growth of propulsion.

The numbers for 2010 published by comScore, the use of Internet monitoring company, has concluded that Canadians spent an average 43.5 hours online in the fourth quarter of 2010, almost double the average of the hours 23.1 surfed by the 11 countries studied.

Canadians also visited on different Web sites mean 95.2 during the period of three months, 15 more than their American counterparts, who considered the second most, and 42 more than the average in the world.

The number of Canadians who went online at least once in this neighbourhood also increased by 2% in 2009 - 24,989,000 visitors unique up to 24,602,000 in 2009.

Over 55 encouraged this increase, with 12 per cent more people in this age of statement group used that people did in 2009. Now population includes 19 per cent of users of the Internet, a segment of wider than the 18-24 (10 per cent), 25 to 34 years (18 per cent) and 35 to 44 years (18 per cent).

Coupon Web sites, such as SwarmJam or Groupon, drew 36 per cent more visits in 2010 that the previous year.

The study also followed social networking of Canadians, with Facebook (7 per cent), Twitter (11%) and LinkedIn (35 per cent) all claiming significant increases in unique visitors.

Site MySpace and blogs WordPress had their visitor counts shrink considerably - from 42 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively.

Websites, such as Hotmail and Gmail, e-mail also witnessed a decrease of 28 per cent of the number of daily visits.

ComScore study examined patterns in line of residents in the Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Brazil, Japan, Korea South, Russia and Germany.

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Android Trojan horse highlights risk the opening of the markets - Wired News

Android users travelling outside the official Android Market must be careful which apps they install. (Of a HTC Droid Eris) photo by Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Android fans have long defended philosophy "open" Google smartphone platform. The recent emergence of a new Trojan horse in unofficial places Android app, however, may cause users to think twice about how open they want the platform to be.

The application in question, Android.Walkinwat, appears to be a pirated, free another version application, "walking and text." The true version is available at the official purchase of market Google Android for a low price ($1.54).

If you download the wrong app (from informal markets for Android apps) and install it, it redirects you to the actual application in the Android market - but in the background, it sends the following message embarrassing for your complete directory via SMS:

Hey, just downloaded an app hacked off the coast of the internet, [sic] walk and text for Android. IM stupid and good market, it is encrypted only 1 buck.Do not steal like me!

Blatant spelling and grammatical errors aside, the text message serves as a reminder of the risks for those willing to go outside the official market for applications.

"Someone downloaded the app, inserted their malware and it downloaded in other non-official markets," Chief product Symantec mobile team John Engels said article in an interview.

In other words, if you go outside the official market, things may not be what they seem, and there is no guarantee that what you download, this is what you really want to.

Google maintains clear policies on all applications that are downloaded on the official Android market, and developers quite well know in advance what are these policies and how not to break. Whenever an application in clear violation of the policies of Google presents on the market - as, say, a piece of malicious software - engineers Google's Android are often quick to quash it.

But if you're not one for the regulations and rules, wicked and want to see what the markets not sanctioned by Google have to offer, simply access them on a device Android is for you to check a box on the settings page, allowing your phone install applications from "unknown sources".

To some extent, this is not a huge problem for the novice user. Many external applications are hosted on web sites that users like your grandmother probably are not going to file sharing. And unless they have tried to install these external applications by musical them, they have probably never disabled permissions from sources unknown box first.

But the beginning of the last week of new App Store Amazon may have changed. To install App Store Amazon on an Android device, you must first clear this permissions check box. While there may be no immediate risk with downloading apps from App Store the Amazon, he opens the door for users to enable the other informal - and therefore more risky - apps must be installed on their devices, from other sources.

"As soon as you flip the switch and go from the Android Market, which is the place where most people go, and then you put yourself at some risk,"a security researcher Charlie Miller told Wired in a previous interview."."

"The threat will persist as long as people continue to download software pirated networks peer-to-peer," analysts research threat Webroot Armando Orozco and Andrew Brandt said article. They say that sticking to the Android Market is your safest bet, but if you're still forced to go outside the box official for your applications, whether it's Amazon the App Store or another informal market, you should "carefully examine the permissions of the demandeset app does not install it if it is to have access to certain functions (like the)" (possibility to send SMS messages) that the application should not need access to the. »

But is not staying within the defeat of the Android Market the purpose of choosing a platform with a philosophy of "open"? If you want a more strict system, closed with stringent regulations on its applications through a review process, you can both buy an iPhone.

"Android users enabling music is not necessarily to piracy or the installation of applications from unsafe sources," says Alicia diVittorio, Lookout Mobile Security spokesman. "In fact, it's great to have another source for consumers download applications of a trade mark recognized as Amazon." Indeed, Amazon Appstore is not much different from Apple App Store: the two companies require an intense process of review and approval prior to any submitted developer of applications available to purchase.

Essentially, there is an inherent risk that comes with download apps for a device with an attitude of openness as the Android. Even the official market is susceptible to infiltration by malicious software, as evidenced in the corridor of malicious applications from the store this month. But, in an area relatively free and open, as the Android, the risk remains the admission price.

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The protection of personal information group minimizes the grab Google Buzz - register

Equipment for the defence of the interests of the U.S. web downplayed reports that suggest that it is $1 domains. 75 m on a class action settlement between the protection of privacy and Google groups, suite spring gaff in Mountain View with Buzz social network.

The Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg, told The Register that "money is not the main point" in the opposition brought before a district court of California earlier this week.

"Google lawyers did not want funds to organizations which were actually standing in society on the issue of Buzz," he told us, "and which is the main point here."

Groups that have benefited from funds included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Brookings Institution.

Outside of the deposit, seen by El Reg, EPIC did not a public statement more on its beef on the settlement of continuation of the class action with Google.

On Wednesday, March 30, he praised a separate settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Google on Buzz, who stated that the web hub would be subject to verification of the biennial of privacy for the next 20 years.

EPIC, who led the initial Buzz of the FTC complaint, described this gesture as "far-reaching", though he was filing his objections against the regulations of the class action suit in court.

"It is the most important decision of privacy by the Commission to date." "For users of the internet, it should lead to higher standards of privacy and better protection of the personal data," said EPIC.

Reuters, stressed today that EPIC had requested $1. 75 m from the colony, after the group represented eight organizations for the protection of personal information online in its court filing earlier this week.

"There is very little national organizations truly focused on privacy online and even less that play an important role in the measures of protection of public policy and consumers to protect the privacy of commercial rights - non-governmental - interest""the filing reads."

"While the two industrient-financing and non-industry-funded groups are potentially worthy candidates for funding for many reasons, we believe it is imperative for the purposes of the establishment and the benefit of the class that organizations generally do not receive substantial industry funding allocated most of the funding in this case."

Last November, Google contacted all Gmail users via an email in which he confirmed he had reached a settlement in a trial in his privacy - lite Buzz social network has been bolted to everyone by default mailbox in early 2010.

"Shortly after its launch, we have heard a number of people who were concerned about the protection of personal information." In addition, we were sued by a group of users of Buzz and recently reached a settlement in this case, "Google wrote at the time."

He added that little money of $8. 5 m Fund would be used to distribute grants to groups for the protection of personal information of the internet. In addition, Google confirmed that money should be used to pay the lawyers and people who sued the company.

Google has raised the Buzz in February 2010. Launched, it automatically exposes most frequent Gmail contacts of users for the public interwebs. Users were given the option to hide the list from the view of the public, but many complained that cut the social network is tricky as a check box to do so is not displayed in their mailbox.

Days later, Google moved the location of the check box in an effort to reduce to silence complaints. It has also changed how treated Buzz contacts of the user. But these tweaks came too late for some, who responded in contentious fashion. ®

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The Gaddafi regime ' cracking ' as new defections loom-Belfast Telegraph

David Cameron's Government has shown it in urgent conversations with up to 10 higher figures in the regime of Colonel Gaddafi creaking about possible defection, after the dramatic arrival in Britain of chief henchman of the Libyan dictator for many of his 40 years in power.

As a former Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa (below) to "talk voluntarily" British officials yesterday, it was reported, was the Libyan regime to limit the damage of the desertion, suggests that he was exhausted and suffering mental health problems struggling.

But her ability to stop the domino effect turned out to be limited. It is understood that British officials have been in contact with up to 10 leading Libyan officials on following Mr Koussa of lead and forsake Gaddafi.

The apostasy of Mr Koussa, who flew in Farnborough airport from Tunisia on Wednesday, was seized upon by Mr Cameron as proof that the regime was crumbling.

Speaking at a press conference at Downing Street, Mr Cameron said: "the decision by the former Minister of Libyan to come to London to resign is a decision by someone on top. It tells a compelling story of despair right at the top of the crumbling and rotten Gaddafi regime. "

As Libyan diplomats at the United Nations said they expected further defections and reports emerged that a senior figure in the London Embassy of the country had changed sides, said Mr. Cameron others should now "come to their senses".

Meanwhile, speculation in Tripoli that a series of defections was not forthcoming.

And it was reinforced by the confirmation that Abussalam Ali Treki, a top Libyan official who as Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador of the UNITED NATIONS served, on the "spilling of blood" by government troops had quit.

Rumours by the Libyan capital most closely focused on Abu Omar said Dudali, head of the foreign secret service; Mohammed Zwei, the |Secretary of the General People's Congress; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, who accompanied Moussa Koussa to at least as far as Tunis on the first leg of what turned out to be his flight, and — despite a statement that he in his Office in Tripoli was — Shokri Ghanem, Minister of oil.

Rebels claimed that Dudali has been sent to "liquidate" Mr Koussa, but instead became a member of a group of officials at the airport of Tunisia's Djerba who were planning to defect.

The disappearing henchmen ... who has jumped ship, and which can follow

Mustafa Mohamed Abud al-Jeleil

Libya the former Justice Minister resigned on 21 February on the regime "the excessive use of force against the demonstrators". He later claimed that Colonel Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing.

Al-Ali Abdussalam Treki

The senior Libyan politician defected allegedly yesterday after decades of service to the Gaddafi regime, including stints as Minister of Foreign Affairs and representative of the United Nations.

Adbdullah Senussi

The whereabouts of Colonel Gaddafi brother-in-law — who is also his top security adviser — were unknown yesterday, leading to speculation that he joined the ranks of defectors to could.

Shukri Ghanem

Libyan opposition television reported that Libya oil Minister one of four officials waiting at the airport of Tunisia's Djerba on Wednesday in the hope of joining Moussa Koussa in London.

Said Omar Abu Dudali

Gaddafi ordered on hearing before overflowing Moussa Koussa of the head of Tripoli of foreign intelligence service, Mr Dudali, to "liquidate" him, according to sources. Mr Dudali was later said to be one of the officials at the airport of Djerba.

Mohammed Abu-al-Qasim al-Zwei (Secretary of people's Congress), al-Ubaydi Al-Ati (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs), Abdel Fattah al-Abidi Younes (Interior Minister) and the former Ambassador of Libya to the UN Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham.

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HP Taps Google print in the sky server - register

HP has announced that its ePrint printers are the first to support Google cloud Print, a service that allows to print via the interwebs.

"With HP ePrint and cloud-aware printers, you get the best print experience via Google cloud Print," sang Stephen Nigro Chief of HP Imaging and printing group in a statement, canned.

Google Director of product management Mike Jazayeri also took a moment for crow, and clarify ePrint that HP printers - available in incarnations OfficeJet, PhotoSmart, envy and LaserJet - are not the only instruments to benefit from cloud service business. "While the cloud printing is possible with any printer that is connected to a PC,"he said, "users can achieve a more simple, intuitive experience by printing directly on a cloud-ready printer." ""

In other words, if your printer can talk cloud print APIs of Google - as do the HP ePrint devices - you can print directly to them by sending your print job to the servers of Google, which checks if your cloud Print-enabled printer is registered with the service. If so, the task of printing goes offshore and your printer spitting it.

If your printer does not Print-enabled clouds, it must be connected to a PC connected to the intertubes.

In a blog Thursday, Abhijit Kalamkar Google software engineer ticket boasted that "you can already use Google cloud print on notebooks of chromium" releases mobile Gmail and Google Docs, a third-party Android applicationa Chrome extension, j and Firefox Add-on.

Mention of the "cahiers chome" Kalamkar, of course, refers to a rather limited of the property, a model - set and one, the Cr-48 Google is still a baby beta, available only for developers just one select, shapers of opinion and other souls to chance.

Cloud of Google Print was revealed in April, as a service to support based on a browser Chrome OS the mountain view, which was intended to appear at the end of 2010. At the time of his announcement, print clouds also said to be able to print from other devices, while Chrome OS was his main reason for "being."

When Chrome OS dragged its expiry date - Google says now that he appear you in "mid-2011" in Acer and Samsung devices - cloud print took a life of its own, launched in December 2010.

But it was expected Thursday that all parties have gathered: cloud Print, clouds Print-ready apps such as Gmail and Google Docs mobile versions and now Cloud Print-ready HP printers. ®

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3Ds: PSP Killer? -TheSixthAxis

The latest handheld, the battle has been won for a long time, but may be a second, much more intense and interesting one around the corner.

The original Fish stubs outside of the PSP has been cleaning the hardware sales and very bad for software sales. Recurring, tweaked, near-disaster of iterations which was leading to the PSPGo is not helped it get a lot more traction in the West. Even in Japan "Go is often embarrassed by the sales charts for the takenevassa so much more than its competitors.

Piracy has been a big problem for the older models, and the uniform prices and less supported (at least of third parties), followed by the latest firmware for the digital distribution model, all had a deleterious effect on the Sony is a powerful little console image.

The Nintendo console is another story. The piracy problems have not made a similar same effect from the sale of the software (though it is sometimes played an important role in the fight), a slow burning flagship titles, which maintains a number of months, even years, longer than the normal industry with their retail price. DS-area relatively cheap production costs means that Nintendo had to make a profit on the very early days and it has long been the market leader in the total number of unit sales.

But it is all history. Handheld race is hotting again, a large mobile gaming market kahmaisu shovels the casual and dedicated to Making the West News on Apple's handhelds with Zorn.

Nintendo 3DS is the entry into force of the water.Is probably fair to say that the Nintendo 3DS has had lukewarm reception. Critics are cynically moaned about the strong first-party launch titles, and all line up, despite the lack of contrast, sales seem to have been good as expected. At least We were told to "sell" the wait seems to take place far away. It has yet to make money, of course, with the recent reckonings, that production costs were $ 105.

The Coordination Centre for the over-stated development group could determine whether the problem has also been a bit of a character to the start. At the same time, it is almost certainly not as big a problem as some would seem to imply, it is the bad press around the console to start and which is never good.

But 3DS makes so many things right now, it has lost its PSP graphical superiority of (one or two labels aside, what I have seen, the 3DS, is equal to or greater than the PSP-standards) of ageing, it is difficult to see that the old dog left in life.

The title is, of course, 3D-gimmick. It is impressive, when it was just right and you will probably see some very interesting and to respond to the use of in the future. I do not think it is a killer feature. To me the power of the 3DS ' font size, the solid construction and the fantastic analog controller (circle Pad) all in the form of a solid base, which allows the console to the familiar and the company's position.

I think augmented reality functionality is intended to be a lot of interesting and important property specifies the name of the future. AR gaming only begins to take off from the beginning of the Apple iPhone to another serious and its use, move the Kinect (start party, EyePet, etc.) and even by pushing the spotlight to the PSP (Invizimals). I'm certainly industry analyst, but I think it is more in the future, as is the 3D AR and the Nintendo 3DS is the first handheld computer, even the first dedicated console, start the wizard.

However, we shall, at least in 3DS Max is a connected lifestyle. Add friends to the new system is still not perfect, but it is a huge step in the right direction. Combined method to play with friends are all there to make the best of the box to the right developers. SpotPass and StreetPass functions, as the case may be, to make mobile social media-device (though in a limited way), and the desire to play the modern demand or printed. These are all things that are either older standards or decent improvements for new implementations, which is wise to ignore.

Now is the life in the fall of the PSP. Success (at least critically) franchises Metal Gear Solid, and the God of War feel very similar to the perspective of a technology platform with instances, rather than a continuous barrage of software quality. The release of the 3D face off PSP with a longstanding interest of graphical and iOS devices are targeting the market more relaxed stability will be the end of the increasingly difficult to see if YOUR PSP can Score victory.

Sony is the NGP will appear in the bags.Of course, this all leads us to the Sony handhelds for the next generation. Seems that the powerful PSP DS value fought a hard battle of gimmicky has taught the Sony experience possible. Looks like a monster, the NGP and the power that the properties. Once again, it will go significantly less powerful, gimmicky, computer to compete in the market. But this time may be different.

Sony will invest heavily in security to prevent doubt, piracy. Even if nothing ever is going to be in the future to ensure respect for the principle of the pirate freely, they should be able to buy a decent head start themselves hackers. The physical media that they would return at least learned how the lack of success on the PSPGo and flash memory instead of the expensive lessons taught, the battery drain of proprietary disk format is ready: o-brainer. Two big hurdles, then jumped in.

Multiple input options (buttons, touch, gyro, rear contact, etc.) may become overused and messy, but they also give developers a huge freedom to experiment with and make much more immersive experience. Even though they might be crammed on each of the game only because they are available, they can expect to improve the game and the player's creative interface between. The important thing is that there is a hardware option.

NGP also displays the same property is specified, any more (thanks to 3 g), 3DS connections. Wi-fi hotspots and 3 G signals are becoming more common to the host organism to most major cities, NGP has the opportunity to be constantly connected, constantly updated and evolving, even if it sits in your pocket.

But it is in the future. Today, the battle of portable, which was largely already done in the new DS decisively won by player. In the future, the market seems to be interesting, if Sony can establish their plans and to refine the NGP, during their manufacture. So it's safe to say that even if this battle has won the war, Nintendo, and Sony is still in progress in the development of a new tank is.

For The PSP? Well, I think it is time for a nice quiet pension, while a new generation of export weapons.

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