Call of Duty | Ghost coming to Xbox 360, PS3, PC and ‘next-gen platforms’ on November 5th

Activision by Wednesday announced that the newest episode of its best-selling Organize of Duty franchise, called Call of Duty: Ghost, will launch later this year on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Machine and “next generation platforms.” The newest Call of Duty game is being developed by Infinity Ward, the studio behind the creative Phone of Duty and the dangerously celebrated call of Duty: New Fighting series. Activision’s first-person shooter has consistently crushed match auction records year after day and its newest payment is expected to maintain this trend. call of Duty: Ghost is scheduled to live released resting on November 5th. Starting at the moment, fans can pre-order the ready at retail supplies. Activision’s press make available follows below.

ACTIVISION ANNOUNCES THE NEXT GENERATION OF CALL OF DUTY® WITH CALL OF DUTY®: GHOSTS

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Call of Duty: Ghosts will set a new Benchmark for the Next Generation

All-New World, Story, Characters and Experience, All Powered by New, Next Gen Call of Duty Engine from the Developer that started it all, Infinity Ward
For an Exclusive First Look at the Game, Tune in to Xbox: The New Generation Revealed, May 21 at 10AM PDT on Xbox.com, Xbox Live or SPIKE TV
Groundbreaking Title Lands on November 5

Santa Monica, CA – May 1, 2013 – Prepare for the next generation of Call of Duty®. The franchise that has defined a generation of gaming is set to raise the bar once again with the all-new Call of Duty®: Ghosts. Published by Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), and developed by Infinity Ward, the studio that created the original Call of Duty and the seminal Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® series, Call of Duty: Ghosts ushers in the next generation of the franchise. The new title delivers a riveting all-new gameplay experience built on an entirely new story, setting and cast of characters, all powered by a new, next generation Call of Duty engine that redefines the series for the next generation.

“Infinity Ward set the gold standard for first-person action for a generation, and they’re going to do it again with Call of Duty: Ghosts,” said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, Inc. “Ghosts delivers an all-new story, all-new characters, an all-new Call of Duty world, all powered by a next generation Call of Duty engine, which is a leap forward for the franchise. Infinity Ward is going all-in to create the next generation of Call of Duty worthy of the world’s greatest fans.”
“Everyone was expecting us to make Modern Warfare 4, which would have been the safe thing to do. But we’re not resting on our laurels,” said Mark Rubin, executive producer of developer Infinity Ward. “We saw the console transition as the perfect opportunity to start a new chapter for Call of Duty. So we’re building a new sub-brand, a new engine, and a lot of new ideas and experiences for our players. We can’t wait to share them with our community.”
To see an exclusive first look at Call of Duty: Ghosts tune in to Xbox: the Next Generation Revealed on May 21 at 10AM PDT on Xbox.com, Xbox LIVE or SPIKE TV for the debut of the all-new game from Infinity Ward.
“We are consistently thrilled with the overwhelming response received from critics and consumers alike to the Call of Duty series, which has firmly established its home on the Xbox 360 with the game’s largest and most engaged community,” said Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business at Microsoft. “With Call of Duty: Ghosts, we have no doubt that our longtime partners, Activision and Infinity Ward, will raise the bar higher than ever before for this incredible franchise.”
Starting today, fans can begin pre-ordering their copy of Call of Duty: Ghosts at retail outlets worldwide.
“There’s no other video game property like Call of Duty. It’s the biggest game franchise on the planet that has had some of the biggest game entertainment launches in history,” said Tony Bartel, president of GameStop. “We are very excited for the launch of Call of Duty: Ghosts, as we transition to next generation consoles.”
Call of Duty: Ghosts will release on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC on November 5. Call of Duty: Ghosts will also be available for next generation platforms. For the latest intel, check out: http://www.callofduty.com/ghosts, http://www.facebook.com/CODGhosts, or follow on Twitter @InfinityWard. Call of Duty: Ghosts is not yet rated.

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iPads and low-end rivals propel higher tablet shipments: report

By Noel Randewich

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Global tablet shipments more than doubled in the first quarter and while Apple remained the top seller, Asian manufacturers making low-end gadgets accounted for a major chunk of the growth, according to a report.

Tablet shipments reached 49.2 million units in the January-to-March period, 142.4 percent more than in the same quarter in 2012, market research firm IDC said on Wednesday. Apple's iPads accounted for 19.5 million units, an increase of 65.3 percent.

Samsung Electronics, Asus, Amazon Inc and Microsoft all grew their tablet shipments and eked out market share gains against Apple.

But the biggest jump in market share came from other Asian manufacturers churning out inexpensive devices sold globally to customers including Staples, Toys R Us, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba, IDC analyst Ryan Reith told Reuters.

"There's no question the growth is at the low end of the market," Reith said. "It's 80 to 100 vendors distributing no-name brands across the world - and those are just the ones we can get a sense of."

Those devices are almost all based on Google's Android platform, have 7-inch displays and are powered by no-frills processors from Asian chipmakers like Rockchip and Allwinner Technology, Reith said, adding they often wholesale for less than $60 each.

Shipments of tablets outside the top five vendors surged to 15.5 million units in the first quarter and accounted for nearly a third of the market, up from a quarter of the market a year ago, according to the report.

That growth helped push the market share of tablets running Android higher than Apple's iOS platform for the first time. Android tablets accounted for 56.5 percent of shipments in the March quarter, compared to 39.6 percent for iPads. Tablets running Microsoft's new Windows and Windows RT platforms accounted for 3.7 percent of total shipments.

 (Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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Google Glass Project

Project Google Glass is a research and development program by Google to invent an augmented truth head-mounted display. The glasses are previously living being sold to the developers and the official open make available date is scheduled for beforehand 2014. Next to represent, at hand is no clue regarding the price of the glasses nevertheless it will be real where roughly the average consequences of a smartphone.

Project Google glass is a hardware which provides all the Google services in the band that wraps approximately the user's head. It is based on Google's Android operating organism and has showcased a foremost concern towards photography and video. Sometimes, we are not able to capture a scene, a life event before a magnificent second emphatically as of the time wanted to obtain not on our smartphones from the pockets and switching by the camera except. Together with Google Glass, you can in simple terms array the device through articulate information to acquire a picture, achieve a video, and distribute them with friends as Google glasses are eyeglass frames which provide a minor notebook display in the user's field of vision, it is comparable a device which was never available in the market.

Google schooner has only one USB port and that's used in support of charging purposes. It includes a tiny hide in front of the user's acceptably discernment, signal sensors, GPS and also 3G or 4G data connections. It has a front-facing camera with a flash and can unchanging connect to a smartphone by Wi-Fi otherwise Bluetooth 40. At this juncture are the bursting specifications.

The mainly striking trait of impel Google glass is that the user can employ their voice to master the device. The main idea after by this is to consign better certainty down with the significant in rank of the surroundings, at whatever time obligatory. Presently, the central focus of developers is to increase the battery life of the glasses from 6 hours up to satiated day.

The major reason at the back the popularity of Google glasses is that as almost immediately as it's activated, the user can order it to capture pictures, videos, father hangouts and can steady get the directions. The user can steady get notification and texts although wearing glasses.

Besides every one these facilities, the developers are unreliable on the subject of approximately evils that a person can face at the same time as by glasses. The main concern is that various pop-ups while web browsing and it can basis an awkward situation in front of a person's eye in rationale he/she is by glasses. The additional problem can live vis-а-vis the privacy of web story. So to achieve Google glass a attain, the developing group is indomitable to achieve glasses problem free.

As we all get, the concept of wearable computing is not in mint condition, nevertheless Google glasses are expected to achieve a piquant comment in the techworld because of the name Google" friendly to it.

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Microsoft to reportedly unveil next Xbox at April event

The first appearance of Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation 4 is instantly behind us, accordingly Microsoft (MSFT) is subsequently in twine to assume a crack by grabbing gamers’ attention with its next-generation console. The Redmond, Washington-based company has worked its way to the top with its next-generation Xbox 360, which just recorded its twenty-fifth consecutive month as the best-selling console in the US. Instantly, according to a new details as of Computer and Video Games, unknown “developers and additional productiveness professionals” including various Sony employees articulate Microsoft’s subsequently Xbox will be unveiled by a prosecute conference in April. Thumbs down additional particulars were provided, excluding the subsequently Xbox is anticipated to feature an eight-core 1.6GHz Memory chip, 8GB of Ram and a 50GB 6x Blu-ray Disc constrain. 

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Microsoft's IE 10 Browser Now Coming to Windows 7 PCs

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is increasing its efforts to convey the latest kind of Internet Explorer to more than 700 million personal computers in an attempt to re-establish the software maker's browser as the finest feature to surf the Web.

Tuesday's release of Internet Explorer 10 is expected at PCs running by Windows 7, the most used report of Microsoft Corp.'s flagship operating technique for PCs. A preview kind of Internet Explorer 10 has been available on behalf of Windows 7 machinery since mid-November. The definitive kind of Internet Explorer 10 will ensue mindlessly sent to all Windows 7 computers obstinate awake to get updates.

Internet Surveyor 10 is primarily considered on behalf of tablet computers and additional devices responsive to touch, as well as a pristine breed of PCs. Still even if fairly hardly any Windows 7 PCs can ensue forbidden with fingers by a display screen, Microsoft is convinced Internet Explorer 10 will at rest have common plea for the reason that it loads websites 20 percent sooner than its predecessor, understood Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's general director for the browser.

"Tens of millions" of people downloaded the preview approach by Windows 7, Gavin said.

About 90 percent of Windows PCs have been programmed to get the involuntary updates, Gavin understood. It could obtain quite a few weeks formerly the Internet Explorer 10 updates are sent to all those computers. Internet 10 doesn't work by XP, Vista or new adult versions of Windows. Internet Explorer 10 already comes with machines running Windows 8, a dramatic makeover of the operating system that came absent four months ago.

More than 670 million PCs rely by Windows 7. Clothed in addition, added than 60 million PCs and further devices have approved Windows 8.

Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is counting on Internet Explorer 10 to annul up to date trends in the Web browser market. By means of a little estimates, Google Inc.'s Chrome browser has supplanted Internet Explorer as the world's mainly all the rage browser. Supplementary research firms stagnant assert that Internet Explorer remains the most broadly used, even if all measures illustrate it has been down market reveal to Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple Inc.'s Safari.

The pristine Web browser is the newest in a procession of products that Microsoft has unveiled in the past four months. Likewise Windows 8, Microsoft has unconstrained a tablet computer called Surface, an renovate to its Office suite of programs and an overhaul of its Web send service, which is instantly called Outlook.com.

Microsoft believes the barrage of new food will prove it remains on the cutting limit of the latest skill trends, 38 time after the company's founding. The push hasn't swayed Microsoft's stock, which is suspended approximately the similar cost as when Windows 8 came absent in late October.

Microsoft's have a supply of gained 18 cents to $27.55 in daylight trading Tuesday. 

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Upcoming iOS update fixes exploit used by evasi0n jailbreak

An forthcoming iOS 6.1.2 update will insignia an exploit used by the evasi0n jailbreaking tool that allows iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users to jailbreak their Apple (AAPL) devices. The tool was partly blocked in Apple’s iOS 6.1.2 fill in, yet the team was able to renovate the encode in a while behind that iOS erect was released in enjoin to re-enable the jailbreak. According to developer David Wang, the company’s iOS 6.1.3 beta, which is anticipated to get be unrestricted in the next weeks, prevents the use of the fashionable tool. Wang alleged that while he is exploring further vulnerabilities, the newest iOS renovate will possible blot the end of the evasi0n jailbreaking software.

“If one of the vulnerabilities doesn’t work, evasi0n doesn’t work,” he supposed in an interview with Forbes. “We could replace that part with a different openness, excluding [Apple] will doubtless join on the whole rider not all of the bugs we’ve worn when 6.1.3 comes out.”

Wang extra that he and his team stay put optimistic, and have discovered an adequate amount of holes in Apple’s transportable working organism to assemble a new jailbreaking tool if need be.

Evasi0n came outdated prior this month for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and was downloaded added than 7 million epoch inside emphatically four days.

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NVIDIA's Tegra 4 Performance Crushes Current-Gen Processors

NVIDIA's Tegra 4 Performance Crushes Current-Gen Processors

NVIDIA’s (NVDA) next-generation processors won’t be open in campaign pending later this year, nonetheless first benchmarks have revealed that the new chipset will be real meaning the wait. Engadget ran a variety of benchmark tests on one of the company’s Tegra 4 location medication and was left with scores that in a number of belongings near quadrupled the performance of big Tegra 3 diplomacy.

Tegra 4 Quadrant scores topped out at 16,436 and AnTuTu benchmarks reached ended 36000, mutually of which further than tripled the performance from comparable Tegra 3 pills. I don't know the most impressive answer was the 499ms score beginning the SunSpider test. The Tegra 4 standard, which measures web browsing performance, practically halved Apple’s iPad 4 slash of 865ms.

NVIDIA and its partners are scheduled to debut Tegra 4 in smartphones, pills and the company’s Project Guard laying a bet device in July.

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