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Samsung DV300F DualView Digital Camera Comes with Wi-Fi

January 3, 2012 By Jp 2 Comments

Samsung’s DualView digital cameras currently had a great and convenient front-facing LCD screen for convenient self-portraits. For this year, the latest DualView digital camera gets a new feature: a built-in Wi-Fi.

Incorporating Wi-Fi to the Samsung’s DV300F allows the digital camera to upload pics and vids to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa. Furthermore, pictures can even be wirelessly moved to a home Computer and also to cloud storage services like Microsoft SkyDrive.

The digital camera itself features 5x optical zoom, 16-mp image resolution, and a 25mm wide-angle lens. Aside from the dual LCD screens, the camera comes with several picture layouts and image adjustment features.

Incorporating Wi-Fi is really a worth it comfort – one that narrows down the characteristics gap in between point-and-shoot camera such as the DV300F and smartphones, that have become the easy option for easy and quick photography for several people.

Hopefully, the DV300F can provide much better build quality and low-light photo efficiency compared to last DualView design 2011′s Samsung DualView TL205, which CNET evaluated.

The Samsung DualView DV300F is said to be availble in March 2012 starting at $199.

Filed Under: Tech News Tagged With: Availble, digital cameras, Dualview, Facebook, Gap, Home Computer, Image Adjustment, Image Resolution, Layouts, Lcd Screens, Light Photo, Microsoft Skydrive, New Feature, Point And Shoot Camera, Samsung Cameras, Self Portraits, smartphones, Storage Services, Vids, Wide Angle Lens

Zynga Inc. Looking for Opportunities Apart from Facebook

October 12, 2011 By Jane Leave a Comment

Zynga Inc., Online gaming company, has introduced a number of products aimed towards diversifying its company beyond Facebook and encouraging possible shareholders of their growth prospects in the flourishing social online games industry.

In their initial statement since submitting a preliminary public offering in July, the creator of Mafia Wars and FarmVille stated Tuesday that it intends to kick off a website apart from Facebook by which gamers can gather together and have fun with its games. Zynga Inc. also introduced four new game titles with flamboyant graphics and much more advanced features, most of which could be played on mobile phones and tablet computers.

“The message to investors is that Zynga has big plans to significantly grow its business via platforms other than Facebook,” where Zynga presently has the majority of its 150 million customers, according to Michael Cai, an analyst with Interpret, a research company in Santa Monica.

Even though Zynga reps won’t touch upon its pending IPO, analysts broadly believe that the company, similar to others for instance Groupon, is delaying up until the stock market stops convulsing.

“They filed when the market was very favorable,” according to Michael Pachter, an analyst from Wedbush Securities. “When the market melted down in August, they realized they were no longer going to get the valuations they wanted.”

Zynga Inc. showed in public filings that it expected to increase $1 billion from the IPO, a figure that signifies that this company could be worth $10 billion or even more. Compared with Groupon, that lost $456 million in 2010, Zynga is money-making. It documented net profit of $28 million on $597 million in revenue this past year. However in the quarter that ended June 30, Zynga’s income dropped 90% to $1.4 million from $14 million a year earlier.

“The beauty of Zynga is that they generate a bunch of cash,” Pachter stated. “So they don’t need the money. And they have patient investors who can wait until the market conditions are more favorable.”
In the meantime, Zynga seems to be in shelling out mode, introducing new online games and seriously investing in technologies to flourish its reach in to mobile phone and various online platforms. Probably the most committed is a site, temporarily named “Project Z,” which the company outlined in its Tuesday news conference in San Francisco.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Advanced Features, Facebook, Game Titles, Games Industry, Gaming Company, Growth Prospects, Initial Statement, Ipo, Mafia Wars, Net Profit, New Game, online games, Public Filings, Public Offering, Santa Monica, Stock Market, T Touch, tablet computers, Valuations, Wedbush Securities

BioWare Mass Effect 3 Confirms Co-op Multiplayer Feature

October 11, 2011 By Imee Leave a Comment

According to MSNBC, BioWare has verified co-op multi-player feature for Mass Effect 3. The verification emanates from series executive producer Casey Hudson who announced on Twitter Monday and named the co-op missions “spectacular,”. BioWare’s official Twitter account also has verified the statement.

“There will be a multiplayer component for #ME3,” according to the said. “Full details soon, so wait until then before making your decision. We think you’ll like it!”
As outlined by BioWare’s Facebook page, fans can listen up for a special tv show of BioWareTV at 10am on Wednesday, for more information on the coop feature, or as the studio suggests, “to have all your questions answered!”
The storyline on the game’s multi-player support initially started earlier on Monday together with the Official Xbox Magazine uncovering the December issue which boasts multi-player game play over Xbox Live. With that being said, since the story is an OXM exclusive, BioWare may restrict information in their Television show on Wednesday and any time after that until the strikes news stands.

“The exclusive hands-on report also includes screenshots of the all-new mode, as well as in-depth info on how it will all work with Mass Effect 3’s beefy solo campaign,” according to the magazine. “Time to put all those questions and rumors to rest.”

Australia’s PC PowerPlay is also writing a similar post on October 19, so it is not a console-exclusive feature.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Bioware, Casey Hudson, Coop, Executive Producer, Facebook, Game Play, Magazine Time, Mass Effect, Me3, Msnbc, Multi Player Game, Multiplayer Component, October 19, Official Xbox Magazine, Pc Powerplay, Solo Campaign, Strikes, Television Show, Twitter, Xbox Live

Google Improves Google+ iPhone App

September 27, 2011 By Jane Leave a Comment

Google has enhanced the iPhone application its own social network, Google+. The Google+ iPhone App now has features that are recently revealed on the social network website.

The improved Google+ app now allows you or let you join a “Hangout”, it is a new videoconferencing service in which people can chat with others within their circles. Though it’s possible to join an existing Hangout through the iPhone application, you still need to open your Google+ account in your personal computer to start a new Hangout videoconference.

Huddle, a former group IM feature has been rebranded as Messenger – don’t get confused with Yahoo! Messenger and Windows – now features the ability to send photos along with a message. According to Google, they improved the reliability of the Messenger.

The +1 feature that allows you to share a post, you can now do the same to share a comment to a post, and in the Google+ site, you can now share a post to a single individual only rather than making it visible to the entire circles. And just like the “@(name)” feature of Facebook, you can also do this in Google+ making it easier to mention a member in one of your circles.

And finally, the notifications have been improved and tweaked which enables user to have more control of it. The users have the options to receive notifications for comments, shares, mentions and etc. You also have the option to be notified if someone adds you to their circle.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Circles, Facebook, Google, Hangout, Huddle, iPhone, Mentions, Notifications, Personal Computer, Photos, Reliability, Tweaked, Videoconferencing Service, Yahoo!

Facebook Changes Triggers Complains

September 22, 2011 By Jp Leave a Comment

Facebook unveils another update again but as expected, users around the world is again complaining about the new features. These changes are intended to make it easier to see updates from connections in the world’s most popular social network.

Various complaints are swarming around the internet today, this includes a “Petition against the new Facebook homepage” and we can see some of it in Twitter, which is also a very popular social network but doesn’t have complicated features that users usually complain about.

Some said that these changes of Facebook were moves to be more like the competitors Twitter and Google+ which is also getting big.

“#NewFacebook is like America,” according to a Twitter user. “Plenty of people discontent(ed), but it’s not like anyone is actually going to leave.” the user also added.

Almost all of the Facebook users complain angrily about these changes but still they are sticking and adapting with the popular online community.

Last week, Facebook launched the “subcribe” button letting the users follow people in a Twitter-style. This allows users to hear anything from the users that they follow but doesn’t need to be their friend.

Facebook did not announce any changes or updates in the future but we might as well expect it so won’t be surprised.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Discontent, Facebook, Google, Internet Today, New Features, Petition, This Allows Users, Twitter

Facebook Announces “Subscribe” Button

September 15, 2011 By Jane Leave a Comment

The world’s popular networking site, Facebook, has announced another feature that is hitting the block again – it’s the “Subscribe” button. Facebook users can now decide and fully control what they want to see in their news feeds and follow easily to the users who are not their friends on the network.

This “subscribe” button gives more control over the feeds allowing you to see only important announcements from friends and block those friend whose feeds that aren’t interesting at all or spam posts, a feature that has been lacking in the past. Facebook users who keep complaining about the spammers are now going to be happy – it looks like this button is made for them.

This new button from Facebook seems to be influenced by Google’s social network, Google+. Facebook announced Tuesday that this button makes it simpler to put friends into groups. Just like Google+ of Twitter who popularized the “follow” word, users can follow other user profile without having to invite them or becoming their friends. Anyone who enables the “Subscribe” button will allow others to have the option to view tweets or announcements that are marked as “Public”. But all users don’t have to worry about this new feature since this is optional and opt-in.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Control, Facebook, Google, Important Announcements, Network Control, Networking, New Button, New Feature, News Feeds, Spam Posts, Spammers, Tweets, Twitter, User Profile, Word Users

Facebook Translate Feature

September 6, 2011 By Jane Leave a Comment

Facebook, the most popular networking site in the whole world is on a new gig again – this time, it’s translating languages.

The company is reportedly working on a new real-time translate feature in Facebook that will convert a post or comment to a user-default language with just one click of the mouse. In other words, the 750,000 million users of Facebook worldwide can now communicate with each other without having to worry about the language.

It is not clear yet how this service is being tested but according the Eric Eldon’s report, some users can now see a “translate” link that appears next to the “like” link listed in the comments. This link only appears on the comments written in a language which is different from a user-default: example, the “translate” button will appear in the comments written in Mexican if your default language is set to English but Facebook won’t ask to translate comments in English even if it is misspelled or grammatically wrong.

No sign yet of how this translation features of Facebook might work for those words that are esoteric.

For now, the translate link seems to be working for a selected number of language, including Hebrew, Chinese, French, and Spanish. If users want to see the original post after translating it, the “original” link will replace the “translate” link.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Default Language, Eldon, Facebook, Gig, Hebrew, Networking, Real Time, Translate English, Translating Languages, Translation Features

Facebook Will Pay Anybody Who Can Hack Its Site and Find Bugs

August 31, 2011 By Jane Leave a Comment

Facebook is ready to pay anybody who effectively hacks into its site and locates bugs.

It has paid out over $40,000 under its latest “bug bounty”, which requests professional security researchers and hackers to send it the details of some Facebook susceptibilities that they uncover, Facebook formerly said.

Joe Sullivan, Facebook Chief Security officer wrote in a blog post, “We’ve already paid a $5,000 bounty for one really good report. One person has already received more than $7,000 for six different issues flagged.”

According to Facebook, Researchers from over 16 countries have effectively presented bounty bugs.

Sullivan wrote, “We hire the best and brightest, and have implemented numerous protocols. We realize, though, that there are many talented and well-intentioned security experts around the world who don’t work for Facebook.”

Even though Facebook has its own security team, the company opened its bug bounty program to make utilize of the collective knowledge of the site’s over 700 million users.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Bounty Program, Bugs, Chief Security Officer, Collective Knowledge, Facebook, Hack Site, Hackers, Hacks, Joe Sullivan, One Person, Own Security, Professional Security, Protocols, Security Experts, Security Researchers, Security Team

Facebook’s Bug-Hunter Program Pays Over $40, 000

August 30, 2011 By Jane 1 Comment

The bug-hunter bounty program of Facebook has paid out over $40,000 in only three weeks.

The company opened the program at the starting of this month, assuring $500 for every susceptibility disclosed-more on exceptional cases.

According to the company, it has had to deal with bogus statements from people who were just looking for advertising but has had some more authentic bug statements.

Joe Sullivan, chief security officer said on the security blog of the company, “It has been fascinating to watch the roll-out of this program from inside Facebook. First, it has been amazing to see how independent security talent around the world has mobilized to help.”
“We know and have relationships with a large number of security experts, but this program has kicked off dialogue with a whole new and ever expanding set of people across the globe in over 16 countries, from Turkey to Poland who are passionate about internet security.”

According to him, Facebook has already paid out tens of the thousands of dollars, with one ‘really good report’ netting its finder $5,000. One more individual has achieved over $7,000 for flagging six different issues.

Facebook does not provide a peak figure for what it is ready to pay; Google gives up to $3,133, and Microsoft a whacking $250,000.

According to Sullivan that in spite of users’ demands, it is not possible to expand the program to the Facebook Platform- there is just too many different third party services concerned. It is fair enough point, even though quite a shame, given that this is where the huge majority of troubles happen.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: Bounty Program, Bug Hunter, Chief Security Officer, Dialogue, Facebook, Globe, Google, Hunter Program, Independent Security, Internet Security, Joe Sullivan, Poland, Security Experts, Shame, Spite, Susceptibility, Tens, Third Party Services, Thousands Of Dollars, Users Demands

Facebook Would Soon Close Its Online Deals Program

August 28, 2011 By Jane Leave a Comment

Social networking site Facebook, after testing its online deals program for four months, has chosen to end the recently launched program, which were opened in five cities in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco.

Facebook Deals begun in April providing tough fight to deals leaders like Groupon and LivingSocial.

Facebook said, “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks.”

Facebook added, “We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses. We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.”

Facebook did not provide some particular reason for the closure of Deals, on the other hand, said that the program would finish “in coming months.”

Facebook said it stays committed to serving local business through ads, pages and other products. And it will go on to give “check-in deals.” These allow business similar to restaurants and stores give agreements to customers who “check in” by means of Facebook to allow their friends recognize where they are.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: April, Closure, Facebook, Four Months, Local Businesses, Online Deals, Restaurants, San Diego, San Francisco, Social Approach, Social Networking Site