Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg recently purchased a 7 million dollar home in Palo Alto, California. Forbes has placed him on 52 position in world’s billionaire list.
Apple iPad 2 officially launched in India
Apple had recently launched the all new iPad 2 here in India. Exact launch date was 29th April. On 20th April Apple had decided to launch the iPad in 13 more countries in the coming week.
If am recalling my facts correctly than Apple had delayed the launch of first generation iPad in India by 8 months from it’s official launch in USA.
There will be two models of iPad 2 available and are listed below with official launch price:-
Apple iPad 2 will be available for purchase from the Apple’s Premium Resellers here in India.
25$ computer is a reality now
David Braben, a game developer from UK has developed the world’s cheapest computer. The USB stick PC developed by David Braben has two ports namely USB port on one side and HDMI port on the other side.
Some of the facts about this tiny PC is as follows:
- CPU powering this tiny computer is 0.7 GHz ARM 11
- RAM is 128 MB
- It is compatible with OpenGL ES 2.0 standards and thus have good graphics performance
- Capable of producing a 1080P output.
- SD card slot is available for storage purposes
- This little one is expected to compatible with range of Linux Distributions including the most popular Linux OS Ubuntu.
Raspberry Pi Foundation is going to distribute these PC’s.
Playstation network attack continues
Sony is already going through the problem of the Cyber attack on their PlayStation Network recently which had lead to the hacking of more than 77 million accounts and now Sony again reports the hacking of 25 million accounts.
In the latest breach 23,400 records containing credit card numbers, expiration dates and debit card numbers from an outdated 2007 database may have been stolen. These record didn’t contain the CVV code of the cards and also it is confirmed that these record belong to NON-US customer mainly from Austria, Netherlands and Germany.
Sony is also reported to temporarily shut down its free service which is available on Facebook and Play Station 3.
In order to gain back the customers confidence, Sony will offer free downloads and free extension of 30 days to the subscription of PlayStation Network members.
Though the users passwords are not protected by encryption but instead they are protected by something known as hash which will make it difficult for someone to read the password as a plain text.
Sony has promised to beef up the security of their servers from now onwards.
Sony is going to enter into tablet computer market
Yes it is true. Sony had recently announced their plans regarding the launch of their first two tablet computers codenamed S1 and S2. Tech and gadget geeks are taking this as a challenge by Sony to Apple. Apple had recently launched their 2nd generation iPad. iPad 2 like 1st generation iPad breaks all records and became extremely popular among Americans.
Some of the main points about the announcement are listed below:
- The Sony tablet computer codenamed S1 will feature a single screen of 9.4 inch and is intended for home use. It will also feature a Universal Remote Control.
- The other tablet that is S2 will feature two screens of 5.5 inch each. This is mainly intended for reading those digital ebooks which have their content displayed on two pages like a physical book. These two screens can also be used as a single large screen or can be used to play games with game being played on first screen and controls on second.
- Both the tablets will feature Google Android 3.0 (Honey Comb) . Google Android 3.0 is compatible with large screens like that of Sony’s tablet.
- Both the tablets will have access to Sony’s exclusive online content like PlayStation games, Music, Videos etc.
There is no data on the expected price of these tablets.