Apple has created a new experience in navigating through your computers with its newest Mouse. They have brought the power of multi-touch technology in a different surface. Multi-touch has dominantly facilitated such devices as iPhones as well as iPods and Apple has stretched it out with their Magic Mouse.
The Magic Mouse remarkably operates on Multi-Touch technology that will mainly allow gestures for navigation. It sports a simple design and a seamless top shell that can be enabled wirelessly through a Bluetooth with a maximum distance capacity of 33 feet. The integrated chip on the mouse can distinctively identify a scroll and a swipe and its powerful laser tracking facilitates more precision with any surface. The Magic Mouse can automatically detect periods of inactivity for efficient power usage.
It eludes constraints of a customary mouse like clicking and scrolling on any part and any direction of the mouse surface. It adds up other functions like executing a screen zoom through the mouse and doing a two finger swipe to advance through pages. Modifying functions is also viable with the Magic Mouse. Left handed users may re-assign the left and right input plus it has a Magic Mouse Preference pane that enables or disables features.
Electronic Art (EA) has officially announced its intention of expanding its focus on social network games that was initiated by their acquisition of Playfish. It will particularly operate within EA Interaction which is their division on web and wireless. With the growing industry of Social Networks, it is inevitable for EA to recognize an opportunity on it.
It has been cited that EA has acquired Playfish for approximately US$275 million in cash and approximately $US25 million in equity retention arrangements. Playfish is worth the price for being recognized as the world’s largest social gaming company with over 150 million games installed and played on different platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Google, Bebo, iPhone and Android. Playfish stated that they currently have 60 million monthly active players on its different game titles – like Pet Society, Restaurant City and Country Story – which brings more than 1 billion games sessions every month .
Microsoft has announced the Beta release of Office 2010 at Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Other office related products were made available such as the SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, and Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010. The Office Mobile 2010 is tailored for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices and no plans were mentioned on backward compatibility for other devices.
The limelight for the Beta release was fixed on the Office 2010 where in major revisions and other inclusion were created. Some of the notable modifications made were the Outlook interface and SkyDrive integration. The SkyDrive will serve as Microsoft’s online storage device with a 25GB capacity. The Outlook will have added features like the SharePoint and Outlook Social Connector which will facilitate real time interaction and social (or business) networking feeds. Watch the video below for a glance of the Office 2010. It will follow a four-month technical preview and is scheduled for official launch on the first half of 2010.
With the budding advocacy of saving the environment, efforts from the Technology industry perseveres to adhere that deed into their operations. Sony lived up with that vision at the CES 2010. They have displayed a netbook that claims to be an eco-friendly device and branded it as the Sony Vaio W series. The Sony Vaio W series is enclosed with a plastic chassis which is 23 percent recycled CDS. It also has a carrying case manufactured from PET bottles that eliminates the need of utilizing cardboards. Other features include a 10.1 inch LED backlit widescreen with 1333×768 resolution, a 250 GB hard drive, Microsoft 7, 1.66 Ghz Intel Atom Processor N450, 1GB RAM and a battery life of up to 7 hours. Sony tags being eco-friendly with being stylish as shown on the pictured white model of the Vaio W which blaze a glistening glow on its framework. It is currently available at Sony’s online store for $499.99.
