Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Motorolla Xoom - One of the Best Tablets




Xoom shall be present at distinct retailers including Amazon.com, greatest purchase, Costco, RadioShack, Sam’s club, Staples and Walmart. The latest gadgets tablet Android Honeycomb price $ 599. Currently there are lots of similar gadgets available in the market but this one piece of motorola Xoom is superb.



I use my Tablets to read, I started using ebooks a while back and I found tablets to work pretty well for that. I do most of my reading at night before bed, so the backlit screen is actually helpful versus a traditional reader. Anyway, one of the things that has always bothered me about the iPad as an ereader is that the pixel density (that is the number of pixels (or square blocks of color) in each inch of screen space) is very low. The iPad has somewhere around 130PPI (pixels per inch). It was so low that it really did give me noticeable eye strain to read on the device, I could see the pixels, and it really just wasn't a great reading experience. This was so pronounced that for the last few months I had actually been doing most of my reading on a 4th generation iPod Touch. It had a smaller screen, but a higher pixel density.

Anyway, the Xoom has a very noticeable increase in resolution and pixel density. With its higher resolution it has roughly 33% more pixels than the iPad, roughly 300,000 additional pixels. This is something you can see immediately when looking at any text. It is a lot smoother and easier to read on the Xoom. However, the other side of this is that the iPad has a different display type, that does have better viewing angles and color/contrast. In my case I don't really care, I find the pixel density to be 1000 times more important than small color improvements or viewing angles but I feel I should mention it.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Sega corp Hacked - Cyber attack


 Sega Corp. said hackers have accessed personal information of 1.3 million users, although it appears no payment information was obtained.
The names, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of members of a service called Sega Pass, which provides information regarding the video game developer's new products, were collected in the cyber attack Thursday, the company said.
Sega took the service offline, reset the passwords of affected users and sent a letter advising the users to change their passwords on other sites, a company spokeswoman said.
After being alerted by a customer, Sega discovered the intrusion when it investigated its databases. The company is conducting an internal investigation and "taking action against this."
Sega said that to guard against future breaches, it will increase the frequency of its security checks and implement more security measures.
"We deeply regret that such unauthorized access occurred," the game developer said Sunday in a statement. "We will go on to further strengthen our network security as a priority issue and strive to prevent any potential recurrence."
Other video game companies that have recently fallen victim to cyber attacks include Sony and Nintendo.