Only in a week since its launch, the game Assassin’s Creed II, earned sales of 1.6 million units. Yet, not all versions of Assassin’s Creed II are available on the market.
Ubisoft announced the sales data Assassin’s Creed II in the first week since the game was launched. According to Ubisoft’s internal data, game sales in the world reached 1.6 million units.
Sales growth reflects the sale of 32 percent compared to Assassin’s Creed game first. The first game Assassin’s Creed released since November 2007.
In Assassin’s Creed II, gamers will be brought to Europe a century renaissance. Exactly, players will explore Italy at Leonardo Da Vinci of his time with the main character named Ezio.
Assassin’s Creed II is available for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This version of the new PC game will be present in 2010.
Apple angry with a company called Psystar is accused of violating copyright. Apple asks judge in California court to stop completely the sale of Psystar products.
“If not so, Psystar is not going to stop doing illegal deeds, which hurt Apple’s business and brand,” said the Apple.
Apple and Psystar have been fighting in court since July 2008. Apple accused Psystar violated its patent rights 8. Indeed, Psystar sells similar software that Apple’s operating system, OS X.
Earlier this month, Apple has won in one case. Judge William Alsup decided Psystar violating Apple’s rights to reproduce the operating system OS X.
In his complaint, Apple also asked a number of fines. But the company Steve Jobs founded this state though akhinya given fines, stay will not equal the damages suffered by Apple’s Psystar action.
Therefore, the court forbade Apple Psystar hopes to sell products similar to Apple products. This is to prevent other vendors are inspired to do the same thing.
Competition is raging between Apple and Motorola are increasingly heated. Both could attack each other through advertising to bring down one another.
Now Motorola can smile happy, because according to one study, a new brand just launched this phone surpasses Droid iPhone Apple products over brand loyalty among young men aged 18 years and over.
This was revealed by the statistics YouGov’s BrandIndex. This statistical data indicates that loyalty to Apple’s score dropped from 48.1 to number 22 in the last week, so place it in position under Motorola. Nokia itself is relatively stable, from 32.3 to 29.3 score.
Scale used in this study between -100 and 100. The data collected from interviews with 5,000 people on each working day with a sample population of United States citizens. YouGov himself doing more than 1, 2 million interviews per year, with a margin of error of + / – 2 percent.
“Motorola has shown that loyalty to the brand is not affected by the attacks carried out AT & T (iPhone operator in the U.S.),” said YouGov.
This study also shows that the ad campaign and operator Motorola, Verizon to introduce Droid proven effective. Despite losing from Motorola, at least Apple is still a little relieved because it is still superior to any other competitor, the BlackBerry.
Facebook security hole exploited in certain parties to spread their sexy female picture link. According to AVG anti-virus, no sexy pictures are worm CSRF (Cross-Site Request forgery), which spreads through the wall of the Facebook users.
This worm tangible like an ad with a picture of bikini-clad women. ‘Want something hot? Click on this button, honey, “the writings contained in seductive ads.
However, if tempted to click it, the picture on the wall would be Facebook users. To stop this problem, the AVG claimed only Facebook can do.
Lucky in a short time, the Facebook managed to stop the circulation of the offending images. So far, no other adverse effects were reported in addition to the circulation of the photograph on the wall the Facebook user.
Responding to this problem, the image denies Facebook worm but it is a form of clickjacking. According to Facebook spokesperson, Simon Axten, not many Facebook users are affected by this problem.
“Overall, the percentage of affected users is small,” claims Axten.
So far, the GIMP graphics applications have become an integral part of the Ubuntu distribution. That will change after it was decided that the GIMP was too ‘adult’ to be built package.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a graphical open source applications that have long been the default option along with the distribution of the Ubuntu operating system. This application has been widely recognized as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop in the Open Source platform.
However, Ubuntu reportedly no longer provide the GIMP in the next distribution package (Ubuntu 10.04). The reason, GIMP is considered too ‘adult’ to be just an innate package.
Decision to be taken off the GIMP in Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) which was held in Dallas, Texas, United States. Ubuntu instead will use a simplified application called F-Spot.
Although quite controversial, this decision is recognized as the best. “The decision was more or less in line with our vision. GIMP is a high-end applications for the professional, rather than the recommended device to any regular user for daily needs,” said Sven Neumaan, developer and author GIMP GIMP Pocket Reference.
Although no longer included in the Ubuntu package, GIMP still be available through the Ubuntu Software Center. As for the GIMP Ubuntu users who would plan to upgrade will still find the program in the system.