After Nokia it’s Microsoft time to play

No matter how much money they make from their products hi – tech developers never forget the importance of playing. Microsoft has kicked off proceedings at this year's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco by announcing a new 512MB memory unit for the Xbox 360, as well as upping the size limit for Live Arcade games.
The new memory will be available from 3rd April for US$ 49.99, and for a limited amount of time will be pre-loaded with EG fav Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. The existing 64MB stick will also drop to US$ 29.99. UK and European pricing details have yet to emerge.
This new hardware will accommodate the increased girth of Live Arcade titles, which will move from a 50 MB limit up to 150 MB - effective immediately.
There's been much speculation this year about whether Microsoft would make this move, particularly after Castlevania: Symphony of the Night proved too big to be shoehorned into the existing Arcade restrictions.
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Diana Zotescu, student at SigEx Foundry ( http://sigexfoundry.info ).
"Multimedia & Broadcasting" project of The Foundry School ( http://sigexventures.info).

The Stock market grows ever more unstable

The sun doesn’t seem to shine on Wall Street since last week. The stock slide that started off in China to hit Europe and US later continues with the fall from the Japanese stock market. "If New York continues to slide and the yen continues to strengthen at this pace, there is no bottom in sight for Japan," said Kirby Daley, a strategist at brokerage Fimat in Tokyo. A near 9 percent slump in China's main stock index last Tuesday, combined with worries about stalling U.S. growth, sparked a wave a selling in world equity markets, many of which had been trading around record highs.
Australian stocks fell 2.3 percent to a seven-week closing low, erasing all their gains for 2007, with the world's largest miner, BHP Billiton, dropping 2.9 percent.
Share indexes in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore lost between 3 and 4 percent and South Korea's benchmark fell 2.7 percent. The worst thing is the fact that nobody knows the reason behind the price drop. Yes it is the fear that the US economy might enter a recession but is this enough of a reason? "This is not like September 11, when there was a clear issue, so the sell-off was reasonable," said Lim Chang-gue, a fund manager at Samsung Investment Trust Management in Seoul.
"Something bad seems to be happening, but there is no one clear reason. It's this unknown that is making it worse so people are just selling out."
In spite of the price shake affecting the stock markets SigEx Ventures registered a steady increase in share price, which makes it a trustworthy investment. SigEx Ventures, Inc., a private equity investment fund headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, primarily invests in first round funding for advanced technology companies. Read the SigEx Ventures Financial Press release here (http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2007/0004536050&EDATE= ).
Diana Zotescu, student at SigEx Foundry ( http://sigexfoundry.info ).
"Public Relations & Advertisement" project of The Foundry School ( http://thefoundryschool.tv), ( http://sigexventures.info ).

Your e-mail safe again on MySpace ! by Diana Zotescu

A little regulated domain such as the Internet allows many frauds to express their creativity when it comes to making money. This was the case with two New York youngsters Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli who developed a ‘tracking software’, allowing anyone who purchased their US $29.95 software to track the email and IP addresses of MySpace users, opening them up to spam, hack attacks and unwanted attention. A less intelligent move was trying to extort a $150 000 consulting fee from MySpace officials who instead of paying the money announced the Secret Services. Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli ave to pay $13,500 to MySpace in restitution, perform 160 hours of community service, never use MySpace in any form again and will have to submit to computer searches whenever demanded, with any form of violation likely to see them sent straight to prison. End of story.

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Diana Zotescu, student at SigEx Foundry ( http://sigexfoundry.info )
"Public Relations & Advertisement" project of The Foundry School ( http://thefoundryschoo.tv)

New games from Nokia

Keen on phone games? I guess we all like to button our phone while waiting for our friends to come…Getting back on the subject Nokia announced today that they will carry out a pilot of Nokia"s new N-Gage mobile gaming service. The pilot will start in February 2007 and run until mid 2007.

"The core of the Nokia games strategy is to make it easy for people to find, buy and play great quality mobile games and we’re excited to expand our relationship with Elisa to help make this possible," said Jaakko Kaidesoja, Director, Games, Multimedia, Nokia. "This pilot will help us further refine the N-Gage experience for our commercial launch later this year." A couple more details on Elisa – Elisa is a leading Finnish communications and ICT solutions company offering a comprehensive range of communications services, including voice and data services, connections to the internet, customized ICT solutions and network operator services.

For more on communication services you can also check our site ( http://myjumps.tv). It’s a cool place to post videoblogs, have videconferences, use the mail and SMS services and make up your own virtual social network. The Foundry is a training, research and development center working on behalf of SigEx Inc. The revolutionary platform it uses for communication is based on the SuperPBX concept. The Foundry and Sigex Inc., are the creation of CEO Chris Cantell and COO Frederic Artru - two professionals in their field of activity. For more information please visit our website http://thefoundryschool.tv


Diana Zotescu, student at SigEx Foundry ( http://sigexfoundry.info )
"Public Relations & Advertisement" project of The Foundry School ( http://thefoundryschoo.tv)

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