Sony is not going to produce much later PS4 competitor

Sony is not going to produce much later PS4 competitor

Sony gave Microsoft’s huge head start when you start selling the current generation of game systems: Xbox 360 came out a year before the PlayStation 3. It seems that the Japanese company does not want to repeat this error. Recently, the head of the European branch of PlayStation Jim Ryan (Jim Ryan) said that it would be “undesirable” to the case with the PS4 has repeated the story of the current generation of home gaming systems.

In a conversation with Eurogamer TV in London at a press event on PlayStation Vita, Mr. Ryan, who led the summer of SCEE, said: “I believe we will treat undesirable to much more recent output relative to competitors [in the case of the next PlayStation]».

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In PHP 5.3 ActiveRecord appeared similar to Ruby on Rails

The search for solutions of the active record in php are debilitating to the point, as one source in google has not offered a similar version of ActiveRecord Ruby on Rails. The reader will note that the above results are too old and most of them little to do with efficiency.

In the end, PHP will get a more reliable way active record similar method is used in RoR. And fortunately, this time it is! Thanks to PHP 5. 3 and its new useful features: a collapse, late binding and statistical namespace.

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Byliner: ‘Three Cups of Deceit’ publisher chases next hit

Last month, an unknown San Francisco publishing start-up had just about the best debut imaginable. Byliner’s first product became an instant best-seller and seriously called into question the reputation of an international sensation a decade in the making–all in less than 25,000 words that never touched a printing press.

The tiny operation released Jon Krakauer’s “Three Cups of Deceit”–a scathing deconstruction of alleged fraud and mismanagement at the hands of world-famous do-gooder Greg Mortenson of “Three Cups of Tea” fame–as a free PDF in mid-April. The launch got a big boost from a story that aired last month on “60 Minutes” about Mortenson, based largely on Krakauer’s research. (Disclosure: “60 Minutes” is broadcast by CBS, publisher of CNET.)

“Reaction has been extraordinary,” Byliner.com founder John Tayman told CNET. “In the 72 hours it was available as (a) free download, more than 70,000 readers downloaded a copy. It then moved to the Amazon Kindle Singles store, and it went to No. 1 within six hours.”

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Microsoft: Google Apps have ‘hidden costs’

The war of words between Microsoft and Google over the use of Google Apps in the enterprise continues.

Sharing his thoughts yesterday in a blog called “The Hidden Google Tax,” Microsoft’s director of online services, Tom Rizzo, took some swings at Google Apps, proclaiming that it’s not a cost-effective solution for the enterprise.

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Fellowup: The grandma-approved social service you should use

Your grandmother–the one with the birthday book, so she never forgets a family member’s special day–would approve of Fellowup. It’s a modern-day version of the same thing. It watches your contacts on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as your Google mail and calendar, and gives you a clear dashboard showing you which of your contacts could benefit from the personal touch today.

In addition to grabbing birth dates from social profiles, it also keeps an eye out for things like relationship and job status changes, and news articles that mention your contacts. It will show you an alert when these things come up, so you have an excuse to make personal contact.

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Google optimizes Earth for Android tablets

Google has updated its version of Google Earth for Android to take advantage of the large screen size and processing power of tablets.

In a blog post yesterday, product manager Peter Birch said the update added support for fully textured 3D buildings, as well as a new action bar making it easier to search the imagery and navigate layers of information.

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Google algorithm tweak socks Demand Media traffic

Demand Media, which operates sites such as eHow and Livestrong, has been hit hard by Google’s algorithm changes, the company revealed yesterday.

“In February and April, we experienced two major algorithm changes,” Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt said during his company’s first-quarter earnings call yesterday. “For eHow, here is the impact: as compared to the levels before the first February change, we saw a net decline in search engine referrals of 20 percent.”

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