Nokia 6639 — That's a crazy phone

Assassin's Creed 2 Game Informer First Details Revealed

- You’ll have a ton of new weapons to choose from including an axe, a hammer, a mace, a spear, 2 different sword types, a spear axe thing, and 2 smaller blades
- You CAN swim
- Da Vincis workshop is in the game
- Locations include Saint Marks Basilica, The Grand Canal, The Little Canal, and the Rialto bridge.
- The game opens in 1476, Altair is from 1191
- So you do indeed play as a new ancestor of Altair / Desmond
-You will see the countryside of Tuscany
- The "Auditore" family is mentioned
- The main characters name is Ezio Auditore de Firenze
- He is a nobleman of Florence
- Big characters are in the game including Machiavelli, Caterina Sofrza, and Lorenzo de Medici
- YOU DO INDEED FLY AND THERES A PICTURE OF IT.
and thats just what I got from the pictures. I’ll let you know more details as I read more.
- Game will feature a new notoriety system that governs how enemy soldiers and people will treat you.
- You can disarm enemies and use their own weapons against them this time.
- each weapon has a special move.
- 16 unique mission types.
- No more ease dropping or pick pocketing missions.
- If you get beat up to much you will need to see a street side doctor to regain ful strength.
- Hidden objects (like flags in the first one) are there to uncover but this time if you track them down you will get in-game bonuses that make it worth your time.
- Items include, flags, statues, and gold coins and more that isnt mentioned.
- New enemy types with unique attitudes and weaknesses are present in the game. Archers are mentioned, as well as elite enemies, dagger wielders, "Brutish" armored troops with heavy armor and 2 handed swords and axes, and an intelligent halberd enemy will probe hiding places with their weapons if they think you’re near by.
- While hiding in a hay bail you can assassinate people this time, but it may expose your position.
- You can still climb towers and ride horses
- The Lorendo de Medici assassination is in the game.
- There is now a night and day sequence in the game.
- 240 people are working on this title."

IT survey: Not quite ready for Windows 7

Windows Vista is much-improved and the early word on Windows 7, Microsoft’s next computer operating system, is encouraging. Still, the company faces an uphill battle to get corporate users to move from its older operating system, XP to Windows 7, due out next year, according to a recent survey of more than 1,100 information technology professionals.

More than four-fifths — 84 percent — said they don’t plan to upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released. And Vista? Forget about it (Microsoft’s trying to) — 83 percent said they plan to skip Vista altogether and go directly to Windows 7 when they finally do make a change, according to Dimensional Research, which conducted the study in March.

“What is surprising is because there’s been so much positive news about Windows 7, I thought that might translate into a more open approach to migrating to it,” said Diane Hagglund, senior research analyst for Dimensional Research.

“But there’s a perception among the survey participants that Windows 7 is just another release of Windows Vista,” she said. “They think about it the same way and they’re concerned about it.”

It’s no secret that Windows 7 is being built using the code, or foundation, of Vista, which was released in early 2007. That first year was a bad one for users and for Microsoft. Vista was a memory hog, had snail-like performance and a shortage of software drivers.

Vista’s Service Pack 1, a grab-bag of fixes, came out in February 2008, and brought with it improvements that made Vista more efficient, especially for users who had newer computers with more processing oompah and memory.

Vista’s Service Pack 2 is being tested and due for release in the second quarter, according to Microsoft. Also being tested now is Windows 7, which is earning good marks so far.

Still, the Vista taint remains, and separating it from Windows 7 remains a challenge for Microsoft, which has seen its share of the operating system market decrease since Vista was launched.

Source: msn

Apple iWork '09

Less than two years after its previous update, iWork now receives a bump that incrementally improves upon each program and adds an interesting online component, but there’s no new major addition.
As always, the emphasis is on creating slick-looking documents with little or no fuss. As opposed to Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac, you don’t get a suite overflowing with functions aimed mainly at business users, but a collection of tools that can be used at work as well as at home. Documents are meant to come out looking great, whether they are junior school projects, corporate presentations, or home finance and budget calculations.
Visual updates can be found in the themes, animations and object styles. There’s a new theme chooser, which is by default the first thing you see on launching any of the apps. Thumbnails of themes are sorted into categories such as Reports and Brochures in Pages, and Personal and Education in Numbers. Thumbnails can be resized with a slider, and swiping with the cursor changes their contents to show of themed elements such as tables, graphs and covering pages. Once you’ve chosen a template or a blank document, you’ll be working inside the application you launched.

The emphasis is on creating slick-looking documents with little or no fuss. As opposed to Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac, you don’t get a suite overflowing with functions aimed mainly at business users, but a collection of tools that can be used at work as well as at home.

The programs also benefit from a lot of effort to integrate them. It’s a lot easier to place Numbers charts and tables in Pages and Keynote. They now  retain their values even if you change the formatting, and can be updated any time. You can create form letters in Pages and use the OS X Address Book or a Numbers database for mail merge functionality. Each app now lets you email documents through Mail with a new ‘Share’ menu entry. Files can be sent in their native formats, in equivalent MS Office formats, or as PDF files. And one of the most talked-about features is iWork.com, a subscription-based service (currently free to use while it’s in Beta) for sharing and collaborating on documents online.
Pages
The iWork word processor is now at version 4.0. Its most important tweaks come in the area of usability, rather than all-new features. The classic split between word processing and page layout modes is quite deemphasized, and you won’t know that there’s a difference unless you switch between templates.

The fullscreen mode lets you concentrate on the document at hand, but controls are still accessible if you dig deep.

A new full-screen mode lets you focus on the document at hand against a sheer black background (with a suitably Applesque fade-and-slide transition), without a single button or toolbar in view. This is especially neat if you’re not used to floating toolbars and Inspector palettes, not to mention OS X’s unwillingness to maximize windows.

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LG Viewty 2 Now Official

At CeBIT earlier this year, LG had showcased a hush-hush prototype of a second Viewty handset featuring an 8 megapixel camera. Aside from that fact the handset is more official now, according to sources it will incorporate a whole lot more than just a high end camera. It was simply called the Viewty 2 but is being dubbed the Viewty Smart. Running on LG’s new S-Class 3D UI, I wonder if this one will be more popular than the original.

The handset will feature -

• a 3-inch capacitive touch-display with an 800 x 480 pixel resolution and 16 million colors
• Wi-Fi, EDGE/GPRS, 3G with HSDPA
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0
• 32GB of internal memory and support for microSD cards as well
• Dolby Mobile technology
• DivX/XviD support for video playback
• 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash (pity it’s not Xenon) and Schneider-Kreuznach optics
• 12mm thin

The large display will come with an accelerometer as well as multi-touch functionality. Essentially it’s almost a clone of the Arena KM900 with the only visible difference being its camera. So naturally the price will presumably be higher. How high is yet to be revealed.

According to reports it’s possible it would be launched sometime in or after June ’09.

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