Archive for June, 2008

PS3 will soon capture the Console Market

June 14th, 2008

Although the information isn’t as solid but, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich believes the PS3 is going to keep increasing its sales and that Microsoft will announce a price cut for the Xbox 360 at E3. He foresees the PS3 gaining momentum and claims Metal Gear Solid 4 will actually have a greater impact on the console’s hardware sales than Grand Theft Auto IV did. Sounds impossible to me.

Divnich also believes that Microsoft will announce a price cut at E3 next month, speculating the console could also get a new hardware SKU with added features. He claims if Microsoft does cut the price, Sony will respond with a drop of its own within two months. We’re currently gathering up 30 Helens to see what they think.

On the other Side Sony’s handheld console ‘PSP’ would see a lacking in sales as we do not see any significant PSP titles in the short-term pipeline. Moreover looking at the sales of title Iron Man for PS2, PSP was the only console not having a title in the top 10 of unit sales.

Seem a tough as well as quite and sad side for Sony. But clearly the next gen console PS3 will see some great sales and the market will show some sudden surprises by the end of this year.

Quicktime 7.5 Out Now!

June 13th, 2008

Apple Rolled out an Update for the famous Quicktime Player.The update is available for Windows (22.67MB), Leopard (56MB), Tiger (52.8MB), and Panther (51.39MB), as Apple blatantly disregards the needs of users still using Jaguar, Puma, and Cheetah.

If you are looking for some updates regarding the new Player add-ons. Apple got its own legacy of the weird change log with “QuickTime 7.5 improves application compatibility and addresses security issues.”

Apparently this release fixes five QuickTime vulnerabilities, including, but not limited to, a number of issues bridging from maliciously crafted media and image files to arbitrary code execution.

You can update either by Apple Software update or download from their download page.

Download Torrents on Gaming Consoles!

June 11th, 2008

Now you can download torrents on your gaming consoles, rather any web enabled device. Don’t worry no need to install any software or any thing. Just visit TorrentRelay and follow the simple steps you are done.

But wait who made this possible? Kevin Kowalewski of TorrentRelay as told to TorentFreakI’ve always been interested in computers, Perl, PHP, Python etc and wanted to make a project over the summer.” And this project evolved into making it possible to download torrents on PS3, Wii or even iPhone. Just some reverse engineering with the Bit Torrent Protocol and he made it possible.

How to get it done ..

1.) The most common way is “Browse and select”, which allows you to choose a torrent from your local file system.

2.)The URL method which allows you to simply copy the URL of where the torrent is online.

3.)The third option is Mininova ID. Just jot down the short 7 digit code found on Mininova torrents, and hit ‘Get ID’. You can easily find the corresponding Mininova ID from the download link, just hover over it and you’ll see it in the bottom of your browser.

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IMDB- Victim of Denial-Of-Serive Attack

June 10th, 2008

IMDB, internet’s biggest online movie database website faced a DDOS(Disturbed Denial of Service) Attack. This attack was more evident on the one of the Ips updating the IMDB blog . The website went blunt for while, with images not loading at all. This DDOS Attack time coincided with Amazon going offline for a while, and stayed till Amazon again went online again.

Researchers also stated “The attacker seemed to open multiple connections with the IMDB’s Web server (port 80) while incrementing his source port for every new connection. The attack’s average rate was 3Mbits/sec, certainly not large enough to cause a complete meltdown but probably good enough to delay the legit users. However, there might have been other attacks launched at the same time on IMDB which weren’t in the path of our probes”

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