Battlefield 3’s Battlelog service is designed to track Battlefield 3 players’ stats, unlocks, XP and kill death ratio over the course of their career. Battlefieldo.com have spotted the now pulled first screenshots of the service on the German Battlefield site, revealing instant messaging features, built-in voice chat and a “join” button to let friends dive straight into each other’s games.
It can be easy to forget how dodgy Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s server browser was on launch. Lengthy load times, slow refresh times, disappearing favourite lists and a hit and miss search function meant getting into a game could be frustrating to say the least. Here’s hoping Battlelog can deliver a smoother experience.
RIM sure is working very hard lately. Their tablet’s been on the market for three short months and is already set to receive its fourth software update. This go ’round, RIM added the ability to save attachments to a removable SD card or your phone’s internal storage, extract zip files from email (although you’ll have to use Bridge and port from your BlackBerry smartphone), a pinch-to-zoom feature for video viewing and — winner of the duh award — portrait viewing for photos. Also, the software now supports 15 additional languages — great news if you speak Galician. If you’re planning on picking up this QNX tab, you’ll receive the v1.0.7 update as part of the setup process. Current owners can wait for an update notification, or just pull it manually. The update is not exactly available yet, as some folks who downloaded the update were having connectivity issues using BlackBerry Bridge. RIM posted on Twitter saying users should expect a fix later this week.
Forget your awesome Viper alarm system with GPS and The Club, all you really need to nab car thieves is a forklift. That was the preferred tool of one Norwegian man who was set on stopping a crook from speeding away with his W210-generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class. The man grabbed the Benz with his tractor-based forklift and raised the front end of the car off the ground, damaging his car in the process. Tourists caught it all on tape, and the police arrived to find the not-so-grand larcenist sitting in the driver’s seat. Funny thing is, why didn’t the crook run away? Probably afraid of height.
Stephen Elop himself spilled the beans about Nokia’s first WP7 handset, codenamed Sea Ray, when he told a large live audience and some whirring video cameras that he wanted the phone to be kept “super confidential.” Now we have a whole new puddle of beans lying around thanks to a recorded video from China site Youku. The clip reveals the N9-like device removed from what appears to be a stealth case, followed by a speedy boot-up into the Windows Phone OS. We’re also treated to a quick look at the camera in action — triggered by a dedicated shutter button that’s missing on the N9 — before a hurried “goodbye.”
Reports claim that Asus is shipping somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 units of the Eee Pad Transformer per month, which is pretty impressive, especially since Asus appears to have orders for up to 4.5 million units for the second half of the year. You could be very pessimistic and say that shipments and orders do not equal units sold. However, the Transformer appears to be a bright light in what has been a very dark environment for non-iPad tablets so far, especially when it flies off the shelves pretty fast.
Asus is quiet about any numbers, but we know that the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Motorola Xoom were not exactly blockbusters. The most successful tablet next to the iPad may have been the Blackberry Playbook, which strongly leverages the Blackberry platform as an incentive for Blackberry users.
The most promising candidate to rival the iPad appears to be the rumored Amazon Kindle tablet that could debut sometime during this quarter. If platform is what makes a tablet successful, then Amazon should have the best shot at an Android tablet these days.
Speaking at Google’s Mobile Revolution conference in Tokyo, former CEO and current executive chairman Eric Schmidt said Apple’s present patent infringement case against HTC was inspired by “jealousy” and crafted to permanently unplug the power supply of its current rival, Google’s Android.
“The big news in the past year has been the explosion of Google Android handsets and this means our competitors are responding,” he said. “Because they are not responding with innovation, they’re responding with lawsuits.”
Schmidt added that Google is supporting HTC’s fight against Apple, and even feels confident that the non-Apple handset maker will win. Friday the U.S. International Trade Commission made an initial ruling that HTC infringed two of four (narrowed down from ten) Apple patents: 5,946,647 and 6,343,263. The former patent reportedly ties into Android, making the ruling the first to actually determine that Google’s OS infringes on other patents.
According to the patent 5,946,647 listing, Apple describes a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer.” The ITC claims that HTC violates claims 1, 8, 15 and 19 of the ’647 patent. If that’s the case, then other handset makers using Google’s Android OS have stepped on Apple’s toes as well. Read more…
So far 14 Anonymous suspects have been arrested nationwide in an epic sweep conducted by the FBI on Tuesday.
Early Tuesday morning, FoxNews reported that the FBI was currently executing search warrants of the New York homes of three suspected Anonymous members. The news arrived after Anonymous and LulzSec, the latter returning from “retirement,” successfully defaced the website of British newspaper The Sun on Monday.
“We had an awesome day, loud hail to all #AntiSec vessels: We are winning,” the group trumpeted via Twitter early Tuesday morning.
According to the Fox News report, more than ten FBI agents had already completed one raid on the home of Giordani Jordan of Baldwin, N.Y., seizing at least one laptop. At the time of the report, the raids at two Long Island, N.Y., homes and one in Brooklyn, N.Y., were still ongoing. Read more…
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