Test game online Formula 1 is open to the public

The developer Codemasters has opened for the public testing of the racing game "F1 Online: The Game," based on the automotive category. The title is free and can be played on the browser of the user (click here to play the game).

Codemasters is responsible for the simulation series Formula 1 race and launch "F1 2012" in the second half. She also develops racing series "Dirt."

Unlike racing games on the PC and video games in which the vision is seen behind the car or inside it, the title online player sees the track up and use your mouse to guide the vehicle on curves. The space bar on keyboard uses the KERS system (which takes energy from braking to give a kind of turbo on the car) and "D" key uses the opening wing DRS, used for overtaking.

The promise is that the final version will have all the circuits, drivers and cars of the Year contest in 2011 and runs over the Internet can play against other players. Players will have an online ranking and can create their tracks and vehicles to share with others. You can still create your team, manage it and participate in competitions against the clock (time trials).

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Google introduced the tablet to compete with iPhone and Kindle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google on Wednesday unveiled its first tablet as the company seeks to expand its Internet success in the smartphone market tablets, where it faces strong competition from Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

The tablet Nexus 7, created with the hardware manufacturer Asus will have a starting price of $ 199 (159 euros). Google introduced the tablet in its annual developer conference in San Francisco.

The 7-inch tablet will present the new version 4.1 "Jelly Bean" Google software, as well as a front camera, screen resolution of 1280x800 and Nvidia Tegra 3.

Google's Android software is the first operating system in smartphones, but struggles to compete with Apple's iPad tablet market.

Those responsible had version 1.4 "Jelly Bean" Android operating system at the conference in San Francisco. The new software is faster, according to its developers, and introduces new features such as the "voice search".

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Google introduced the tablet Nexus 7 and Nexus home device Q

Los Angeles (USA), June 27 (EFE). - The California-based Google has introduced its first tablet, Nexus 7, as well as a device to play content in the home, Nexus Q, and the new version of Android Jelly Bean, at the start of its annual conference for software developers in San Francisco.

As expected, Google unveiled a tablet with touch screen 7-inch high definition that designed and manufactured in collaboration with the Taiwanese company ASUSTek Computer designed to compete head to head with Amazon Kindle Fire.

Nexus 7 can be ordered today through Google Play online store for $ 199 (159.5 euros), similar to the successful Kindle Fire, although initially only available in North America, Australia and the United Kingdom when it reaches the market in mid-July.

The tablet features a powerful Nvidia Tegra processor 3, front camera, 9 hours of battery life in video playback and 300 hours standby time and weighs 340 grams.

Nexus 7 has been created to make the most of the entertainment ecosystem of Android, Google Play, in order to optimize the viewing of movies, YouTube, reading books and magazines as well as the use of Google Maps and web browsing Chrome.

The device will come equipped as standard with the new version of Android operating system, dubbed Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, whose features were released today.

More unexpected was Nexus Q, a device that Google hid under a cloth for the event with the intention to surprise the 6,000 attendees and a million spectators who followed the event via the Internet, according to the company.

Shaped like a cannonball, Nexus Q falls into the category of multimedia breeding boxes and seems to compete directly with Google TV, Apple TV, Roku and Boxee Box, even if its contents are limited to those that are accessible through Google Play.

Like Nexus 7, Nexus Q can be purchased today on the Google site Play at a price of $ 299 (240 euros), although in their case only be distributed in the U.S. from July.

Nexus Q is an Android device that operates Internet and serves as a gateway to multimedia content that users have hosted in the cloud with Google Play.

It drives through a phone or Android tablet, which acts as a remote control which Nexus orders Q from the cloud to play videos or music on the speakers or screens that are connected.

Nexus Q is not limited to a device or an account and allows multiple users to make playlists with purchased content in their libraries.

The device is designed entirely by the Google Android team.

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Social SimCity is launched on Facebook

 

"Game creation and administration of cities in the social network is free.
Special items can be purchased; help friends in the game."

'SimCity Social' version is the classic simulation game to Facebook (Reuters) 'Social SimCity' is version of the classic simulation game to Facebook (Reuters)

The famous game simulation and management of cities "SimCity" won a version for Facebook, which was launched in the social network on the evening of Monday (25). As with the PC, the title allows the player to create residential, commercial and industrial, raising money and increasing the local population.

As a novelty, the game lets you invite friends to live in the city and help grow it, sending gifts and helping to get special items, as in games for Facebook. The game is free, but items that give more advantages during the game can be purchased.

Other elements of the series such as natural disasters and fire building are present, forcing the player to spend resources to solve these problems and can ask for help from friends.

To jogaro the game, you must have a Facebook account and access the application's "Social Sim City" 

(Click here to Play Game).

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Google Nexus 7 in detail

 

We already know that Google plans to formally introduce the Nexus 7 in the conference Google I / O which begins tomorrow June 27th. But before the official presentation of the product, it is well to remember what we know so far about the Nexus 7, which incidentally is manufactured by Asus.

Indeed, this is the first tablet of Google, will be known as Nexus 7 and integrate an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core, while its operating system will be the new Android Jelly Bean (it is believed that this is version 4.1).

The Nexus 7 is manufactured by Asus and it is the first tablet to use Jelly Bean, which undoubtedly is a benefit of working with Google. The rest of the major specifications of the device include 8GB/16GB memory, 1GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 12 cores, 7-inch multitouch screen with 1280 × 800 pixels, 1.2 megapixel front camera and up to 9 hours battery duration.

The Asus Google Nexus 7 will cost $ 200 if we get the 8GB version or $ 250 if we get the 16GB. No doubt that with that price, with its hardware and the new version of Android will be able to give competition to the rest of the market, including the Fire and the iPad Kindle.

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Facebook operator must register as a platform if you want to manage SMS Forwarding

Facebook should register as an operator and report their activity to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) if you want to manage a storage platform and forwarding of text messages (SMS), and that it would take "real" electronic communications services as a resolution of the CMT.

In the resolution, the telecommunications regulatory body said that Facebook, whose business model consists mainly of managing a virtual social network, offers customers of Telefonica Moviles Spain the opportunity to update their data via SMS.

The company now wishes to extend this service to all users on your network regardless of operator, or providing the service itself or through an operator of storage and forwarding of short messages.

In this sense, the CMT Facebook warns that the notification service that wants to provide not an electronic communications service must be notified to the regulator, but the provision of storage and forwarding associated with it themselves, so the company be entered in the register, since the allocation of numbering can only be made in favor of an electronic communications operator registered.

In addition, Facebook is asking, in the case of registering as an operator of electronic communications services store and forward message on how you would calculate the gross amount of the overall rate of operators required.

In this sense, the CMT explains that calculation shall be made according to the amounts charged to the activity Facebook electronic communications and not play the content.

Current regulations set at 1 per thousand on the rate of gross operating revenues of the companies for determining the amount of the overall rate of operators.

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Accessory lets you control PCs and Macs through gestures

"Company says that Leap is 100 times more accurate than the Kinect.User does not touch the screen to perform the commands."

An accessory that is placed in the same position the keyboard promises to control the computer in Windows, Linux or Mac, including notebooks, by gestures without touching the screen. Called Leap, the device is placed in front of the screen, the keyboard position, and recognizes the user's hands and objects that can be used to control programs and games.

The unit should start to be sold in the United States from the end of 2012 and can now be ordered for $ 70 ( click here to watch the video demonstration of the device ).
The Leap promises to be 100 times more accurate than the Kinect sensor for the PC and Microsoft Xbox 360, detecting movements with one hundredth of a millimeter. It lets you surf the inernet, draw, navigate through maps, play games with only your movements.
Being small, the company says the device can be taken on trips.
 

 

User moves the finger in front of the screen without touching it, in order to draw

 

 

Games first person shooter can be played with hand gestures 

 

 

 

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Skype conquest to 70 million users of Android

 

Skype has announced that its application for Android has surpassed 70 million downloads for Android. With this record, Skype has said that it is the VoIP service 's most popular operating system from Google , which has come to 1,300 different devices in less than two years .
The Skype service has adapted quickly to mobile devices. The company has been launching mobile applications optimized for each system and terminal, allowing users to make VoIP calls from their devices more comfortable. Skype's strategy has paid off and now can boast of important records.
In this sense, Skype has announced that it has achieved 70 million downloads through Google Play, the Android app store. Such a volume of discharges is an important milestone in the history of Skype, which has ensured that it is "the most used video call application in Android."
So far, Skype has reached more than 1,300 models of Android devices from different manufacturers. HTC Terminals , Samsung, Sony, LG,Motorola , among others, have received the application of video calls most popular Web Despite the large number of models that Skype has come, the company explained that a total of 9 devices account for 25.73 percent of downloads.
The Samsung S2 is the Galaxy terminal downloads of Skype has registered a 8.92 per cent. Samsung Galaxy S (2.8 percent), the Galaxy Ace (2.67 percent) and the Galaxy Note (2.30 percent) are the terminals that are closer to the leader. After the South Korean models Samung, the HTC HD, HTC Sensation 4G and 4G HTC Evo are other smartphones with more downloads.
By country, America is where most have downloaded the Skype application for Android, with 23.26 percent of the total. Japan with 6.9 percent and Russia with 5.1 percent the following countries are about to download the Skype app for Android. Spain ranks sixth in terms of downloads with a 3.17 per cent.
As for languages, U.S. English is the largest presence is in Skype for Android. The Spanish, like Spain, also ranks sixth, with 3.72 percent, preceded by the UK English, Japanese, Russian and German.
Related links:
- Blog of Skype (http://blogs.skype.com/es/2012/06/skype_la_aplicacion_de_videoll.html)

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