Dragon Age: Origins Will Ship Without SecuROM

It seems that EA has had just enough with users complaining about the protection software: the PC version of Dragon Age: Origins will be released without the dreaded SecuROM.

Chris Priestly, Community Coordinator at Bioware announced:

“We’re happy to announce that the boxed/retail PC version of Dragon Age: Origins will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication. In other words, the retail PC version of the game won’t require you to go online to authenticate the game for offline play. We have chosen not to use SecuROM in any version of Dragon Age that is distributed by EA or BioWare.”

In addition, Priestly announced what everyone has been expected, since we are talking about EA: “a ton” of downloadable content to be ready after the release of the games, plus a reminder that the Dragon Age toolset beta has already been made available.

Dragon Age: Origins will be released this fall on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
The real India lives in its villages and smaller towns and therein lies the future of India. Rural India constitutes 69 percent of India’s population, and 86 percent of the rural population earns less than Rs 100 per day.

Here are some highlights from the IMRB/I-Cube report (as of March 2008) ; India’s ‘Rural population: 568m; Rural Literate Population: 368m; Rural English-Speaking Population: 63m; Rural Computer Literates: 15.1m; Rural Claimed Internet Users: 5.5m; Active internet users: 3.3m The opportunity is that there are more mobile phones than Radio in Rural India (100million subscriber base).

Rural India has been ignored for more than 60 years and the cloud will bring the change that is required to bridge the divide between rural India and urban India and will improve the Indian rural economy.

The government of India through BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) is providing broadband connectivity up to the Taluka level which makes data connectivity a reality for rural India. This will allow rural India to log into the cloud.

Cloud is Gandhi Engineering

The term “Gandhi engineering" was used by NY Times in an article on the Tata’s Nano and it defines Gandhi Engineering as “a mantra that combines irreverence toward established ways with a scarcity mentality that spurns superfluities”
The cloud computing is a marvel of Gandhi engineering and encompasses Low cost ; High operational efficiency ; Elasticity and Scalability.

Advantages of cloud computing for rural India
• Low start-up costs make cloud computing especially attractive for rural India.
• Ease of management. No worry about keeping licenses or for that matter power and air-conditioning to run the data centers or purchasing additional hardware.
• Scalability make rapid rural penetration a reality; one can easily expand the number of users and locations at a modest cost .
• Device and location independence. The way you access a cloud could be your desktop. It could be someone else's computer. It could be a mobile phone. It could be a solar powered touch pad.
• Lastly the BSNL broadband project for rural India will provide the data connectivity.

Why Rural India Needs A National Plan For Cloud Computing?

Cloud is a disruptive technology, and many people will benefit from applications faster, cheaper, better and more reliable in the cloud. Exploited in the right way, a cloud can help the government to provide new service models which in turn stimulate growth and reduce costs. However, this could happen, it is important to get educated key stakeholders, to educate government leaders in the second phase, and then identify the cloud of a national strategy. If this happens in the right direction, cloud matures into a commodity to reduce the price of services.

Cloud rural India

The real India lives in its villages and small towns, and here is the future of India. Rural India forms 69 per cent of India's population, and 86 percent of the rural population earns less than Rs 100 per day.

Some highlights of the report IMRB / I-Cube (from March 2008), the rural population of India: 568 m; rural literacy: 368m, rural English population: 63 million, in rural computing: 15,100,000 ; rural Internet users said: 5.5 m; active Internet users: 3.3 m The opportunity is that there are more mobile phones in rural India Radio (100 million subscribers).

The rural India has been ignored for over 60 years and the cloud will bring the change needed to close the gap between rural and urban India in India and improve the economy of India in rural areas.

Government of India through BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) provides a bandwidth up to Taluka level, which makes data connections from the reality of rural India. This rural India to sign the cloud.

Cloud Gandhi Engineering

The term "engineering Gandhi" was used by the New York Times in an article on the Tata Nano, Gandhi and defines engineering as "a mantra, which combines a lack of respect for the means in place of the scarcity mentality , Spurn superfluous "
- The author, L S Subramanian is Founder, NISE India

Galaxy Tab 10.1 Prohibits The Sale In Germany

Galaxy Tab 10.1 is blocked from sale in Germany, following key court ruling against the company.

A German court today banned the sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 country, claiming that the Apple device has violated patents. According to AFP, which first reported the story, the judge Brueckner, Johanna Hoffmann, said that "a clear understanding of similarity" between the IPAD and the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

As you might expect, the Samsung is not satisfied with the decision of the Court. The e-mail statement on CNET, the company said it believes that the decision is bad for German consumers.

"We are disappointed with this decision and I think that severely restricts the choice of consumers in Germany," the company told CNET. "We also believe that by imposing a ban on the basis of this design is very general right, this decision ... Read full post and comments

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Sprint Offers Unlimited Data For IPhone 5?

5 Apple iPhone is coming to Sprint, and when you start, customers can get unlimited data for this report from Bloomberg today.

In reference to "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg reports that Sprint plans to offer unlimited data plans with the long-rumored iPhone from 5 to "separate" from AT & T and Verizon, the carrier currently selling the iPhone Apple 4th The sources also told Bloomberg that the iPhone will be available on five Sprint network in mid-October, although they do not give a specific date.

Rumors that Sprint will bring the iPhone has been swirling for 5 months. In July, Piper Jaffray analyst Chris Larsen said the time has finally come for Apple to offer its smartphone, Sprint, T-Mobile as well.

"Although it remains uncertain about the specifications of the features of the iPhone and next generation, we believe that the most noticeable change is the capability to machine multiple networks, including Sprint and T-Mobile USA United States, "Larsen said in a research note. His comments followed a different note Citadel analyst Yin Shing, who said in July that Apple will begin selling the iPhone for Sprint customers later this year.


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Google To Apologize This Week's Power Outage Docs

Google has officially apologized this week for Google Docs outage.

On Wednesday, Google Docs - Web search giant Productivity Suite, a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation graphics and design service app - it went down. Statement, Google said it was "aware" of the problem, and worked as a resolution. About an hour later the service was reported.

Writing in the company blog, Google engineering director, Alan Warren, said the company was "very sad", adding that the service was beaten by a "memory management error" that has been discussed below one update the Docs feature real-time collaboration.

Warren explained it this way:

Each time a Google Doc is changed, the machine looks for the server update. Because of the memory management bug that has search engines that do not recycle their memory properly after each broadcast, forcing them to run out of memory and reboot. "

Warren went on to say that when these machines to be restarted, causing more problems followed by the server service is wrong, "much of the process of requests for paper lists, documents, drawings and scripts which led to the break seen on Wednesday."

In an attempt to avoid court time that will affect Google Docs again, Warren said the search giant has developed an "action list" that will be used in the future. These measures, he said, are designed to "reduce the risk of a future event, reduce the time to notice and solve a problem and limit the scope of which can affect only one problem."

Rafe Needleman CNET describes the flaw, which was as short as a blow to the growth of cloud computing, or at least a reminder of his brilliant safety nets are in order:

Yes, it is certain that Google engineers have brought the system back up within a fairly short, probably faster than any lack of IT personnel department was able to react to a similar ruling in a local system. And we can say there is no loss of data. But if it's your job to worry about the productivity of a business, you should think of a worse case than they - and not be able to do something when, for example, 10,000 workers suddenly slowed technology a single failure. Is it useful?

Google is not alone this week to see its online services affected by an outage.

Last night, Office 365, Hotmail SkyDrive and Windows Live services were down for three hours. Microsoft has announced that the downtime was due to the Domain Name System (DNS) problem.