Here's some news that will not make everyone happy, especially among PC owners waiting impatiently unfeigned some Dragon Age: Origins Electronic Arts. Indeed, because of delays due to manufacturing problems, this version will acknowledge 14 days late and not come out next November 5 as planned but November 19, at the same time as the Playstation 3 version. The lucky owners of an Xbox 360, meanwhile, may from November 5 to rush from their favorite retailer to get their copies.
But all is not black as happily as November 5, the PC version can still be obtained by direct download at this address on the awning of Electronic Arts. Similarly, this condition does not affect the PC version collector.
Update: Following a press release from Electronic Arts that we received, we learn at last that the PC version of Dragon Age: Origins happen eventually November 12 and not 19, when reserved for the Playstation 3 version.
Mandriva will not miss the autumn period which usually bloom the new Linux distributions. The editor has indeed posted in the night variants of its new flagship product, Mandriva Linux 2010. Always declined in several editions ranging from 100% open source edition PowerPack for professionals, distribution workstation Mandriva opens this 2010 version to various news, from the latest desktop environments in Moblin date, through a promising device, dubbed "Smart Office".
If default, Mandriva Linux KDE adopted here in version 4.3.2, it is also possible to opt for Gnome (2.2.28) or LXDE for older machines. Upon installation, the 2010 is also responsible for analyzing the configuration of your machine for you by default choose the appropriate level of performance you have. "Today, approximately 45% of machines with Mandriva are using Gnome, against 55% for KDE. Plus it's going, and we believe that we must preserve this diversity, "said Anne Nicolas-Velu, Mandriva VP of Engineering.
In addition, Mandriva 2010 will open this year in packets from the Moblin project (co-developed by Intel), which aims to provide a lightweight user interface adapted to small screens such as those netbooks. The hardware side this time, the publisher was pleased to be among the first to have integrated the drivers needed to run the platform Poulsbo, more often associated with Atom processors from Intel.
Also optional: the Sugar environment, from the OLPC program and for children in discovery phase of the computing universe. Note also the appearance of a systematic account "guest", ideal to leave a few minutes surfing friend from his computer, without compromising its own session, nor their privacy because the data generated are stored in a folder and TMP cleaned each closure. Technically, Mandriva 2010 Plymouth opens for a more lively start with Splashy and a new partitioning tool, more visual. Note also the integration of media center MooVida, and new tools dedicated to virtualization (VirtualBox 3 in particular).
Among other news, Red Hat puts particular emphasis on a new feature, "Smart Office" or smart desktop. Deriving from research project Nepomuk, it assumes that all too often in computer files and information are sorted according to the application that stores or has generated, while the user eventually needs a classification focused on tasks and projects. Using the software associated with this smart desktop, you can then connect its mails, documents and folders to a current task. Thereafter, a semantic analysis engine, relatively simple for now, take care to suggest new content for each product received or the association to a project. A manager, Desktop Task groups these different data and allows them to administer.
Microsoft dusts off the global version of the MSN portal and provides a better integration of search engine Bing, the appearance of articles on Facebook, Twitter.
For Microsoft, the MSN.com portal will benefit from the biggest change ever took place for ten years. This new release concerned the global version of the portal, then understand this Homepage extensively reworked to be put in place the day the United States. However, nothing prevents a user non-American to attend. For now, the new portal can be tested via a preview.
For MSN.com, changing the order of its many aesthetic, beginning with the abandonment of the blue and the adoption of a white background. More clarity is also measured with a better layout of proposed topics. Certainly, this new version is more refined with a bar menu prepared by top to access the news, Leisure, Sports and others. The entry displayed directly on the portal are available in the form of blocks, the main block displaying a slideshow of the five news yet.
MSN.com also aims to increase the market share of search engine Bing that the United States is final. According to Microsoft, and Bing was more deeply integrated with MSN.com search areas particularly highlighted as the search for local information based on IP address, the motor aspect of decision Bing for procurement, travel.
As it is impossible to ignore the mode of social networks, MSN.com is not only the pride of Windows Live, but in a column to the right of the page, the user can also access its updates statutes on Facebook, Twitter. With the Facebook tab, the user can for example refer directly to the MSN page list of recent updates to his friends and update its status.
If we speak more often of Flash Player that is present on virtually all Internet-connected computers around the world, another Adobe product is also widely distributed. Although to a lesser extent, but Shockwave Player that can play some multimedia applications, interest still 450 million systems connected to the Net.
Like its counterpart Flash Player with whom he is sometimes confused, Shockwave Player, which equips the browsers on Windows and Mac OS X is also affected by security vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities it is fashionable to correct them are critical.
French expert analysis of vulnerabilities, VUPEN Security alerts us to the discovery of four critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player. The U.S. publisher has been advised of these findings several weeks ago, and yesterday issued a security bulletin in function to promote the download version 11.5.2.602 Shockwave Player.
VUPEN Security recommends immediate implementation of the update to address vulnerabilities whose exploitation could lead to remote attackers to run malicious code on a vulnerable system. This exploitation takes place through Web pages specially designed with Shockwave content.
