Month: January 2015

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Internet

A quick overview of online gaming Scenario

Ever since it became possible to game online, the demographic of gamers has been evolving. Gaming is no longer the preserve of single men and teenage boys (if it ever truly was). As more and more people have access to the internet at home and via their smartphones, the range of people who game online extends ever wider.

There are not only more men gaming, but a lot more women as well. And the age of gamers is steadily on the rise. Whether that’s due to the generation who were teenagers or younger when video games first came on the market still making the most out of gaming, or because more of us have access to online games now and so are coming to it later in life, is not really certain. However, the Entertainment Software Association 2014 report that came out towards the end of last year highlighted a 36% increase in the women over the age of 50 who were gaming between 2012 and 2013.

The sheer variety of gaming you can do online has to explain the fact that almost anyone can be termed a gamer now. Whether it’s your mum or aunty playing Words with Friends, your teenage son playing Assassin’s Creed or you making the most of being able to play casino and bingo games online, gaming has definitely become a universal pursuit. Even the games that were around long before video games existed have been adapted to work as online games. Take bingo as just one example. The number of bingo sites such as Costa and Coral Bingo seems to be ever growing. And while few of the sites retain the tradition of using the rhyming bingo calls, there’s still the feel of a community game when you play because of the bingo chat rooms. You can also find out lots about the history of bingo on the sites, about bingo balls and how the different calls came about. All this makes bingo one of the most popular online games around – with over 100 million players registered on different online sites around the world.

According to Dutch research and marketing firm Newzoo, the mobile gaming industry is where we’ll see significant growth this year, with players making full use of the possibility of gaming on handheld and mobile devices. The company forecast that the mobile gaming revenues for 2015 will be $30.3 billion worldwide, and that mobile gaming will eclipse console gaming revenues for the first time. Now that gamers have four screens to choose from when playing – the TV, PC, tablet or handheld and the phone – it is predicted that in the coming years, there will be a gradual evening out of where people spend money on games, so that eventually there will be an even spend split over the four screens.

Just because gamers are choosing to play on their mobiles – a survey by the Internet Advertising Bureau in the UK reported that 54% of respondents cited their mobile as their gaming platform of choice – it doesn’t mean that everyone playing mobile games is doing so on the move. A survey by comScore reported that of the 20m mobile gamers in the UK, over two-thirds played in the living room, and another 23% in the bathroom. This highlights that it’s about the convenience of playing on a mobile more than the desire to play while away from the home.
While the number of older gamers is increasing, there’s also more evidence from the Entertainment Software Association report that gaming is now more of a family activity than it used to be. Of those parents surveyed 58% said they played video games with their children once a month or more, and 42% said they did so once a week or more.

Whatever stats you look at, it’s clear that the gaming demographic is becoming more and more all-inclusive, with people of all ages and both sexes enjoying the option of video gaming when and where they can.

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Gadgets

Google Glass Looking Forwards

The withdrawal of Google glass has been considerably quieter than its launch. That’s hardly surprising; Google made a heck of a fuss about Google Glass and the Smart Glasses that were to deliver it to market. The problem, it seems, is that there wasn’t (and isn’t) a market to take the product to – or at least there isn’t the mass market that Google’s ambitious execs had envisaged. But that does not mean that the idea is a dead duck.

There are still niche areas in which the utility and Google Glass is being explored – not least in medical and engineering settings. But for the rest of us – for the time being at least – this is another one of those things that might have been, like steam driven cars or dirigible passenger aircraft.

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At root, the idea that a form of wearable technology could be delivered in the form of a pair of glasses is not unsustainable. As the medical and engineering niches suggest, sometimes being able to draw down data in unusual or restricted settings and whilst your hands are busy elsewhere has immediate practical value. The rest of the time however, it seems, such benefits don’t count for a lot.

As the rise of the smartphone demonstrates all too well, people like to involve their hands as well as their hearts and minds in what they are doing. Whether it involves a game of Angry Birds or an assessment of the latest Bundesliga betting when preparing a punt, players like to get to grips with what they are playing with – literally.

There were also widely expressed concerns over the introduction of a technology that was seen as somehow sinister or invasive. There are reports of it having been pre-emptively banned in Las Vegas – you can see why casino operators might not be impressed by the idea! It was, furthermore, outlawed in certain other US territories where Glass’s ability to enable the filming and photographing of anyone any time seemed to touch a nerve that was more to do with a fear of technology pure and simple, rather than privacy concerns per se.

It seems that as soon as a new design either offers the means to achieve some clear practical benefit, or – as Apple have demonstrated – if an existing technology can be made sensually and affectively engaging then there is a natural brake on the roll out of any new product. Google appear to have missed this fundamental truism of tech development.

In truth, this is not the first Google embarrassment of this nature. The company has not enjoyed stellar success in its efforts to generate consumer hardware – even if the Chrome-book is at least commercially viable. But the point about the Chromebook is that it simply recreates existing functionality. As competitively priced as it may be it is identifiably no sort of a game changer.

Development of Google Glass continues, albeit in a different wing of the Google empire. It remains to be seen how and in what guise it returns. It may be that like the steam lorry and the airship that it is simply confined to the margins of technological history. Conversely, it may be that it is taken up by organizations who are less concerned with the niceties of privacy and the preservation of gambling integrity. Don’t be surprised if Google Glass finds its way into a military application. It may have missed the market first time around, but Google Glass is not dead yet.

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Mobile

Hand us Your Used Phones and Get Cash in Return

The luxury days have all disappeared, and people are beginning to take a critical look at their finances in order to maintain a higher level of financial security.

To this end, strategic measures are put in place to increase savings; so many options readily come to mind. But the one that is taking the western world by storm is trading of used phones for cash.

We know you’ve bought for yourself a new phone, and finding a perfect platform to offload the old one has continue to retain a mysterious grip on your thought.

Not to worry, you’re just at the right place on how to sell my phone.

Many individuals don’t really know what to do with their used mobile phones once they get the newest model. Quite a few offers them to family members, however, a good number of people just put them away in the bottom part of a cupboard and simply forget about them.
After researching about retailing of used mobile phones via the web , it almost immediately grew to become obvious , based on the model and make , that your old or used phones could possibly be well worth one hundred British pounds or even more in the event you exchange it for cash .
You can either trade off your used mobile phones for cash on various online sites or local mobile phone retailers which are always eager to accept them. They provide efficient methods to evaluate your used phones as they are constantly prepared to present you with a great deal provided that the units are actually in very good condition. These retailers always make it a habit to revamp the obsolete units which enables them redistribute to some overseas places for reuse.

Earning some extra pounds from used cell phones is surely one thing to take into consideration because it is quick cash for you and also, simultaneously, would certainly reduce the clutters in your house.

The exchange of your used mobile phone for real money will also be doing the environment a favor by eliminating possible toxins from mishandling of these old phones even if you put them at your home for long periods; batteries of phones of these type are prone to leakages.
Here are quite a few payment methods offered whenever you trade off your used mobile phones. Some companies will simply provide vouchers to some online sites. Nevertheless, the recommended arrangement would require providing you cash for phones, devoid of any string attached.
The ideal trading-in companies will certainly send out a cheque taking care of the value of your handset so that you can pay it into your bank immediately.

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