This morning Kickstarter was kicked in the pants by an unknown error resulting in a downtime of more than three hours. Check sites like “isitdownrightnow” have pinged the site with their servers and have reported real down time. This sort of situation suggests that the webpage is down due to a network problem or outage. This is not a scheduled … Continue reading
If you uploaded music to Play Music, but ran through the 20,000 song limit pretty quickly, we’ve got great news. Today, Google has upped the ante on Play Music’s song upload limit. Now, you can upload up to 50,000 tracks to Play Music, so music buffs (and former iTunes users) can now upload a much larger library. Best of all, … Continue reading
I’m not such a super fan of Star Wars today as I was back in the ’80s when I was young. I had all the stuff back then, all the toys, action figures, bedding, and pretty much anything else that had Star Wars on it. If you are still a big fan today, there is still plenty of cool stuff to go around.
One of the things out there now that I didn’t have in the ’80s is LEGO Star Wars. DK Publishing is readying a new edition of the LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, which includes images of all the minifigs that are in the LEGO Star Wars universe for you to see in one place.
The coolest part is if you buy the encyclopedia, you’ll get an exclusive minifig. Said minifig is Proto Boba Fett.
Apparently, in some of the early test footage, Boba Fett was wearing all white armor. Whatever the reason, the white Fett is pretty awesome and will probably help sell lots of books.
The updated book drops on April 28, 2015 and you can pre-order it over on Amazon now for just under $12(USD).
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ZTE and China Telecom have teamed up to deliver a spanking new smartphone that will feature a 5.5” inch display, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor, not to mention 2GB of RAM. In fact, just in case you were wondering where you might have laid eyes on the ZTE Q7-C in the past, this could very well be due to the fact that you have read about the ZTE Blade S6 smartphone before, except that the ZTE Q7-C happens to be larger in its size.
the ZTE Q7-C does come with a 3,000 mAh battery however, whereas the 5” Blade S6 will sport a smaller capacity 2,400mAh battery. What makes things all the more strange is the fact that the ZTE Q7-C is touted to arrive with Android 4.4 KitKat right out of the box, whereas the smaller Blade S6 will be more updated in terms of its mobile operating system version with Android 5.0 Lollipop in tow.
Other hardware specifications are pretty much the same though, with a 1280 x 720 pixel display, a 13MP camera at the back, a 5MP front-facing camera, 16GB of internal memory, 4G LTE connectivity, and dual SIM support. There is no word on whether the ZTE Q7-C will be sold outside of China, but only time will tell.
ZTE Q7-C Looks Like A ZTE Blade S6, Just Larger , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
If you happen to live in India, then you might want to take note of Google kicking off the rollout of the Android 5.0 Lollipop mobile operating system version when it comes to Android One handsets over in the world’s second most populous country. Apart from that, we have also learned that Google’s Android One program has started to expand and make its way to the Philippines and Indonesia, where the low-cost phones have started to ship with Android 5.1 Lollipop on board.
This particular announcement of the Android One program benefiting from some Lollipop goodness comes about from a certain Caesar Sengupta – who is obviously a Google employee. At this point in time, Google has begun to push Lollipop out to a small number of handsets at the moment, but they have already penciled plans to be more inclusive of additional users each week. Sengupta claims that you would happen to stand a better chance of picking up an over-the-air update should you be connected via Wi-Fi to the Internet.
There is no word on the version of Lollipop that is being released by Google, but fingers crossed that it will be Android 5.1 Lollipop instead of Android 5.0 Lollipop. Do bear in mind that Android 5.1 Lollipop has not seen an official announcement to date, but it is certainly very real.
Google Begins To Roll Out Lollipop For Android One Phones In India , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
When it comes to video games, there are some types that do have a special edition – and obviously, these tend to be limited in supply, not to mention being accompanied by a price tag that is definitely more expensive than that of a regular copy of the game. Having said that, would you fork out a massive £250,000 ($387,000 after conversion) for a special edition of a video game? I suppose only the real hardcore (and uber rich) fans of Dying Light will do so – while the rest of the world looks on in envy.
Dying Light is a zombie action thriller that was released three weeks’ back in North America, but apparently it is only now starting to make its way over in the UK, where it is due for a release later this Friday. This extremely expensive version of the game will be made available via British retail chain Game, and if you happen to snag it – there will only be a single unit available. Known as the “My Apocalypse” Collectors Edition, it will naturally arrive with a custom built zombie fortification cabin that will alone cost approximately $100,000, in addition to a set of “zombie avoidance parkour lessons.”
Heck, since you’ve already paid up that much dough, it makes sense that a trip to Poland is also thrown into the mix, where you are able to visit the team, as well as have your face released as a skin and a slew of other goodies for a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Dying Light Special Edition Costs What? , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Ridesharing service Uber has inked an agreement with Starwood Hotels & Resorts which would now allow riders to earn Starpoints that can be redeemed at the hotel group’s properties around the globe. This partnership is truly the first of its kind as none of Uber’s rivals are doing something like this. Hotel groups like Starwood already allow their customers to earn points if they travel on certain airlines or use credit cards from certain banks so this partnership isn’t something unique if you look from their perspective.
In order to earn points for Uber rides customers have to be Starwood Preferred Guest or SPG members. The SPG awards program is free so signing up isn’t a hassle at all. Members will then be able to earn points for any ride that they take on Uber.
In order to take advantage of this partnership Uber users need to link their accounts at spg.com/uber. Once they complete a qualifying stay at any Starwood hotel, the SPG members will earn one Starpoint for every $1 spent on Uber. This is separate from any bonus Starpoints accumulated during stay at a Starwood hotel.
Starwood is home to nine distinct brands, Aloft, Element, Four Points, Le Meridien, Sheraton, St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W Hotels and Westin, so its not that hard to find a property owned by the group wherever you might be in the world.
Uber Riders Can Now Earn Starpoints For Redemption At Hotels , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
If you are a long time fans of action RPG, then you would be glad to know that Square Enix has announced with a press release that their latest action RPG game; Dragon Quest Heroes will hit North America and Europe’s shores in 2015. The good news was announced on the eve of Japan launch of the game. The English version however will be exclusively for PS4.
Currently, Metal Slime PlayStation owners enjoy the privilege of playing the Japanese version of the game a day ahead of tomorrow official release. The Japanese version is playable in both PS3 and PS4. The game as we know runs in an unruffled 60 frames per second.
Dragon Quest Heroes is to be the first of its series to be in full scale action-RPG mode.
The game is a collaboration among big names like Akira Toriyama (Creator of Dragon Ball Franchise), long time Dragon Quest series composer; Koichi Sugiyama and KOEI TECMO, creator of hit games such as Samurai Warriors and Romance of Three Kingdom.
Dragon Quest Heroes’ is about the rise of the protagonists against insuperable odds, challenging swarms of enemies and conquering gigantic monsters in a beautiful rendered HD world over an exhilarating action gameplay.
Dragon Quest Heroes To Hit North America And Europe In 2015 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Outlook.com users take note. Microsoft has confirmed today that it is going to remove both Google and Facebook chat from its email service “within the next couple of weeks.” The company made this announcement through an email that was sent out to Outlook.com users. It is understandable why Microsoft is removing Google chat, and it even provides a reason, but its mum on why Facebook chat is getting the same treatment.
Google recently made the decision to discontinue the chat protocol used by the Google Talk platform and this is precisely the reason Microsoft gives for its decision to remove Google Talk integration from Outlook.com.
Facebook hasn’t done this for its chat platform but it also gets the same treatment, Microsoft doesn’t provide a reason for it, only that over the next couple of weeks this chat platform will no longer be available to Outlook.com users.
The company does point out that despite the fact that its removing chat services, Facebook and Gmail services for Outlook.com that integrate with the people feature, those services will remain unaffected.
So what do the users who relied upon these chat services do? Unsurprisingly Microsoft is pointing them towards Skype, its own service, that’s integrated in Outlook.com. The company believes Skype “provides the best experience for chatting and making voice or video calls.”
Google And Facebook Chat Being Removed From Outlook.com , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
They say that revenge is a dish best served cold, but what you are about to read here is not exactly in a similar vein – although there is an element of gleeful revenge, at least based on speculation. Samsung, a company that has gotten into its fair share of legal skirmishes with Apple over the years, would definitely be pleased to hear that Apple has been ordered to pay a $533 million fine for infringing Smartflash’s patents.
While $533 million does sound like a colossal sum (which it is), it is but a drop in the bucket for a company that recently made the headlines of being worth more than $700 billion, now how about that? The $533 million fine that Apple has to pay was ordered by a US court, no thanks to Cupertino having infringed upon a trio of patents that were owned by Texas-based patent licensing company Smartflash.
These patents were certainly related to digital rights management (DRM), data storage, and payment systems. Smartfish took Apple to court, touting that Apple’s iTunes software made use of such patents without prior permission, although Apple claims that such patents were invalid. Well, it goes without saying that Apple is currently working on an appeal for the decision.
Apple To Pay $533 Million Fine For Patent Infringement , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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