American computer manufacturers Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell have published on Thursday 19 AOT, benefitted from the rise for the quarter ended in July with better than expected increases in sales of PCs.

HP, the world number one computer, has displayed an increase of 6% benefitted from its $ 1.77 billion (1.38 billion euros). The turnover is also consistent with prvisions group, 30.72 billion dollars (23.98 billion euros), an increase of 11% over a year. “The strong performance of HP in troisime dmontre quarter the power of our strategy options and excutive discipline” is how the director and director FINANCIAL gnrale intrim by Cathy Lesjak, quoted in the group communicated. ” / p>

Between May and July, the IT group has RALIS the majority of its sales outside the U.S., especially in the BRIC (brazil, Russia, India, China). Servers and storage have recorded sales up 19% to $ 4.4 billion (3.4 billion euros), over 19%. The software has been growing mitigates (2%) 863 million (673 million euros). The group maintains its global position in Premire PCs with a 12% increase in sales of 9.9 billion dollars (7.7 billion euros), a growth of 10% for laptops and 27% for desktops, both led by corporate clients.

action group, however, declining 1.10% 40.21 dollars (31.38 euros) to midnight (Paris time) at the following electronic exchange of power clture New York. She has lost 13% since the Departure of Mr. Hurd, vinc following accusations of sexual harclement by an ex-service group, which has a dclench Internal Investigation into the group.

his ct, Dell has benefitted sky is clear a net increase of 16% during the same Periods, 545 million (425 million)-thanks a lift off 22% of turnover, 15.53 billion dollars (12.12 billion euros). “The commercial activity Dell continues to enjoy a amlioration demand for all products and services, and in all Regions , has indicated the group communicated in Texas.

boss and company founder Michael Dell was excluded from the market shelves, and No. Apple iPad is highly dominant for now, Dell and o is absent, it might jeopardize the revenue growth business. In the U.S., “The PC market is around eight million units (…). The market shelves, I’m not the percentage that goes sr attended by delegates” said Mr. Dell.

action group nevertheless have cd 2% 11.80 dollars (9.20 euros) in foreign exchange market out.

C ow to boost sales of mobile all equipped Windows operating system? By focusing on the games vido seems rpondre Microsoft. Before the launch, the fall, the latest version of Windows Mobile, the Redmond company announced Monday 16 AOT, many games are available for this platform. We found some popular licenses such as the adventure game “Castlevania” or “Guitar Hero”, with many titles for more casual players, as “Bejeweled” and “Uno”.

Besides the new games

proposs, Microsoft also wants to allow to interact with the platform Xbox Live, up Submitted only available on PC and console. Among the new features too, and are consulting his gamer profile from a mobile terminal, the conversations with his contacts, and even the possibility of playing network.

This new strategy options

shows that mobile Internet has become a major dfis for Microsoft. Ultra-dominating the computer market, with over 90% share, the operating system from Microsoft attended by delegates only 5% on mobile platforms to in the second quarter, as published by rcemment give firm Gartner studies . A year tt, Windows Mobile 9.3% representation mechanism, far derrire Symbian Nokia, RIM (Blackberry) and Apple iOS.

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expriences Microsoft mobile taient subdued, whether the device Kin, which will no longer distribution, or multimedia player Zune. The group is amricain with an X-Box Live modle attractive. Lanc in 2002, the service, which lets you play online, account dsormais 25 million registered worldwide. Microsoft however is specific not the number of players who have made the offer “silver” , free, and those in “gold” , who pay a monthly subscription.

putting as much emphasis on mobile gaming, Microsoft uses a somewhat similar strategy options Apple, which must include the success of its iPhone in gaming applications. APRS site spcial 148apps, over 240,000 applications from the App Store has more than 35,000 are games. On the Android Market, the store’s online operating system from Google, 12% of the software are also games, according Androlib.

L ‘editor computing Oracle has announced Thursday it has sued Google for patent infringement, on Java technology. Oracle had Ratchet Sun Microsystems, the Java editor in January.

Oracle believes that Google has “ knowingly, directly and repeatedly rape Oracle’s own intellectual ” in the dveloppement Android, the operating system for mobile telephony Google.

The Java programming language to be compatible with all platforms dveloppement. At the end of years 1991, Sun Microsystems had sued Microsoft, accusing them of using his language a Manir too restrictive. In 2001, the two companies had reached an amicable agreement. Microsoft had $ 20 million to Sun, but cess by default to include Java in its Windows operating system.

T ET Daily Beast rvle that U.S. demand Great Britain, Germany and the Australia to open Investigation into cons Julian Assange, co-founder and spokesperson of Wikileaks, the website spcial in the publication of confidential documents, which has published tens of thousands of reports from Afghanistan by U.S. weapons.

amricaine Justice has opened an Investigation into and hopes that other governments as part of the coalition in Afghanistan to do the same. Whereas with Obama in the rvlations Wikileaks have endangered all soldiers present in person in Afghanistan, amricains as allies.

Opening Investigation into other countries also limit the means of Mr. Assange moved in, of Australian nationality, but who lived in the United States. The spokesman Wikileaks has chosen to stay in Europe, on the advice of his lawyer, to avoid a possibly arrest. Since the publication of the “Afghan War Diaries,” Mr Assange has given a news conference in London, and has apparently made it to Germany, but his place of rsidence is unknown. On Monday, he had canceled a news conference rules provided London, evokes a “logistical problem “.

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APRS The Daily Beast , diplomats amricains would also pressure on Iceland. APRS is a scandal of censorship during the tlvision FINANCIAL crisis, the country wishes to become a haven for journalists and adopted a law last June for extremely protective of sources and people who dvoilent malfeasance. The United States fears that Wikileaks can not find refuge in it.

D ANAH Boyd, a young researcher at Microsoft and the University of Harvard, has specific focus in the study of adolescent behavior on the Internet. It has become a recognized expert of the networks of social online. In a draft article for a book to stepfather Publishing Routledge Press, she examines the reasons for the dsaffection MySpace for Facebook.

conclusions it reaches, after a hundred interviews lie between 2004 and 2009, are difiantes: Whereas it is primarily social classes and races, which it dictate the choices of adolescents. ” / p>

Indeed, for young whites and Asians, MySpace ceremonial roughly as a “ghetto” black frquent evil. In contrast, African-Amricains or originating Latin Amrique find it more “fun” as Facebook because they feel more able to express freely their personality.

choice, “says Danah Boyd, ” refltent social reproduction of the categories that exist in schools in the U.S. . trs Utopia is rpandue Internet enables radiation DEFINITIONS ingalits the racial and prjugs United States. “ But this is not the case. “As school cafeterias or shopping malls, the online social network, young people also gather peer ,” she says

Lanc in 2003, MySpace is quickly trs invested by bands, especially rock and Independent Appraisal of hip-hop, very marked by the urban black culture, and their fans. “Being given its success among musicians and” night owls “, inscribed on MySpace could be considerably in adhsion Beginners as a form of culture-cons” , notes the researcher. ” / p>

In 2005, MySpace was bought by News Corp., the gauntlet of press and tlvision, and attention is mdias suddenly shines on him. As to the material, Plutt ngatifs, the look changes. MySpace is indeed often Submitted as a place full of “looking out for predators sexual . Y evolve is associated with risk behaviors: drugs, sex, alcohol. As a result, parents owned media Duque Plutt white ISSA, are pressing for their progniture she dsinscrive.

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in 2004, Facebook in full benefits. First CONU and reserved for students of the trs slecte universit Harvard, Facebook was opened up to public in 2006. The first sign is the LYCEN ISSA, attracted by the litiste ct. Anastasia, 17, New York, Danah Boyd explains leaving MySpace for Facebook “with the rest of my school. It has become the best place o lves discussing their duty to English tomorrow” .

Danah Boyd

establishes a dsaffection located parallel between MySpace and the flight of whites from inner cities to the suburbs amricains consider having more as SRES. She also Relva mdias some, including journalists “white middle class owned” , have tended rather quickly bury MySpace. She cites an article New York Times dat 4 May 2009, under explicit: “Do you remember someone on MySpace?” “The team of the newspaper silent on Facebook and assumed that their readers as” , I note ^M Boyd.

Like any good RPG multiplayer, Dragon Quest IX opens with the creations of a small avatar, a phase that is best not to regret ngliger pain too quickly without several backup slots. The choices are many hlas limits, whether Facis – mostly hideous – or hair color, men and women. But the fear of the same guide HROS the neighbor dissipates quickly, to the extent the Equipment, apparent diffre by the occupancy of your character. No attention immediately, your character will transport the realm of angels responsible for watching over the human world without their knowledge. By collecting an aura of cloth which manent residents, angels esprent see the fruit of one day grow Desse on the World Tree, a rare AMES who lead the country to God. Affect a small village, guided by your mentor Aquila, you will also work for the welfare of villagers and surrounding Regions. Who knows what will happen when, finally, open the gate leading to Paradise …As often with Dragon Quest, and more with the one, the increase was small gr Droulez in Qute Independent Sales without vritable link. This construction of Dragon Quest VII is probably explained by the multi Attendees: who would sit ill with a needle scnario too. Apart from the small moments o Stella plays himself vases (a national scandal in Japan!), Fans gather all these simple moments, that delicacy of this writing and humanity’s poignant, without frills, which are the hallmark of the srie. The black knight who has deceived era of the young prince put on a fine show machiavlique mater, Dragon Quest IX is a partition always as effective, based on a translation Franaise impeccable. Fans apprcier probably rsum easily accessible on Y, which can take stock of The scenario.

title ax mainly around the multi, the establishment of several parties is probably not as ergonomic as possible. It esprait online gaming, but it will just play locally. It relied on a simple interface CASC, but we need to make impractical hostel in the city main Ablithia to start a session without forgetting to leave his team with characters reserved to accommodate its guests. On the other ct, the fate of tlportation trs obtained quickly, and it is free, so do the needs explaining opration a fist minutes.

More surprising, but guests with a guide that growth as those of Japanese RPG, The scenario will progress to the player host. The guests will be entitled also to the cut-scenes, but once returned to the fold (the Departure of possible anytime), they will repeat the passage a second time Ms they have fallen behind. Of course, the pleasure of fighting cts peers is priceless, especially against a boss, when the slightest error in the plan may lead to the fiasco playing bad luck. Normally, each player was free to go o it sees fit, if the coffers of qute in red, are reserved to hte, vagrants can browse peacefully in the blue treasure island. Members of the team may even fight each of them if s’loignent ct too, ideal for organizing mini-raids improviss. Finally, one of hte command to round up everyone in the same place or even fight if he crosses paths with enemies too strong or too numerous. Really good pens.

The intrusion of multiplayer

left guessing about the issue of up to level and farming, vital points of the Japanese RPG gnral, and Dragon Quest in particular. For a serie that has its entire bti rputation on a fragile balance between stats, Bethune and Equipment, with a character team to sweep out cracks could have btes rpercussions on fun gaming Square Enix has made sure to limit abuse. Although sr to team with three bodyguards allow the player to press through the dungeons without blow vide. A visit to places will also declines the opportunity to gorge XP, even if the Breakdown of the exprience ingalitaire trs is the weakest. Moreover, if the exchange Equipment and money is banned, the way Broadband n’empche nothing to take his padawan in distant cons, with monsters that make rich and powerful shopping Gavsie of items. It’s all about self discipline and choice. Some adventurers take malicious pleasure playing with the Systm faults, while others will not move forward with no characters of the same level, just for the kif. The system class is also CONU for a.

In fact, in Dragon Quest IX, the level of each class is Independent Appraisal of others. A level 20 Warrior then start again from level 1 shall decide whether to become Prtre. It is therefore quite possible to calibrate the level of his partner in choosing a job yet worked well as required. But it will nevertheless have reached the Abbey of Vocations in the first quarter of the priest, into leaving his title and traveler goter to other classes. The game still offers a first glimpse trs tt classes GREECE recruits, companions that can be self-CRER even prior to indoctrinate; old concept borrowed Dragon Quest III, Dragon Quest IX will be openly hritier .

vido game Infringements or fiction, there is now a new form of littrature that uses computers as mdium to elaborate stories and characters crdibles. The aim of the new writers is not to pass the Turing test their creations, or rflchir on the logic behavior, but to provide the reader with a narrative crdible oprationnellement and engaging.

Intractable Infringements fiction

accompanying personal computing since its early stage. Despite the technical sophistication of today’s games vido, gender continues to attract new followers. According to Chris Crawford, we spoke about in the Previous part of this record, it is the game that vidos are dead, that none Crative tmoignent more, while the story Infringements still has good days ahead.

Infringements

Fiction is not only write of “the adventures you your HROS as you might think too quickly. modes of interactivity are more varis.
Franois Coulon (Best Scam in 2002 for his fiction Infringements Break), and author of rcemment Rprobateur: “ can see in the littrature Infringements comes a relief, we could compare the polyphony: it not just to write several lines mlodiques, but also their relations, the fawn littralement which they agree. It is this element supplmentaire, who plays on associations, changes. This aesthetical relationship has nothing to spcial conceptually at least not more than the orthodoxy of linear. I see it as even more instinctive, more plays in my early work and The Rprobateur, there is a conscious evolution of the rle of the viewer, who initially does alter the course of history and now is more an exploration of points of view, relations between visual and thmatiques scnes.

If Infringements

fiction is the daughter of the novel, Facade, the game exprimental Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas, Plutt neared the theater. In Facade, the player, Guest an evening with a couple of friends, Grace and Trip, finds himself immersed in the middle of a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? interactive req to attend the live dgradation a wedding and found himself involved in spite of him scne mnager (which did not vcu at least once this kind of situation pnible ?).

I played several times

Facade. The history walk. It can follow DIFFERENT scnarios, and it is my response arriv frquemment dvier make conversation in new directions (my requests ritres Martini had the gift of nerver prodigiously Grace). Like all chatterbots, the characters in the story does not ragissent Manir systmatiquement cohrente interventions Player. But is it not the case any couple being Dchira? Locked in their relationship, they do not include collection outdoor action, except, if for some reason or another they feed their arguments and their complaint. It’s all the malice of Facade: what might appear as a technical limitation in a discussion “with a normal chatterbot tends grazed the ordeal and still increase instead of decrease, the crdibilit of scnario.

Symptomatic

Web 2.0, collaborative Scriptures is not a new phnomne away from l. The surralistes fun DJ with the “exquisite corpse, in which each participant had to write a piece for other hidden words constituting the final text of the most frenzied.

This form of Scriptures distances itself from the most traditional Scriptures Infringements. For Franois Coulon, his work “ Relva clearly a school of writing, the publishing, while value-free, could be placed gnratives works or network further in an oral tradition.” / em>

If it is a form of collaborative Scriptures scne that puts thousands of authors, it is that the rle massively multiplayer game (MMORPG), which is organizing the creativity of thousands of participants each grant their character. In addition, the author (the scriptwriter) shared its establishment with a large team.