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Submission + - PS3 'Strong Contender' to Overtake Xbox 360 (industrygamers.com)

Submitted by donniebaseball23 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:32PM

donniebaseball23 writes: Xbox 360 has been having an incredible year so far in 2011, but on a global scale Sony's PS3 is still gaining ground. In fact, this year PS3 has outpaced Xbox 360 by 10% worldwide, analysts have pointed out. While the Wii has clearly won the race for this console generation, the battle for second place is neck and neck, and PS3 has a good shot of overtaking Xbox 360. "As for second place, as far as the hardcore market is concerned, I'd say PS3 is a strong contender for that position," commented M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon.

Submission + - Assassin's Creed: Revelations Review (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

mrvideogamers313

on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:14PM

mrvideogamers313 writes: "The game will feature all three of the series' major characters so far: Altaïr ibn La-Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Desmond Miles. It will take Ezio to Ottoman Constantinople in 1511 AD, consisting of four districts: Constantin, Beyazid, Imperial, and Galata; Cappadocia at the peak of the Ottoman Empire, part of which will be a completely underground city populated solely by Templars; and Masyaf, which holds the old Assassins' stronghold to which Ezio travels at the beginning of the game. He discovers Altaïr has sealed within the fortress an ancient artifact that is said to be a powerful weapon which could end the Templar and Assassin war forever, and has hidden the keys in Constantinople. Ezio uses relics of the first civilization that hold memories of Altaïr to relive his ancestor's experiences, during which players will control Altaïr."

Submission + - Web Applications Experience 27 Attacks Per Hour (net-security.org)

Submitted by dinscott on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:25AM

dinscott writes: Web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every two minutes, according to Imperva. When websites came under automated attack they received up to 25,000 attacks in one hour, or 7 attacks every second.

Four dominant attack types comprise the vast majority of attacks targeting web applications: Directory Traversal, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and remote file inclusion. Over 61 percent of the attacks monitored originated from bots located in the United States, although conclusions cannot be made regarding from which geography these bots are controlled.

Submission + - HTC Ready for Apple Patent War

Submitted by chrb on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:15AM

chrb writes: The BBC have an interview with HTC CEO Peter Chou. Last week, a judge at the International Trade Commission found that HTC had violated two of Apple's patents. HTC shares fell 7% on the news. Chou predicts that HTC will win an appeal against the ITC finding in December. He also reveals that HTC is preparing to fight back; it will soon acquire an extra 235 patents from its takeover of S3 Graphics — including two that Apple has already been found guilty of infringing.

Comment Goes to prove the point . . . (Score 4, Informative) 496

by Espresso2xshot on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:25AM (#36870554) Attached to: Gates: Not Much To Show For $5B Spent On Education

Proves the point that we knew all along, throwing money at the educational system does not fix it! Just look at the govt track record. Time to dump the institutional model? I'm sure this article will spark the ever repeating slashdot argument about what's wrong with America's school system.

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