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Videogame star Fallout 3 is taking its devoted fans to nuclear war ravage Las Vegas.

Bethesda Softworks has announced a New Vegas chapter in the award-winning franchise will be available by the end of this year. The studio posted a video trailer online at fallout.bethsoft.com

“Fallout: New Vegas takes all the action, humour, and post-apocalyptic grime and grit of this legendary series, and raises the stakes,” Bethesda said in a release.

Fallout 3 was crowned Game of the Year after its release in 2008 and proved so popular that Bethesda has expanded on it with adventures in an array of downloadable software.

A Broken Steel addition to Fallout 3 even modified the end of the original fame to resurrect  the hero, who had sacrificed himself for the sake of other survivors in the post nuclear war scenario.

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Get the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10, Panasonic’s newest TZ series number. It is coded ZS7 in the USA. TZ10  is a compact ultra-zoom camera featuring an optically stabilised 25-300mm equivalent Leica lens, manual exposure control and built-in GPS. The TZ10 and its brother the TZ8 – also announced today – are the first cameras in the Panasonic TZ series to offer full manual exposure control.

The TZ10 is also the first Panasonic ultra-zoom to feature a built-in GPS unit. The location data where the photo was taken is automatically embedded with its latitude and longitude in the EXIF data. These geo-tagged images can be pinpointed on the maps of social media internet maps to be shared with the world. Plus, the TZ10 also shows the name of the town, area and landmarks using an internal database to give users real-time information of the place when taking photos.

The Panasonic TZ10 has a 14.5-megapixel CCD and shoots at up to 12.1-megapixel resolution. This enables multi-aspect shooting in any of three aspect ratios – 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9 – while maintaining the diagonal angle of view.

In addition to taking stills, the camera can also record 720p HD movies in Motion JPEG or AVCHD Lite format, and you can fully utilise the powerful 12x optical zoom in while filming. The TZ10 also features Dolby Digital Stereo Creator to record high-quality audio.

SDXC card support and a 3”, 460000-dot Intelligent LCD with anti-reflex coating round off the features list. The Panasonic TZ10 will be available from mid March in a choice of silver, black, red or blue.

Technical Details

• Optical Image Stabilizer – POWER O.I.S. (Off / Auto / Mode1 / Mode2)
• Zoom – Optical – 12x; Extra Optical – 14.7x (4 – 3 / 8M), 18.8x (4 – 3 / 5M), 23.4x (under 3M); Intelligent – 16x; Digital – 4x
• Focal Length – f = 4.1 – 49.2 mm (25 – 300 mm as 35 mm equivalent)
• Focusing Area – Normal – Wide 50 cm (1.64 feet) – infinity / Tele 200 cm (6.56 feet) – infinity; Macro / Intelligent Auto / Clipboard – Wide 3 cm (0.10 feet) – infinity / Tele 100 cm (3.27 feet) – infinity
• Image Sensor – 1/2.33, 14.5 Mega Total Pixels CCD, Primary Color Filter

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By Tony Bradley

The results are in from comScore for the most recent quarter for smartphone usage in the United States. With smartphone use up 18 percent over the previous quarter, topping 42 million users, Google’s Android mobile operating system stands out as the dominant winner for this quarter.

The smartphone statistics from this quarter demonstrate that the smartphone is still viewed primarily as a business tool rather than a consumer toy. Businesses and business professionals continue to embrace BlackBerry and Android devices, in all of their many shapes and forms, over the Apple iPhone.

Verizon’s massive marketing effort leading to the launch of the Motorola Droid, and Google’s major media attention for the introduction of the Nexus One appear to have paid off. Android more than doubled its market share over the previous quarter–jumping more than 250 percent from 2.8 percent of the U.S. smartphone market to 7.1 percent.

Apparently, much of that market share increase came at Microsoft’s expense. Microsoft finally unveiled the next generation Windows Phone 7 platform, but that hasn’t helped stop the bleeding for the current Windows Mobile devices. In fact, the lack of a path to upgrade current devices to the new Windows Phone 7 operating system when it arrives, and the lack of backward compatibility to run current Windows Mobile apps probably mean Microsoft can expect sharp losses in the next quarter as well.

Analysts have generally praised Windows Phone 7, which is a completely new platform from the ground up rather than an incremental evolution of the waning Windows Mobile operating system. The market is hungry for the next generation mobile operating system from Microsoft, and hopefully Microsoft will rebound and reclaim some of its lost smartphone market share once the new platform arrives.

In spite of the steep losses, Microsoft remains in third place behind Apple, which remained relatively stagnant. The iPhone saw an increase of 0.3 percent–statistically irrelevant and essentially no gain at all. The iPhone remains as the device that all others aspire to be, but Apple may have reached a saturation point when it comes to consumer adoption of a smartphone device.

Despite its monumental success, Apple faces some hurdles in trying to continue growing iPhone market share. The combination of a closed, proprietary platform, inferior or immature tools for integrating it with business environments, and the fact that the iPhone is tied to a single wireless provider are all handicaps for the iPhone OS.

The consumer versus business is apparently more than just a label. While Apple has made strides to make the iPhone more business-friendly, and IT administrators in many businesses have reluctantly embraced the platform, the fact is that it is still viewed as more of a consumer toy than an enterprise smartphone.

It makes sense that those jumping ship from Windows Mobile would embrace Android, as appears to be happening. Android provides an experience approaching what users have come to expect from an iPhone (assuming you get the right device), but delivers it on an open source platform that is much more customizable and business-friendly than the iPhone.

Android is now available from all four major wireless providers in the United States, while the iPhone is still available exclusively from AT&T. The initial Android device available from AT&T–the Motorola Backflip–is a weak device compared to the Droid or the Nexus One, but the door is open and AT&T will continue to expand its Android portfolio over time.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices are not expected to be available until later this year–probably just in time for the holidays. That means the next quarter will once again be a battle between Android and iPhone, and Android will most likely continue to be the benefactor of Microsoft’s plummeting market share.

If Google and Microsoft both have another quarter like this one again, Android could actually jump past Windows Mobile to take third place when the next comScore results come out.

Tony Bradley is co-author of Unified Communications for Dummies . He tweets as @Tony_BradleyPCW . You can follow him on his Facebook page , or contact him by email at tony_bradley@pcworld.com .

By Yara Souza

A Google (NSDQ:GOOG) executive recently declared that desktops will be “irrelevant” in three years, but solution providers say that’s wishful thinking.

At the Digital Landscapes Conference in Ireland last week, John Herlihy, Google’s head of sales in Europe, suggested that desktop PCs will soon take a back seat to mobile devices. “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs,” Herlihy said at the event, as reported by SiliconRepublic.com.

The prospect of such a rapid transition from desktop to mobile could be a wake-up call for companies like Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), but solution providers interviewed by Channelweb.com don’t think the three-year window Herlihy proposed is realistic.

“The cloud is here to stay, and more and more applications will tend to move in that direction,” said Neil Pearlstein, president of PC Professional, an Oakland, Calif.-based Microsoft Gold Partner. “But while I agree that a shift to a more mobile desktop will be occurring, three years is very aggressive, and as we all know, change takes time to happen.”

Microsoft will continue to sell and innovate their desktop applications regardless of whether they’re cloud-based or local, according to Pearlstein. “It’s just the way we use them that will be changing in the next three to six years.”

Daniel Duffy, CEO of Valley Network Solutions, a solution provider in Fresno, Calif., says Herlihy’s comments are the same sort of hyperbole that Microsoft has been engaging in over the past couple of decades.

While Duffy agrees that mobile devices and high-speed mobile connectivity will become more ubiquitous, he disagrees with the suggestion that desktops will become irrelevant. “This is wishful thinking from another ‘Google-ite’ who’s trying to mold the future to their worldview,” Duffy said.

Google isn’t the only company pushing cloud computing, but it’s certainly one of the loudest voices. Marc Harrison, president of Silicon East, a Microsoft solution provider in Manalapan, N.J., also believes that Herlihy’s prediction is a stretch.

“That’s quite a dream Google has,” Harrison said. “I can’t envision any business in the U.S. moving all of its mission critical and proprietary information to the cloud in the next decade, let alone the next three years.”

According to Herlihy, information overload will continue to drive interest in search technology and lead to the creation of new business models. He also pointed to Japan’s accelerated mobile adoption, noting that the country conducts a majority of its research on mobile devices instead of PCs.

Duffy said this is because Japan has a faster Internet connectivity than much of the U.S., adding that this situation probably won’t improve until the economy recovers.

“We have much bigger priorities to address first,” Duffy said.

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