This year’s TGS with PS4, Xbox One and GCCX game

Well, the recent episodes of Game Center CX might have made me blog about the Playstation 4 and Xbox One’s Japanese releases. Sure, they will be released in Japan next year but as of now, there may be western-made games for both consoles so we may to wait for the games for those consoles made in Japan. We don’t know what those games are at this moment but the preview at this year’s Tokyo Game Show might be a nice opportunity.

In addition, at Bandai Namco booth, there will be the third game based on the TV show that will be available next year on Nintendo 3DS. Interestingly enough, it is developed by G-Rev in which we know them for their games like Border Down, Under Defeat, Senko No Ronde, etc. It’s not the first time that the TV show was involved at Tokyo Game Show though. There might be previous games based on that show for Nintendo DS where you play the retro-style games. Well, the show is all about the challenge of completing retro games within 24-hours or less or the challenge will be the failure. The main objective is to beat the game with the true ending but doing so will not be an easy task so the hints are provided during the show.

Google’s policies are forbidden by law according to Dutch privacy regulator

We may have remembered on how Microsoft was criticizing Google the last with the Scroogled campaign but they might seem to have gone to other paths into bashing on other products Google’s having as part of competition. It’s like they had already told their users that they were fooled by Google, saying that Google has been collecting private information of the users for some unknown purpose. What about Microsoft then? Are they doing the same thing as well?

Last year, the change of privacy policy from Google had already made them look like cyber-corporate betrayals to the users in which your emails from your Google account were already collected without your knowledge for instance. Perhaps the interesting special video commercials from Google didn’t even help enough encourage you to use their products. They surely did to us last year but now, it looks like the betrayal had already started this year when the huge spying scandal already occurred. I might have already ditched the usage of various Google services like Google Plus, Drive and Gmail. Maybe I don’t give a shit of them in favor of other popular services like Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, AOL Mail and Sina Mail.

So in the end, it may seem that Google is in trouble for violating some European law by collecting data of users’ private information and we’ll see how the regulator is looking at enforcement measures against them in the upcoming DPA hearing. And Google’s way of ‘Telling Your World’ to use their products last year is more like betraying it.

SITEX IT Show November 2013 Edition

Sure are new ones to take a look at. The Hall4B consists of the major gaming area with the Pioneer DJ booth just after the entrance but at Halls 5 and 6, they may be full of IT technology consisting of mobile devices, computers, ISPs and TVs to take a look at.

The newest technology so far is Toggle by Mediacorp and holy shit, it’s so limited that you can buy that product at Singapore Expo until December 1st which is the last day. What this does is to make the sound louder by placing your mobile device on top of it. It may be something like placing the Wii Remote on the tissue box and you do the tapping to cause the vibration but here, when it comes to Toggle, your mobile device’s internal sound is causing the vibration which causes its speakers to vibrate as well. Plus, there’s even the set of cables for charging your mobile device via the portable charger. Also, you can buy the subscription that allows you to view the foreign content through your mobile device. Similar to what ViewQwest allows you to on your mobile device through the FreedomVPN but just like ViewQwest, you may need to buy the subscription extension online in which you will have to pay monthly fees.

At ViewQwest, I may have some concerns regarding Crunchyroll as if not all animes can be viewed there even with the free account probably due to living in Singapore and that can be the problem for us. The worse thing for us is that, certain animes we want to watch at Crunchyroll give us the previews as if the time length is quite short which is something we don’t want. Perhaps we’re more limited probably due to ISPs here blocking the shit out of Crunchyroll. But at ViewQwest booth, I didn’t know how the hell did they get through the restriction like I could watch whatever I knew of. Is it due to FreedomVPN being inside the router or perhaps the computer?

The last surprise is that there may be Microsoft tablet devices as I saw running Windows 8.1. It wasn’t much of a surprise to me as I have already known the types of computers a lot like what am I interested in when it comes to IT shows will be the new technology to be shown off there.

The last truth was that I wanted to buy the Pioneer DJ stuff home only to find that all the stuffs there are so expensive starting from $300+ and above but even then, I’m more of a bedroom producer than the DJ to be frank like there’s not enough reason for me to buy one such equipment like that home.

Last discovery is the Lenovo tabletop PC. What a cool thing like it’s a touchscreen computer on the table that is for home use. It may be useful for the family when it comes to casual games, but to business users, this PC may be more or less personal to them as if they can mimic the experience in using the tabletop PC in the business places. Sort of like the ones seen at Singtel room in the shopping complexes where you can explore the catalogs there.

Microsoft to encrypt more of their data to prevent NSA spying

Well, there might be multiple programs the NSA has been using to spy on the Microsoft users and Microsoft is trying to encrypt the data to prevent further spying from happening. The recent program, MUSCULAR, is targeting the traffic and data from Google, Yahoo and others and it may be reason on why Microsoft is trying to protect the users even further. But we don't know if those idiots can try to take stupid actions against Microsoft like landing them in court for going against their programs for instance.
Now, it may seem that the new Kinect device may be free from the bad motives but it cannot be the same for various Microsoft services and programs such as BitLocker, Windows OSes, Office 365, Internet Explorer, Windows Server OSes, Hotmail, Windows Live, Skype and so on.
One more thing, I might have forgotten to talk about the upcoming sports related events that will fall victim to the similar cyber-spies as well that will be coming in next year but then, I'm not into sports to be honest so my plans to blog about those were scrapped as those events to blog with may require more details.

Xbox One’s interaction with the commercial?

It’s kind of shameful on the makers for making the Kinect overly powerful enough to start this kind of technical craziness. Basically, the commercial of the Xbox One is displayed on TV and says out the command that turns on the console in your home itself. Perhaps there may be flaws with voice command barrier. The Kinect device is NOT supposed to follow orders from strangers! What if someone says out the commands from the outside or other side of the room?

It’s annoyingly confusing that the owners who have bought this console may have some sort of technical complaints. What were the makers of this new Kinect thinking like they forgot to check for additional flaws? What about the Kinect device for the previous console and PC? What about the Playstation 4 camera then? Will there be same flaws as what the Xbox One Kinect has? Your best bet will be to get the console and the Kinect device completely powered off and disconnected when not in use.

Kinect for Windows Version 2 Developer Preview

Apparently, those private stuff collection bullshits we mentioned against this device were of no more so this is likely to be a good news for Windows Kinect users. This new Kinect device will be released next year in order to evolve the full body motion technology even further. During the launch of Xbox One two days ago, there was even the Developer Preview version of this device sent to the testers.

From Kinect for Windows official blog, there’s even the beta version of the SDK in which the developers who signed up for the program will get the ongoing SDK updates and the final version of the device sensor during the product release.

If Microsoft can keep up with the freedom like that after the launch of Xbox One, then it may be reasonable to buy both that console and the Windows version of the new Kinect. Until then, we may have to wait until Kinect for Windows is released next year as the amount of freedom isn’t that high enough for the technology users.

Well, even with this kind of news, I don’t give a shit about the Kinect for gaming purposes. I can probably try to use that device to try out some technology for whatever things I want to work on but there’s no way to know where to buy the Windows version of this device from the retail store. So, I guess that there will be more products of next year to be blogged here.

Office 2013 Service Pack 1 coming early next year

Next year, there will be upcoming Service Pack 1 for the latest Office, SharePoint and Exchange products. This may deliver performance enhancements, feature updates and improve compatibility with Windows 8.1 which was already out months ago that Windows 8 users should upgrade to 8.1 whenever possible. OK, what else is there to say about this upcoming service pack? There isn’t much else to say from this official link: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/11/20/office-2013-service-pack-1-coming-early-next-year.aspx.