Reports say that Windows sales were up 20 percent while worldwide PC sales were up only 14 to 16 percent means people who already had computers are also buying windows (who were earlier using pirated ones). Big guys believe that it’s due to WGA and people are forced to buy original stuff. But I have a second thought, after the final release of Vista and when all the branded computer manufacturers started giving pre-installed Vista, many people switched back to XP. This can also add up to the extra 4 – 6% purchase increase which is shown in report.

GNGWC2007(Game & Game World Championship 2007) Grand Final in Korea will be held at COEX-Pacific Hall by KIPA(Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency) sponsorship on December 1st.

This event is attained wide attention from online game industry because outstanding 100 young players who survived from intense preliminary selections among 1,500,000 players from all over the world will compete for No.1 place in each divisions at GNGWC2007 Grand Final in Korea.

Specially, mgoon(http://www.mgoon.com) which is a user generated video service provider in South Korea will broadcast GNGWC2007 lively with high quality(800Kb) streaming service to all over the world for the first time.

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AMD’s offices in Austin, Texas are busy these days selecting the best box design for their Phenom series of processors. The photo you see above is one of the proposed design (not final yet) but I think this design looks quite good but something more can be done. AMD is giving box design a lot of importance as this is what people see on ads and computer hardware stores. If a better box designs increases sales even by 1% then its worth the time spent on it. In my opinion, yes the design may bring them few more buyers.

Box photo source: amdzone.com

A week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 computer with 1.5 GHz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. It’s meant to be used with light weight OS like ubuntu linux etc. The system is fast for work like browsing internet, documents related work but one can’t think of doing graphics work on it. Today when people happily buying Core2Duo based PC for just any use, this $200 computer by Wal-Mart was officially sold out of their online warehouses! I just can’t think of any reason for buying this computer when you can at assemble a Pentium 4 or D based computer for very cheap and you can also later install graphic card to play heavy duty games with ease and of course run windows xp and Vista. Still interested in this computer? Look here.

Sims 2 is a game well known in the gaming community for its very interesting game play. What makes this game interesting that you live a virtual life in it, and do whatever you can think of doing in real life but since it’s a game and no one is harmed in it, people do many naughty things in this game. To make things easier, they use sims 2 cheats and using cheat in this game in particular is more enjoyable because it gives player a sense of power thru which he/she can control anything in life. Game developers include these cheats but keep them hidden from public; however it can’t remain secret for long in the age of internet. At game cheats sites like GamesRadar you can find these cheats in full detail like the sims 2 cheats which I just talked about. This game is totally different from other computer games, its almost never ending and people who have played this game say that you almost get lost in this game and sometime think that the life going on in game is your real life. Of course you cannot use cheat in real life (damn if I could!) but sims cheats are always available and you can use it in this game to make it more fun to play.

Security consultant John Schiefer, 26 admitted in Los Angeles criminal court that het infected the systems of his clients with viruses to form a botnet containing a maximum of 250,000 systems. He used his zombies to steal users PayPal usernames and passwords to make unauthorized purchases! This is the reason why I don’t let my PayPal balance increase and withdraw it to my bank account so that I can have sound sleep at night. He also installed adware on their computers without their permission. Schiefer agreed to plead guilty to four felony charges of accessing protected computers to commit fraud, disclosing unlawfully intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud, and bank fraud. He will be sentenced Dec. 3 and faces up to 60 years in prison and a fine of $1.75 million (owned) !!