Soon those unlocked Apple iPhones will be useless as Apple told in its recent press release that future software update for iPhone will make those unlocked phones permanently inoperable. Few days back we heard of some unlocking software available on internet which unlock the phone so that it becomes SIM free and can be used with any network. Apple clarified that users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The permanent inability to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software was not covered under the iPhone’s warranty.

Gamengame site of Global Service Platform(GSP) in Korea IT Promotion Agency(KIPA).

By introducing ez-UCC to Gamengame site(www.gamengame.com), KIPA is able to eliminate having additional infrastructure, investment or development and therefore cost-effectively offer global UCC service to its users with simple coding.

With ez-UCC comprised of uploading, server-side encoding and progressive downloading capabilities and system infrastructure required for web publishing, Gamengame users can share and watch their own game-related video clips without installing additional programs.

CDNetworks’ ez-UCC is one-stop ASP service for encoding, necessary uploads in web-publishing, system infrastructure, and video clip UCC service, and also it fits into enterprise which wish to operate individual UCC page such as open-market, online shopping mall, education site, real estate site, or enterprise which plan to have one-time UCC event such as UCC public offering or one-time advertising product on game portal site.

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Yesterday on 19th September, the horizontal digital smiley [:-)] that we use every day during chat, writing email etc, turned twenty five! 25 years ago Professor Scott E. Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University was the first to use this smiley’s and proposed [:-)] and [:-(] as jokes and not jokes markers respectively. Since then people started experimenting with many other combinations and made faces like:-P , (My favorite smiley), :-O and so on. Not to tell some dirty one’s too.

OLPC (One Laptop per Child) will cost more than suggested $100 price since the program started. The hike in price is due to increase in raw materials costs and currency fluctuation. According to CNN reports, it’s expected to cost $188 per piece. Any further increase in price (even if it’s small) will definitely cause problem to this program as then people will prefer to buy a used laptop (with much better configuration) than OLPC.

KIPA (Korean IT Industry Promotion Agency), the host of GNGWC, announced kickoff of this year league in July with six official games: Bomb N Dash(www.bombndash.com), Navy Field (navyfiled.com), Record of Lunia War (global.lunia.com), Silkroad Online (silkroadonline.net), Shot Online(shotonline.gamescampus.com), War Rock (warrock.net). The European final rounds – the first GNGWC 2007 match held in the Game Convention Europe – were successful with attracting more than 150,000 participants, and nine players were selected for the Grand Final held on December 1 in Seoul, Korea.

With this cheer from European gamers, the world’s first MMO e-sports event is now on the way for the American, Vietnamese and Korean league. All six official games are going to hold the match in America, and five games except Bomb N Dash will join the Korean league. Compared to the America and Korea league, Silkroad Online, Bomb N Dash, and War Rock will run their matches in the Southeast Asian country.

The first regional match kicked off in September was the Korean League. With start of its preliminary match of Record of Lunia war, Shot Online, Silkroad Online, Navy Field will set off the preliminary match to select players to advance to the Korean Final match, scheduled to be held on September 30 during the Cyber Festival Show. War Rock, unlike other games, has been running its game league, and will pick up representative players in Korea from this match. The competition commence date will be announced by the end of September, said the representative of Dreamexecution, developer studio of War Rock.
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The notice can be old for some, but iPhone finally was unblocked solely by software. Engadget published a video describing the whole the process of unlocking in detail. It was made possible with a tool called iPhoneSIMfree.