The world-famous Coca-Cola and Korean online games entered into a partnership.

Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) plans to work with Coca-Cola in Hong Kong to market Korea-made online games on the Global Service Platform (GSP) and promote Korea-made online games in the global market.

For this purpose, KIPA dispatched Vice President Taek Min Kwon of the Digital Contents Business Group and working staff to Hong Kong and signed an MOU on joint promotion with Coca-Cola Hong Kong (General Manager Mei So) on the 15th. Korea-made online games will be marketed to Coca-Cola consumers in Hong Kong on the online platform.

To start the joint marketing, KIPA will exchange banners on www.gameengame.com, which introduces Korea-made online games, and www.icoke.hk with Coca-Cola.

Korea-made online game makers on the GSP platform will be permitted to make rare items using Coca-Cola’s brand and images and use its logo and brand in the games.

As the global partner of Korea-made online games, Coca-Cola Hong Kong will link its Homepage (www.icoke.hk) to a Webpage of GSP-based games with various images and motion pictures from the games. Also, members of the Coca-Cola Homepage will receive regular e-mail ads.

KIPA’s strategy is to use this MOU and the brand name of world-famous Coca-Cola to contribute to the global awareness of Korea-made online games and to utilize Coca-Cola’s powerful offline marketing know-how in the online media for maximum synergies.

GSP is KIPA’s special program to sponsor Korea-made online game exporters in the global market. Through this program, KIPA sponsors small/medium companies that lack resources or capital to promote distribution or marketing overseas. KIPA provides www.gamengame.com that is open to any gamer in the world, along with the privilege to use all infrastructures, including the servers, for six months.

According a KIPA official, more than 5 million gamers a year are accessing www.gamengame.com to play Korea-made games in the world.

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AMD Phenom 9700 (2.4 GHz) launch has been cancelled and only 9500 and 9600 will be available for now. Some technical problem has been found in 9700 which causes system to freeze at 100% load on both the cores. The Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) errata is an L3 protocol issue causing a system hang when running certain client workload applications independent of platform. AMD is immediately introducing updated BIOS which will correct the TLB errata.

One hundred and two players who survived from online provisional selections will compete to acquire only 17 tickets at Quest Hall, Tokyo.

Starting with ‘Navy Field(gamespace24.net/navyfield-neo)’ from last September, GNGWC Japan regional final online provisional selections finished with ‘Silk Road(www.silkroad.jp)’ division. 102 players who selected from online provisional selections will compete to have Grand Final (Seoul, Korea) tickets on Nov. 17th at Quest Hall, Tokyo.

Only two Japanese players out of 17 players will be selected for Grand Final in Silk Road division. Player who hunts more monsters at the dungeon will be advanced to the next tournament match. The ‘Shot Online’ will select two players out of 8 players with 9-hole stroke play tournaments.

Also ‘Lunia’ will select winners who won 2 out of 3 matches with 1-on-1 tournament match, but final two players will have 3 out of 5 matches to be winner of Lunia division. The ‘War Rock(warrock.jp)’ will have 5-on-5 team death matches and only one team will be join the Grand Final and Navy Field will select two clans which consist with 15 members each for the Grand Final.

GNGWC regional finals, supported by KT, are finished with this Japan regional final. Players who selected from Europe, USA, S.E. ASIA, Japan, and Korea will compete for No.1 place on Dec. 1st at GNGWC2007 Grand Final. Each division winner will receive 5,000(USD), 2nd place for 3,000(USD) and 3rd place for 1,000(USD).

For more information: gngwc.com

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Intel launched its long-awaited new ‘Penryn’ line of power-efficient microprocessors, designed to deliver better graphics and application performance as well as virtualization capabilities. The processors are the first to use high-k metal-gate transistors, which makes them faster and less leaky compared with earlier processors that have silicon gates. The processor is lead free and by next year Intel is planning to produce chips that are halogen free too, making them more environmentally friendly. Penryn processors jump to higher clock rates and feature cache and design improvements that boost the processors’ performance compared with earlier 65-nm processors, which should attract the interest of business workstation users and gamers looking for improved system and media performance.

About 1,800 brand new 300-GB or 500-GB external hard drives made for Maxtor (Maxtor is now owned by Seagate) in Thailand were found to have Trojan horse malwares pre-installed (autorun.inf and ghost.pif). When the HDD was used, it forward information on the disk to two websites in Beijing, China (www.nice8.org or www.we168.org) Authorities believe the Chinese government is behind the Trojans and they wanted to spy on mass scale.

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) !!