Seagate Announces Its New 500 GB Wireless Hard Drive, with the Ability to Streams Multiple iOS Devices Simultaneously

Seagate just announced that it will soon be releasing its new external hard drive with wireless capacity, allowing the users to access and stream movies and music from and to their iPad. Considering the limitation of iPad’s size and its unsuitability to have a wired external hard drive, this might be a very useful device. As stated, the Seagate's new GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage will be powered by rechargeable batteries with an overall capacity of approximately 500GB storage. The WiFi feature will be in 802.11b/g/n capabilities along with WPA security. Moreover, this new Wireless Hard Drive also allows the users to directly stream their video and audio content previously saved to the device to multiple devices simultaneously, supporting at least three devices at ease.

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This new GoFlex Satellite Hard Drive will be released sometime in July and retailed for a worthy $200 retail price at Best Buy, though the preorder of the device has already begun as the orders can be placed at Amazon, Best Buy, and Seagate.

The official iOS app of GoFlex Media allows users complete access, to copy, rename, organize and use their files from not only iPad but iPhone, iPod Touch and all iOS devices. The app automatically sorts your 500GB of data, into separate folders reserved for photos, music, video, and documents. While on the other hand, in case you don’t like the iOS app, the user can easily browse the Hard Disk data using their Web browser too. This method will also work if the user who do not have an iOS device, for example other devices using Android tablet or Windows Phone 7.

More rumors swirl about 'iPhone 5G' supposedly containing edge-to-edge screen and new camera flash location

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It has now formed a tradition to spread and inspect the rumors about the upcoming iPhone and its speculation. This Friday it was alleged by various sources that previous rumors asserting that this September will bring a new version of iPhone, might be completely off tracks. Even though Apple has always announced new phones in the early summer each year in the past, many reports are indicating that this tradition might be shifted to a yearly cycle with the release on every fall. It also comprehends that there will be no iPhone 5 this year; instead a newer upgraded version of the iPhone 4 will be released. Such rumors have really made it questionable whether iPhone 5G will or will not be released this fall. Having said that, other sources have also asserted, regardless of when iPhone 5 will be released, it will be housing an edge-to-edge screen this time.

Citing from the Chinese online retailer chain, AliBaba, it has been claimed in the product listing for an “iPhone 5G,” a case has been put up for sale. The images supporting this product page, demonstrate a placeholder of iPhone 5 showing an iPhone 5G with an edge-to-edge screen. Furthermore, it has been also mentioned that this iPhone 5 will have be having a new location for its camera flash. Even though the photos displayed do not include a side view of the device, but it is clear that the back side is not changed at all, contradicting the previous rumors of iPhone 5G citing from other sources. It can also be very well be indicating that this is perhaps not an iPhone 5G but an iPhone 4GS instead, as several rumors implied last week.

Yahoo and AliBaba Give a Joint Press Release, Announcing that they’re "Committed To" Negotiations

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Yahoo Inc. and Alibaba Group both have just released a joint statement on this Sunday, stating that both giants are "engaged in and committed to productive negotiations." No further elaborative details were provided, which implies that both companies are just together to present a united front as the aggressiveness between the two companies grows gradually. Yahoo is actually the 43 percent stakeholder of Alibaba group, one of the most powerful Internet Companies in China. These constraints between the companies were revealed first on the Tuesday, when Yahoo surprisingly reported to Wall Street Journal that it was not consulted regarding the decision Alibaba spun off its online payment service, Alipay. Many investors reacted cautiously as Yahoo's stake in Alibaba became controversial and less valuable, evidently the stock down, whit Yahoo closing at $16.55 on Friday.

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The joint press release on Sunday, of the two companies only included a single statement: "Alibaba Group, and its major stockholders Yahoo! Inc. and Softbank Corporation, are engaged in and committed to productive negotiations to resolve the outstanding issues related to Alipay in a manner that serves the interests of all shareholders as soon as possible." This statement is being considered just as imprecise and ambiguous as the previous statements and allegations of Yahoo! The Yahoo spokesperson, Dana Lengkeek, refused to give any further details about this planned negotiation between the giants and the demands of Yahoo from AliBaba Group. While the representatives of both Alibaba and Softbank, remained unreachable for any comment.

Sony PlayStation Network Initializes its Phased Restoration

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Sony has finally restored its long-suspended PlayStation Network service, at least to the players of United States and Europe. The service was resorted on this Sunday, putting an end to an almost thirty-day service outage after one of the largest security breach of all times, which compromised personal information of over 100 million online users. The service is only partially restored as only limited functions have been activated like online gaming, chat and music streaming services. Sony has announced that it is aiming to restore the PlayStation Network completely to the situation it was before the attack, before June, 2011.

On Sunday Sony began its phased restoration of Qriocity movie and music services too, which share the music and movie on the PlayStation Network's server, informed the Sony’s spokesperson, Satoshi Fukuoka. He also added that the similar limited services will very soon be online in all; Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Middle East. After which only Asia will be left behind, which Sony states will be restored soon after that.

The Practice of 'Planking' On Facebook Causes a Death in Australia

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rk, Facebook. So-called "planking" has become a threat in Australia, as the police fear for any major tragedy. Planking means that the person lies flat on their stomach, keeping their arms against their bodies in peculiar and often dangerous situation, than being photographed and boasted all over the social media sites. This practice has spread like a fire, as in just past few weeks, the Facebook page titled ‘Planking Australia’ gathered more than 55,000 fans posting more and more photos of themselves and others planking on railway tracks, escalators, fire hydrants, motorbikes and other challengeable manners.

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Just last week, the state Police department released a formal warning to all the "plankers," urging for them to not put their lives in dangers, and also quoting a death in Brisbane of a planker who fell from a seventh-storey balcony and passed away trying to make a picture of himself in the daring plank. The Deputy Commissioner of Queensland Police, Ross Barnett, elaborated that "This morning we have seen a young man take this activity a step further and attempt to plank on a balcony. Unfortunately he has tragically fallen to his death." This man remains anonymous as the police claims that he was along with one of his friend, planking all night at various locations. Barnett went on saying that "It is what we've been fearing.”

North Korea Rejects the Allegations from South Korea Claiming They Hacked a Bank

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 North Korea gave an official press statement this Sunday refuting it of all the accusations made by the rival South Korean government, which recently alleged that the North was behind the cyber attack which compromised the computer network of a South Korean bank last month. Moreover, the South also claimed that it was Northern government which was involved directly, as it is a part of their conspiracy since they cannot afford a physical confrontation. The North Korean government agency gave a detailed statement, implying that this new allegation, asserting that it were North Korean hackers who brought down the computer system of Nonghyup bank, is just as fake and forged allegation as the their previous claim that North was involved in sinking one of their navy ship down, called Pyongyang, which sank last year in March.

The National Defense Commission, the most superior agency of North Korea, gave its official statement on the verdict, published by the KCNA news agency, stating that “The Nonghyup computer network crash is nothing more than a repeat of the Cheonan incident.” Further it was mentioned that "It is an act akin to digging its own grave that (the South) is running about madly clinging to confrontation with its compatriots through crudely fabricated schemes."

New SAP StreamWork Announced to Be Integrating Several Software’s in Multiple Collaboration

In order to get a lead from its chief competitor, Salesforce.com, SAP has announced that it will be releasing its latest StreamWork very soon. The announcement said that the cloud-based system would be a collaborating several applications all different variety of SAP business software’s together at one platform with sophisticated integration. Putting in a better, it could be said that SAP is attempting to bring together the employees, teams and entire organizations together at one platform so that they can solve greater problems with easier methods along with brainstorming everyone on board and finalizing their discussions and giving orders, all with the help of its business applications. These applications would work together on the same information which they are fed with on an everyday use, without even having to switch to some other disconnected collaboration solution or the problematic use of intense e-mal sending and receiving to get the projects running.

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The director of marketing at SAP Business Objects, Holly Simmons addressed the media saying that "We are trying to solve a much bigger problem for companies than what a lot of the existing solutions in the market are doing." Further she went on declaring that "Our customers have complex landscapes and are running many different types of applications. We are trying to address bringing social within the company and allowing them to work across all of the different software they are using internally."