Thursday, July 7, 2011

HP Shows Inclination towards licensing its webOS To Only Few 'Special' Partners

As Hewlett-Packard looks forward to work through its inherited webOS operating system by installing it on more and more products, now the technology giant is also considering licensing the unique software to some specially select hardware partners. This Wednesday, two of the elite company executives claimed that they truly deem that webOS, which was acquired by HP along with its founding company Palm last year, generate more interest and development in the PC market. The PC operating system market is currently dominated with a large leap by Microsoft's Windows and the mobile OS market remains in the leadership of Google's Android, followed sharply by Apple's iOS.
HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker was at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this Wednesday, when he asserted: "I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system." He mentioned that all kinds of users should be able to make use of whatever hardware they like and still use webOS with it. He announced that the company will do all its best to make the operating system available for large enterprises to SMBs. He said “It will run on lots of HP devices." The statements of Apotheker regarding webOS were also later published online by the Journal. Apotheker took charge as the CEO of the company just last September, and one of his initial motives was to promote webOS. He claimed that it’s regretful that the company has not already attempted to market webOS, saying that "It would have made life easier."
On the same day, another top official of HP in command of webOS, Jon Rubinstein, also declared that "HP is more than willing to partner with one or two special companies." However, no indication has yet been made by the company, or its officials, regarding any intention to make the operation system open source for anyone who wants it. It was published by PC World, that the VP of Apple Inc., Rubinstein, attending the Qualcomm's Uplinq conference, also stated that "if someone wants to put a real focus on contributing and building the webOS ecosystem, that would be something we're interested in."

The Latest New Game of Zynga, Empires & Aliens, Allows the User to Fight Their Own Friends

The latest endeavor of the world’s largest social game-creator Zynga, which has credited widely popular games like FarmVille and CityVille in its catalogue, is now going to launch yet another socially powerful game, Empires & Allies. Considering it to be a game from Zynga, Empires & Allies, is expected to be soon adopted by the entire world, specially accounting it as the company’s first combat strategy game ever. According to the social gaming giant, its latest game will be like “CityVille meets Risk.”
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It stated that unlike its most popular game, FarmVille, this time it has aimed to get users to not keep farms, but this game will rather be more about building your own property through trade and commerce. The release statement declared that Empires & Allies is going to be about building an army and protecting your empire. It announced that all users will compete against each other by forming larger army units, and keeping alliances, securing more energy and even invading other islands. Many analysts are anticipating this game to be quite similar to OGame type games of early 2000s.
Unique to the previous gaming creations of Zynga games, Empires & Allies will be run by its own story. This game will be housing at least more than thirty characters, which will be guiding the starter players regarding the storyline and techniques of playing the game. The game is still not expected to be complete pro hardcore gamers. In fact many analysts claim that it is this element of casual gaming which Zynga has kept so far, that makes it one of the most successful companies in the business. The executive producer of Empires & Allies at Zynga Inc., Amer Ajami, proclaimed that “we’re focused on bringing our players a new form of entertainment and a strategy game is definitely a new playground for us.”
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