Mob uses Farmville and WoW for money laundering
According to New South Wales coppers, online games such as FarmVille and World of Warcraft are being used by criminals to launder dirty money. Apparently criminals have discovered that buying and selling virtual items is a growing new way of cleaning dirty money. NSW Police Detective Superintendent Commander Colin Dyson it was a relatively new trend provided an emerging opportunity for criminals.
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Still less than 100 apps available for Android 3.0
A follow-up check by Second Gear developer Justin Williams has revealed Android 3.0's app catalog to have made little progress in the month since launch. About 14 core apps are still truly native, while a total of 50 include both the native apps as well as those phone apps with basic resizing for the larger screen. The view includes Google's featured apps and may miss some titles, but Android Market currently has no simple way to filter for tablet-optimized or tablet-only apps. The issue underscores an ongoing issue with app support on Android 3.0 so far that reflects the hastened launch schedule. Google posted the beta SDK just a month before the Xoom shipped and the finished version two days before launch. Outside of certain developers given special access, most have had no more than two months to start and finish their first Android tablet apps.
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Windows Home Server 2011 coming in next weeks
The Home Server team announced that the Windows Home Server 2011 will be available for evaluation early in April. The software's release version has been approved, and the program aims to make files and data organized and accessible from anywhere, while automatically backing it up. The team also added that it expects OEMs and system builders to begin releasing hardware running on the software in May. The program will ship in 19 languages, including but not limited to four kinds of Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Among other features, the software brings DLNA 1.5 media sharing.
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Silicon Power introduces USB 3.0 PHD Stream in radiant colors
How one can make a portable hard drive more fashionable, stylish and stand out from the rest? Silicon Power seems to understand users' desire to have a trendy portable hard drive and specially for this, the company has released a super horsepower 2.5-inch USB3.0 interfaced Stream S10 radiant orange. The ultra-streamline Stream S10 which comes in 320 (green), 500, 640 and 750 GB (orange) capacities utilizes USB3.0 interface and coupled with weight reduction technology, it weighs only 145 g - 30% lighter than other products in the same class.
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