Tech Mania: Mass Effect 2 sells 500,000 units on day one in America plus 1 more articles

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Mass Effect 2 sells 500,000 units on day one in America Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:17 PM PST After a strong critical reception and intense advertising campaign, Mass Effect 2 the sequel to Mass effect had an excellent opening day in the Americas. According to VGChartz preliminary estimates, around 500,000 copies of the game were sold on day one on Xbox 360 itself(PC sales were not tracked). If this goes as expected how it will go then the total sales should surpass 700,000 in the Americas by this coming week. This week could be close to one million units worldwide on Xbox 360 – in line with the launch of Fable II back in October 2008. The original Mass Effect sold 2.1 million copies on Xbox 360 in total and 400,000 in week one – Mass Effect 2 will comfortably outperform that in this coming week.The other big release this week is MAG: Massive Action Game. Day one sales stand at around 140,000 units and the title should be good for a week one of just over 200,000 units.So have you bought yet ! Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

iPhone OS 3.2 SDK available for iPad and features Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:37 AM PST After the launch of iPad,Apple has made available iPhone SDK 3.2 for developers to build applications for iPad when it would be made available worldwide in around 60 days from now.Members who have enrolled in the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program can access the development code for iPhone OS 3.2 Beta for iPad by signing into Apple Developer Connection.Members enrolled in the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program can access the development codebits for iPhone OS 3.2 Beta for iPad by signing into Apple Developer Connection. Rest of the images can be found via Engadget(pics  by noted iPhone jailbreaker chpwn, who sent in the above screenshot from a hacked-up copy of the iPad simulator.) Download iPhone 3.2 Beta SDK So what’s special in iPhone OS 3.2, let me tell your in brief about it.Some of it’ s features are listed below. File downloads and local storage in the browser which means you’ll be able to pull files off the web and use them in other apps. Ability to selectively draw to external displays. CoreGraphics to PDF API for sure, printer API is being prototyped. Richer text support for apps, the ability to selectively draw to external displays. File Upload ability in Safari, prototype support for a "handwriting keyboard." PTP support for transferring images MobileStorageMounter (perhaps used for PTP; perhaps used to mount external USB storage?) Hardware keyboard: USBKeyboardLayouts.plist Spell checker with multiple dictionaries and user-added entries. Spell checker in text fields and web views using AppleSpell - multiple dictionaries(Thanks to  iPhone jailbreak dev Ryan Petrich) - grammar checking (English-only so far) - address book integration - user added entries - SDK access - Included dictionaries: Apple Dictionary, New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, Shogakukan Daijisen, Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Japanese-English Dictionary, and Shogakukan Ruigo Reikai Jiten USB Host support or expanded Bluetooth support. Much richer text API including low-level access to font data and highlevel support for drawing formatted text. Ability for applications to modify the standard cut/copy/paste menu. That is all with the feature listing which you would see in iPhone OS 3.2.One more confirmed news is the support for video calling.Engadget confirmed this from their extremely trusted sources that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling, which could explain that mysterious space at the top of the device.There are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (which suggests a front-facing camera) and — most importantly — run the video call in either full screen mode or in just a portion of the screen. That means you’ll be able to chat and do other things at the same time, which could mean there’s at least some type of multitasking going on here.chpwn was also able to port iPhone multitasking hacks ProSwitcher and Backgrounder to the iPad simulator, which is certainly going to be useful if an iPad jailbreak exploit is eventually discovered. Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

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