CALL OF DUTY

CALL OF DUTY®: GHOSTS
PRESTIGE EDITION

The game begins with Elias telling his sons about the legend of how the Ghosts first appeared. Meanwhile in space, the Federation hijack the controlling space station of the Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN),^[7] an orbital superweapon that utilizes kinetic bombardment, and use it to destroy several cities in the southwestern United States. The surviving American astronauts sacrifice themselves to self-destruct the space station and prevent the other ODIN satellites from launching their payloads further inland. Elias and the young Logan and David narrowly escape the destruction of San Diego.

Ten years later, the United States has fought the Federation to a stalemate along a front that comprises the destroyed cities, also known as "No Man's Land". Logan and Hesh are part of a US unit commanded by Elias and during a patrol, they spot an American working with the Federation who is called "Rorke". Soon after, the brothers are ambushed and rescued by members of the Ghosts who are seeking their companion Ajax, who was captured by Rorke. Logan and Hesh join the mission to rescue Ajax but arrive too late to rescue him and after he is killed by Rorke, they reunite with their father who reveals himself as the leader of Ghosts. Believing his sons are ready to join his unit, Elias welcomes them into the Ghosts and they learn from him that Rorke once were their leader. However, during a successful mission to assassinate General Almagro, then president of the Federation in the capital Caracas, Elias is forced to abandon Rorke, who was presumed dead, but instead turned traitor and is now hunting down his former companions.

The Ghosts manage to locate and capture Rorke, but while flying back home, Rorke's men attack their plane and rescue him. The team then is forced to land deep into the Amazon Jungle where they witness a rocket being launched with an unknown purpose. Once reunited and rescued, the Ghosts storm a Federation laboratory in the Andes and obtain data regarding a classified operation in a factory at Rio De Janeiro. To secure a path to the factory, the Ghosts destroy the Federation's Atlas oil platform located in Antartica to lure the enemy fleet away from their objective and sink their remaining destroyer guarding the Brazilian coast. Once inside the factory, the team discovers that the Federation had reverse engineered the ODIN's technology and developed their own orbital bombardment system. After destroying the factory, Elias and his sons regroup in Las Vegas but are captured by Rorke who kills Elias in front of Hesh and Logan who later find an opportunity to escape.

Realizing that once the Federation's ODIN become operational they will be defeated for good, the United States pool all their remaining forces in a synchronized attack to take down an enemy space center in Chile while a small team of soldiers boards a shuttle to take over the Federation satellites in space. Once both objectives are completed, Hesh and Logan pursue Rorke to avenge their father and are seemingly successful, only to find out during the aftermath that Rorke survived their battle. Logan attempts to defend his wounded brother, but has his arm broken and is kidnapped by Rorke, with the former Ghost announcing his plans to brainwash Logan into killing the rest of the team. In a post-credits scene, Logan is seen being kept inside a pit in the jungle, presumably going through the same torture methods that Rorke went through.

Smart locks

Smart Lock Systems
These smart lock systems, like August's (pictured), work with or replace traditional locks and deadbolts, granting keyless access to homeowners through bluetooth phone recognition technology and allowing those owners to customize and monitor other entrants' access (like a housekeeper, for example).

BBM sell out

The release of BBM to iOS and Android users is at best too little too late. Sure there are millions who love the program including myself, but the fact is I already have two cross-platform, feature rich messaging apps and don’t know that I will add another despite my familiarity with the iconic messaging app.

WhatsApp, Line, Viber, and others already fill this need for tens of millions of users worldwide.Never mind the delays, it is finally here and BBM for Android and iOS is completely free. It supports all Android-powered smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich and above, and iPhones running iOS 6 and above.It’s features include everything you’ve come to expect from the program: traditional instant messaging, group chat for up to 30 people, and user profiles.In order to use the app, you will need to signup for a BlackBerry ID, which will only take a few minutes. Signup is done through the app once its installed. For those concerned about privacy, you’ll be happy to hear that BlackBerry will assign you a PIN and you will not need to disclose your phone number or email to anyone in order to begin messaging.

For millions, the app will be a matter of nostalgia. There are a large number of Android and iPhone users who have owned a BlackBerry at one time or another.

Once again, I’ve not read a single report that suggests that BBM will rescue BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB), however, it’s nice they decided to throw a life preserver to those who love the app years after they jumped BlackBerry’s sinking ship.

Blackberry Over

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Today, Blackberry released their preliminary financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2014, and it’s worse than imagined. While nobody believed BB10 would fully resurrect the once mighty smartphone company, nobody expected operating losses approaching $1 billion, either.

According to Yahoo! finance, Blackberry will also remove itself from the consumer market, opting to focus on enterprise and end-to-end solutions instead. They’ll also trim their lineup from six devices to four, with two high-end offerings and two lower-specced phones.

Blackberry will also cut 4,500 jobs, and attempt to reduce their operating expenditures by 50% before the end of Q1 FY 2015.

In addition to the operating loss of $950-995 million, the Waterloo, Canada company will also see a pre-tax inventory charge of $930-960 million, primarily attributable to Z10 devices. Blackberry did make $1.6 billion, of which half is service revenue, and expects to see revenue on 3.7 million smartphones, primarily BB7 devices.

The company expects their adjusted net loss to hover in the $250 million range, or about $0.50 per share. At the time of writing, Blackberry stock is currently trading at $8.73, and has fallen $1.80 on the day, which is more in tune with their GAAP loss of $950 or so.

This marks an end to Blackberry’s consumer presence, and a sad exit for a once prominent and ubiquitous company. While the enterprise market got them to where they were, programs like BYOD and Apple’s increasingly strong presence in enterprise will prove difficult. Google is also pushing hard, and has many top-tier companies “going Google”. Blackberry may find sourcing contracts for enterprise or government difficult in the current landscape.

It seems even the most obvious solutions for survival may no longer be viable for Blackberry.

COOL

Coolest gadget of 2013

Surface Tension Arcade Table

An ultimate bro-ccessory, a Surface Tension Arcade Table is a fine piece of handcrafted furniture 

concealing a video gaming system. To a casual observer, there's no real hint that this tasteful piece of 

furniture hides somethings so frivolous —it's all very respectable. Drawers pull out to reveal joysticks 

and controls, while the the dark glass table top conceals the display. If you're so inclined, you can hook 

your table up to a HDTV for a horizontal view of the action. Prices vary by model and finish but start at 

about $3,200 plus shipping.

Fallin

Just bought an Apple iphone 5s

Apple Phone too expensive

Apple shares drop by more than 5% after new iPhone launch because investors fear the handsets - at $549 to $849 - are too expensive

• Shares in Apple ended at $467.7 on Wednesday following the launch of its new iPhones - a drop of 5.4 per cent
• Analysts concerned iPhone 5C is too expensive for emerging markets
• The handset costs more than the average monthly income in China
• Apple's smartphone market share fell to its lowest in three years in June

Falling Stock

On Tuesday, at around 2pm, Apple's shares had dipped about 2 percent. But on Wednesday, Cupertino is continuing to struggle with a low-point of 6 percent loss, or around $465 a share.

Of course, it's important to remember Apple has seen similar lags in share prices after previous announcements. According to The Guardian, the low stock prices could be in response to the iPhone 5c. While the on-carrier arrangement offers a $99 iPhone, the unlocked price is still seen by some analysts as being too pricy.

Bitter Fued

The Fued Continues

It's a smartphone industry WAR

Check out the new i phone specs VS the Samsung galaxy S4

Unveiling of Apple I Phone 5s

With the release of the new Apple I Phone days away, it is safe to say that Apple have 

everyone right where they want them.The large buzz around what the phone looks like, the

 innovative features that the phone comes with has basically paved the the way for leaks and

 rumoured released dates.This hype has slowly eroded the fact that Apple is not really big on 

innovations when it come to the I phone. With the exception of the I Phone 5 sire and making 

new OS that  Apple has basically released I Phones with the same specs with a bigger size 

and a prettier exterior design and calling it innovative.Honestly in my mind there is no topping 

the I Phone 5 even with the new rumoured fingerprint software because i can just download a 

finger print if i wanted that software or even download a more secure one but regardless of the 

lack of the innovation in the mobile industry Apple has undoubtedly raised the bar with the 

launch of the I Phone 5 with the convenience of sire and not to mention there ever so lovely OS 

the I Phone 5 is undoubtedly the greatest phone to grace our earth i was even surprise myself 

after i had jumped on the bandwagon that android had broken Apple's monopolistic 

dominance. This shows what competition does for innovation ..... after-all apple is a company 

 an the aim of a company is to make profit innovation comes after.

  

Is Apple losing its TOUCH!

IS APPLE LOSING IT'S TOUCH

This is the dilemma that many loyal apple fans are face with today.Though extremely hard for me to admit it 

but the truth is the truth.The company that once brought revolutionary devices that changed the meaning of 

innovation the technology industry now reduced to a another mediocre company that designs devices to 

capitalize on profit.This is evident with the release of the Iphohe5 which just a bigger replica of the Iphone 4s

This kind of redundancy in so called "Innovative Products" do nothing but lowers the standard the great 

Steve Jobs work so hard to set. Don't take my word for it :

Is it really worth the trouble to get a iphone 5 when all features are basically the same a 4s

Iphone 5 Vs the Samsung Galaxy S4

I phone 5 Vs Galaxy S4

Watch the video link below and make your 

decision on which one suits you the most

Personally i am in live with apple products but when watch this and seeing the awesome specs

of the galaxy S4 make me wonder how apple gonna top that .

Enjoy and make sure to think about it

Electronic Smoking (The dawn of Electronic Cigarettes )

E-Cigarettes

Over the years so called "smart people" have 

invented many relatively useless and 

complicated devices.Lucky we have countries 

like China to bail us out every time.In 2004 

China created the created one of the Dumbest

gift to World...... the E Cigarette.

For those people who think money just magically "puffs" from the air, let me remind you that the 

Tobacco industry is one of the largest of all industries in the world and Cigarettes one it's main

products also for developed countries like america a large portion of GDP.According to 

http://www.cdc.gov the fact sheet of American citizen show that :

Percentage of U.S. adults who were current smokers in 2010:

• 19.0% of all adults (43.8 million people)
• 31.5% non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native
• 27.4% non-Hispanic multiple race
• 20.6% non-Hispanic white
• 19.4% non-Hispanic black
• 12.9% Hispanic
• 9.9% non-Hispanic Asian

Some might try to argue and say just tax E cigarette but remember that E Cigarette is different  

from normal cigarette because while normal cigarette comes with usage time of 3 minutes the 

least a e cigarette come with a battery that makes that makes the consumer usage time 

expand.This may seem like an advantage to the consumer but Think about it  the real question 

everybody is it safe to use the product casually.The answer is Yes ,but at cost remember that 

the only only difference between e cigarette and real cigarette is the fact that the e cigarette 

contains only the highly addictive substance called nicotine.If nicotine  .This will increase the 

demand for nicotine in the society and will lead to a general prolong exposure to the addictive 

and harmful substance  which is not only  bad for the consumers that was reassured that this 

was harmless but to person who definitely addicted to smoking and genuinely want to quit  

One prove of this fact is shown in  pole below :

Pole showing increase in demand for E cigarettes

This increase will not only lead to a increase in the consumption among young people but make 

government's investment of literally billions of dollars seems like a waste of money because e 

cigarettes increases the demand for smoking which basically demoralizing the smoking and 

making society look on smoking as a good practice.

 

The picture of cigarette pack showing Smoking kills

So make your choice u can choose to be exposed to a prolong cancerous substance or leave 

smoking up to the ones who are dumb enough to avoid the millions of warnings that smoking is 

dangerous and enjoy a better standard of living