iPhone 5 Not Necessarily So 'Digital Wallet'?

Near Field Communication (NFC), maybe the technology that will be adopted by many mobile phone vendors future. IPhone reportedly not equipped with NFC 5.

With this NFC technology, the future users can use their phones as a 'digital wallet'. How users can simply hold the phone to a sensor (like the RFID card in the machine absent). Approximately Flazz card's functions such as the BCA as a means of payment.

Quoted from the know your mobile, on Tuesday (04/19/2011), according to Ming-Chi Kuo a security analyst from Concord, iPhone fifth possibility has not been using NFC. Because several designs and innards new iPhone is still the same with the iPhone 4, except to the problem processors and camera sensors.

Currently, several mobile phones that support NFC technology are: Google Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy S II, 578 Wave Samsung, and Nokia C7-00.

If so, then the iPhone 5 still losing from Nokia that was clearly going to use NFC in Windows 7 Phone phone line later. Until Apple gives official information, this is still a rumor.

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Google will Close Google Video

Users Google Video, of course, want to make sure that all video is stored properly. Unfortunately, Google plans to close the service.

To its users, as reported by PC Mag and quoted on Monday (4/18/2011), Google this week told the news by email. Google says, Google Video will soon be closed on May 13, 2011.

Mentioned in the email, users who have a video on Google Video, they can download the video by clicking on the feature 'download' that will be provided by Google. Starting 29 April 2011, the video is on Google Video can not be accessed until it is fully eliminated on 13 May.

Analysts assess, it is not surprising if Google decides to end the Google Video, given the Internet giant that has a similar service that is more promising, namely YouTube.

According to research firm ComScore, earlier this year, Google acquired YouTube in 2006, becoming the number one online video site in the world with more than 144.1 million viewers each month.

Meanwhile, Google Video, launched in 2005, did not show an encouraging development. The last few years, Google has also stopped accepting uploads to this service.

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Sales of PlayStation 3 Translucent 50 Million Units

Sony has just posted a remarkable achievement for the PlayStation gaming device. Japan-based company claims that sales of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) has reached 50 million units worldwide, within a period of five years since its launch.

Reported by PC Magazine and quoted on Monday (4/18/2011), the pride of Sony's console sales continue to rise. Recorded about 3.5 million PS3 units shipped in 2006, then increased to 9.1 million in 2007, 10.1 million in 2008 and recent data 13 million in 2009.

Note however, Sony calls it 'sell-in numbers', which refers to the number of PS3 units sold to retailers, not directly to consumers. Thus, these figures are not entirely comparable with figures reported by retail competition Sony. Even so, analysts assess the PS3 sales figures remain impressive.

Sony also said the growth also occurred on the PlayStation Network (PSN) simultaneously with the console itself. PSN currently has more than 75 million registered accounts and operates in 59 countries.

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