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• Call of Duty: Black Ops release price just £4.97 at Asda
• Microsoft adds cabbies' knowledge to maps
• Apple was offered Kinect before Microsoft

Call of Duty: Black Ops release price just £4.97 at Asda Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:04 PM PST Posted by Michael Sawh on Sun 7 Nov 2010 Cheapest Call of Duty: Black Ops deal with one little condition... Asda is set to offer Call of Duty: Black Ops for the low price of £4.97, days after HMV announced that they would sell the latest instalment of the cinematic shooter for just £7.99.   Set to retail at £54.99, CoD fans eager to get a discounted copy will have to be willing to trade in one of the following games: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Fallout New Vegas, or Fable III.   Related links Call of Duty: Black Ops best deals Online gaming rules: The dos and don'ts Call of Duty: Black Ops is "best on Xbox 360" Best Video games 20 Games that changed it all Games console concepts we wish were real If you don't own any of those games or don't fancy trading the relatively new titles you've probably spent a small amount of playing time with, you can trade in other games to get a cheaper copy, or buy the game outright at a reasonable £36.97.   Already breaking pre-order records, Black Ops is expected to surpass the success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which became the UK's best-selling game of all time when it launched last year.   Set to place gamers in a plethora of real world conflicts between World War II and the present day, gameplay will feature in various periods of the Cold War leading you through war torn terrain in Cuba,  the Arctic and Vietnam.   The trade-in deal lasts for just six days from Tuesday via Asda trade-in game stores which can be located here. A selection of Asda stores will be open from midnight on Tuesday, for those eager to get their hands on the game which is available for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii and the Nintendo DS.   If you''ve somehow managed to avoid the Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer, you can see the HD version below to get you in the mood ahead of the November 9th launch.   Link: Asda   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Microsoft adds cabbies' knowledge to maps Posted: 07 Nov 2010 04:14 AM PST Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 7 Nov 2010 Microsoft researchers designing personal taxi driver for future GPS Researchers working for Microsoft in Beijing are working on incorporating the fabled knowledge of local taxi drivers into a future GPS mapping service. Related links T3 App of the Year: Google Maps Navigation 10 reasons Google Street View should stay Google Street View captures secret SAS base The problem Microsoft are trying to overcome is that the shortest route from point A to B in a city is not always the quickest. The scheme works by tracking some 33,000 of Beijing's cabs and recording when they deviate from the course with the shortest distance, as when avoiding congested areas, for instance. The software, which Microsoft are calling "T-Drive", then merges this information with GPS data to calculate routes that are not necessarily shorter, but quicker for the motorist all the same. Microsoft claim that using this local knowledge instead of traditional shortest-route GPS systems, travellers can shave around 16% off their driving times - or around 5 minutes every half hour. Further additions to the T-Drive ahead of a public realease software will include live updates of traffic and accident reports and colourful local humour (possibly).     This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Apple was offered Kinect before Microsoft Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:49 AM PST Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 7 Nov 2010 Apple's shot at Microsoft Kinect-style gaming device strangled by red tape. The technology behind Microsoft's motion-tracking Kinect peripheral for Xbox 360 was apparently offered to Apple first, according to a report on CultofMac. Related links Xbox 360 Kinect review How does Microsoft Xbox Kinect work? PlayStation Move to outsell Kinect's "limited control" Xbox Kinect versus PlayStation Move Xbox Kinect ultimate guide Before Kinectimals was even a twinkle in Steve Ballmer's eye, the developers of the technology, PrimeSense, were shopping around US companies with a view to taking the technology public. According to the report, Apple was at the top of a long list of names, as PrimseSense CEO Inon Beracha and his engineers felt "it was the most natural place for the technology". What happened, then? Well, Apple's shot at the kind of sales being predicted for Kinect was apparently scuppered by red tape, and Beracha's enthusiasm for partnering up with Jobs and co. was buried under an avalanche of non-disclosure and privacy agreements he and his company would have had to put their names to. "Apple," says Beracha, "is a pain in the ass." However, that Kinect-shaped lump of coal in Steve Jobs' stocking is turning into a prize Turkey for Microsoft, whose Xbox Kinect peripheral is expected to sell some 800,000 plus units in the run-up to Christmas. Consider Kinect this Christmas? Find out more in our Xbox Kinect Ultimate guide. Via: Cult of Mac   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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