The concept of cross platform gaming has gained hype. Understanding this many companies have started entering the Cross platform gaming market. Microsoft’s latest product XNA Game Studio 4.0 is designed to develop games for your Windows 7 Mobile phone along with meliorating features for PC and Xbox 360 games. This was declared yesterday at the Game Developers Conference held in San Francisco. Although the XNA game studio has been used before too for making Xbox games, the latest version of the software incorporates remarkable features including hardware accelerated 3D API’s on Windows Phone 7 series, Audio API’s with buffering support and Visual Studio 2010.

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Corel, the brand name is enough to reiterate the excellence in the world of photos. From now on, not only photo, but Corel will shine in the world of video too. Today, Corel Corporation has announced the launch of its latest Corel® Digital StudioTM 2010 edition that combines both the Photo and Video to give the users a highly creative PC experience. Hey guys! Mark it “YOU NEED NOT HAVE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF USING THE COREL PRODUCTS”. Amazing!! Isn’t it?

“With Corel Digital Studio, PC users finally have a simple, fast and fun way to enjoy their photos and videos and create something amazing that they can share with others,” said Nick Davies, Corel’s Senior Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing.

With Corel Digital Studio 2010 users will be able to edit their photos and homemade videos at a great ease and share them cross with their loved ones. Thanks to Corel for bundling up all essential digital functions viz. video, photo, DVD burning and playback in just one application.

Corel Digital Studio 2010 is available for immediate sale all around the world in various languages including English, French, Dutch, German, Chinese, Italian and, Spanish. If you are in the US or Canada, you can shell out $99.99 to get it while the Corel Digital Studio 2010 will ship to other countries in mid-September 2009.

For those who want to try it before purchasing, the company is providing fully featured 30-day trial, please visit www.corel.com/digitalstudio. If you wanna buy individual components, you may opt out for Corel® PaintShop PhotoTM Express 2010 at an MSRP of $49.99 SRP and Corel® VideoStudio® Express 2010 for $49.99.

All of you who have been desperately waiting for the upcoming version of the Microsoft Office for Mac will have to keep a little patience as the company has announced that the next version of MS Office will be unveiled in the next year, i.e. 2010.

Have a look at what Wilfrid said:

“We’re building on the most modern OS X frameworks to make Outlook beautiful, to make it high performance, and to make it well integrated with the OS,”

Wilfrid stated that they will say ‘bye’ to the previously used Carbon system and employ the latest Cocoa development frameworks technology of Apple for creating new Outlook. Also, due to the incapability of Entourage in terms to large databases backup, they will be using a new database for newer Outlook.

Support for information rights management is another feature of the upcoming Outlook. This feature will support cross-platform technologies to deal with secure data. Guys! This means increased credibility and improved performance. I guess your patience in waiting will indeed be rewarding! Keep waiting till next update!