Sony pays 30 euros for the purchase of a PS3 and 50 euros for PS Vita

The holidays are approaching and Sony offers discount offers for the PS3 and PS Vita. To purchase a PS3 12 GB you can enjoy a rebate offer of € 30 This offer runs for a console purchased in single or bundle. All the details and terms of the offer on the coupon are available at this address.

For the PS Vita, Sony offers a reimbursement of 50 € or the console is WiFi only on 3G + Wifi console, this offer runs on a console bought in bundle or alone. All the details and terms of the offer on the coupon are available at this address. These offers refunds are available from 1 December and close on 31 December 2012.

Please note that as of 1 December 2012, the PlayStation Store will offer 12 promotions. Each will be available for a short period on the PlayStation Store before disappearing.

The first offering is a 90-day subscription to PS Plus for the price of € 9.99 against € 14.99 (offer expires December 7 at 23:59).

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The Christmas competition with 12 kills Nexus tablet to win. Among others.

Competitions on blogs is good, the competition to multiple blogs is even better, because as they say in the UMP, unity is strength.

This is the idea of Moderator , who, in association with Aliaz (reputation management on the internets) proposed twelve leading high-tech blogs [1] to associate without restraint to give you a Great Christmas Contest high-tech bloggers .

What does is that it is exactly? It is very simple:

The competition consists of 12 questions for the 12 months of the year. Each news has been treated by one of the 12 participating blogs, which allows the passage to be a small retrospective FREE important news of the year 2012, ie revise its web culture playing. To enter the draw, you will have to answer just 12 questions. To help you have a link that leads constituting an index whenever a ticket to one of the bloggers who have dealt with this theme.

To be sure that each blog can be a nice lot to win readers, there are actually two types of lottery:

• A particular draw for each blog to win its readers a Google Nexus tablet 7 (it is managed in the database)
• A draw general among the participants on all the blogs to win a voucher of € 1,000 and 50 VIP accounts aliaz.

To increase your chances of winning, so you can play on various blogs, which will enable you to participate in the various raffles Nexus 7, and will give you more chances for the other lots. You see how the mechanics of this contest is diabolically thought you turn on Loop 12 blogs participating until almost Christmas, yek yek yek.

You feel ready to tear everything to try to win one of the best tablets today? It is gone, and it goes directly below. Good luck, and do not forget to visit the other blogs to increase your odds of winning. For complete rules it is here (PDF).

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Happy Birthday SMS: Short Message Service celebrates 20 years

The SMS is the system used to communicate with others. This 20 th anniversary we are younger. Indeed, the first Short Message Service was sent for the first time on 3 December 1992.

SMS is still used in the field of telephony . It is fast, simple and offers a much more comfortable talking with new technologies. Although other services tend to compete, SMS is one of the most sought after by customers. The first SMS sent on 3 December 1992 was atypical Merry Christmas. He had been sent several days before Christmas on the Vodafone network with a computer. Since that day, which came in the history of phones, SMS and multiply this average will be heavily used at the end of the month. Texting is indeed the best way to wish a happy new year at midnight to everyone around her. Last year nearly 4000 billion SMS were sent all over the world. In 2012, the score should explode.

One billion SMS New Year

Today, SMS in all packages and operators offer unlimited formulas. Essentially the French use this mode of communication, you should know that each subscriber sends an average of 213 SMS per month. Two years ago, mobile users do not exceed 91 text messages per month. United States, SMS undergoes a decline since, for the first time in 10 years, a decline was seen by analysts.

In France, the decline would tend to draw. Indeed, other services are beginning to attract more consumers. These now use instant messaging as Facebook Messenger or BlackBerry Messenger. The SMS was still beautiful days ahead. At the end of the year, he will have the opportunity to blow up the statistics, this is a good time to send SMS as each year nearly one billion Textos are sent to loved ones with the famous phrase Happy New Year.

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Festicket, booking social music festivals

Festicket is a platform that should appeal to all festival goers and music lovers in general. After several months in beta, the site has recently launched its V1.

Start-up, launched last June and based in London, offers indeed a turnkey solution to book and attend music festivals around the globe. At the end of the year fresh, events more or less exotic are already available for booking: Day Zero Festival (Mexico), Snowboxx Festival (Andorra), Carnevale di Venezia (Italy) or Melt! Festival (Germany) ...

How does it work in practice? Simply visit the website and choose one of the events on sale now or in the future. Each event offers a detailed presentation with traditional video presentation, dates, photos, program with the artists (which you can listen with a nice integration Soundcloud), locate and hotels, recommendations and questions / answers.

It remains then to select a package that typically includes the ticket, accommodation and sometimes extras like breakfast or dinner, other events, etc.. Reservation is quick and easy and the price is attractive, everything is done in a few clicks with the "One click booking". As for the business model, start-up takes 20% commission on average over all elements of the package.

The platform, which has received very positive feedback from consumers, but also partners of the press, now attracts more than a thousand unique visitors per day and hopes to convince new investors to finalize a fundraiser.

• visit Festicket

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Wii U: Nintendo offers Warfare 2, Batman, Zombie Mario and U

The Wii U has finally arrived on the French market. The new Nintendo console should be under the Christmas tree. Some may have already cracked and bought this version pretty nice with this particular mablette.

Wii U differs from the previous version including the use of mablette. The latter is halfway between a tablet and a handle. Since 30 November, it has invaded the shelves of shops and Nintendo hopes to sell by the end of March nearly 7 million copies. The Japanese group also wants to sell video games that have been adapted for the occasion in this new version. Wii U is in war with the famous Black Ops 2. So Nintendo puts on his costume to attract Call of Duty fans of the genre. The group thinks attract many fans by focusing on games that have a card and are promising in terms of sales. So the Wii U offers the latest installment of Call of Duty, but not really mablette great interest. In multiplayer mode, it will only show the scores and the map.

Many games on Wii U

The new version of the Wii has a new controller and it is operated in Batman Arkham City. Once again, Nintendo hopes to ride on the success of The Dark Knight Rises film and its recent release on DVD, Blu-Ray to seduce the most fans of the genre. The atmosphere is dark and stand out titles that have emerged on Wii. Adventure enthusiasts will also enjoy the use of mablette since you may need it. Batman has many gadgets and you choose with this controller.

Zombie U is exclusive to Wii U and this album should appeal to all fans of Resident Evil, Silent Hill and others. As usual a strange virus spreads in London, people change and try to eat the player. It is advertised as the best game on the platform. The mablette also has a real purpose and becomes an essential accessory to evolve in the game of course a Nintendo can not leave without his overalls and red plumber. New Super Mario Bros. and U is adapted to the Wii U. Some will be disappointed because mablette not really useful solo, but it gets interesting when playing with others. Other games are also advertised on the Wii U, you can experience Mass Effect 3, Rayman Legends, Darksiders II, Assassin's Creed 3 , Ninja Gaiden 3 and many others.

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The Museum of Modern Art will host 14 games

"The video game is an art?". If you believe Wikipedia, art is "a human activity, the product of the activity or the idea that we are in fact deliberately targeting the senses, emotions and intellect". To meditate Still, the question does not leave indifferent and is a source of debate. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, he ruled, making the place at its premises in 14 tracks iconic geek culture.

The MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York has announced on its website late last week that it has acquired 14 video games and they will be exposed from March. Others will follow, such as Space Invaders, The Legend of Zelda and even Street Fighter II. Tanks that rest assured, GTA is not (yet) compete to join the ranks of art. Here are the first games held:

Pac-Man (1980)

Tetris (1984)

Another World (1991)

Myst (1993)

SimCity two thousand (one thousand nine hundred ninety-four)

Vib-Ribbon (1999)

The Sims (2000)

Katamari Damacy (2004)

EVE Online (2003)

Dwarf Fortress (2006)

Portal (2007)

flOw (2006)

Passage (2008)

Canabalt (2009)

Through this choice, not only the MoMA says loud and clear that yes, video games can be considered art, but it also covers work as a "traditional". It examines and selects video games on specific criteria, such as aesthetics, of course, but also the architecture (ie, source code). In addition, in the same way that a painting or a film touches the recipient, the game is directly related to the player and the impact it has on it is another selection criterion.

Thus, the museum has endeavored to bring the games and consoles that come with it to offer its visitors to discover (or rediscover) these pearls videogame. Function of time that each game requires and state games collection, visitors will have access to limited or full versions (some of Tetris or Pacman requiring only a few minutes), using original or emulations.

These historic songs that invade the MoMA in New York in a dynamic acceptance of gaming as a true cultural object, whatever some irreducible. There are just over a year, the Grand Palais  hosted (with great success) the exhibition "Game Story". The originality of this time seems to be the permanent place that is reserved for the "10th art."

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Nexus 4: The new smartphone is available in the U.S.

The Nexus 4 is highly requested and replenishment should not last very long. The craze is so important that the smartphone in France has passed a few hours. Since then, the French expect replenishment.

Nexus 4 was available for sale on Google Play U.S.. The 8GB version was quickly out of stock, but apparently remain some models 16GB For cons, the delivery time is quite important since it takes between 6 and 7 weeks. The smartphone will not be under the tree. Nexus 4 had already been proposed across the Atlantic via a first replenishment that had passed in a few hours. Despite launching a few weeks ago, Google faces the same enthusiasm.

And France?

Demand is identical across the globe. You should know that the prices are very attractive because they are sold 299 and 349 euros for the 8GB and 16GB versions with a replenishment for the United States, the French could therefore expect a similar situation in a few days or weeks. Consumers will have to be patient because delivery for France should be identical if however Smartphone surfaced on Google Play French. Even if the unit is on sale again in the coming days, there are chances that the Nexus 4 is not under the Christmas tree.

The Mountain View company gives no indication on stocks Nexus 4. It is therefore difficult to know whether the smartphone is produced in sufficient quantities or if the limitation is voluntary sales. Several hypotheses circulating on the web, Google does perhaps not overshadow other smartphones running Android. For a Nexus 4 stay tuned, it might be coming in the next few days, fingers crossed that Google thinks.

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