Hello everyone, the tech world is once again buzzing with anticipation as we are only a few hours away from the opening of the world’s largest consumer electronics show – CES 2013. This annual event is held in the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada and is the place where manufacturers of electronic goods show off their latest creations to the public.

This year, over 3000 exhibitors are expected to flaunt and introduce their newest products straight from their top secret mad labs. From the newest generation of TVs, mobile phones, computers and portable devices, CES is definitely the place to be for all tech lovers out there.

So what are we expecting to see this year? Here are a few things that have already leaked on the internet a few days and hours ago before the official opening of the event.

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY – a hot topic in CES this year are about how manufacturers are pushing the boundaries in terms of display technology. One particular innovation that’s making waves is Ultra HD displays. In fact, Toshiba has already announced an 84-inch Ultra HD 4K TV a few hours ago. There is also news that TV screens are going to get bigger this year with displays exceeding the 100-inch mark.

Moreover, there will also be a more diverse selection of TVs as more and more manufacturers are adopting OLED displays for their TV lineup. And because of this, OLED and LED displays are expected to be relatively cheaper compared to previous years.

GAMING AND COMPUTING – of course CES wouldn’t be complete without the latest on gaming and computing. A recent newsmaker in this field is Nvidia with its announcement of two very interesting product – The Tegra 4 mobile quad-core chip and an Android Game controller called Project shield. Based on reports, the Tegra 4 chip will be the world’s fastest mobile processor which features 72 GPU cores and an ARM Cortex-A15 quad-core CPU. This chip is also scheduled to power the SHIELD portable gaming console which features an advanced sound processing technology and connectivity options to allow game relaying from a computer connected to a network.

Other PC, tablet and smartphone manufacturers are also expected to show off their latest devices, specifically their latest android and Windows 8 powered gadgets. Lenovo for example has already spread the word about its Yoga 11S Windows 8 convertible device.

PRACTICAL LIVING – Last but definitely not the least is the practical living section. According to reports and press conferences, this year’s CES will feature several companies and brands involved in the development of practical living technology. That is, the particular sector of the IT industry involved in the invention and innovation of products that help people become more efficient and more productive such as home automation, motion-based technology and even self-driving cars.

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Another week has passed and quite a few things have happened in the tech industry. Fortunately, for those people who were living under a rock these past few days, here’s our weekly roundup of the latest and freshest news in the tech world.

In this week’s episode of Tech Tuesdays on TFL, we’ll be talking about another security breach in two social networks, a very promising gaming console that aims to bring back affordable games to the TV, an upcoming event to launch a new set of graphics card and a new information network on TV.

So, if you’re all set, let’s get the ball rollin’ shall we?

HACKED

Hackers are on a roll these past few weeks as they launch an assault to several social networks including Linkedin and Last.fm. Last week, two other networks join the list of hacker victims.

First up is social network Formspring when they announced that their site was a victim of a security breach that compromised more than 420,000 user accounts. In response to this security breach, Formspring immediately disabled all users passwords and asked all of its members to reset their passwords.

According to the site’s initial findings, someone had broken into one of their development servers and was able to extract account information from a production database. Since their statement last week, Formspring has since fixed and upgraded its encryption to prevent future problems.

Another network that suffered a leak last week was Yahoo’s Yahoo! Voices. According to the American internet company, the stolen user names and passwords came from an older file from the Yahoo! contributor network, which it acquired when it bought Associated Content.

And to make it worse, since Yahoo! Voices allows users to sign in using non-Yahoo accounts, other usernames and passwords from Gmail, MSN, Hotmail, Comcast and AOL have also been compromised. On a statement made by Yahoo, the company apologizes to all the affected users and said that they are already fixing the vulnerability that caused the data to be leaked.

CONSOLE

OUYA (pronounced as OOO-YAH) is an Android-based gaming console that hopes to revolutionize the world of computer games by bringing the openness of the mobile games market to your television sets.

According to OUYA’s CEO and founder Julie Uhrman, OUYA will be an instrument to help small game developers to break into the rather competitive and closed market for console games.

The OUYA console, according to its creators will retail for about $99 and will sport 8GB of build in memory, a USB port and SD card slot for memory expansion, a Tegra 3 processor and 1GB of RAM. It will also have its very own controller which features two normal analog sticks, eight buttons, a D-pad and a touch pad in case the game you’re playing requires gestures.

The game console will also be hacker friendly. Game developers will be able to run any Android app on the console and opening the unit up will not voide the warranty. And since the SDK will be included with the console, game developers won’t have a hard time creating games for the machine.

But in order for this dream to be realized, the company needs at least $950,000 which they asked on Kickstarter. Fortunately, the prototype console has received an incredible amount of positive reception. The company has now received more than $2.4 Million on Kickstarter and has garnered support from several independent game developers

LAUNCH

On local news, the Philippine wing of the American graphics card manufacturer Nvidia will be launching its new line of graphics card this week. The event will be held at SM North EDSA on July 21, 2012 from 2-6pm and will feature the world’s fastest graphics card, the GeForce GTx690.

TV5 has once again upped the game in the local TV network wars with the release of WIN (Weather information network).  With New Zealand-based Metra Weather, WIN will be broadcasting weather information such as projected storm tracks, wind direction, rain volume, water conditions, regional and provincial weather, and seven-day forecasts as well as other information related to weather. These, together with an advanced computer-based weather visualization system make the station’s weather forecasts ahead of its competitors and are even recognized by PAGASA.

And there you have it. Another week filled with news and features about gadgets and technology. Tune in again next week for your weekly dose of updates from the tech world. Til next week guys!