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Pokemon Go and the Gym

Pokemon Go is all the craze in mobile gaming and its attracting many non-gamers. At the initial stages of the games, a player collects as many Pokemons (those cute adorable creatures) within the player's surrounding and search for Pokestops to refill their inventory supplies. Collect a Pokemon in the Wild by throwing one pokeball at a time to trap them. Some how, caught Pokemon will be tamed and help the player to challenge other players at a later stage. Whats is a Gym? That is right, after a player reach level 5, they can choose to be on one of the Pokemon teams and enter a Gym. This allow a player to either challenge an opponent team, practice at a gym or loan a Pokemon to fight for your team and make your team stronger. A Gym looks like a tower with a square base at its top. Its color determine which team "owns" it. Here, Team Mystic in blue owns the 2 towers on the left and centre of the screen. Two Gyms Captures by Team Mystic Pokemon placed in the Gym...

Forwarded Pokemon FUD

Saw the following circulating on Whatsapp. I guess there are some with some paranoid fear but without full knowledge of facts. Partial knowledge can lead to unfounded hysteria and it benefits some groups. In the brackets, I added other mobile apps that have similar effects. --- the spam --- Privacy Concerns of POKEMON GO That Will Make You Rethink Playing This Game Posted on Jul 29, 2016 This game broke the Internet and it's the biggest hit game since the 1990s. But, what is it all about? 1. As You Already Probably Know It, the Point of This Game Is to Go Around and Catch Pokemons 2. Unfortunately, Things Are Not That Simple 3. In Order to Download This Game You Have to Share Your Personal Information with Nintendo and Niantic [same goes to Gmail, Google, Whatsapp, Periscope, Twitter] 4. This Basically Means These Companies Are Accumulating Your Personal Info [same goes to Gmail, Google, Whatsapp, Periscope, Twitter] 5. With This, They Are Able to Track Down Your ...

XPERIA X10 is expected to have Gingerbread upgrade

Good news from SE! They have plans to provide upgrade to X10 to Android 2.3.3. Currently phones are at Android 2.1-update1. Down side is that SE seems to abandon support of their own software product. Made me think that they are dropping support of innovation efforts for Android. What? No more face recognition, no more Mediascape! Aiyooo... All this after they abandoned the famous arc shape unlock feature. What improvement is SE supporting?