ANOTHER ASSASSIN WILL BE RELEASED IN 2011

Well, Brotherhood should be available starting today, but people are already wandering about the next! That’s fast, but this is pretty much the standard cycle of Assassin’s Creed. But don’t worry, as Ubisoft already has an answer for you!

“There will be something around Assassin’s,” Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, the company behind the Assassin’s Creed series, said today when answering the 2011 question. “That’s the only thing we can say.”

Guillemot gave this statement directly to investors during a financial briefing call today (and indirectly to assassin fans out there). The investors were hounding the CEO about the future of the Assassin’s Creed series, which Ubisoft executives have said they would like to make it an annual thing. There was a two year gap between the first and second Assassin’s Creeds but only one year between last year’s AC2 and the newly launched Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. On the call today, the Ubisoft execs reiterated their “ultimate goal” to make the series yearly. Hopefully they won’t delay the game like some others, or make it crappy due to 1-year-development-cycle like some others.

ADOBE AIR 2.5.1 (SALTIER) IS AVAILABLE FOR ANDROID

Adobe Air 2.5 is barely out and in the crowd, and Adobe has already release a minor update to this potential platform. The 2.5.1, dubbed “Saltier,” is out and available for one purpose and one purpose only, that is to patch some compatibility issues with the upcoming Gingerbread. Users of the 2.3 version of Android will apparently receive a Force Close when trying to load any Air app. This would only mean that Gingerbread is very near to release, since Adobe is already preparing apps compatible with it. That’s a good thing right?

via Adobe

BAIDU MOST POWERFUL CHINA'S LARGEST SEARCH ENGINE

Ever heard of this webpage called Baidu? Once a popular music search and download page in China that was facing heavy lawsuit. It’s China’s largest search engine, and is so popular in China that 99-percent of China’s users use Baidu. With a $40 billion market cap, the stock price of the company doubled in January of 2010, and is still going strong despite ups and downs of the stock market. Its net value is possibly on par with Facebook and eBay, and at several times outperformed Google in China, something that very few companies can claim.

Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, has been welcoming competition in China, the country where almighty Google has failed to penetrate this vast goldmine due to censorship issues. Baidu is not the only search engine company in China though, as there’s Tencent, Sougu, 78land, and so many more. Let’s also not forget the extremely popular QQ application, which is China’s version of Facebook and Live Messenger, a program you must know if you’re interested in PRC ladies and Chinese cars. Search engine is not Baidu’s only service too, as there’s the Baidu Notes, where 100 million questions posted there have been answered by Chinese users thus far. Baidu is also in research of a “box computing” where devices will turn on in split seconds and immediately accessible, unlike current devices where you have to wait for at least 20-seconds or so for the operating system to load, and another few seconds for the services to register.

Robin Li, Baidu’s CEO, is on stage with journalist John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, speaking about Baidu’s rapid growth, Google’s recent decision to leave China and the differences between the Chinese market and the U.S. market.

via mashable