IPhone 4 Already Sold Out Despite Apple Store Meltdown
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Yesterday, Apple and AT&T both experienced complete meltdown as their servers crumpled under the load of iPhone 4 pre-orders.
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What’s Happening at E3
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In case you have missed what’s been going on at E3 today, here’s a brief rundown… Star sightings: Eminem and Usher take E3 – Ministry of Gossip Nintendo 3DS in-depth preview: it works!
Sony Announces PlayStation Move Pricing And Launch Date
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Sony has announced pricing and launch date details for its PlayStation Move controllers for the PlayStation 3. When the PlayStation move goes on sale there will be two controllers available, a motion controller and a smaller one handed navigation controller.
The Radio Powr Savr Wireless Occupancy & Vacancy Sensor Does the Thinking For You
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Saving power, electricity and resources has been a big thought on most American’s minds especially during this period of economic downturn.
Samsung Introduces Spinpoint F4 HDD
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Samsung has once again expanded its line of hard drives with the introduction of the Spinpoint F4. Coming in 3.5-inch form factor, this new 320GB drive features a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, an 8MB or 16MB of buffer memory and offers a working speed of 7200 RPM.
ASRock Core 100HT HTPC
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ASRock comes back with their latest gadget namely the ASRock Core 100HT HTPC, which is based on Intel’s Calpella platform for processing and graphics.
Active Media Outs Key-Shaped USB Flash Drive
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Check out this unique USB flash drive from Active Media Products that comes in the form of a real house key. Measuring only 58mm x 29mm x 3mm, this plug-and-play drive comes with a protective metal case, a USB 2.0 interface and is compatible Windows 7, Vista, XP, 98 as well as Linux.
Hands-on: 3DS hardware and gaming impressions
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We got our hands on the 3DS this morning at Nintendo’s press conference, but it wasn’t exactly a proper hands-on. It was just a simple demo to basically show that it works.
Sony E3 Event Highlights 3D and Move Controllers
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Sony today became last of the big three gaming companies show off its wares with a pre-show E3 press conference.
Live: Sony’s E3 2010 keynote [ended]
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Sony conducted its E3 presentation this afternoon as the last of the three major keynotes at the gaming expo. Sony priced out the PlayStation Move controller bundles and showed PlayStation Plus, its paid bonus service for the PS3. See our live coverage page for the news as it unfolded….
Sony ships Move September 19, adds PlayStation Plus service
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Sony at its E3 keynote detailed the PlayStation Move and a paid subscription service, PlayStation Plus.
Microsoft Lowering Prices on Older Xboxes
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Microsoft apparently held a media roundtable last night after its Xbox press event, confirming that it will eventually phase out its existing models in favor of the new “slim” model.My colleague Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat reported: “The new Xbox 360 with a 250-gigabyte hard drive and the smaller…
Microsoft Lowering Prices on Older Xboxes
June 15th, 2010 link to (permalink)
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Microsoft apparently held a media roundtable last night after its Xbox press event, confirming that it will eventually phase out its existing models in favor of the new “slim” model.My colleague Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat reported: “The new Xbox 360 with a 250-gigabyte hard drive and the smaller…
Nintendo 3DS designed to take on iPhone 4, iPod touch
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Nintendo, as promised, has teased the first details of the 3DS at its E3 keynote. The console superficially resembles the DSi but has a new, 3.5-inch top screen with glasses-free 3D; it not only adds depth to games but has a 3D effect slider to tone the effect down.
Daily Crunch: Crossed Signals Edition
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BattleTag is… Lazer Tag, rebornMicrosoft unveils the Kinect, arriving in November for $149Xbox 360 gets a few new options for the same pricePost-it Index Cards: A ray of light in our otherwise dreary dayStarbucks announces free WiFi at all…
Premium Boxee content coming thanks to RoxioNow deal
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It just gets more and more frustrating: the Boxee Box by D-Link may be delayed until November 2010, but the company keeps adding alluring features that only make us want the standalone media-player all the more.
Sony NEX-5 stock reaches UK retailer
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UK camera specialists Jessops have announced that they have the “first UK stock” of the Sony NEX-5, with the 14.2-megapixel interchangeable lens camera priced at £589 ($868) complete with the 18-55mm zoom lens.
New Xbox and Mac Mini show Microsoft and Apple’s design divergence
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Yesterday Microsoft took the wraps off of their redesigned Xbox while this morning Apple quietly released their new Mac Mini.
Microsoft pays Apple app devs to port to Windows Phone 7
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Filed under: DeveloperWho would have thought this would ever happen? Microsoft, according to PocketGamer.biz, is throwing some substantial upfront money at developers of popular iPhone apps to port their products over to Windows Phone 7, which may be their last great hope of getting enough apps on...
Belkin Conserve let’s you know if you left the refrigerator running, tells you to go catch it
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We all know something needs to happen to deal with the future of energy. Simple things such as leaving home electronics on contribute to more than 100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity wasted.
Android continues to steal mobile web consumption shares from iOS
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Section: Apple, Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile In a new report from Quantcast outlining mobile web consumption based off of operating system, it was no contest to say that iOS would take the cake.
Lens Adapters Put Leica, Nikon, Canon Lenses on Sony NEX
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One of the biggest (and most overlooked) advantages of mirrorless cameras is that they can be adapted to work with almost any lens there is. The short distance between the throat of the lens-mount and the sensor means that there is a lot of space for an adapter.
Computer market to grow nearly 20% as netbooks stall
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Computer sales will rebound so quickly this year that they should reach an all-time high, researchers at IDC estimated today. The year-over-year growth in sales should reach 19.8 percent, outweighing the slump in 2009, and could see 354.8 million computers ship worldwide.
NYFI hopes to give free Wi-Fi to NYC trains
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A private telecommunications company has proposed adding Wi-Fi service to two New York City area train lines. Mobilitie, which operates the free Wi-Fi service NYFI, submitted the proposal to build a wireless network for the Metro North and Long Island Rail Road lines.
Come join us in singing the iPhone 4 pre-order blues
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Tag your tweets #preorderblue and we’ll see who has fought most valiantly against AT&T’s activation servers. In honesty, however, I don’t envy those poor folks tasked with keeping up with this onslaught.
14-megapixel Altek Leo Android phone gets video demo
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Nokia’s 12-megapixels are impressive, but Altek reckon there’s still room in smartphones for a few more pixels.
