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Wal-Mart lowers prices for MP3 downloads

Parallel to the relaunch of their Music Downloads Store, Wal-Mart lowered the prices for MP3 titles. The service now offers a bigger catalog along with a lower starting price, beginning with 74 cents for some tracks. The regular standard price is 94 cents per song. ... [More]

Sony begins shipping of Little Big Planet

Sony begins shipping of the revised version of its videogame 'Little Big Planet', the game that had been postponed after the complaint of an anonymous person, who criticized the inclusion of Quran content in a song. ... [More]

Apple: Nearly 7 Million iPhones sold

As annonced recently by Apple, the company has sold nearly 7 million iPhone 3G units so far, despite any real or anticipated economic turndowns. ... [More]

Free movie premiere on YouTube

Hong-Kong director Wayne Wang recently announced, he will release his new film first and for free on YouTube. The film maker, who had been known for making 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'Smoke' lets the new movie 'The Princess of Nebraska' premier at the YouTube channel for film content. ... [More]

PS3-Firmware 2.5 online

Sony's new firmware version 2.50 for its Blu-ray console PlayStation 3 is online. The update brings some new features as well as fixes and improvements, along with support for Flash 9. ... [More]

No PS3 Merry Xmas from Sony

As Sony Computer Entertainment president Kazuo Hirai recently told the Financial Times, there will be no PlayStation 3 price cut this year. "When you really compare apples to apples, then I think we have a very good value proposition" he added. ... [More]

YouTube to play full TV shows

"This is what users want", says Jordan Hoffner, director of content partnerships for YouTube and presents their new TV 'feature'. Limited to the USA and Canada, will YouTube begin offering full-length TV episodes like 'Star Trek', 'MacGyver', 'The Young and the Restless', 'Beverly Hills 90210' and in future 'Californication' und 'Dexter'. By using a new player software called 'Theater View' pepople can watch for free, but have to live with commercial breaks. ... [More]

Wall Mart maintains DRM servers for now

A few weeks after Wal Mart published their decision to close their DRM music business and shut down the servers, the company reacts to the public backlash and says, it will keep the servers running at least at "the present time". ... [More]

Xbox News: Overhauled Dashboard - and maybe a BD drive

As John Schappert of Microsoft confirmed at the Tokyo Game Show the new Xbox 360 dashborard called 'New Xbox Experience (NXE)' will hit consoles worldwide and in 19 languages on November 19th. No words whatsoever were spent on the rumor, that the Xbox 360 will also be completed by a Blu-ray drive before christmas. ... [More]

Journey to the Center of the Earth: In 3D on a Blu-ray player near you

As Producer New Line recently announced, will the late-October high-def release of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth,' come to Blu-ray in both, 2-D and 3-D versions. The 3-D summer hit with Brendan Frasier had been shown in multiplexes and IMAX theaters and easily hit the $100 million mark. ... [More]

Unlocked in Hong Kong: Apple's iPhone

With no carrier obligations, Apple's iPhone is officially available in Hong Kong through Apple's regional site. ... [More]

Cheaper Blu-ray player at Amazon

Online retailer Amazon.com cuts prices for Blu-ray player and movies to promote the high-definition format. Some selected Blu-ray movie titles for the upcoming Halloween season will be available for as low as $7.99. ... [More]

Vudu rolls out new HDX movies

Video content plattform Vudu officially announced, it will publish movies in a new high-definition format. HDX, as they call it, is supposed to deliver the best looking pictures in web delivered content. ... [More]

Dell comes with pre-loaded movies on PCs

In an attempt to attract more customers PC giant Dell will begin to sell PCs with pre-loaded movies, starting with blockbuster 'Iron Man' on Inspiron 1525 notebooks and XPS 420/630. ... [More]