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Sony considering premium PSN

Not any more free for all? Or at least not the whole thing? According to the website Kotaku, Sony considers a premium PlayStation Network (PSN) subscription model - if PS3 gamers are interested and willing to pay subscription fees ranging from $29.99 up to $69.99. ... [More]

Worth mentioning: Zune HD now twitters

Microsoft recently launched a native Twitter application for their Zune HD. The free MS app allows Zune customers fast access to the social community service directly from their device ... [More]

Worth mentioning: Digital Comics on PSP

Along with the latest firmware update for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and PSP go came a reader for online comic stories - now the content followed ... [More]

Paying for online content? Better never than ever

A new study by the GFK Group unveils, what actually does not need to be unveiled: Internet users like free content so much, they don't want to pay for it - not in this world, not in the future and, by the way, never and no matter what corporates actually want money for. ... [More]

3D Specs for Blu-ray finalized

Nice coincident: While being pushed by James Cameron's 'Avatar' in movie theatres worldwide, 3D technology is ready to enter home entertainment as well. Developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) the final specifications of three dimensional movies on Blu-ray are ready to roll ... [More]

Worth mentioning: Hollywood Makes Record Profit in 2009

At the same time while accusing its own customers to ruin the business by pirating movies, Hollywood looks back at a record year, making almost a billion dollars more than 2008 at US and Canadian box offices. And for the first time ever the studios cross the magical $10 billion mark ... [More]

Twilight Birthday Case: Charges dropped

Sometimes saneness claims its rights: All charges Samantha Tumpach faced for accidentially recording a few minutes of 'Twilight' were dropped ... [More]

iTunes 9 with sync problems

According to Apple, the company's media software iTunes, responsible among others for dealing with iPods and iPhones, has a sync problems with iPod Classic devices ... [More]

Where the bad guys live ...

Funny incident: At the very same time a woman had been arrested for accidently taping a few minutes of 'Twilight' while enjoying her sister's birthday party, all four big record labels got sued over 300,000 pirated tracks by a group of canadian musicians ... [More]

New PS3 firmware coming soon

Users complaining that firmware 3.10 for the PlayStation 3 did no good to their device can have hope: Sony will soon release version 3.15, that will supposedly fix a multitude of features and provide a tool for data transfer between two PS3 devices as well as the possibility to play PSP mini games on the big brother ... [More]

Worth mentioning: Amazon will update Kindle for vision

According to online retailer Amazon the company has plans to update both 'Kindle 2' and 'Kindle DX' e-book readers to meet essential requirements of vision-impaired consumers ... [More]

MySpace Music UK launches

This weekend Murdoch's MySpace launched its new music service 'MySpace Music' exclusive for British users. Equipped with music from Warner Music Group, EMI Music, Universal Music, and Sony Music, the service is an attempt to gain users back from other social networks like Facebook - and to generate money, since tracks have to be bought ... [More]

Possible UMD add-on for Sony's PSP Go

When the PSP first hit the market, people critizised the built-in UMD drive and the needed UMD media - for not being compatible to DVD or CD, for not being creatable at home, and, of course, for being expensive. Now the UMD-less PSP Go had been released, the drive is gone - and it's vice versa ... [More]

Blu-ray flippers ante portas

According to Universal, the launch of their new Blu-ray 'flippers' will be at the beginning of next year. Blu-ray 'flippers' contain the same movie release on both sides of the disc - one Blu-ray copy and one DVD copy on the flip side. ... [More]

More free games for PSP Go

Sony's milestone PSP Go with less display for more money has another great achievement to its competitors from the same house: no UMD drive, which makes all games and movies worthless, one might have bought for a PSP one, two, three thousend. Well ... [More]