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And now the PSP 4000?

The August month'd been Sony month: Slim PS3, overhauled PlayStation Network, some enhancement here, some there, PSP Go! - and now a PSP 4000 coming soon ...? ... [More]

The PirateBay: No Rest for the Wicked

Just two days after the public torrent tracker 'The Pirate Bay' had been taken down by the Swedish law, and many internet users throughout the globe believed, it is gone for good, the PB admins initiated a cat and mouse game and reopened the site and the tracker by using a different provider. ... [More]

Sony (again) to lose money on the PS3

Deja-vu: According to Kaz Hirai, the President of Sony America, the company will lose money on each sold Slim PS3 unit ... [More]

Xbox 360consoles: Best warranties in the industry ...

... and that's how it should be since due to a survey by The Game Informer, the Xbox 360 game console has a 54.2 percent failure rate, and 41.2 percent second failure rate. ... [More]

No backwards compatibility whatsoever for PS3

According to John Koller, hardware marketing director at Sony, no backwards compatibility whatsoever will be available to the PlayStation 3 - once and for all and never. ... [More]

PS3 back to old price?

Well, not really, but regarding to PS3News a different Slim model than the one announced officially had been filed with the FCC, equipped with a 250 GByte harddisk ... [More]

Cinema HD 2.0: Engelmann Media transforms your miniature videos into real movie giants!

Most video programs compress films so that they can be watched on mobile phone or MP4-player when being on the road. Cinema HD 2.0 takes exactly the opposite course. All types of videos can be enlarged selectively and without expensive hardware for large-scale view. This turns the mobile movie into a home cinema blockbuster and the normal video-DVD into a full-HD film for the mega TV in the living room. ... [More]

Windows 7 RC downloads end

If you still want to try out Windows 7 before it is being released in October, you need to hurry. According to Microsoft the download period for the Windows 7 Release Candidate ends Thursday. ... [More]

Finally a PS3 Price Cut

Finally it comes to town: The long awaited price cut for Sony's PlayStation 3 was first sighted in Portugal and Spain. Two online retailers, FNAC and Pixmania, reduced the price of their 80GB PlayStation 3 stock down to US-Dollar 300, 100 less than usual ... [More]

Xbox 360 60GB discontinued

There it goes ... The UK retailer Argos is the first one announcing it has discontinued sales of Microsoft's Pro version of its Xbox 360 console, equipped with a 60 Gybte harddisk ... [More]

Sony dumps own DRM in eBooks

In an attempt to overthrow Amazon's Kindle, Sony's dumps its own DRM in eBooks - which is also a suprising step forward in consumer friendliness ... [More]

Xbox 360 Update kills Homebrewer's Darling

According to 'The Free60 Project', a group of people aiming to loosen the chains, with which Microsoft binds its Xbox 360 console, the latest update overwrites the first stage bootloader of the system and fixes a security hole, that is not even published yet ... [More]

Anticipated console price drops

It seems to be the time for another price round for the two big manufacterers of games consoles, Microsoft and Sony. While Microsoft confirms reports of killing off the Xbox 360 Pro model, Amazon and other retailers get ready to offer a new slim PlayStation 3 - which leaves enough room for speculations on a price drop for the end of August ... [More]

Microsoft rolls out Xbox 360 update

Nearly one year after the last big update comes another one: Microsoft rolls out the next Xbox 360 Dashboard update - with nothing really new on the first look and mainly business stuff on the second ... [More]

Prices for MS Zune HD revealed

There had been no secrets about Microsoft's ZuneHD anymore for quite some time - except for the prices, which are revealed now by Amazon USA ... [More]

Will iTunes 9 bring Blu-ray support?

Thinking about buying a Blu-ray software player since Windows itself lacks one? Think again and maybe wait a little bit till iTunes 9 comes around. Regarding to several sources on the internet ... [More]

Amazon VOD coming to a Panasonic Blu-ray near you

As drive manufacturer Panasonic recently announced, all current Blu-ray player will be able to receive movies from Amazon's video on demand service ... [More]

Boah, eh, PS3 goes HD Porn

Hot stuff invades Sony's PlayStation 3 with Japan's Digital Media Mart (DDM), which offers on-demand adult movies - in high definition, of course, since getting sharp is all it is about ... [More]

PS3 70 percent cheaper - for Sony

According to Nobuyuki Oneda of Sony Corp., manufacturing costs for their PlayStation 3 had been dropped 70 percent since 2006, the year the console launched. If this is good news for people waiting for a price cut is uncertain yet - even though analysts expect a respective note for the coming Games Convention in Germany in about two weeks. ... [More]

Microsoft puts price tag on Window 7 Family Pack

With $149.99 for its Windows 7 Family Pack Microsoft finally labeled all Windows 7 products with their respectives price tags. ... [More]

PirateBay spokesperson off board

Peter Sunde, one of the masterminds behind the PirateBay and its well known spokesperson during all legal battles, recently announced his 'retirement'. ... [More]

iPhone updated to version 3.0.1

Worth mentioning: Last Friday Apple released an iPhone Software Update, which pushes the version number to 3.0.1 and fixes the SMS vulnerability published the day before. ... [More]

E-book removal: Amazon sued by 17 year old kid

Nice thing for a change: Instead of big companies sueing kids, dead people and low income consumers in general because of copyright infringement (aka theft), a 17 year old kid sues the big retailer Amazon for its controversial removal of George Orwell's classic 1984 e-book from Kindle readers ... [More]