Archive for August 30, 2007

Sony confirms internal depletion of 60GB PS3 supply

Sony elaborated on previous comments made about 60GB PS3 inventory stock on Wednesday, confirming that only retail supply of the $499 machine remains and suggesting that the expected 80GB price drop is imminent.

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HP’s Hot New Desktop, Virtus, Revealed (Pics)

Per Engadget: We don’t yet know a lot about this happening new HP desktop, except that it’s been dubbed the Virtus and it’s got some fairly slick design. We’ll hit you up with more as we get it — for now, bask in our gallery of leaked shots.

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Last.fm does Audio Fingerprinting

Today last.fm released a tool that will allow users to audio fingerprint their music and then give that data to last.fm to use for standardization of track names. In a sense each individual user is contributing to the data mining process by letting this tool scan their mp3 collection.

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The Playstation Phone: CONFIRMED

The Sony Ericsson gaming boss, Peter Ahnegard, said that a PlayStation-branded gaming phone would be coming by Christmas.

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Rumor: Google Phone Confirmed By HTC Insider

JB over at Crunchgear has the exclusive on the “upcoming” Google Phone, supposedly set to launch in Q1 2008. His source is someone inside HTC, the company that Google’s working with to pick one of 20 models to finalize their design.

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Mac OS X Leopard 9A527 Gallery

ThinkSecret has posted a gallery of the latest Mac OS X Leopard Build.Build 9A527, distributed last week to developers, represents a substantial improvement over the previous build, 9A499. On the whole, the build performs faster and has far fewer bugs than before.
They write that the new build has …

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Linux the Fastest Growing Smartphone OS

A prominent technology research firm forecasts 75% compound annual growth rate for Linux in smartphones through 2012, making it the fastest-growing OS in the sector. By 2012, Linux is expected to power nearly a third of all smartphones, and have shipped in nearly a third of a billion phones.

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Top 10 Tech Toys for the Filthy Rich

Here are the 10 most extravagant electronics for the techy bajillionaires on your gift list, and be sure to come back tomorrow for our companion piece, the 10 Gadgets You Can Actually Afford.

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - More than just a game…

Earlier this year, Star Wars fans became excited with some footage developed in preparation for the next Star Wars game for current-gen consoles. Titled The Force Unleashed, the game would explore events between Episodes III and IV - but there is one aspect of the game that has not yet gathered a lot of attention. This is more than just a game.

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Introducing the Hardy Heron - Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron has just been announced on the Ubuntu-devel-announce list. Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will be an Long Term Support version with updates available until 5 years after the release date.

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Final Fantasy Retrospective Part VII

The dual saga of Spira, from an ancient pilgrimage to a fashion-filled job extravaganza.

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Nokia’s iPhone — no, seriously

Now thats how how you copy an Apple product…

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