Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ), a division of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) responsible for business operations in Japan, announced today that it would introduce PlayStation
®2 in a new color “Cinnabar Red” (SCPH-90000 CR), on Thursday, July 3, 2008.
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The Wikipedia founder launches his community-powered search engine–again.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the App Store in March, and third-party applications delivered through the store should arrive Monday.
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Blu-ray stomped HD DVD to become the standard format for high-definition movie discs, but years may pass before it can claim victory over the good old DVD. Noemi Velazquez, a 44-year-old warehouse worker, can ex plain why. She took one look at the $399 price tag of a Blu-ray player at a Best Buy store in Glendale, Calif., and kept going.
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In a bid to keep software developers in its orbit, Facebook is making its code open-source.
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You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance? Time Warner Cable Inc. customers - and, later, others - may have to, if the company’s test of metered Internet access is successful…
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A compilation of the top 10 media attacks on the video gaming industry in 2007.
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People briefed on the promotion Monday confirm that this year’s incentives will be the electronics maker’s most compelling ever, offering a rebate good for a $299 8GB iPod touch. Students will also have the option to apply the $299 credit towards the $399 16GB iPod touch or a $499 32 GB iPod touch.
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Just how bad it is Bell Canada’s P2P traffic filtering? Not bad at all, so long as you’re happy having your 5Mbps DSL link operate at half the speed of a dial-up modem. That’s the assertion of a group of small Canadian ISPs that are asking Canada’s telecoms regulator to intervene and force Bell to call off its deep packet inspection dogs.
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The Systems Management News takes a look behind the curtains at what it really takes to run a network of massively multiplayer games. Turns out, Linux is the secret sauce.
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Blame it on poor usability or just not reading the frickin’ manual, but it turns out that 95 percent of all returned gadgets actually work despite what customers may say or think. That’s right — of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were truly broken.
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Time Warner Cable will begin imposing bandwidth caps on consumers in Beaumont, Texas this week as part of a trial program. Consumers who exceed the bandwidth caps will pay $1 for every additional gigabyte consumed.
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