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This is Sony PSP's first price cut since its launch two years ago (03.2005). Poor sales in Q4 2006 as well as costs with PS3's launch seem to have forced Sony to revise its prices. The discount will improve Sony PSP's strengths against rivals like Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo DS. Hopefully more p ... [read more>>]
Papers filed on February 16, 2007, in Marshall, Texas bring famous Apple along with Samsung and Sandisk before a jury, for infringing patent 7,065,417, licensed by SigmaTel Inc (semiconductor company headquartered in Austin,Texas) in June 2006 and later sold to a patent licensing agency, with the fo ... [read more>>]
Surgeons operating laparoscopic surgery have better results if they played video games, study shows. Laparoscopy results are better for surgeons having played video games, as their correlation between the image on the display and hand movement is better. The study involved tests on both "gami ... [read more>>]
Consumers that want to buy Vista can buy and download new Microsoft Vista from the internet. The new Office 2007 will also be available for downloading on the same day it and Vista are launched: Jan 30. Despite this new way of acquiring Vista (download from Microsoft's online software site, Windows ... [read more>>]
HP's new Savvio 15K has a limited energy appetite, takes up less space, and provides lighting-fast seektimes. Another factor in its favor when deciding on HDDs for servers is that Savvio has the best reliability ever: 1.6 million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). Sherman Black, senior VP and g ... [read more>>]
Blizzard Entertainment began offering "World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade" with a potential market of 8 million players, the number of currently registered WoW players. Those wanting to buy the new WoW expansion pack, Burning Crusade, can find it at a price of $20. Blizzard will cash in s ... [read more>>]
The best-selling EA franchise ("The Sims") already has a wide target as it appeals to females just as much to males, with a 50/50 spread in its audience, but the new titles will be less demanding on hardware, thus allowing multitasking (typing on IMers, browsing social networking sites, wh ... [read more>>]
HP says it might increase the density of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) eightfold, while reducing energy demands per computation. The new design could be produced on current plant production lines, with just little modification. The authors of the research, Greg Snider and Stan Williams of ... [read more>>]
Papers filed in Ontario Superior Court claim motherboards of Dell laptops overheat and crash just after warranty period. This was started by a person that bought a Dell Inspiron laptop, says the Associated Press. Inspirons 1100/1150/5100/5150 and 5160 are accused of being designed poorly, leading ... [read more>>]
After Jobs' presentation of the Apple iPhone at Macworld Conference & Expo on January 9, 2007, clones of its UI, along with look-alike icons started appearing for those wanting their smartphones with an iPhone "twist." This cloning of the iPhone's icons was not to Apple's pleasing, wh ... [read more>>]