PS3 Greatest Hits available today

PlayStation 3 gamers eager to get their hands on some oldies but goodies (in relative terms) check pickup the new PS3 Great Hits starting today for just $29.99 each.
In the initial batch, these games will all be available as a greatest hit:

Assassin’s Creed
Call of Duty 3
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3
Motorstorm
Need for Speed: Carbon
Ninja Gaiden [...]

New MacBook’s coming in September? [UPDATED]

According to a new Apple rumor, updated MacBook’s might be showing up this September and feature more than just a faster CPU.
According to Seth Weintraub, author of 9to5Mac, the upcoming MacBook’s will be thinner then current MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s and feature a more rounded case made of aluminum.
Also interesting is that the trackpad on [...]

Accidental photo from inside iPhone plant

Apple is pretty secretive about everything, including what their manufacturing facilities are like, but recently some who purchased an iPhone 3G found a surprise waiting for them: a photo from inside the iPhone manufacturing plant.
It’s not terribly interesting and just shows a few iPhone’s waiting to be packaged, but it is from inside Apple’s giant [...]

Ex-Google employees announce Cuil, new search engine

Several former Google engineers left to start their own search service and yesterday they announced it.
Cuil (pronounced “cool”) claims to be able to index more of the web faster and more cheaply than Google, which currently boasts the largest online index.
According to Tom Costello, co-founder and chief executive of Cuil, “our significant breakthroughs in search [...]

Nikon working on D900?

First the Nikon D800 DSLR rumor, now a D900 rumor?
Yes.
Thom Hogan is pretty in the know on Nikon info, and according to him Nikon is working on a new DSLR using a 24 megapixel sensor in an FX camera body. The camera will not be the D3x, but will instead be the D900. It will [...]

Microsoft to buy DATAllegro, leapfrog Oracle

Microsoft has announced that they will be acquiring data warehouse appliance maker DATAllegro and integrating it’s technology into its SQL Server product.
Consultant and former Computerworld writer Curt Monash said that “for the first time ever, Microsoft has leapfrogged Oracle at the high end of the database market…of all the data warehouse startups, DATAllegro was the [...]

Steve Jobs talks about his health

No known for being very open, with all the rumors floating around about Steve Jobs’ health after his WWDC 08 keynote, Jobs called New York Times reporter Joe Nocera to set the record straight.
While Jobs did say before he started talking that the details of their conversation needed to be kept “off the record”, Nocera [...]