Sony announced today a 47% drop in revenue compared to this same time last year, one of their sharpest drops in some time.
Their entertainment division has been coming on strong thanks to relatively strong PSP, PS3 and Blu-ray sales, but their phone division hasn’t been doing quite so well and that’s where the Sony’s chief [...]
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Tech giants HP, Intel and Yahoo have announced a joint venture focused on cloud computing, quite a buzzword in the industry right now.
Working together with universities in the US and Germany as well as with Singapore’s new IT development agency, the group will setup six facilities around the world to research hardware, software and data [...]
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Developers playing with the recently seeded iPhone and iPod Touch 2.1 firmware have uncovered something called “iPod2,1″.
The current iPod Touch has a model designation of “iPod1,1″ and there currently is nothing official referred to as “iPod2,1″ so this could be a sign that the next iPod Touch is coming soon.
Will the change just be a [...]
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Matrix fans eager to get their hands on a Blu-ray version of the trilogy will finally get their chance when the 7-disc ‘Ultimate Matrix Collection’ hits stores on October 14th.
The Blu-ray version looks to be the same as the HD DVD version of collection, with all three movies, “35 hours of extras”, and the In-Movie [...]
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The other day some interesting news came out of Microsoft: users love Vista if they don’t know it’s Vista.
As hard as it was for many to believe, that’s what they claimed and now they’ve released a video to prove it.
Keep in mind that the Mojave lovers in the video aren’t your typical geek, [...]
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HP has confirmed that some of NVIDIA’s GPU’s have been giving them trouble, saying that 24 models from as far back as November 2007 have been affected, which is also when HP began covering failed GPU’s under their warranty.
The HP and Compaq models affected are:
HP Pavilion dv2000 series
HP Pavilion dv6000 series
HP Pavilion dv9000 series
Compaq Presario [...]
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Cell carrier Sprint has just released a new product to help subscribers who suffer from poor reception at their home or office.
The new product, called AIRAVE, looks a bit like a wireless router and once you plug it into your broadband connection (DSL, cable or T1) it will create a small cellular network with a [...]
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The hits keep rolling for Apple’s MobileMe service. After sort of fixing the email problem that hit around 1% of MobileMe users, 40% of those users can now log in and get their email.
Well, the email that wasn’t lost between July 16 and July 18.
Apple says that they will be restoring email service to the [...]
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At the request of Hasbro, “copyright and trademark holder for Scrabble”, Facebook has disabled access to the Scrabulous game for US and Canadian users because of the lawsuit by Hasbro against the creators of the game.
In case you’re not familiar with Scrabulous, it’s a very Scrabble-like game that users of Facebook would be able to [...]
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Last Thursday Nokia held a private launch event in New York and Chicago for it’s new US E71 smartphone and today’s the day it becomes available for the rest of us.
Specs of the US E71 include:
Support for GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, WCDMA 850 / WCDMA 1900
2.4 inch 320 x 240 display [...]
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