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• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - AT
• Google to sell unit that sways results
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Facing prickly questions about possible conflicts of interest, Google Inc. will sell a service called Performics ? acquired as part of DoubleClick Inc. ? that helps Web sites impro
• Expedia On Google’s Radar?
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Michael wrote about rumors of a Google/ Skype hookup April 1, a deal that would make a lot of sense. One that doesn’t are rumors that Google may be getting ready to bid for travel giant
• Samsung Instinct requires unlimited Sprint plan of $100 or more — ouch.
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones

  One of the things we’ve always most loved about Sprint is their dirt-cheap EV-DO, but it looks like they’re out to make back some of that $100m they’re about

• SNES modded into handheld by Ben Heck forum member
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

  Sure, you’ve seen the portable wooden SNES, but if you’ve been looking for something with more of that fresh-off-the-showroom-floor sheen, maybe you sh

• Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It? [Comcast]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** DOCSIS 3.0 is the next-gen cable internet standard that allows crazy fast bandwidth of up to 160Mbps downstream and 120 up. The lucky first city to get a piece of that action from Comca
• Apple WWDC08 Sessions Open [Apple]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** If you got nothing better to do June 9 through 13, Steve Jobs is hosting his newly three-pronged developer conference in San Francisco, with choices for Mac, IT and iPhone concentration
• Warhawk 1.3 Update Adds Home Support. Great! Where’s Home? [Playstation 3]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The latest update to Incognito’s PlayStation 3 shooter Warhawk has gone live, bringing an extra tenth of numeral to the software version and inserting a host of new features. Go ahead,
• Opera Mini goes beta, gains speed
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Opera, that plucky browser publisher that is neither Microsoft nor Mozilla, has released Opera Mini 4.1 beta with promises of 50 percent faster page loading, among other claimed improve
• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - AT
• Google To Sell Performics
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google has announced that it will sell Performics, the search engine marketing arm of Doubleclick.

  As we reported March 12, Performics presented a major conflict of interest for Goo

• Firefox 3 beta 5 portable edition available - safest way to try out FF3b5
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Mozilla, BetaThose folks at PortableApps are getting faster and faster. Just a few hours after Firefox 3 beta 5 was released, the portable ver
• Joystiq impressions: DualShock 3 (PS3)
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Peripherals

  Short version of our DualShock 3 impression: It’s like a Sixaxis. Oh yeah, but it has sweet, sweet, rumbles.

  More poetically speaking

• Speed up Hard Drive Performance in Vista [Windows Vista Tip]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows Vista tip: Web site OCModShop details how to speed up your hard drive performance in Vista by tweaking an advanced setting to enable write caching and advanced performance on yo
• Squash: Batch image resizing doesn’t get much easier
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Open Source

  Squash is the easiest batch image resizing tool we’ve ever seen. It’s certainly not the most customizable, bu

• Video: The iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage tool in action
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones

  Although the iPhone Dev Team totally punked us on April Fool’s Day, they were still nice enough to give us an early hands-on (in person!) with a prerelease ve

• Star Ocean 4 Is Coming To… (Dunno!) [Square Enix]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Square Enix still isn’t revealing which platform tri-Ace’s upcoming RPG will appear on. (Hey, maybe they don’t know yet!) In the new issue of Famitsu the game’s platform is listed as TB
• Sony HDR-TG1 Handycam Is World’s Smallest 1080p HD Camcorder [Sony]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Meant more for geeky vacationers than pros, Sony’s calling its HDR-TG1 Handycam the world’s smallest “full HD” camcorder, packing 10 ounces into a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5-inch titanium frame. S
• Majority Of GameStop Sales From Just Four Companies [GameStop]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** GameStop announced their annual financials last week, which we won’t bore you with now. What we will bore you entertain you with, though, are some numbers to come out of the release, wh
• Install Mail, Notes, Maps and other iPhone Apps on Your iPod Touch [How To]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Simplehelp weblog details how to save $20 and roll a DIY install of the once iPhone-only applications Mail, Google Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes on your iPod touch. The method it
• SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse Gives Full Range of Motion to Second Life Avatars [Peripherals]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** 3Dconnexion’s SpaceNavigator, a rubber-capped multi-axis metal dial meant mainly for 3D design, has been put to even better use as a pan-dimensional controller for Second Life. The vide
• 80GB PS3 To Stick Around, At Least For A While [PS3]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Finding some dusty old tapes marked “GDC08″, GameDaily have posted an interview held during the conference with Sony’s Scott Steinberg, who in case you’re not aware, bleeds Sony. Steinb
• Sanyo’s Pro-200 and Pro-700 Direct Connect handsets get official
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Fresh out of the FCC’s lair comes a new pair of QChat-enabled mobiles ready to launch on Sprint: Sanyo’s Pro-200 and Pro-700. Unsurprisingly getting official at CTIA, the pair of Nextel
• iPhone popularity spurs Blackberry sales
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Not only did Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry smart phone, see its profit more than double last quarter, it may have gotten a boost from a top competitor’s stro
• Home Beta Going Public “Very Soon” [Home]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Good news for those just dying for a shot at virtual lounging around and furniture collection: The PSN’s senior director, Susan Panico, has told the Official PlayStation mag that Sony w
• Trauma Center 2 Slated For Japan [Ds]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Wanna-be surgeons rejoice! Atlus is bringing Trauma Center back to the Nintendo DS. The sequel has Dr. Stiles and nurse Angie tackle the effects and “unanswered mysteries” of the GUILT
• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** iPhone speculation has remained at an all-time high this week. Reports of iPhone shortages has generated analyst speculation that the iPhone could be sooner than expected… despite Jun
• The VC Advantage: The Meijin Advantage
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Virtual Console, Features

  At last week’s Hudson WiiWare event, two very awesome things were displayed: 1) Hudson’s awesome WiiWare games, and 2) Hudson’s spokesperson an

• Pwonage iPhone Unlocking and Hacking Tool Now Available, Works Great [Breaking]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** After some delays, the iPhone Pwnage toolwhich is used to flash your iPhone with hacked firmware that will allow you to run any application, use it unlocked in any compatible cellphone
• iPhone PwnageTool released!
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Just a few hours after we brought you the exclusive hands-on video with the DevTeam’s PwnageTool… it’s out! Mac only for now, Windows on the way shortly.

  [Thanks to everyone who se

• AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: CellphonesAt AT
• Intel rep says people “probably won’t” need discrete graphics in the future
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

  Intel’s already made some fairly bold promises at its Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai this week, and it now looks like it’s getting into the predictio

• All AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** T-MobileEngadget picked up on some interesting commentary from ATT Mobility’s Ralph de la Vega at CTIA. After being confronted with the distinct lack of 3G BlackBerrys, Ralph shot back
• Nintendo sends out most self-congratulatory poll ever
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News

  Nintendo sent a survey out to registered owners of Super Smash Bros. Brawl asking “Assuming a reasonable price, how likely are you to purchase a sequel to Super Sma

• iPhone overheats while docked, fight for replacement begins
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones

  Not even a month after three iPods got all hot and bothered on separate occasions, along comes images showing that even Apple’s iPhone isn’t immune to melting

• Sprint Delays Xohm WiMax Service to ‘Later in the Year’ [WiMax]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Sprint has delayed the launch of its commercial Xohm WiMax service to sometime “later in the year.” Initially due to launch in Chicago, Baltimore and D.C. this month, it looks like it’s
• RIM ships record number of BlackBerries
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Research In Motion (RIM) shipped 14 million smartphones last year, including a record high 4.4 million in the fourth quarter, the company said Wednesday.
• Burn, iPhone, burn there’s a riot going on
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** A young British lad owns an iPhone. That iPhone overheats and melts while docked. He calls CarphoneWarehouse (Can’t they change the name? Brits?) and they tell him the melting is cosmet
• Video: Intel reveals Moorestown PC motherboard, possibly world’s smallest
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Handhelds

  It was brief but it sure was impressive. With all the hubbub surrounding Intel’s launch of Atom, let’s not forget what’s coming: Moorestown. That fiberglass is

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 to be 64-Bit for Windows, 32-Bit for Mac
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Adobe’s John Nack writes about the future plans for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5, revealing that Adobe Photoshop CS4 will include 64-Bit support, but for Windows only. The Mac version of
• Yet Another Promising HL2 Mod [Hull-Breach]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Yes, Hull-Breach is another HL2 mod. But it’s also one that’s got a crew of over 20 and has been in production for years, and features its own custom-built universe, (with some very nic
• Intel gives Classmate PC a makeover
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Intel unveiled an updated version of its Classmate PC laptop at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai, but changes made to the device are largely cosmetic — at least
• Google Gears Repositions as an Update for the Web
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google Gears started as an open-source plug-in that enabled web applications to work offline, but its real purpose is to speed up the addition of features to web browsers. Developers ar
• Picture Resizer: It looks like batch image resizing DOES get easier
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

  Yesterday evening we told you about a program called Squash, which offers a simple way to batch resize images on Windows, Linux, or OS X. Wh

• Microsoft to unveil ‘Stirling’ at next week’s RSA security conference
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - The world’s largest security conference will kick off next week in San Francisco with the public unveiling of Microsoft’s next-generation of security software, code-named S
• Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 rated by OFLC
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Retro, Action

  Geometry Wars: Waves and Galaxies have been interesting takes on the GW formula, but we all know in our hearts that they’re not the true successors to the

• Ubisoft reveals Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Simulations

  Hilariously Arbitrary Waggle X-ercise! No, Ubisoft already did that one. Umm, how about Hillbilly Awareness Warra

• Photoshop CS4 to Favor Vista for 64-Bit
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - Adobe’s latest upgrade offers support for massive amounts of memory, but not on Mac OS X.
• Metareview: Mario Kart Wii
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Metareview

  Okay, if everybody could just stop what they’re doing, and focus here, please. You, with the Mountain Dew. You, with the shoes. Let’s concentrate. Mario Kart

• Microsoft extends Windows XP through 2010 for ultra-low-cost laptops
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it will extend the sales of Windows XP Home to OEMs beyond the current deadline of June 30, 2008, to accommodate a new class of ULPCs (ultr
• Blast Knuckles self-defense accessory delivers 1.9 million volts (!?)
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Raiden?

  Cracked.com went out of business in 2010 for being too funny for its own good. But one time, in 2008, it came up with a list of safety-themed gadgets that no self-respecting

• Highland Spring promo gives away Wii consoles in UK
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: NewsAs if the Wii needed any more advertising, a new joint venture between Nintendo and Highland Spring, a bottle water provider in the UK. Also, the promotion will feature
• Puzzle Quest 1.5 Gets Named, Detailed [Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords - Revenge Of The Plague Lord]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** After asking fans of the Puzzle Quest franchise to name their new expansion pack, D3 was inundated with more than 500 suggestions. Today they settled on the name Quest: Challenge of the
• A Counter-Strike Game That Spills Real (Fake) Blood [Art]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Most of us kill a lot of people in digital worlds, and don’t think much about the consequences of death. Artist Riley Harmon addresses that topic with “What it is without the hand that
• Sonic Unleashed Wii Announced Images Inside
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** These are lot of the new images of the Nintendo Wii game Sonic Unleashed

  Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Sonic Unleashed

• Apple says NYC’s new apple logo infringes on its trademark
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** So the Internet is freaking out because of this Wired story detailing an Apple, Inc. complaint against the City of New York and its new “green” Apple logo. Because Apple, the company, i
• Apple vs. NYC: What’s really going on
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

  So you might have heard that Apple and New York City are currently in a little scuffle over the city’s apple-shaped GreeNYC logo — NYC wants to trademark

• Reader Rants: Sony’s PS3 customer service killed my baby [Updated Again]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reader Mike sends in this rant about his experience with PS3’s customer support. Long story short, his PS3 stopped working and he had to send in his old unit before Sony sent him a new
• Microsoft Set to Announce Next-Gen Security Software
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - The world’s largest security conference will kick off next week in San Francisco with the public unveiling of Microsoft’s next-generation of security software, code-named Sti
• Android phones in AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones

  Sure, Ralph de la Vega was chatty at yesterday’s AT

• Put a Mario Kart in your shopping cart at Sam’s
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News

  Check Out, the official Wal-Mart blog (!) has announced that, as they did with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Sam’s Club will hold a launch party for Mario Kart Wii. The

• Google Detects a Web Page’s Published Date
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** BPWrap found an interesting tidbit in Google’s international sites: in some cases, the snippets start with a date that is displayed in the same language as the Google interface. For exa

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