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• Microsoft Does Some Amazing Things, This Isn’t One Of Them
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Via CrunchGear the above video is being used by Microsoft as an internal promotion tool for encouraging sales of Vista. We’ve defended Microsoft’s takeover offer for Yahoo a number of t
• Jaxtr: free phone-based VOIP social network 2.0
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Boy, if only these guys had “user-created” somewhere in their mission statement. It’s already a Web 2.0 smorgasbord. If I understand it correctly, the idea is that you and your friends
• Alexa Overhauls Ranking System
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Everyone’s favorite web statistics whipping boy Alexa has announced a major overhaul of how it compiles traffic figures.

  The biggest change is Alexa’s decision to drop exclusive rel

• New data reveal online video views are soaring
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - New data released Wednesday show online views of videos soared 66 percent in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with TV networks grabbing just a pittance of those eyeballs.
• Skype Reports 61% YOY Growth, All Quiet On Google Front
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** eBay reported its first quarter results today with revenues of $2.19B, up $424M from the same quarter last year. Its GAAP net income was $460M, or $0.34 per diluted share.

  Skype rev

• Flip Video Camcorder Stole 13% of Market, May Have Also Stolen Software [Video Sharing]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The Flip camcorder won our hearts with a stripped down, value priced approach to home video. However, a company called Advanced Video Technologies (AVT) has filed suit claiming that the
• Nintendo Shuts Down New DS Rumor Hard [Nintendo]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Those of you hoping for a next-gen DS to be unveiled by Nintendo at E3 this year will have to stop by the supermarket to get a gallon of consolation ice cream on your way home from work
• Apple’s 1Q 2008 U.S. Market Share Up from 2007
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Gartner has published a preliminary report on U.S. and worldwide PC shipments for the first quarter of 2008. According to Gartner’s numbers, Apple placed fourth in U.S. marketshare at 6
• Things You Don’t Know About Modern Elevators [Elevators]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Earlier today we posted on a New Yorker piece about a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. But the real gem of the article was the mountain of “DId you know…” facts laced througho
• Central Desktop Takes $7 Million
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Central Desktop has taken a first round of $7 million from OpenView Venture Partners.

  Central Desktop offers a web-based SaaS collaboration platform that allows business teams of al

• Student-made DS games can be downloaded from Japanese Wiis
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Imports
  Student-created DS games are nothing new in Japan, thanks to Nintendo’s game seminars. When the students finish their games, Nintendo usually makes them avai
• LGs “Innovation Challenge”: Design Your Dream Phone and Win Money, Gadgets [Contest]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The folks at LG must be running out of ideas because they are once again tapping the general public for new designs. Earlier this month, they launched a touchscreen UI contest, but now
• YouTube Search Enhancements
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** YouTube’s search algorithms are increasingly smarter and borrow a lot of things from Google search: advanced operators, spelling corrections, related searches, query expansions. YouTube
• Send free text messages to any phone with Jaxtr
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Internet, Web services, VoIP, web 2.0VoIP company Jaxtr has added a new module that lets uses send free text messages to any cellphone from their Jaxtr homepage. There’s no
• Mass Effect PC requires ‘processor,’ ‘memory’ and ‘video card’
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs

  While scouring the Mass Effect forums for a guide on how to place our girl, Beyonc, into BioWare’s space epic (found one!), we stumbled acro

• Altek reveals GPS-enabled 8MP point-and-shoot
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Digital Cameras, GPSPicking up a camera with built-in WiFi not good enough for you? How’s about a point-and-shoot with integrated GPS? DigiTimes has it that Altek, a Taiwan
• Researchers create Silly Putty lights, plan on making dollar bill impressions
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Household

  Someday soon, the phrase “dripping with light” won’t just be an abstruse lyric in a post-punk song you’ve written… light may actually be dripping on things.

• Pandemic Itchin’ To Start On Mercs 3 [Mercenaries]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Pandemic are putting their shoulder to the wheel for Mercenaries 2. Don’t doubt that for a minute. But at the same time, they’re probably sick to death of all the palm trees and blue sk
• How Do You Make Sure You Wake Up? [Ask The Readers]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Even the most motivated morning people among us can wake up seemingly unable to rise from bed and tackle the day. Over at the UbuntuCat blog, the author notes that moving his alarm cloc
• Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google Maps can now predict traffic information for any day of the week and time of the day, based on past conditions. By default, if you click on the Traffic button in a supported area
• Notepad - Best Notepad replacement
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Copyright Feed Content - OnlineTechTips - Aseem Kishore 18254532AKMK

  Looking for a replacement to the Windows Notepad? To the average person, the phrase text editor may not mean muc

• AMD’s Quad-Core Opteron available in Dell servers
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Five Dell servers based on Advanced Micro Devices’ Quad-Core Opteron processors  are available on the computer company’s Web site, bringing the number of server models tha
• How to format USB drive and memory stick with NTFS
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Copyright Feed Content - OnlineTechTips - Aseem Kishore 18254532AKMK

  If you have ever tried to format a USB thumb drive or memory stick, you may have noticed that the only options y

• Red Hat skips consumer Linux desktop
  (InfoWorld)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** InfoWorld - Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market, but will continue to place its bets on a desktop for commercial markets.
• Apple Patents Laser Head-Mounted Display, Sharks Rejoice [Apple]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Apple has applied for a patent for a laser-based headset to use with its iPod and iPhone. And, unlike most headset displays, which can be bulky due to the light source and optical eleme
• Nokia Q1 earnings in line, market view hits stock
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, expects the mobile market to fall in euro terms this year, it said on Thursday, knocking nearly 10 percent off it
• Club Nintendo SNES Controller Unboxed [Only In Japan]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Feast your eyes! Here’s an unboxing of the Japan-only Club Nintendo Super Famicom (SNES) controller. Like with the Classic Controller, the controller plugs directly in the bottom of the
• Self-Stirring Cup of Tea Puts My Left Hand Out of a Job [Tea]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I doalthough the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that
• Korea Goes Totally Overboard With Zack
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** When the Wii finally launches in Korea next week, one of the games available will be Zack
• Zalman’s ZM-M2020W Trimon 3D monitor gets reviewed
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Displays

  Zalman may be far from being a household name, but a stranger to 3D displays it isn’t. The company’s latest 22-incher not only packs a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution

• Shane Kim Can’t Quit HD DVD [Xbox 360]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** The dust has settled. Long ago. HD DVD is way dead, way dead. But Micrsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim hasn’t given up! The man is an optimist. He can see the bright side of a train wre
• The internal Microsoft sales video you wish you hadn’t seen
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Video, Microsoft

  We’re grown ups, we know there’s offensive content to be found on the internet. But there offensive, and then there’s offensive. Consider yourself warne

• Dell expanding China presence via large retailers
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Dell Inc. will expand its presence in China by selling desktop and notebook computers at Suning, the country’s second-largest electronics chain, and doubling the number of Gome sto
• New Square Enix Mobile Game, Role Playing Involved [Japan]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Sit down folks, Square Enix has announced a new mobile cell phone game called ELLARK. It’s a “free online RPG” and is launching in Japan this June on all three major Japanese carriers.
• Team Fortress 2 Goldrush screenshots and video
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC

  click to enlarge
  Want to see what the latest railroad-covered map to hit Team Fortress 2 looks like? Valve shared four screenshots and a video (embedded after the b

• Sony Still Fixing Canadian PS3 Pricing [Canada]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** You know, I could have sworn Sony fixed the problem of over-charging Canadian PS3 owners last October, but hey, maybe they didn’t. Or did a half-assed job. Or the US dollar got even wea
• Google adapts copyright-ID technology for child-porn fight
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - The fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google Inc. to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site.
• WordPress Theme Release for 4/16
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Two Column Themes

  Inverted Headline

  Inverted Headline is a dark theme with white and gray text. The theme has 4 widgetized areas in the sidebars which you can customize.
  Three

• GameTap Thursday: Dracula Twins tend to a Dark Matter with Alien Shooter Vengeance
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Mac, PC, Online

  This week, GameTap adds some titles from the land of random to its service following last week’s Sam

• Another analyst says Wii Fit will push Wii shortages
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Exergaming
  While it’s hard to get game industry analysts to agree on something as simple as whether the PS3 will be the best-selling or worst-selling console
• Microsoft’s Vista promo video just a “spoof”
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

  Turns out Microsoft’s unfathomably horrendous Vista SP1 promo video that turned up yesterday was just one great big spoof — a spoof Redmond apparently

• Nintendo takes Wii Fit out for a run in the UK
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News

  Nintendo is bringing Wii Fit to the people, to convince the few UK residents who have yet to preorder the thing that they’re disgusting sacks they could benefit fro

• Researchers develop robotic tweezers that can grasp single cells
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Robots

  Usually when we talk about robot grip strength, it’s in the context of being slowly crushed to death during a violent robot uprising, but it appears we now have t

• Sketchy pictures of new MacBook, MacBook Pro, and 32GB iPhone surface
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones, Laptops

  Whoops! Apple’s gone and leaked its brand new aluminum MacBook and redesigned MacBook Pros to the interblogs. Yeah, it seems old Jobsy has really loo

• Voltron episodes come to Xbox 360
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I was really more of a Transformers fan, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get my Voltron on. They were giant transforming robots after all, even if they were lions.

  Fans of the ’80s s

• Former EarthLink City Wi-Fi Comes Down to Earth
  (PC World)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** PC World - As two U.S. cities take over networks that were built out by EarthLink, they are putting the “municipal” back in municipal…
• Ten Things You Need to Know About the Optimus Maximus Keyboard Hardware [Review]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** It’s been three months since we first got a true hands on with the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard at CES, and we’ve had plenty of time to experience this innovative gadget by blogging wi
• Lamps Designed Like Medical Gizmos Chill Our Blood [Lighting]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Designer Andrew Aloisio’s lighting designs, dubbed Somewhere in between were apparently an attempt to combine the work of the homeware and labware manufacturing divisions of plastics-ma
• U.S. consumers still slow to recycle gadgets
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - Green may be the new black, but many U.S. consumers are not recycling old electronic gadgets despite promises by multiple organizations for hassle-free ways to get rid of elec
• World’s most powerful laser developed in Texas
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Straight out of the University of Texas at Austin comes the world’s most powerful laser. I just assumed that most lasers were very powerful, but apparently the great state of Texas has
• FilePlanet Presents The Age Of Conan Open Beta [Beta Watch]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Funcom, Eidos, and IGN are proud to present the ‘open’ beta for Age Of Conan, coming to a PC near you on May 1st, if you’re lucky. Members of FilePlanet are invited to sign up for the o
• EBay shares fall on auction weakness
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - EBay Inc shares fell 4 percent on Thursday following stronger quarterly results that were belied by continued weakness in the company’s core U.S. auctions business, analysts s
• Apple, Mozilla Plug Critical JavaScript Browser Flaws
  (NewsFactor)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - Remember the hacked MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference a few weeks ago? Apple has fixed the flaw that let Independent Security Evaluator researcher Charlie M
• Fresh Freebies: Typeface, Pirates and Circular Icons
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Free stuff always comes in handy. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts, wallpapers, plugins and scripts and present them to you, so you don’t need to search for t
• Microsoft patent application shows off wearable mouse concept
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Peripherals

  Wearable mice aren’t exactly a new idea, but it seems that Microsoft thinks it can do things one better, with a recent patent application revealing its plans

• SezWho 2.0: Now Available For More Platforms
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Version 2.0 of SezWho, a blogging plugin that tracks commenter reputations, has been launched with wider support for blogging platforms and forums. SezWho can now be used on Blogger, Dr
• Two new affordable desktop PCs from eMachines
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** eMachines has announced two new desktop PCs today
• Clearvision PlayStation 3 LCD…Not Quite Your PSP3 [Mods]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Wouldn’t it be great to have a mobile PlayStation 3? Sure it would. And this Clearvision 7-inch LCD Gaming Monitor is a good place to start. No, it’s not as portable as the PSP (or even
• Mario Kart: Four wheels good, two wheels better
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News

  The word on the street at CVG is that bikes are the way forward when it comes to Mario Kart Wii. Head online, and the vast majority of fastest times are held by bik

• Crackdown on cell phones on public transit ignites debate
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - The world has never been more connected, but in some corners, it’s developing a real hang-up over the ubiquitous cell phone.
• CrunchDeals: Refurb TomTom ONE for $99 at Buy.com
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I’ll be honest with you. If I hadn’t gotten rid of my car late last year, I’d be tempted to pick one of these up myself. There are plenty of cheap GPS units out there but to be able to
• Verizon sues Sprint, Sprint goes after AT
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Verizon is suing Sprint Nextel for $10 million over non-payment of interconnection charges while Sprint is going after ATT via the FCC to ensure ATT abides by an interconnection conditi
• Mac Cloner Accuses Apple of Mac OS X Monopoly
  (NewsFactor)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** NewsFactor - Psystar is not only pushing cheap Mac clones, it’s defending its right to do so by accusing Apple of running an operating-system monopoly. Will Apple get a taste of Microso
• Laser scanning robot creates 3D map of silver mine
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: RobotsApparently, Mexico is the place to be if you’re a laser-equipped robot with 3D scanning on the brain. Just 11 months after the DepthX robotic submarine mapped the El
• Microsoft Throwdown: You Can’t Possibly Make a Stupider Video Than Us [Microsoft]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Yeah, so that awesomely stupid (or stupidly awesome) Microsoft video from yesterday with a fake Bruce Springsteen painfully crooning about the power of Vista was a spoof. Duh. Microsoft
• GPS-Enabled point-and-shoot from Altek
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** It’s pretty much exactly what you think it is, and has the capabilities you probably expect. The built-in GPS will automatically geotag your photos, and the metadata can then be read an
• Glorious Website of Herakles
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Imports

  The official website for Paon’s refresh of the Herakles no Eikou (Glory of Heracles) series has opened up, offering a few tiny new screens and character ar

• Aluminum MultiTouch MacBook, New MacBook Pro, and More? [Updated]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** A MacRumors reader ran across a very unusual .Mac web page yesterday and was kind enough to forward it on. The page contained promotional images for Apple products, including a couple t
• Judge dismisses some claims against Take-Two
  (Reuters)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Reuters - A judge has dismissed several claims accusing Take-Two Interactive Software Inc of misleading shareholders about an installment of its popular “Grant Theft Auto” video game th
• High Probability Of Fallout 3 DLC [Fallout 3]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** videogaming247 spoke to Bethesda’s marketing head Pete Hines in London this morning during a demo of the painfully anticipated Fallout 3, asking him about the possibility of downloadabl
• Turn Off Vista’s Auto-Tuning to Prevent Browser Slow-Down [Windows Vista Tip]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows Vista includes a feature, “Receive Window Auto-Tuning,” that you’ve likely never seen mentioned on your desktop, but which can cause noticeable drag and even crashing when brows
• Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway in August, multiplayer redesigned
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360
  Ever since BIA went MIA last fall, we’ve been waiting for an update on the construction of Hell’s Highway. Turns out the interst
• GameStop Announces Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows [Activision]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** It is a sad day when I have to find out about a new Spider-Man game from a blurry photo of a GameStop sales circular. Kotokuite ReidP snapped this shot of the in-store ad for the “just
• Bypass Password-Protected Feeds with FreeMyFeed [RSS]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Many web-based feed readers, such as Google Reader, don’t support RSS and Atom feeds protected by passwords, including the Gmail’s unread messages feed. A new web service, FreeMyFeed, r
• Google releases Picasa 2.7 for Linux
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Photo, News, Linux, Google, Freeware

  Google has released Picasa version 2.7 for Linux, which promises many of the same improvements of the PC version, including (drum ro

• Ad-Aware Beta Adds Vista, 64-Bit Compatibility [Early Adopter Download Of The Day]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Windows only: Ad-Aware, the hard-to-believe-it’s-free spyware-cleaning app, has released a beta version that includes full support for Windows Vista and 64-bit platforms. Also included
• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue now available on PSN
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Driving
  If you’re not content to pick up Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in stores on a fancy Blu-ray disc, Sony has uploaded the game on their shiny new PlayS
• Exploring beyond the toolbar, Alexa overhauls rankings
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Did your site’s Alexa ranking change overnight? That’s because on Thursday, the chart-friendly Web analytics company announced an overhaul of its rankings system.

  Alexa, according t

• Three more PS1 games on Japanese PSN
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Store
  Three more PS1 titles grace the Japanese PlayStation Store. It seems they’re back on track with the PS1 updates after taking a two-week hiatus for the store redesign
• Rumor: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows being introduced this week
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Action

  Considering that Spider-Man 3 sold roughly one hojillion copies despite its dubious quality, it’s not a huge surprise that Activision wouldn’t want to wait for Sp

• Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack hits PS3 April 24
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, First Person Shooters

  Call of Duty 4’s Variety Map Pack has emerged triumphantly from the PlayStation 3 certification process and will become availab

• Liveblogging Google Q1 Earnings Report—Fears Were Overblown
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Google reported earnings for the first quarter. The fears of a meltdown were overblown. Revenue was $5.2 billion, up 42 percent year-over-year and up 7 percent from the fourth quarter i
• The PS3 and the Wii Get LCDs For “Portable” Gaming [Gadgets]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** I don’t know why anyone would want to port around an entire PS3, but now you can thanks to Clearvision’s new LCD attachment. And don’t worry Nintendo fans, you haven’t been left out of
• HP iPAQ 900 series smartphone hits the FCC
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Cellphones

  HP’s iPAQ 900 series smartphones haven’t exactly had the smoothest of releases (’round these parts at least) since they were first announced way back in Septe

• Microsoft hires firm to lobby on proposed Yahoo takeover
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - Microsoft Corp. has yet to convince Yahoo Inc. to agree to a friendly takeover, but the software company is already hiring lobbyists to help it convince regulators to let the deal
• Namco reveals National Geographic Panda and Digimon World Championship
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: News, Screens

  Today is a very happy day for us here at DS Fanboy. We had no idea that pandas on see-saws would be making their way to our country. Back when we saw the s

• Apple files for head-mounted laser display patent, death of style imminent
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Wearables

  Dorks we may be, but we’re just not ready for head-mounted displays to hit the mainstream — which is why this patent application for laser-based headgear from

• Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise—And Twhirl Isn’t Helping
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** It’s my own damn fault. I should have never listened to Mike. This morning I installed Twhirl on my desktop in a failed attempt to keep up better with Twitter and Friendfeed. I was hopi
• Microsoft: Your Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Is Still Awesome [Hd Dvd]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Game Daily had a chat with Microsoft Game Studios VP Shane Kim about the Xbox 360, and one of the topics that came up was the defunct (but cheap!) HD DVD player, which you might still
• Review: Avoid snarl of USB cables with Eye-Fi photo reader
  (AP)
  
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** AP - My home computer desk hosts a snarl of USB cables for the various cameras, MP3 players and other peripherals I’ve bought over the years.
• Frankenreview, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3) [Roundup]
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** There are people, reading this right now, who bought a $600 PlayStation 3 at launch for one game: Gran Turismo 5. Why? Because despite the recent advancement of other racing franchises,
• PSN Thursday: Welcome back, Updates
  ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3

  What a week it’s been for the PSN! A new store, a Tuesday update and now we get back into the snug confines of routine with a normal Thursday update.

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