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Lexar announces bigger, faster memory cards

Pre-CES 2010: Lexar has announced upgrades to its Professional line of memory cards. The company's Professional 300x CompactFlash card is now available in a larger 32GB capacity, while the Professional 233x CF cards are available in 32GB and 16GB capacities. In addition, the Professional 133x SDH... More...

Panasonic re-posts firmware for DMC-LX3

As promised, Panasonic has today re-posted the latest firmware update for its Lumix DMC-LX3 digital compact. After a brief suspension, v2.1 which is the corrected version of the firmware previously available as version 2.0, is now available for immediate download via Panasonic's website. Version 2.1... More...

Motorola Cliq Adds Social Features to Android OS Handset

T-Mobile added added another Android phone to its roster, but this time, it's Motorola-made . At GigaOM's Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha introduced the Motorola Cliq, the first device to run the MOTOBLUR overlay (A.K.A. a customized user interface). The Cliq will be... More...

Jobs Makes Public Appearance With New iPods

The return of Steve Jobs at Apple鈥檚 music event slightly overshadowed the company's announcement of the revamp of iTunes and the availability of new iPods. More...

Samsung Galaxy Lite live images

Samsung Galaxy Lite live images 10 September 2009 New design features an Android home button   New, live, images have appeared of the cut down Galaxy mobile phone from Samsung, the i5700 Galaxy Lite .   To be released as a more affordable brother to the grown up ... More...

TomTom GPS for iPhone Out Now

TomTom released Monday its turn-by-turn navigation application for iPhone. The app costs $100 and uses the iPhone's built-in GPS chip to provide users with real-time navigation directions. The iPhone TomTom software offers most of the features found on stand-alone devices from the compan... More...

Samsung Reports Highest Profit in Two Years on Chips, LCDs

Samsung Electronics reported its highest quarterly net profit in over two years on Friday as its semiconductor and LCD businesses returned to profitability. The company's second quarter was also helped by stronger sales of LCD TVs and mobile phones, and the company noted increasing sales of Mobile... More...

Foxconn Hands iPhone Suicide Case to Chinese Police

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has asked Chinese police to investigate a case in which an employee reportedly committed suicide after being pressured over the loss of an iPhone prototype. Sun Danyong, 25, was tasked with sending 16 fourth-generation iPhone prot... More...

Rockstar Announces Ballad of Gay Tony to Hit October 29

Plus, retail disc combining Gay Tony and Lost & Damned to launch on the same day. By Steve Watts , 07/22/2009 Rockstar announced tonight that The Ballad of Gay Tony will (ahem) come out on October 29 for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20). The 360-exclusive downloadable content for Grand The... More...

New Tingle DS Game Detailed

Apparently everyone's favorite fairy is lookin' for love. By Kevin Gifford , 06/24/2009 Shock and dismay stormed across the American game scene in waves upon hearing word last week that Nintendo was working on new games starring Tingle , the lovable (?) magical (?) fairy (?) from the Legen... More...

Point Lookout Coming to Fallout 3 Tuesday

Despite broken street dates, download codes bought at retail will not work until next week. By Dustin Quillen , 06/19/2009 Bethesda tossed up a post on their official blog today, setting a firm release date for Fallout 3 's upcoming Point Lookout DLC. Xbox 360 and Games for W... More...

Logitech G940 Flight System Readies for Takeoff

I was always kind of baffled as to why Logitech never considered doing a proper flight system controller setup for PCs. The peripheral maker has crafted everything from single flight sticks to obtuse keypads with macros, but it has never really put everything together into one pilot-friendly package... More...

Rockstar Announces GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Second episode will be available on both Xbox Live and a retail disc. By Kat Bailey , 05/26/2009 Liberty City is about to get a little more fabulous -- Rockstar Games has announced The Ballad of Gay Tony, the second episode for Grand Theft Auto 4 . "Liberty City is the most vibrant g... More...

Nuvifone delayed AGAIN

Nuvifone delayed AGAIN 11 May 2009 Garmin G60 will now begin shipping in the second half of 2009 Regular readers will be acutely aware of the nuvifone, a GPS-slash-smartphone that many felt would be a genuine rival to the iPhone . Garmin, a sat nav specialist has teamed up with Asus to produc... More...

Console Port of The Witcher Rumored to be Canned

The White Wolf may not rise after all. By Chris Pereira , 04/28/2009 After finally giving console RPG fans the news they wanted to hear with the announcement of The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf this past December, word is circulating today that the game may have been canceled. Word fi... More...

Nokia 1100 in criminal mastermind

Nokia 1100 in criminal mastermind 28 April 2009 Handset bought by criminals for £22,000 Reports say that an old Nokia 1100 mobile phone was recently bought by a member of the criminal fraternity for £22,200. The reason? Apparently, certain Nokia 1100 handsets feature a flaw... More...

Gunstar Heroes May Come to Xbox Live Arcade

Achievement list seems to imply the classic shooter is on its way. By Steve Watts , 04/27/2009 The News: The Sega Genesis classic Gunstar Heroes may be coming to Xbox Live Arcade, if a list of achievements on Xbox360Achievements.org is any indication. This wouldn't be the first time an a... More...

WiiWare Impressions: V.I.P. Casino Blackjack

By Chris Kohler May 12, 2008 | 6:19:00 PM Categories: Console Games    And here I just poked fun at Pop for having pseudo-Achievements. V.I.P. Casino Blackjack , the last of today's WiiWare launch games, actually does have Xbox Live-style Achievements. It ... More...

NCSoft Unveiling First Console Game This Year

By Susan Arendt February 11, 2008 | 4:58:51 PM Categories: DICE 2008    LAS VEGAS -- NCSoft's new president Chris Chung might not be willing to say just which game of theirs is coming to consoles first, but was at least willing to let us know when we'd be gettin... More...

Ubisoft Makes Assassin's Creed 2 Official

By Earnest Cavalli April 16, 2009 | 1:20:55 PM Categories: Console Games    We've known about Assassin's Creed 2 for awhile -- a teaser website full of Da Vinci-esque illustrations was launched last week -- but as of Thursday morning publisher Ubisoft made th... More...
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