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HP drops prices, boosts specs of Envy 13 and 15 notebooks

You know those HP Envy 13 and Envy 15 notebooks we were so excited about last year? The ones that look suspiciously like a Macbook Pro, have great hardware and design, have few flaws aside from a very big price sticker? Well, they just got a whole lot more attractive. The Envy 13 has dropped in... More...

Video: Vodafone 360 on the Samsung H1

Video: Vodafone 360 on the Samsung H1 29 October 2009 Vodafone's new social networking service integrates all into your phonebook We wrote about it yesterday . Today we bring you the hands-on video. Vodafone's social netowrking service, Vodafone 360, tell us what you think.   More...

Microsofts Eyes Bing-iPhone Links

Microsoft is developing a software wrapper to better enable iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday. The wrapper, based on Objective C, is being tested now and is due out in a few weeks, said Alessandro Catorcini, senior... More...

TomTom For iPhone GPS Price Leaked

We still don't know exactly when the TomTom for iPhone GPS application will be available. But, we may know how much it will cost: a U.K. online electronics store has apparently leaked the price of the upcoming app via a pre-order listing. According to pre-order pricing from HandTec , the TomTom ... More...

Nikon announces CoolPix S70, S640 and S570

Nikon has also announced three new Coolpix S-series compact cameras. The Coolpix S70 is built around a 3.5 inch touch-sensitive OLED screen. New screen technologies can register multiple touchs and should make the camera more responsive, easier on batteries and easier to view than its predecessor. ... More...

AT&T to Sell Nokia Surge

AT&T and Nokia today announced that the Nokia Surge smartphone will go on sale July 19 for $80 after rebate. That price makes the Surge one of the lowest-priced smartphones on the market , although AT&T is pitching it as a device for "active consumers who like to stay conne... More...

IPhone 3GS Limited to 384 Kbps Upstream

When the iPhone 3GS arrived last month, I explained the ins and outs of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) , the rubric that covers AT&T's two highest-speed cellular data standards: HSDPA for downstream and HSUPA for upstream. It turns out that the iPhone 3GS is more limited than what I outl... More...

Google Chrome OS, BlackBerry Tour, and CrunchPad on PC World Podcast 35

This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, and Ginny Mies try to figure out what the just-announced Google Chrome OS might look like... and how it will be different from Android . Plus, what does Google's new Web-centric operating system mean for the future of i... More...

Sega Remains Optimistic About Mature Wii Titles

Games like House of the Dead Overkill have sharp tails, but can still profit over the long term, publisher says. By Kat Bailey , 06/30/2009 We really liked MadWorld -- we gave it an A- in our review -- but most Wii owners didn't seem to notice when it hit the market. It sold 66,000 copie... More...

iPhone 3GS Chews Through PlayStation, Game Boy Games

Just what your brand new iPhone 3GS needs--Cloud Strife's super-deformed spike-do bristling at hundreds of frames per second. PlayStation emulation amped up to supersonic? Oh yes you can, writes Engadget , and with Game Boy Advance stuff too. All you need is a pre- jailbreak hack called psx4iphone... More...

News from the East: GPS on iPhone 3G S to deter pandemics?

News from the East: GPS on iPhone 3G S to deter pandemics? 11 June 2009 The Japanese government will track 1000 students to monitor possible spread of a virus What with the recent global swine flu scares, the Japanese are going to throw tech at the problem in hopes to be able to contain a viru... More...

Metal Gear Solid Rising Will Use All New Engine

Development team hopes it looks even better than MGS4. By Kat Bailey , 06/12/2009 Metal Gear Solid Rising may be the second Metal Gear title to appear this generation, but that doesn't mean that Kojima Productions will be recycling the MGS4 engine. Kojima Productions is aiming to not onl... More...

Konami, Kojima Confirm Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Title marks the "birth of the new Castlevania," and yes, Hideo Kojima is involved. By Kris Pigna , 06/03/2009 During Konami's E3 press conference today, the company finally answered no less than three lines of rumor and speculation that have been swirling for a couple of... More...

Gaming More Popular Than Moviegoing

NPD reports that 63 percent of Americans play games, while only 53 percent go out to movies. By Dustin Quillen , 05/21/2009 Gaming has surpassed moviegoing in popularity in the United States, if market research by the NPD Group ( via Joystiq) is to be believed. According to the NPD report ... More...

Electronic Arts Launches Home Sports Complex

Play Texas Hold 'Em and race "formula-style cars" on PlayStation Home. By Kat Bailey , 04/23/2009 Those looking for something to do in PlayStation Home have a new distraction now. Electronic Arts has announced that the EA Sports Complex has just gone live. To kick things off, EA is... More...

Review: Rhythm Heaven Is Portable Musical Brilliance

By Chris Kohler April 03, 2009 | 3:59:00 PM Categories: Reviews    Do you like music in your videogames? Then buy Rhythm Heaven . Rhythm Heaven , to be released Sunday for Nintendo DS, is a throwback to the days when music-based videogames were a tiny niche ... More...

Game|Life Video: Wallace & Gromit, Turning Clay Into Play

By Chris Kohler March 24, 2009 | 12:56:00 PM Categories: Game|Life Video    It's happy time again for fans of adventure games. This week, Telltale Games releases the first episode of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures , a series of games that take the cl... More...

Steam Update 'Makes DRM Obsolete'

By Earnest Cavalli March 24, 2009 | 3:05:28 PM Categories: PC Gaming    A new feature set being added to the Steam digital distribution platform aims to "make DRM obsolete" -- a feat that would no doubt please a wide swath of PC gamers. Key to ... More...

Sony Launching Resistance: Retribution Tournament

Prizes include PlayStation Portable packs, bomber jackets and gift cards. By Kat Bailey , 03/18/2009 Planning on picking up Resistance: Retribution ? You may also be able to pick up a whole lot of prizes as well. You just have to enter Sony's upcoming Road to Retribution Tournament. The det... More...

Video: Fan Renders Earthbound's Onett in 3-D

By Earnest Cavalli March 13, 2009 | 3:38:58 PM Categories: Culture    With the number of fan projects sent to us, it's difficult finding any worth spotlighting. Benjamin Friedrich's 3-D recreation of the sleepy town of Onett is a big exception to that rule. ... More...
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