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Kodak announces four EasyShare M-series cameras

Kodak has announced four EasyShare M-series digital compacts. As usual, Kodak is promoting the cameras' ease of use - the new models feature improved in-camera tagging and searching based on face recognition. The M580, M575, M550 and M530 are 14MP and 12 MP cameras featuring a variety of lenses ... More...

NEC hopes to cancel video zoom noise

Tokyo-based electronics company NEC has developed a technology to eliminate noise from by AF and zoom motors in digital camera videos. At present focus and zoom motors are slowed or disabled to prevent noise being collected by internal microphones. NEC's technology processes-out motor sounds using... More...

Snow Leopard Debuts, FBI Investigates Laptops

This is traditionally a slow news week in IT, and this year did not break with that tradition, leaving us time to enjoy the waning days of warm weather here in Boston between following the flurry of reports about Apple's new OS, which captured the lion's (or the leopard's as it were) share of major ... More...

PC World Podcast 36: Office 2010, Smartphone Costs, and a Real-World Phone Battle

This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Tim Moynihan, Darren Gladstone, Ed Albro, and Mark Sullivan discuss the new features in Microsoft Office 2010 and ponder the whereabouts of Clippy . Will the new, Web-centric Office tools give Google Docs a run for the money? Can the updated office su... More...

Fight Night Round 4 DLC Adds New Control Options

Two downloadable updates for EA's boxing game have been announced, both of which will be totally free. By Dustin Quillen , 07/07/2009 Having trouble wrapping your head around the twin-stick controls in Fight Night Round 4 ? You're not alone. It's a good thing, then, that EA plans to relea... More...

Sims 3 Already Downloaded 180,000 Times

Piracy of half-finished, "buggy" version outpacing Spore. By Kat Bailey , 05/28/2009 Pirates are getting an early jump on Sims 3 . With several days still to go before the title hits retailers, Bloomberg (via GameDaily ) is reporting that it's been downloaded 180,000 times betw... More...

GTA Chinatown Wars Coming to PSP This Fall

PlayStation Portable version to add "graphical punch," and hopefully sales. By Steve Watts , 06/22/2009 Rockstar announced today that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be coming to the PlayStation Portable this fall. This version promises to take advantage of the PSP hardware, w... More...

Fourth Android phone in UK by September?

Fourth Android phone in UK by September? 19 June 2009 Chinese manufacturer Haier debuts Android touch-screen H7 in France Looks like manufacturers are finally letting out those Android handsets. T-Mobile just announced the G1 Touch , its second phone to run on the Android operating system, an... More...

HP Unveils Cheaper Laptops for Students

It may seem like HP is jumping the gun here. After all, June is a little early for parents to take their kids laptop-shopping for the upcoming school year. But since Hewlett-Packard is focusing on value, value, value with its new series of portables for college and high school kids, now鈥檚 a good t... More...

Microsoft and Peter Molyneux Show Off "Project Natal"

Motion-sensing camera for games, media, and more unveiled. By Steve Watts , 06/01/2009 After years of speculation, Microsoft today finally showed off its motion controlling device at its E3 press conference . The project is code-named "Natal," and as rumored uses a camera device t... More...

Web-based level-sharing portal coming to LittleBigPlanet

Details on distributing fan-made apps, a new ongoing beta test, and the PSP version of LBP. By Andrew Hayward , 05/20/2009 During an interview at the Nordic Game Conference in Malm? Sweden this week, Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans revealed to 1UP that the company will soon launch a w... More...

Rock Band Wii Picks Up Over Two Dozen Tracks Tomorrow

Plenty of plastic rock from Franz Ferdinand, Grateful Dead, and many others this week. By Dustin Quillen , 05/18/2009 In lieu of the Alice Cooper and Taking Back Sunday DLC that's hitting the other platforms this week, Rock Band 2 on the Wii is once again stuck playing catchup with 25 track... More...

Ricoh updates firmware for CX1 compact camera

Ricoh has posted a firmware update for the CMOS-based CX1 digital compact camera. Firmware Version 1.19 rectifies the problem where the camera would shut down without retracting the lens when the battery is depleted. The update closely follows the recent CX1 firmware update (v1.16) which rectified ... More...

Final Fantasy XIII Demo Gets A Creative Localization

The "first pass" at an English translation is a good one. By Kat Bailey , 04/27/2009 When the real Final Fantasy XIII arrives, it's a reasonable bet that resistance leader Snow Villiers won't be saying, "That information right there just blew my face off." Nor ... More...

Netflix Streaming Exclusive To 360 "For Now"

The company isn't denying plans to move beyond Microsoft's platform. By Patrick Klepek , 04/15/2009 We've heard whispers popular video-by-mail and video streaming service Netflix was interested in moving their offerings onto console platforms besides Xbox 360. Those rumors became more believabl... More...

Starbreeze Beginning Work On Bourne Game

Developer offers a few details, says to expect multiplayer. By Kat Bailey , 04/02/2009 Back in February, Electronic Arts acquired the rights to the works of Robert Ludlum , with the intention of developing new games based on the popular Jason Bourne series. Hand-picked by EA to be the devel... More...

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Coming This Fall

By Earnest Cavalli March 26, 2009 | 3:28:33 PM Categories: Business Matters    Update: Sony has released a much better looking version of the game's logo, now pictured above. The next Ratchet & Clank title has been officially revealed: Ratchet &am... More...

China Unicom Web Site Posts IPhone 3G and G1 Specs

A regional China Unicom Web site posted pictures and specs of the iPhone 3G and the Google Android-based G1 as rumors built that the mobile carrier could offer the iPhone 3G in China. The information (in Chinese), which listed smartphones supported by the 3G network China Unicom is building, appe... More...

GDC Q&A: Why Masaya Matsuura's New Game Is PaRappa the Rapper's Baby

By Chris Kohler March 24, 2009 | 3:28:21 PM Categories: GDC 2009    Masaya Matsuura watches as a gamer plays Major Minor's Majestic March , the Tokyo designer's upcoming title for Wii. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO -- Masaya Matsuura thinks th... More...

Unlocked iPhones available from Play.com

Unlocked iPhones available from Play.com 24 March 2009 SIM-free 8GB and 16GB versions available from 27 March In a move that is sure to irk the folks at O2, Play.com is offering unlocked iPhones from the end of the month. According to the site, both 8GB and 16GB versions of the much lauded h... More...
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