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Challenge of Challenges winner

First of all a very Happy New Year to all our readers, it's been a great 2009 for dpreview and we've more new exciting stuff coming over the next few weeks (both in terms of new product and site features). Today our 'Challenge of Challenges 2009' ended and the winners have been calculated (from an u... More...

T-Mobile May Buy Sprint to Create Market Giant, Report Says

T-Mobile plans to acquire wireless carrier Sprint to better compete with giants AT&T and Verizon in the U.S, according to a report on Monday from the U.K.'s Telegraph. T-Mobile's U.S. business is ranked only as the fourth largest carrier after AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, but the repo... More...

The Future is Now? Augmented Reality Comes to the iPhone

If you're traveling to Paris, France anytime soon, consider taking Metro Paris Subway 3.0 along for the trip. This 99-cent iPhone app integrates an augmented reality feature (called Your New Eye) that will show you where the closest Paris subway stations are, relative to your current location, as ... More...

HiMyTribe Puts a Social Networking Spin on Business

What if you were in a completely new city and needed to meet people that shared your passions? What if you were at a trade show and needed to find people in your similar line of work? What if you wanted to see these people immediately? HiMyTribe will let you do all that, and more. Unveiled Friday b... More...

Pentax releases Optio E80 budget compact

Last in the line of Pentax's announcements comes the Optio E80, expanding the company's affordable E series of digital cameras. It sports a similar interface to its predecessor, the E70 but with larger buttons, a larger 2.7 inch LCD, 3x zoom lens starting at a slightly wider-angle 32mm and HD video ... More...

Microsoft Patents Join-Leave in Split-Screen Multiplayer Games

Nothing like flipping through the US patent office's online text and image database and discovering someone's tried to lock up the way we play squad-based, split-screen shooters. Tried and succeeded, it seems, since such a patent was filed on behalf of Microsoft by James R. J. York on December 2, 2... More...

IPhone Availability Checker Tracks Apple Store Stock

As the old expression goes, "Forewarned is forearmed." However, as I was disappointed to learn, forearmed is not four-armed--unless you're Doctor Octopus . But if you're in search of a new iPhone 3GS, you'll want all the information--and arms--you can get. Fortunately, Apple has once agai... More...

iPhone 3G S costs just $4 more to make than 3G

iPhone 3G S costs just $4 more to make than 3G 26 June 2009 New iPhone stripped, searched and costed The new iPhone 3G S mobile phone has been taken apart and costed by the market intelligence outfit iSuppli . Apparently, the new 3G S handset costs $178.96 to produce which is only around $4 m... More...

Splash Damage Reveals Their "Rules Of Engagement"

"Don't work on movie licenses, Don't work on ports, don't do work for hire, find a big brother to nurture us." By Kat Bailey , 06/25/2009 Splash Damage has standards. According to CEO Paul Wedgwood, the Brink developer has a number of rules to live by, such as a refusal to work o... More...

Police Track Hackers Accused of Stealing Carrier Services

Graphic: Diego Aguirre An Italian magistrate has issued an international arrest warrant for a Filipino hacker suspected of causing millions of dollars of losses to telecommunications multinationals, and Italian police have arrested five Pakistani nationals accused of exploiting the hacker's work t... More...

Apple iPhone vs. Palm Pre: They Both Lose

Monday's iPhone 3G S announcement was a bit of an anticlimax, and certainly contained no surprises. I mean, a compass app getting top billing? Even the $99 entry-level model was expected. Lots of little incremental enhancements here, though, making a fine product even better, sure, but not enoug... More...

Palm Pre Hype, EMC-NetApp Tussle

Well, the week was busy enough with IT news that even with an actual technology link to our favorite baseball team (St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing Twitter ), that story has not made the top 10. But with a lot of the current season to go, there is still hope that will change in t... More...

Sony Ericsson Handset Features 8.1-Megapixel Camera

\ The Sony Ericsson W995a 3G handset, announced today, is among the select few in the U.S. to offer an 8.1-megapixel digital camera. This $600 unlocked quad-band GSM/tri-band UMTS multimedia handset will come in black, silver, and red, and is now available for pre-orders; it will ship July 6. (See... More...

PlayStation 3 Trophies Mandatory Starting January 2009

All newly submitted PlayStation 3 games to require Trophy support. By Steve Watts , 11/21/2008 A leak from Europe has claimed, and several sources have confirmed, that starting in January of 2009 all PlayStation 3 games will be required to support Trophies. Word of the initial leak came fr... More...

Quantic Dream Shows Heavy Rain Teaser Image

Want a look at the playable characters in Heavy Rain? Or more accurately, the shapes of their heads. By Matt Leone , 05/19/2009 To date, Quantic Dream has made a point of not focusing on Heavy Rain 's story in their press demos. They've teased us with talk of an "Origami Killer," ... More...

Video Seemingly Confirms Forza 3 For This Year

Logo discovered in briefing detailing Microsoft's 2009 lineup. By Kat Bailey , 04/30/2009 As with the downloadable Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and the new PlayStation Portable model, Forza MotorSport 3 is one of the industry's worst kept secrets. Everybody knows it's coming, it's just a... More...

Weapon Of Choice Dev Unveils Newest Title

Elements from Blaster Master, Bionic Commando and Contra combined for one excellent looking game. By Kat Bailey , 05/12/2009 What would make Blaster Master even better than it already is? How about adding a Bionic Commando -style grappling hook? That seems to be Mommy's Best Game... More...

4 G.I. Joe DS Screenshots Revealed

By Earnest Cavalli April 17, 2009 | 3:52:54 PM Categories: Portable Gaming    Publisher Electronic Arts has unveiled a handful of screenshots from the upcoming Nintendo DS movie tie-in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra revealing a top-down gameplay style for the tit... More...

Q&A: World of Warcraft Lead Producer J. Allen Brack

By Earnest Cavalli October 12, 2008 | 2:00:00 PM Categories: Blizzcon 2008    ANAHEIM -- World of Warcraft has been the epitome of a gaming cash-cow ever since its 2004 launch. Though solid figures are hard to come by, estimates on the game's monthly revenue... More...

World of Warcraft: Most Popular PC Game Of Q3 2007

By Earnest Cavalli December 18, 2007 | 3:14:37 PM Categories: Business Matters    According to The Nielsen Company, World of Warcraft was the most-played PC game from April to November of this year. According to the group, who began tracking gaming statistics ... More...
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