Is the PS3 The Next Neo Geo?
Another day, another PS3 pricing rumor.
The latest group to step foward and offer their two cents on the issue is the investment firm Merrill Lynch. According to their analysis, the PS3 should retail at $900.
Engadget mentions that companies generally sell consoles for a loss initially so, if the $900 figure is correct, we can expect [...]
Apple About to Hit 1 Billion Songs Sold
According to MacWorld, Apple is closing in on 1 billion songs sold. From looking at the counter on their website, they have sold 30 million songs in the last ten days. Seems that they have been pretty successful in their endeavor.
To help generate sales, Apple is offering prizes: every person buying a 100,000th song gets [...]
ATI, Nvidia HDCP Legal Problem
After the reports that ATI and Nvidia were claiming their products were “HDCP-ready” when they actually were not, they seem to have noticed. Numerous stories are out that ATI was quietly modifying their web page to remove the “HDCP-ready” specification. Articles such as this one at DailyTech shows their web page both before and after the [...]
How Much Porn Do You Really Need?
US inventor Michael Thomas, the owner of Collossal Storage, says he has devised a way to hold 1.2 petabytes of storage on a single 3.5-inch disk.
“To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera.”
For those of you who [...]
EA In Shock Over ‘Black’ Leak
EA suffered a serious shock this week as the highly anticipated FPS “Black” made is way into the hands of thousands of pirates via P2P networks.
At this point no one is really sure what the source of the leak is, but many believe that the 350 staff members recently released from EA may be to [...]
Amazon to Take on Apple and iTunes?
Word is that Amazon is looking to offer music downloads, and possibly do so in conjunction with Amazon branded devices. The possibility existst that not only would they offer downloads and the hardware to play them on, but also offer to preload players with music from their archives.
This is obviously still a speculative thought, but [...]
Microsoft Office 2007 Coming 2H2006
Microsoft is announcing that their Office 2007 product, previously referred to as Office 12, should be availabel in the second half of 2006. They plan to offer the Technical Refresh Build of Office 2007 Beta 1 next month, with Beta 2 scheduled for the second quarter of 2006.
According to MSNBC, “In the second half of [...]
PS3 Launch Date / HUB Release
According to Next Generation, the PS3 will most likely hit the streets on September 21st 2006 in the U.S. and September 16th in Japan.
They also revealed that the PS3 will include an XBox Live type system called ‘HUB.’
“According to well-placed industry sources, PlayStation HUB will offer PlayStation 3 owners much the same services as Xbox [...]
The New Lara Croft
Now that Angelina Jolie is busy with Brad and babies, a new actress has been chosen to take over the role of Lara Croft - and, not surprisingly, she is ridiculously hot.
London born, Karima Adebibe is the lucky lady chosen by the folks at Eidos to be the face of their most popular video game [...]
New Microsoft License Required for Upgraded Motherboard
I have seen this story about Micorosft requiring a new OS license if you change your motherboard in a system that has an OEM Microsoft license. They seem to be making a big deal of it, but I really don’t see the problem.
The first complaint is that this directly affects DIY builders. I disagree. Lets [...]
