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Sony PSP to get Qriocity music with next update

Are you wondering what the music service on Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Phone  might look like? PSP owners will soon have access to what may be the best indication yet of things to come. Sony announced earlier this week that a new software update, version 6.35, would prepare the PSP for the Sony’s upcoming “Music Unlimited [...]

[ More ] November 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Boxee Box owners can be thankful for their first firmware update

Just a couple of weeks after its debut, the Boxee Box is getting its first software update today. While it might not address all the concerns raised in our review, this edition does include fixes for notable issues like 1080i playback problems, WiFi connectivity and issues handling certain audio and video files. The Boxee Blog [...]

[ More ] November 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Android Market adding content ratings to all apps, past, present, and future

Mandatory content ratings were added to Apple’s App Store back in iPhone OS 3.0, and now it’s Google’s turn on news that they’ll become obligatory for Android developers “in a few weeks” (at least, those that want their content in the Market). The company teases the fact that they’ll be showing the ratings for all [...]

[ More ] November 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Nintendo Returning To CES After 16-year Hiatus

With January just around the corner, it’s hard to get CES out of our minds as we’re always looking forward to one of the biggest tech shows around. If you’re like us, there is some good news to make you even more eager to check out CES 2011. It has been confirmed that Nintendo will [...]

[ More ] November 24th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Orange and T-Mobile set to offer 3G iPad on contract in UK, £200 price rumored

Orange has just dropped a rather enigmatic note in our inbox letting us know that it plans to offer Apple’s 3G iPad  on “one of [its] great new plans” in the UK, resulting in what the company promises will be “more affordable prices.” Current rumors making the rounds place that expenditure at the £200 ($320) [...]

[ More ] November 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Palm Mansion rumored to have 5-inch touchscreen, February launch

Palm has a history of, shall we say, making poor decisions. Hardware components…  launch partners… the Foleo. We had hoped all that would change when HP acquired the struggling company earlier this year, but it looks like it’s going to take longer than we had hoped for the stars to align over Sunnyvale, CA. Exhibit [...]

[ More ] November 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Verizon launching ’4G’ smack talk campaign against AT&T

Never ends, does it? The top four carriers in the US love slinging mud, but the trash-talking between Verizon and AT&T is always particularly vicious  — and it’s showing no signs of ebbing. As you might expect, Verizon intends to use its new LTE network as a weapon in the fight, and like both Sprint [...]

[ More ] November 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Verizon execs propose speed-based pricing for LTE data plans, say LTE has ‘drawn the interest of Apple’

Paying for data overage is the new hotness in the wireless biz, and Verizon was the latest to dive head-first into the nasty world of usage-based pricing for its wireless data plans just a few weeks ago. But how about paying for speed instead? Seems both outgoing Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg and CFO Fran Shammo [...]

[ More ] November 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Sony Internet TV with Google TV ripped apart, messy Intel internals exposed

Sony’s Internet TV with Google TV (we heard you like TV, so we put TV in your… etc.) actually turned out to be pretty much our favorite implementation of Google TV. Imagine our shock and horror, then, to discover what an untidy tangle of wires its cables turned out to be, particularly in comparison to [...]

[ More ] November 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Microsoft has sold over 1 million Kinect units so far

Is Kinect worthy of all the hype? That question was on everyone’s minds ahead of the hotly anticipated device’s launch earlier this month. As they say, money talks — and Kinect is speaking loud and clear. Microsoft said Monday that it has sold over 1 million Kinect units thus far. Microsoft Kinect, which launched less [...]

[ More ] November 16th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |