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Sony: PlayStation 3 Now Profitable

June 30, 2010

… but price drop is unlikely, says Shuhei Yoshida.
It took Sony’s PlayStation 3 “just” about four years to make a profit, after being launched in United States and Japan. Up until now, Sony has paid more to produce the PlayStation 3 than what they actually sold it for.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide [...]

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iPhone 4 Sales Reaches 1.7 Million in Three Days

June 28, 2010

Apple issued a press release today, stating that 1.7 million iPhone 4 has been sold during Thursday June 24th and Saturday June 26th (both included).
Even though the 1.7 million units sold also includes the 600,000 pre-orders, it’s still an impressive number – and the best product launch in the history of Apple, according to Steve [...]

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iPhone 4 Retina Display Review vs iPhone 3GS Display [video]

June 28, 2010

I’ve been posting a lot about the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 recently, but it’s a hot topic at the moment and a topic that I’m very much interested in – and then when I find a video like the one below, I just have to share it with you guys. It demonstrates pretty well [...]

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Latest from Steve Jobs on the iPhone 4 Antenna Issues: “Stay Tuned”

June 27, 2010

Everybody who’s remotely interested in either Apple, iPhone or tech news in general, will by now have heard about the iPhone 4 antenna issues. If you haven’t, well basically if you connect the two parts of the outside antenna (the stainless steel band), you will lose reception.
Apple first “confirmed” in a statement that antenna performance [...]

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Steve Jobs Responds To iPhone 4 Antenna Issues: “Just don’t hold it that way”

June 25, 2010

Bad Apple. Very bad Apple!!
It’s one thing to actually have antenna issues with new iPhone 4, and we’re not even sure yet it’s an issue with all of the phones – a quick poll by Engadget shows that over half of the replies are having issues with reception bars dropping (but about 1/3 of them [...]

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iPhone 4 Cell Reception Suffers When Touching Its Stainless Steel Band (UPDATE: Or Software Issue?)

June 24, 2010

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A video on YouTube is showing what some of us feared – that the cell reception suffers when you touch the stainless steel band that surrounds the iPhone, holding the two pieces of glas (front and back) together while also acting as antennas.
There’s not much news about it yet, [...]

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Three Million iPads Sold In 80 Days, Apple Says

June 22, 2010

Apple just came out with a press release (read it below), stating that they have now sold three million iPads in less than three months, in fact, in just 80 days. In the last three weeks alone, they sold a million iPads. Overall, that’s 26 iPads sold every minute, on average.
In May, the iPad was [...]

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Apple Showing Off HTML5

June 8, 2010

Apple created a new web page meant as a HTML5 showcase. It has seven HTML5 features, demonstrating their functions:

Video
Typography
Photo gallery
Transitions
Audio
360º product view
VR

All of the demos have some kind of interactivity built-in so you get to manipulate with the result.
Even though this web page is supposed to showcase the HTML5 open standard, it’s still not available [...]

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iPhone 4 Wrapup from WWDC ‘10 San Francisco

June 7, 2010

Steve Jobs just left the WWDC ‘10 stage in San Francisco after having showed us the new iPhone, iPhone 4, and iPhone OS 4 which has now been renamed to iOS 4.
Most of the iPhone 4 things we already knew thanks to the whole “I lost my iPhone in a bar”-story. Some questions were raised [...]

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Betfair – First iPhone ‘Gambling’ App in App Store

June 3, 2010

Betfair recently announced that their app had been accepted by Apple into App Store. Before you start to cheer, you should know that the app is only available in the UK and you can’t just create a UK iTunes Store account and download it, because Betfair uses the built-in iPhone GPS to determine that you’re [...]

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Steve Jobs: Apple Could Reconsider Flash, But…

June 3, 2010

Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) spoke at the D8 conference a few days ago where he’s quoted to be saying:
“Some things are good in a product, some things are bad. If the market tells us we’re making bad choices, we’ll make changes. We’re just trying to make great products.”
“We just made a technical decision. [We] told [...]

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Woman Sues Google Because She Walked On a Highway

June 3, 2010

This sounds like a joke, but I’m afraid not. A woman from Los Angeles now sues Google because she used Google Maps which told her to walk down a rural highway – without sidewalk or pedestrian paths. She ended up being struck by a car and now sues Google for medical expenses ($100,000) plus punitive [...]

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Newzbin is Back – The Best Usenet Index Site

June 2, 2010

Two weeks ago, Newzbin.com suddenly closed down completely, after having lost in court against MPAA. Today, Newzbin.com is back online and on servers in Sweden – but as “Newzbin 2″ and with new owners. Owners, who “hacked” Newzbin some time ago to get the source code.
Behind Newzbin 2 is “Team R Dogs” and their front [...]

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Google Pacman Ate 4.8 Million Work Hours ($120 Million)

May 25, 2010

Last Friday (May 21st) was Pacman’s 30 year birthday and to celebrate, Google integrated a fully playable Pacman game into their logo on Google.com.
RescueTime, who did some calculations based on the activity of 11,000 users, estimates that the time spent on Google’s frontpage last Friday went from 11 seconds on average to 45 seconds. Based [...]

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iPhone 4G: 24 Million Units To Ship In 2010

May 23, 2010

Foxconn will manufacture 24 million iPhone 4G’s during 2010, says Ming-Chi Kuo, a senior analyst with Digitimes. Foxconn is the company that actually makes the iPhones for Apple and according to Ming-Chi Kuo, they will make 4.5 million of the new generation iPhone during the first half of 2010 (which ends soon) and another 19.5 [...]

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Apple vs Adobe – Six Battle Shoothout

May 18, 2010

Wired.com did what everybody was waiting for, except we didn’t know we were waiting for it. They put up six battles in the “Apple vs Adobe” war, with regards to Flash, of course.
The six “battles” were:

Mobile vs Desktop
Openness vs Closedness
Serving up the “full” web
Games
Security and Stability
Streamlining development tools

Wired.com then go ahead to see who they [...]

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Steam for Mac is Here & Comes With Free “Portal” Game

May 18, 2010

Steam for Mac has arrived – but you probably already know that, it’s been all over the Internet for the past few days. If you don’t know what Steam is, it’s kinda like an “App Store” for games, but on your computer. Previously it has only been available for Windows computers, but now also Mac [...]

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Nikon Wins Two “red dot Design Awards” 2010

May 16, 2010

I follow Nikon a bit from the sideline, since I’m a Nikon shooter myself. Not a pro or anything, I’ve only had my Nikon DSLR since November 2009 but I already invested quite a bit of money into this photography hobby and I’m really enjoying it so far.
That’s why, when I saw that Nikon won [...]

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H.264 Already Won vs Flash – Microsoft Picks H.264 for Internet Explorer 9

May 14, 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past, oh I don’t know, few months, you would already know that there’s quite a battle going on between Apple and Adobe over the use of Flash on iPhone and iPad. Few weeks ago, Apple posted a letter on their site called “Thoughts on Flash” by [...]

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Facebook Privacy Settings Exploit (Video)

May 7, 2010

On a big site like Facebook (read more posts about Facebook), there will always be some kind of exploit available, just waiting to be found – sometimes already found by somebody. Once such an exploithas been fixed by Facebook, it’s just a matter of time before another one appears. It happens for everybody and I [...]