Technical Guru

The Ups and Downs of Sony’s PSP Go

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:18:33 +0000

First off, is it PSP Go? PSPGo? PSPgo? PSP go? Or just the PSP-N1000? I’m not sure Sony’s got this sorted, quick as they are to call their remodeled PlayStation 3 a “PS3 Slim” (despite nothing on the retail box or system), or simply “The PlayStation 3,” followed by thrilling modifiers like “now available” or [...]

YouTube says Warner Music videos back in months

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:15:54 +0000

YouTube said Tuesday that music videos from Warner Music Group Corp. will return to the video site in the coming months after a nine-month dispute over splitting ad revenue.

Most of the catalog of videos from artists such as Madonna, Metallica and Green Day will be available for free viewing by the end of [...]

Microsoft says no plans to buy Electronic Arts

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:38:56 +0000

Microsoft Corp has no plans to acquire Electronic Arts, a Microsoft executive said, shooting down unsubstantiated talk of a potential bid that triggered a spike in the video game publisher’s shares.

“We have no plans to acquire EA,” Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. “They remain [...]

Thief caught after stopping to check Facebook

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:32:34 +0000

A 19 year old Pennsylvanian man has been arrested after stopping to check his account on social networking website Facebook whilst burgling a house, and then forgetting to log out again. According to The Journal of West Virginia, Jonathan G. Parker, of Fort Loudoun, PA, is alleged to have stolen two diamond [...]

Twitter valued at $1B

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:35:16 +0000

Twitter Inc.’s founders now have a billion-dollar baby, and they seem determined to raise it without a corporate parent.

That was the message underlying Friday’s news that Twitter has lined up $100 million to finance its operations while founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone plot ways to make money off one of the Internet’s most popular [...]

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:30:56 +0000

Muhozi, an endangered Ugandan mountain gorilla, is appearing online as part of a fundraising program the Ugandan Wildlife Authority launched Saturday to help save the species.

Around 340 mountain gorillas — nearly half of the 740 remaining worldwide — live in Uganda’s lush Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and 40 more live in another Ugandan reserve. [...]

Palm Pixi webOS Smartphone With New Qualcomm MSM7627 Chipset And Fashionable Personalization Options

aminviral2006 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:23:47 +0000

Palm, Inc. has announced its stylish new Palm Pixi for faster, more intuitive and personal communication, which the company claims as the first handset to launch with Qualcomm’s high-performance MSM7627 chipset, incorporating fashionable personalization options, visible full QWERTY keyboard, rubberized back cover, 8GB internal memory and more powerful multimedia features, based on instinctively useable Palm [...]

Nokia 7705 Twist To Hit Verizon Wireless Stores

aminviral2006 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0000

Nokia and Verizon Wireless have announced an innovative fun mobile phone with unique square shape that swivels open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, named as Nokia 7705 Twist, which features 3MP camera, 2.4″ QVGA display, EV-DO Rev. 0, HTML browser, and customized Contact Light Ring located in the lower right corner to identify a [...]

Panasonic Bluetooth-enabled DECT 6.0 Cordless Phones

aminviral2006 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:20:15 +0000

Panasonic, the famous Consumer Electronics manufacturer has just unveiled its first Bluetooth-enabled DECT cordless phone targeted for both home and office environment. Named as KX-TG9381T and KX-TG9382T, they are bundled with one and two cordless phones respectively that can be synchronized with its base unit and both are able to transfer phonebook to Bluetooth mobile [...]

LG GW620 – First Android-Powered Smartphone From LG

aminviral2006 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:19:04 +0000

The worldwide leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, LG Electronics has introduced its first Android-powered smartphone, named as LG GW620, which features 3-inch full touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, WiFi, and slide out QWERTY keyboard to provide users a fast mobile computing experience.

“The LG-GW620 will appeal to first-time smartphone customers by offering a new [...]