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An hour after the release of the new PS3 firmware, called 2.4, Sony has found itself in a storm of comments from the users who have experienced serious troubles with their gaming consoles. Apparently flooded by the reports about what went wrong in various PS3 models, Sony has decided to pull off the 2.4 firmware and to seriously investigate the problem. However, the company didn’t disclose with how many report is dealing or how soon it will be able to fix the reported problems. Sony mentioned only that its consumer services department has seen a low volume of calls on this topic. The...
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Next Friday the Apple’s new gadget the 3g iPhone will go on
sale and AT&T seems to have learned something from last year’s launch.
The mobile carrier said that on July 11, its stores will
open their doors for all the iPhone fans at 8 a.m instead of 6 p.m. as it
happened last year. Also, AT&T said that all the activations will be done
in-store, unlike last year.
The original iPhone went on sale last year on June 29, after
it was unveiled on January 9 during the MacWorld.
According to Apple, last year, 270,000 iPhones were sold in first
30 hours and it will be...
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OpenMoko, a mobile phone manufacturer based in Taiwan, has announced that July 4 will be the day it will make its latest smartphone available in the USA. The device, which is called Neo FreeRunner, has a Linux-based operating system and unlike its predecessor, the Neo1973, it targets the wider group of non tech-savvy users. The phone will be made available in two versions, offering either an 850MHz or a 900MHz tri-band GSM support. It comes equipped with Bluetooth 2.0, GPRS and GPS. The phone has a 2.8 inch VGA touchscreen and is powered by a 400 MHz processor. As far as memory is concerned,...
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Linksys unveiled the Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router
(WRT610N), which is designed to achieve Wireless-N performance in both the 5GHz
and 2.4GHz spectrums.
It is recommended that consumers connect entertainment-oriented
devices, such as a Media Center Extenders, audio players or Personal Video
Recorders, to the wider 5GHz band, while connecting other devices, like PCs,
Print Servers, or Network Attached Storage to the more common 2.4GHz band.
The 5GHz spectrum provides more than seven times the number
of non-overlapping wireless channels, allowing for clearer...
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Speaking with Forbes
about the set-top box Netflix by Roku that allows the Internet
content to be streamed on the TV, Tim Twerdahl, Roku's vice president of
consumer products, said that in the near future a software update will allow the box to stream content from other
"big name" providers.
Twerdahl refused to give other
details or the names of the content partners, but he said that the update will
be launched later this year.
The 5-inch-by-5-inch device, unveiled by Netflix and Roku in
may this year, has no hard drive, and simply streams more than 10,000 movies
and...
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