Best Buy Charging $30 for Free PS3 Firmware Update

From DailyTech: It's understandable that margins are often slim on certain items in the retail business, and companies look to offer additional services to help bolster the bottom line. However, Best Buy seems to take things to the extreme at times.

Best Buy's Geek Squad division...

ARM Microprocessors Set to Support Multithreading

From X-bit Labs: ARM, the company behind the absolute majority of mobile phones, will enable multi-threading capability on its chips. This will boost performance of it microprocessors and will boost ARM architecture in general.

"The company is looking to include multithreading...

Expensive Graphics Cards Will Continue to Exist - Analyst

From X-bit Labs: Graphics processors have been seriously undervalued by general consumers, which catalyzed Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp. to create processors with built-in graphics engines. But add-on graphics cards will continue to exist, says Jon Peddie, the principal of...

Mionix Naos 3200 Review

Last Monday, when I arrived at home and decided to check my mail, I was quite surprised to see a large FedEx package at my front door. At first, I could not remember what this package was for, nor could not recall from memory which company uses FedEx at this time to ship me a product for review. Therefore, before opening the box, I decided to do was to take a peek at the shipping invoice. To my astonishment, I discovered it was...

Google JPEG alternative aims to speed up the Web

From InfoWorld: In its continuing attempts to make the Web faster, Google is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65 percent of the bytes on the Web.

Google announced late this afternoon that it's releasing a developer preview of a new image format, which it's...

Samsung Drops Developer Support for Symbian

From PC World: Samsung is dropping support for Symbian from its Mobile Innovator developer support program, it said in a letter sent out on Thursday.

All Symbian developer activities at Mobile Innovator will end by Dec. 31, according to the letter.

Officially, Samsung has long...

Logitech unveiling Google TV product on Oct. 6

From CNET News.com: It looks as if Logitech will beat Sony across the Google TV finish line.

Sony recently trumpeted an October 12 event in New York City, at which the company will be revealing its Google TV-powered Internet TV. But now Logitech has scheduled its own Google TV event...

Epic 4G Update Announced, Delayed

From DailyTech: Following in the footsteps of its EVO 4G sibling, the Samsung Epic 4G was supposed to receive a maintenance update from Sprint just weeks after launching. According to BoyGeniusReport, the update was set to begin rolling out to customers yesterday. However, a Sprint...

Wireless USB 1.1 Delivers Key Performance Enhancements

From X-bit Labs: The Wireless USB (WUSB) promoter group has announced the completion of the Wireless USB 1.1 specification, the technical guideline for product developers to bring the next generation of Wireless USB products to the market. The specification that was originally...

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