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EU's Reding confirms Caps on roamed SMS: Magazine

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The price of texting in Europe will set at a maximum rate of 11 euro cents per message under a European Commission proposal, EU telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding told German magazine Der Spiegel.
Telephone calls will have to be billed by the second and competition for accessing the internet abroad will be increased, Reding told Der Spiegel in a pre-released story to be published on Sunday.
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Posted on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:33:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PS3 Firmware 2.43 released

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Sony offers a new firmware update for the Sony PS3. The new PS3 Firmware 2.43 is only necessary for Japanese PS3 owners.
The 2.43 update only adds in the PLAYSTATION Store in Japan a rental option for content.

The 2.43 firmware will not be notified on PS3 consoles outside of Japan. You could trigger it though under System Update. Installing it on U.S. or European PS3 consoles would not have any side effects. Read more

Posted on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:28:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PwnageTool supports now iPhone Firmware 2.1

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The iPhone Dev Team managed to update their iPhone jailbreaking tool pretty quickly after the release of the iPhone Software update 2.1 on Friday.
The new PwnageTool for iPhone firmware 2.1 works with iTunes 8 without any patches.
The new PwnageTool is not tested yet with the new iPod touch 2G. Read more

Posted on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Ultimate Asus Eee PC and Pro Fashion Asus Eee PC Netbooks confirmed

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Yesterday we reported about a leaked Asus Eee PC Roadmap that contained tons of new Asus Eee PC models split in three categories Smart Casual, Pro Fashion, and Ultimate. The currently available Asus Eee PC netbooks are in the Smart Casual Category.
Digitimes has now received word directly from Asus President Jerry Shen that Asus is going higher end with the Asus Eee PC with new Eee PCs in the Pro Fashion and Ultimate category. Read more

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:44:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PS3 Firmware 2.42 got released

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Sony published another firmware update for the Sony PS3 today. The new PS3 Firmware 2.42 improves the playback of PS3 and Playstation titles.

Sony is not diving into more details on what exactly the game play improvements are.
Sony ran into big issues when rolling out firmware 2.40. Firmware 2.41 solved the issue some PS3 owners experienced earlier this month. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:02:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nintendo sues 5 Japan Firms over Game Equipment

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Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd said on Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit against five Japanese firms for importing and selling equipment that enables illegal game programs to be played on Nintendo's popular DS portable video game player.
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Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:36:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone OS 2.1 Beta Firmware already at Developers

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Our friends over at Gearlive report about Apple already sending a new version of the iPhone software update to developers: iPhone OS 2.1 Beta.

iPhone OS 2.1 Beta on first glance includes new features for GPS navigation.
The iPhone OS 2.1 enables you to track the heading and speed of your movement. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:23:30 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Japan Firms to work out next-gen car Battery Norms

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp , Nissan Motor Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other Japanese companies will work together to set up common standards for lithium-ion batteries being developed to power next-generation cars, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:32:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PSP Firmware 4.05 released

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Sony already pre-announced the new PSP Firmware 4.05 yesterday. 4.05 is now available for download from the Playstation Network.

For all PSP owners new music visualization features have been added. If you own a PSP-2000 with Wansegu Digital TV tuner in Japan then you also get some new features for recording footage from digital TV on your PSP. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:11:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PSP Firmware 4.05 announced

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Sony announced on its official Playstation Blog that the next firmware 4.05 for the Sony PSP is coming soon.

Update:
PSP Firmware 4.05 released

The PSP Firmware 4.05 features include new visualizers for music playback, among other features. Sony is not getting more specific what these other features of 4.05 might be. Read more

Posted on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:53:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PS3 Firmware 2.41 is available

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The Sony PS3 firmware 2.41 is now on the Playstation Network available for downloading according to user comments on the Playstation Blog. As reported earlier the Sony Playstation Blog announced the new system update that fixes the 2.40 firmware to be available shortly. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:07:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PS3 Firmware 2.41 will be released shortly

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The official Sony Playstation Blog reports that the PS3 firmware 2.41 for the PS3 will be available shortly.

Update:
PS3 Firmware 2.41 is here

The firmware 2.41 is the replacement for the flawed firmware 2.40 that Sony had to take down last week.
Sony says that for some users firmware 2.40 did not show the XMB anymore after they deployed the system update. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:47:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PS3 Firmware 2.41 release by Wednesday

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Sony released the PS3 firmware 2.40 on July 2nd. After a couple of hours Sony removed the system update due to reports of some bricked PS3 consoles. CVG reports today that Sony is apparently releasing a new PS3 firmware 2.41 that will have the issues resolved by Wednesday.

Update:
Sony PS3 firmware 2.41 arrives shortly

The release date for 2.41 is not official yet. CVG received the information of a mid-week release from Sony support. Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:17:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PS3 Firmware 2.40 Update temporarily removed

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Sony has removed the new PS3 Firmware 2.40, because of some PS3 owners reports about bricked PS3 consoles after they installed the update.

Sony says on its Playstation blog that the issue is limited to some users, but they want to make sure what is going on and that is why the pulled the update until the issue is resolved. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:58:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PS3 Firmware 2.40 available now

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Sony released the PS3 firmware 2.40 already on the Playstation Network.

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Sony pulled the PS3 2.40 firmware update, because of issues reported by some users

Some users experienced slow download. Here is the link to the PS3 firmware 2.40 update file to download to your PC and then transfer to the PS3, if you are impatient: PS3 2.40 Firmware file (US only!!, 130MB). I still recommend waiting until the PS3 downloads and installs the system update by itself.
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Posted on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:37:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PS3 Firmware 2.40 FAQ

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As reported Sony will release the PS3 firmware 2.40 on July 2nd. Besides Video Walkthroughs of 2.40, the Sony Playstation Blog has also published an interesting FAQ about firmware 2.40.

The firmware 2.40 FAQ for instance tells you that you cannot use the browser during a game, you have to exit the game first. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:14:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PS3 Firmware 2.40 Release on July 2nd

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Sony just announced that the new major firmware update 2.40 will be released on July 2nd.

The Sony PS3 firmware 2.40 enhancement allows XMB (XrossMediaBar) access in-game. This means that you can access the PS3 menu at any time while playing most games, simply by tapping the PlayStation button on your controller.
With 2.40, you can check if any of your friends are online (thanks to their own user profile), read and send messages, change some settings for games, all without having to quit the game you are playing. While you can’t pause an online multiplayer game involving other people, you can rejoin play at any time when you’ve finished browsing. Along with these enhanced communications features, the Friends list capacity will double to 100 Friends. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:20:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PS3 Firmware 2.40 Video Walkthrough [Update]

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Sony already confirmed the new features that will be coming in the Sony PS3 Firmware 2.40. Today Sony published a video demonstrating in-game XMB access that will be coming in 2.40. Update: Now Sony has also published a video demoing the Trophy system. See it below.

The video shows how you can look at email or change settings while you are inside a running game. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hacked PSP Firmware now available for latest 4.01 System Update

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Sony released the latest Sony PSP firmware 4.01 last week. PSP Homebrew hacker Dark Alex and the M33 Team have now released a new version of their custom firmware that allows it to run homebrew on the PSP to work with 4.01. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:41:30 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone Firmware 2.0 features secure Data Wipe

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AppleInsider reports that they have learned about a secure data wipe feature in the new iPhone firmware 2.0.

The new iPhone erase all data feature is supposed to function like the Secure Empty Trash function of Mac OS X. Unlike in the current iPhone firmware the erased data would be overwritten several times so it cannot be retrieved again by snoopy tools. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:04:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 2.0 Firmware ready this Friday?

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Gizmodo cites unnamed sources that the new iPhone 2.0 firmware will be ready this Friday entering golden master stage.

Current iPhone owners can upgrade to firmware 2.0 for free. iPod touch users have to pay 10 bucks to get it (not sure why Apple considers it necessary to milk iPod touch owners). Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:04:22 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

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