Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Gadgets Watch Blog. Hope you enjoy the gadgets posts and the holidays....:)Just wanna repeat "Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland" words:There are no strangers on Christmas E...
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Ericsson won broadband order in Nigeria
Telecom equipment maker Ericsson announced on Thursday that it had signed a deal to provide a network for 21st Century Technologies in Nigeria.Ericsson, the world's biggest mobile network maker, said in a statement the order was for a nationwide residential fiber-optic broadband network.Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
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Sony New God of War III Trailer
Sony set to release next year on the PlayStation 3, God of War III continues where previous installment left off, with plenty of new enemies and refreshed graphics to top things off. I'm waiting for this, are you, tell us....
Sony PlayStation Home Hacked?
A poster by the name of StreetskaterFU has outlined what he claims a method of hacking into PlayStation Home's servers for download, uploading and deleting files.We're not able to verify his directions, but if true it would be a potentially calamitous oversight on Sony's part. Additionally, a PS3hax forum poster claims...
Trouble With iPhone Apps Business
It's no secret that being an iPhone app developer is at times rough business, mostly due to Apple's goofy authoritarianism. But judging by some recent soul-spilling by a few leading devs, things are getting rougher.Craig Hockenberry of Iconfactory, developers of Frenzic and Twitterific, started things off with a post lamenting...
LEGO Brick iPod Speaker at 19.99$
This nifty LEGO brick iPod speaker from ThinkGeek plugs right into the base and "actually sounds great - thanks in part to its 'Active Bass System.'" Available now at priced at $19.99.Looking just like a blue building brick, this sucker just plugs into your iPod (supported models listed below) and that's that. The center...
Sony Home- Online Virtual World Launch Very Soon
Sony said that it would launch its online 3-D social networking service (Home) for users of the company's PlayStation 3 video-game console. Home is similar to Linden Lab's Second Life in that it lets people create virtual characters, or avatars, to interact in cyberspace. PlayStation 3 users will be able to join the virtual...
Mirror's Edge PhysX Trailor
Unlike its game console predecessors, the PC version of Mirror's Edge is able to make full use of NVIDIA's PhysX engine for some stunning gameplay effects.Check out the cool video here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/techeblog/videos/...
Playstation Home Will Launch in December- Statement
Sony Computer Entertainment America confirmed the rumors that Playstation Home will be launching later this month.Playstation Home, Sony’s answer to Xbox Live, features a graphical virtual world where users can own a customizable apartment, play casual games with others, shop for products, and eventually access online...
Desktop or Gaming Console For Christmas gift?
If you’ve cash this Christmas—having saved up for gift to yourself or someone else then chances that you’re interested in upgrading video game experience this holiday season. But the question is: desktop or console gaming?I’ve always preferred playing games on the desktop, with good reason. Though I’m thankful for not...
Nokia N97: Snapshot and video- iPhone Competitor
Nokia has a new flagship phone. The N97 packs a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (that's a 16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard into this sliding communicator with an "always open" window to favorite internet or social networking sites.Nokia calls it the "world's most advanced...
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Video Problems in New MacBooks- Apple Acknowldge
Apple has acknowledged two video problems in both the new MacBook and MacBook Pros, following past video problems with other MacBook lines. One of them seems pretty obvious. Called "the black screen of death", it happens when the graphic card goes into overload playing games, turning off video and locking up the system...
Lift Car Concept- Hangable
Unlike other vehicles, the "LIFT car concept can adjust itself in the aerial parking without demanding any extra space." Prices are still not mentioned.The main benefit is: Once you are done with your work, you can just drop it down and simply drive home. There is only one street smart solution to the soaring traffic problems...
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iRiver Cell Phone- Pure Aluminum and Touchscreen
While everyone is trying to emulate the iPhone's look, iRiver keeps playing their own metallic tune: Following the design of the beautiful Spinn—although more conservative than their experimental products—the new iRiver cellphone also has a brushed metal look, featuring both a pad as a controlling device and a large touchscreen,...
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Electronic voting machines go wrong- Video
Well, it's election day here in the US, thought it'd be fitting to show what happens when electronic voting machines go wrong...in The Simpsons.Poor Homer Simpson. He's having a bit of trouble with a voting machine. We knew there was a good reason to vote absent...
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Flying Ferrari hands on with video
Moller International has announced that it will be producing a flying Ferrari of sorts, based on the Ferrari 599 GTB. The vehicle "will use eight thrusters to take off vertically, hover, and fly forward at 150mph." Expecting to shell out around $787,000 on it's first released.This car features a specially designed hybrid...
Improvements & new features in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2
It hasn't been too awfully long since Windows Vista SP1 hit the intertubes for real, but the Vista team is already talking up SP2. We all know Redmond is focused on moving beyond all of this Vista hoopla and forging ahead with Windows 7, but there's apparently still some work to do on the outfit's current OS.Unfortunately,...
Best LCD TV- Sony LED Bravia KDL-55XBR8 Reviews- Plasma vs. LCD
Cnet has reviewed the 55-inch, plasma-killin' tri-color LED-backlit Bravia XBR8 we saw a couple months ago. Spoiler: Sony's setup didn't lie—it's the best LCD TV ever, falling just short of the best HDTV ever, nearly matching Pioneer's PDP-111FD (Cnet's best flat-panel period) in blacks, color accuracy and bright-room...
StarCraft 2 is now StarCraft 2, 3, 4- On 3-year plan
Blizzard has announced that StarCraft 2 "is probably going to get delayed again and split into three parts. Part 1, which features a Terran single player campaign, is still targeted to be out sometime in 2009."You won't get to play Zerg or Protoss, though, since their single player campaigns have been plucked out and turned...
Top ten most anticipated games of TGS 2008 with video
Game Trailers count down the top ten most anticipated games of the Tokyo Game Show 2008, which includes White Knight Chronicles, Resistance 2, and Resident Evil 5....
Resident Evil (RE) 5's Xbox 360
According to a Capcom representative, RE5's "online play is really just the game's story mode played either by one or two players."TGS, Capcom will have a total of 50 playable kiosks split 25 to 25 between the Xbox 360 and PS3. This could rise as high as 70 when including demo units in the Sony and Microsoft boot...
Apple iPhone design faults
An Israeli researcher Aviv Raff has gone public with security flaws in iPhone after what he terms two-and-a-half months of inaction from Apple.Writes Raff on his blog: I have disclosed the technical details to Apple few weeks before that post, in a hope to get those security issues fixed as soon as possible. Unfortunately,...
Rock Band 2- Wii DLC confirmed for Rock Band 2
After months and months of speculation and rumor from all corners of the internet and beyond, downloadable content for the Wii version of Rock Band 2 has been confirmed. USA Today reports that the functionality has indeed been confirmed, and with the release of Rock Band 2, Wii owners will finally be able to spend the...
Walmart is shutting down MP3 Music Store, DRM Servers...
Like Yahoo and MSN before them, Walmart is turning off its DRM servers on Oct. 9, effectively putting any DRM'd songs you bought from them into a cold stasis they'll never wake up from, since they'll become totally unmovable unless you circumvent the DRM.Walmart went through this earlier with their video store, though...
Release date of "The Chronicles Of Spellborn"
The decidedly different MMO Chronicles of Spellborn, finally has a release date...in Germany and the rest of Europe at least. Delivered with this preliminary packshot was news that November 27th would be the fateful date when the game finally sees the light of fluorescent retail store bulbs.They'll be ramping up things...
Apple iPhone 2.1 and iTunes 8 Available Next Tuesday
It is now backtracking from its initial prediction that iTunes 8 won't be a hit in Apple's Let's Rock September 9 event. Not only iTunes 8 will be available then, but they say Apple will also release the iPhone 2.1 update that in theory will fix its huge password security flaw.Jacqui hints that the 2.1 update will have new secret features that are...
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames gameplay
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames is an upcoming video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to 2005's Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and is due for release in the United States on August 31, 2008 and in Europe on September 5, 2008. The game is set in Venezuela.In this...
Apple iPhone price- 31,000 & 36,100 for 8 & 16GB respectively
Wired news from cellpassion.mobi that Vodafone iPhone 3G will come for no less than Rs. 31,000 and Rs. 36,100 for th 8GB and 16GB versions i.e. approximately $700 and $825, which probably will be the most expensive iPhone 3Gs on any carrier in the world.In all probability, the iPhone 3G will be priced the same on Airtel...
Microsoft's Zune player seeking Hollywood & Apple
Microsoft's Zune is looking to Hollywood to gain an edge on Apple's iPod.Microsoft executives have been making the rounds at talent agencies and production companies in recent months in hopes of licensing exclusive original video programming for the portable media player, which has struggled to gain traction in the marketplace.While...
Xbox 360 Arcade price cut to $199 on September 7 - Rumours
Rumours are that an Xbox 360 price cut is in the works, and now we're starting to see some evidence -- VGChartz scored this image of an unknown retailer's inventory system showing the 360 Arcade dropping to $199 on September 7th.There's no word on whether the rumored 60GB and Elite price cuts are coming as well, but they'd...
iPhone 2.1 beta hints at new iPod touch
Who knows how much this is worth, but there's a lot of chatter flying around today about some text strings in the beta release of iPhone OS 2.1 that make reference to an "iPod2,1." Seeing as the current iPod touch is designated "iPod1,1," that's a pretty strong hint that a new model is coming.What's more, it's going to...
Hands on with Sony bigwig GPS enabled PSP games
Sony's senior marketing manager for PSP, was when mentioning that GPS-enabled games could eventually hit the PSP, but he definitely threw it out there. Speaking about the forthcoming GPS add-on for the PlayStation Portable, Koller stated that said module "changes the dynamics of GPS but also changes the way developers...
Castlevania judgement wii gameplay hands on video
Straight from the E3 2008 vaults is brand new Castlevania Judgement gameplay. This Wii game "promises to take the long running vampire hunt in a decidedly punchy direction."As great as it is to see the Belmont clan stretch their arms, with previous 3D Castlevania's driving a stake deep into the heart of "meh," it's impossible...
Google Lively - A Social 3-D virtual world unveils with video
8th July'2008, Google launched its own world -- a virtual world, to be exact. Lively, which Google likes to call a "virtual experience," allows you to create an avatar, decorate your own virtual room, invite friends to your room and do things you've always dreamed of, like blow up oil barrels on a deserted island.Unlike...
Wired- Sony PS3 2.41 firmware is out now
Sony's 2.41 firmware update for the PS3 is apparently out and riding the network updates. This according to readers and those of the official PlayStation Blog.Now take deep breath, install, and hope your system doesn't hang like it did for the few 2.40 unfortunates.Source- http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/ps3-2-41-f...
New chracters- Morrigan, Onimusha's Soki Joining New Capcom Brawler
More characters join the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom fray! Previously, it was announced that the Capcom side was getting Street Fighter III's Alex and the Tatsunoko side was getting Gan-chan from anime Yatterman. The latest brawlers in this gaming characters versus anime character fight: Darkstalkers' Morrigan Aensland, Onimusha:...
SEGA sonic unleashed gameplay
That's right, no more teasers, SEGA has just released official Sonic Unleashed gameplay footage. This game looks very promising.Sure, Sonic Unleashed looks good - better than any Sonic the Hedgehog effort we've seen in a long time - but when Sega's mascot gets all real world on us, we have to question this stuff. Let's...
Look on AT&T's Pogo 3D Web Browser
AT&T's doing a desktop browser called Pogo—it's a "3D visual web browser" built on Firefox 2. (They're moving it to Firefox 3 currently.) It has some graphically interesting ways of doing bookmarks, history and tabs, and a dock along the bottom. I'm kind of mixed on it so far—the eye candy doesn't always translate...
A useful digital pen reviews
The pen, once mightier than the sword, has been getting trounced by the keyboard in the computer era. Now and then there's a push toward "pen-based computing" that doesn't get very far.But in a test of the latest crop of pens that combine ink with digital technology, at least one stands out as a useful tool and a complement...
Resident Evil 5 Game Interview
In this Resident Evil 5 producer interview, we "get inside info on the game that will be the pinnacle of the survival horror drama."Powerful lighting effects overwhelm the player with mirage movement and blinding brilliance, and even in the light of day, there is no safe haven in this Resident Evil.Source- http://www....
Hands on with Fracture Trailer
In Fracture, "players are equipped with an arsenal of futuristic weaponry to strategically reshape their surroundings on the fly."Every action they perform dynamically reshapes the earth in ways no videogame has ever seen. When Briggs throws a tectonic grenade on a level battlefield, the ground blasts upward to provide...
MSI Wind pre-release review
It's pretty tough to wrap your melon around, but MSI's Wind has not yet officially launched per se. That being said, it has still managed to end up in the hands of quite a few eager subnote lovers, and Laptop Mag is no exception.Shortly after the UK branch of CNET posted up their initial impressions, along comes yet another...
HTC Touch Dual launching in US this weekend...
At first, we were all stoked at the realization that it took HTC shy of two months to go from announcement to availability of its US-flavored Touch Dual, but then we had this wet blanket thrown on us when we reflected on the fact that it's been like six months since the European model was first shown. No bother -- at least...
Age of Conan Trailer - Games news
In the Xbox 360 version of Age of Cona, "Funcom has implemented even more brutal fatalities into the game, including a melee slash."Though it wasn't on display, Funcom informed us that an updated graphics tech has been implemented into Age of Conan, called Cheetah 2, which they claim drastically improves framerates.Source-...
Panasonic internet-enabled plasmas due this summer
After slipping past their original spring release date, Panasonic's PZ850 series of plasmas are no longer the only ones with YouTube support, but those desiring internet features, high contrast ratios and easy-access calibration settings can expect them on shelves this summer.The 46-, 50- and 58-inch versions should all...
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