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Palm Pre gets jailbroken PlayStation emulator
iPhone emulator guru ZodTTD gets to work on the new Palm Pre, cooks up a version of psx4all on the device with a few caveats.
Why recreate a 2 generations old game console experience on your spanking new smartphone? Because you can. Veteran iPhone emulator developer ZodTTD got the above PSOne emulation running on a jailbroken Palm Pre, with a few notable caveats you can check out on his blog.
Around the web: zodttd.com (7 comments)
, CrunchGear (3 comments) , Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now , Engadget Mobile , Techmeme (9 comments) Profile pages: Sony, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation, Palm, Palm Pre, emulation, Jailbreak
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Review: BenQ Joybee GP1 Mini LED Projector
We took BenQ's mini projection offering for a spin and found well-designed portability paired with great image quality.
Small, portable projectors seem to be all the rage these days, with pico projection offerings like the Optoma Pico PK-101, BeamBox Evolution R1 and Samsung MBP200 out in force or hitting the streets soon. Filling in the middle gap between "fits in your pocket" and "full on projector" is the BenQ Joybee GP1, a portable LED-based projector about the size of a stack of 5 CD cases and weighing in at a light 1.4 pounds. We had the chance to test out BenQ's mini-projector over the the past few weeks and came away largely impressed with its quality and convenience; read on for our full GP1 review.
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CNN boldly quotes Twitter user as a "source"
Gawker: http://bit.ly/5YWPZ
Mainstream news outlet CNN cited a Twitter user as "one source" in an article about the situation in Iran, raising some questions about what constitutes a valid source for a journalistic publication. It's difficult for a news network to verify the identity of a Twitter user, or to confirm whether or not his or her tweets are factual.
Around the web: gawker.com
, techmeme.com , soupsoup.tumblr.com , features.csmonitor.com , edition.cnn.com Profile pages: CNN, Twitter, tweet, Microblogging, Twitter, Inc.
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Joost to scale back from video hosting, focus on behind-the-scenes services for other companies
MediaMemo: http://bit.ly/vzXik
Streaming video site Joost, once billed as a potential YouTube rival, has announced that it will de-emphasize hosting videos to instead focus on providing back-end technical services to other companies. Layoffs and a CEO switch accompanied the announcement, and MediaMemo's Peter Kafka is calling this the first sign of a bust of less-popular video sites.
Around the web: mediamemo.allthingsd.com
, Techmeme , news.cnet.com , Alley Insider , newteevee.com (2 comments) , blog.joost.com Profile pages: YouTube, Joost, Joost, Streaming video
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Sony patents PlayStation 2 emulation tech for PlayStation 3
Siliconera: http://bit.ly/dJ46Y
Sony has patented a technology that allows the PlayStation 3's Cell processor to understand and process code intended for the PlayStation 2's EmotionEngine chip. There's only one reason to develop this tech, and that's to make the PS3 capable of emulating PS2 hardware to play old games. Some earlier models of the PS3 actually had the EmotionEngine chip inside them, but these were phased out to cut costs. This new tech could allow any PS3 to play at least some PS2 games.Around the web: Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
, techmeme.com , SlashGear , siliconera.com (17 comments) , Kotaku , bit-tech.net , vg247.com (23 comments) , Joystiq (34 comments) Profile pages: Sony, processor, emulation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PlayStation 3
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Dell's rumoured new Android device may use ARM chip, not be a smartphone
Apparently convinced the market needs some type of mobile "not a phone" internet-capable device class, Dell presses on.
Undeterred by having carriers flat out reject their too-Dell-like Android smartphone, Dell is apparently still pushing ahead with another project based on Google's operating system. The WSJ reports they've been developing a "pocket-sized device for tapping into the Internet," describing it as slightly larger than the iPod touch. The plan for the device, using an ARM chip instead of Dell's typical x86-based choices from Intel or AMD, is to either start selling it later this year... or scrap it entirely. How's that for vague?BoingBoing Gadgets has a good teardown of WSJ's use of the Intel's marketing term MID, or Mobile Internet Device, to describe Dell's Android endeavor here, considering the thing isn't even supposed to contain an Intel chip. Curiously the story also claims Dell is considering selling this device through mobile carriers, despite offering no telephony capabilities. They claim this is plausible because cell providers are starting to subsidize netbooks on the market now; however, why bother building in 3G to a device the size of a cellphone, subsidizing it and tying it to a data plan, and then not bother to give it phone capabilities as well?
It just seems like Dell (along with Sony, Samsung and Fujitsu before them with the long litany of MIDs and UMPCs) are chasing this mythical market of people with really big pockets who are dying to carry around two different slabs of circuits with an LCD screen. Perhaps they should focus their marketing efforts on folks who like to wear cargo pants... assuming this device ever sees daylight outside of Dell's underground pocket protector-infested engineering bunker.
Around the web: Electronista
, TG Daily (52 comments) , Android Phone Fans , CrunchGear (68 comments) , The Raw Feed , technologizer.com , SlashGear , androidcentral.com Profile pages: Google, Dell, Google Android, Apple iPod touch, MID, Smartphone, Intel, internet tablet, Android OS, AMD
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Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) acquires The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million
The Pirate Bay blog: http://bit.ly/2LRNYT
In a move that many are comparing to what happened to Napster, The Pirate Bay has sold to a Swedish gaming company, noting: "If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That's the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to. And - you can now not only share files but shares with people. Everybody can indeed be the owner of The Pirate Bay now. That's awesome and will take the heat of us.
Around the web: TorrentFreak (70 comments)
, blog.vagueware.com , blogherald.com , 901am.com (1 comment) , hypebot , paidcontent.org , TG Daily (52 comments) , Techmeme Profile pages: The Pirate Bay, Global Gaming Factory X
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iPhone OS 3.0 push-savvy multi-protocol chat clients review: BeejiveIM vs IM+
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch running OS 3.0, and you've been wondering which of the $9.99 chat clients is the right one for you, make sure you read this review.
Although AIM with push notification support for the iPhone and iPod touch arrived in both free and pay for versions last week, there are two programs running $9.99 each currently available via the App Store that support both push notifications and multiple instant messaging platforms: BeejiveIM and IM+. We decided to grab both applications and put them through some usage tests over the weekend. Read on to discover which, if either, of these two apps is the right chat client for your iPhone or iPod touch.Profile pages: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Apple iPod touch, Twitter, IM (Instant messaging), Apple iPhone 3GS, BeejiveIM 3.0 for iPhone, IM+ with Push, Facebook
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The Video Bay would threaten Hulu and YouTube if it had a chance of actually working
The new video-sharing site from the guys behind The Pirate Bay could be much more threatening to the TV and movie industries than BitTorrent, but is it really legally or technically feasible?
The Pirate Bay is the largest web venue in the world of sharing files via the BitTorrent protocol, and as you could probably guess if you didn't know already, the files shared include copyrighted material. A Swedish court made that determination and hit its founders with one year of jail time and a fine of over $3 million. The Pirate Bay's attempts to appeal the decision haven't gone well.
They seem unphased by this, though. They've just launched a very early test version of The Video Bay, a streaming video site that could let you watch copyrighted material ad-free without hassling with actually downloading the files on BitTorrent. Even if you don't have any qualms about giving the current (admittedly troubled) intellectual property laws the finger, don't get excited. We're not convinced The Video Bay is going to make it.
Around the web: pcworld.com
, bbc.co.uk (4 comments) , mirror.co.uk , TechCrunch (7 comments) , appscout.com , Gizmodo (3 comments) Profile pages: YouTube, Streaming video, The Pirate Bay, Hulu, piracy, The Video Bay, Google, BitTorrent, YouTube, P2P, Hulu, HTML, web browser, Kilobyte
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Kindle DX out of stock again
For the second time this month, Amazon's new large-format reader is unavailable.
Out of stock already in mid-June and back on track within a few days, the Amazon Kindle DX now appears to be unavailable for the next 4 to 6 weeks, according to its page on Amazon's site. The original Kindle had stocking issues as well, prompting some to speculate the company may be playing a scarcity game by keeping stock low to create the impression of larger demand.Around the web: techflash.com
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