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Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman Phone has a Pedometer

galleryPost('w580', 8, 'Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman Phone'); Sony Ericsson has added the W580 to their repertoire of combination MP3 player cellphones. And in another giant twist of the year, Sony has also announced that they will be launching the phone Stateside first! A phone coming exclusively to the U.S.? Suck on them apples, Europe! The…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 26

Breaking: PS3 Folding@Home TFLOP Rating Demoted by 50%, PFLOPS Still Possible

Just Friday we were gushing that the Folding@Home project, with the help of a few Spartanesque PS3s, had topped 500 teraflops. Apparently, that was too good to be true. Just now, as approximately 30k PS3s were about to push Folding over a PFLOP (1000 TFLOPS), Folding staff at Stanford seem to have reestimated the PS3’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 25

Breaking: PS3 Triples Folding At Home’s Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range

This is freaking amazing. I was checking out some message boards last night at the Folding Forums at Stanford, a group that tracks the Folding at Home application. You know, that’s the software that runs on Sony PS3 or PS2 gaming consoles, all linking up over the Internet and using their spare cycles to help…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 23

PS3 European Launch: A Continent Yawns and Continues Picking Its Nose

You’ve already heard about the free tellies and taxis over in London, well this is how the PS3 was welcomed in France – with a gallic shrug. Just 60 per cent of its 100,000 available units have been reserved, a smattering of press attended the official launch – and a pleasure boat coated with Xbox…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 23

Extreme Envy: Free HDTVs for PS3 London Launch Attendees

And they STILL can’t get a big line going. From what I recall, NY PS3 launch attendees got rain, and maybe a PS3. In SF, we got shit…and maybe a PS3. At the unofficial lines at Best Buy, you sometimes got mugged, or shot. https://gizmodo.com/ps3-launch-nyc-celebrities-booth-babes-on-the-loose-215742 For the record, the TV was some 46-inch HDTV. I’ll…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 23

Reminder: Download the PS3’s 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App

Hey there. Just a reminder for you PS3 owners: Now that you’re home from work, go download the update version 1.6 that’ll let you do many things, including save the world by running Folding @ Home. You know, it’s that distributed computing project we showed you live screenshots and videos of last Thursday. I started…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 23

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

If you’re not familiar with Orb, it’s both a streaming and a broadcasting solution to get audio and video onto your TV. They’ve just introduced a new version of Orb MyCasting that works with the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 game consoles. This means you can now play back pictures, music, and movies sitting on…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 22

Folding @ PS3 Update 1.6 Coming This Thursday

This Thursday, download the PS3’s v1.6 update. You know, the update version 1.6, famous for channeling the super-console’s spare floating-point power towards finding a cure for Alzheimer’s. Get it, cheetoh-fingered gamers, and you can be a real hero, not just a guitar hero. The update also provides a remote play to those loser 20GB PS3s,…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 20

European PS3 Backward Compatibility List

The Internets have been griping about the software backward compatibility of European/PAL PS3s for the past couple weeks, so it’s probably a good idea to actually take a list at the titles the software emulation can support. Right now Sony’s gigantic list is at 72 percent, with improvements sure to come. https://gizmodo.com/europes-ps3s-software-backward-compatibility-graded-it-244213 Compared with the…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 20

PS3 1.60 Firmware Details – Now With Background Downloading

Sony Japan just squirted out this press release today detailing the features of PS3 Update 1.60. The date for the firmware update will be March 22 (for Japan), with a U.S. release presumably coming shortly. Among the features, there’s the Folding @ home we covered last week, new Internet browser features, a full-size onscreen keyboard,…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 19

Sony CEO on the Wii, iPhone, and How Sony Almost Beat the iPod

It’s not often you get a CEO to sit down and talk candidly about their company, so props to the folks at Smart House who got Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer to dish out some dirt on their competition and their place in the gadget kingdom. Throughout the interview Stringer talks about his personal life…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 19

Sony Ericsson Virtually Floundering at CeBIT

For those who enjoy the almost-game Second Life, Sony set up a virtual CeBIT area for the Sony Ericcson line. But apparently it isn’t going very well… Ok, so our USBCELL bunny tried to find some folk at the Sony CEBIT 2007 event to chat. Sadly Kinda of empty. So thats a several hundred thousand…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 18

Grandma Takes On PS3

If you are not a heavy gamer, you may not have heard of Old Grandma Hardcore. And if you are so blessed as to experience her signature videos for the first time, we will not ruin them for you. But anyway, she upgraded her console arsenal to include a PS3. And I can’t wait until…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 18

Basically Fact Rumor: Best Buy Ditching 20GB PS3

According to printouts from three separate Best Buys, the $499 20GB PS3 has been discontinued from store inventory. Sony itself admitted last week that retailers prefer the 60GB version at a 4:1 ratio over the 20GB edition, so Best Buy’s unconfirmed choice to ditch the console would not be all that surprising. Is this a…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 17

Retailers Want a PSP Price Drop

Shit is hitting the fan with the PSP, and that is pretty obvious as of late. According to the folks at 1UP, some “big name” retailers are calling for a PSP price drop or the portable console may be dropped from the shelves entirely due to a lack of sales. We’ve heard confirmation of an…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 16

Blu-ray Association to The World: We Will Own You In Three Years

Apparently Sony and its cohorts are certain that they will own the market in just three years. At least, this is what Frank Simonis, the Blu-ray Disc Association’s European chairman, has said today at CeBIT: “Within three years it will just be Blu-ray” Frank is not only talking about beating HD DVD, but also replacing…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 16

Exclusive: Video of PS3’s Folding at Home App Churning Away at Protein

The PS3’s Folding at Home app looks twitchy in person, but for the sake of science and humanity, a few epileptic seizures are a small price to pay. The map view is amazing (hit the gallery for some shots.)-B.L. PS3 Folding at Home [Gizmodo]

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 15

PS3’s Folding at Home: Is the Cell Proc 30 Times More Powerful at Folding than a PC?

Yes, and the PS3 is going to make a big impact. According to that chart, from the Folding at Home by OS stats: 1 Gigaflop per PC 3 Gigaflops per Intel Mac 30 Gigaflops of Folding Power per PS3 On average, of course. A researcher I spoke to said that the basis for the 30x…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 15

Liveblog: PS3’s Folding at Home is Coming

Hi there. I’m at Stanford, and we’re about to see the first demo of the PS3’s Folding at Home app. Folding’s Dr Vijay Pande and SCEA’s Jack Tretton are presenting. More in a bit, as I update this post while I go along. Sony’s setting up the PS3’s monster brain to handle Folding at Home…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 15

Europe’s PS3’s Software Backward Compatibility Graded (It’s Not Good)

What would you do if you were a professor and one of your students got 1 out of 12 questions correct on an exam? Before you answer, let us tell you a story. You see, the Inquirer got their hands on a PAL PS3—you know, the ones that have software backward compatibility—and tested it out…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 14

Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman Phone has a Pedometer

Breaking: PS3 Folding@Home TFLOP Rating Demoted by 50%, PFLOPS Still Possible

Breaking: PS3 Triples Folding At Home’s Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range

PS3 European Launch: A Continent Yawns and Continues Picking Its Nose

Extreme Envy: Free HDTVs for PS3 London Launch Attendees

Reminder: Download the PS3’s 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

Folding @ PS3 Update 1.6 Coming This Thursday

European PS3 Backward Compatibility List

PS3 1.60 Firmware Details – Now With Background Downloading

Sony CEO on the Wii, iPhone, and How Sony Almost Beat the iPod

Sony Ericsson Virtually Floundering at CeBIT

Grandma Takes On PS3

Basically Fact Rumor: Best Buy Ditching 20GB PS3

Retailers Want a PSP Price Drop

Blu-ray Association to The World: We Will Own You In Three Years

Exclusive: Video of PS3’s Folding at Home App Churning Away at Protein

PS3’s Folding at Home: Is the Cell Proc 30 Times More Powerful at Folding than a PC?

Liveblog: PS3’s Folding at Home is Coming

Europe’s PS3’s Software Backward Compatibility Graded (It’s Not Good)

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