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About 5 hours ago (Thursday evening, less than a week after the 3GS launch), we were able to verify that the 24Kpwn exploit that the hybrid team used on the iPod Touch 2G is still applicable to the bootrom of the iPhone 3GS. That means we can use the same sort of technique used by our current redsn0w tool to jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS. This is great news, but how did it happen? Why didn’t Apple fix this in their normal cat&mouse fashion? Well it seems this bootrom was cut in about the August 2008 timeframe, so the unintended early reveal of 24Kpwn earlier this year didn’t affect the iPhone 3GS.

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According to recently filed FCC documents, the PSP Go (PSP-N1001) might be faster than we originally expected. While the official specs stated the clock frequency of the processor at 333MHz, FCC documents have pegged this tiny UMD-less, flash based dynamo to actually max out at 480MHz. While the PSP Go will most likely be locked in at 333Mhz, it is possible that the software within will allow scaling for intensive applications or the full speed will be enabled in a future firmware update. Many of you may remember that the original PSP was always locked to 222MHz, but since firmware 3.50, developers had access to the full 333MHz. The difference in increased processor speed was night and day for many gamers, who noticed better lighting, more particles, and a few minor differences. What will a 480MHz PSP Go bring to the table?

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Apple and NVIDIA may be engaged in a fierce dispute that could exclude NVIDIA graphics chips from future Macs, according to sources reportedly aware of the talks. They claim to SemiAccurate that Apple views NVIDIA's proposals for renewed deals as "arrogance" and that much of the argument centers on the overheating material that triggered widespread failures in all GeForce 8400M and 8600M mobile graphics chips. The Mac firm has had to extend MacBook Pro warranties for up to three years and may be skeptical of NVIDIA's insistence that newer models aren't at risk of the same problem.

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The Fastest iPhone Ever The first thing you’ll notice about iPhone 3G S is how quickly you can launch applications. Web pages render in a fraction of the time, and you can view email attachments faster. Improved performance and updated 3D graphics deliver an incredible gaming experience, too. In fact, everything you do on iPhone 3G S is up to 2x faster and more responsive than iPhone 3G.

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• Exchange support (Funny how they make fun of Windows, and then support Exchange)
• Dock Expose
• 45% faster installation
• 6GB recovered space
• Touch Pad IME Support
• Safari 4.0 (100% ACID3 Test Pass)
• 64bit 50% faster JavaScript performance
• Quicktime X (3D, New UI, Hardware Acceleration)
• Icon direct access
• New Magnifiers
• Cover Flow browsing history

Build in Revolutionary Lithium Polymer Battery that lasts 7 hours and works for 5 years.

SD Card Slot

60% more color gamut

3.06GHz Core 2 Dual

8GB RAM

500GB HDD/256GB SSD

Threading has left the station.

Grand Central Dispatch

Stay Tuned :)

Piracy, long a scourge of the music and movie industries, is taking aim at one of the biggest video- game releases of the year. Electronic Arts Inc.’s “The Sims 3,” scheduled to go on sale June 2, was downloaded at least 180,000 times from May 18 to May 21, according to BigChampagne LLC, a company that monitors file sharing. That outpaces the 400,000 downloads over three weeks for Electronic Arts’ “Spore,” the most-pirated game of 2008. “That’s an impressive number,” said Joe Fleischer, the head of marketing and co-founder of Beverly Hills, California- based BigChampagne. “If people want the content and can download it on the Internet, which is pretty much all content types, they are going to do it.”

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The game will include 400 manufacturers and just generally sounds massive. There are also a bunch of new community features, including the ability to make and upload high-def video.

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Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed in an investor webcast that StarCraft II has been planned for release later this year. "We're targeting an end of year release this year for StarCraft II," said Morhaime. "But as always, we won't release it until it meets our standards and the expectations of our players."

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EA Sports Active seems to be quite the hit! So much so that, like the resistance bands that ship with the disc, the game is due for expansion. Even though the game just came out May 19, EA has already announced the first expansion pack. It's coming "this holiday, just in time to help you with your New Year's resolutions." If you resolve to buy more fitness games this year, EA wants to help! Peter Moore did say EA Sports Active was a "platform."

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Lifehacker reader Mike put together a tutorial on enabling hard-drive-based playback on your Wii. It isn't as simple as just plugging in an external USB drive, but if you're comfortable messing around with your Wii, it also isn't an impossibly geeky task. You need to have the Homebrew Channel installed. We've covered how to install the Homebrew Channel here before, but console modding is an ever-changing business, so make sure to give Mike's tutorial a full read before proceeding.

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Service Pack 2, the latest service pack for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, supports new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards, includes all of the updates that have been delivered since SP1, and simplifies deployment, for consumers, developers, and IT professionals.

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Been itching to add an $1,800 graphics card to your shiny new Mac Pro? Then you're in luck, as NVIDIA has now finally made its high-end Quadro FX 4800 graphics card available to Mac users, just a few short months after PC folk first got their hands on it.

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LW		TW			Title	Developer	Label	Publisher
1		1			WII FIT	NINTENDO	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
2		2			THE GODFATHER II	EA REDWOOD SHORES	EA GAMES	ELECTRONIC ARTS
5		3			FIFA 09	EA CANADA	EA SPORTS	ELECTRONIC ARTS
3		4			MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES	SEGA	SEGA	SEGA
4		5			RESIDENT EVIL 5	CAPCOM	CAPCOM	CAPCOM
7		6			PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE	LEVEL 5	NINTENDO	NINTENDO

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Even though Xbox 360s aren't flying off of shelves in Japan, the console's perception is surprisingly positive in the country, an ASCII Media Works poll states. (Perhaps not so surprising, actually, given that fewer 360s purchased equals fewer 360s RRODed and E74ed.) The poll asked folks (in Japan) to rate each current console in six different categories: value for money; variety of interesting software; quality of visuals; external design; size/weight of console; and number of acquaintances who also owned the console. And, as Joystiq headlines would have you believe, the Xbox 360 came out on top with a combined 78.3 points out of a maximum of 100. It was also the most played system, averaging 28.8 hours of use a week.

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Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.

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Yesterday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall alert, reporting that Acer America voluntarily conducted a product safety recall of its Aspire Predator desktop computers. The recall consists of around 215 computers sold between May 2008 and December 2008, originally costing consumers somewhere between $2,000 and $6,000 each, depending on the selected configuration. The Acer Predator is one of the company's high-end gaming machines, featuring Intel's Core 2 Quad processor, Nvidia's nForce 780i SLI chipset, Nvidia's GeForce 9800GTX (or 9600GT), and 8 GB of DDR2 SDRAM. The PC comes in a wicked cool case mounted with supporting arms on the front cover and claw-like optical drive doors. It certainly looks like a robotic beast in appearance alone.

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If IBM wanted to buy Sun it would have done so years ago, at least on the merits of synergy and technology. If IBM wanted to buy Sun simply to trash the company, plunder the spoils and do it on the cheap — the time for that was last fall. So more likely, given that Sun has reportedly been shopping itself around (nice severance packages for the top brass, no doubt), is that Sun has been too successful at selling itself — just to the wrong party at too low of a price. This may even be in the form of a chop shop takeover. The only thing holding up a hostile takeover of Sun to sell for spare parts over the past six months was the credit crunch, and the fact that private equity firms have had some distractions.

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Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. By enhancing Internet transparency, we aim to help sustain a healthy, innovative Internet.

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President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that he's been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.

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New Toy Of The Day!

Sony PRS-700BC Portable Reading System

Begin a new chapter with the PRS-700BC Reader Digital Book. Boasting an impressive 6.0-inch, touch screen display, this Reader uses paper-like E Ink® technology which makes it easier to read, even in bright-light situations. In addition to a built-in light, there's an interactive touch screen that lets you turn pages with the slide of a finger or activate the bookmark. You can also create annotations with a virtual keyboard, highlight text with a stylus pen, search for text in your digital book, and easily adjust the font size. A faster processor gives you quicker response times when opening content or turning pages. Ideal for travelers or people who like to read while on the go, the PRS-700BC holds approximately 350 digital books.

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New Toy Of The Day!

The Wireless-N Gigabit Router is really three devices in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network without wires. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex Gigabit Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N's "Multiple In, Multiple Out" (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. Unlike ordinary wireless networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections, MIMO actually uses these reflections to increase the range and reduce "dead spots" in the wireless coverage area. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections much farther than standard Wireless-G.

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New Toy Of The Day!

Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong (SCEH) today announced that it would release the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system with a 160GB HDD on December 3rd, 2008, in Singapore at a recommended retail price of SGD$739 as part of the limited-edition PS3 system bundle pack. The PS3 with 160GB HDD will come bundled with two selected PS3 game titles(*1) and PlayStation®Network Prepaid Card (with SG$10 value) with an attractive premium - a limited edition PS3 umbrella. The increased storage size enables entertainment enthusiasts to store even more downloadable games and video contents from the PlayStation®Network, as well as more videos, music, and photo files from their personal collections.