Hot Technology News - July 16 2008

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Siliconrepublic.com Redmond, we have a problem: Sony just cut the price of the PS3 TG Daily - By Wolfgang Gruener Los Angeles (CA) - The game console market is getting more interesting: Following Microsoft’s time-limited price cut of the Xbox 360 Premium, Sony has announced a permanent price cut of its 80 GB flagship console, which will also ... Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm at E3 New York Times PS3 Plays Catchup Light Reading Canada.com Wrapup: What Nintendo Announced at E3 PC Magazine - by 1UP Staff Nintendo's E3 press conference is over, and if you were following it on our live stream (and you were, right?), consider this wrap-up a refresher. Hands on with Nintendo's MotionPlus, Wii Music Ars Technica Nintendo Back In The Game At E3 Twice Boston Globe MTV isn't being evil.... Google, on the other hand. BusinessWeek - To hear Google tell it, MTV-owner Viacom is the epitome of evil media conglomerate and Google is the hero of user privacy. In a July 15 blog post, YouTube executives portrayed an agreement with Viacom to obscure users’ identities in YouTube’s viewing ... Why it matters what Chad Hurley watches CNET News Lawyers in YouTube lawsuit reach privacy deal Reuters Game Guru Sony Cuts Price on High-End Playstation 3 PC Magazine - by 1UP Staff Sony unveiled new hardware packages for each of their systems during their E3 Press conference on Tuesday, including a new 80GB PlayStation 3 bundle for $399. Sony Offers More Memory, Movies, and Games for Less Money Switched Sony: 'Ratchet and Clank' PSP Bundle For $199 G4 TV ZDNet Apple Demands Recall Of Psystar Mac Clones InformationWeek - Apple is asking a court to stop Psystar from selling unauthorized Mac clones and to recall all of the systems it has sold to customers. Apple shows it will have no mercy for Mac clones DailyTech Apple Sues Psystar, Admits MobileMe Mess Digitaltrends.com ABC News Apple Apologizes for 'Rocky' MobileMe Launch PC Magazine - by Michael Muchmore On Wednesday, Apple sent an email to all MobileMe customers apologizing for the "rocky" launch of the online push service. Apple comes clean on MobileMe problems, marketing BetaNews Apple apologizes for MobileMe launch, extends subscriptions Macworld TrustedReviews Intel to Deliver Quad-Core Mobile Processors Next Month Mac Rumors - Intel announced that it would be releasing its first quad-core processor for laptops next month. "We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Sony’s Centrino 2 laptop lineup ZDNet Intel: Centrino 2 Whitebooks Have Back-To-School Edge CRN Apple Insider ISuppli: Apple only spends $174 to build each iPhone 3G BetaNews - By Ed Oswald, BetaNews Apple was able to cut its costs by 23 percent over the first generation iPhone, and also increase its profit margins at the same time while lowering the price for consumers, according to finalized numbers released yesterday by ... Apple cuts iPhone 3G cost by over $50, says iSuppli Ars Technica Business brilliance? Apple iPhone profit margin narrowed down to 55% TG Daily Monsters and Critics.com 5 Questions for Netflix and Microsoft Motley Fool - By Rick Aristotle Munarriz July 16, 2008 Comments (0) How surprised were you to see Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) team up with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to offer its Watch Now streaming video service through the Xbox 360? Netflix To Stream Movies Over Microsoft's Xbox Live Service InformationWeek PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 now fuller rivals to Apple TV Apple Insider eFluxMedia Tape storage, high and low, gets more dense NetworkWorld.com - By Stephen Lawson , IDG News Service , 07/15/2008 Two classes of tape storage are jumping to higher densities this week, potentially saving time and money at enterprises as well as small and medium-size businesses. HP and Sony double team better storage tape format Register Tape Gets Some Respect from ... InternetNews.com PhysOrg.com UPDATE 1-DISH gets HD boost with satellite launch Reuters - NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp's (DISH.O: Quote, Profile, Research) plan to roll out more high-definition video channels received a boost in the early hours of Wednesday after the successful launch of the company's EchoStar XI ... EchoStar XI Satellite Launches Successfully Twice DISH Network launches satellite, promises more HD channels ZDNet eFluxMedia Jailed City Worker Allegedly Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System InformationWeek - The computer network administrator has been charged with computer tampering for allegedly creating a password that gave him exclusive access to the city's new wide area network. San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin still being paid while in jail Register IT Admin Locks up San Francisco's Network PC World Canada.com Cosmonauts' Second Spacewalk Goes Smoothly Space.com - By Jeremy Hsu Two Russian spacewalkers installed a docking target and changed out science experiments during their second career spacewalk on Tuesday outside the International Space Station. ISS expands parking capacity Register Astronauts take another spacewalk for tamer job The Associated Press CBS News App Store alphabetical listings quietly fixed Ars Technica - By Jeff Smykil | Published: July 16, 2008 - 10:30AM CT There has been a bit of a controversy on the iTunes App Store since its launch. Pandora Usage Stats Prove It's iPhone's Killer App Washington Post Review: iPhone 2.0 software update Macworld The Province Posted by: Stephen Wildstrom on July 15 BusinessWeek - Among the 500+ applications available from the iTunes App Store, the glaring omission is a turn-by-turn navigation service. This seems odd, since the iPhone, with it’s big display and beautiful touchscreen interface, seems ideally suited to a nav app ... Analysis: Apple’s big iPhone sales weekend TG Daily Six simple steps to killing the iPhone SearchMobileComputing.com BBC News Introducing the new "nerd whistle" CNET News - I picked up the iPhone 3G yesterday. Maybe "picked up" is a little too light and airy for what happened--it's more like I slogged through a 3-hour line along with several other iPhone fans with waning patience and sore feet, dying to get their hands on ... As Apple App Store Breaks 10 Million, Bite Into These 10 Apps CRN Fun! Nearly half of all the iPhone App Store apps are games or ... VentureBeat SAP Customers Forced to Move to Pricier Support PC World - SAP announced Wednesday that as of Jan. 1, 2009, customers will be "transitioned" to the vendor's enterprise-level support, a change that will result in increased level of service but also higher fees down the road. SAP forces customers into support upgrade CNET News SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs ZDNet Did Apple Really 'Sell' 1 Million iPhones To End Users? Nope. InformationWeek - That nice, shiny press release that Apple issued yesterday failed to point out one important fact. Apple counts "sales" as any device it has sold to wireless network operators such as AT&T. Apple sells 1 million new iPhones Reuters 1 Million iPhones Sold in First 3 Days Washington Post eFluxMedia Martin be damned, cable ISPs want network management freedom Ars Technica -By Matthew Lasar | Published: July 16, 2008 - 05:19AM CT "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more," cried William Shakespeare's Henry V in the play so titled. FCC moves toward prohibiting Comcast traffic management Computerworld Freedom of Internet Or Freedom of Network Management Practices? eFluxMedia HispanicBusiness.com Palm’s glimmer of hope CNNMoney.com -At the end of the campy old Batman TV show, the one with Adam West, you could often count on a cliffhanger where some ne’er-do-well was moments away from offing the caped crusader, by dropping him into a vat of bubbling acid or setting him on a ... Windows Mobile Still Set To Dominate iPhone? 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