For those of you skinnies, meaning owners of PSP-2000s, Skype for the PSP has arrived. For you fatties, sorry. The program needs the extra memory of the PSP-2000.As well as enabling free calls between users, Skype will allow PSP owners to send and receive voice and text messages, and make paid for calls to landlines and mobile phones.“PSP can now claim to be a highly cost effective and accessible portable communications device, alongside its entertainment credentials,” says Sony.Users planning to
The MacBook Air is Now Shipping
Steve Jobs said the MacBook Air would be available in two weeks. While it’s not in anyone’s hands, it has shipped.The company’s newest laptop, which CEO Steve Jobs called the “world’s thinnest” computer when he unveiled it two weeks ago at San Francisco’s Macworld, is shipping as of today, Apple said. The 3-lb. portable, which retails for $1,799 in its base configuration with a 1.6-GHz IntelCore 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory and a 13.3-in. LED-backlit display, is also supposed to be available at retail,
Hardware Round-Up
Video: ECS GeForce 8800GT Accelero S1 512MB @ Tweaktown Motherboards & Chipsets: MSI P7N SLI Platinum (NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI) @ HardwareZoneAsus BLITZ Extreme Intel P35 Express DDR3 Motherboard Review @ PCStatsECS GeForce7050M-M Motherboard @ Digit-LifeFoxconn 945G7AD-8EKRS2H Motherboard @ Digit-LifeASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n Motherboard Review @ Motherboards.org Processors: Contemporary Dual-Core Processors Shootout @ X-bit Labs Memory & Storage: ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-ray Combo Drive Review @ CDRLabs.comUltra
Why Couldn’t THESE Have Been On E-Bay?
If you’re thinking about chipping or modding and/or selling pirated games, then please remember not to hide your money inside consoles in your own home.“A raid on a man’s house in Tower Hamlets on Monday January 14 in response to his illegal business dealings regarding Sony PSP SD memory cards and chipping has resulted in the discovery of over £12,000 in cash – found stuffed inside four video game consoles.”Nearly $24,000 in an Xbox and three different PlayStation 2 consoles were recovered by authorities.
Mushkin Announces XP-800AP 800W Power Supply Unit
Mushkin Inc. today announced the release of the XP-800AP 800W power supply unit (PSU). The XP-800AP provides gamers and enthusiasts with ample power to push multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems to their limits. The Mushkin XP-800AP 800W Power Supply runs $185.81 direct from Mushkin. 
The XP-800AP unit provides a comprehensive set of features including active PFC, 110-240V input, VersaPlug modular cabling, four PCIe cables with 6/8-pin adaptable connectors, user-selectable single +12V rail/quad +12V rail, 900W peak power, thermally controlled 135mm fan, 64A output at +12V, EPS 2.91 support, and industrial-grade components. The unit is backed by a generous 5-year limited warranty and Mushkins industry-leading technical support personnel.
Microsoft Oversight Extended Until 2009
As part of the result from Microsoft’s anti-trust litigation with the U.S. government, the Redmond giant is currently subject to oversight to ensure that it doesn’t abuse its market position. While there are numerous decrees that govern this arrangement between Microsoft and the various government entities involved in the oversight, most of those agreements were due to run out in late 2007.It seems that the government bodies are still not 100% confident in Microsoft’s ability to operate without running
WSJ Opens a New Security Hole with Facebook
Well, although there’s likely a security hole there somewhere, the WSJ Online has accepted Facebook’s friend request with the “Seen This?” feature.Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its Web site that will allow readers to see which Journal stories are popular among that user’s Facebook friends. The feature, which goes live early Wednesday morning, is called “SeenThis?” and is powered by a company called Loomia Inc. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.This
Internet failure hits two continents – undersea cables damaged
High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope. Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.
The two cables damaged are FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen telecommunications companies, Beckert said. He added the options while those cables are repaired were re-routing traffic around the globe or using an older undamaged cable that has less capacity — both of which would cause usage delays. Kuwait's Ministry of Communications said the problem could take two weeks to solve, according to a statement carried by the state news agency, KUNA.
January 31 News from Around the Web
Motherboard.org's ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n Motherboard Review and other reviews from around the web are in our forums!
There are an abundance of new advances and available feature options with this board and it actually has so many features it could easily have a score over our 100 point limit. The notable features include support for DDR3 memory, 3 PCI Express x16 slots (2 2.0 slots), support for Intels Yorkfield CPUs and the ability to overclock like no tomorrow, we reached a stable 4.2GHz on air cooling alone
Get Your $499 iMac. Never Mind The Asustek Label
Asustek’s nifty and inexpensive Eee PC laptop certainly captivated the market and all us assorted tech writers, so now seems as good a time as any for Asustek to go after other segments of the market. They’ve decided people might like their version of a desktop PC, an “all -in-one” like the iMac, and an “E-TV.” The E-DT, a desktop PC which will not be sold with a monitor, is scheduled to launch in April or May this year and will be showcased at CeBIT 2008. The first E-DT will adopt an Intel