AFP - Microsoft will slash the price of its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan by almost 30 percent to try to boost sales amid tough competition from rivals Sony and Nintendo, a report said Monday.
Reuters - Consumer electronic makers are bracing
themselves for slower growth in the second half of this year
and in 2009, but count on consumers turning to home
entertainment amid tougher economic times and tighter budgets.
Reuters - German customs police raided South
Korea's Hyundai IT Corp (048410.KQ) in Berlin on Saturday,
seizing flat-screen televisions from its stand at IFA, the
world's largest consumer electronics fair. -- read full article
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:36:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
PC Magazine - Psystar representatives said they filed a countersuit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that a market could exist for third-party Mac clones, if not for the legal and technical barriers that Apple has set up. -- read full article
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:07:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
PC Magazine - The IEEE standards body quietly published the 802.11r roaming specification last month, allowing handoffs between Wi-Fi access points in the same way cellular phones shift between basestations. -- read full article
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:38:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
CNET - Google has made several software developers a little richer this week, distributing $3.75 million in prizes for 20 applications designed for its Android mobile phone operating system. -- read full article
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:53:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
NewsFactor - Having banned from its App Store an application that turned an iPhone 3G into a wireless modem, is Apple ready to enable just such an application itself? -- read full article
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:30:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
NewsFactor - The latest iPhone embarrassment is a security hole that makes it simple to access stored data on supposedly locked iPhones. Apple said Thursday that a software patch to solve the problem is in the works. -- read full article
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:31:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
NewsFactor - An unnamed girl employed by the Shenzhen plant in China, operated by subcontractor Foxconn Technology Group, has become popular overnight after photos of her appeared on an iPhone customer's device. -- read full article
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:12:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
CNET - Mac clone maker Psystar officially responded to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit on Thursday by filing a countersuit that alleges anticompetitive business practices. -- read full article
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:10:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
CNET - Rumors of Apple working on a touch-screen Mac have been circulating for years, and will only grow with the revelation that the company is hoping to patent similar technology. -- read full article
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:34:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
AFP - The Ifa, Europe's top consumer electronics show, is normally all about gadgets that make life more entertaining with the latest flat screen televisions, stereo equipment and the like.
AP - First an iPhone price cut left early buyers feeling foolish, and then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks. Now the new iPhone 3G has been marred by bugs, spotty service, disappearing programs for the device and a veil of secrecy over software developers trying to broaden its appeal.
