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Xbox 360 outsold PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said. Strong sales growth came after Microsoft cut prices for its game console last month. Microsoft sold 53,547 units of the Xbox 360 in the four weeks to September 28, compared with 33,071 units of the PS3, data ...

Nokia launched its "Comes with Music " free music package on Thursday, issuing a challenge to Apple's dominance of the digital music market. The company also launched its first touch-screen phone 5800 Xpressmusic to rival Apple's popular iPhone. Nokia said at Nokia Remix event in London it would start selling the phone shortly, pricing it at €279 ($395) excluding subsidies and ...

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. has developed a new blue laser diode powerful enough to offer multi-layer recording on Blu-ray discs at speeds of up to 12x. The diode features a maximum output power of 450mW allowing burning of four-layer Blu-ray discs at a speed of 12x. Burning at 12x on a Blu-ray recordable disc would allow a two-hour HD program to be stored on a disc in just ten ...

The packaging was actually folded, so when we opened the package we had to open it like a book. Once fully open we find the second of the two interchangeable grips and a brief description of the G9’s features. One thing that was mysteriously absent was a copy of their SetPoint software. It’s no big deal considering most people today have broadband Internet and after considering the fact that our...

iOrgSoft Video Converter is a versatile yet easy to handle video converter. Almost all popular video files, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, MOV, VOB, MPG, ASF, RM, RMVB, FLV (Flash), etc can be converted to desired formats so that you can easily put your favorite movies on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Mobile Phone, etc. Besides, it lets you convert any videos to MP3, WAV, M4A audio formats....

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced the release of 2GHz HyperX DDR3 memory modules, the fastest-performing DDR3 available to date. Shipping immediately in 2GB memory kits, the new HyperX PC3-16000 memory offers gaming enthusiasts top-of-the-line Enhanced Performance Profile (EPP) ready memory with EPP profiles pre-programmed on the modules. With the addition of the ...

LG announced the official launch of its LG-KC910, a slim yet feature-packed full touchscreen 8 megapixel multimedia phone. This artistic new handset, known as Renoir, goes on sale in Europe in early October and has a large palate of features like Wi-Fi, Dolby Mobile from Dolby Laboratories, Inc., and camera capabilities that even surpass those found on standalone digital cameras. Focus ...

GEAR Software today officially release of GEARWorks SDK version 3.55 for Mac OS X. The new toolkit features GEAR's API architecture for managing optical formatting and burning operations in third-party software applications. The release includes several new features including multi-threading, burning DVD video streams from memory to disc, and an enhanced developer interface. The ...

Nintendo announced today the release of the DSi, a new version of its popular DS handheld console next month, which comes with a built-in camera and enhanced audio capabilities. The dual-screen DSi will go on sale in Japan from November 1 with a price tag of 18,900 yen (178 dollars), the Japanese video game giant said. It will be launched in overseas markets some time next year. ...

While SilverStone Technology has long been known for their high-end (and very expensive) computer cases such as the Sugo and Temjin series, as of late they've begun manufacturing other computer peripherals while driving new and interesting innovations into these conventional products. Earlier this month we looked at the SilverStone Treasure TS01, which was a 2.5" SATA drive enclosure, but ...

Nintendo reportedly plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld device that will be equiped with a digital camera will play music, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. The move would pit the top-selling portable game gear with Apple Inc iPod and camera-embedded cellphones in general. The new DS is expected to be available in Japan by the end of the year for less than 20...

MSI brings a new Gaming Notebook to the market: the GX630. Combining both the athletic design and the high-end technology, the notebook is poweerd by the AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual Core Mobile Processor and the best nVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT (DDR3 512MB VRAM) graphics card. In addition, it is equipped with the Exclusive ECO Engine Power Management System that gives users the ...

I don't hate the player, and I'm certainly not disappointed with it. I just have a hard time recommending it, unless you know you're willing to spend time with a machine and learn how to really manipulate it, as opposed to going on intuition. As silly as this is, I will be happy with this player and even happier to buy the next COWON player that takes the iAUDIO 7's place. Because for all the...

Some 9 years ago, I was introduced to the USB Flash drive; who at the time, coming in a rather excitable review from publication Maximum PC, was billed as a replacement for the floppy drive. Granted, the sticks of this time were slow, expensive, and tiny - with a paltry 32mb module weighing you down into the hundreds. Coming with this was a downright inconvenience - these drives worked natively ...

Positioned slightly below the GeForce 9600GT, the GeForce 9500GT represents NVIDIA’s contribution to the mainstream and budget market in the current generation of chipsets. As noted above, this means that these cards tend to be found in systems where heavy duty graphics performance may not be needed or expected. That doesn’t mean these cards are any slouch in performance, as they are still ...