Sony drops PS3 price by $100, sales double  —  Funny how economics works, huh?  Sony’s lackluster PlayStation 3 sales more than doubled recently thanks to the introduction of the new 40GB model and a $100 price cut on the 80GB model.  —  Sony CEO Howard Stringer said, “It’s the breakthrough we’ve been anticipating.

Source:   CrunchGear
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Xbox Originals Are Imperfect Says Microsoft  —  Microsoft says “there are some known issues” with the downloadable games including choppy visuals, lack of additional content, and even system crashing.  —  Recommend this story?  —  A day after confirming downloadable Xbox games for 360 …

Source:   PC World
Author:   Blake Snow
Link:   http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139650-c…

CBS Offers Midtown Manhattan Free Wireless Internet Access  —  Some awesome news out of Manhattan today.  CBS Corporation has announced today that it will “light up” midtown Manhattan with the creation of the “CBS Mobile Zone,” a wireless high-speed network enabling New Yorkers …

Source:   CenterNetworks -
Author:   Allen Stern
Link:   http://www.centernetworks.com/manhattan-free-wifi-cbs…

IBM takes the computing cloud corporate; What cloud will you trust?  —  IBM on Thursday unveiled “Blue Cloud,” a corporate cloud computing bundle of services for data centers.  —  With the move Big Blue is following the path blazed by Amazon and other cloud services.

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Larry Dignan
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7050

The Death of E-Mail  —  TEENAGERS ARE ABANDONING THEIR YAHOO! AND HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS.  DO THE REST OF US HAVE TO?  —  By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert.  For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters …

Source:   Slate
Author:   Chad Lorenz
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Hidden crime of ‘wi-fi tapping’: only 11 arrests but most of us are guilty  —  More than half of computer users have illegally logged on to someone else’s wi-fi connection yet only 11 people have been arrested for the crime, an investigation by The Times has found.

Source:   Times of London
Link:   http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news…

I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar  —  I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers.  —  The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Steve Lohr
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High-quality YouTube videos coming soon  —  YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon.  Although YouTube’s goal, he said, is to make the site’s vast library of content available to everyone …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Rafe Needleman
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9817732-7.html

Colossus cracks codes once more  —  Technology Correspondent, BBC News website  —  Bletchley’s code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months  —  For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park.

Source:   Press Association
Author:   Mark Ward
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094881.stm

WWII computer working again  —  Technology Correspondent, BBC News website  —  Bletchley’s code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months  —  For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park.  —  The machine is being put through …

Source:   Press Association
Author:   Mark Ward
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