Archive for February 1st, 2008

Custom PSP firmware 3.90 M33 out, Skypey

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video Mmm, nothing tastes quite like a fresh batch of homebrew hacks on day-old firmware. PSP owners yearning to get their Skype on need wait no more. The M33 team has released a custom version of Sony's 3.90 firmware available via the new Network ...

Canon’s PMA 2008 booth tour

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras Canon's got a lot of product to fit under its umbrella, so the booth is quite the monster. Just about everything in the digital photo workflow is covered here, from the cameras (duh) right up to the final print. All interest/skill levels from amateur to pro are ...

Hands-on with Kodak’s new EasyShare Z1012 IS

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras Those of you looking for a hybrid camera could do a lot worse than Kodak's new EasyShare Z1012 IS: besides the handy optical image stabilization, you're also getting a 10 megapixel sensor and whopping 12x optical zoom. Not too shabby for a $300 cam, not too shabby ...

Intel and Micron develop “world’s fastest” NAND — kiss SSD random write lag goodbye

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Filed under: StorageHow do 200MBps reads and 100MBps writes in a storage device sound to you? Pretty sweet if you ask us. That's the upper spec for Micron's new highspeed 8Gb (Gigabit not Gigabyte, kids) SLC NAND co-developed with Intel on a 50-nm processes node. Once slapped together in an ...

Sony’s PMA 2008 booth tour

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras Sony's booth has to be pretty big to hold all the imaging goodies, so here's a whirlwind tour of it. You know Sony's making a play for the big boys in the DSLR arena, so the alpha-series had a good amount of serious-looking real estate. The fleet ...