Although we were too late to verify for ourselves, both Joystiq and Scrawl swear up and down that the above three images, each of whom unfortunately lack a higher-res version, all hail from the official Sony Computer Entertainment Europe website, and each showing a feature of the PlayStation 3‘s XMB we haven’t seen before: some form of Facebook integration, the ability to change gamercard colors, and a new method of photo organization / perusal. None of these would be too surprising or earth-shattering, really, and the juiciest question of them all — exactly when we might see these additions — is still a mystery. Just in case the pics come back up, their respective URLs are just below.
[Via Joystiq and Scrawl]
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Leaked PS3 XMB images hint at Facebook integration, new image layout originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The holiday shopping season is really creeping up on us quickly this year… wasn’t it just Halloween the other day? Regardless, Black Friday ads revealing the deals to come are leaking all over the internet, so we thought we’d round up a few of the less monotonous-looking bargains. So what’s on offer? It looks like Sam’s Club has an
Acer Aspire One 10.1-inch netbook going for $197, and an HP G71 17-inch laptop with a Blu-ray player for $499, an
Olympus FE-4000 12 megapixel digicam for $98, and a few other odds and ends. Meanwhile, over at Staples you can snag a 500GB Western Digital
My Passport portable hard drive for $70 and a 23-inch Acer widescreen LCD for $140. If you’re still up to it, you can head over to Target and grab a Nikon Coolpix S203 for $88 or a TomTom XL340S for $97. Finally, it looks like Kmart’s going to have a 42-inch Panasonic 720p Plasma HDTV for $550 and a 10.1 megapixel Sony
Cyber-shot W180 for $99. While you’re there, don’t forget to pick up a Jaclyn Smith cashmere sweater set for $30, too! Hit the read links for full ads.
Read – Sam’s Club Black Friday Ad Leaked
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Read – Kmart Black Friday Ad
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Black Friday ads leaking all over town, we’ve rounded them up originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you were thinking of tearing apart your own Droid, let us direct you first to this quote straight from the folks at phoneWreck: “no easy task.” It seems that even finding some of the screws involved in holding the mess together was a problem, but at the end of the day, good old-fashioned human ingenuity prevailed over… well, other human ingenuity, and the phone fell asunder into the 16 pieces you see here. As you might imagine, there’s a bit of industrial magic involved in fitting a full QWERTY slide into a package this tight — but just as Moto was up to the challenge of putting it together, some dude with a little time on his hands was up to the challenge of asploding it. Needless to say, we won’t be doing this to ours.
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Motorola Droid torn down despite desperate cries of ‘no disassemble’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hewlett-Packard announces it has agreed to buy network systems maker 3Com in a deal worth $2.7bn.
Okay, so we’re reading this puff piece in the Miami New Times about would-be Mac cloner Psystar, and while we’re somewhat willing to dismiss author Tim Elfrink’s various mischaracterizations of the law and what Psystar is actually doing as just laziness and / or ignorance, there’s a quote here from Psystar founder Rudy Pedraza that simply leaps off the page:
Rudy scoffs at the idea he borrowed from the Hackintosh scene. “The first thing you have to do is unlearn everything you’ve read online about how to make this work,” Rudy says, “because it’s all wrong.”
Really? Because we think there’s a very large, very active hacking community out there that would disagree with you, Rudy.
P.S.- A full list of every other mistake in this piece after the break.
[Thanks, Chris]
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Psystar founders claim they cracked OS X, hackintosh scene is ‘all wrong’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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