If you have been waiting for the next-generation console from Nintendo your wait will be over by the end of the year. Nintendo has announced they will be releasing the successor to the Wii by the holiday season of 2012. There is still quite a bit of time left before the Wii U launches but there are still a ton of questions surrounding it (as well as a ton of rumors). GamesBeat has the full (and short) announcement over here.
Nintendo will launch its Wii U video game console — the successor to
the wildly successful but aging Nintendo Wii — in the U.S. and other key
markets in time for the holiday shopping season later this year.
Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata told reporters in Japan that
the Wii U would be launched by the end of the year in the U.S., Europe,
Australia and Japan, according to Reuters.
Warner Bros. announced this month that they will be adding a 56 day delay from when their new DVDs are available in stores to when you can rent them from Netflix (or other movie rental sites). Basically this means that for 56 days you will be able to go buy the DVD at your favorite store before you can actually watch it online through Netflix. Its kinda funny to see companies doing things like this to "boost DVD sales" when chances are good its just going to make people mad and they'll just find alternative ways to get the product for free. MediaBeat has all the details on Warner Bros. announcement over here.
Earlier this month, Warner Brothers decided to delay all new DVD movie releases from becoming available through video rental services, like Blockbuster and Netflix.
This means the rental services must wait 56 days after a new Warner
Brothers DVD hits retail store shelves before it’s able to begin renting
it out to customers. Of course, the video rental companies do have the
option of buying the new DVD releases at full retail price, but this
would raise over all operating costs for the rental service and
ultimately dip into its profits.
I am interested to see if there is anyone out there that is now going to go buy the DVD instead of having to wait? Realistically if you were going to wait for it to come out on DVD (so you could rent it instead of buying it) will having to wait an extra month change your mind and make you go buy the DVD instead from a store? Use the forum link below and let us know what you think.
Users who were using MegaUpload for legitimate purposes are understandably a little bit mad thanks to the recent FBI shutdown of MegaUpload. some of these users are now forming groups which are going to try to sue the FBI to get their lost files back (or more likely just get a few bucks out of them). As expected the whole MegaUpload saga is getting messier and chances are good this is not the last we've heard about this. TorrentFreak has the full story.
In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven.
However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the
site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections.
By now you have probably heard about the $25 dollar Raspberry Pi PC that is slated to be launched shortly. Basically the Raspberry Pi systems is an all-in-one system that is not much bigger than the size of a deck of playing card, but the interesting part of this whole system is the amount of performance they are showing off now which is double the GPU performance of the iPhone 4S and more than the current Tegra 2 GPUs. Geek.com has more info on the Raspberry Pi project as well as a bunch of new performance numbers.
Anticipation for the launch of the Raspberry Pi
$25 PC continues to grow as its launch window gets ever closer. Over
the past few months it has been surprising to see what the tiny machine
is capable of. Videos of it running Quake III, playing back 1080p video, and handling graphics-intensive particle and sprite demos have all impressed, but until now we haven’t really been able to gauge how the device compares to other gadgets.
During the summer when Netflix introduced a price hike people started to ditch Netflix in droves, however, it appears like in Q4 of 2011 that trend stopped and they almost gained enough new customers to offset all of the people who left earlier in the year. Netflix ended 2011 with 24.4 million subscribers in the US and if they can continue to gain new subscribers or bring some of their old customers back they might be able to have a decent year (which wasn't expected). The Huffington Post has the full story.
Netflix has regained almost as many customers as it lost following an
unpopular price increase, signaling that the video subscription service
is healing from its self-inflicted wounds.
Fourth-quarter figures released Wednesday show Netflix Inc. ended
December with 24.4 million subscribers in the U.S., up from 23.8 million
at the end of September. That gain of about 600,000 customers compares
with the loss of 800,000 subscribers last summer after it raised its
U.S. prices as much as 60 percent.
Bad news coming from Symantec this week as they've publicly admitted that a group of hackers has stolen their code for pcAnywhere and users of that software are now exposed to a higher risk of attack. The "theft" of this code actually happened 6 years ago apparently but they've just realized it now.... Ars Technica has the full story that users of pcAnywhere might want to check out.
Although Symantec says the theft actually occurred in 2006, the issue
did not come to light until this month when hackers related to Anonymous
said they had the source code and would release it publicly.
Users of the Norton products in question are not at any increased risk
of attack because of the age of the source code and security
improvements made in the years since the breach, but the vendor acknowledged on Tuesday night that "Customers of Symantec's pcAnywhere have increased risk as a result of this incident."
Episode #143 of Weekly Tech Update is now available
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In this episode we will be discussing things that make RIM worth buying, Megaupload goes taken mega-down and SEGA invests in some 'Toylet' games. We have those stories and more...
If you're into hearing things when you play games, the Sennheiser PC 320 G4ME Headset may be something you're interesting in. This is a pretty slick unit that carries Sennheiser quality as well as a Sennheiser price tag. At $120, it's not ridiculously priced, but it's not exactly cheap either. HardwareHeaven has more.
Overall the build quality of the PC 320 is good, we get a nice light headset which is predominantly black plastic but each segment fits well with the next. Also worthy of note is that the rubber coated cable which is durable and the decent action on the mic which allows us to position it to our exact requirements.
TechReviews has a look at the sweet Bayan Audio 7 Speaker Dock in their latest review. This can hold two iDevices (shown with an iPhone and and iPod Nano) and has a really awesome design. Take a look to find out how it sounds, but based on design, it's got my vote.
The actual docks feature the standard 30-pin connector, as well as a knob on the rear of the dock to adjust the dock for different devices such as the iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch. Unfortunately you can’t hook up your iPad this way for some unknown reason, but you can still use your iPad with the Bayan 7 via the ports on the rear of the speaker.
It's interesting that NVIDIA is being a realist and cutting their sales forecast for 2012, but the interesting thing is that they are blaming it on Tegra 2 decline and HDD shortages. In the real world, NVIDIA hasn't done much in the way of product development (at least what they've actually brought to the table) outside of their Tegra line. Desktop GPUs from them are stale and old. Maybe they need to release something compelling to boost sales. That's just a thought. AllThingsD has more info.
Nvidia said the shortfall was caused in part by the PC-market impact from a global hard-drive shortage brought on by flooding in Thailand. As a result, fewer systems were shipped, and some PC makers opted to scale back on graphics to account for their higher hard-drive costs.
While this gets a little, well, okay - a lot like big brother, it's nice to see that Google has simplified their privacy policy and vows to keep everything to themselves, but they will use everything you submit to know even more about you. While this may be scary, anyone with an understanding of search will realize that this has been happening for years - Google is just admitting it.
We have just taken a look at the HP Photosmart 6510 e-All-in-One printer
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