If you want to use your DS light on the go, you have to settle for the mediocre built-in speakers. To solve the quality problem, GameTech introduced a special sound shell that provides better speakers and serves as a case and as a base stand for a comfortable use, in case it adds some weight and turns your DS into a mammoth non lifted unit. Next !
[via crunchgear]
Reports on a tangible recession coming up to the US markets, due to subprime mortgage crisis, brings Apple to consider the reduction of iPod production during 2008. According to Bank Of America, the Cupertino company asked its suppliers to decrease the players manufacturing after anticipating substantial deceleration in sales. According to the bank, Apple is expected to cut up to 20% of the iPod production compared to the beginning of January and 30% compared to December. iPhone production might get damaged as well.
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Firmware version 1.1 can be a dangerous escapade for iPod Classic owners, as we hear the headphones are getting damaged once the update is installed and the device is turned off. For some reason, the latest update sends electric pulses, up to 500mv, causing a real danger to the users and to their earbuds. I guess you should wait with this update until it gets fixed by Apple. If you ran out of patient and already installed it, you should dowgrade to an earlier version.
[via slashgear]
Now it’s official, the Zune 8GB gets 20$ price cut, so you can find the player across the US for just $179. The reason for the latest discount wasn’t stated but I believe Microsoft wants to increase the competition with Apple’s iPod players. The reduction brings the Zune 4GB only 30$ away from the 8GB player, which makes it dispensable.
[via engadget]
Samsung released the second part of the Blue Wave firmware update for P2 players. The first part unveiled Bluetooth support, enabling wireless file sharing with other supported devices and Bluetooth phone integration to handle cellphones via the players. The new 3.07 update version features the following:
Download the new update here.
Check out the video.
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Rumors come true, Microsoft submitted an official offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion, price that presents $31 per share, 62% over Yahoo’s closing price, 19.18$. Microsoft is making tremendous efforts to carry out this deal, in order to stay a major internet player and to be able to compete Google in the growing online advertisement and searching markets. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer said: “We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.” The bid was submitted after Yahoo announced the cutting of 1,000 jobs and reported 8 consistent quarters of dropping shares value. With the anticipation for a difficult year, Yahoo’s board of directors might accept the offer, though we hear the company is not in a rush. Yahoo shares responded with increasing of 47.9%.
Update: Google is reluctant with current developments. preliminary comment in Google’s official blog, attacking Microsoft for the hostile bid to acquire Yahoo and raises troubling questions:
“Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.”
And more:
…”Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’ email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions — and consumers deserve satisfying answers.”
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