The Playstation Network is back up in the USA. Sony just flipped the switch and they want you to make sure your passwords are very secure.
This update brings back online gameplay, unlimited music on Qriocity, Netflix/Hulu access, Friends Lists, chat, Trophy comparison and PlayStation Home.
The download and installation is very quick, not taking any longer than 10 minutes. There is still no word on whether this update will be released worldwide this week.
Techcrunch was lucky enough to get their hands on the upcoming “Chromebook”. Acer and Samsung will be producing the Chromebooks and here are pictures of the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook.
You can now play Angry Birds for free in your web browser. Head over to chrome.angrybirds.com and download the official Angry Birds Chrome application. The game itself will work in any web browser, even Internet Explorer and Safari.
I recently heard about a new solar yacht that was aiming to travel around the world. The Turanor PlanetSolar is an amazing solar super yacht. The yacht itself costs around $17.5 million to build the it has a four man crew.
The yacht features 825 solar panels that can generate up to 93.5 kilowatts of power.
The four-man crew will cross the Atlantic Ocean, Panama Canal, Pacific Ocean, Indian finalizing with the Suez Canal, before setting back home by the Mediterranean. The stopovers along the journey will be organised in large port cities of Miami, Hong Kong, Singapore and Cancun for examples.
What happens when there is no sun? Lithium-ion batteries in both floats power up the ship during the hours of the night and for up to three sunless days. A computer controls the flow of energy to the batteries and motors that rotates the yachts six foot propeller.
Google has just introduced the world to the brand new Chromebook. The Chromebook is unlike most laptops because it is optimised for web use. Google arent interested in making software, so they have decided to basically turn Google Chrome into the operating system for a new laptop.
Google Chromebooks will be available for sale from June 15 in U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Spain. In the U.S., buy Chromebooks online from Amazon and Best Buy.
There has been a leaked photo on the upcoming iPod nano which seems to have removed the clip design and added a 1.3 megapixel camera. The images was leaked by Apple.pro, so it seems pretty safe to say this is going to be the next iPod nano.
It is very surprising to see the clip removed, especially considering a lot of people use the clip when listening to their music on the go. Im not really sure a camera is the way forward.. are they just trying to make it yet another device that can use Facetime?
It was during Google’s annual I/O Conference this week in San Francisco that Google announced the release of their shiny new Chromebook.
Acer and Samsung have taken up the project and will be releasing them for public sale on June 15th. Samsung’s WiFi-only Chromebook will cost $429, but if you want their 3G version, it’ll cost $499. Acer will be selling their WiFi-only Chromebook for just $349.
Chromebooks will also be sold internationally. In the U.S. you can pick them up from Amazon or Best Buy. Other countries these will be readily available for are the U.K., France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy.
So what is it that makes these better than every other Netbook out on the market right now? Well, here are a few reasons:
-All-day battery life.
-Built-in Net connectivity. (WiFi and/or Verizon Wireless 3G service)
-Automatic weekly updates. (Don’t have to worry about installing patches.)
-Contain dual-core processors from Intel. (They’re functional!)
The phone itself has been made by Samsung and runs Android 2.3. Featuring a 4 inch AMOLED touchscreen, 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and 16 GB of storage.
Unlike the T-Mobile version Sprint has a WiMAX chip in the phone to allow even faster mobile data transfer.
Do you think Google will have any more success with this device?
David Braben talks about his new product within Elite. Barben and his team have developed a USB stick PC that could change the face of computing. This mini PC only costs around $25 to develop and it includes a USB and HDMI ports.
It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0 allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed.
It seems like RIM have decided to starting thinking about also adopting other mobile platforms. RIM is now planning on supporting smartphones on other platforms including iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone 7 and Android. RIM feels it’s about time to explore the world beyond Blackberry and see if they can have the same success as competitors such as HTC.
It seems like RIM are accepting that the corporate world will be dominated by iOS and Android.
There is still no word on any of the details, but we will report everything as it comes in.
