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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music and a low price in Q1 2010

at 2:38 PM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

The 5230 has only recently made its way out to stores, but that hasn't stopped Nokia from fashioning a KIRFy sort of successor for it. Meet the Nokia 5235, a spec for spec copy of its elder brother, including the same 3.2-inch touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, and Symbian S60 5th edition. We thought we could spot a tiny difference in the materials being used, but otherwise you really are looking at the exact same handset. Your wallet would tell the difference, though, as the 5235 has a pre-tax and pre-subsidy price of €145 ($214), which is more than €100 cheaper than the previously noted 5230 CWM variant -- in other words, Nokia is renaming its CWM model and chopping the price nicely. Why, we don't know, but when is the first quarter of 2010.

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music and a low price in Q1 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MAG: Massive Amount of Game data

at 2:37 PM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

Click to MAG-size.

There's been some confusion about MAG, Zipper Interactive's 256 player super-multiplayer game. Some had wondered if the game would be made available as a PSN download, similar to Sony's other online efforts, like Warhawk and SOCOM Confrontation. However, Jeremy Dunham replied on the PlayStation.Blog confirming that the game will be "disc-based only." Dunham also added that "the game is so huge when moving everything off-disc, your hard drive is secretly thanking us."

Anyone that participated in the beta will likely complain about the massive amounts of data that had to be downloaded during each game update. Considering the beta is but a taste of what's to come in the full game, the necessity for a retail-only release seems all the more evident.

MAG: Massive Amount of Game data originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola Milestone becomes eXpansys UK's 'fastest selling gadget'

at 11:16 AM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

Call it a pent-up demand for WVGA Android devices, call it Droid jealousy, call it an unnatural love for the sweet, doughy goodness of a just-baked Eclair -- but whatever it is, early indications suggest that the British love their Milestones. Retailer eXpansys (which is big enough to actually produce some meaningful sales trend data, we suspect) is reporting that the just-launched Droid clone for GSM became "the fastest selling gadget in the website's 11 year history, even more successful than the iPhone" when it sold out inside of three hours on its site on top of the roughly 1,000 preorders they had taken prior to the 10th. This might be a case of double-speak -- we're trying to establish just how many phones were sold during those three hours, because what we really need is a sales rate, not a time span alone -- so we're cautioning Moto not to bust out the champagne glasses just yet, but it's certainly looking like a promising start. Schaumburg hasn't had a lot of success in Western Europe in recent years, of course, but if we can use eXpansys as a barometer here, we'd say that a little cautious optimism is well justified.

Motorola Milestone becomes eXpansys UK's 'fastest selling gadget' originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Top 10 T-Shirts For the Geek in Your Life

at 9:50 AM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers, Video Games, Gadget Head, $50 and Under, Holiday Gift Guide, Featured Stories

According to none other than Wired magazine, T-shirts have come into their own as a form of media, one that uniquely documents messages and stories, not to mention emergent technologies and companies changing the way we use the Internet. Here at Switched, we write a lot about these next-gen, "Web 2.0" companies and technologies, which include everyone from MySpace and Facebook to Twitter and even Google.

Given that we're partial to t-shirts with nerdy, tech-infused jokes and terminology, we figured it was high time to find the best geek t-shirts specifically related to Web 2.0 speak (like the "Your Podcast is Lame" t-shirt, flickr user ericskiff, pictured above). So here, dear readers is our humble survey of the wild, cotton-meets-code world of Web 2.0 t-shirts. If anything, it'll give you something cool to talk about during your podcast.

See the List >>

Top 10 T-Shirts For the Geek in Your Life originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Saturday PC game sales? Yep

at 6:51 AM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

Filed under: Biz, FPS, Simulation, Modern Warfare 2, The Sims 3

It's a Saturday and while there are already a lot of PC games, both downloadable and retail version, on sale this weekend, that doesn't mean there are not some new sales that can pop up today. In fact here they are:

Direct2Drive has a new game on sale for one day only as part of their 24 Days of Christmas promotion. It's EA's people sim sequel The Sims 3. From now until 1 pm Eastern time you can download and purchase the title for $39.95, a savings of $10 off its normal price.
GoGamer.com has cut the price of all of their Modern Warfare 2 games. That includes the PC version which can be purchased for $49.90. You can even save money on the MadCatz Modern Warfare 2 PC controllers like the Sniper mouse and the upcoming Combat Keyboard.

Saturday PC game sales? Yep originally appeared on Big Download Blog on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Should the Fed spend $2 trillion more to jump start job creation?

at 6:29 AM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

Filed under: Economy

New York Times (NYT) columnist Paul Krugman (pictured), an economist by training, an Ivy League academic by profession, and no stranger to bold proposals, has offered another big idea, recommending that the U.S. Federal Reserve double its already record-high balance sheet.

Krugman wants the Fed to buy another $2 trillion in assets to make more credit available, something Krugman argues will help the U.S. economy grow faster and create more jobs, which the nation really needs. Currently, the Fed's balance sheet is $2.17 trillion.

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Should the Fed spend $2 trillion more to jump start job creation? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nicolas Cage's New Orleans Homes Go Back To The Bank

at 6:09 AM Posted by GodSpeedDemon

It's official, Nic Cage is no longer a homeowner in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune reports on the foreclosure auction which saw Cage losing both his French Quarter and Garden District homes. Cage's lender, Regions Bank, bought both homes back for a total of $4.5 million, which is two-thirds of the value that appraisers hired by the bank had determined they were worth. There were no other bids for the property. Cage did not attend the auction. The city will collect $151,729 in unpaid property taxes. Cage owed approximately $5.5 million on the homes. The bank is free to go after Hancock Park Real Estate Company, Cage's real estate holding company, for the other $1 million and can also try to sell the homes at market value to raise the money.

Cage bought his six-bedroom Garden District home in 2005 for $3.45 million and listed it for sale for $3.7 million. Cage's New Orleans other home, the haunted LaLaurie mansion was bought by Cage in 2006 for $3.45 million. He listed it for $3.9 million. He has blamed his former business manager, Sam Levin, for his recent financial woes including a $6 million IRS bill. He still has homes in Las Vegas, England, Rhode Island and the Bahamas either on the market or about to be sold.