Sony has lowered the price of their PS3 hardware kit and making it easier for independent gaming developers to purchase. The price will decrease to almost half. But that isn’t the only thing that Sony is cutting back on. Sony did the same thing to the PS2 hardware kit a year after it had been released back in 2000.

The price cut will be available to those in Japan, Europe, United States, and Australia. Greg Bondar – who is part of the Game Development Association of Australia – was excited to hear the news knowing that it would give otherwise unknown developers the chance to show their stuff and to compete with some of the larger companies.

“A lot of the larger, established studios can get into it, even they find it cost prohibitive, but in general it now gives us and our members a broader base of access to such technology and opportunity to develop. I think it has been a prohibitive factor,” Bondar said.

“If we have access to such development kits, it allows us to produce a better product, so we welcome it; [we] highly welcome it and congratulations to Sony.”

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Caller ID installed into your phone is something that has been around for some years now. But what if you could know who was calling without having to get up off the couch and looking at the phone.

It seems that many different cable companies have been trying to create a way of enabling the caller ID feature on a person’s television. So whenever someone was to call you a little box would appear at the corner of the screen telling you the name and number of the person calling.

Cablevision Systems, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable are the only cable providers that have enabled this feature. Cablevision Systems (in New York City) will be offering the feature to all 3 million of its customers. The best part of having this feature (through Cablevision) is that they don’t charge any extra to enable it and you can always turn it off when you want.
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When information reached our ears of Google’s new Android cellphone - the Gphone - we immediately believed that it would be the newest competition against the Apple iPhone. However, analysts Piper Jaffray and his co-analyst, Gene Munster are convinced that they are targeting completely different sections of the cellphone industry.

The goal of the iPhone is to weaken those the people who control how most handset are created and sold. On the other hand Google’s free Android system is supporting the idea that handset manufacturers be charged a licensing fee for the software that they use.
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Nokia has launched yet another phone to their N-Series. The Nokia N82 was recently distributed this year and expectations were high. The N82 comes with many features such as A-GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, Xenon flash, Carl Zeiss optics and Internet connectivity, to name to least. It also retails with a 2GB microSD card, that can be plugged into a compatible TV to view the multimedia saved on the card. So far, the N-Series smart phones have been very popular and above your standard cell phone. And for the right price, you can own one now. Check out Nokia’s website for more details. As far as we think, this product is definitely hot.

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As everyone knows, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. And this year, you’ll have much to be thankful for. Especially unbelievably good bargains! There’s never been a better time than now to purchase a new HDTV. 42- inch plasma TVs were selling at 1,300 last summer. This year, they are expected to be as low as $600 after Thanksgiving Day! So why the big plunge in prices? It’s all due to the roll-out of LCD TVs, who usually measure in sizes of 40 inches or larger.  So consumers, be on the lookout for cheap, quality plasma TVs. And if you miss this chance, don’t say we did tell you so.

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