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Nintendo's Satoru Iwata has said that there is still potential for DS growth, despite critics suggesting the market is saturated.
"Some say the market for the DS is saturated, but I disagree," said Iwata, speaking to the Daily Yomiuri.

“In Japan, a country with a population of 127 million, we've sold 23 million DS units. The United States is inhabited by over 300 million people, and there are more than 490 million people in the European Union.

"Sales of the product could grow further in foreign countries considering their populations," he added. There is sales potential in Europe and emerging markets such as India and Russia, said Iwata. And while Nintendo hardware has been a runaway success in 2008, he noted that Nintendo is monitoring the current economic downturn closely.
"The number of people playing games is rapidly increasing in Europe, where the penetration of games had been slow. In Germany, bookstores have opened Nintendo sections and Wii software has sold well.

"I'd also like to focus on emerging markets such as Russia and India.

"I think the game industry will keep doing well in 2009. However, the current economic recession is something that happens only once in 50 or 100 years. We have to monitor the market very carefully," he said.

Hey, cube dwellers -- call your manager over and give him / her a look at this, because starting today, conference calling will never be the same. From what we can tell, this is the world's first Atom-powered telephone, and also the first telephone we've seen in years that we would joyously park in our own living rooms. OpenPeak's ProFrame is an all-in-one conglomerate that handles VoIP calling and offers up a 7-inch touchscreen panel and "an intuitive navigation menu for easy access to contacts, instant messaging, voicemail, calendar, call logs, memos, news, stocks, weather, and many other useful services." Sure, this critter was totally designed with the hospitality industry in mind, but don't tell us this couldn't be molded into a wicked widgets portal for the home.

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OpenPeak intros Atom-powered ProFrame VoIP phone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“There is something I want to tell the citizens of this great city about the charges that the State Prosecutor has brought against me today. “For the past two years, I have done my best to serve the City of Baltimore as Mayor, and I will continue to do so. I will not let these charges [...]Copyright © 2004-2008, http://bamapachyderm.com. DIE, sploggers! * digitalfingerprint: bd106974913ca8b6ebaa08c86a280be9 (91.121.126.74)

Hi,

Basically, I just got myself a psp from ebay which appears to have 2.60 firmware.

When I go to the memory stick I have 3 folders, "ISO, VIDEO and PSP"

I have been putting CSO and ISO files in the ISO folder and have managed to get a handfull of CSO games working, but none of the ISO games???

In the "PSP" folder I have the following folders: "GAME, GAME150, GAME271(inside folder says eboots go here), MUSIC, PHOTO, SAVEDATA and SYSTEM"

I have tried putting eboot games into the "GAME271" folder, but these don't work.

I don't really know if I am able to upgrade the software, I'm under the impression that If I click on "update Version 2.60" I may lose the firmware and the ability to play homebrew games????

Can anyone give me advice on this firmware and How to use it ? I would just be happy to play a few more CSO file games and some of the ISO file games !

Any advice would be greatly appreciated...Thanks,

Justin

While one can't be blamed for mistaking all of composer Danny Elfman's work for sounding like his distinctive collaborations with Tim Burton, the three-time Oscar nominee has been kicking as much ass as ever when it comes to more conventional action fare, with work on The Kingdom, Wanted, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, not to mention dramas like Milk and Notorious.

So when the MTV Movies Blog broke the news that Elfman just began scoring this summer's Terminator: Salvation, it sounded like as good a fit as any. He doesn't promise the return of Brad Fiedel's signature theme, though he also doesn't rule it out. Even if he sticks with a wholly original composition, I really think he'll bring something exciting to the table, whether or not director McG manages to.

MTV also brought less surprising news that hip-hop artist Common, who starred in Wanted and stars in this, will be contributing a track. Now I could see the beat turning up for that:

Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh -- WHAT?
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh -- YEAH!

Y'all feelin' me? No? Well, are you at least feeling the Elfman?

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While wandering Palm's lounge of poor lighting and heavy shadow, we bumped into the retail packaging for the Pre. While not likely the final design, it certainly follows Palm's recent packaging aesthetic.

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Palm's Pre boxed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TF1, 20 h vendredi 9 janvier 2009. “Pas encore au pouvoir mais déja au pied du mur, le futur président semble épuisé. Il multiplie les discours, les réunions de crise” dit le commentaire de Gilles Bouleau sur une sélection d’images. Bigre on est dans la dramatisation, à peine, élu, pas encore au pouvoir et Obama [suite...]

Although Google keeps gaining search engine market share, people’s loyalties are far from locked in. J.P. Morgan Internet analyst Imran Khan recently conducted a survey to see if Web consumers would be willing to switch search engines. He found that 62 percent would. The biggest reason that would cause them to change? Better search results (45 percent of all respondents said this would make them switch, and 48 percent of respondents who use Google as their main engine).

The responses, in order of popularity:

I’ve recreated the poll below so that you can take it. J.P. Morgan’s poll was only among 766 U.S. residents. We can probably do better than that.

What Would Make You Want To Try A New Search Engine?
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Here are some more results from J.P. Morgan’s poll, including the demographics of different search engine users. Google attracts both the wealthiest (70 percent of people with incomes greater than $100,000) and the youngest serachers (67 percent of people between 18 and 41).

Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

Call it the case of same story, different quarter for the nation's banks.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/dRpx70KzSe4" height="1" width="1"/

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The call for supporting other operating systems besides Windows started immediately after Google first released the browser in beta last September.

The restaurant industry is struggling mightily as the economy slumps further into recession, food costs rise and consumers tighten their grips on their wallets.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/nfpjAb8IxzM" height="1" width="1"/

Over at Boing Boing Offworld, Margaret Robertson looks back at Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, in which you control the action by banging on crappy electronic drums. Margaret is the former editor of Edge magazine and I am thrilled that she's now a regular columnist for Offworld. From "One More Go: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat": One of the worst game ideas ever was embodied in Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, which is a platform game you control with a pair of cheap electric bongos. Not, please note, a modern, newfangled, automagic platform game like Assassin’s Creed. A proper, old-fashioned 2D platformer with ledges and enemies and timed swings and all the things that make you cry out for a nice crisp d-pad and a decently sprung jump button. Or, in the absence of those, perhaps at least something with more than two buttons which you can operate without having to pretend to be a toddler who just dropped a jam sandwich off his high chair. So why go back to Jungle Beat? For a little reassuring schadenfreude that I’m not the only person who can have bad game ideas? No. Because it’s a dazzling, dizzying delight. Bad idea; brilliant game. One More Go: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat...br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ac0138b86ebe3fd47c6e4e9b107d2dcbp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ac0138b86ebe3fd47c6e4e9b107d2dcbp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ac0138b86ebe3fd47c6e4e9b107d2dcb" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

While the major labels wheeze, music publishers enjoy an overlooked boom.

Oslo has Western Europe's only current alternative to Russian supply.

Carmakers might be struggling but Volkswagen is still reporting an increase in sales.

The king of discounters gets smacked down. It's a second chance for bulls.

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DisplayLink is most certainly swinging the big wood here at CES, with announcements spanning from Samsung monitors to Acer multimedia docks. Now, it's hooking up with HP for the first time ever in order to introduce the USB 2.0 Docking Station with DisplayLink technology. The universal dock enables laptops to pass through audio, LAN and peripheral connectivity, and of course, it enables the laptop to expand its display onto a USB-enabled monitor without the need for graphics cards and the like. We can't tell you when or where it'll land, but you can have a gander at the read link for other hardware details.

Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless

HP's USB 2.0 Docking Station adds in DisplayLink technology originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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