MySpace will announce today that its MyAds program is available to the public. One group MySpace is aggressively targeting the service towards is bands, which will be able to create their own banner ads and then select which MySpace users will see the ads based on the users' listed interests.

pGoogle (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker" title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) has told paidContent.co.uk it intends to appeal two seperate copyright cases it lost in Hamburg, Germany today over its unauthorised indexing of an artist's work and a photographer's photo as thumbnails in Google image search results. a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204sid=a_C1wVkCvPww" title="Bloomberg reports"Bloomberg reported/a that Google lost both cases at the Regional Court of Hamburg: photographer Michael Bernhard brought the action after one of his pictures was shown in a search results page and artist Thomas Horn applied to the court after comics he holds the copyright to were shown in the results. bIn its ruling in favour of Bernhard the court said: "It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller than original pictures and are displayed in a lower resolution." /b /p p b--Google's response:/b "Google is disappointed and intends to appeal the ruling to the German Supreme Court because we believe that services like Google Image Search are entirely legal... Today's decision is very bad for Internet users in Germany, it is a major step backwards for German e-business in general, and it is bad for the thousands of websites who receive valuable traffic through Image Search and similar services." /p p Google is no stranger to copyright battles and has a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/about-copiepresse-decision.html" title="appealed them"appealed them/a before, which it did after losing a ruling in the Belgian courts in the a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-belgian-newspapers-to-google-pay-us-77m-for-indexing-our-news" title="long-running copyright dispute"long-running copyright dispute/a with Belgian newspaper association Copiepresses in 2007. Google-owned Youtube was a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-mediaset-sues-youtube-seeking-500-million-damages" title="sued"sued/a in July by Viacom and media companies in Italy, France and Spain for infringement. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-belgian-newspapers-to-google-pay-us-77m-for-indexing-our-news/" title="Belgian Newspapers To Google: Pay Us £39 Million For Indexing Our News"Belgian Newspapers To Google: Pay Us £39 Million For Indexing Our News/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-mediaset-sues-youtube-seeking-500-million-damages/" title="Italy's MediaSet Sues YouTube; Seeking At Least €500 Million Damages"Italy's MediaSet Sues YouTube; Seeking At Least €500 Million Damages/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=dB1cl8"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=dB1cl8" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=DlusM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=DlusM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=xlWtM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=xlWtM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ACmkm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ACmkm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=hlppM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=hlppM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=vZmzM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=vZmzM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/419708819" height="1" width="1"/

The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minumum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm, but are continually monitoring our closest star with an array of telescopes and satellites. Seen below are some recent images of the Sun in more active times. (21 photos total)A sweeping prominence, a huge cloud of relatively cool dense plasma is seen suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. At times, promineces can erupt, escaping the Sun's atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K (over 100,000 degrees F). Every feature in the image traces magnetic field structure. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures. (Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium)

pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/audio/" rel="tag"Audio/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag"Web services/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software/" rel="tag"Social Software/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/" rel="tag"web 2.0/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/"img width="354" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="200" border="0" align="middle" alt="SoundCloud" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/10/soundcloudscreen-1.jpg" //a/div There are plenty of ways to share music, but most of them are slow or have clunky interfaces. a href="http://www.soundcloud.com"SoundCloud/a aims to be the first player in the market to catch on in a big way, by making things easy for its users. Soundcloud works like an inbox, so new songs come in from your friends (or from artists and record labels) and you can handle them all in one convenient place. You can also put a dropbox on any site (including MySpace, Facebook, and your blog) where people can click to send you a track.br / br / I love the idea of being able to play incoming tracks selectively before downloading them, and also the idea of letting them stream as one big playlist. Sending music looks to be just as easy. You can send to an email address or another SoundCloud account, and the result looks a heck of a lot better than MySpace Music. Also, there are no file size limits!br /br /If you're a musician, SoundCloud looks like a good place to post your new tracks. Each song gets its own URL and its own privacy settings, so you can decide who's allowed to listen to or download it. Create Digital Music says SoundCloud could be the Flickr of music, and after testing it out, I'm inclined to agree. br /br / [via a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/10/09/soundcloud-here-like-flickr-for-music/"Create Digital Music/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/13/soundcloud-is-live-bringing-music-sharing-to-the-masses/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1338374/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/13/soundcloud-is-live-bringing-music-sharing-to-the-masses/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=ZYKMrZ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=ZYKMrZ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=b0r7m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=b0r7m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=hOYBm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=hOYBm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/419494551" height="1" width="1"/

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/economy/" rel="tag"Economy/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/" rel="tag"Euro/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/renault/" rel="tag"Renault/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/citroen/" rel="tag"Citroen/a/ppimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/citroen_logo_250.jpg" alt="" /Following the approach taken by rival Renault, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is working on an entry-level car set to debut in emerging markets in 2011. The Renault Logan has done well in Russia and Romania, which has prodded this interest and action from PSA. The new five-passenger vehicle will be assembled in Turkey or Poland and sold in eastern and central Europe, Russia, Turkey, and North Africa wearing both Citroen and Peugeot badging. If successful, sales would also expand to include China and South America. Even if the vehicle sells well, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen CEO Christian Streiff maintains there are no plans to sell the new car in western Europe - regardless of Renault's strategy. /p p[Source: a href="http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/ANE03/810129877/1179/rss02amp;rssfeed=rss02"Automotive News/a, subs. req'd]/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/psa-citroen-to-launch-low-cost-car-for-emerging-markets/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1340237/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/psa-citroen-to-launch-low-cost-car-for-emerging-markets/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=urcsAZ"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=urcsAZ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=AWmvm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=AWmvm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=CS38m"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=CS38m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/419972559" height="1" width="1"/

Here's a round-up of some stuff (and things) currently causing waves online:

-- Moviefone has launched the latest installment of Unscripted, featuring stars Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks discussing their new film W. using reader questions and some of their own. Additionally, above you'll find some newly-released art for the film. Heh.

-- After breaking up with Paramount, Dreamworks has officially found a new f*ck buddy in Universal, so says Variety. The two signed a seven-year worldwide distribution deal.

-- Darren Aronofsky's The Fighter looks to be in trouble. Now that the writer-director is working hard on that Robocop remake, seems this other flick is being neglected. Brad Pitt has apparently dropped out, and Mark Wahlberg -- who's been training for the role for over a year -- doesn't seem to know the film's current status. All that being said, Slashfilm claims their scouting locations in Mass.

-- A few photos of Mel Gibson on the set of Edge of Darkness have appeared online, most of which show the man going full-Diddy, forcing some woman to hold an umbrella so the sun doesn't, ya know, shine on the poor man. In case you forgot, this film marks Gibson's return to acting as a homicide detective investigating the death of his daughter. See image to the right, click to see enlarge. [via Crabbies Hollywood]

-- A theme park in the UK is actually moving forward with a ride based on the Saw films, called Saw - The Ride. I bet folks will just kill to get on it. HAR! Apparently, we're looking at a ride with "beyond vertical drop of 100-degree from a height of 100ft, as well as a rather sinister sounding "three inversions" to add to the fun." Who's down? [via IGN]

Guillaume Depardieu, the 37-year-old son of Gerard Depardieu, died today in Paris from a bout of acute pneumonia. Depardieu, who's starred in upwards of 20 films, struggled with drugs and drinking over the years.

A few new images of Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac in the new film Soul Men have arrived in the Cinematical inbox. Check them out in the gallery below.

Gallery: Soul Men

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pa href="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/joost1013.png" onclick="window.open('http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/joost1013.png','popup','width=1333,height=521,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"img src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/joost1013_thumb.png" alt="image" align="right" width="240" height="92" //aOnline video site a href="http://www.joost.com/" title="Joost"Joost/a is finally, officially easier to use. The Flash-based, download-free version for browsers can be accessed now but the full-featured version is supposed to launch at midnight. Joost boasts of having the "largest online library of legal video programming." The company says it has doubled the number of videos in the past 10 months to more than 46,000 with a 50 percent increase in hours for a total of more than 8,000 hours. Content partners include investors CBS (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=CBS" class="ticker" title="CBS"NYSE: CBS/a) and Viacom; Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) Pictures Television; Warner Bros. Television Group; the NBA; PBS and a number of international providers. /p p The lack of download may be the biggest change for those of us who were early beta users and went though multiple iterations. (The logins still work.) At some point, one of the downloads didn't work with my setup and I finally gave up, saving me from a href="http://www.joost.com/1297za1/t/Hollyoaks" title="Hollyoaks"Hollyoaks/a. The browser-based version also includes more "user expression"—the download versions never seemed to hit enough critical mass for social networking to really take off. But Joost is working with a long list of third-party platforms include Facebook, Digg, Delicious and Netvibes. Some of the new features: /p p -- The JoostFeed is a lifestream of sorts, showing all Joost activity for the user, friends or for everyone. It can be viewed on Joost or exported to other social networks.nbsp; Joost also will implement Facebook Connect. Users can interact with other through comments, tags and "shouts." /p p -- A new programming guide dividing the content by shows, music and film. Each area is subdivided into main genres; shows are divided into subgenres. /p p bEasier but no Hulu/b: Joost had a head start on Hulu in terms of time and hype but the News Corp-NBCU JV is well ahead now. Seeing the difference is as simple as watching the same clip on each service.One of the biggest differences: I can use Joost to catch up on iCSI/i; CBS isn't on Hulu although I can access it through Hulu's directory, which sends viewers to CBS or CBS HD. You won't find iHouse/i on Joost or iSaturday Night Live/i, although a href="http://www.joost.com/home?playNow=1850023" title="Mr. Bill is on hand"Mr. Bill is on hand/a. (The NYT says a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/video-site-joost-reboots-as-a-hulu-clone/" title="NBC scuttled a deal"NBC scuttled a deal/a for SNL.) Joost has a handful of clips from iThe Daily Show/i as I write, while Hulu has 15 full episodes and 30 clips. Another: on Joost, sharing means sending an email, not embedding or clipping. Neither looks great in full-screen but Hulu is clearer. /p p For comparison, a Joost clip from The Daily Show and the same clip below from Hulu. /p p object width="512" height="296"param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/9OiWvhS1sextoxo_Oj0zbQ"/paramembed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/9OiWvhS1sextoxo_Oj0zbQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="296"/embed/object /p piRegister for Future of Business Media: a href="http://fobm2008-RSS.eventbrite.com"http://fobm2008.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=CvUhXE"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=CvUhXE" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qy2iM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qy2iM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=5UXIM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=5UXIM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=UEJ4m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=UEJ4m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Io0kM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Io0kM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=1xtrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=1xtrM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/419994219" height="1" width="1"/

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pWeb-based self-publishing service Blurb has raised around $5 million in third-round funding, according to a href="http://www.pehub.com/20137/blurb-raises-5-million/" title="peHUB"peHUB/a. Previous investors Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners participated in the round. Since its launch in 2004, the San Francisco-based company, which lets amateur authors create and publish their own books, has raised about $22 million in funding, including $2.5 million in venture debt from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. Rival service WEbook, which focuses on collaborative book publishing, a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-book-publishing-site-webook-gets-5-million-funding" title="raised $5 million"raised $5 million/a in September.nbsp; /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-book-publishing-site-webook-gets-5-million-funding/"Book Publishing Site WEbook Gets $5 Million Funding/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/macworld-2007-conference-itself-found-wanting-blurb-stands-out"Macworld: Conference Itself Found Wanting; Blurb Stands Out/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/self-publishing-service-provider-blurb-gets-716-million-funding/"Self-Publishing Service Provider Blurb Gets $7.16 Million Funding/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/stealthy-blurb-inc-gets-205-million-series-a-funding/"Stealthy Blurb Inc. Gets $2.05 Million Series A Funding/a/li /ul piEconWomen, Oct. 29, 2008 | Edison Ballroom | New York City Our panels are jam-packed with top women’s media executives. Register: a href="http://econwomen-RSS.eventbrite.com"http://econwomen.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=eBNbHt"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=eBNbHt" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9gOLM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9gOLM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Bap2M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Bap2M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=TtiJm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=TtiJm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ekGcM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ekGcM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=t5P3M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=t5P3M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/419994218" height="1" width="1"/

Lets Anime: Reminisces of early American Anime Fandom. Including discussions of 80's cosplay, the rise and fall of the Animanga APA and other zines, and early merchandising. For more old school goodness see part 1 and part 2 of Mike Toole's "Dubs that Time Forgot" at Anime News Network.

As bandas independentes norte-americanas que não conseguiram fazer uploads das suas músicas para a nova versão do MySpace Music têm agora um “prémio” de consolação. A partir de agora elas podem ao menos gastar um mínimo de 25 dólares em anúncios para promover o seu site no MySpace. Enquanto isso, aqueles grupos que já se encontram por lá e não possuem contratos nem com as grandes editoras nem com o agregador digital The Orchard ficam a ver navios desse dinheiro. Granda negócio, não acham?

Esta plataforma de publicidade da rede social da News Corp. dá pelo nome de MyAds. O lançamento da versão beta ocorreu em Julho junto de um grupo privado de anunciantes mas só agora é que o MyAds abriu ao público. Bastam alguns cliques e 25 dólares para qualquer pequeno anunciante criar a sua campanha publicitária destinada às páginas do MySpace tendo em conta mais de 1100 critérios específicos tendo em conta o público-alvo pretendido (idade, sexo, interesses, localização geográfica, etc.)

Tal como no Google AdSense, o MyAds permite que os anunciantes paguem pela publicidade tendo em conta o seu desempenho estabelecendo um preço mínimo de 25 cêntimos por clique. Estes anúncios são depoisi exibidos junto dos utilizadores e dos conteúdos associados aos critérios especificados. Se na versão beta, os links apenas encaminhavam o utilizador para páginas do MySpace, com a nova versão os anúncios passam também a linkar para fora da rede social.

Apesar do serviço poder ser utilizado por cineastas, políticos, escritores, videobloggers, ONGs, restaurantes, cómicos, estações de rádio e médicos, a MySpace está particularmente interessada em promover a sua plataforma de publicidade às bandas independentes que buscam a fama e glória sem a ajuda de uma editora discográfica, como admitiu Jeff Berman, presidente de marketing e de vendas à Billboard: “Este serviço foi concebido tanto para grupos já conhecidos do grande público como para tipos que tocam música no auditório do seu liceu.”

Na lógica do MySpace - isto é, a estrita acumulação e maximização capitalista de “riqueza” -, a estratégia seguida pela empresa faz assim todo o sentido: de um lado faz tudo para que as pequenas bandas sem contrato paguem para promoverem o seu trabalho através da rede social; do outro, impede-as de receberem uma percentagem do enorme bolo total de receitas que a sua secção de música - que oferece o streaming ilimitado de temas - gera. Mas este tipo de práticas pode melhor ser caracterizado como uma forma subreptícia de exploração. Só espero é que as bandas se apercebam disso e façam de uma vez por todas pressão para que esse comportamento lamentável.

A list of 15 uses of tiny black holes, including hazardous waste disposal, cheap transport, and hanging posters without tacks.

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Mr Modchips have today updated their store with several new items for the Xbox360, heres the rundown:

DVD ROM DRIVE TOSHIBA-SAMSUNG DVD TS-H943 MS28 *BRAND NEW*

A brand new Samsung MS28 DVD drive for the Xbox 360

360 Connectivity Kit V3 Pro

The more advance Pro version of the V3 team Xecuter Connectivery Kit which now features and support the new LiteOn Drives and the popular USB connections.

360 Connectivity Kit V3 Lite

The new revision of this excellent xbox 360 connectivety kit from Team Xecuter. It now supports the new LiteOn Drives


Full details over at Mr Modchips (btw you have to be logged in to see all the extra gear ;))

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VtM_732IUamp;fmt=18"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/10-13-08-xmp3-xm.jpg" //abr //div We knew XM Radio's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/14/xms-upcoming-xmp3-sneaks-into-latest-issue-of-popular-science/"XMp3/a handheld was a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/pioneer-built-xmp3-gets-specced-shows-up-for-sale/"on sale and shipping/a, but if you've been holding back and patiently waiting for some live video action of the UI before biting, have a gander at this. One xzitony managed to acquire the new Pioneer-built device and take it for a spin, but rather than just keeping it all to himself, he decided to host up a six minute clip walking us through the user interface. There are just no words to express our gratitude, but you can leave your thanks on his YouTube page after peeping the vid just past the break.br /br /[Thanks, a href="http:// http://www.xzi.com/"Anthony/a]pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/video-xm-radios-xmp3-interface-shown-off/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVideo: XM Radio's XMp3 interface shown off/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VtM_732IUamp;fmt=18Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/video-xm-radios-xmp3-interface-shown-off/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1341011/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/video-xm-radios-xmp3-interface-shown-off/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Y5unon"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Y5unon" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=hRq4m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=hRq4m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ffrTm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ffrTm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/419955224" height="1" width="1"/

Just in time for the release of the PSP-3000 comes the announcement of the latest firmware for the Sony hand-held device.

via MacNN:

Yoggie has introduced two new security devices for Mac computers, the Gatekeeper Pico and Gatekeeper Card Pro. Both contain complete mini-computer systems including a processor, memory, and secured operating system. The Pico version is roughly the size of a USB-key and connects through the USB port, while the Card Pro slides into an ExpressCard slot. Each will boot with the computer and hijack the...


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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/ASX3200_03_1.jpg" width="207" height="263" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"WIth their Blu-ray-playing AX3200 desktop PC and accompanying 24-inch, 1080p monitor, Acer just released two affordable, HD-friendly products at a combined price that sits just over $1000. With the compact dimensions of around 10"x4"x14", the AX3200 desktop has 2.1 GHZ AMD Phenom X3 8450 processor, HDMI-out, Dolby Home Theater 5.1 sound and nine USB ports. A 640 GB HDD, multi-card reader and 4 GB RAM round out the internal specs for the Windows Vista machine./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/acer_p244w_lcd.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="519" height="415" style="display:block;float:none;" /The P244W monitor is also well-equipped, with 1920x1080 resolution (16:9) and 20000:1 contrast ratio. It has 75 Hz refresh rate, 2 ms response time, has two HDMI ports and one VGA input. The AX3200 is now available at Fry's for $680, while the P244W monitor is available at major electronics retailers for $340. [a href="http://us.acer.com/public/page4.do?link=oln56.redirectdau22.oid=42001UserCtxParam=0GroupCtxParam=0dctx1=25CountryISOCtxParam=USLanguageISOCtxParam=enctx3=150ctx4=United+Statescrc=1883982558#inu57_54888"Acer/a]/p blockquote pACER'S NEW PHENOM X3 DESKTOP AND 24-INCH LCD – ELE