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While there's no sign that sales of Apple's iPhone 3G have slowed, they're due for an incremental boost come Sunday when the device goes on sale at Best Buy retail outlets nationwide. A copy of next week's Best Buy circular (below) duly notes the...


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While there's no sign that sales of Apple's iPhone 3G have slowed, they're due for an incremental boost come Sunday when the device goes on sale at Best Buy retail outlets nationwide. A copy of next week's Best Buy circular (below) duly notes the...

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A couple of weeks back during X08, we learned that the "fall" release time frame Activision had been giving for the latest Call of Duty installment actually meant "November." Today, the publisher narrowed it down even further to November 11. That's the date all console versions of Call of Duty: World at War will rumble into retail - except, of course, for the never-to-be PS2 version. Those hankering for an earlier taste of multiplayer flame thrower action should hit our post from earlier today on the upcoming October beta.

 

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico's Supreme Court has compared the practices of US retail giant Walmart in Mexico to employer-worker relations during the dictatorship of former president Porfirio Diaz.

Sony has big plans for Japan. Their latest PSP 3000 is expected to be launched on October 16th.

The new gaming device will have ready a 4.3 inch high resolution wide screen, anti-reflection technology, a built-in microphone, Skype and other communication tools. There's a video port which will let you take the game to your closest TV through the separately sold cables.

The new PSP 3000 will come in pearl white and mystic silver and it will retail for 19,800 yen or about $183.

Considering that newspaper ad revenues plummeted a record $3 billion (-16 percent) in the first half of '08, perhaps it's not so bad that they were up only 2.3 percent with $35 million in sales, as the industry ended June with $1.6 billion in total online sales, according to stats from the Newspaper Association of America. And zeroing on Q2, newspapers' web revenues fell 2.3 percent ($776.6 million). As Alan Mutter, on his Reflections of a Newsosaur points out, these new numbers represent the worst performance for newspapers in a dozen years. Here's a breakdown of the bad news for H108:

-- print classifieds were down 35.2 percent or roughly $1.8 billion to $5 billion.
-- help wanted fell $710.6 million, or 36 percent, to less than $1.3 billion.
-- real estate slid $682.2 million, or 35.5 percent, to $1.2 billion.
-- auto classifieds sank $331 million, or 21.9 percent, to less than $1.2 billion.
-- national print dropped $416 million, or 13.4 percent, to $3.1 billion.
-- print retail decreased $913.7 million, or 10 percent, to $9.1 billion.

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Social Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and M&A deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. Visit the ContentNext Reports page

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Dow falls 340 points amid unemployment and retail sales rates news

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Another instant messenger app for iPhone has been released, joining the ranks of such stalwarts as Pairingo, MobileChat, and AIM for iPhone. Shape IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger for iPhone (click opens iTunes App Store) supports AIM/iChat, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpaceIM. All public IM systems can be connected through the one client, and all messages come into one shared inbox.

Shape Services GMBH is currently offering the iPhone application for free, while the Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian, and BlackBerry versions retail for $29.99. Get it while it's free!

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US stocks fellfor a fourth successive day, re-entering bear market territory, as rising jobless claims and weak retail sales figures raised fears about the health of the economy

Videogame publisher XS Games announced today a new arcade style air combat videogame, Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk, for the Nintendo Wii. Developed by Kando Games, Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk is set in a futuristic universe. The player assumes the role of a brave and grizzled pilot, leader of the elite resistance military unit "Ghost Squadron". At the player's command is a group of brave but inexperienced fighter pilots that only the player can lead into battle. The objective: to save mankind from corruption and turmoil at the hands of the Union of World Nations. At stake, is the fate of the world -- victory is the only option.

A single player game that uses both the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to control a player's aircraft, Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk features ground shaking weapons, non-stop combat and thrilling special effects. The game's 34 unique missions can be navigated with 23 different fighter planes, allowing the player to fly at amazing speeds and create spectacular explosions. By commanding the Ghost Squadron, completing missions and defending the front line, the player earns points for a chance to fly top-secret planes with devastating weapons. Players have to demonstrate they have what it takes to become a true Rebel Raider.

Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk has an ESRB rating of E10+ and will have a suggested retail price of $29.99. The game will be available at retail outlets nationwide on September 16th.

Stocks skidded Thursday afternoon, with the Dow plummeting more than 300 points, as mixed retail sales, lower oil prices and dour labor market readings amplified worries about a global economic slowdown.

Dell Thursday started selling a mini-notebook with Microsoft's Windows XP Home preinstalled, the first time that the world's largest computer maker has had a PC to sell with that operating system since Microsoft retired XP from general service in June.

The 2.28-lb. Inspiron Mini 9 starts at $399 when equipped with XP Home, and sports an 8.9-in. display, 512MB of memory, an 8GB solid-state drive (SSD) composed of flash RAM and 802.11g wireless capability. A pricier $499 configuration boosts memory to 1GB and the SSD to 16GB.

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Dell is also selling a $349 model with 512MB of memory and a 4GB SSD that comes with Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution, in place of Windows XP.

All Mini 9 configurations are powered by a 1.6GHz Atom processor that Intel debuted in early June .

The Inspiron Mini 9 is Dell's first system to pack Windows XP Home since June, when the Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker yanked the operating system from its lines. Microsoft had set June 30 as the retirement deadline for Windows XP -- it would stop shipping copies to large computer manufacturers and cease selling to retail -- and Dell complied by ending sales June 26.

However, in early April Microsoft announced that it would let makers of small, inexpensive laptops -- which it labeled as ULCPCs, short for ultra-low-cost PCs, a name that never stuck -- install XP Home through June 2010 , possibly longer.

At the time, Microsoft maintained that it offered the loophole not to stymie Linux, which was the only available OS for the tiny, cheap computer, but because users and hardware vendors alike had demanded XP.

"One thing we've heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of devices," said Michael Dix, general manager of Windows client product management, in a Q&A posted on Microsoft's Web site.

Dell and other big-brand computer sellers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and Lenovo Group Ltd., have continued to preinstall Windows XP Professional on business-oriented machines by taking advantage of Windows Vista 's downgrade rights. According to data from PC metrics vendor Devil Mountain Software Inc., a third of new PCs are downgraded from Vista to XP Professional, either at the factory or by users after they buy.

The Inspiron Mini 9 can be purchased from Dell's online store. Dell is also running a special beginning Friday for U.S. customers only; people who purchase a Studio 15, XPS M1530 or XPS M1330 laptop through early Tuesday, Sept. 9, can also buy a Mini 9 for $99.

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Stocks fall significantly on a slew of gloomy economic data.

Toshiba goes mobile with their TLP-X100U projector, boasting closed captioning functionality and 3LCD technology that comes in a new slim design. Meant for use in education, professional or noisy settings, the TLP-X100U Slim Mobile Projector will come with a blackboard function, enabling the projector to correct the colors of the image automatically to compensate for a blue, black, brown or green background. I'd take this with a grain of salt though, since you can't get perfect color reproduction once the background's color anything other than white. Other features include Quick Power Shutdown, Digital Zoom and Automatic Vertical Keystone Correction. The Toshiba TLP-X100U Slim Mobile Projector will retail for $839.

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In mid-August, we commented that OCZ had introduced Core Series V2 solid-state drives barely a month and a half after the launch of the first-gen Core Series. It looks like OCZ didn't waste any time getting the drives in the retail market, either—at least, not by hard-drive launch standards. Newegg...

just recently built a new machine, built everything from scratch everything seemed to be going fine, i booted up the system, no problems. went into the bios and everything appeared perfect but after 20 seconds of it being turned on it all of a sudden shutdown, i then cleared the CMOS and tried again this time it shutdown within 10 seconds, well i left for a few minutes, came back and tried it again went into system monitor in the bios and the core cpu temperature was at 97C!! it shutdown seconds after i only managed to have a quick glance at it at those temperatures, i then felt the back of the asus board and it was scorching hot after messing around with the retail stock cooler, i refitted it and pushed the four plastic pins down, rebooted and the temps were at 29C so its looking like the stock fan had either come loose or wasn't fitted correctly. well what im wondering now is there a possibility the processor could of been damaged due to being exposed to such a high temp, it did appear to shutdown before the processor hit 99C, everything does appear to be working perfectly fine now, what im wondering now is could anything have been damaged as the temps went higher than 90C or did the board when automaticly shutting down save me from an imminent disaster. board is an ASUS Striker Extreme with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850.

While a lot of people sure don’t like the HTC Touch Diamond’s funnily designed backplate, it looks like the folks over at Motorola do, or think other people do anyways. The reason we say so is because Motorola has just unveiled its new MOTOJEWEL clamshell handset in the UK, which looks aimed at the fairer sex, complete with its own mini handbag, which can keep a few small items along with the phone itself. The MOTOJEWEL seems to share a lot of similarities with the U9 handset, with specs such as a 2 megapixel camera, music player, Bluetooth stereo support and hidden external display. The phone will have a “midnight quartz” color scheme, along with its purple keypad. The MOTOJEWEL will only be available for a limited time, and should start retailing in November on UK’s Carphone Warehouse retail chain.

While a lot of people sure don’t like the HTC Touch Diamond’s funnily designed backplate, it looks like the folks over at Motorola do, or think other people do anyways. The reason we say so is because Motorola has just unveiled its new MOTOJEWEL clamshell handset in the UK, which looks aimed at the fairer sex, complete with its own mini handbag, which can keep a few small items along with the phone itself. The MOTOJEWEL seems to share a lot of similarities with the U9 handset, with specs such as a 2 megapixel camera, music player, Bluetooth stereo support and hidden external display. The phone will have a “midnight quartz” color scheme, along with its purple keypad. The MOTOJEWEL will only be available for a limited time, and should start retailing in November on UK’s Carphone Warehouse retail chain.