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Rumored: Windows 8 will have Kinect support?
PSN taken down due to piracy outbreak?
Apple officially announces white iPhone 4 – releases on April 28th
Elgato Tivizen wireless mobile TV tuner turns your iPhone into a mobile TV

Rumored: Windows 8 will have Kinect support?

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:45 PM PDT

We know that Windows 8 which is currently ‘in the works’ will have a ton of new features, and since the early build of Windows 8 got leaked, computer enthusiasts have managed to find an additional feature – ‘detect human presence’ aka Kinect support.

According to latest reports, Windows 8 will have human detection sensor, so we're guessing that Windows 8 will have Kinect support, that will allow you to log in to your Windows 8 using your physical appearance, that sounds very cool.

As you know, Kinect uses a similar feature to Xbox Live, so it's quite possible that we might see this feature with Windows 8 as well. In addition, Microsoft has mentioned that Kinect support is arriving PCs, along with software development kits, so Windows 8 might be the right OS for it, and we just hope that the final version of Windows 8 will support it out of the box.

Of course, if you don't want to wait, you can always turn your Kinect to Windows 7 input device thanks to the various hacks. Kinect support for Windows 8 is just a speculation, but its likely to come to life with the final version of Windows 8 either officially or unofficially via the ‘tweaking community’.

[via Ubergizmo]

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PSN taken down due to piracy outbreak?

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:15 PM PDT

You all know that PSN has been down for several days now, and Sony is blaming hackers for this outage, but is that the truth? According to a different source, PSN has been down in order to prevent piracy, and not due to hackers' attack.

Apparently, hackers have found a way to download PSN content for free, so Sony had to intervene and take PSN down. According to the speculations, there's a new hacked custom firmware that allows hackers to download PSN content for free. This firmware is called Rebug and it gives your console the functionality of a developer PlayStation 3 console, in other words, you’d be able to use your console to download PSN content for free with false credit card numbers. That way, hackers have managed to trick the PSN to recognize them as a part of developer team, and since Sony's developing team doesn't have to get checked, they have gained full access to PSN content.

So far, no official disclosure from Sony is available, so we can only guess what's going on at PSN.

[via CVG]

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Apple officially announces white iPhone 4 – releases on April 28th

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 12:04 PM PDT

The long-awaited Apple white iPhone 4 will finally go on sale tomorrow. Apple has officically announced that the white iPhone 4 will be available from April 28th on the Apple online stores and across 28 countries, including the US. Also, Apple has announced that the iPad 2 will be released in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and eight other countries tomorrow and Friday. The iPad 2 with Wi-Fi will be available in China next week.

The white iPhone 4 is pretty much the same spec as the black iPhone 4; including a five-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash and 720p video recording, a front-facing cam for FaceTime, the A4 processor, 512MB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of internal storage, a 960×640 Retina Display.

In US, the white iPhone 4 will be available on both AT&T and Verizon networks. The pricing remains the same at prices of $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB smartphone with a two-year service contract.

Apple officially announced that the white iPhone 4 will arrive on April 28th.
Apple today announced that the white iPhone 4 will be available beginning tomorrow. White iPhone 4 models will be available from Apple’s online store (www.apple.com), at Apple’s retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.

Internationally, the white iPhone 4 will also be available in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, and UK.

[via MacRumours]

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Elgato Tivizen wireless mobile TV tuner turns your iPhone into a mobile TV

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:42 AM PDT

You might have heard of TV tuner cards before, that lets you watch TV on your PC or laptops. If you love watching TV shows and love Apple products, there is a good news for you. This time a company Elgato (Tivizen) has launched a pocket-sized TV tuner that will let you watch your favourite shows on your iPhone and ipad on the go.

The Elgato Tivizen has a free iOS app, which will wirelessly enable your iPhone or iPad devices to receive TV signals over WiFi. It also allows your Windows or Mac devices to receive these TV signals.

The Elgato Tivizen is basically a digital TV tuner, which works with DVB-T/Freeview digital TV standard. It has an ARM9 RISC decoder and a battery operates for up to 3.5 hours of TV streaming.

If you order the Tivizen package, you will also get the Elgato EyeTV 3 and THC apps which allow it to run on Mac and Windows computers respectively. The Tivizen costs around $250 USD, you can grab it from Elgato

[via TechChee]

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