I4U News

PS3 Firmware 2.40 Bricks Some Consoles

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:19:42 GMT

There are some very angry PS3 owners that now have bricked PS3 consoles after applying the 2.40 update to their systems that adds the feature for trophies and other updates to the console. The vast majority of users were able to download and install the up...

Robot Bartender Serves Up a Pint

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:19:33 GMT

A robot bartender was introduced by Selfridges and Asahi beer that reports to be the worlds first robotic barkeep. The robot is now on duty at the flagship Oxford Street store. Mr. Asahi as the robot is known uses a combination of robotics and animatroni...

Malware Infection Risk on Playstation Store says Security Firm

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:07:23 GMT

According to security firm Sophos SQL injection vulnerabilities on the US Sony Playstation website have left visitors at risk of malware infection on their PC. The site was hit by hackers and malicious code was inserted on pages for the games SingStar Pop ...

First PS3 Trophy Compatible Games Appear

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:16:02 GMT

With the recent PS3 2.40 patch going live, the way for the PS3 Trophy system is paved and ready to go. The first games to support Trophys are now getting patched to allow gamers to start collecting. The first game to get a Trophy patch is the download...

ASUS Eee Monitor PC Unveiled

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:08:02 GMT

ASUS has been selling its popular and cheap little Eee notebooks for a while now and has recently added an Eee desktop as well. It looks like ASUS has more in store for the Eee line with some images of an all in one PC like the iMac showing up. Hard det...

Virgin Meida In Hot Water with ASA

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:57:38 GMT

Virgin Media is in some hot water and the ASA has targeted Virgin Media for some of its claims on download speeds in advertising campaigns. The complaint was bought against Virgin media by rival BT. The heart of the complaint is centered on Virgin's H...

Archos 3G PMP Could Hit UK Soon

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:05:08 GMT

Pocket-lint says that it has received an invite to an Archos press event that claims to have an exciting announcement to share. The event is slated for July 10th in London and will be made by Tony Limrick, Archos UK managing Director. The tagline for th...

T-Mobile UK Increases Upload Speeds 5x

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:56:45 GMT

T-Mobile has followed in the footsteps of Vodafone and released its own HSUPA mobile packages in the UK. T-Mobile says starting today users can get access to the HSUPA network with upload speeds booster to 1.4 Mbps. T-Mobile will is also in the process ...

ASUS Gets Ready to Drop More Eee Notebooks

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:50:39 GMT

The word on the street is that ASUS is getting ready to announce a couple of new Eee models. The Eee 904 and 905 are supposed to use the 8.9-inch LCD seen in the other 900 series models, but put the whole works into the larger 10.2-inch case. That would...

Speedo Waterproof MP3 Player

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:02:39 GMT

When most of us hear the Speedo name we think of tiny swimsuits that should only be worn by Olympic athletes. The reality of the Speedo is that anytime you go to the beach at least a few people, traditionally those too heavy or too old to wear them, are to...