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XBOX 360 price cut in Europe

zcollvee — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:42:44 +0000

European Xbox 360 price cuts are now the real deal. The 360 Arcade is now just €199.99 / £159.99, while the Premium drops €80 / £50 to €269.99 / £199.99 and the Elite comes down €80 / £40 to €369.99 / £259.99.

From Engadget

Updated March 9th

zcollvee — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:53:28 +0000

Updated with a new theme and colors. I changed the earlier one because I thought it was too dull.

No new features in this one only theme changes.

This theme has flexible width, one feature that I love.

Complete March 6th Event rundown

zcollvee — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:02:40 +0000

iPhone Games

zcollvee — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:56:48 +0000

Yeah, EA and Sega bring Spore and Super Monkey Ball to the iPhone

iPhone SDK, 2 Minutes, 2 Days, 2 Weeks

zcollvee — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:50:21 +0000

Found a video on Youtube.

MS dropping 20GB for 60GB

zcollvee — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:13:08 +0000

TrustedReviews is now reporting that the 20GB hard drive in the standard Xbox 360 model is about to get the boot in favor of a more spacious 60GB one. That apparently comes from a “rock solid source,” who says that they (Microsoft)want it out the door by the end of its financial year, which comes at the end of June.

Also they go into a bit of speculation, saying that Microsoft is going to make” a model with a built-in Blu-ray drive would seem to be “the most logical conclusion,” although they say an external drive “makes sense too.” While that possibility obviously remains up in the air, TrustedReviews is about as confident as can be with the 60GB Xbox 360 news, saying that you can take it to the bank.

Look out people here comes the XBOX 720!

Crazy with Apple Stores

zcollvee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:58:16 +0000

clipped from www.tuaw.com

60 “iStores” will open across India

There’s a huge push in India right now by Reliance Digital to open 60 iStores across the nation’s top twenty cities. The iStores will sell Apple products exclusively, and carry the full line, from consumer products to pro hardware.

Expect to see all sixty stores up and running within the next 18 months. We wonder how the interior design will look, and if it will resemble official Apple Stores.

If you visit one of these stores, please let us know! We’ll be happy to share your photos and stories.

Thanks, Ravi!

clipped from www.tuaw.com

Apple opened a new retail store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — the state’s first — on Thursday. As usual, we asked any TUAW operatives who may have attended to share their reports and/or pictures. Reader frelix was kind enough to share some photos he uploaded to his Flickr account. Thanks! If you visited this store, too, let us know in the comments.

A new Apple Store?

zcollvee — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:02:28 +0000

clipped from www.tuaw.com

As many of our readers know, London is already host to the world’s largest Apple store (pictured above) on renowned shopping-mile Regent Street. However, Apple’s ambitions for the UK capital have yet to be fully realised according to a Macworld UK report today – for Apple is preparing to open another store just over a mile away in Covent Garden.

The new store is touted as being a 3-storey affair taking up around 25,000 square foot. The existing Regent Street store is approximately 28,000 square foot, and according to ifoAppleStore remains one of the best performing stores – clearly Apple thinks there’s plenty more custom to be snapped up and certainly TUAW visits to the flagship store have never been quiet affairs.

The Covent Garden store is apparently going to be located at 4 The Piazza, in a location currently taken by a restaurant and nightclub — it is of course too early to guess when the new store will indeed open.

Apple preparing another large London store?

Meizu closed for MP3 issues

zcollvee — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:30:13 +0000

Yeah, reports Engadget.

Here’s a QuickStract:

in a Meizu forum post, Jack Wong says that an Italian company called Sisvel complained about another Meizu PMP’s unlicensed use of the MP3 codec, and that’s what prompted the 5-0 to arrive. Interestingly, Jack also says that it’s all a big misunderstanding, because Meizu products, including the M8, don’t actually play MP3s, just WMA, and that local distributors have to cough up the licensing fees for MP3 playback. Apparently the booth is now open again, with the offending PMP removed — the M8 remains on display, probably because it doesn’t actually work yet.

Swiss iPhone with 3 icons?

zcollvee — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:08:42 +0000

Could this be true?

Yeah this is a photo of a Swiss ad for the iPhone which is rumored to be released on 4th April. What bugs me is the screen. It looks like these rumours:

Yep, it looks like the iPhone Nano. This has to be fake unless this is the trimmed down version of the iPhone (which is probably untrue).

iPhone nano?!!

Stick around to get future updates as they emerge.