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Sony has announced that a new PSP (PlayStation®Portable) system will be available on October 14: the PSP-3000 will have a built-in microphone, support IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi), and MPEG-4 will be playable.
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In November, look for a 160GB PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) with Bluetooth…
For those that listen to the weekly radio show, you know over the last few months I had made quite a few trips to California to visit my Mom and stepdad Micheal who was diagnosed with Cancer about a year ago. Back in May, the cancer spread to his spine leaving him unable to walk. My mom went with the doctors and put him in a rehab facility while he underwent radiation therapy to weed out and kill the cancer. Michael was a former soldier and served the country in Korea and Vietnam. The battle he was facing was unlike the ones he had ever seen before.
Michael wanted to come home and be in the house where he and my mom had led a happy and fun life for the past 18 years.
Mom made the arrangements, and brought Michael came home. He was happy to see the bird and turtle and just as happy to look out the window and see his garden that he had not been able to tend to but provided him some comfort. Michael was happy to see the neighbors who stopped by and checked on him and my mom. He was just happy to be home.
Last night at about 3:30am, peacefully in his sleep, he went home again.
Your wishes during the last year have meant alot to my mom, to Michael and our family. He will be laid to rest in the Veterans Cemetary in Riverside.
To all Veterans, thank you and to those with a loved one facing this battle, our thoughts are with you.
Andy
The TechtalkRadio Product of the Week is the i2i Stream.
You can watch Andy’s Tech Tuesday segment that was on KOLD at http://www.techtalkradio.com/koldtv/koldtv.htm (Tech Tuesday airs every Tuesday around 5:40am. His latest KOLD website column is at http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?s=8900102)
The i2i Stream allows you to broadcast to other i2i Stream devices…
Each unit comes with a neck lanyard, and a belt/pocket clip. Plug an audio player into the bottom of the i2i Stream, earphones into the top, and you can broadcast what you are listening to to other i2i Stream receiving units.
Every i2i Stream can broadcast or receive music via 2.4 GHz (that is useable up to 30 feet between units). There are seven channels to broadcast with, so if there can be at least seven people broadcasting seven different types of audio in the same area.
The sound quality is like that of CD audio: 10Hz-24kHz frequency response, and a 16bit @ 48ksps Stereo bit rate.
The rechargeable batter life is 5 to 7 hours, and is charged via a USB cable.
Inside the i2i Stream Two Pack box:
2 i2i Stream units
2 12” Audio Cables
2 28” Audio Cables
2 USB Charging Cables
2 Neck Lanyards
2 Belt/Pocket Clips
An i2i Stream One Pack is in the works:
i2i Stream
12” Audio Cable
28” Audio Cable
USB Charging Cable
Neck Lanyard
Belt/Pocket Clip
A First for a Presidential Campaign as the Democratic Running mate to the U.S. Senator Barack Obama was announced via an SMS Text Message.
Sprint sent out a press release this morning which stated traffic rose 255 percent following the announcement which was texted shortly after 3am EST.
The text was read as:
Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.barackobama.com Spread the word!
Just how widely used is text messaging? More than 48 billion text messages were sent each month in the US as of Dec 2007 according to CTIA- The Wireless Association.
Sprint hasn’t played favorites here and has also stated that they would be standing by to share the news of U.S. Sen. John McCains pick later this month.
It’s impressive that we’ve come to sending a Text Message to announce a Running Mate, Let’s not picture Sen Obama sending this text message while driving. It’s become standard place to send Text Messages, I would have been even more impressed had he twittered it!
We talked with Wallace Wang today about his most recent book, My New Mac. 52 different task on working around the Mac are laid out in this easy to read Task Book. Listen in to why many technology users may have started to shift to the Mac and what drove the author to move in that direction.
It’s all up on the Website at http://www.techtalkradio.com/books/mynewmac.html