Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

Just released in Japan, Sony's 3.50 firmware for the PSP should making the global rounds soon enough. That, coupled with the latest PS3 firmware update, means you've just scored "Remote Play" functionality -- access to videos, music, and pictures on your home PS3 running 1.80 -- over the Internet. In other words, you can stream media but can't actually play games remotely. The update also includes an RSS Channel Guide but we know it's the remote play you want. You should already be able to update from your PSP directly even though many of Sony's download sites are still pegged at version 3.40.

[Via Impress and CVG]

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Viva Street View and Viva Las Vegas!

It didn't take you lot long to find something noteworthy on Google Maps' new Street View facility - now offering ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, and New York.

Now just £15m to save £20k a year

Someone owes Westminster City Council an apology: the amortisation period on its new planet-saving street lamps is not, as we reported yesterday, an astounding 1,450 years, but a rather more modest 750 years.

If you use a traditional desktop like GNOME or KDE, a keyboard-controlled desktop with a minimum of utilities may seem like stepping back 10 or 15 years in the history of interface design. Why bother, when traditional desktops are easy to use and...

Filed under: Laptops

var digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/gadgets/Palm_CEO_Foleo_is_the _Wii_of_portable_computing'; We've seen Jeff Hawkins' -- the synaptic guns behind the Palm Pilot, Handspring, and Treo -- take on the ill-received Foleo. Now we've got the thoughts from his boss, Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, Inc. As you'd expect, Ed totes the party line with the "mobile companion" spin. He even compares it to the PS3 vs. Wii battle, citing "technology overload" as the mysterious (and massively oversimplified) force that will drive people to Palm's new platform. Ed also told us that Palm will be providing the tools to developers after which he expects, "very quickly, there'll be thousands of applications" for the Linux-based Foleo. Hey Colligan man! We get it, but we still don't think it's a good idea. Though if only for nostalgia sake, we'd love to be wrong. See the video after the break.

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Filed under: Storage

We're not particularly sure if Lego is actually getting a cut on these newfangled USB flash drives, but an Australian firm is offering up said storage options within Lego blocks nonetheless. The Zip Zip Memory Bricks will be available in black, white, red, blue, green, and yellow here shortly, and all house 1GB of storage and sport USB 2.0 connectivity. Additionally, a nifty lanyard allows you to attach your new 31- x 15- x 10-millimeter drive to your key ring, and while the A$59 ($48) pricetag may seem a tad high for just 1,024MB, you know the diehards can't resist picking this up to go alongside their Lego LaCie HDD.

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If you use a traditional desktop like GNOME or KDE, a keyboard-controlled desktop with a minimum of utilities may seem like stepping back 10 or 15 years in the history of interface design. Why bother, when traditional desktops are easy to use and RAM and disk space are so cheap nowadays?

No longer just Intel inside

Toshiba is to start shipping laptops with AMD processors, effectively bringing to an end its exclusive partnership with Intel.

Last year, security researcher Bruce Schneier held a movie plot threat contest, where he asked people to come up with unlikely, but plausible, security threats. The reason was to point out the ridiculousness of Homeland Security efforts (taking off your shoes at the airport, no liquids allowed on planes) that are designed not to deal with the bigger problem, but to thwart a single case scenario. If you have thousands of scenarios, as the contest created, you begin to realize how silly it is to focus on any individual threat, rather than create a more comprehensive plan. Of course, there may be a flip side to this as well... as it turns out that the Department of Homeland Security is gathering with a bunch of science fiction writers to talk through various scenarios concerning terrorist threats and how to defeat them. Of course, the likely result is more pointless methods to try to combat specific scenarios brought up by the writers, rather than anything more comprehensive or useful. While it's at least nice to hear that Homeland Security is willing to listen to those with "outside the box" ideas, it's tough to have much confidence in the idea that they'll do anything useful with the information.