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MSI gets a SteelSeries keyboard, builds the GX780 gaming notebook around it
The worst part about buying a fancy new gaming keyboard? It's hard to show the thing off if it never leaves your basement apartment. MSI's newly announced GX780 notebook combines a colorful backlit 102-key SteelSeries-designed keyboard with the (relative) portability of an 8.6 pound gaming laptop. The keyboard features 1,000 different color combinations, five lighting modes, 10 key simultaneous input, and a layout the company calls "The Golden Triangle" -- trademark pending, we're sure. (...)
2011-04-28 11:44:00 | EngadgetSome Sony online services will be restored ‘within a week’
Sony posts a major update on the status of the PlayStation Network and Qrirocity outages and associated data theft.
2011-04-28 11:39:58 | Digital TrendsSprint adds 1.1M subscribers, narrows 1Q loss (AP)
AP - Sprint Nextel says it added more wireless subscribers in the first quarter than it has in five years, mainly on cheap service plans while it lost customers to Verizon's iPhone.
2011-04-28 11:38:11 | Yahoo NewsSome Sony online services will be restored 'within a week' (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Sony has quite a mess on its hands. The companyâs PlayStation Network and Qrirocity music service were shut down last Wednesday, a move which Sony later blamed on an âexternal intrusionâ by a hacker or hackers. Things have progressed slowly since then. It wasnât until earlier this week that Sony warned its PSN and Qrirocity users that personal data had been compromised, possibly including credit card information, though a class action (...)
2011-04-28 11:24:58 | Yahoo NewsYouTube founders buy up Delicious
The founders of video-sharing site YouTube have bought bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo.
2011-04-28 11:24:34 | BBC NewsHow to follow the royal wedding online
Can't get to a television set for the royal wedding on Friday?
2011-04-28 11:24:12 | CNN
Verizon says its LTE network is back 'up and running'
Well, it looks like this week's other massive outage is now officially behind us -- Verizon just issued a brief statement to let us know that its 4G LTE network is now "up and running." Details on exactly what caused the outage remain light, however, with the company only saying that "network engineers and vendors quickly identified the issue and solved it." What's more, while it says that Thunderbolt users should now have "normal (...)
2011-04-28 11:23:00 | EngadgetRoyal wedding street parties where you live
How many royal wedding street parties are happening where you live?• Get the dataWhere are all the royal wedding street parties going to be tomorrow? The latest data from the Local Government Association - which only covers England and Wales - shows that nearly 5,000 will be taking place across the country.But where are they? The data shows that they are predominantly in the south: Hertfordshire will be having 298 parties, while there is (...)
2011-04-28 11:22:15 | Guardian.co.ukBeyoncé sued for $100m by video game developer
Singer accused of 'destroying business on a whim' after pulling out of project at crucial stageAn US video game developer is suing Beyoncé for more than $100m (£61m), claiming she "destroyed [its] business ... on a whim". Gate Five LLC alleges the singer "unscrupulously" scuppered plans for a game called Starpower: Beyoncé, forcing the company to sack 70 employees the week before Christmas.According to a summons filed in New York on Tuesday (April), Beyoncé (...)
2011-04-28 11:22:14 | Guardian.co.ukSprint posts Q1 subscriber losses (Reuters)
Reuters - Sprint Nextel lost wireless subscribers in the first quarter as it faced new competition from Verizon Wireless, which started selling the Apple Inc iPhone in February.
2011-04-28 11:19:14 | Yahoo NewsYahoo Mail down, and users cry foul
The company acknowledges that its service, used by more than 250 million, isn't working for many of them.
2011-04-28 11:19:11 | CnetFresh Android Apps for Apr. 28: Google Docs, Wuala (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Today’s fresh apps are all about docs. Rejoice in the release of Google Docs as an app and get secure with the Wuala document cloud.
2011-04-28 11:11:00 | Yahoo NewsPSN hack: network will be back 'within days'
Sony apologises for 'frustrating' PSN security breach and promises users that the network will be back online within daysSony could only promise that the hacked PlayStation Network would start coming back online within six days, as the company's engineers grapple with the consequences of security breach that affected 77 million users.The maker of the PS3 console issued a blogpost update, saying that "some services" would be up and running "within a week from yesterday", (...)
2011-04-28 11:10:23 | Guardian.co.uk
iPhone turntable concept brings dropped calls to your record collection
Any audiophile worth their weight in 180 gram vinyl will gladly tell you that nothing sounds quite as good as a record. Unfortunately, the format has a few major drawbacks, like a lack of portability and the fact that it really sucks at making phone calls. The iPhone, on the other hand, is light years ahead of those fronts -- well, one of out two ain't bad. This new concept from designer Olivier Meynard (...)
2011-04-28 11:09:00 | EngadgetReview: Atacama Duo 6
A brand new design from Atacama, the Duo 6 is so-called because of its support pillars. The front one, 50mm in diameter, does most of the mechanical work, while the 25mm rear is principally there as a cable conduit. To that end, large holes have been made in its rear so that even quite large speaker cables can be easily threaded inside and fished out again at the other end, making a substantial contribution (...)
2011-04-28 11:00:00 | Tech Radar