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Today is sort of Microsoft’s day at E3 (what with the Kinect already being revealed and their E3 keynote starting in 40 minutes – Team TFTS will be covering all the news live), but here’s a rumor that we may see unveiled at Sony’s press conference tomorrow.

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E3 2010: PS3 Move Bundles With More Storage Coming? [New Insider Rumors Has Sony Releasing 250GB and 500GB Slim Bundles With Sony]

If you were a big Fallout 3 fan, then you’ll be happy to hear that Obsidian Entertainment, the folks behind the Fallout spin-off, Fallout: New Vegas, have declared that October 19th will be the North American release date for Fallout: New Vegas while Europeans will be getting it slightly later on October 22nd. For those who aren’t aware – the folks at Obsidian Entertainment (notably designer Chris Avellone, but others as well) are largely from ill-fated studio Black Isle Productions, who created the first two Fallout RPG games (among other games) before the franchise ended up in the ownership of Bethesda (who’s behind the Elder Scrolls series of games)

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Fallout: New Vegas To Be Released On October 19th [Obsidian Announces That Fallout Goes To Las Vegas This October]

Yesterday at Figment , a participatory arts event on Governor’s island in New York City, Nick Normal and I met 0H10M1ke , who draws 1 minute portraits of strangers on matchbooks and hands them out. I thought it was such a sweet idea! He’s been doing it for a long time; Nick and I got portraits numbered 8012 and 8013, respectively

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Matchbook Portraits by 0H10M1ke

The long awaited arrival of ESPN 3D is over. The 3D service of one of the most popular networks in the US finally ‘kicked off’ a couple of days ago to coincide with the start of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

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ESPN 3D Kicks Off With Coverage of the World Cup [ESPN 3D Hits The Screens with Coverage of The FIFA World Cup from South Africa]

Printer News: Kodak ESP Office 6150 AiO Does it All, Including Saving You Money Kodak started its foray into the printer market in early 2007 at the same time we started this blog. The company wisely targeted a weakness in the inkjet market — the high cost of ink. The strategy seems to have paid off.

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Kodak ESP Office 6150 AiO Claims Lowest Ink Cost in the Industry

AT&T already announced the availability for the HTC Aria this morning .

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Pantech Ease Messaging Phone Comes To AT&T, Available June 20th For $69.99 [AT&T Branded Pantech Ease Coming June 20th, Will Feature 3.2″ Touchscreen,…

Web users putting themselves at risk of being penalised by ISPs Just under half (48 percent) of all web users have no idea what the download limit is on their broadband package, says uSwitch.com.

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48% of Brits don’t know what their broadband download limit is

The Telegraph has announced that its World Cup app for the iPhone has clocked up some 143,000 downloads and counting. The paper says that it’s the third most popular free sports app for the iPhone and iPod touch. All the latest news from South Africa is delivered by the program, along with expert analysis from the likes of Alan Hansen, Michael Owen and Adrian Chiles

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Telegraph World Cup iPhone app boasts 143,000 downloads

Just a few days ago we all heard how AT&T’s security has been breached by Goatse Security and the later managed to grab over 100,000 email addresses belonging to iPad 3G customers that have 3G data plans from AT&T. Soon after, we learned that the FBI is interested in investigating these cyber attacks and today we have an official explanation, but let’s call it an apology, from AT&T to its customers that might have been affected by the hack. Here’s AT&T’s excuse/apology in full: June 13, 2010 Dear Valued AT&T Customer, Recently there was an issue that affected some of our customers with AT&T 3G service for iPad resulting in the release of their customer e-mail addresses

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AT&T iPad 3G Security Breach Explained in AT&T Apology to Affected Customers [AT&T Explains iPad 3G Exploit, Blames It on Goatse Security]

Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 15:11:00 Firm claims 75 per cent power and space reduction Server manufacturer SeaMicro has unveiled an internet-optimised x86 server which it claims could reduce power consumption and space requirements by 75 per cent….

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SeaMicro unveils Atom-based low-power server

Lithium find to impact laptop, smartphone prices A massive $1 trillion deposit of untapped minerals discovered in Afghanistan includes huge amounts of lithium, which is used in batteries for laptops and mobile phones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry.

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Afghanistan to become "Saudi Arabia of Lithium"

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 14:32:00 Online project management and sharing service expanded to RIM platform Online collaboration firm Huddle has brought its cloud-based project management, document sharing and collaboration services to the BlackBerry market with the launch of a dedicated application for users of the…

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Huddle extends collaboration with BlackBerry app

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 14:19:00 Firm announces tighter intergration with Google and Twitter Jive Software has updated its Social Business Software (SBS) designed to tackle information overload and improve workplace productivity. The company claims that SBS 4.5 can help enterprise users better manage…

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Jive touts social business tool enhancements

Panasonic introduces the new AG-HMC80 shoulder mount professional AVCCAM HD DV camcorder features both solid state and HD recording capabilities. The HMC80 has a professional 3-chip 3-megapixel imager to capture 3MOS 1920 × 1280 × 1080p Full HD 720p or AVCHD video and 10.6 megapixels. The AG-HMC80 uses the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 high profile encoding and offers four modes AVCCAM professional HD recording , including the method of the highest quality PH (average 21 Mbps / Max 24Mbps ), HA mode (approx.17 Mbps), HG mode (approximately 13 Mbps) and HE mode extensive recording (about 6 Mbit / s).

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Panasonic AG-HMC80 Professional AVCCAM HD Extensive Camcorder

Been lusting after something in Makers Market , but can’t quite justify the expense? Enter our tweet-it-to-win-it contest and you just might get it for free! Here’s how to enter: Look around Makers Market and pick out your favorite product of value $500 US or less.

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Tweet your favorite item in Makers Market to win it

Microsoft confirms no browser updates after 13 July Unless Microsoft releases an emergency IE update in the next 31 days, PC users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) have seen their last security update for Internet Explorer (IE).

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No more IE patches for Windows XP SP2 users

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 12:16:00 Companies should re-evaluate plans as model fails to achieve widespread take up Software-as-a-service (SaaS) will have a role in enterprise systems, but will not take the dominant place many thought it would, according to Gartner….

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Gartner urges reassessment of software-as-a-service

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 12:01:00 Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation aims to highlight the complexities of software testing The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation (AMTSO) has expanded its guidelines and resources in a move designed to provide software testers with more accurate security testing methods….

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Anti-malware body expands testing guidelines

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 11:57:00 Veritape claims to slash ‘audio data thefts’ from call centres UK security firm Veritape has released a new device which it claims can help protect banks and consumers from credit card fraud committed through call centres….

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UK firm boosts security for call centre payments

Last week’s news that the e-mail addresses of some iPad 3G users were accessed by hackers was obviously a huge embarrassment for both AT&T and Apple, but PCWorld’s Tony Bradley says the underlying issues, and other Web security issues like it, are actually quite common.

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Analysis: iPad 3G leak flaw more common than you think