Exactly a year and five months after Toshiba brought an end to the high-definition disc format war, the Japanese consumer electronics company confirmed its plans to produce its own Blu-ray Disc player. Previously, rumors trickled in about Toshiba considering such a move; Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun this weekend reported that Toshiba will adopt the format it once battled against.

The format war was vigorously fought, as Toshiba and Microsoft backed HD DVD, and Sony, Panasonic, and a consortium of consumer electronics companies promoted Blu-ray Disc. The winner of this battle would control over the lucrative, high-definition successor to the quarter-of-a-billion dollar standard-definition DVD business.

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LED-backlit HDTVs once were an expensive rarity, but that’s changing. Sharp Electronics’ new line of Aquos HDTVs offer the premium of LED backlighting. The advantage of LED backlighting: It can boost black levels and minimize power consumption, even while still providing a superior level of brightness.

The new 32- ($1,100), 40- ($1,700), 46- ($2,200) and 52-inch ($2,800) LE700-series Aquos LED TVs use Sharp’s UltraBrilliant LED backlighting technology, which features a full array of evenly spaced LEDs behind a diffusing panel. The 120-Hz TVs are rated for 4ms pixel-response rates, and have motion-smoothing dejudder technology. The TVs also have an immpressively wide angle of view, 176-degrees.

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Yesterday the iPhone Dev Team released their lastest iPhone and iPod Touch jailbreaking tool Redsn0w 0.8. Im sure most of you are wondering whats new, since the 0.7 version of redsn0w was released not to long ago… Whats new? This release is now able to jailbreak the new iPhone 3GS. I haven’t been able to confirm it but i’ve been hear the dev team also updated ultrasn0w, the iPhone OS 3.0 unlocking to work with the 3GS. While this isn’t the first jailbreak for the 3GS, it is said to be more stable and safer than the other method. Windows, Mac, and Linux versions are below.

Release Name: Redsn0w 0.8 [Win]
Size: 11.86MB
Links: iPhone Dev
Download: UploadJockey, Torrent

Release Name: Redsn0w 0.8 [Mac]
Size: 14.97MB
Links: iPhone Dev
Download: UploadJockey, Torrent

Release Name: Redsn0w 0.8 [Linux]
Size: 10.85MB
Links: iPhone Dev
Download: UploadJockey, Torrent

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With the abundance of gadgets people have these days, it’s no wonder you have more items than USB ports. That’s why the USB hub was invented. And if you’re going to get a USB hub, why not get one that’s in the shape of an octopus.

The Octopus USB Hub features four separate USB ports, one on the end of each of the hub’s “tentacles.” Really, this is pretty practical, and you don’t have to worry about your gizmos being cluttered all together on your desk.

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Beginning Wednesday, European mobile phone users can cross national borders in Europe and know they won’t be slammed with a huge cell phone bill when they return home. Roaming charges for cell phone and texting messages are dropping.

A new single tariff, in the works since 2007, covers all European Union countries and the charges for many consumers for some messages will plunge. Roamed text charges will drop from 28 European cents to 11 cents and roamed mobile calls will also drop, but not as much as text messages. Calls will drop from 46 cents to 43 cents. Sending a megabyte of data will cost 85 cents — about one-half the previous data price.

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A few minutes ago, Mozilla launched their new updated version of Firefox, Firefox 3.5. Thought I’d give you a mirror here, because the servers will probably overload like with the release of 3.0. Enjoy!

Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.^* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.

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File hosting service Rapidshare has been fined €24m by a German court and ordered to filter online content more effectively. German royalties collector GEMA, which brought the case against the company, had called on the Regional Court in Hamburg to order Rapidshare to prohibit around 5,000 music tracks from being made available online.

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