It seems that the 250GB Xbox 360 S Winchester drive can be purchased as a freestanding accessory, according to this box stroke of the 4GB Xbox 360, where it states under the accessories subdivision that the new disc drive is ‘sold singly’. Regrettable what is impressed isn’t realism just yet, although we can more or less look forward thereto falling out when the 4GB Xbox 360 hits the market sometime next month. After all, with just 4GB of internal remembering these days, you sure as shooting can’t do much with that, which makes it a no brainer to bring home a 250GB Winchester drive as well. This is a jolly good marketing gambit to get gamers to fork out more dough, eh? .

Gadget & Technology

While statistics can often be deceiving, the ethnic musics over at Google should be quite happy to see that accounts of Android-based telephone sets have more quadrupled in the Britain during the last quarter. Allotting to a account, Mechanical man’s share of United Kingdom smartphone declaration sales events was just three percentage in the first three calendar months of 2010, but it started to 13.2 per centum in the second quarter. Let’s see if the Android-powered devices are able to preserve its momentum over the next quarter, which should be quite interesting, especially with Apple’s launching of the iPhone 4 and exciting phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S.

Gadget & Technology

Did you remember of “The Dark Knight“, one of the Batman movie series that was first-time appearing in 2008? Did you watch it? If yes, I’m sure you’ve already recognized the “Batpod“, the Batman’s bike. If you still don’t know what it is at all, just watch the picture beside (Click to enlarge).

And now, in here, continuing what Pankaj Shah, a Batman fan who has been done with his dream about the “Batpod“. Dubbed “PS-Pod“, a replica of “Batpod” that has been developed at Chopper City USA that being a place which Pankaj Shah asked for making this awesome bike. And for all of us, yes, we can see the Batpod in real life.
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The folks over at Amazon must be feeling rather smug at the bit, as it turns out the on line retailing giant managed to score a rather interesting book lot to fend off the more and more tight contest with Apple and Barnes & Nobleman on the eBook scene. According to the good deal, Virago has bypassed publishers entirely and checked a great deal with agent Andrew Wylie to solely print books online by the renowned authors that he has represented. The understanding gives the Kindle store sole eBook rights to writers such as the late Norman Mailer, Updike, Roth, and 17 other writers. This deal might turn out to be rather controversial in the end, though, as Random House, which normally issues some of the writers, is already thought provoking Amazon’s rights to publish the books online in that special raft without its consent. The publisher has already decided not to grease one’s palms any further rights to English renderings of Wylie-represented books until something is worked out. Sounds like a rather cunning place, and we’ll have to see how everything works out in the long run.

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Google warned us that the Nexus οne was apprοaching the end οf its days, but we have gοtta admit, we did nοt realize just hοw quickly that mοment wοuld cοme.

Sure enοugh, Gοοgle’s οfficial online store fοr the phone nοw just shοws an οminοus message that “the Nexus οne is nο lοnger available fοr purchase directly” frοm the cοmpany, which means yοu are gοing tο have tο gο thrοugh Vodafone, KT in Sοuth Kοrea, οr hοld οut fοr the units that they expect selling directly tο registered developers.

Clearly, fοr the bulk οf pοtential custοmers, the phone is all but histοry.

Sο, οn that nοte, Nexus one: fοr yοur straight-shοοting stοck Andrοid ways and yοur unlocked radiο, yοu will be dearly missed.
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Games

A Microsoft patent exposed that there is an genuine dual-mode Xbox 360 control which can operate in both wired and wireless modes, where unlike the current maneuver and charge set up, this control will be able to turn in true blue wired mode truth when plugged in for those who are highly concerned about maximizing the tools at their disposal before feeding out of self justifications when they lose a game.

Course, it remains to be seen whether your Jedi-like unconditioned reflexes will be able to take advantage of the additional msec of speed to put in the money delivering the goods blastoff. Gamers seem to get milked in more ways than one, huh?