Tag archive: PC Pro

You think things are tough financially? Try living in the UK, where gas has topped the $10 a gallon mark, and home energy prices are predicted to rise 40% this winter. And, for anyone wanting to buy the new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, the equivalent cost is $1,424, according to Information Week – that’s compared to its $699 price at home. Needless to say, that’s making British consumers a little unhappy. PC Pro loved the… Read More

“UK music lovers are getting frustrated with restrictions placed on digital music tracks once they buy them from online stores, says PC Pro magazine. The magazine reported that people are also being turned off net music stores because of pricing and disappointing sound quality compared with CDs. ” Education folks. I would say that 9/10 people I run into have no idea the limitations of the music they just downloaded.… Read More

Taking the number of third-party Japanese publishers backing the machine to 59 are the likes of Eidos KK, Jaleco, Atari Japan, Ubisoft Entertainment Japan, Imagineer and Titus Japan. Consequently, a number of new PSP gaming titles have also been announced. Amongst the most exciting (or at least more familiar) to Western audiences include Sony's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Konami's World Soccer Winning Eleven series,… Read More

Sony says the player can hold up to 13,000 songs compressed in its own ATRAC format, while Apple claims 5,000 songs for the 20GB iPod. But, says Apple, Sony's calculations are based on files with greater compresion and therefore of an inferior quality. 'We're disappointed that Sony, which is new to this market, has decided to make their first impression by attempting to mislead the press and customers,' an Apple… Read More

A highly-placed UK industry source, operating close to Sony, revealed to us: 'PSP is intended to be able to link up with Sony Connect to offer digital music for download, but the bigger deal is the plan to put PSP games up there for download eventually, too.' Sony Connect, touted as a direct rival to Apple's massively successful iTunes service, was officially launched yesterday. The currently US-only service initially… Read More