Screwing Archive

  • Sony kills (for now, at least) UMD transfer program for PSP Go

    Sony kills (for now, at least) UMD transfer program for PSP Go

    Oh, Sony. You're so close to being back, and then this happens. As you all know, the PSP Go comes out next week, and judging by all the random unboxings I've seen on various message boards—maybe our PSP Go got lost in the mail? Oh, well.—it looks like a fine, fine piece of hardware. The kicker, though, is: what happens to all those UMD games we've bought over the years? The original plan was to have some sort of trade-in or transfer program, whereby for every UMD you bought, you'd get a code to download the game. (Remember, there's no UMD slot in the PSP Go, so all games have to be downloaded onto the device's memory.) Turns out there's a small glitch.

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  • Hack makes Palm Pre partially Verizon-friendly

    Hack makes Palm Pre partially Verizon-friendly

    Screwing around with CDMA handsets is no fun at all. You’ve taken the SIM card out of the equation, so a hefty chunk of the data that defines whether or not you can connect is stored on the carrier’s server. As such, getting a phone like the Palm Pre onto Verizon is as much social [...]

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  • AT&T won’t be screwing us over on iPhone MMS charges

    AT&T won’t be screwing us over on iPhone MMS charges

    AT&T will not be charging subscribers extra for MMS when it rolls out for the iPhone, states an FAQ (PDF) that iLounge found online. Just thought you should know. I was worried about that and now it looks like I’ll be dumping my BlackBerry Curve and heading to AT&T for the 3G S.

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