Above is the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. It will be coming out in April in select countries and here is what you need to know:

• Screen: LED-Backlit LCD Screen with Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine (Resolution: 480×854)
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• Multi-touch input method
• Memory: 512MB RAM
• Storage media: microSD up to 32GB support, 8GB included
• Operating System: Android 2.3 – Gingerbread
• Camera: 8MP, AF, LED-Flash, Video: 720P HD Recording capability
• Processor: 1GHz Qualcomm Scorpion with Adreno 205GPU
• WiFi: A/B/G/N, Bluetooth 2.1

Here are some videos demonstrating the power of the Xperia Arc:

The Next Gen Portable is finally here. We can lay all the rumor to rest. Here is what you need to know about this new, bigger PlayStation Portable:

• Coming out: End of Year?
• Quad Core ARM Cortex AP CPU
• SGX543MP4+ GPU
• 5” touchscreen OLED Screen with a 960 x 544 Resolution
• Rear mutlitouch touchpad
• Dual Analog Sticks
• 3G
• WiFi
• GPS
• Dual Camera (Front and Back)
• Accelerometer and Gyroscope.
• No more UMDs
• Near System (Allows you to see all players around you with the NGP, what they are playing, stats, trophies, etc)

Near System Trailer:

Here is a short video courtesy of Akihabara News:

PlayStation Meeting 2011 - NGP, Sony’s Next Generation Portable from SpacePigTV on Vimeo.

Here is a list of all the studios that will be supporting it:

JAPAN:

ACQUIRE Corp.
ALVION Inc.
AQ INTERACTIVE INC.
ARC SYSTEM WORKS Co.,Ltd.
ARIKA CO.,LTD.
ARTDINK CORPORATION
ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc.
CAPCOM CO., LTD.
CHUN SOFT CO., Ltd
Codemasters Software Company Limited
Crafts & Meister Co.,Ltd.
CyberConnect2 Co.,Ltd.
D3 PUBLISHER Inc.
Dimps Corporation
Edia Co., Ltd.
ENTERBRAIN, INC.
FromSoftware, Inc
Gameloft K.K.
Genki Co.,Ltd.
Grasshopper Manufacture Inc.
GungHo Online Entertainment,Inc
GUST CO.,LTD.
HAMSTER Corporation
HUDSON SOFT CO., LTD.
IDEA FACTORY CO., LTD.
Index Corporation(Atlus)
IREM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INC.
KADOKAWA GAMES,LTD.
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
LEVEL-5 Inc. Marvelous Entertainment Inc.
media5 Corporation
NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
Nihon Falcom Corporation
Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
NOWPRODUCTION, CO.,LTD
Q Entertainment Inc.
SEGA CORPORATION
SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION
Spike Co.,Ltd
SQUARE ENIX Co., Ltd.
SystemSoft Alpha Corp.
TECMO KOEI GAMES CO., LTD.
TOMY Company,Ltd.
TOSE CO., LTD.
Ubisoft K.K.
YUKE’S Co., Ltd.

NORTH AMERICA:

Activision, Inc.
Capybara Games
Demiurge Studios
Epic Games Inc.
Far Sight Studios
Frima
High Voltage Software
Kung Fu Factory
Paramount Digital Entertainment
PopCap Games
Powerhead Games
Trendy Entertainment
Ubisoft®
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
2K Games
2K Sports

EUROPE/PAL:

Avalanche Studios
Climax Studios Ltd
Codemasters Software Company Ltd
Eurocom Developments Ltd
Eutechnyx Ltd
Exient Ltd
Firemint PTY Ltd
Gameloft SA
Gusto Games Ltd
Home Entertainment Suppliers PTY Ltd
Impromptu Software Ltd
Rebellion®
Rockstar Games
Sidhe Interactive
Sumo Digital Ltd
Team 17 Software Ltd
Ubisoft Entertainment SA
Zen Studios Ltd

Source, Source

What does this mean?  No one knows yet but Nike Basketball Production, Robert Rodriguez, Bruce Willis, Kanye West and Kobe Bryant will be appearing in this film coming out around 19th of February. Here is a trailer:

Yea, Kanye West is the “Boss”.

DJ Whoo Kid was on Twitter earlier talking about Cataracts, the guys responsible for the song, “Like a G6″, is going to do two songs for 50s upcoming album, Black Magic.  I guess this might be the payment for doing a remix for them?

Source

As most of you might have seen, Nicki was at the SNL this weekend…Mark Zuckerberg(s) was there this weekend too and some can’t help but feel a little awkward at his appearance.  Anyway, here is what you might have missed:

Nicki M:

Mark Zuckerberg(s):

Instructions on how to set up AV Media Server on the PS3 with Linksys E3000

I made this guide for those who had the same issue I had with this router. You install the router. Everything is working fine. Now, you go and try to set up the media server as advertised on the Cisco Router. Everything looks good on router’s side but when you go to your PS3, you see “rootpicture” “rootvideo” “rootmusic” or whatever it might be now.  You go into these folders and NOTHING is in them, they are empty!  SO here is a troubleshoot or guide on how to make sure this feature works. No, Cisco did not Falsely advertise this feature on the E3000. It does work.  A Linksys Agent, Kaustubh (71459) and I decided to go through this issue and worked HARD to figure out why so many PS3 users had this issue. If you have been trying to solve this and are network-savy, skip to THE MOST IMPORTANT PART and Conclusion bolded below.

Make sure you are running the latest firmware.

• Go Here. Then Click download, select Hardware Version 1.0 (or whatever the latest version is now) then download the latest firmware (Make sure you remember where you downloaded this file, we will access it next).
• Now access your router’s backend (make sure not to do this through a wireless network). Connect to your router with the provided Ethernet cable. Then access the backend of your router manually without Cisco Connect. To do so, open a new window on your browser and then access your router’s IP.
• Unless you made some changes on your own, the default one Linksys provides is 192.168.1.1.  You might be asked for a username and password. Unless you made any changes, this should be “admin” for both fields. Once you have logged in, click and go to Administration section from the top menu (its to the left of Status unless they changed somethings).
• Then go to Firmware Upgrade. Click Browse, select the latest firmware file you downloaded then click start upgrade. Don’t mess with anything at this point. The upgrade might take up to 3 mins.  Your internet connection will be lost for about 5 seconds. Once the upgrade is done, you will need to go to your router’s IP address and log in again. Check the TOP RIGHT section to see if you successfully upgraded to the latest firmware. DONE!

Make sure the Storage is set up correctly.

• Make sure your external HDD is connected to the Linksys E3000.  There is a USB connection on the back next to your ethernet cables.  I don’t really think it matters when you connect it or how you do it but just in case, I unplugged the power to the router, connected the HDD, waited about a minute, then plugged the power back into the router and powered it up.
• Now, I assume you know how to access your router’s backend as explained above in guide #1.  Now, go to “STORAGE” (It is to the right of  “Security”). Now, you should be in disk management. To tell you the truth, nothing worked for me here at first on a harddrive that already had stuff in it so what I did is FORMAT the harddrive and ERASED EVERYTHING on it and started over.  In my case, since my harddrive was empty anyway, I didn’t lose anything. So what I did in short is First, click the box under format disk and format the hard drive you plugged in (like I said, you will lose EVERYTHING when you format).
• Once you click Format, Linksys will as you once again, do you really want to format? You hit yes and the next screen will ask you what you want to name the new drive. Type in the name and hit format. It should take about 5 mins tops.  Now go to Media Server Under Storage (it is right next to disk).  Type in the server name you would like (This is the name you will see on your PS3).  And then hit ENABLE on uPnP Sever.

Now the most important part

• The most important part I found out you need to do for the PS3 is under database, in the same “Media Server” section, click “Specify folder to scan”.  I believe Linksys creates a default section called “public” after you format. We need to GET to this folder so  depending on what is your “Current Folder: “, reads now, keep clicking the button “Enter into Folder” until it says “Current Folder: /name of your partition” (name of your partition should be the name you chose when you formatted your HDD.  Once you have reached this part, below, you should see a folder called “public”.  DO NOT click “Enter into folder”, select the circle radio next to the button.  Once you do this, in your Location FIELD, it should read, something like “/foreign_shares/name of your partition/public”. In Display Name FIELD, type in a unique name, I typed PS3. Then Click Save Settings.  I didn’t mess with ANYTHING under FTP Server NOR Administration. Also, under Disk, I didn’t mess with “Create a Share” neither.
• You are DONE at this point! Put some files in the Harddrive and then go to your PS3 to access them.  It should automatically detect your Media Server if connected to the same network. If not, connect to your wireless network with E3000, then under anything, “Picture”, “Music”, “Videos”, there should be “Search/Scan for a media network” icon. Click that. It should find your server. Now click the server (It should have a TV icon with your chosen server name).  Press X to access it, you will see rootmusic, root picture, root video. If you are in Music section of the XMB, go to rootmusic and if you put some songs on the harddrive, you should see these songs in there.

CONCLUSION: The BIGGEST issue or problem most people have with this problem is they don’t specify folder to scan under the backend settings of the E3000 Storage under Media Server Section.  Once you do this, everything should work FINE!

So far, these methods have been enough to help numerous friends of mine with Linksys E3000 and the PS3. I love this router and everything has worked fine for my streams too. I would recommend it to anyone. It is hard to use ONLY if you are a beginner and don’t want to spend the time and have the patient to work on this issue.  If you run into problems, Cisco/Linksys has GREAT Tech Support like Kaustubh (71459) who will be patient enough to go through each step to help you out!

Some issues for Mac Users

P.S. I have a MAC OS X 10.5.8 and it was VERY HARD on knowing how to access this HDD and adding files to it through the wireless network.  But its actually easy! Access your router’s IP Address.  Go to Storage and then to Administration. You will notice, there is a Server Internet IP Address for your wireless network.  Mine was 68.#.###.###. Copy that address.  Now go to “Finder” for your MAC.  Click “Go” Then Click Connect to Server (Or click an empty area of your desktop and then click Command + K (Hold Command and lick K)). Now type in the Server Internet IP Address here AFTER this statement: “smb://”. So for me, it should read, “smb://68.#.###.###” and press enter. Voila! You should be connected to your wireless network at this point otherwise I don’t think it would work…If you have a PC, there are NUMEROUS Programs you can download online to do this. Search Connect to Server on PC or something like it on Google and you will find some.

Hey guys. I decided to push this weeks Maemo monday onto today since I wanted to to try Google Buzz on the N900. Here are a couple of things we know so far from Google Buzz Site…its a cross between Facebook and Twitter (Facebook-lite) but backed by Google and used for all of your contacts who have gmail. Here are some shots:

Everything works. Even deleting posts, posting videos…

The 3D screenings will take place at:

NEW YORK: 3D live streaming event at Skylight studios
PARIS: 3D live streaming event hosted with concept store, colette
DUBAI: 3D live streaming event at The Address
TOKYO :3D live streaming to La Fabrique for ”Burberry Night”
LOS ANGELES: 3D streaming event hosted by Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast (time delay due to time zone) [Source]