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Kingston announced a brand new flash drive series yesterday called the DataTraveler 200, which sports a 128GB capacity for the very first time. Other models are 32GB and 64GB, rounding out the line up nicely.

These flash drives feature added security by means of the Password Traveler software. Other specs include a capless design with a retractable USB connector. It’s also compatible with the ReadyBoost feature on Windows Vista.

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nternet piracy is costing the U.K. alone almost $300 million a year, according to technology analysis group Jupiter Research. Little wonder that European capitals are racing to win more powers to take on the worst pirates. So far, though, they don’t seem to be getting too far.

In France earlier this week the Constitutional Council, effectively France’s Supreme Court, ruled that proposed laws that would have forced Internet service providers (ISPs) to identify and help prosecute users who illegally trade copyrighted material, were unconstitutional. The news comes as a blow for the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as organizations around Europe that had been hoping that the French example might spur other governments into greater action against illegal file sharing.

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I am not a big fan of Bluetooth headsets. I think they have their place, like when you are trying to drive in a manual transmission car. However, if you use one while say walking in the mall you should be kicked in the balls (or punched in the ovaries if more appropriate).

If you are into music on your phone, most go for ear buds because they are compact and don’t look as strange on your head as say your massive headphones from 1984. Nokia has announced a new Bluetooth headset called the BH-905 that is quite large. The massive size looks like something you would see with a home stereo rather than a mobile phone or MP3 player.

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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered that all personal computers, whether made in China or imported from abroad, must include specific software to filter inappropriate information. Rebecca MacKinnon, assistant professor at the Journalism & Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, has posted a copy of the Chinese government order on her Web site.

According to her translation, Web filtering software called Green Dam Youth Escort must be installed on all PCs sold in China as of July 1. The software also must be included on a hard-drive partition or on a CD included with the computer to allow for reinstallation.

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Sony Ericsson Thursday introduced two new environmentally friendly handset phones, the C901 GreenHeart and Naite, which Sony Ericsson said will be sold in smaller packaging, come with all-digital user manuals, use recycled materials and consume less energy overall with lower-power chargers.

According to Sony Ericsson, the C901 GreenHeart’s phone casing is made from at least 50 percent recycled plastics and its color comes from a water-based paint. A light sensor changes the brightness of the C901 GreenHeart’s display, Sony Ericsson said, to adjust to its surroundings and consume less energy. The C901 GreenHeart includes a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, Xenon flash and smile-shutter, and also has a 2.2-inch, 240 x 320 display, A2DP Bluetooth, a Memory Stick Micro M2 card slot and Google Maps installed.

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Look up there, folks. That’s the future of Sony’s hopes and dreams in the handheld gaming sector. With just hours to go before the company’s official E3 2009 press event, it looks like the pieces are all coming together. First a UMD-less game release, then a highly credible mole giving the PSP Go a name, and now — live action shots. The images here were sourced from an obviously slipped June 2009 Qore video, and aside from giving us a look at the slider-based system (which, let’s be honest, looks a ton like the questionably successful mylo), we’re also told that it’ll tout 16GB of internal memory, built-in Bluetooth and an undisclosed memory slot. If all goes well, it’ll ship this Fall for a price to be determined, and it’s actually not slated to replace the PSP-3000, as both of ‘em will attempt to live on store shelves harmoniously… at least for awhile. Oh, and don’t worry — we’ll be on hand in LA to bring you all the impressions we can muster early next week

Official Specs :

A few more official specifications are flowing from the Full Qore video (pardon the sync issues). Here’s the dirt:

• 3.8-inch display (resolution is undisclosed)
• 43 percent lighter than the PSP-3000
• 16GB of Flash storage
• Bluetooth built-in; supports handset tethering and BT headsets
• No UMD drive
  
• Memory Stick Micro slot
• New Gran Turismo, Little Big Planet and new Metal Gear Solid (!) on the way
• Full PlayStation Network support (movie and TV rentals / purchases)
• Integration with PlayStation 3 (works the same as the PSP-3000 does)
• Sony views each of its products as “10-year lifecycle products,” so the PSP “needs to live on.”

Sony’s PSP Go Gallery : Here

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That sound you just heard? That’s the sound of a gazillion fanboys and girls screaming, cheering, or gasping in unison. Yes you read the title correctly. Hideo Kojima has announced at the E3 Microsoft keynote, that the Metal Gear Solid franchise is coming to the Xbox 360.

This isn’t just your standard run of the mill Metal Gear Solid franchise, it’s an all new title called Metal Gear Rising and it won’t star Solid Snake it will star the hero of MGS2: Sons of Liberty Raiden. This comes as a bit of a surprise, because over the last couple weeks Kojima had started a countdown teaser site showing nothing but a clock and thunder filled sky. After the initial countdown was over, another clock was revealed, this time showing the face of Big Boss. There was a ton of speculation as to what exactly could be coming down the pipeline from Kojima; and Famitsu jumped into the fray by announcing that it would be a new PS3 Metal Gear game.

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For the second straight month, video game industry sales tumbled nearly 17 percent year over year, a downward trend for a market segment that had previously seemed resistant to the economic pressures of the recession.

In April, according to industry analyst NPD Group, the industry posted revenue of US$1.03 billion, down 16.9 percent from the US$1.24 billion it recorded in April 2008. Sales for the month were also down 30 percent from US$1.43 billion in March.

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It’s hard not to root for the Palm Pre. First, the iPhone needs a real competitor, or at least one that doesn’t cause a third of its users to return the phone. And there’s the nostalgia for Palm (PALM), a company that was once so promising and has fallen so far. (Techies of yore will remember learning a whole new language to input text into the original Palm Pilots. Knowing that the letter ‘a’ was actually two diagonal lines in Palm-speak gave you a secret-society kind of thrill. And by you, I mean just me.)

But here’s the thing: Palm might be botching the Pre before it even launches. A while back Bloomberg reported that Palm may only be releasing 400,000 Pres at launch, 16.4 million fewer than the number of iPhones floating around. It appears to be a purposeful strategy, meant to limit the supply to drum up buzz once the Pres are sold out and (Palm hopes) people rave about the device.

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YouTube was busy deleting porn videos on Wednesday after users of forums at a rival site and an imageboard site declared a “Porn Day” campaign against the popular video service.The forums at video site eBaum’s World and 4chan organized the mass porn “carpet bombing” on YouTube, according to Ars Technica. YouTube has been removing the videos as fast as it can, but even videos that are removed are still showing up in search results with explicit images in the thumbnails, the report said.

It could take a couple of days for all the explicit results to be removed from the search results, Google spokesman Scott Rubin told Ars Technica. As one might expect, the pornographic clips are being uploaded without any indication that they’re for adult eyes only, making them easy to happen upon by casual searchers. As the upload-fest has progressed, users are also uploading what seems to be legitimate content, but is in fact a porn video that simply has 20-30 seconds of non-porn content (a newscast, an interview) at the beginning.

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