Techmeme: Joystiq hands-on: new PS3 controller (James Ransom-Wiley/Joystiq)

12:15 PM ET, May 9, 2006

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James Ransom-Wiley / Joystiq:

Joystiq hands-on: new PS3 controller — Immediately following the Sony keynote, we pushed and shoved our way to a quick and dirty session with the new PS3 controller. Warhawk was the only playable demo touting six-axis sensing functionality; so naturally, our destination was the setup featuring that game.

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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:

Google looks Olive up and down, but then rejects it — Google has walked away from acquiring Santa Clara company, Olive Software. — We wrote earlier that Google was negotiating to buy Olive for $70-80M, to gain access to Olive's technology that helps transfer off-line content into a form …

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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:

Peer Review of Patents — Those working in the wireless and hotspot space are well aware of what damage and benefit patents have wrought: For every hard-won, hard-science patent that represents the unique result of expensive research and development that produces a non-obvious outcome beneficial …

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Rob Semsey / features.teamxbox.com:

E3 2006: Microsoft Reaction to Sony Press Briefing — Only seconds after Sony's E3 2006 Press Briefing ended and many gamers had made their annual "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" conclusions. Now whether Sony's E3 kickoff was a success or a failure will be contemplated from now until the release …

Discussion: Kotaku and Things That

Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:

Vonage IPO and SPIT — SPIT is Spam over IP Telephony. — Yesterday I got an email from Vonage offering me a piece of their IPO because I'm a long-term customer. I was fine with getting that mail although I don't intend to take advantage of the offer for reasons I've posted here.

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Hoyun / Popgadget:

Water bottle and solar lantern combo — This water bottle from Solight does double duty as a solar-powered lantern. The LED light charges up while you're hiking or fishing or whatever, then at night you can hang it on a tree or set it on a table or on the floor of your tent.

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David Hambling / NewScientistTech:

Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects — Robotic "tentacles" that can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects have been developed by US researchers. — Most robots rely on mechanical gripping jaws that have difficulty grabbing large or irregularly shaped objects.

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Adam Sherwin / Times of London:

Now a TV series only on your mobile — THE demise of traditional broadcasting will move a step closer when the man behind Big Brother introduces the first British interactive reality series made exclusively for mobile phones. — Get Close To . . . , which begins on Friday …

Discussion: Web Strategy, Engadget Mobile, MocoNews.net and Reiter's Camera Phone Report

Howard W. French / New York Times:

As Chinese Students Go Online, Little Sister Is Watching — SHANGHAI, May 8 — To her fellow students, Hu Yingying appears to be a typical undergraduate, plain of dress, quick with a smile and perhaps possessed with a little extra spring in her step, but otherwise decidedly ordinary.

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USA Today:

Newspaper sales dip, but websites gain — NEW YORK — Newspapers offered a mixed story Monday as new data showed a circulation decline industrywide — by alarming rates at some papers — while visits to their websites grew. — Average weekday circulation fell 2.5%, to 45.4 million …

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Séan Captain / Slate:

Forget YouTube — Your laptop will never replace your TV. — In the last few months, the quality and diversity of Internet video has soared. Sites like YouTube have made it easy to watch user-generated content and dubbed TV clips. The old-line media is going online, too.

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