Tech News: PS4?, Duke Goes for The Gold, Speaking of Gold...Farming? And More!

It was confirmed today that Sony is working on what they call a "future platform".  This comes as no surprise since in all reality it is probably getting time for the "Big 3" to announce their "next next-gen" platforms and consoles.  Sony has already been dropping info on their NGP (next gen portable) system.  Nintendo has been teasing the successor to the Wii, and Microsoft is claiming their next console is slated for 2015.  So don't fret too much about not having the latest...

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Got my Android Tablet!

Well, this past Thursday I finally bought an Android Tablet.  I chose the Acer Iconia A500.  Best Buy currently carries the A500 for $449.99 U.S.  It rocks the Android 3.0 'Honeycomb' out of the box.  And let me say, it is pretty freakin' sweet. This isn't a comprehensive review by any means, but I'll quickly hit the highlights.  This tablet is sporting a NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual Core mobile processor and 1GB DDR2 memory.  The A500 is a wifi only tablet, so no need to...

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Coming Soon?

Life has been fairly busy over the last few weeks.  Between work and being on vacation (away from any and all internet connections, yes I survived) my blog hasn't been very accessible.  So what's ahead for the TechieSmarts Blog? One of the things I'm hoping to do in the near future is be able to bring a full review of Android Honeycomb.  I'm aiming to get my hands on one of the very nice Honeycomb tablets.  More than likely it'll be the Acer Iconia Tab (unless ASUS spits out...

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PSN Is Back Up...Partially.

Well, Sony has finally pulled through.  Looks like the PSN is back up as far as online play is concerned.  Other features like the Playstation Store are still down.  But I'm sure it'll be following very soon. So, what now?  Well I'm sure there will be plenty of people ready to flame Sony over when their free games are going to be available.  But as far as I am concerned I can now return to Unreal Tournament 3 and Mortal Kombat's online play. So what's required to get...

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Ventillation over PSN...Part 2

Okay, my last blog post was on April 29th, 2011.  That was 3 days before I went on a cruise for vacation.  In the time I was gone, I had high hopes that PSN would be restored when I returned.  However, upon my return after a week away, that PSN was still down.  As I was thinking on the whole PSN outage, I got to thinking a little outside the box. All of us gamers are asking, "When will PSN be back up?" or "What is Sony going to give us for our troubles?". But to be fair, without...

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