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[if:book] Wired profiles Amp'd Mobile, a new service launching this fall that will offer subscribers a wide array of "mobile entertainment" options on a specialized handheld device. Amp'd has marshalled a vast amount of venture capital to bring the cellphone to its full potential as a catch-all media device - video console, gaming handset, ebook reader, web browser, and, if your brain hasn't been totally fricasseed by that point, still a good old-fashioned telephone.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Monster Software] Technology Perspective [Full Disclosure: Voice Recognition - 06/23/2005]: handheld that can do e-mail, but even in this relatively basic phone it can free your thumbs from agony.../t/506959/47010762/972472/0/ * PowerPDF: Create your own PDF files...fast & easy! * PowerPDF creates real PDF... compression rates (75, 200, & 300 DPI) and stationary support (watermarking). PowerPDF can even e-mail

[Futureofthebook.org] if:book: In an impassioned letter to the reader, the TRN editors explain how, even after building up a substantial readership (over 200,000 unique visitors monthly) since its founding in 2000, and exploiting all the routine methods for generating revenue on the web without actually charging for subscriptions (Lexis Nexis licensing payments, Google text ads, and sales of .pdf white papers and special reports), they are still unable to support basic site maintenance, let alone pay their tiny staff of two full-time editors, one contributing editor and two part-time staffers.

[Gizmodo.com] American PSPs Run Unsigned Code: DRM Still Important, Says DRM ...: case, which looks quite a bit like the Logitech PSP case, except it has space for MemorySticks and a couple of UMD discs (and also doesn’t flip up as a stand, I don’t think). It looks nice, but like most Noreve products, you’ll pay through the nose for real animal flavor—they’ve told me to expect US prices of $60 (and even more if you’re paying Euro).

[Makezine.com] MAKE: Blog: March 2005 Archive: We're testing our new video feed- I made a quick video (MP4) that shows the ways many PSP hackers discovered to use a PlayStation Portable (PSP) as a web browser using a game called Wipeout Pure, an awesome DNS/PSP Portal from FugiMax and all the great info from all the PSP tinkerers out there. Follow the directions here to actually do this and to watch our test video.