Finally it’s here. Sony has announced the PSP-3000 at the Leipzig Games Convention Yeah it has the PlayStation logo button there as rumored before. It is pretty much the same like the PSP-2000. The new features, which says “improved screen that’s better outside with no glare” and a built-in mic. This new PSP is expected to hit Europe on the October 15th at €199 ($291). More pictures after the break.

[via Engadget]

Tags: psp, playstation portable, psp-3000,

James Strickland has today been appointed the director of product and technology development of Freesat, the UK’s free-to-air digital satellite TV service.

James will be joining Freesat from Cisco, where he was director of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) Business Development for Europe and emerging markets. James has extensive experience in product marketing, management and business development, working for companies such as OpenTV and Pace Micro Technology.

At Freesat, James will play a key role in developing, implementing and managing Freesat’s digital receiver product strategy and will lead the delivery of the organisation’s innovation objectives.

Commenting on the new appointment of James Strickland, Emma Scott, Freesat’s MD said; “James brings a wealth of experience from a range of fields, and is well-placed to help Freesat in the next stages of its development.”

Strickland will take up his post in the Autumn.

It seems as though everyone wants something done quickly, or nearly instantly. We want success quickly. We want to be successful online and we want to get links to our web sites quickly. We want traffic to our web sites quickly.

There are many reasons why you would want to get an “influx” of links to one particular article on your web site. Perhaps it’s a blog post. Perhaps it’s just a new web site and a brand new domain name and you “want to do something” to jumpstart it somehow. I’ve put together a list of six things you can do right now to get nearly “instant links” to your web site. In many cases these six “techniques” of getting links are nearly automated, so your link will show up almost as fast as you can go check to see if it’s really there. Some other techniques I’ve listed below are faster; and some require that you actually create some content (like writing a few blog entries).

I am not making any sort of “guarantees” at all whether or not these work or whether or not they’re completely “white hat”, meaning that if Matt Cutts from Google picks up on it he won’t have problem with it. And I haven’t tested each and every one of these to see if the “links count” at all the search engines. In any case, though, there are legitimate reasons as to why you would want to get a link quickly. One reason I can think of right now is that you need to get a URL crawled quickly; especially when you’re going to syndicate the content on other web sites. Duplicate content can be a real issue nowadays, and it’s important to make sure that the content our site gets crawled first.

Here are fix ways to get nearly instant links to your web site:

1. Submit site to get-listed-quickly directories.

OneMission.com
Sign up as an editor, then add links in appropriate categories. Top level categories are better, make sure that the page is located not too many clicks from their home page: http://onemission.com/

Easy Link Directory
A bid for placement web directory, submit a link to your site and bid to for placement; lowest bid is only $1. http://www.easlinktrade.com/

2. Add your own blog at a few web sites:

Start a Wordpress blog. Make sure the blog has good unique content, make sure you link out to trusted sites when you post; add tags to posts
http://wordpress.com/

Start a Squidoo Lens on your topic.
http://www.squidoo.com

Start a weather blog at Wunderground.com
Start a blog (choose free option) and
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/

Other places to add your own content:
hubpages.com
zimbio.com

3. Add the link to your social media accounts.

Add a link to your social media accounts that you’ve already set up.
StumbleUpon
Del.icio.us/delicious.com
google.com/bookmarks
wirefan.com’
simpy.com
folkd.com
blogmarks.net
corank.com
megite.com/discover
dropjack.com
a1-webmarks.com
jumpup.intuit.com
spicypages.com

If you have the option available to you, consider adding “link bait” type articles, content to the web site and use the social media sites to help promote that content.

4. Add your site to new social media profiles.
If you plan on using the new social media profile in the future, then it might make sense to set up social media profiles for the site. There’s a good list of social media sites at www.socialposter.com.

5. Check for broken links at Web Directories
Check for broken links. Use a dead link checker to check for sites that are listed in the category where you want to be listed. Sometimes you can find a domain name that is listed (or one that you can buy) and redirect to your site with a 301 Permanent Redirect.
dir.yahoo.com
business.com
dmoz.org

Besides the Yahoo! Directory, Business.com, and DMOZ.org, there are most likely other authoritative sites or in your niche that list sites in your niche. Run a dead link checker script on those pages to find domain names, sites of formerly competitive sites on your topic. Watch out for domain names that have trademarks, don’t register those. Whether or not you actually get credit for those directory links is questionable, though. Once a domain name drops (goes pending delete) and is available, I tend to see them removed from the Google index. If you’re after a directory listing, though, this may be an option if you don’t want to wait or pay for the directory listing fee (some are as much as $299).

Here are a few broken link checker scripts:
Xenu - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
404 Checker - http://www.404checker.com/link-checker
Dead Links - http://www.dead-links.com/

6. Make useful comments on some dofollow blogs.
There are lists of dofollow blogs (blogs that have removed the “nofollow” tag on their blog comments. Keep in mind that you really DO need to make a useful comment (especially on my blog) because most of these (if not all of them) are moderated. If you want a link from my blog, make a useful comment on a *recent* post, not one from 6 months or a year ago.

Comment Hunt - www.commenthunt.com
Do Follow Blogs - http://www.dofollowblogs.com/
Courtney Tuttle DoFollow blogs - http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/
Link Building Bible - http://linkbuildingbible.com/dofollowdiver/

Like I mentioned before, there are many reasons why you would want to links to a site quickly; and you easily force a search engine crawl of your site by doing any of these things. I tend to prefer to do as many as I can, especially when it comes to a brand new domain name or when I need a link to an article or press release on a site that I know is going to get “syndicated” somewhere. Hopefully this list is helpful. If you know of any other ways to get a link that I haven’t mentioned, feel free to comment about it.

Back in February of last year we posted information about a laptop that took a bullet and saved a soldier’s life. This was a massive story at the time and even made it to the homepage of Digg.

Today we have heard directly from SGT Steven W. Clark of the 101st Airborne. You can read what he sent in to us below.

The Toughbook belong to a member of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault)…Me…. I am sick of this story getting messed up. It was hit in the back of my M998 HMMWV in Mosul, IZ on 9 June 2003. It was hit in the hard drive by a 7.62 x 54R round from a PKC belt fed machine gun from a distance of 250 meters. I took a round in the shoulder. All the info from the hard drive was recovered, placed on a new hard drive and sent back too me by October 2003. The round went trough two boxes of MRE’s and the carrying case before being stopped by the thick disk, non-removable hard drive. Whoever this 82nd guy is full of it. This computer is sitting in the Ft. Huachuca, AZ Military Intel Museum with my name and “101st Airborne Screaming Eagles” next to it!!!

Let’s face it, bidding on trademark terms-especially on major brand trademarks is BIG money for PPC affiliates. This includes trademarks for the offer you’re promoting and competitor trademark terms as well.

Trademark bidding may be highly profitable but it’s also equivalent to playing Russian roulette with your affiliate income, especially if a large majority of your sales are coming from trademarks!

Why?

Let me illustrate with 2 stories…

At Affiliate Summit Boston, I had dinner with Jeremy Palmer, John Hasson, and Ajay (all PPC super affiliates).

Anyway, Jeremy was telling me about an affiliate who made $2 million last year (no joke) all from bidding on ONE trademark term (plus misspelling and variations of course).

Well, the merchant suddenly decided to no longer allow trademark bidding for affiliates!

Now the guy who make $2 million last year is now LOOKING FOR A JOB!?! Apparently all of his income was coming from that one trademark term.

Scary, isn’t it?

There’s always competitor trademarks, right?

Wrong!

A friend of mine who was running a very profitable offer ($1k/day net profit) was forced to pause his campaign after the merchant threatened to freeze his account if he didn’t stop bidding on COMPETITOR trademarks.

Now, I’m not saying don’t bid on trademarks, I bid on trademarks all the time.

What I’m saying is don’t DEPEND on trademark bidding as your sole source, or majority of, your affiliate income.

Ask yourself : “How stable are my affiliate campaigns? Can they be wiped out by one policy change from the merchant?”

If the answer is YES, you’d better get busy!

If you have been keeping up-to-date with the latest happenings with the launch of the blackberry bold you have probably heard by now that tomorrow, that’s Thursday 21st August it will available in Canada, which is Blackberry’s hometown, so the long awaited arrival is upon us.

If you are in Canada you will be able to pick this sophisticated and sexy hand set up at Rogers, the price has not yet been disclosed but rumour has it, the price will be around $300 and $400. It’s also looking likely that the Blackberry Bold will be available with other carriers by the end of this week.

But before you start cart-wheeling to your nearest stockiest there has been no other release dates confirmed, but as soon as we know the Bold is coming to a town near you, rest assured we will let you know, how could we let you miss out on the spectacular Bold with Blackberry’s most vivid display ever, a 2-megapixel camera with video recording capability, and a media player for watching movies and managing music collections. Need we say anymore?

Source: engadget

If you want a phone that only 199 other people have then go for the Luminoso Lucido from Mobiado, its limited to only 200 phones being produced, it oozes style and sophistication boasting stainless steel, aluminum and sapphire crystal all in one superb case.

If the fact the Lucido is so limited hasn’t got you hooked, then I am sure the spec will impress you with it’s tri-band GSM phone which will get you coverage on up to five continents, there’s Bluetooth connectivity available, 2 megapixel camera, GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900 it will also work on WCDMA 2100, microSD slot for up to 2GB of memory boost, push to talk and a music player which can play MP3, MP4, eAAC+ and AAC music files and a QVGA display.

We would suggest is you want this phone, then keep your eyes out for where to purchase it, as of yet we don’t know, as for how much it’s going to cost, well let’s say we don’t think it’s going to come cheap.

Source: Mobilewhack

For the first time 3 will partner Research In Motion to stock their BlackBerry Bold, in the UK, this follows on with 3 stocking Samsung handsets earlier this month.

3 now holds a full range of major brands in their mobile portfolio, with the Bold bring the BlackBerry brand into their fold. 3 is currently looking to break into the business market and thus bring more data services to its network, and with the BlackBerry bold this should be accomplished.

Research In Motion along with Samsung are both hunting the UK market share with aggression, and 3 will add another arm to their overseas sales.

3 will stoke for the first time the Samsung L770 handset this month, and later this year is expected to expand their Samsung range to take in high end mobiles such as the Samsung Soul and Tucco.

Samsung UK VP, Mark Mitchinson, says: “The fact that 3 will be ranging our phones is massive for us. We expect the agreement to be a big boost to our already increasing market share.”

Source – mobiletoday

I reported a few days ago on the subject of the HSBC possibly dumping Research In motion’s BlackBerry smartphones in favour of the Apple iPhone 3G (see here), well it appears that this is now not the case.

According to CBS News the HSBC has refuted claims that it is going iPhone.

Donal McCarthy, a spokesman for HSBC said: “There are no current plans to replace the BlackBerry. It is the business standard.”

This news will more than likely be a most welcome by Research In Motion who make the BlackBerry smartphones, as HSBC has a massive contract with them to supply HSBC employees with BlackBerry phones.

Just goes to show how wrong some people can be doesn’t it, and not everything reported on the web is guaranteed as true. Research In Motion grabs back some territory from the ever encroaching Apple iPhone 3G in the iPhone BlackBerry wars.

Source – pocket-lint

Today LG Electronics and AT&T Inc have announced the launch of LG Invision, this gives mobile users the best in video on their cell phones. LG Invision may be the 3rd phone to offer AT&T Mobile TV, but it is also the smallest Mobile TV phone in the United States.

The LG Invision features a size of less than one-half an inch thick, 2 inches wide and 4 inches tall. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, XM Radio Mobile, 3G, stereo audio support and lets users watch TV programming on a crystal-clear screen.

Programmes include NBC2GO, FOX Mobile, ESPN Mobile TV, CBS Mobile and users also get the ability of Video Share calling. The Invision lets users download music fast thanks to AT&T Mobile Music, which provides access to streaming digital radio, any unrestricted MP3 audio file and Napster To Go.

LG’s Invision will make you feel like you are walking around with a live TV in your pocket.

You can get more information on AT&T’s 3G network packages and Mobile TV packages via the read link below. You can also read other cell phone news here.

Source: Read