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Good news for Playstation 3 owners — NBC and Sony have just announced that NBC Universal content is now available on the PlayStation Network. In addition to NBC shows like The Office, 30 Rock, and Heroes, new movie releases like Milk and Role Models will hit PSN day and date with the DVD release, and back-catalog titles like The 40-Year Old Virgin and The Big Lebowski should already be up. Pricing is ballpark with the competition: $2.99 to $5.99 for SD and HD rentals, and $9.99 to $14.99 for SD and HD purchases. Not bad, but we won’t be happy until these fools drop the shenanigans and give us what we really want: Hulu. Make it happen, guys.

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NBC Universal content now available on PlayStation Network originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook loses your uploaded photos temporarily. Wilson knows this due to his vigilant Facebook stalking. We’re still running our motto contest, and right now it’s split between “The nerdy dirty” and “Full frontal nerdity.” If you can come up with something better, please send a voice mail to 1-866-404-CNET (2638). Please! We’re an audio show, e-mails only go so far.

Poppa corporation streams March Madness.

More on today’s show, we’ve got some news about the rise of pay-per-view porn on cable. We can’t figure out why you don’t just download it, but hey there’s still a whole population out there that still watches movies from VHS. Speaking of watching stuff, our parent company CBS is going to be streaming March Madness online this year. Expect productivity to drop to nothing–as if the economy isn’t bad enough.

Also, the economy has hit Google as well. They’re announcing that they’ll have to close two cafés. They still get to keep their free laundry, massages, lunches, dinners, snacks, stock options, etc. I know it’s rough being a Googler. We’re worried they’re going to take away our Flavia machine. Finally, did you know that you pay an average of $3 per minute with your cell phone plan? Yeah, shocker right there. Wilson had to give AT&T his first-born child when he went over.

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Quite frankly, it’s immensely challenging to find desktops more apt to make computer users fall asleep at the keys than Lenovo’s ThinkCentre line, but thankfully, they’re not exactly aimed at the “1337 gaming crowd.” In an effort to continue shrinking the size of towers and blasting us all with the company’s profound green vibes, the ThinkCentre A58 and M58e have been introduced, bringing with ’em Intel Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPUs, onboard graphics, up to 1TB of HDD space, upwards of 4GB of RAM, optional Blu-ray drives for the really productive employees and all sorts of bloatware that keeps corporate machines from booting up a second before the coffee’s ready. For those of you still awake, you can buy either of these joyous boxes next month starting at $399.

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Lenovo intros small, green ThinkCentre A58 and M58e desktops originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Still haven’t found a wireless projector that meets your needs? Then you may want to consider one of Sanyo’s new LP-XU355 or LP-XU305 models, which each pack a standard XGA resolution and a new “Simple Wireless Setting” that lets you use an included USB drive to easily network with any computer. Otherwise, you can expect to get 3,000 or 3,500 ANSI lumens of brightness, a single 7W speaker in each, a wireless remote, and a full range of inputs, including a single HDCP-compliant DVI port. If you don’t mind being tethered, you can also opt for Sanyo’s new non-wireless LP-XU350, LP-XU300, LP-XU301, or LP-WXU300 models, which are each more or less similar to their WiFi counterparts, with the exception of the LP-WXU300, which ups the resolution to 1280 x 800. No word on a release ’round here just yet, but those in Japan can apparently look for the first of the lot (including the two wireless models) to roll out in May, with the remainder trickling out over the course of June and July.

[Via Akihabara News]

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Sanyo goes wireless with new line of projectors originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft entered the market for notebook coolers Tuesday morning, expanding the software company’s reach further into PC peripherals.

The Notebook Cooling Base will be available in July for an estimated retail price of $29.95, Microsoft said.

The addition of a cooling base is somewhat disconcerting, given that Microsoft designs operating systems that consume CPU and memory cycles, producing heat, which is then transferred to a user’s lap. Ideally, Microsoft would design a slim operating system that could be run at a slower speed or in a lower-power mode, eliminating the need for such coolers entirely. But we digress.

In any event, the Cooling Base contains a fan and is slanted ergonomically, to make typing easier. Just 1.16 inches thick, it also contains a cable management clip and is USB powered. It will be available in white and black.

If you consider that design somewhat dull, take heart: Microsoft also said itsArc Mouse will be available this month in four limited-edition colors: frost white, eggplant purple, deep olive green and marine blue for $49.95 each. The Wireless Mobile Mouse 3000 will also ship in a limited-edition color palette, including blue sapphire, red garnet, pink topaz, green emerald and purple amethyst for $29.95 apiece.