Crackdown on PSP hacks is Microsoft's gain
Microsoft's new
Origami device may be a
big hit with the gadget fans
who were shut down by Sony. "When Sony released the PSP, a community of
users deciphered and altered the device's firmware, not out of a desire
to hack maliciously but to increase the PSP's functionality," says Paul
DeMartino of Reuters Investment. "Sony clamped down on them, and
current versions of the PSP can’t be modified — or more accurately, the
do-it-yourselfers haven't yet figured out how... It seems like the
company made the PSP less functional just to maintain control of
products that had already been sold."
Read the full article at PSPWorld
here.