Famitsu.com have discovered some minor changes in the new PSP-3000 models firmware. Although nothing to major its interesting to note.
The PSP-3000 has a setting for “Color Space” under the system settings section of the XMB. This can be switched between Wide and Normal. Wide exploits the full color depth of the revised hardware, while Normal [...]

Good news everyone… (imagine Prof. Farnsworth voice)
On a PlayStation.Blog post by John Koller, it is noted that the PSP-3000 battery life isn’t going to suffer like previously mentioned.
Quote:

Hi, everyone, there have been reports about the battery life of the new PSP system (PSP-3000) being shorter than the current model (PSP-2000), following an interview we recently [...]

According to SCE America marketing manager John Koller the battery life of a PSP-3000 will be decreased by 20-30 minutes. Why? Well that prettier LCD screen is at the cost of battery life. Whats the beat that 20-30 minutes is on the Dimmest setting? I wonder if it would be 20-30 minutes on full bright [...]

Hellcat has released an update to Recovery Flasher, with this application you can fully re-installing 3.71 or 4.01 M33 firmware without Pandora.
Also a new feature in this version is the ability to backup flash content for restoration purposes on the same PSP which could be used on another PSP as long as it is the [...]

Japanese gaming blog, Famitsu has gotten their hands on the PSP-3000 and has compared the two for us.
One of the most recognised differences is the screen as you can see in the shot below:
The colours are supposedly more vibrant and the new screen contains less glare with reduced ghosting.
More comparisons after the jump.

New info is out that the PSP-3000 will feature an LCD screen with a response time that will be twice as fast as the current PSP models. Which means less ghosting and color bleeding. It will also have an LCD five times the current contrast ratio and double the color gamut.
This is all nice, but [...]

Photos of the new PSP-3000 just announced.

Homebrew Developer Zack has released Wolfenstien 3d PSP version 5. This final release features many huge improvements, notably the sound is now perfect and you can instantly save and load. Plus it now features proper fullscreen and TV out. (See the changelog for the full list of fixes and improvements)
Click the read more link for [...]

Sony’s not giving up on the dreaded UMD movie.. They plan to release 5-7 new movies each quarter, all costing $9.99 to $14.99. They also say the new UMD movies should the target audience, so no romantic crap of any sort.
Read the full article here: Video Business

Homebrew developer Raphael has released a bugfix update to Joysens. Must importantly it fixes the UMD driver bug that was present. Joysens is a PSP Analog joystick tweaker application that lets users adjust the sensitivity.
Changelog:
- fixed compatibility issues with Sony UMD driver (and possibly some other applications that require more kernel memory)
The config file system [...]

Mediumgauge has released a bugfix update to his homebrew application PSP Filer. Also some changes have been made to the picture viewer. So what is PSP Filer? Its a file management for the PSP, allowing users to copy, paste and move files. Open rar and zip files, view images and much more.
Changelog:
* fixed a bug [...]

Hellcat has released a huge update to his Pandora installer for 3.X kernel custom firmware. This application allows users easily set-up and run Pandora of their custom firmwared PSP.
This update features a new redesigned menu as well as an option to install the TimeMachine IPL and the latest version of Despertar del Cementerio (PSP universal [...]

Homebrew junky Torch has released an updated for his program Hold+. For those of you unfamiliar to Hold+, this program is excellent in helping conserve your PSP’s battery.  This little update fixes a bug that if you hold up and turn off Hold+ it would turn the screen on even though you were holding [...]

DAX has released version 2 of his PSPStates plug in for 4.01 M33 firmware. PSPStates is a savestates plug-in for the PSP Slim that allows users to save and load save states as they please.
This version has a lot of bug fixes and now supports UMD discs.
Changelog:
* Fixed important bug in inter-thread code (semaphore wasn’t [...]

Tiawan-based company PhotoFast has made a hero out of themselves. They have recently developed a MicroSD adapter that is capable of holding not one, but two Micro SD cards, and another adapter to hold two of those Micro SD adapters. This means the capacity for your PSP will go through the roof, [...]

Here’s a quick video for those that haven’t seen or tried out FuSa build 45 yet. As you can see the output is now full screen with no boarders present. No its not the video, Crisis Core does run a little slower as you can see. Other games are reported to run faster, that aren’t [...]

Mediumgage has come out with just a little update to his homebrew PSP Filer. He says he fixed a few bugs that were going on with the original 5.1, so it should be running a little better now.
Fixes:
-Fixed a bug that the kernal3 Filer couldn’t run under some CFW version (that was caused in [...]

Coco1230 and Said0011 at The Belgium Team have released a small bug fix update to their homebrew program ErrorF, which allows you to look up PSP error codes and possible solutions. ErrorF is in both French and English.
Source: The Belgium Team
Thanks Coco1230 for letting us know.