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Thursday, December 3, 2009

RoboXpress Latest - Sony PlayStation Is 15 Years

Sony PlayStation Is 15 Years
Nokia Shows Off New Symbian UI
Yahoo! Inc. looks to expand integration with Facebook
FBI wants Yahoo to hand over naked video
Apple issues Java update for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6
FarmVille maker unleashes PetVille
Geez, Google Wants to Take Over DNS, Too
Attaching SLR lenses to an iPhone with the Phone-O-Scope
Acer Launching Google Chrome OS Netbook
Samsung Omnia II Now Available On Verizon

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:43 PM PST

Wow I can't believe it is 15 years since the original PlayStation was launched, I really must be old as I remember the original PlayStation well and spent many hours playing games on it. PlayStation was launched in Japan 15 years ago today, and it landed in the US and UK a year later, there have [...]

Nokia Shows Off New Symbian UI

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:37 PM PST

Nokia has now shown of some photos of how the new re-designed Symbian UI will look, with some renders of what they intend to make Symbian look like. Nokia intend to streamline the new UI but cutting scrolling rates from 15fps to 6fps, as well as adding more functionality, and cutting down the number of taps [...]

Yahoo! Inc. looks to expand integration with Facebook

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:15 PM PST

Yahoo Inc. will let users of its e-mail, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network. Yahoo’s support of the Facebook Connect service, which it said it expects to begin in the first half of 2010, represents an important move in Yahoo’s efforts to [...]

FBI wants Yahoo to hand over naked video

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:09 PM PST

FBI agents want Yahoo Inc to turn over a video of a second naked woman they suspect was taken by the US man accused of secretly recording a nude ESPN reporter twice last year, authorities say. Search warrants were served on Wednesday at the Northern California offices of tech giants Yahoo and Google Inc seeking additional [...]

Apple issues Java update for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:02 PM PST

If you thought you just heard a disturbance in the Force–as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced–then take a deep breath and relax: it’s just a pair of Java software updates for Mac OS X. Apple released the two updates, Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 and Java [...]

FarmVille maker unleashes PetVille

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 08:49 PM PST

Zynga, the social-gaming developer behind the wildly popular Facebook game FarmVille, announced on Thursday that it has launched a new game for the social network, this one called PetVille. The news was originally reported on the Games.com blog. According to the company, PetVille allows Facebook users to “raise, dress, and care for a pet” that they’ve [...]

Geez, Google Wants to Take Over DNS, Too

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 08:39 PM PST

Google now wants to be your browser's phone book, launching a DNS service Thursday in hopes that users will let the ad and search giant take over yet another part of their net experience. Browsers ask Domain Name System (DNS) servers to translate URLs like http://wired.com into the web addresses where the servers are (e.g., http://69.22.138.130). [...]

Attaching SLR lenses to an iPhone with the Phone-O-Scope

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 12:31 AM PST

Camera hacker Bhautik Joshi has built an optical adapter – the Phone-O-Scope, so he could attach SLR lenses to the iPhone. [ link ] “Just to get the inevitable question of ‘why’ out of the way – well, why not? As far as I can tell, I think this is the first – I couldn’t find any similar [...]

Acer Launching Google Chrome OS Netbook

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 10:56 PM PST

According to Acer's Chairman JT Wang, Acer intend to be one of the first manufacturers to market in 2010 with an official Google Chrome netbook, and it should be available to buy in the second half of 2010. Acer has been working on a netbook with Google's Chrome OS since about the middle of 2009, so [...]

Samsung Omnia II Now Available On Verizon

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 10:43 PM PST

The Samsung Omnia II is now available on Verizon from today, for $199.99 after a $100 mail in rebate on a two year contract. Other features on the Samsung Omnia II include a 3.7 inch touch screen display, and it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and features Samsung's TouchWiz 2.0 UI. It comes with 8GB of built [...]