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As the reports were coming that Toshiba Corp. is going to discontinue HD DVD technology, it seemed rather possible that it will be affecting the Microsoft XBox 360 Gaming console. But Microsoft in a statement yesterday, said that this is not expected to affect sales of its Xbox 360 game console. Xbox 360 supports a plug-in HD DVD accessory that allows users to view high definition DVDs produced only with this Toshiba technology. Continue Reading»

Google is one of the most successful stories of Internet. The best search engine, captured the online advertisement market with their popular AdSense program. Some really swear by AdSense while others hate it like anything. I am myself a big fan of Google and all the services they provide. As you may see this blog is moneytized only through Google AdSense. I was seeing a decrease in my earning from the last 2 weeks but I thought maybe people don’t just click on the ads on my blog. But then I checked my blog’s stats on MyBlogLog… Continue Reading»

Google on Tuesday launched the Google Mac Developer Playground, a Web site that houses open source code and projects from Google’s Apple-oriented engineers.

“We’ve always had a place to showcase our consumer products,” said Amit Singh, a Google engineering manager, and Karen Grünberg, a Google product manager, in a blog post. “Today, we’re unveiling the Google Mac Developer Playground, a Web site where the Mac community can look for new and interesting open source projects and demos from our Mac team.”

The site includes a variety of works-in-progress to help Mac developers and general users. Statz, for… Continue Reading»

With the advent of new technologies called Boot Camp and Parallels you can run Windows on a Mac. If that is not enough you can run Windows on Asus’s low-cost laptop the Eee PC. It seems like Microsoft is looking for more and this time they are planning to bring Windows XP to the XO laptop, famed to be called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Microsoft released a statement yesterday announcing plans to begin testing XP on the XO in January in the hopes of making a final version available by the second half of… Continue Reading»

Singapore has banned the sale of an Xbox video game that features an intimate scene between two female characters.The “Mass Effect” game, a futuristic space adventure, contains “a scene of lesbian intimacy… as such the game has been disallowed,” the deputy director of the Board of Film Censors said in the statement.

Under local guidelines, video games sold in Singapore cannot “feature exploitative or gratuitous sex and violence, or denigrate any race or religion,” the official said.

If you are a Microsoft fan you might have already upgraded your Internet Explorer to the Latest version i.e, IE7. If you have then then you know that you needed to have an original copy Windows XP to install it. But not now. Microsoft has recently removed the Windows Genuine Advantage feature from IE7. Now does this mean that Microsoft is telling people that “Original or not, We provide the software even if you pirate our Windows” or it is the other way around… Continue Reading»

New video from long time Robots.net member “roschler” shows a Roboquad robot being controlled by voice, over the Internet with the help of Robodance and Skype’s video call service. The robot explores the house while beaming back audio and video to a laptop running only Skype. The laptop dials into the home computer which is running Robodance version 4, a free software program for making consumer robots do more then most people thought possible.

This mega-hack allows you to turn your Roboquad or other WowWee robot into your own remote controlled spy, accessible from anywhere in the world… Continue Reading»