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The new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, as always, it is free to download.
It has everything you already love about Messenger – your contact list, emoticons, and plenty of ways to access to your friends via text, voice and video – plus new ways to connect and share documents with [...]

I have received more (22) invites to send out for Windows Live Messenger. If you want them then post a valid msn/hotmail email in the comments and I will send one out to the first 22 commenters. Please please check your email so I don’t waste the invites. If you have already posted your email [...]

Some pictures have been circulating showing, apparently the new v3.0 firmware for the PSP. It seemed believeable at first but when I saw what was coming in the rest of the pictures, well:

Sony Mail
SonyPaint
Sony Organiser (”notice the use of an ’s’ and not a ‘z’ in ‘Organiser’” - This is how it is spelt [...]

This is a pretty cool game made entirely in CSS. CSS can do some amazing things…
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Some more details have arisen about the web browser that will be launched for the DS by Opera.
Armchair Empire recently interviewed Opera’s Executive Vice President of Devices, Scott Hedrick, about his company’s upcoming DS web browser. And while Hedrick opted to leave the juiciest details to be revealed by Nintendo at a later date, he [...]

Everyone went all crazy when the story was leaked that the first ever ‘virus’ was made for OS X. However this has been deemed inaccurate and untrue, it a ‘trojan’. For one you need to download the infected file (which claims to be screenshots of the new version of OS X, 10.5 ‘Leopard’) and double [...]

An article at Next-Generation (no idea how credible this is) states the fact that “according to well-placed industry sources” Sony will launch an Xbox Live killer called HUB. This will offer the same things as Xbox Live such as content download, chat and online play. The service is also designed to support the PSP (for [...]

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I knew that cables ran under the sea for countries across seas (how else could you access a website hosted in the US from the UK?), but I never knew how much was actually in use. Well this image certainly shows how much the UK connects to American sites and visa versa! Pretty [...]

From the looks of things the PSP is getting GPS and an email client. Images taken from a leaked version of the March 2006 issue of PlayStation Magazine show that the PSP will be getting an external add-on GPS and an email client called ‘Sony Mail’. The Sony Mail will be distributed as a part [...]

This was posted on digg yesterday, and the website allows you to submit some text via a form, and it will almost instantly display whatever you wrote on a LED screen, which is being shown to you via a webcam. Pretty cool, however, most of the time there are people who are flaming the screen [...]