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Sony's game unit in Japan will delay rolling out Internet phone service in Japan for its latest handheld game machine because microphones developed for it didn't meet specifications, the company said Wednesday. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan had planned to begin offering Skype features on its newest PlayStation Portable model in Japan Thursday and then rolling out the service worldwide. Skype is a popular, free, U.S.-based online voice-over-Internet service. The service claims 246 million users around the globe. Sony said the company is working on solving the microphone standards problem. PSP-2000 users will need a memory stick, a wireless Internet connection and Skype-compatible headset to use the service, parent company Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Outspark Announces $11 Million in Series B Funding from Internet Powerhouse, Top VC Firms
Outspark, a new unique publisher and operator of free online community games, today announced it has raised $11 million in Series B financing. Leading the round is Tencent Holdings, the operator of China's top Internet portal and instant messaging service. Existing investors DCM and Altos Ventures also participated in the round, which will help Outspark expand and enhance a virtual playground that has attracted more than 1 million registered users in less than five months. "Online gaming has become one of the most important new cultural phenomena in Asia, and we believe that PC-based online games will find a huge market here in North America as well. Outspark is off to a great start in building a strong user community with its titles," said David Wallerstein, Tencent Senior Executive Vice President of International.
November 2007
The female driver told them the suspect went to get gas. Police intercepted him and asked him if they could give him a ride to which he reportedly said yes. Once back at the truck, 19-year-old Wilson Perry III was arrested and charged with unarmed robbery. The victim was not injured. Man seriously injured after being bitten by pit bull Officials were called to this residence on Lincoln Road in Hyannis after a man was bitten by a dog.HYANNIS - At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Hyannis rescue was called to 141 Lincoln Road for serious dog bites to a male resident at that address. When they arrived, they treated 33-year-old Joshua Carlino at the scene for bites on both arms and wrists and then transported him to CCH. He reportedly told officials he was trying to break up a fight between two female pit bulls.
Scrabble Makers Want Facebook Copycat Shut Down
PROVIDENCE, R.I. The companies that make Scrabble are trying to shut down Scrabulous, an online version of the game that is one of the most popular applications on the social networking site Facebook. Hasbro Inc., which owns the rights to the crossword game in the U.S. and Canada, and El Segundo, Calif.-based Mattel Inc., — which owns the rights elsewhere — believe the Facebook game infringes their copyrights and trademarks. Scrabulous listed more than 600,000 daily active users on Facebook as of Wednesday and is one of the 10 most used applications on the site. People can also play at Scrabulous.com. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. The companies jointly issued cease-and-desist notices to four parties involved in the development, hosting and marketing of Scrabulous, according to a letter the Pawtucket-based Hasbro, Inc.
Mitt Romney's Puerto Rico Fever
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Sketchy evidence raises doubt
The police requested that he come to the police station the next day, Feb. 12, for further questioning. Sure, he told them. But he didn't know Hettrick, and he didn't see or hear anything before her death, he said. Just procedure, they said. Without consulting an attorney, he and his dad did exactly what police asked. They allowed detectives to search their home and Tim's school locker, where they scooped up his horror writings and sketches, his survival-knife collection and Army flashlight with a red-tinted lens. His dad would stay outside the interrogation room, not understanding that juveniles are psychologically vulnerable to suggestive cues and coercion. After reading him his rights, officers prodded Masters to talk about killing, to think like a killer, to talk about what weapons he might use and where he might put a body.
Piecing together 2008
As 2008 dawns, Ideas ponders the signals that ideas send. Ideas foretell the future. With ideas, we can choose the future. Such a simple, underrated idea. How it works: The Frank Gehry masterpiece rising now on Dundas St. in Toronto is an idea; conceived, selected, being created. Electric cars and wind turbines are ideas, with implications for tomorrow; so are the minutiae of special bins for garbage pick-up and the immensity of the Large Hadron Collider (a.k.a. ``The Answer Machine,'' to be discussed), which promises to reveal secrets about how the universe works at the sub-atomic level. The notion that the future can be determined is reassuring. Aren't scientists saying much can be done about global warming, in fact telling us what? And it is thought-provoking: The big idea renders something we think of as indeterminate something we choose instead.
Ferguson fired, Fletcher named interim GM
Regrettably, we did not win enough games to reach our goal, winning the Stanley Cup. "Our team performance has fallen short of what is to be expected. Today, we need to forge the start of a new beginning for (the) Toronto Maple Leafs. And we begin with the man seated next to me, a man with Hall of Fame credentials, who is highly regarded by Leafs fans and by hockey people around the globe. We have reached out to Cliff Fletcher and his 50-plus years of hockey management experience to serve as general manager of the Leafs on an interim basis." Fletcher had been linked to much of the speculation regarding the team. He had been one of several hockey management types contacted last week to gauge their interest in the job, he was then offered the position for the remainder of the season serving as interim GM until a new general manager can be found. He will then serve as a consultant for the remainder of his 19 month contract.
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