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Sony expands PS3 Home beta

News Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is likewise expanding its closed beta testing of the Home service, but it will choose gamers based solely on how 'active' they've been on PSN and the PlayStation Store.

Tags: beta, playstation, gamers, expanding

8 August 2008, 9:18

Photos: New features in Firefox 3

News After months of testing, Firefox 3 is available for download from Mozilla. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser rocks, rendering pages faster and using few system resources. As with any new browser, some plug-ins created for Firefox 2 may not...

Tags: icon, firefox, credit, bookmarks

19 June 2008, 9:18

Photos: Intel shows off future tech

News Home medical monitoring and testing is an area in which Intel plans huge growth into the future. This robotic arm and hand developed by researchers at Intel's personal robotic lab in Pittsburgh demonstrates the latest in motion planning and...

Tags: hand, handle, research, production

16 June 2008, 9:23

News.blog: MySpace readies major site redesign

News The redesign effort has been under way for more than six months, with the goals of appealing to a broader demographic and letting users interact with the site more (ie keeping them around), and has involved in-home studies for testing purposes.

Tags: testing, platform, profile, youtube

13 June 2008, 9:38

News.blog: iPhone third-party apps are go on Monday

News Developers have been submitting their applications to Apple for testing and verification since the iPhone SDK became available, and in exchange for hosting and distributing the applications Apple is taking 30 per cent of the revenue generated by...

Tags: location, gps, store, iphone

4 June 2008, 9:26

News.blog: Google Maps adds user-created photos and more

News In separate but map-related developments this week, Google also has added real-estate listings to maps and has been testing face-blurring technology in Street View. Google Maps launched a new feature on Wednesday that shows you photos, videos and...

Tags: earth, maps, map, san

15 May 2008, 9:15

Photos: Prepping for the X Prize

News They are testing their dream of building a vehicle with easily replaceable modular parts -- giving it a life expectancy of 50 years. At the New York Auto Show last week, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency unveiled Progressive Casualty...

Tags: mpg, weight, air, car

28 March 2008, 9:29

Asus unveils Eee PC SDK

News VMware testing and debugging environment". Asus has released a software-development kit for its Eee PC, in a bid to encourage third-party application development for the popular, low-cost ultraportable.

Tags: development, linux, kit, environment

28 March 2008, 9:09

News.blog: MySpace close to music deal with labels

News Last month, we reported that MySpace was testing the music industry's interest in a service called MySpace Music, a site that would be free to users and offer music in several different ways, including ad-supported downloads and streaming to PCs...

Tags: services, labels, streaming, songs

25 March 2008, 9:37

Internet Explorer 8 beta ready to scroll

News The Web site ActiveWin on Monday published the contents of a beta invitation, which said Microsoft is nearing a launch date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, which will be available for download and testing.

Tags: explorer, beta, mix, las vegas

26 February 2008, 8:00

City's Internet to speed through sewers

News H2O has been testing the water with relatively small-scale deployments to Bournemouth City Council and Hillhead student village halls of residence in Dundee. The UK could have its first city with complete fibre connectivity from cables laid through...

Tags: city, water, companies, america

24 January 2008, 8:03

Yahoo to adopt OpenID log-ins

News The public beta testing of Yahoo announced late last week that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal online log-in. OpenID is designed to create a single log-in process usable on multiple sites.

Tags: process, log, openid, yahoo

22 January 2008, 8:22

Glasgow subway receptive to mobiles

News Work to deploy the network will begin later this month, with initial testing at Buchanan Street subway station -- one of the city's busiest stations. Passengers on Glasgow's subway will soon be able to use make phone calls and surf the Internet...

15 January 2008, 8:25

Nokia Siemens tests 4G mobile broadband

News The fourth generation of mobile broadband has moved closer to reality, following fresh trials by Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia Siemens Network's (NSN's) tests, announced on Wednesday, involved long-term evolution (LTE), the successor to 3G.

Tags: trial, broadband, auction, rates

21 December 2007, 8:01

Google working on Wikipedia rival

News Entries will be rated by the community and will be able to be reviewed after the unspecified testing period. Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopaedia that could rival Wikipedia.

Tags: google, beta, community, cover

17 December 2007, 8:25