Microsoft Natal May Cost $149 – Media Report

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. plans to price its Natal motion sensor for Xbox 360 game console at $149 and also sell it bundled with Xbox 360 Arcade version, according to a media report. In spite of relatively high price, the software giant reportedly intends to sell millions of...

Adobe patches 'critical' holes in Photoshop CS4

From CNET News.com: Photoshop users like to expand what the software can do by downloading new brushes, gradients, and color swatches, but the ability to make those additions also turns out to have been a potential avenue for attack.

Adobe Systems on Wednesday released a Photoshop...

Rumor: Sony to Unveil PSN+ Pay Service at E3

From DailyTech: One of the things that has set the PS3 and the Xbox 360 apart since the console launched has been that PS3 owners don’t have to buy a subscription to access content and play online games on their consoles. Xbox 360 owners, on the other hand, have to buy monthly or...

Feds Looking Into Apple's iTunes Practices, Reports Say

From PC World: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an antitrust investigation into Apple's digital music business, according to several reports Tuesday that cited unnamed sources.

The probe is in the early stages, the New York Times said in a story published on its Web...

Apple Responds to Foxconn Suicides, Foxconn Website Hacked

From DailyTech: Apple has been the topic of discussion with regards to the Foxconn suicides, which seem to be happening quite frequently. Foxconn manufacturers the iMac, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad for Apple. Nine workers have committed suicide in the past year (four in the past...

Facebook To Reveal New Privacy Settings Today

From CRN: Facebook today is expected to reveal new, simplified privacy settings to its nearly 500 million users. The company has planned a conference call with reporters for 1:30 p.m. eastern to highlight some of the changes, several reports indicate.

The concern over Facebook's...

New browser add-on blocks Google Analytics

From InfoWorld: Google has released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service, which Websites can use to collect data about their visitors.

Google said it developed the tool "to provide Website visitors with more choice...

Google Chrome 5.0 Pronounced Stable for Windows, Mac, Linux

From eWeek: Google's Chrome team May 24 released stable builds loaded with HTML5 utilities for Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Google Chrome 5.0 sports improved JavaScript performance by 213 percent for the V8 benchmark and 305 percent for the SunSpider benchmark since Chrome...

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