Sony Launches Life with PlayStation

From DailyTech: On September 18, Sony Computer Entertainment launched Life with PlayStation worldwide. Life with PlayStation is a new service that provides channels incorporating various types of content that will be accessible using a PlayStation 3. The main channel currently available is “Live Channel” which provides worldwide news and weather information on a city by city basis. This is accomplished using a world map interface.

What makes “Live Channel” different from any other news service is the world map interface. The interface is literally a globe that you have the ability to manipulate freely moving from city to city depending on which city's news you want to see. This feature is demonstrated well in a video uploaded to viddler. The information is provided live from the internet and allows you to listen to music as you cruise through the news feeds for each city.

Weather information is provided by The Weather Channel, news headlines are provided by Google News, and live camera images are partially provided by The Earth Television Network covering nearly 60 cities around the globe. This content package will be free of charge.

The only other channel currently available on Life with PlayStation is the Folding@home channel. This channel allows you to view a protein-folding simulation in real time.

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