Sony says it will start selling a combined television tuner and personal video recorder that lets users of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console capture live television that can be stored or transferred to the PlayStation Portable (PSP) for later viewing. Sony announced the new product at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.
Yahoo! has introduced new features for its popular web-based email program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone’s cellphone. The enhancements make it easier to send email, instant messages or SMSs from a single website.
Former South African World Cup-winning flyhalf Joel Stransky is backing the three southern-hemisphere powers as well as hosts France to have the biggest impact at this year’s Rugby World Cup, which kicks off on September 7. ”If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on South Africa,” he said.
The King of New Orleans, Fats Domino, is one of the few optimistic people in the still devastated city. ”Everybody is doing the best they can. I think New Orleans will recover,” he says on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. That is not a view shared by many of the city’s 250 000-plus residents still waiting to return to their homes.
Atlanta residents squared off Tuesday at a public hearing on a proposed city-wide ban on low-slung pants — or any clothing that exposes underwear in public. The proposed ordinance is the brainchild of city councillor CT Martin, deputy chairperson of the public safety and legal administration committee.
Recovering Japanese giant Sony said on Wednesday it will introduce a new line-up of flat-screen televisions, including the largest on the market, in a bid to boost its mainstay electronics sales. Introducing 15 new models of its Bravia line, Sony said its top-end flagship model with a 70-inch (1,78m) screen will be the largest flat television commercially available.
South African transportation and mobility group Imperial Holdings on Wednesday reported a 17% rise in headline earnings per share to 1 434 cents for the year ended June from 1 222 cents a year ago. Diluted headline earnings per share were up 16% to 1 330 cents from a previous 1 148 cents.
Police in China’s capital said they will start patrolling the web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal internet content. Starting on September 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China’s top web portals.
More than 85 000 people in the central Mozambican province of Sofala are facing food shortages because of floods and drought that hit that part of the country earlier this year. The national secretariat on food security and nutrition said the number could increase to more than 100 000 by the end of October.
Thousands of homeless people will be moved from the capital to the countryside before next month’s millennium celebration and provided help with food, shelter and medicine, a development group said on Tuesday. Homelessness is a huge problem in Addis Ababa, a city of five million where an estimated 90 000 live on the streets.