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JAPANESE entertainment giant Sony on Thursday unveiled a portable touchscreen PlayStation as it looks to launch a fresh challenge to Nintendo and Apple in the competitive mobile gaming market. At a special media event in Tokyo, Sony also unveiled a ‘Suite’ application for older PlayStation games allowing them to be played on mobile phones and […]

HIGH smoking rates in the past, combined with widespread obesity, continue to chip away at US life expectancy compared to other wealthy nations, a study released on Tuesday said. Over the past 25 years, life expectancy after 50 has risen in the United States, but at a slower rate than in countries like Japan and […]

THE world’s largest collection of Holocaust documents is going online. Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents available and searchable on the Internet. The first 130,000 photos hit the web Wednesday. Viewers can also contribute to the project by adding their own stories and documents about […]

PORSCHE’S planned merger with Volkswagen is on ‘the right track,’ a senior Porsche family member said on Wednesday. Wolfgang Porsche, chairman of Porsche’s supervisory board, made the remarks on the sidelines of an event in the Qatari capital. ‘We are improving. We’re on the right track,’ he said. Earlier this month, a US judge dismissed […]

A MAN has spent more than US$26,000 (S$33,280) to travel across England and America with his six sex dolls. Dave Hockey, 57, has travelled with his girlfriends to Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. Mr Hockey, who is married and from Nova Scotia, Canada, flew ‘Realdoll’ Bianca and ‘Teddy Babe Deluxe’ Carey to Britain […]

RUSSIA’S upper house of parliament ratified the new US nuclear disarmament treaty on Wednesday, the final step in approving the first nuclear pact between the two sides in 20 years. All 137 senators in the Federation Council upper house approved the new START treaty, which US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev […]

FACEBOOK, which faces potential fines for violating privacy laws in Germany, has agreed to let users there better shield their email contacts from unwanted advertisements and solicitations. After discussions which dragged out for more than six months, Facebook, which has more than 10 million users in Germany, agreed to modify its ”friend finder” service. Users […]

Apple plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group. The services are based on “Near-Field Communication”, a technology that can beam and receive information at a distance of up to four inches, due to be embedded in […]

Apple says that its app store has hit the 10 billion downloads mark. The milestone, announced on Apple Inc’s website Saturday, arrives as the company’s hugely popular smart phone is likely to become even more popular with the addition next month of Verizon Wireless as a carrier. The company has sold tens of millions of […]

GOOGLE said on Tuesday it will hire a record number of people this year, taking on more than 6,000 workers ‘across the board and around the globe.’ The Internet giant added more than 4,500 ‘Googlers’ to its employee ranks in 2010 and plans to easily eclipse that figure this year, Google senior vice-president of engineering […]