Game consoles just cannot avoid the fate of being hacked to run unlicensed or unauthorized programs on it. We have heard mod PS, PS2, Xbox, etc etc. Now Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) is experiencing the same fate.

Gaming enthusiasts have figured out how to run unauthorized programs and games on PSP according to Yahoo! News, on Wednesday, June 15, 2005. So far, Sony had tried to keep its PSP on a tight leash, installing controls so it couldn’t run programs and games not vetted and licensed by the company. Unfortunately, someone has successfully broken it.
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PSP Hacked To Run Unauthorized Programs

What a fascinating news !!

On Friday, June 17, 2005, the Wall Street Journal reported Google Inc. plans to offer an electronic-payment service which similar to PayPal service. This could definitely help the Search Engine Giant to diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit.

The new google service will be expected to allow consumers to pay for purchases on Web sites by funding electronic-payment accounts from their credit cards or checking accounts, though exact details of the search company’s planned service are not known yet.
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Google Will Be PayPal’s Competitor

After almost two months I posted the news regarding Playboy Enterprises Inc will offer nude content on Sony PSP including photo galleries and videos shot that edited specifically for the PSP. Friday, June 17, 2005, sources say, at least eight pornographic videos will go on sale in Japan exclusively for the PSP.

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A Tokyo-based sex-video maker declared on its website that on July 8 it will release the world’s first adult UMDs, optical discs that play on a PSP. The five titles carry price tags from 2,800 yen or 3,800 yen (25 or 35 dollars).

Another Tokyo company will launch three titles on July 16.

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Pornos On PSP

Last 2 weeks, I’ve blogged a little about Microsoft Corp. released Windows® XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N, the two versions of the Windows operating system created as part of the company’s compliance with the European Commission’s decision as part of its antitrust remedy of March 2004.

Unfortunately, four major PC makers have no plans to sell the media-player-free version of Windows due to lack of customer demand. They are Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens.
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PC Makers Snub Windows XP N

Sun Microsystems announced on Tuesday, June 14, 2005, has fixed a pair of security bugs in Java that could be exploited by attackers to take over computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris (almost all kinds of OS :-O ).

The flaws are “highly critical” security monitoring company Secunia said in an advisory posted Tuesday.

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Both flaws affect the Java Runtime Environment, or JRE. This is the Java software many computer users have on their system to run Java applications. The bugs could allow a Java application to read and write files or execute applications on a victim’s computer, Sun said in two separate security advisories released Monday.

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Java Flaws Open Door To Hackers

MSN just came up with a little game at Start.com.

Start is the new page MSN is working on, the concept is quite closed to My Google released few weeks ago. Therefore if you go to Start.com and answer correctly to all their questions (5 of them) you will get the URL of the latest development stage for start.com.

MSN is playing around on a dynamic homepage where you can drag and drop modules to place them wherever you want them to appear, something similar to My Google. The page displays the traditional News, Stocks, Weather plus what seems to be personalized RSS Feeds.