Some of the following Xbox 360 peripherals will be available in this holiday season in Europe, Japan and North America.

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With the Xbox Live Camera, video chat and video messaging with your friends becomes more than just a feature set; it is an integrated part of the Xbox Live experience.

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Xbox 360 Peripherals

Dell introduced the Dimension 9100 on Wednesday, June 1, 2005, a redesigned premium desktop computer that delivers high-end performance, multimedia technologies and proactive support to help customers more easily manage digital content and information.

By announcing this high end model, Dell become the first major vendor to ship 500-GB1 Serial ATA 2 hard drives on the Dimension XPS Gen 5 desktop, which is designed for gamers and multimedia enthusiasts.

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We have seen lots of innovative services from Google Labs. Yahoo! does have similar lab too, called Yahoo! Research Lab.

Recently, Yahoo! offering is a test version of Yahoo! Mindset.

Yahoo! Mindset allows you to sort search results for your query into commercial or non-commercial (informational) results, based on whether you’re shopping or seeking information. Commercial implies that the primary purpose of a given page is to sell you something. Whereas, informational implies that the primary purpose of the page is to provide information related to your search.

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There is a slider bar is the search page, which allows you to move it to the right for commercial results and to the left for non-commercial results. The result will change immediately while you are sliding the bar.

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Really hope to see the searching results can be tweaked to suit different goals in real action soon. With these tweaks we can get specific searching result rather than meaningless ads in our search. :)

Since the first day mobile phone invented, we have seen more and more functionalities a mobile phone has. First, it was for making calls, then text messaging, after that manufacturers added cameras, e-mail, music etc into the phone.

After introducing handsets last year that double as debit cards, now, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. wants to entrench the once-humble cell phone even deeper into consumer lifestyles by turning it into an electronic wallet – as a full-fledged credit cards.

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To boost its effort to make mobiles the new way to pay, DoCoMo is taking a 34% stake in Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.‘s credit-card business. In late April, DoCoMo said it would pay $935 million for the stake in Japan’s second-largest credit-card issuer. DoCoMo has also held talks with Japan’s No. 1 issuer, JCB International Co., about some sort of tie-up, though no details have been released.

Regarding security, DoCoMo says that won’t be a problem. Each time a customer makes a purchase using the phone, the company will automatically send an e-mail confirming the transaction – which should aid in detecting fraud sooner than with traditional credit cards.

Well, this is no doubt another big step in mobile phone evolution. :)

Pretec Electronics Corp. is demonstrating USB Flash Drive Fashion Accessories based on patented CU-Flash technology, at Computex 2005 (Hall 4, T202B) in Taipei.

With a volume of 0.47cm3 (27mmx12mmx1.9mm), 40% smaller than a US Quarter coin, CU-Flash is about 10% of the size of a typical USB flash drive.

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Examples of USB Flash Drive Fashion Accessories such PRETEC ear-rings based on CU-Flash technology will be worn by PRETEC staff in the show; so small that most people will have a hard time to believe that around 10,000 pictures (1GB) can be fashioned to one’s ear lobe.

Furthermore, CU-Flash can be an ideal add-on for any stationery such as jewelry or accessories such as watch, necktie pin, cuff link, key chain so on and so forth.

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Microsoft Corp. plans to stop using the word “my” as the default prefix for such folders as “My Documents,” “My Music,” “My Pictures” etc. So, Starting in the next Windows version, folders name will be called simply as “Documents,” “Music,” and so on.

This minor change will surely leave some influence to our daily life.

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With any other product, such a minor change probably wouldn’t even be noticed. But the Microsoft operating system runs on more than 90 percent of the world’s personal computers, and its persistent use of the word has been one of its most conspicuous characteristics — helping to fuel widespread use of the “my” prefix in the technology industry.

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