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If you're a pr0n lover then be glad you don't live in China. According to China's state-run news agency Xinhua, the authorities have launched a war against online porn by shutting down 91 sites and that's just the beginning. The Chinese government has repeatedly condemned Internet pornography for "perverting China's young minds," which has led to its newest initiative to "purify the Internet." ... "Authorities have vowed to beef up crackdown efforts in the following days and urged law-breakers to voluntarily turn themselves in to local public security departments," noted Xinhua.
And while we're on the subject of porn, CES 2009 wasn't the only show in town with booth babes. Right across the hall from CES, the 2009 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo was held and as you would've guessed by now there was no shortage of booth babes there as the boys from TweakTown have found out. This year’s CES was a bomb on several fronts. When the economy went sour the first things that got cut were the fun little extras that used to add to the shows appeal; fun things like having seven parties to choose from every night of the week, lavish hand outs from vendors and of course booth babes. Luckily for us, there is another convention going on just across the hall from a small portion of CES.
Agg might revoke my news posting rights after this 3rd "sex" related news story but as you may know, sex and technology is a match made in heaven....so they say, LOL. Anyway, at the above mentioned expo there were several new products unveiled with some needing a USB cable and the internet :). RealTouch devices connect to computers with USB cables and synchronise with adult movies streamed online so the inner workings replicate what a fellow might be feeling were he to be the man in the film.
M-Rated Lara Croft is a possibility if we are to believe ex Tomb Raider: Underworld creative director Eric Lindstorm. Laid-off “Tomb Raider: Underworld” creative director Eric Lindstrom is apparently answering fan questions on a “Tomb Raider” forums and reveals just how close we may be to getting an M-rated Lara Croft.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is taking three companies, Mobilegate Ltd, Winning Bid Pty Ltd and International Machinery Parts Ltd to court for allegedly spamming Australian mobile users with SMS messages. ACMA said that anyone sending unsolicited SMS messages promoting goods or services or trying to gain money dishonestly from mobile users could face fines of $1.1 million per day for corporations and $220,000 for individuals.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is reportedly hiring white hat hackers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has started looking for a penetration testing firm to find security weaknesses in its web and IT infrastructure. The news follows a similar move by ASIC in October, when the regulator started looking for counter-surveillance professionals to test its security, including some ICT systems.
If you're one of those people who would be more than happy to do away with your computer mouse in favour a notebook style touchpad then these two keyboards are for you. These two keyboards from the input kings at Adesso combine the functionality of a desktop keyboard with the scrolling power of a laptop touch-pad. Both keyboards feature a built-in Cirque two-button touch-pad meant to take the place of your mouse and clean up your desktop.
According to a story on Fudzilla, both Microsoft and Sony are looking to make additional price cuts to their gaming consoles in order to remain competitive and to capture more market share. According to our sources, Sony will likely hold off on a major price cut of the PlayStation 3 till the June time frame. With PS3 software sales growing, the company may not feel that cutting the price any sooner than necessary would be a good thing at this point because of the poor initial yields and the longer ramp-up to get die shrinks, as well as other cost reductions. If our sources are correct, expect to see a $299 PlayStation 3 arrive in April. Once Sony makes its move into the $299 range, we expect Microsoft to respond with a price cut to $249 on their Pro system bundle.
An American teenager has sent a staggering 14,528 text messages in 1 month. An American teenager sent almost 500 text messages a day last month, leaving her father with a phone bill of 440 pages. Reina Hardesty, 13, sent 14,528 text messages in December - about 470 text messages a day, at an average of a message every two minutes if she was awake for 15 hours each day, the New York Post said. Her father, Greg, said he was shocked to receive a 440 page phone bill last month. "First, I laughed. I thought: 'That's insane, that's impossible'," Mr Hardesty told the Post.
Gizmodo says that perhaps it's about time that Microsoft thought about revamping the famous Windows BSOD. Isn't it about time to fail a little bit more gracefully? Or at the very least, in a way that actually makes sense to end-users? The error throws up the driver that caused it (way at the bottom of the error) before automatically rebooting, but actually identifying it via which type of component it is—sound, video, USB, hard drive—would be useful for people who just want to know what they did to cause it.
If you're waiting for Microsoft's next Xbox (Xbox720?) then you might be waiting for a long time if this story is anything to go by. Don't look for Microsoft's Xbox "Next" anytime soon, says company President Robbie Bach. According to Bloomberg, Bach says Microsoft's planning to stick by the Xbox 360 longer than the original Xbox because "it's getting harder to persuade consumers to upgrade."
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