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Consumer electronics juggernaut Sony is apparently stepping up to the plate to tackle Apple’s iPhone (and soon iPad) pantheon with a PlayStation Portable Phone, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
If you haven’t been following the vicissitudes of the mobile rumor mill for as long as we have, you might want to know that a [...]

We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series, with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner…
… and Xbox LIVE takes the win! They’ll obviously get an achievement rather than [...]

Massively popular online games distribution platform Steam is headed for computers running Apple’s Mac OS X in the near future. Developer Valve Software plans to release native Mac versions of all of its games, including the upcoming and highly anticipated Portal 2, which it will release for Mac and PC computers simultaneously.
Valve’s first-person shooter [...]

Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Bros and, of course, Sony Pictures.
Some of the content has been around for a [...]

We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to how closely Hirschhorn and Jones are working together to create a unified vision of [...]

At the Dreamforce Conference in November, Salesforce.com officially announced Salesforce Chatter, which is basically “Facebook for the Enterprise.”
Today Salesforce.com has announced the private beta for Chatter, which will be rolling out to 100 companies now before officially launching later this year. I had a chance to talk to Salesforce.com and get a demonstration of [...]

A new website called PleaseRobMe.com does nothing more than aggregate publicly shared check-ins, but its name and purpose attempt to shed more light on the dangerous side effects of location-sharing.
It’s no secret that when you share your location via Google Buzz and Foursquare you’re exposing information that could put you at risk. Many of [...]

Long imagined to be a potentially significant threat to PayPal, the Facebook Credits payment platform will actually work with its once theoretical rival, according to a post on Facebook’s blog announcing a strategic partnership between the two companies.
Under the deal, PayPal will become a payment option for purchasing Facebook Credits, which are still in [...]

As the tweets pour in, Wordpress confirms that the Wordpress.com hosted service is down.
The company is working on restoring the service as we speak. We’ll update this post with more news about the downtime as it comes in.
Do you have any sites affected by today’s Wordpress.com outage?
[UPDATE]: Wordpress CEO Matt Mullenweg posted an update [...]