Among the new features are Dymanic Backgrounds and Voice Clips. Dynamic Backgrounds fill your MSN Messenger conversations and subtly animate during the conversation. Voice Clips allow you to send short audio clips (15 secs max) to your friends on MSN Messenger.

New audio improvements mean talking over MSN Messenger is far improved from recent versions.

You can also do the following:
Start a conversation with a contact: msnim:chat?contact=@hotmail.com
Add a contact to your contact list: msnim:add?contact=@hotmail.com
To start a voice conversation: msnim:voice?contact=@hotmail.com
To start a video conversation: msnim:video?contact=@hotmail.com

Download: MSN Messenger 7.5

Chris Morris at CNN/Money has an interesting theory on Sony’s insistence that the Playstation 3 will “be expensive” — are they bluffing? The advantage would be twofold:

first, set consumer expectation high, then surprise them with something much lower, driving a potentially much larger buying rush.

Secondly, lull Microsoft into thinking they can get away with sticking an extra high pricetag on the Xbox 360, scaring off some of its potential buyers.

The other potential reason for crowing about high pricing expectations might be to force Microsoft to make the first move, thus prepping consumers to get beyond the cognitive barrier of paying more than $300 for a game console.

Is this part of the marketing? Maybe this guy think too much.

Amazon secretly opens a sex store which featuring about 40,000 products from adult toys, condoms, adult games, and other sex related products. The new sex store called Sex & Sensuality has four categories: Safer Sex, Sensual Delights, Sexual Enhancers and Adult Toys & Games from which you can choose your product.

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They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk offers you:

Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail username and password.
google talk

Nice attempt for google to enter the instant messenger market. But, my buddies all on msn messenger. After installing this new Google Talk, I don’t even know who to chat with …

This is not a new ipod series. Just a little joke to mock Apple.
Pro: small size, 4mb space, 1hr battery life and plenty “useful” accessories!

Download Clip: ipod flea 4.4mb ( save target as… )

Thieves in Cambridge, England are using the “detect nearby Bluetooth devices” feature in their mobile phones to figure out which cars have laptops locked in them so that they know which cars to break into.

It’s a good idea for stealing. But why people leaves laptop running in the car when they’re away? Without the device on, it’s impossible to detect the bluetooth signal.