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The market for PSP racers is already congested but this curiously titled conversion of a 360 original still manages to make an impact. With 44 vehicles and 40-odd tracks littered with falling rocks and debris from previous races, there’s plenty to get your teeth into.

The point-to-point structure provides a clear objective, but Demolition Derby tracks and blistering ragdoll stunt events encourage more suicidal driving to rack up the really big scores. Admittedly, crash-centric action like this has already been done by the Burnout series - but there’s a lot more variety on display here and the handling and graphics are even more impressive on a handheld. Boy racers should love it.

t’s not often that computers are sold on their “spiritual warmth” and “refreshing fragrance” but the star of the world’s biggest IT fair was something different. Instead of shiny plastic it was encased in laminated bamboo strips. The result, said its Taiwanese makers, Asus, was “both aesthetically pleasing and good for the environment”.The Eco Book was the answer, they said, to the growing concern about the use of plastics.

“Bamboo is the most sustainable raw material there is,” said Jellent Sun, a senior director.

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Finland’s GeoSentric unveiled on Wednesday its mobile social networking service GypSii for Apple’s iPhone.

The GypSii application lets iPhone users to get maps and directions and access other location-based as well as social networking services.

Apple has shipped more than five million iPhones globally since its launch in June last year, GeoSentric said.

Source: Reuters

Microsoft has reversed its decision to make IE8 behave like IE7 unless specifically requested.

Wow. And even more surprising is their reason for making the change. In Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 on the IEBlog, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch says:

In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach described here).

And in a press release titled Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie states that
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As it scrambles to avoid defeat in its battle with Microsoft, Yahoo may try to put a little more time on the clock.

Microsoft, whose offer for Yahoo is now worth $41.2 billion, was preparing to escalate its takeover fight by starting a proxy contest next week. But in an effort to delay that move, Yahoo is considering several options, including a plan to postpone its annual meeting, people close to the company said on Tuesday.

The maneuver comes as Yahoo has stepped up merger and joint venture talks with AOL, a unit of Time Warner, these people said.

Microsoft had been preparing to nominate a slate of directors to the board of Yahoo by next Thursday, the deadline for mounting a proxy contest. If Yahoo moves back that deadline back or postpones its meeting, something it could announce as early as this week, the company could buy time to seek out and evaluating alternatives.
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