As we heard at the LG presser, the company is getting in on the Netflix, CinemaNow and YouTube streaming game with its NetCast feature built into select LH50-class LCDs and PS80 plasmas, so you can pick your pixel flavor. It’s definitely getting crowded in the space, but the Yahoo!

Beejive’s already quite usable Beejive IM iPhone app just got an update to 2.0, adding file transfer and voice messages to its multitude of IM connectivity.

Currently, you can connect to “AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN/Live, Myspace IM, and Yahoo messenger” with Beejive. With 2.0, you can send in-line photos, audio and video files, PDFs and Office docs to anyone you’re chatting with, provided the recipient has an IM client from the last 10 years.

The best part is the voice message feature, which you can activate with the microphone icon.

Far and away, the most popular website, when it comes to storing ‘in the cloud’ bookmarks, is Delicious. It became so popular so quickly, that Yahoo picked them up in December of 2005 for somewhere between $15 million and $30 million.

For those of you who don’t know what Delicious is, it is simply a one stop shop, for storing your bookmarks in one quick and easy location.

Of course with success comes competition, with sites such as Diigy or Simpy and you could possibly even consider Digg or Reddit as well.  However sometimes you find your own opinion matters the most, and you’d like to create your own private bookmarking service for your family, friends or maybe even your workplace.  That’s where with some prerequisites from your web host, and a little MYSQL knowledge, you can create your own social bookmarking site, with Scuttle.

Scuttle is simply defined as a “Web-based social bookmarking system.  It allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favorite links online.” It is an open source product that requires only PHP and a MYSQL database from your web host.  After installation, you’ll have a very similar look to what Delicious offers.

Similar to Delicious, the Scuttle system offers tagging with keyword relations, a tag cloud and advanced searching for your own bookmarks, or the entire site.

Just like Delicious, you also have advanced security for protection on your bookmarks.

I recently counted all my email accounts, and I have close to 50. Of course I don’t use them all, but I certainly have more than one active account. The fact is, most people do, and it can be frustrating to manage all those emails and logins - not to mention social networks, a form of communication that is growing rapidly.

As internet users gain more and more ways to communicate, they are looking for ways to centralize and bring things together.

Just a gentle reminder for you folks who buy the lion’s share of your electronics at Wal-Mart: The iPhone will be at the big box store chain with a tiny discount, starting… today!

According to Yahoo, Wal-Mart will offer the 8GB iPhone 3G for $197, and the 16GB black or white model for $297.

According to Eurogamer, sources close to Sony say that sometime in the future, a new PlayStation Portable will be released. While there’s been no official word, the game site is reporting that there could be an update to the current PSP (which might be called the PSP 4000), and in the not-too-distant future (2010 or 2011), Sony will introduce a completely new model, confusingly dubbed the “PSP2.” David Reeves, SCEE president has recently been quoted as making vague, suspicious statements such as “there are currently no plans for a PSP2,” and “I go to Tokyo quite a lot and no one has referred to it - I think they have their hands full at the moment.” Nice try Reeves, but If you keep up these kinds of thinly veiled allusions to a new system, we suspect it’s only a matter of years till this cat’s out of the bag.

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According to Eurogamer, sources close to Sony say that sometime in the future, a new PlayStation Portable will be released. While there’s been no official word, the game site is reporting that there could be an update to the current PSP (which might be called the PSP 4000), and in the not-too-distant future (2010 or 2011), Sony will introduce a completely new model, confusingly dubbed the “PSP2.” David Reeves, SCEE president has recently been quoted as making vague, suspicious statements such as “there are currently no plans for a PSP2,” and “I go to Tokyo quite a lot and no one has referred to it - I think they have their hands full at the moment.” Nice try Reeves, but If you keep up these kinds of thinly veiled allusions to a new system, we suspect it’s only a matter of years till this cat’s out of the bag.

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Sony to release new handheld sometime in the future originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yahoo Music fans are used to turning on its radio service to hear rock bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. Those who bother to do so, anyway - as of October the company’s LAUNCHcast radio site had lost 43% of its monthly listeners compared to the same month last year, according to comScore.

RSS Feeds have become an essential way to keep up-to-date with many different online sources of information – in fact without it, tracking blog updates would be next to impossible.

To those of you with a feed addiction, it may come as some surprise to learn that RSS adoption is still surprisingly low across web users– even those who spend a lot of time on the internet.

Activist investor–and member of company’s board–has bought up 7 million shares of Yahoo over the course of three days this week.