South Korean electrics giant, Samsung has released a new smart, internet-connected television that can be upgraded when new hardware is released by the company every year.

The new ES8000 model will come with a slot that will allow the company to release new additions to add processing power or new features to the device. The new unit will attract customers who are concerned out expensive TV sets becoming outdates too soon. The launch of the new Television is aimed at enabling Samsung to remain as the world's best-selling TV maker.

South Korean giants, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics are both planning to showcase their own organic light-emitting diodes, or OLED televisions separately at the upcoming the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

LG will showcase a 55-inch set based on OLED while its rival Samsung will display a yet to be ready product at the show. Samsung has not announced anything officially and has only said that its CES related announcements will come on 9 January, a day before th beginning of the event.

Federal agents recently arrested and charged some two dozen people in a sting operation investigation which was aimed at targeting the alleged bribery of foreign officials. The arrests were made at a trade gathering of arms-sector executive which recently happened in Las Vegas.

In order to undertake the operation, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation posed as representatives of a Senior Government Minister from an African country. The agent then proposed a scheme under the terms of which executives and employees from various companies would be paying 20% in "commissions" with the aim to win businesses. All details have been shared by the Justice Department.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announcing some minor pieces of news during his keynote this evening.

The foremost being that now HP PCs worldwide will have Microsoft's Bing search engine as the default search engine; where initially it was only restricted to HP PCs in the U. S. and Canada.

Apart from this, Microsoft's MSN will also be the default home page on HP PCs.

With the help of Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform, users are able to stream content not only on their TV but also on their PCs and phones.

Las Vegas, Jan 8 - From sinner to saviour: After years of heat from Greenpeace about its environmental record, Apple has become the example par excellence in the eyes of the ecology group after it studied the issue.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Thursday, Greenpeace heaped praise not only on Apple but also cell-phone makers Nokia and Sony Ericsson for their products and information technology guidelines.

At the bottom of the list in the Greenpeace study were Samsung, Dell, Lenovo and LG Eletronics.

Greenpeace is pushing for manufacturers of computers and electronic entertainment systems to renounce the use of dangerous chemical substances like PVC and poisonous flame retardants.

Las Vegas - Filipino boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao demolished Briton Ricky Hatton with a stunning second-round knockout in their junior-welterweight title bout in Nevada Saturday night.

Cementing his claim as the world's best boxer pound-for-pound, perhaps of all time, Pacquiao shocked the hard-driving Hatton with a sweeping right hook that dropped him to the canvas in the first round.

Now the struggling development market of Las Vegas can relax since co-developers MGM Mirage and Dubai World have buried the hatchet over the massive CityCenter mixed-use project there.

It seems now that the $8.5 billion development might be on its way to completion as the developers have nodded their heads in yes for a deal with lenders for the financing of the remainder of construction.

Rapper Snoop Dogg has added another feather to his cap.

Snoop will become the first living rap icon to be ‘waxed’ at the famous Madame Tussauds Museum in Las Vegas.

“Fa shizzle dizzle I said yes when asked,” Snoop told media persons adding, "I'm honored! The D O double G got a double."

The twelve time Grammy nominated rapper said, “It’s real to be immortalized (in wax) in the ranks with President Barack Obama.”

The CES 2009 will see the demonstration of 450Mbps Wireless N Router TEW-773GR by TRENDnet, which the company is really excited for and claims that it will provide extraordinary performance.

As a latest step towards technological innovation, Lenovo Group wants to make an individual stand for itself. The company has released what according to it is the first dual-screen notebook computer.

Lenovo, the world’s No. 4 personal computer maker is launching this new laptop this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

It should be noted here that the demands for the notebooks have continued to show strength even when the overall PC demand has been hurt by the global economic slowdown.

New silicon for Netbooks is expected to be launched by Freescale Semiconductor at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas which it believes will come in below $200. 

According to to Freescale, formerly Motorola's chipmaking arm, “The ARM chip architecture-based i.MX51 processor is designed to enable low-power, gigahertz performance netbooks at sub-$200 price points.”

Signaling the first flourish of laptop announcements for this week's Consumer Electronics show, Lenovo, having pooled its resources in the quest of thinner and lighter laptops, announced some new models of IdeaPad, aimed at strengthening its consumer line.

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 5  -- O. J. Simpson was sentenced to at least nine years in a Nevada prison Friday for holding up two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel.

The 61-year-old former football star apologized tearfully, telling a judge he did not realize he was doing anything illegal, the Las Vegas Sun reported. He has consistently said that he was trying to recover his own property.

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3  -- A Republican seeking to unseat U. S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has been indicted by a state grand jury, officials said.

Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, the first Republican to announce he was mounting a challenge of Reid and considered a viable candidate, was indicted on four counts of misappropriation and falsification of public records, The Hill reported Wednesday. He is accused of committing the crimes while he was state treasurer.

According to a criminal complaint filed on Tuesday in Las Vegas' Justice Court, hip hop moghul - Marion 'Suge' Knight, who was allegedly found beating his girlfriend off a busy thoroughfare, has been charged with two counts of felony drug possession and one count of misdemeanor battery.

Las Vegas  - At least Batman doesn't have to worry about getting a parking space now.

A specialty auto fitter gave a Smart Fortwo a kind of celebrity makeover at a Las Vegas trade show earlier this month, transforming the subcompact car into a mini-Batmobile, complete with a black airbrush paint job and tailfins.

Designer George Barris, renowned for creating the original Batmobile in the 1960s superhero television series, teamed up with the Californian specialist firm Vertical Doors to build the Batsmart.

Washington, Nov 12 : Las Vegas seems to bring out people''s desire to kill themselves, according to a new study.

Matt Wray from Temple University in Philadelphia and colleagues from Harvard University in Boston analyzed the patterns of suicide in Las Vegas over a 30-year period.

The study found that the Sin City residents face a suicide risk significantly higher than residents elsewhere in the United States; people who die while visiting Las Vegas are twice as likely to die by suicide than people who visit elsewhere; and visitors to Las Vegas face an even higher suicide risk than residents of Las Vegas.

According to Wray, one noteworthy finding is that if person lives in Las Vegas, but travel away from home, the risk for suicide decreases.

Multi-talented superstar Hrithik Roshan tore a ligament in his ankle while shooting for his upcoming home production ‘Kites’ in Las Vegas in US.  

The injury took place on the same leg on which Hrithik suffered a 10 cm ligament tear while shooting for action-oriented flick ‘Krrish.’ 

Hrithik had flown off to Singapore for treatment. Afterward he returned to do an item number for their home production ‘Krazzy 4’ subsequent to which his injury worsened.

A source from Vegas who saw the complete action was amazed to see Hrithik continuing work regardless of the injury. 

Las Vegas  - Former American football legend O. J. Simpson went on trial Monday on charges of armed robbery but suffered an immediate setback when the judge rejected a request from his attorneys to ask potential jurors if they considered Simpson a murderer.

Simpson, 61, was sensationally acquitted in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, though a civil jury later found him liable for the deaths.

Now he is on trial for allegedly robbing two dealers in sports collectibles at gunpoint at a seedy Las Vegas hotel last September. Together with codefendant Clarence "C. J." Stewart, 54, Simpson faces a dozen charges, including kidnapping, which carries a potential life sentence.

Nov 12: Las Vegas has been named the “debauchery capital” of the world, according to the Euromonitor report.
According to the report, the youth is flocking to the gambling mecca for wild parties and strip tours.

The report has also revealed that hotels of the city are catering for the trend with raunchy parties costing up to 2,500 pounds a day.

According to the report, other wild spots include The Caribbean, Cape Town, Dubai, Buenos Aires and Macau in China. (ANI)