Norwalk/Bangkok, Nov 12: Priceline.com announced that it has acquired Bangkok and Singapore-based Agoda Company, an online travel company specializing in hotel discount bookings throughout Asia, in

Walt Disney, US media and entertainment company is ready to launch mobile services in the Japanese market by next year (2008).

To join cell phone operations, the Japan-based division of Walt Disney Co. has signed up a fundamental contract with Japanese Internet and telecom firm Softbank Corp.

As per the contract, Disney will take telecommunication networks from a Softbank unit, Softbank Mobile Corp. on rent, and start offering service to the country.

The companies’ officials do not comment on the report.

Disney has also collaborated with Softbank to build up mobile phones and deliver their output to other companies.

Microsoft has added up a parental control feature known as ‘Family Timer’ to the Xbox 360 video game console letting parents to put a limit to the amount of time their children can use the console.

The new feature added by the company can keep an eye on the total amount of time spent on gaming plus entertainment on a daily or weekly basis.

Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, said, “It is Microsoft's responsibility to provide parents with tools to manage their children's video gaming and online experiences, and we have made that a priority from the very start.”

Mr. Bach also explicated that the Xbox 360 Family Timer is as same as its counterpart in Windows Vista.

Washington, November 10 : Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have engineered an electronic nose that can help detect hazards like carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solv