Facebook has sent out invites to members of the press to attend an event that will focus on Facebook’s mobile offerings.
The event is sure to re-spark the immediately-denied rumors that there is a Facebook-branded handset (or handsets) on the horizon. The media event will be held at Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters next Wednesday.
The social networking giant recently revealed that of its 500 million members, approximately 150 million use the website from their mobile phones. It offers native software applications for handsets as well as hosting a mobile-friendly version of its site.
That is likely to be the main focus of the event. A Facebook spokesperson denied rumors back in December that the company was working with device manufacturers on Facebook-branded handsets, saying that building phones is just not what Facebook does.
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According to multiple sources, HBO is set to launch a 3D on-demand channel in the Q1 2011.
HBO has not officially announced the channel, but a service spokesperson confirmed the plans.
Furthermore, the channel will launch with a world premiere of a 3D version of the blockbuster Inception.
For now, Warner Bros. says there are no plans for an Inception 3D conversion.
It was reported earlier in the year that Warner tried to convert Inception to 3D before its initial theater run, but director Christopher Nolan would not sign off on it, citing “Clash of the Titans’” poor reviews.
Looking to the future, Warner is expected to begin filming the third Batman movie in 3D next year.
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SPA! magazine, a Japanese tabloid, recently wrote a report on Apple CEO Steve Jobs claiming that Jobs would never return to Japan after airport officials would not allow him on his private plane with a luggage bag full of “ninja” throwing stars.
Going through a standard security scan at the Kansai International Airport in Japan, security detected a number of throwing stars in Job’s carry-on luggage.
When the stars were taken away, Jobs angrily told officials he would never return to Japan, and that it didn’t make sense that Jobs would try to hijack his own plane, especially with throwing stars.
Apple has made sure to dismiss the story today, saying: “Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction. Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon.”
A spokesperson at the Kansai airport did confirm that a passenger in a private plane was stopped in late July for carrying throwing stars and other knives but the passenger was not identified.
