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Military VR Simulator Is Closest Thing Ever to Real-Life Halo 3

This is a super cool HD projector really super amazing

see it here http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/military-sim-almost-brings-halo-3-to-reality/military-vr-simulator-is-closest-thing-ever-to-real+life-halo-3-315435.php

Microsoft ships its one millionth Zune ahead of schedule

Microsoft shipped its one millionth Zune MP3 player after nine months on the market according to Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. The company had originally expected to top the one million mark in June, but the company achieved the feat a month early.

"We're very pleased with the progress. We've sold a little over a million Zunes. In the category we're in, the hard-disk-based category, we've got about 10 percent market share," said Bach. "It's a good start. It's not an overwhelming start. I'm not going to pretend it's some gigantic move."

Even though Microsoft shipped over a million Zunes, it's still well behind segment leader Apple which recently celebrated its 100 millionth iPod sold after nearly six years on the market. As of February 2007, the iPod commanded 73.7 percent of the MP3 player market. Microsoft's 2.4 percent share was good enough for fourth place behind SanDisk and Creative Labs.

Microsoft is expecting a rather large uptick in sales leading up to the 2007 holiday season. The company is building a new manufacturing plant in China which will produce a second-generation HDD-based Zune along with a flash-based Zune.

In the mean time, Microsoft is likely to add firmware updates to existing Zunes to further enhance their capabilities. New MP3 player entries on the market such as SanDisk's Sansa Connect offer wireless downloading functionality that many assumed the Zune would feature from the start.

"As to the Wi-Fi, we think the idea of these devices being connected where you want them connected is very important. That's why we shipped the original Zune with Wi-Fi built in, remarked Bach. "The cool thing about that is, the innovation can all be in software. Wi-Fi is an important area. We'll see how that SanDisk project does."


http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+P...rticle7458.htm

80GB PS3

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) plans to launch a version of its PlayStation 3 console with an 80GB, hard-disk drive in June, says the company.
The new PlayStation 3 model will go on sale first in South Korea when Sony kicks off PlayStation 3 sales there on June 16. It will cost 518,000 won (NZ$764).

The console, which launched in late 2006 in the US and Japan, typically comes with a 60GB hard-disk drive. In some markets SCEI offers a second version with a 20GB drive although sales are being discontinued in favour of the higher capacity model, which has sold considerably better.

The 80GB model could appear in other markets.

"At this time there are no concrete plans [to sell the model in other markets] however it could be an option to introduce it in other regions but it needs to be decided by each region," says Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for SCEI in Tokyo. The machine otherwise has a similar specification to the existing PlayStation 3 model with a 60GB drive, he says.

The company decided to put a higher capacity hard-disk drive in the model sold in South Korea because of the nation's pervasive broadband internet network, says Fukuoka. Sony is keen to see the PlayStation 3 used for entertainment beyond games and South Koreans are already used to a wide variety of online multimedia.

News that Sony was planning an 80GB model of the console first came in a US regulatory filing with the Federal Communications Commission in March. At the time the company declined to comment on product plans.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/...2572E2007654E2

FCC approves Apple’s iPhone

Chicago (IL) – Apple’s iPhone has cleared a major hurdle on its way to a commercial release.

According to a notification posted on the FCC’s website today, the organization’s Office of Engineering and Technology has officially approved Apple’s upcoming iPhone. Besides the fact that Apple has provide test results for the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM bands, the filing does not reveal any additional information about the iPhone: Apple requested that documents that contain detailed information about the iPhone – such as the manual of product pictures - remain confidential until July 1 of this year.

However, we do know that the phone will have a 3.5” touchscreen with 160 dpi resolution. Rumor has it that Intel is supplying key hardware for the phone and that China-based Foxconn will assemble the device. At 11.6 mm, the iPhone is not the thinnest phone out there, but it is thin enough to be able to escape the definition of being bulky. Standard equipment include 4 GB or 8 GB of flash memory storage, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, a web browser, push email (with Yahoo email). Instead of relying on other software companies, Apple decided to use Mac OS X as operating system for the iPhone.

At the time of its release, the iPhone will be available only from Cingular Wireless as a GSM/EDGE device for Apple mentioned in a newsletter that the iPhone will be available sometime in June, while an exact launch date has been withheld so far. However, News.com mentioned in a blog posting that a Cingular representative revealed that the iPhone will be introduced on June 11.

Pricing for the phone is set at $500 for the 4 GB version and $600 for the 8 GB model.

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FCC approves Apple’s iPhone

Chicago (IL) – Apple’s iPhone has cleared a major hurdle on its way to a commercial release.

According to a notification posted on the FCC’s website today, the organization’s Office of Engineering and Technology has officially approved Apple’s upcoming iPhone. Besides the fact that Apple has provide test results for the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM bands, the filing does not reveal any additional information about the iPhone: Apple requested that documents that contain detailed information about the iPhone – such as the manual of product pictures - remain confidential until July 1 of this year.

However, we do know that the phone will have a 3.5” touchscreen with 160 dpi resolution. Rumor has it that Intel is supplying key hardware for the phone and that China-based Foxconn will assemble the device. At 11.6 mm, the iPhone is not the thinnest phone out there, but it is thin enough to be able to escape the definition of being bulky. Standard equipment include 4 GB or 8 GB of flash memory storage, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, a web browser, push email (with Yahoo email). Instead of relying on other software companies, Apple decided to use Mac OS X as operating system for the iPhone.

At the time of its release, the iPhone will be available only from Cingular Wireless as a GSM/EDGE device for Apple mentioned in a newsletter that the iPhone will be available sometime in June, while an exact launch date has been withheld so far. However, News.com mentioned in a blog posting that a Cingular representative revealed that the iPhone will be introduced on June 11.

Pricing for the phone is set at $500 for the 4 GB version and $600 for the 8 GB model.

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First Pics of the Zune Halo 3 Special Edition

LOOK really COOL !!