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June 30, 2005
Archos's AV700 100 GB Mobile Digital Media Player is available on Amazon for Pre-order. - Price: $749.99
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The MM-8300 by SANYO features a built-in media player and offers customers access to 19 channels of high-quality video and audio on demand through the Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Service. With this optional service, customers can keep informed with live news from FOX News Channel Live or stay on top of the hottest music with Music Choice. They can also entertain themselves or their kids with classic "Looney Tunes" cartoons or preview what movies are coming out from major motion-picture studios Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Pictures.
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MacDailyNews has scored new images of what's purported to be the Motorola ROKR Apple iTunes phone. Brief text titles, "ROKR: Kick "A" Music for the Masses - [Apple Logo] Apple - Seamless Mobility 1.0," accompanied the images. no comment from Apple or Motorola. I think this is a horrible ugly mess. Maybe if it comes in white, I might be convinced of the beauty
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June 29, 2005
Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a new version of its iTunes music store software that includes radio podcasting capabilities.
With iTunes 4.9 you can now browse, find, sample and subscribe to thousands of free podcasts - radio shows delivered over the Internet to your computer - then sync them to your iPod and listen anytime, anywhere writes Apple. The podcast directory will include podcasts from the likes of the BBC, Engadget, ABC News and ESPN. Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of applications, said Apple is trying to simplify how people listen to podcasts.
"Why did we get in on it? Podcasts are different than individual songs. There's been a lot of buzz going on, and we wanted to make it easier to listen to podcasts," Cue said.
Apple also merged the traditional white iPod line to contain two models of the music player, a 20-gigabyte version for $299 and a 60-gigabyte version for $399. Both will include color screens and can be used for viewing digital photos. Apple will no longer sell the 30-gigabyte version of the iPod photo.
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June 28, 2005
Scottish game designer David Jones (creator of the first Grand Theft Auto) has announced that All Points Bulletin (APB), (his new multiplayer online role-playing game set in "a highly volatile world filled with dramatic car chases, shootouts, busts, escapes, and arrests") will be available for Microsoft's next-gen console, the Xbox 360 in 2008, around one year after the PC version ships. "We are confident APB will take full advantage of Xbox 360's impressive capabilities," said Webzen CEO Nam Ju Kim. The game will be Webzen's second for the 360, after the postapocalyptic shooter Huxley reports GameSpot
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Touted as a mini-supercomputer, Sony's next generation console called the PlayStation 3 or PS3 runs on Sony, Toshiba and IBM's Cell processor and features NVIDIA's RSX graphics processor.
Rumor # 1- According Spong, Sony is planning on making the PlayStation 3 'talk' to the Microsoft's Xbox 360, though exactly what they are planning wasn't explained."
Rumor # 2 - Microsoft is said to be considering making their next generation Xbox 360 connectable with the two rival firms' portable machines, the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS. Based on company Statements made last week Microsoft has developed technology to allow its next-generation video game console, Xbox 360, to be connected online with portable game machines of rival firms. Users of the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) and the Nintendo DS will be able to connect their machines with the Xbox 360 and play Microsoft's games over the Internet, Microsoft officials said
With that said if the Microsoft rumor is true ( that rumor was first) , it would make sense for Sony to have the PlayStation 3 do something similar.
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Sony's new CEO Howard Stringer said that Sony will cut back on some of its research and development programs in an effort to put more focus on products that the company believes will allow it dominate once again. Stringer emphasized two items that will be key to Sony's business for many years to come: the Cell processor, will be used to power the PlayStation 3 and many Sony's electronics, -- Cell delivers improved, real-time response for entertainment and rich media applications, in many cases 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors. It is expected the Cell microprocessor will become the broadband processor used for industrial applications to the new digital home.
Cell also supports multiple operating systems, such as conventional operating systems (including Linux), real-time operating systems for computer entertainment and consumer electronics applications as well as guest operating systems for specific applications, simultaneously. -- and the Blu-ray disc, hi-def standard format for the PS3. (Sony hopes this will eventually replaces DVD in the marketplace)
"PlayStation is the largest chip eater. Leveraging game applications, we've got the most advanced [Cell] technology, which will give us high competitiveness. The next step is determining what applications we can develop on the Cell processor, for which we are launching a project," said Sony president Ryoji Chubachi
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Speaking at a joint event with HD-DVD creator Toshiba in Tokyo, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed Microsoft's commitment to the HD-DVD standard and confirmed that the company is already thinking about future revisions of the Xbox 360 hardware (company may incorporate a HD-DVD drive into the console). The HD-DVD standard currently faces a battle against the competing Blu-Ray next-generation DVD standard, created by Sony reports GamesIndustry.
"The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format," Gates explained. "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else."
Sony's PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray system for both HD movie playback and game storage. Sony and Toshiba have held talks to try and establish a joint format for next-generation DVD, but these collapsed recently after Toshiba refused to accept Blu-Ray - which boasts higher capacity discs but is more expensive to manufacture - as the basis for the joint standard.
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Reggie Fils-Aime, chief marketing officer of Nintendo revealed and confirmed quite a bit of information, including hints about the Revolution controller in an interview with Electronic Gaming Monthly.
"As Mr. Iwata said, we're working on our next true Mario platformer for Revolution; we're working on our next Metroid, and we showed snippets of that work. And I'm actually meeting with Michael Kelbaugh to spend some time with him to understand the vision for our next Metroid Prime game. You'll see Zelda. You'll see Smash Bros. And Mr. Iwata certainly wants that to be a wireless Internet-enabled game because we know it would be so much fun for the core gamer.
So absolutely, for Revolution you will see all of our franchises, plus, we've gone on record to say that we are aggressively working on a number of new franchises. And that is something that has been a criticism of the past, you know, "Folks, are you milking Mario and doing too many Mario-type games?" We are hard at work at new franchises and we believe that's going to be critical to the launch of Revolution."
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AMD has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation yesterday in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel – including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents. Read More
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