It was supposed to an simple choice for video-game players this holiday season, nothing more than a flip of the coin: The 3 or the Wii? But then it became complicated. Sony isn’t going to deliver nearly enough PlayStation 3s to meet demand (just 400,000 in North America by Christmas, millions short of demand). Nintendo’s energetic Wii (pronounced “wee”) is only slightly easier to find. And then Microsoft made it a tough choice by ensuring the Xbox 360 is plentiful with the largest library of games.
Archive for November, 2006 - Page 3
Before the end-Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago, the seas were home to a balance of both ecologically simple communities and complex ones. Following the extinction, complex communities displaced simple ones, coming to outnumber them three-to-one, a pattern that prevails today.
It reflects the current dominance of complex, mobile organisms, such as snails and crabs, and the decreased diversity of simple, stationary organisms such as sea lilies, which filter nutrients from the water.
Mobile television will be a product for global masses in 2008, according to Sweden’s LM Ericsson. According to media reports, Per Nordlof, Ericsson’s director of Product Strategy said at a joint press briefing with Sony in Stockholm that in 2008 about one third of the world’s mobile phone users will regularly be watching TV broadcasts on their handsets.
Ericcson and Sony will work together to develop software to link their products through wireless networks and to cash in on the expected boom for mobile TV. During the press conference, Ericsson and Sony demonstrated a series of solutions based on the Digital Living Network Alliance standard. Thanks to these solutions, friends and family could share film footage and pictures between a handset and a regular television at the press of a button.