august round up
What with August being the holiday month, post rate has taken a nosedive.
Stories of note that have surfaced over the last few weeks include:
- Taking pictures and videos with your mobile doesn't seem to be enough these days. It seems that various manufacturers are trying to slipstream in Apple's wake. Sony have introduced their Walkman phone the w800i. Satellite radio phones are fast being lined up next!
- Large numbers of wildly varying rumours regarding next month's Apple Expo. iPhone, flash iPod minis, silver cased 5G iPods, video iPod patents, new versions of iChat are just naming a few (ThinkSecret has been tracking each of these). But lets stick to the sensible: a 40GB iPod with a single platter drive which would shave off 5mm its thickness. This doesn't sound like much but if your iPod's home is your jeans' pocket, then you certainly will be thankful you've lost extra thickness!
- The PSP has launched in UK. And the UMD range is considerably larger than expected. How long before the second (and even third) wave of software hits? The best import title name goes to Winning Eleven 9: Ubiquitous Evolution - even though this will get renamed to the duller sounding Pro Evolution 5 on its European release.
- Direct retail seems to be big battleground for a lot of tech manufacturers. After Nintendo and Apple, why not the big M?
- Google continues it's quest for world domination with GoogleTalk (at least on the desktop). And it works with my favourite IM client too! Adium
Stories of note that have surfaced over the last few weeks include:
- Taking pictures and videos with your mobile doesn't seem to be enough these days. It seems that various manufacturers are trying to slipstream in Apple's wake. Sony have introduced their Walkman phone the w800i. Satellite radio phones are fast being lined up next!
- Large numbers of wildly varying rumours regarding next month's Apple Expo. iPhone, flash iPod minis, silver cased 5G iPods, video iPod patents, new versions of iChat are just naming a few (ThinkSecret has been tracking each of these). But lets stick to the sensible: a 40GB iPod with a single platter drive which would shave off 5mm its thickness. This doesn't sound like much but if your iPod's home is your jeans' pocket, then you certainly will be thankful you've lost extra thickness!
- The PSP has launched in UK. And the UMD range is considerably larger than expected. How long before the second (and even third) wave of software hits? The best import title name goes to Winning Eleven 9: Ubiquitous Evolution - even though this will get renamed to the duller sounding Pro Evolution 5 on its European release.
- Direct retail seems to be big battleground for a lot of tech manufacturers. After Nintendo and Apple, why not the big M?
- Google continues it's quest for world domination with GoogleTalk (at least on the desktop). And it works with my favourite IM client too! Adium
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on Thursday, September 01, 2005 at 8:34 pm.
