[15.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The Xbox 360 has tipped the 10 million customer mark in the US, making it the first of the current crop of gaming consoles to do so.
The achievement has prompted Microsoft executives to declare victory in the console war.
“History has shown us that the first company to reach […]

[15.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]In a few days time Samsung will unveil its new LCD TV containing Blue Phase technology, which is said to give image quality of 240Hertz, in other words, twice the quality of the best LCD screen on the market today.
The Blue Phase LCD television will be on show […]

[15.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Despite Sony’s Blu-ray victory over HD-DVD, ordinary DVD burners will still be mass-market volume products in the PC industry until 2012, IDC claims.
However, as the PC market’s adoption of DVD burners becomes saturated and increasingly commoditised, Blu-ray adoption will accelerate in 2009 and Blu-ray drives will become the […]

[13.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Bypassing the physical game store, Nintendo is making it easier and less risky for games developers to design and launch Wii games by selling them directly through the new WiiWare online store that launched yesterday.
Right now, there are six inaugural games on offer from WiiWare:Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle: […]

[12.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Research in Motion (RIM) has introduced a new BlackBerry smart phone called the ‘Bold’ phone and at the same time has created a US$150m fund aimed at encouraging a slew of innovative, third-party mobile applications from the software world.
It emerged this morning that RIM has joined forces with […]

[09.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Grand Theft Auto IV is not just the fastest-selling video game of all time, it has also beaten Hollywood in the numbers stakes by shifting six million units globally in seven days with an estimated retail value of over US$500m, in comparison to this summer’s blockbuster movie Iron Man, which […]

[08.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]For the cost of a local phone call users of micro-blogging service Twitter can now speak their tweets using a new voice-to-text service, Twitterfone,
The service was launched yesterday with the backing of tech entrepreneur and CEO of Cubic Telecom, Pat Phelan.
Twitterfone is simple to set up and […]

[07.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Canon’s new, ultra-portable consumer printer, the Selphy CP770, comes in such a cheery yellow storage bucket that it could easily fit in on a family outing to the beach – just make sure the kids don’t fill it up with sand by mistake.
The Selphy CP770 is a compact […]

[06.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The Apple iPhone will be sold exclusively by Vodafone in 10 countries worldwide as the international mobile firm announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to exclusively distribute the handset in these markets later this year.
Apple iPhone consumers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, […]

[01.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Research In Motion (RIM) has never strayed much from the traditional candy-bar handset – just making it bigger or smaller and always with a pretty modest-sized screen, so ‘CrackBerry’ fans are in for a treat with the new flip phone rumoured to be on the way.
Codenamed Kickstart, […]