Nintendo appears to have taken a leaf out of Apple’s book and announced a slimmed down ‘Lite’ version of their best selling Nintendo DS. A fully featured DS2 has been announced by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata today with a March 2nd release though there has been no confirmed date for the US and European territories.
"Also featuring brighter screens, Nintendo DS Lite will launch in Japan in March. Nintendo DS Lite will be less than two-thirds the size of the original Nintendo DS and more than 20 percent lighter."
Ars Technica has a pretty in depth review of the new iMac 17" Core Duo; one of the first Intel based Macs to hit the stores. Looks like a pretty impressive machine, high spec and of course well designed but it seems until the specific ‘Intel’ coded software arrives there isn’t gonna be a major reason to buy at this point.
For all the hype surrounding the build Apple’s Keynote speech it struck me from a tech perspective, a disappointment. For all the excitement about the next big thing, I felt there was little innovation, perhaps evolution but nothing radically new. What really got my attention was the justification for their share jump (perhaps the result of past innovation maturing?).
I don’t think I need to give a big intro into Newsvine at the moment as there are great introductions available such as the one over at SolutionWatch. Mike Davidson is CEO of Newsvine and introduced Newsvine officially last week and quite rightly appears to have caused quite a stir with 104,655 page views in their first full day and a no.2 ranking on Technorati.
I received my invite to this social news site a few days ago and signed up rather sceptically, more out of curiosity than anything else.
‘Content, Content, Content’ seems to be the flavour of 2006’s Consumer Electronics Show. In one form or another, focus appears to be delivering and distributing, viewing or producing mainly video in the comfort of our living rooms and on personal, portable devices. Here’s a round up of the major keynote speech’s
Beginning with the analogy the media is now pulled not pushed, Sir Howard Stringer begin the Sony Keynote with a lot of talk about direction for the company. One of the few examples displayed was the location free capabilities of the Sony PSP that was released with a recent version of the firmware. He demonstrated receiving TV broadcast from his London home while being on stage.
