News Burst: Sony Announces Plans For PlayStation3
News Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony announced plans to launch a PlayStation3 console Monday, just three months after the debut of its PlayStation2 in Europe. The improved model claims to be 1,000 times faster than the PS2, with the capacity for...
[January 29, 2001, 8:34]
Sony Rejects PlayStation3 Reports
News Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony refused Monday to confirm reports claiming it plans to launch a PlayStation 3 console to rival Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox. Sony says it does not intend to reveal details of the PS3 just three months after...
[January 29, 2001, 11:04]
Exclusive: Playstation 3 - AMD 2GHz CPU Running Linux
News (This is an April Fools news story) Reports from the Tokyo Games Show, suggest that the Sony's next generation console (code name AP1 -- or PlayStation3) will be based on a 2GHz version of AMD's Athlon processor, running on a specially developed...
[April 1, 2000, 15:38]
Sony Says Xbox Launch Could Bring PS3 Closer
News Sony's president feels that the Xbox could force the company's hand in releasing its PS3 console earlier than intended. In a recent interview with The Financial Times, Kunitake Ando, president and chief executive of Sony, said that the Microsoft...
[November 15, 2001, 9:48]
Sony Soups Up PlayStation2
News Sony on Wednesday unveiled a souped-up PlayStation2 that is its answer to the home "digital appliance", adding DVD-recording, hard-drive, digital television and other features to the device. The PSX is designed to be an interim successor to the...
[May 28, 2003, 14:47]
IBM Shows Cell Blade In Action
News IBM has showed off a prototype blade server based on the Cell processor in action this week. The company demonstrated the Cell blade server running visualisation software to display real-time three-dimensional video footage of a beating heart at...
[March 10, 2006, 10:05]
Amazon.co.uk To Take Xbox Preorders
News Internet retailer Amazon.co.uk will be among a select group of British retailers taking preorders for Microsoft's Xbox, the market's newest computer game console, the company has said. The console, which launches on Thursday in the US, will not be...
[November 15, 2001, 15:43]
Future Of DVD Mired In Confusion
News The future of DVD recording is up in the air, after Sony claimed that talks between rival factions pushing the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD factions have collapsed. Ken Kutaragi, president of Blu-ray backer Sony, said late last week that negotiations with...
[June 21, 2005, 17:20]
Ballmer Sets Launch Date For Xbox 2
News Microsoft will deliver the next version of its Xbox game console in 2006, chief executive Steve Ballmer said. According to reports by Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Ballmer made the remark during a press conference in Japan.
[June 20, 2003, 7:38]
Microsoft Has High Hopes For Xbox
News REVIEW: Microsoft's Xbox Microsoft's Xbox is something of a Trojan horse. The company has conquered the desktop and now seems intent on sneaking a PC into your living room. Of course, this black behemoth of a system looks and acts just like a video...
[March 14, 2002, 11:49]
