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There has been a lot of talk lately about Folding on the PS3 which has been seen to be a great source of computational power. Our Folding page has been updated with a video explanation of the PS3 Folding client where our team gets a mention.
Apple have started shipping their Apple TV for $AU449. CNet have posted some stuff about it. Apple made its biggest move yet into the living room on Wednesday by starting shipments of the Apple TV box, a gizmo that lets people take music, photos and video stored on a computer and play them on a television screen. The small silver box with a white Apple logo costs $449 and can store up to 50 hours of video, 9000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination thereof. It is available this week at Apple's online store, retail stores, and also from resellers.
Check out this interesting marketing tactic from Microsoft about their Xbox 360 console. It aims to illustrate the large price difference between the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3...with beer. Also in PS3 news PS3Scene have posted some pictures of the PAL PS3 motherboard.
A company that makes PC cooling products are planning to use steam in some of their products to conduct heat better. The interior consists of a series of vacuum-sealed chambers and channels containing small amounts of water. The water turns to steam, which then conducts the heat from the source to another component, such as an aluminum heat sink, that can dissipate the heat into the ambient atmosphere. "Steam conducts heat better than almost any substance out there," he said.
According to an analyst Google is not building a phone but phone related software. "We believe Google is working with, not against, Apple in the mobile world," Munster said. In recent months, various reports have described how Web search leader Google could be developing a "Gphone" -- a low-cost, Internet-connected phone with a color, wide-screen design. Newspaper and blog reports in recent months have Google shopping its phone design to potential cell phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
A budget rocket ($US7 Million) has managed to reach space despite problems during launch. A budget rocket developed by the founder of Internet financial services firm PayPal blasted off on Tuesday from a remote island in the South Pacific, bolstering hopes of cheaper fares to fly cargo, and eventually people, into space. The 21-metre booster rocket called Falcon 1 lifted off at 9:10pm local time from Omelek Island on a United States military missile test range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and successfully arrived in space minutes later.
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