Sony has no intention of releasing a PS3 without a Blu-ray drive.
The suggestion that the Japanese company would ditch the high-def format was scotched by Sony’s marketing manager Kim Nguyen.
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VoIP telephone services in Western Europe leapt to just under 30 million consumer lines by mid-2008 – up from 20 million only a year earlier.
That figure has continued to climb and totalled 35 million lines at the end of the year, according to a survey by researchers TeleGeography.
The worldwide market for carrier VoIP equipment has stalled after a pro-longed period of double-digit annual revenue growth that began in 2002.
This led to the market contracting for the first time ever in 2008, with a drop in revenue of 6 per cent, according to Infonetics Research.
It was always on the cards from the moment Acer announced its intention to enter the smartphone arena.
Now the Taiwanese electronics giant has made it clear that it plans to drive down the cost of smartphones – to a level where mobile operators could give them away for free.
Acer plans to release two low-priced handsets – the F1 and L1 – in October. Both will be touchscreen devices running Windows Mobile 6.5.
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While prospects for the overall mobile handset market remain gloomy, smartphones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 per cent in 2009, according to iSuppli.
The analysts’ optimistic forecast for global smartphone unit shipments translates into 192.3 million units in 2009, up from 173.6 million in 2008.
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After a period of steadily dropping HDTV prices the cost of sets to consumers appears to be climbing again.
The average selling price for HDTVs in the US jumped by more than 10 per cent in February, according to data from the Retrevo CE Index.
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The evolution of the media phone product segment may just be beginning but it has the potential to become the 4th screen in the home.
That’s according to a report by In-Stat, which said the device could also become a next generation business IP phone.
Frank Grillo, Cypress Communication’s executive vice president of marketing, is the winner of the voip-biz.news’ Person of the Year award.
In nominating him for the title, the telecoms professional was described as a "visionary executive" and "innovative thinker" with "technical acumen".
Two innovative products dominated voting to share the honours in voip-biz.news‘ Product of the Year 2008 competition.
With 33 per cent of the nominations, MyGlobalTalk’s VoIP calling solution earned praise for its sound quality and call rates, as well as features such as no contract being required, no connection fees and no minimums.
VoIP provider Vonage had a revenue increase of 9 per cent to USD $900 million in 2008.
However, reporting on its fourth-quarter and full-year 2008 earnings report, the company said it lost a net of 14,700 subscribers in Q4.