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The West Australian reports that shipments in Japan of the new PlayStation 3 video game machines reached a million yesterday, Sony said, hitting the company’s target about two weeks behind schedule.
Masayuki Otani, deputy chief of research at Maruwa Securities, said PS3 sales were struggling in Japan with excess stock languishing at retailers. And the number of units shipped from Sony did not equal the total units sold at retailers, he said.
How do you think will PS3 sales fare compared to the 360 and Wii?
The Age reports that there has been a few court cases won against spammers and they reveal that their annoying crime does pay.
In the US, Ryan Pitylak settled two civil lawsuits brought against him by the Texas attorney-general and Microsoft for more than $1.3 million last year after admitting he sent 25 million spam emails a day in 2004. Pitylak reportedly earned $4 to $9 each time he obtained the personal details of someone who responded to his emails, which were then sold to other companies.
In Australia, Wayne Mansfield had been sending millions of spam emails spruiking seminars costing $100 to attend. He had been making hundreds of thousands of dollars each month from his spamming activities.
It takes only a small response rate to make a profit. Unbelievably, almost 6000 people had ordered penis enlargement pills at $62 a bottle after receiving an email titled "Make your penis HUGE".
Spammers wouldn't do it if it wasn't profitable, maybe we are our own worst enemy.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Visa and Nokia have teamed up to provide a mobile phone payment system that will turn phones into wallets and allow consumers to buy items from stores without money or cards.
We should see mobile payment trials in Australia within the next 12 to 18 months. Paying for goods or services would be as easy as swiping your phone over a sensor.
The first phone to support the technology, dubbed Near Field Communication (NFC), is the Nokia 6131. It will be available in Australia by the end of the first quarter of this year.
As reported by CNN Apple are releasing their new iPhone - a mobile phone that plays iTunes and surfs the web. The device will retail for between US $499 and $599 for the 4GB and 8GB versions.
The touchscreen device will also include functionality found in the iPod series of media players and run the OS X operating system (presumably streamlined for mobile devices with multi-touch screen implementation). It will come equipped with Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, as well as a 2.0-megapixel camera. It will be symmetrical both horizontally and vertically, for user 'tilting' to view screen in either position
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As reported by The Age, the Nintendo Wii has become the fastest-selling games console in Australian history, a title formerly held by Microsoft's Xbox 360.
The Wii sold 32,901 units in the first four days beating the previous record of 30,421. The success of the Wii is attributed to its broad appeal as a family-oriented console
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Comment by John 1
on What Happens if Your Wii-Remote Slips Out of Your Hand?
I haven't bought a wii yet but I couldn't imaging myself ever doing it, on the other hand if one of my friends smashed my TV I'd be pretty pissed off! (with them not the wii-mote).