Apple's TV gonzo project up the spout?

Wow, an MS exec is saying Microsoft hopes to sell 400 million to a billion of these things (http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/apples-road-to-wwdc-2013-ios-7-iphone-5s-and-icloud-021049.php) , that could put a crimp in Apple's hopes for iTV (dongle, HDTV, whatever) project...

Presented in RooneyVision

Wayne Rooney will be retired or out of the England squad by then won't he? Can't have Japanese babies and children traumatised by that face in that much detail.

Despite all the nay-saying, I may well give one a go, just to be different. And who would have thought you could be saying that about Microsoft and Nokia four or five years ago.

[Looks for magnetic field shift icon, settles for smiley face]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/happy_32.png

Next up TVs and games?

And if they conquer those I think the Apple robot army beckons... http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile/steve-jobs-steps-down-welcome-to-the-new-apple-future-012499.php

kids and smartphones

Umm, how many parents will spend £800+ on a smartphone contract for a child exactly? A £230 one-shot deal, while still pricey, seems a better deal.

Should point out

Nintendo sold 215,000 3DSs in the week after its price cut, and gamers just have to buy three Nintendo titles to cover the loss, then buy another one or two for the Nintendo cash machine to start churning again.

Not much over the four-five year lifespan of the device, and the Vita has a potential 6-8 year lifespan, so a little perspective is warranted...

Dagnabbit and curses

Was looking forward to one for Christmas, the move doesn't make masses of sense either. PSP is still going strong in Japan with a big list of games still to come, but the PSP won't make a dent in most westerner's shopping lists and there are next to no games coming.

Release in the west to counter the 3DS and then in Japan when the PSP tails off would be more logical, but hey home turf and all!

PSP/PSV news - http://psp2roundup.blogspot.com/

A new level of Jesus non-phone?

Users can play against PS3 and Xbox gamers, copy save games from PS3 to PSV and much more, http://psp2roundup.blogspot.com/

Not in America, yet!

The Americans would have it too if it wasn't for their daft licensing/contract arrangements - http://t.co/hjdYwew - they'll just have to wait until later ha-ha

Phase Two

Hope there's no money in my account (which I can't delete as its the only method some of my bosses use) when they gear up for the main attack

Just launch the brand-name version of Google+ already

Once that hits, then all of this becomes kind of moot, unless a Mr. Coca Cola, Nigel Metallica or Senior Adi Das is really out there?

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/google-for-business-is-on-the-way-012111.php

Fair enough, its still early days but Google should have expected a mild amount of interest in its service from brands and bands...

Latest in a long list of silly-named, but successful products!

Having seen the screenshots (http://psp2roundup.blogspot.com/2011/06/wipeout-2048-ngp-in-screenshots.html), don't count the Vita out, especially as the Gameboy, Wii and others seemed to do okay.

Easily solved

Google payout, case goes away, Note the Reg needs a Filthy Lucre icon, I guess tha handbag will do for now.

UPDATED - PayPal suing Google over alleged executive shenanigans on Google Wallet http://t.co/1ZoKiER via @cmswire

Where's the market?

I know the likes of Gartner are saying over 100 million of tablets will be sold, but at this rate its likely to be 99 million iPads, 1 million+ Galaxy tabs, 25,000 Xooms, 100,000 PlayBooks and perhaps 25,000 Sonys - no matter what Sony does - no one seems to care.

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/sony-launching-stylish-android-30-tablets-to-battle-ipad-rims-playbook-010984.php

Services going back up

The likes of Foursquare and Quora are back up, reddit in emergency mode, but if you read the feeds due to wide repeats of old news, it could be perceived not to have improved... Amazon EC2 / AWS outage and Sony PSN downtime UPDATE http://t.co/C0X2rXu

Atrocity Archives!

I'll go with Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives, its even got a bit of BofHery in it, and some Nazis and demons... what's not to like?

Geoff

Lots going on

This story changes by the minute with various bits of Sony saying one thing and other, looks like its back on now, with a big official unveiling of the name and price at e3.

http://psp2roundup.blogspot.com/2011/04/ngp-to-be-named-and-priced-at-e3-rumour.html

at least

no one has mentioned the term "reboot" yet... but it'd be good if it got stripped down to basics; men, guns, tunnels, human suffering, robbery... no jet fighters or vehicle chases