Rear-projection televisions used to be the televisions of the future and were all the rage – but now it seems that they will become rare and obsolete within the next few years. Several television manufacturers have already stated that they will be backing out of this market. Just this week Sony was the last company to pull out.
1394 Trade Association announced that it would be instilling its new S32 specification – which will work by using the existing cables and connectors that are already in use for FireWire 800 products to work towards a better transition into higher speeds.
FireWire’s data transfer will be reaching 3.2 gigabits per second – which is higher than their normal 90 megabytes per second. The S3200 specification brings FireWire to this new performance level without compromising existing features. For example, FireWire provides much more electrical power than any other interface, freeing users from inconvenient AC power adapters.
Orange – the French mobile phone service – began selling unlocked iPhones on November 29th and since than they have sold 30,000. In five days they have made more than T-Mobile has in a month. Customers found it easier to purchase the phone with the ‘Orange for iPhone’ contract – which gives them unlimited amount of time on the internet and the brand new Visual Voicemail service.