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PS3 Production 'In Full Swing' 69

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 03, 2006 @02:20PM from the don't-mean-a-thing-if-you-aint-got-that-swing dept.

1up is reporting on comments from Phil Harrison, saying that the PS3 is in full production mode. There are apparently already 10,000 devkits out there, and something like 100 games in the pipe already for the console. From the article: "Sounds pretty much like the usual rah-rah, go-team kind of stuff you'd expect to hear before a major system launch, but mentions of third-party support become far more interesting when you learn that many folks, both within Sony and without, are apparently 'scared of the wrath of Phil Harrison,' according to a Guardian source. Are third-party developers as excited and supportive as Harrison would have us believe, or are they just scared of receiving a Sony-flavored beat down?"

EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day 659

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 27, 2006 @11:48AM from the i'd-get-on-that-guys dept.

Lord_Slepnir writes "The European Union is unsatisfied with Microsoft's compliance with their anti-trust compliance from 2004, and is preparing to fine them 2 million Euros ($2.5m US) per day until they comply. Under that ruling, Microsoft must open up parts of their operating system to competitors, and change how they bundle Media Player." From the article: "On Monday, Microsoft said it had begun to provide the information Brussels had demanded, but the Commission has signaled the company acted too late. In December, Brussels informed the software giant that it had failed to comply with the original ruling it issued in March 2004."

Comment Re:I'm skeptical. (Score 1) 1165

by Vordax on Tuesday March 02, 2004 @03:24AM (#8438179) Attached to: Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave?

From what I have been told the metal strip in bills is designed to set metal detectors off at points of entrance/exit to the country. When you have a large enough amount of currency the quantity of metal will be high enough to set the detectors off. Moving undeclared currency across the border is illegal... Help catch drug smugglers etc...

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