| Apple lowers iPhone projections for March quarter?
Apple has reportedly lowered its projected shipments of iPhones for the March quarter. According to a new report, the company has lowered its orders from two million units to around 1-1.2 million units for the second fiscal quarter, which ends in March. Despite announcing that it has sold over four million iPhones to date, Apple may be suffering from decreased demand in some parts of world, according to new report by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN). Quoting sources at Apple's handset component suppliers in Taiwan, the Digitimes indicates that Apple has reduced orders for its popular mobile device due to decreased demand in Europe. The company launched the mobile device in UK, Germany, and France last Fall, but one report this week indicated that the company's sales in the UK have been below the company's expectations.
Soccer: Javier Clemente offered coaching job by Iran
Former Spain and Serbia coach Javier Clemente has been offered the job of leading Iran through World Cup qualifying. Clemente, who coached Spain from 1992-98 and led Serbia until last month, said he hadn't yet decided if he would accept the offer. "It's true I have an offer from the Iranian federation to take over the squad when the qualifying phase for the World Cup begins, but there are still many things to discuss. There's nothing signed yet," the Basque-born coach said. .
Xbox is crack for kids
In the dog-end of the Christmas holidays my sons and a friend were re-creating the rolling boulder sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark by charging up and downstairs pursued by my new purple gym ball. As the crashing reached a climax and Harrison Ford slammed his head into the bannister, I found myself thinking: oh, why can't they just sit down nicely and watch TV for a bit? I soon stamped on this heresy, of course, since children doing vaguely energetic, imaginative things must be celebrated, at whatever cost to the nerves. These days the mother who parks her kids before the Dave channel in order to work is no better than the one who shoves chips through the school railings to her children or feeds the family dog two-quid unhappy chicken just to hack off Jamie Oliver.
Burnout Paradise Ships for PS3, Xbox 360
Electronic Arts today shipped Burnout Paradise for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America. Burnout Paradise will be available in Europe for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on January 28. Burnout Paradise takes a new direction for the franchise, with an open-world design that includes a seamless online and offline mode. Using the open-world model, players can decide for themselves when and where the action begins, simply by pulling up to any intersection and deciding whether to engage in that challenge or not. Burnout Paradise lets players go online casually with the "EasyDrive Friends List" and just putter around town in Freeburn Mode. Then, if you'd like to take them on, players can immediately issue a challenge for up to seven of your friends or join forces to complete more than 300 online challenges.
Woster: Whalen camp draws fire for farce
Rumor has it she's pregnant, engaged to her chief of staff and is now a pro-lifer opposed to abortion rights. Baloney, you say? Well, sure. It's also a sign of how wacky things get when you mix politics into that cascading avalanche of information - some of it true, much of it not - that lands in your personal computer every day. The Herseth story landed last week by way of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia that offers a little information about a lot of subjects. It's also a place that polices itself for accuracy, since readers can edit the data - and apparently do. Somebody did some creative editing in Herseth's biography page on Wikipedia. They inserted a wild bit of fiction, crediting the Democratic congresswoman with a sudden change of heart on abortion, a sudden engagement to her chief of staff (identified with a fictitious name) and a sudden pregnancy.
Sony, Skype calling gamers
The consumer electronics industry has for many years now tried to shoe-horn a game (some would say game-like) experience on the mobile phone device, but this year, Sony swims upstream in the same waters. It has taken the PSP handheld game platform and turned it into a mobile phone -- albeit with limitations. But the value proposition for consumers is win-win. .
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