Taiwan’s OpenMoko has announced that its Neo FreeRunner LInux-based mobile phone will go on sale July 4, 2008, with shipments to customers starting on July 7, and will also be available through several distributors in India and Europe. The Neo FreeRunner is OpenMoko’s latest open-source handset, following up on the Neo1973 launched last year. Unlike the Neo1973, the Neo FreeRunner is actually inteded as a consumer phone rather than a development platform. Although the FreeRunner’s software is still in flux, OpenMoko is promising incremental updates to improve functionality and add applications and features to make it more appealing to everyday phone users.
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Atari Delivers New Matrix Video Game
On Tuesday Atari said the follow up title to the popular Enter the Matrix video game was now available in stores. Called The Matrix: Path of Neo, this game is available for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox gaming systems and is rated T for Teen.
The Matrix: Path of Neo lets gamers take on the role of Neo and become “The One” by reliving his most important and memorable scenarios from the blockbuster motion picture trilogy of The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions from Warner Bros. Pictures. Gaming features include new, never-before seen story responses, a completely new ending written for the game and the incorporation of the likenesses of all of the films’ key actors as well as footage from the three movies as well as The Animatrix.
DTS Sound Comes to Your PC
has formed strategic partnerships with C-Media Electronics Inc. and Realtek Semiconductor Corp., leaders in audio solutions for the PC platform, to offer DTS audio technologies with both companies’popular chip sets for PC motherboards, and PCI or USB soundcards.
A DTS Connect-enabled PC provides two audio benefits to the consumer: DTS Interactive(TM) and Neo:PC(TM), for both multi-channel and stereo content. Taking full advantage of the maximum data throughput of the digital interface, DTS Interactive provides a single cable connection via S/PDIF digital audio output to a DTS-enabled surround sound system by encoding all audio into a DTS-compatible bitstream at 1.5Mbps. Neo:PC, based upon DTS’ Neo:6 matrix surround technology, transforms any stereo content such as MP3, WMA or CD audio, into a 7.1-channel surround sound experience.
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