Motorola Milestone Is Official In Germany

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The Motorola Milestone already appeared over the weekend, but now Motorola presents the Milestone aka Droid in full glory on their German site.
There is actually one interesting difference between the Droid and the Milestone. The two finger pinch zoom gesture is available on the German Milestone, but not on the U.S. Droid. Engadget features video of the Milestone doing the pinch. The German Milestone specifications on the Motorola site confirm that zooming with two fingers is a feature of the Milestone. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 03:56:49 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Motorola Droid Goes Germany As Motorola Milestone On O2

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The Motorola Droid gets a new name when it arrives on O2 in Germany. The Droid will be known as Milestone. I guess because Verizon Wireless takes ownership of the Droid brand, other carriers have to come up with theirs. Verizon is using the Droid brand also for other Android devices like the Droid Eris.
O2 did not unveil the Motorola Milestone yet, but the word is out via BGR and also a link to an O2 webpage appeared in this forum.
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Posted on Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:37:16 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Nanotech milestone

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IBM has announced that it is now celebrating the 20th anniversary of an important breakthrough in nanotechnology research. Today marks 20 years since IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person to ever move and control a single atom.

Eigler and his team built a custom microscope and used it to spell out IBM with 35 xenon atoms. This was the first time that anyone had successfully moved individual atoms with accuracy. The scanning tunneling microscope was used to visualize and experiment with molecules and atoms. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:53:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Facebook Reached 300 million Subscriber Milestone

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Facebook announced that the social network is now serving 300 million people across the world.
Facebook CEO says in his blog post that Facebook is just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone.
Facebook plans to keep up with the rapid growth and actually make Facebook faster to use. The new Facebook lite sure helps with that plan. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 Hits Milestone

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Activision has announced that map pack 1 for COD: World at War has hit a milestone with over two million downloads. That number is a combination of sales via Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. COD: World at War is a very cool game, but I preferred Modern Warfare to the WWII title.

The map pack includes four new multiplayer maps Nightfire, Station, Knee Deep, and Verruckt. On the Xbox, the map pack is 800 points and it sells for $9.99 of the PC. Gamers are no doubt waiting for the next map pack for the game. Read more

Posted on Wed, 6 May 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Sony PSP reaches 50 million world-wide Sales Milestone

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Sony announced today that the PSP console cumulative worldwide sell-in units of PSP (PSP-1000, 2000, and 3000 series) reached a total of 50 million units.
The 50 million is a sell-in number, which I suppose means that Sony sold 50 million PSP into the retail channel, but there are not 50 million PSPs in the hands on gamers yet.
The Sony PSP made its debut in December 2004 in Japan, March 2005 in North America, May 2005 in Asian countries and regions, and September 2005 in Europe/PAL territories. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:16:55 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

HTC Touch Diamond to reach 1 Million Milestone this Month

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HTC started to ship the compact Windows smartphone Touch Diamond in May. Back then the company predicted to ship 2 million Touch Diamond phones in 2008. It looks like they are on the way to make it reaching 1 million units in August according to Digitimes.
HTC is seen to actually up the target for the Touch Diamond sales to 2.5 or 3m in 2008. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 05:23:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

QPC Lasers Announces Laser TV Milestone

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QPC Lasers announced today a milestone in a contract to produce lasers for use in Laser TVs. The contract is worth $12 million to the firm. QPC says that its RGB lasers have successfully met all performance milestones for red, green and blue colors.

This performance milestone means that QPC has completed the development phase of the contract. The company says that it has an exclusive contract with an Asian electronics maker for the lasers. The contract is a supply agreement that could be worth $230 million over the ten year term. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:37:38 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

3LCD Hits Shipment Milestone

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3LCD announced that it has passed a projector industry milestone with 50 million 3LCD chips shipped. The number of units shipped makes 3LCD the first projection technology to pass the 50 million mark.

3LCD says that its chips are key components driving the majority of projectors in classrooms and home theaters. 3LCD technology first came to market in 1989. 3LCD says that it has a 6.3-point unit share lead over its competitors in Q1 2008. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

T-Mobile USA breaks 30 Million Customer Milestone

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T-Mobile USA announces that they have now over 30 million subscribers. AT&T still leads of course with over 71 million subscribers.

In the first quarter of 2008, T-Mobile USA added 981,000 net new customers, up from 951,000 in the fourth quarter of 2007, and 980,000 in the first quarter of 2007.
During the quarter, T-Mobile USA’s acquisition of SunCom Wireless (SunCom) closed, adding 1.1 million customers and networks in the Southeastern United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 01:27:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Enthusiast System Architecture Hits Milestone

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NVIDIA announced today that its Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) has hit an important milestone with the official adoption by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). This adoption paves the way for the ESA standard to become the industry standard.

NVIDIA says that its ESA protocol that details the way peripherals on a computer communicate will be added into the next revision of the USB human interface device class definition. Dell’s new XPS 630 desktop computer announced this week was the first ESA PC to be commercially available. Read more

Posted on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:29:03 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Firefox reaches 500,000,000 Download Milestone

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The Firefox browser got downloaded 500 million times. This is quite an impressive number.

I still find myself using both browsers on a daily basis. I spend still the most time inside Internet Explorer in Windows. Read more

Posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr