Playstation 3 Cell Links

New book from IBMers: Sony suckered into funding Xbox chip (Ars Technica)

A new book by two of the IBM engineers behind the Playstation 3's Cell gives the behind-the-scenes story of how two rival consoles ended up sharing much of the same technology. Read More...

Records: Slain mom's phone led to man's arrest (WKYC Cleveland)

DAYTON -- Court documents show a man arrested in the killing of a young Dayton mother had her cell phone in his Columbus apartment.

Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Costs; Will It Matter? (PC Magazine)

Sony has reduced the price of its second-generation PlayStation 3 revision by 35 percent, to $448.73, according to a teardown report by analyst firm iSuppli this week.

Report: Sony's Cell Dev Cost $400 Million, Aided Microsoft Tech (Gamasutra)

The development of the PlayStation 3's much-discussed Cell chip cost Sony and its partners five years and $400 million dollars -- and Microsoft then worked with IBM to snag some of the development fruits and none of the failures for its own console's processor, claims a new book written by the Cell's leading engineers. The Wall Street Journal reports on a new book by two leading figures in the ...

By the numbers: No. 1 for every medium (The Christian Science Monitor)

While Nintendo's Wii grabs most of the media buzz, the 8-year-old PlayStation 2 is still 2008's most played video system in America, in terms of actual minutes used. That was one of several interesting stats that came out of Nielsen's top ten of everything list for 2008. Here are some ...