A compilation of brief news reports for
Thursday, May 17, 2007
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PlayStation Portable to sell products online
Sony
have announced that a
PlayStation Portable
(PSP) store is in the works, it will be very similar to the
PlayStation 3
(PS3) store that is already online.
It will allow the purchasing and downloading of games directly through to PSPs. This will allow the downloading and playing of PSPs as well as
PlayStation 1
(PS1) games, which can already be downloaded from the PS3 Store and transferred to PSPs using official firmware.
Lazard Capital Markets
analyst Colin Sebastian suggested that Sony is changing their views on the PSP and a new one could be in the works.
Sources
Canadian plane en route to Wilmington, Delaware, USA crashes; kills 3 people
At 9:30 a.m. EDT this morning, a small
Canadian
plane, identified as a
Beechcraft Baron
, crashed near
Dunkirk Airport
in
Dunkirk
,
New York
, 50 kilometres southwest of
Buffalo
. The two passengers and the pilot onboard were killed but their identities are still not known. The aircraft was destroyed.
The plane was
en route
from
Oshawa
,
Ontario
to
New Castle County Airport
in
Wilmington
,
Delaware
,
USA
.
The pilot was concerned about the left engine breaking and, instead, planned to land in Dunkirk, New York but crashed in the woods, less than a kilometre away from the airport.
The
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
and the
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
are currently investigating. There is no word if
Transport Canada
will be entering into the investigation to help identify the bodies.
Sources
Poll: Finns favor gender-equality in pay
According to a poll commissioned by
Finland
newspaper
Helsingin Sanomat
and conducted by statistical research service
Suomen Gallup
, nearly 80% of
Finns
are in favor of pay raises that will promote gender equality.
A majority of 78% favored higher pay raises for public sector professions like nursing, that are predominantely female. The survey also found that densely populated areas, tend to be more in favor of gender equality.
The current
Finnish Council of State
, lead by Prime Minister
Matti Vanhanen
, has a female majority of 12 women and 8 men.
Source
NPD Group releases game sales for April
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Nintendo
dominated
NPD
sales for the month of April with its portable
Nintendo DS
and its gaming console the
Wii
at the top of the charts.
Sony
's
PlayStation 2
and
PlayStation Portable
came in third and fourth respectively.
Microsoft
's
Xbox 360
continued to put up satisfactory sales coming in fifth. Sony's
PlayStation 3
continues to lack sales-wise, coming in behind the Nintendo's
Gameboy Advance
for the third month in a row.
Approximately 360,000 units of the Wii were sold at USD$250. Nintendo sold more than 1.7 million
Pokemon
games.
The Xbox 360 sold approximately 174,000 units.
The PlayStation 3 seen some low sales in April selling only 82,000 units, 37% lower from March.
Full NPD Sales:
- Nintendo DS - 471,000
- Wii - 360,000
- PlayStation 2 - 194,000
- PlayStation Portable - 183,000
- Xbox 360 - 174,000
- Game Boy Advance - 84,000
- PlayStation 3 - 82,000
- GameCube
- 13,000
Source
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