Briefly: game testers wanted; HD-DVD media
updated 08:50 pm EST, Mon January 8, 2007
Game testers wanted, OWC
In brief: Virtual Programming has issued a call to experienced game players who wish to beta test two casino games which include Real Deal Casino High Roller and Real Deal Slots Mystic Forest; and several Paradox games which include Europa, Universalis 2, and Crusader Kings as well as Victoria and Hearts of Iron 2 in coming weeks.... Verbatim has said it will begin shipping single-sided dual-layer 30GB HD DVD-R media in the U.S. when HD DVD-R DL-compatible hardware becomes available in the first quarter of 2007.... Insanely Great Tees today announced that its two new shirts -- "I'm a Mac" and "Binary Tree" -- have begun shipping.... Sony announced its presence at the CES trade show with a slew of new VAIO PCs to join the company's Digital Living System line of media center PCs.... Other World Computing (OWC) today began shipping its Mercury Elite-AL Pro Mirror ($350, shown at right) FireWire 800/400+USB RAID solution using the latest Oxford 924-based custom bridge chipset and two 750GB mirrored SATA hard drives.... One in ten mobile subscribers have music-capable phones, but over-the-air music purchasing is still slow to catch on, according to recently published research from Telephia.
