News in Brief on TFTS - Page 6

Yesterday (11/03/08) an official announcement confirmed what has been on the cards for a while in stating that the US’s entire fleet of F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Bombers* have now been informally retired from service.

By way of a brief update, further details concerning SanDisk’s new Sansa Fuze PMP have just been released concerning the full range of Sansa Fuze players, their capacities and colours.

Art Lebedev have just announced that they are currently working on a wireless Optimus Mini 3 keypad based on the technology used in the manufacture of their magnificently expensive Maximus Keyboard.

Without the slightest of fanfares, initial details concerning SanDisk’s up and coming Sanza Fuze PMP, a device that is obviously aimed squarely at cutting into sales of Apple’s Nano, have appeared on Amazon.

Rumours concerning an across the range price cut for European consumers looking to avail themselves of an Xbox 360 console have gained much enhanced credibility thanks to the UK’s Financial Times who report that we should see the new Xbox 360 pricing in stores somewhat sooner than initial reports initially …

If you’re thinking of travelling to London anytime soon you may be interested in the new, free iPod, iPhone and cell phone based travel guide from Coolgorilla who promised that other major cities are on the way.

Is Microsoft’s Xbox 360 HD gaming console to get a Blu-ray drive? Rumours are already rife and now a top Sony exec has fuelled them further.

Few people don’t have an invariably hard-line stance concerning Apple’s software update policies, us included, and the up and coming 2.0 software update announced by Apple, which will be free to iPhone users but will hit iTouch users in the pocket (again) is sure to stoke the fires still further …

Way back in August of last year we posted about the RoboSwift Surveillance Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) which, at that juncture, was yet to actually take to the skies but now it has and, by way of a brief update, we felt compelled to bring your this video of the …

Ordinarily we would not post about an aircraft crashing but when the aircraft happens to be a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber valued at a staggering $1.2 billion each its quite another matter – and we should stress that, happily, both pilots are reported as having ejected safely.

Kodak are poised to release the latest addition in their EasyShare range in the form of the 10 megapixel Z1012IS EasyShare digital camera which boasts 12x optical zoom and optical image stabilisation in the first quarter of 2008.