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Capcom's E3 2008 press conference liveblogging
It feels like we just left, but we're back again in LACC room 403 to bring you the latest announcements from Capcom as they happen. Keep it here.4:55 PM Pacific The press flows in amid a ridiculously loud and thumping, yet low-key bass beat. The seating area doesn't seem nearly as crowded as the UbiSoft conference. Must be all those journalists covering the tween girl market ...4:57 Diving right in with Lost Planet, the movie. Seems the event is going to be focused on this new theatrical project. Cause who cares about the games, really...5:00 A trailer of cut scenes and action shots form the game commences, complete with Metal Gear Solid style sweeping music and giant robot footfalls. Lots of explosions ... you know the drill if you've played the game.5:01 Arad Productions Chairman Avi Arad, Screenwriter David Hayter, Ari Arad, Head of R&D for Capcom Keaiji Inafune, Capcom CEO Haruhito Sukamoto, Seaside CEO Steven Paul and Tetsu Fujimora all come out and take their place at the table.
Engadget & Joystiq live from Sony's E3 2008 keynote
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/playstation/Engadget_Joystiq_live_from_Sony_s_E3_2008_keynote'; 10:23 am PT: We're en route to Sony now, stay tuned! In the meantime, have you prepped your bingo card? We haven't won yet this week.11:11: We're waiting outside the entrance. Tons of people in front of the entrance to the show. Veronica Belmont is getting tons of fan response for Qore. People are taking pictures with her.11:25: We've just taken our seats at Sony's conference in front of what could only be described as a wall of screens: 7 main screens and roughly 64 smaller screens. OMG, Vaio LCD's everywhere. You'd think this was a Sony event.
PS3 Fanboy live from Sony's E308 press conference
We're here. Hope you join us. The entire E3 press conference will be liveblogged, after the break. Stay tuned!Important Updates: Greatest Hits titles will be available at $29.99 retail later this year. Games include Resistance, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Call of Duty 3, Fight Night and Need for Speed Carbon, Rainbow Six Vegas, Assassins Creed, Oblivion, Ninja Gaiden. Universal access to PSN, via PC later this fall. Access Friends lists and more on your computer, even when you're not on the PS3. Ratchet & Clank Quest For Booty coming to PSN this Summer. A new concept: shorter game at a lower price. A big summer blockbuster film: it's everything you expect from a Ratchet game, and it's a continuation of the franchise. It leaves off where Tools of Destruction leaves off. New PSN games includes Rag Doll Kung Fu sequel. Movie and TV downloads. Major studio supports from Sony, Fox, MGM, Lions Gate, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Turner, Funimation will offer support for PlayStation video. Will offer SD and HD content. TV shows start at $1.99 per episode, movie rentals start at $5.99 per rental. Not only can you play the content on the PS3, you can play it on PSP. It can be placed on multiple devices at the same time. Ratchet & Clank Size Matters Entertainment Pack includes Size Matters, Nation Treasure 2, 1GB Memory Stick, echochrome for $199 later this year. PSP Resistance Retribution announced. Third person action game. The Resistance is now in your hands. Uses over-the-should view. From Sony Bend, developers of the Syphon Filter PSP games. PSP Software highlight reel includes Loco Roco 2, Super Stardust Portable. Valkyria Chronicles on PSP! Life with PlayStation also on display. Will be available at the end of the month. First look at DC Universe Online for PS3. Experience the DC Universe as never before. Fight against or alongside favorite DC heroes and villians, like Batman, Superman, The Joker. Build your legacy against superpowered enemies. 80GB Core Pack at $399.99. Twice the storage capacity at the same price. New SKU, most likely will not feature PS2 backwards compatibility. God of War III coming to PS3! Trailer showcased. inFamous coming Spring 2008. Andy Beaudoin from Zipper's new game. (Zipper worked on SOCOM on PS2.) MAG will support up to 256 players. %Gallery-27698%
Engadget & Joystiq live from Nintendo's E3 2008 keynote
7:55 am PT: We're just outside the Kodak Theater waiting to get in! In the meantime, have you prepped your bingo card? We were so close yesterday.8:12: We're inside the Kodak Theater, waiting to be let in - a Nintendo representative encouraged us to grab some food and, after a brief period spent searching, we informed her that there was in fact no food. None. Anywhere. 8:40: And we're in!
Engadget & Joystiq live from Microsoft's E3 2008 keynote
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/xbox/Engadget_Joystiq_live_from_Microsoft_s_E3_2008_keynote'; We're here! The line is already mad long, but we must admit, it feels great to have E3 back at the convention center.9:47 am PT: Alright! We're waiting in line for the MS press conference! We're feigning excitement through gratuitous use of exclamation points!9:49 am PT: An MS representative asks us if we have our "passports." We assume she means our press badges and isn't about to whisk us to another country. Mind you, we've always wanted to see the Swiss Alps. Oh, and the chocolate and... okay, we're getting sidetracked.9:51 am PT: So, if you were trying to spot us in this line, we'd be the ones holding laptops in one hand and typing with the other. We keep bumping into the person in front when the line comes to a halt, what with our eyes glued to our screens. Also, person behind us. STOP READING OVER OUR SHOULDERS. ALSO, YOU SMELL BAD.
Engadget & Joystiq live from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony E3 keynotes!
We know you're all dying to find out Engadget and Joystiq's annual joint-live coverage schedule for the Big Three keynotes, so here's what you need to know. It all starts later this morning with Microsoft's Xbox 360 press conference -- but you'll be waiting until Tuesday for the big N and Sony to kick off. Links and approximate times we'll get started are listed below, we'll see you back shortly live from E3!P.S. -Don't forget your press conference bingo cards.Monday, July 14th~10:30AM PT / 1:30PM ET - Live from Microsoft's E3 2008 keynoteTuesday, July 15th~9:00AM PT / 11:30AM ET - Live from Nintendo's E3 2008 keynote~11:30AM PT / 2:30PM ET - Live from Sony's E3 2008 keynote
After the Line Blog
Well, I'm back home after five hours in line at the Apple Store, less $389.98 (I bought AppleCare and a 16GB iPhone 3G). What do I have to show for it? As of 1:00 PM MDT, everything is suddenly working. I have an iPhone 3G, although I've now discovered that I don't have 3G service at my home despite the AT&T coverage map showing that I do. My old iPhone is no longer sending or receiving phone calls, but at least I can use it as an iPod touch over Wi-Fi. Read after the break for a recap of my morning:
Breakfast Topic: What Blizzard didn't announce at the opening ceremony
By now I'm assuming you've read the liveblog or seen the announcement post and heard: Diablo 3 is go. By now you have probably also heard that there really weren't any other announcements at the opening ceremony. Don't get me wrong, Diablo 3 is awesome. But as much as we're Blizzard fanboys (and fangirls) here, we're all about the WoW first, and we need some WoTLK news to sustain us too -- and we still don't know what that mysterious "next generation MMO" in development is either -- it seems most people are assuming it's Starcraft now though. Me, I'm not convinced. After all, there's a Starcraft game in development too, so it could presumably be either franchise, or simply an updated World of Warcraft 2. There's quite a few things that could come out about WotLK today and tomorrow, of course. I'm still hoping for an opening cinematic and an official release date to start. While we're at it, how about giving us a demo of the Dance Studio or Barbershop, or better yet, some other unannounced new major feature for the expansion? I might even settle for new skills, talent trees, or even a new battleground preview. What are your expectations and hopes for news from the World Wide Invitational as it soldiers on?
Liveblog from PlayStation Day 2008
Stay tuned for the latest information from London's PlayStation Day 2008 here. Both Kaz Hirai and David Reeves will be in attendance, so we're expecting a few surprises today. We know for certain that Resistance 2 will be playable at the show -- but will there be any secret games?11:10AM - Internet get! Preparing liveblog for our lovely readers.11:12AM - These press conferences never start on time, do they? They "need to start." Wonder what the hold up is?11:14AM - Starting for reals now.11:15AM - Spice reel shown: showcases LittleBigPlanet, Go!Explore, PlayTV, Secret Agent Clank, echochrome and Buzz. Some questionable Engrish as well: "Play is an energetic rush!" SingStar, Elefunk, Killzone 2, Siren, Home, Hot Shots Golf, SOCOM, and Resistance 2 all on display. This video reel will most definitely be available on the PS Store later this week.
Liveblog: PS3 Fanboy live at PlayStation Day 2008
Our chums at PS3 Fanboy are in attendance at Sony's PlayStation Day 2008 event in lovely, old London, liveblogging all the goodies straight into your browsers. If you want to read up-to-the-minute coverage, hit up PS3 Fanboy. It's starting ... NOW!
Apple Q2 results liveblog, 5 pm ET
We're going to be covering the Apple earnings call live at 5pm ET / 2 pm PT, now that the earnings report is out ($1.16 per share, hot hot hot!). To listen in on the call, you can pick up the QuickTime stream here. Remember, for ongoing coverage of AAPL be sure to check out our sister site BloggingStocks.
Apple Q2 earnings call preview
Over at Apple 2.0, Phillip Elmer-DeWitt has an excellent preview post on Apple's earnings report, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the market close. We'll be liveblogging the earnings call at 2 pm PT/5pm ET if you care to join in for the fun.Despite spectactular sales and earnings growth for AAPL over the past couple of years, the Q1 earnings report (which featured extra-conservative guidance by Apple and some indications of a softening on iPod demand) triggered a selloff in the stock, with a drop in price from the lofty $200 highs at the end of 2007 (seen above) as profit-taking and recession fears drove investors to take their money and run. Will iPhone sales and Mac unit growth push profits (and the stock price) back towards the roof? Tune in Wednesday to find out.
The best of WoW Insider: February 19-26, 2008
Quite a week in the World of Warcraft, which Joystiq sister site WoW Insider covers like a Warcraft Adventures-style bedsheet each and every single day. We continued to get lots of great information about patch 2.4 (including big news from the new raid instance,The Sunwell), and Heroics made a nice return to the news, with all the new badge loot. Oh, and we even had a liveblog go down straight from GDC. Here's our best stuff.News GDC08: Live form Rob Pardo's talk about Blizzard's approach to MMOsThe Senior VP of game design lays out what the big plan is for Blizzard's biggest game. PTR Notes: Patch note watch 2/20New buffs and nerfs continue to drop from the Public Test Realm as Blizzard gets the next patch ready to go live. 2.4 PvP sets gold and rep requirementsWhat you'll need to do to get what you want. Meet Lord AhuneBlizzard is also updating the Midsummer Fire Festival, and so here's the new Headless Horseman -- epics for everyone! Thrall gets a new Big Brother: US government wants to search for terrorists on WoWCould Bin Laden be hiding in Elwynn Forest? Features What does the Warlock Lifetap nerf mean?Lifetap got taken down a notch, but why is everyone up in arms about it? Breakfast Topic: Heroic PuGs from hellEveryone's been in a group like this, but being in a Heroic makes it even worse. Know Your Lore: The story of the Burning CrusadeThe expansion's lore is going to get wrapped up in the next patch, so here's what you need to know before we all go see the ending. Dress yourself up completely in Badge LootGot Heroic Badges? Now you can gear yourself all out. Hybrid Theory: What's a hybrid v2.0Our column on hybrid classes returns with a new writer and a new outlook on what it means to step across lines in the RPG class trinity.
GDC08: Joystiq live at the IGF and GDCA awards
6:34 pm PT -- We've arrived at the GDC's annual IGF and GDCA award show. This year we've moved up to the the tables in the front Very snazzy. So far, we've heard Pixies and Muse play overhead. We think we're hearing right now a very trance remix of the Wii Shop Channel music ... and it's wonderful.6:37 pm PT -- Lights fade, clouded scene gets up. Someone from Mega64 thanks everyone for attending IGF until it cuts into a metal music explosion. "Do not get up" We're pretty sure it's a play on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie Introduction. Simon Carless and Jamil Moledina takes the stage.6:38 pm PT -- "The show will be televised on national television" He means G4TV -- close enough, we suppose. Introducing the folks from developer Flashbang. A round of applause for the indie developers, the "heart and soul" of the industry.%Gallery-16565%
Joystiq live from the Microsoft GDC keynote
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/xbox/Joystiq_live_from_the_Microsoft_GDC_keynote'; 10:22 am PT -- We've taken our seats at Microsoft's GDC keynote -- they're very nice, but we're not sure where to take them yet. The pawn shop seems too far, so we guess we'll just push them to the front row.10:23 am PT -- A friendly announcer asks us turn off all cellphones and electronic devices. Hmm, yeah, we're not convinced that's something you want to say to an army of laptop-wielding nerds.10:26 am PT -- Loud James Bond music blasts us from the stage. Obviously, we now expect John Schappert to descend from the ceiling.10:27 am PT -- It will be "greatly appreciated" if we turn off our electronic devices. Somehow, we suspect our readers won't share that sentiment if we comply.10:29 am PT -- Jamil Moledina steps onto the stage and welcomes us (he's polite!) "Change is the heart of opportunity in the games industry," he says. "The old boundaries of gamer, developer, technology and social technology are starting to shimmer."%Gallery-16550%
HackTV Take 2: The AppleTV Hack Upgrade Liveblog
Go second. Or third. Or last. That's the lesson on performing hacking upgrades. Let someone else make all the mistakes first and then follow just those footsteps that didn't lead, say, down the giant crevasse with the big old hungry lions waiting below. Today, I'm about to upgrade my hacked Apple TV first--so you can see where I go wrong and then don't, yourself.
1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog
It's time to kiss my beautiful jailbreaked iPhone goodbye and to surrender to the inevitability of the 1.1.3 update. Goodbye delightful shell access. Goodbye beautiful 3rd party applications. I'm upgrading for the sake of my readers--and hopefully downgrading soon after! Read on for the liveblog...
The Macworld 2008 Keynote Liveblog
Steve thanks everybody, and we're out! Thanks for joining us. We'll be live at 7pm ET / 4 pm PT with today's talkcast covering all the announcements. Playing "You've Got A Friend In Me." "I'll always root against corporations, but not this one." "I actually wrote a big love theme [for Toy Story] but they cut Buzz and Woody's big love scene." MacBook Air product page is up, as Randy is talking about CNBC and Steve's inherent humanity. "That was about the toughest act to follow," says Randy. "I once did the David Frost show after the Flying Wallendas, and that was hard." Wow, Randy is really going edgy with the ethnic comments about the Supreme Court. Scott says "Interesting choice." Wow, let's have a more downbeat song for this gig, OK Randy? This is not dragging the crowd into a funk or anything, so try to darken it a bit if you could. Sing more about dictators and malaria, thanks big guy. We're singing about America. Talking, mostly, kinda singing. Randy is honored to be here. Might have brushed his hair, it's a pretty big room. Randy Newman! Bingo. "You've got a friend in Apple..." Hollywood and music... hmm. We're reviewing now. Time Capsule, iPhone/touch updates, Movie rentals, AppleTV 2, and the skinny laptop. All in 2 weeks, and there are 50 more weeks to go. No one more thing -- but a special treat! Laptop line includes three machines -- MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air. Very impressive indeed. Greenpeace lady is squealing, as Steve is now giving an environmental update. Alumnum case, bromide free motherboard. TV ad takes laptop out of an envelope. That's some interoffice mail for you right there. $1799. 2 weeks out. Poor Nik! He was ready to buy one. Three pounds is magnificent. 2 GB RAM standard, 80 GB HD standard. Battery life 5 hours! Whoof. Want to install software? New feature: all Macs or PCs in the network that have a CD mounted. Very sneaky, "Scott's MacBook" in screen shot, Scott is excited. USB powered optical drive. But Steve thinks most people won't need it. 10:20 Smaller 75 watt power adaptor. Has a USB 2 port a micro-DV port, a headphone jack, and it comes with WiFi (n) and Bluetooth. 10:19 Paul Otellini takes the stage, thanks Steve and gives him one of the new tiny chips as a memento. 10 17 Entire motherboard is as long as a pencil, and uses the Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 Ghz standard with 1.8 as an option, if you want. Apple has a great relationship with Intel and they turned to Intel for some help with getting the chip in the MacBook Air. They wanted the Core 2 Duo in the MacBook Air, but they needed the chip to be smaller, and Intel made it 60% smaller, which is crazy. 10:16: How did we fit a Mac in here? Steve is puzzled. They put a 1.8 inch harddrive. 80 gig is standard with an option of 64 gig solid state disk (pricey but fast). Multitouch trackpad!! Rotate and scale pics, panning. Pinch for zoom. 10:13 Magnetic inch, 13.3" wide screen. Built-in iSight. Black keyboard, full size. Backlit! The reveal -- it's incredibly thin. Chris Ullrich said yesterday it fit inside an interoffice envelope -- and that's what's on the screen. .76" to 0.16 inches thin? Ouch -- that could cut your hands!!! Apple aiming for 3 pound machine, with better performance, full size keyboard, larger display, higher performance than Sony. Thinner than Sony TZ, which is 0.8 to 1.2 inches. A third notebook -- MacBook Air. World's Thinnest notebook. 10:08: Something in the air -- it's a notebook. 10:05 I'll say this for Jim; he's more compelling than Stan Sigman. 10:03 "People want easy access to movies." Homer Simpson slide. iDonut. "This is the coolest idea we've ever heard [movie rentals]." 10:02 First studio for movie rentals was 20th Century Fox. Introducing Jim Gianopulos, Chairman of Fox. 9:59 Clearly this is what AppleTV was meant to be all along. Awesome. And a free upgrade!!! Plus the new price of AppleTV is $229. Shipping in 2 weeks. By the way, credit to Nik for the pictures. Well done! 9:58 The HD skiing podcast was off the hook. Boom! Teton Gravity Research, a guy parachuting off a mountain. Yeesh. 9:58 Oops, no Flickr photo for the user slideshow! Heh. HD podcasts, HD .Mac videos, all no computer involved. Renting music videos now. 9:50 We're watching Blades of Glory. That's nice. Now Live Free or Die Hard in HD. So much for that helicopter. 9:46 New interface for AppleTV. "Top Movies." Star Trek has its own header. 9:43 That sound you heard was the HD-DVD coalition lead falling over and hitting his head. Christina says "Where's the DTS sound?" 5.1 Dolby will have to be enough for the rest of us. Buy TV shows, Flickr + .Mac photos all on your AppleTV. 9:42 What if I want to watch on TV? "All of us have tried." AppleTV Take 2! Now with movies. No computer is required, you can rent movies directly. Rent in DVD quality or HD!!!! Big cheers. 9:41 $2.99 to rent library titles, $3.99 for new. Demo time! Can sync movies one at a time to the iPod. Handy. Launches today! International later this year. 9:40 "So what's the deal?" 1000 films at launch in February, 30 day countdown after DVD release. Movies will be watchable immediately on streaming. 30 days to start watching, 24 hours to finish. Transfer to iPod while watching. 9:39 There's crying in the keynote -- not from us, from a nearby baby. Poor kid doesn't like movie rentals, apparently. 9:37 Studios!!! Adding Fox, WB, Paramount, Universal and Sony. Dang. "We have every major studio." All first run films. 9:36 iTunes Movie Rentals! "A better way to provide movies to our customers." 9:36 20 million songs sold on 12/25 on iTunes, 4 B songs total, 125 M TV shows, 7 M movies -- but movies, despite being ahead of everyone else, did not meet expectations. 9:35 Daring Fireball was right about iPod Touch upgrades and the accounting practices. 9:34 What about the iPod touch? Adding Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather. Maps will include WiFi location. Webclips too. $20 upgrade! Whoof. 9:32 Chapter navigation for iPhone videos, and subtitle/audio language options. Available today as a free update for all iPhones. [cheering] 9:31 Skyhook Wireless is providing the location data, via WiFi triangulation, and Google handling the cell tower triangulation. Veddy nice. 9:31 Up to nine home screens. Very cool. Jiggly icons are a little disconcerting though. 9:30 Now Steve has a NYT button on the home screen. Sweet! Now it's time to do the wiggle. All the icons are wobbling! Creepy. 9:28 Webclips demo. Go to Safari on iPhone, going to Google to demo new iGoogle UI. Little "+" button on the browser, lets you add to home screen. Now demoing NYT. 9:27 Demo of multi-recipient SMS. Steve says "Hi." 9:26 Directions to Apple Store on iPhone. No indication of where there are ATMs along the route. Pins for maps available. 9:25 Steve is demoing location in Google Maps. "Zhuuup. There we are." Getting directions back to Apple. No, don't leave yet Steve!! 9:25 Scott admits GearLive was right about 1.1.3, offers to buy Andru Edwards a smoothie. 9:23 SDK coming in 'late February.' New features rolling out! Maps with location for iPhone. Webclips. Customize home screens. SMS multiple recipients. Chapters for video. Karaoke mode! (Lyrics displayable) 9:22: in iPhone's first quarter, RIM had 39% share, iPhone had 19.5% share. Sheesh. If you add the share of the next 3 vendors, just about 20%. That's astonishing. "When Dec. quarter numbers come out, we think we'll have done even better." 9:21 2nd product time... iPhone. Wooo. 200 days since iPhone shipped. 4 million iPhones sold. 20,000 a day. That's a lot of bling. Maybe too much. No, not too much. 9:20 Time Machine ad running. That's a lot of Justin Long, maybe too much. 9:19 Steve mistakenly says 500 MB drive, much giggling. $299/$499 for 500GB/1TB Time Capsules, shipping in Feb. 9:18 If you had "Apple ships a NAS" on bingo, you win. Backup wirelessly to one Time Capsule for all the Macs in your house. 9:18 Companion product to Time Machine! Time Capsule -- a backup appliance, an Airport Extreme with an HD. 9:17 Giggles at PC magazine rave for Leopard. Applause for MS Office 2008. "Last big app to go native on Intel." 9:16 We're quoting Walt Mossberg and David Pogue on Leopard. Woo! 9:15 Four things to talk about today. Leopard: 5M copies shipped. Most successful Mac OS X release ever. Almost 20% of installed base has upgraded -- unprecedented. 9:15 "Thank You." 9:14 Steve is here! Something in the air. We're looking back at 2007. "An awesome year for Apple." 9:14 PC & Mac video! 2007 in review. Terrible year for PC. "PC will copy everything Mac did in 2007." 9:13 lights dimming! Or Scott is having some sort of stroke. 9:10 -- VIP and press seating continues. Music is "1234." Boom! 9:08 -- Music is cover of The Smiths "Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before." A theme is emerging. 9:04 -- Nik reports that the general admission crowd is still working its way into the room. Music: Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Hopefully not an omen. 8:56 -- Seen in line: Dan Lyons, Steven Levy. Follow us on Twitter or join the IRC chat to send questions back to the show! 8:54 PT -- We're inside. Media scrum heading for seats. Coldplay on the PA, crowd shots on the monitors. Here with Scott McNulty, John Gruber, John Moltz and a whole lot of press. ---- The action starts here shortly before 9 am PT on Tuesday (12 noon ET) -- don't miss it! You'll want the chance to see how on- or off-base our keynote predictions were. For instant updates on all our Macworld Expo 2008 coverage, you can follow TUAW on Twitter (fastest way: text "FOLLOW TUAW" to 40404 on your mobile phone), or add our Macworld feed to a Pingie subscription. We'll be talkcasting, vlogging and liveblogging all week long. We've got a gallery of San Francisco scenes and preshow shots, courtesy Mr. Nik Fletcher & Mr. Chris Ullrich, up for your perusal. If your reload finger gets sprained on Tuesday, you can use the Firefox Reload Every extension to get the page refreshed periodically. Join us over at #tuaw on irc.freenode.net to chat in real time. At 4 pm PT/7 pm ET, we'll have a talkcast.
Live from Intel's CES press event
Well here we are folks, back for more at Intel's sprawling CES press event. The room is teeming with people right now, and the mood is thick with Penryns and MIDs. We'll see if it all works out like we hope. Stay tuned!4:27PM PT - We're seated, we're ready. House music is playing, some people are on the floor -- shaking it. Just kidding. Prepare for coolness. 4:30PM PT - Announcement: fill out a survey and win $500. Also, please be seated. Heavy stuff here. 4:33PM PT - T-minus 2 minutes. Almost party time.4:37PM PT - The lights have dimmed... and we're off! We're being treated to a cheesy CES intro. Ouch -- kind of painful. Now they're showing a roll call of CEOs that will speak this year. It's pretty "cool."Okay -- president of the CES, Gary Shapiro! He's talking about Paul Otellini, and how important he's been in the industry.
Live from the Intel / Sprint / Asus XOHM WiMax press event
1:59PM PST - Here we are at the XOHM press event, being jointly held by Intel, Asus, and of course, Sprint. We're expecting to hear about some specific deployment plans, and hopefully learn about some devices that will run on Sprint's 4G network. Stay tuned for all the details once this latest presser gets started.2.01PM - Chairman of ASUS, Jonney Shih takes the stage. Invites us to join a new world of mobile internet. As usual, going through the company's accomplishments and sales figures; takeaway: ASUS is pretty happy with its international standing. They plan to be one of the top 5 notebook manufacturers in 3 years, and the top three by 2013.Keep reading after the break for the rest of the action.
