Nintendo's Wii game console outsold Sonys PlayStation 3 by 3-to-1 in Japan in March but its DS handheld machine fell behind the PlayStation Portable for the first time in six months.

IPC Systems Inc., a provider of communications solutions to financial services firms, launched its Ethernet Connection Service, which provides an electronic trading platform on its global network.

ECS is designed specifically for electronic trading. Trading firms can choose from a range of scalable Ethernet private lines, from 1 to 100 MBs. Bandwidth is dedicated across IPC's entire network, which ensures a low-latency and secure connection, according to a press statement. ECS simplifies how inter-dealer brokers, market makers, exchanges and algorithmic trading firms get connected to their primary trading partners and to global capital markets.

Apple Shipped 2.315 Million iphones in the Final Quarter of 2007, Expanding Their Market to Select European Countries

This report details mobile device shipments by region, technology, and worldwide for 4Q07. Covered in the report are shipments of mobile devices, camera phones, and smartphones. The final quarter of 2007 continued to remain strong in device shipments, due in large part to expanding markets in China, India, and the Middle East.

Tokyoflash recently released a time piece to combine functional design engineering with LED technology.

Tibida expresses three functions through its name; time, binary and date. Created using 42 white LEDs, this design offers three conceptually different ways to tell the time; hour-centric, minute-centric and binary.

Combining a stainless steel case and clasp with a mineral crystal lens and polyurethane band, Tibida is available in four fashionable styles; polished stainless steel case with either a red, blue or black face or IP black case with an orange face.

Moscow State University Buys Russia's First IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer

Moscow State University (MSU) and IBM announced details of an agreement to install a Blue Gene/P supercomputer at the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. The new supercomputer, the first installation of the world famous Blue Gene computer in Russia, will be used for fundamental research in nanotechnology, new materials and life sciences.