"Twitter, the social networking site which lets users say something in up to 140 characters, has had its 20 billionth message posted.

The landmark and rather opaque tweet was sent at 1544 GMT Saturday by GGGGGGo_Lets_Go, a Tokyo graphic designer for an advertising agency. It said: "So that means the barrage might come back later all at once."

Twitter took four years to reach its 10 billionth tweet, in March this year, and less than five months to double it."

Source: BBC

"What's there to say? The Eee PC 1201PN is sort of the Eee PC 1201N, for all intents and purposes. The GPU is a little stronger, and the CPU is a little weaker, but at the end of the day, you end up with near-identical real-world performance in most cases. Both machines handle HD video. Both machines can only game with moderately taxing titles cranked down to the lower resolution, and both machines share the exact same chassis and port assortment. It's sort of hard to understand why the 1201PN even exists in a world where the 1201N is still being produced, but yet, that's exactly what has happened.

Source: Hothardware

"IF A TWO DIMENSIONAL Sky TV service isn't enough already, you'll be happy to know the company will be launching a 3D service on 1 October.

The TV and broadband operator is rolling out 3D programming with a line-up of movies and the killer app - live 3D sport. The service will be available for any Sky plus HD home that has invested in a 3D-ready TV. We reckon that's about 20 people, you know who you are.

Sky's business model has always been to launch loss leaders and then jack up the price to expand its service. That's how it killed boxing in the 1980s when it bought up the rights to matches and sold them as pay-per-view.

Sky said that the Sky 3D service comes at no extra cost but that's only for the select customers willing to pay a fortune for Sky's top channel and HD package."

Source: The Inquirer

Apple's iPhone 4 finally gets released in 17 other countries including Austrailia, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland and  Hong Kong.

Apparently in Hong Kong it's completely sold out to pre-orders in all of Apple's authorised re-sellers. Other mobile phone shops are selling imported US/UK models for HKD $6000-7500 and in some places upto $8,000 !!

To this day, the iPhone 4 has sold more than 3 million units and likely to top 5 million by end of the year. For an Apple Apps developer, it's never been so good. In total, there are an estimated 11 million iPhones in the world, including 2G, 3G, 3GS and of course the new iPhone 4. 

Many people are still likely to purchase iPhone 4s despite all the antenna problems it been having. I guess it's cool to be in the iPhone 4 crowd. For me, I think I'll wait for the next version ... iPhone 4 MkII in white ;) 

"HTC expects its smartphone shipments to reach 6.5 million units in the third quarter of 2010, an increase of 132% from a year earlier, while revenues will grow 15.7% sequentially and 106% on year to NT$70 billion (US$218.8 million) in the same period. Shipments of 5.4 million units and revenues of NT$60.5 billion in the second quarter were both quarterly records.

Limited volume was an issue for HTC's in the past, but beginning in the second quarter, its shipments have approached the size of some international brand vendors, the company pointed out. HTC was previously a niche market player, relying on a single hot product each year, said company CFO Cheng Hui-ming, noting that it now often has several big hits in the market simultaneously with the capability to generate several millions of units in sales."

Source: Digitimes

"Sony refuses to get caught up in a price war with Kindle, intends to compete on quality. Boy, Sony sure loves to drag its heels when it comes to obvious industry trends. First netbooks were "a race to the bottom," now the company's saying it "won't sacrifice the quality and design" of its e-readers in order to lay claim to being the cheapest. 

Taken from Engadget

This comes as a reaction to the Kindle's aggressive new $139entry price point and continues Sony's reluctance to fiddle with what it sees as a successful formula. We're not going to second-guess the reasoning (too much), but it's not like there's that much room to differentiate yourself when you're using the same E Ink tech as the competition, is there? Guess if all else fails, Sony can always innovate the hell out of those leatherette cases and bundle them with the Reader."

Source: Engadget

"Clevo W860CU 3D and ASUS G51JX-3D bring three-dee to US laptopers. NVIDIA teased us with the introduction of the 3D-ready G51JX back at Computex (you may remember it as one of the founding "3D PCs"), and now AVADirect is bringing that very machine to US soil. Said rig boasts a 15.6-inch display, Core i7-720QM processor, 6GB of DDR3 memory and a 1GB GeForce GTS 360M GPU.

Better still, Clevo's W860CU offers an identically sized display, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 285M (1GB), Core i5 or i7 CPU options and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. Both units ship with all the necessary 3D Vision components to get your 3D kick on right from the box, with the ASUSgoing for around $1,600 and the Clevo for $1,800. Humility is free with purchase, we're told."

Source: Engadget

"Looking to replace my Radeon HD 5970 and decided to go with ASUS' ROG Matrix 5870 Platinum that we recently reviewed. It is loaded with features rarely seen on video cards and I thought it would find a good home in my personal rig. And yes, we have a purpose behind our upgrade too.

... If you do not plan to overclock your video card or tweak its hardware settings in any way than the ASUS ROG Matrix 5870 Platinum Edition is probably a waste of money for you. The 2GB of video memory doesn’t make any difference unless you run CrossFireX. If you are "just a gamer," a standard Radeon HD 5870 will better suit you and save you a wad of cash."

Source: HardOCP