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Despite rumours that a Taiwanese company called Asustek had started assembling PS3s last month, word from Sony is they have still not started production, despite only being 3 months away from a worldwide launch.

If they do end up hitting shelves in November, expect the consoles to be in short supply.

On the positive side (?), insiders from Nvidia who are supplying the graphics chip for the PS3 say the latest demos from the hardware are ‘astonishing’. We may expect to see what they are talking about at the Games Convention that starts this week in Leipzig, Germany.

Five months ago Google bought Upstartle, the company behind the Online word processor Writely.

This week Google have made the Online word processor available for users to sign up and start using the service.

The online word processor ands another online office app to Google’s quiver, which so far includes email, online calendar, online notebook, and a spreadsheet. Check out the list of their apps here.

There are currently two very real consumer electronics battles going on right now that may be on the scale of ‘VHS vs Betamax’. For the next-gen hidef DVD formats we may have to wait some time before we find out who is the the VHS and who is the Betamax, but both formats offer capacity for HD content and both are becoming available this year. Bluray has the added benefit of being included in a ‘trojan horse’ that is coming into your family room later this year, as part of the $600 PS3 (remember that a freestanding Bluray player is currently going to set you back $1000).

The other battle is LCD verses Plasma. LCD screens until recently have not been available in the large sizes that Plasma has been available in. Plasma screens may have a shorter lifetime than LCD though, and may suffer from fading and ‘burn-in’ over time, which LCD does not. Read more in this article here.