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Speaking with Warren Communication News, William Zeittler, Senior Vice President of IBMs system & Technology Group said that yield learning on the new Cell processor that makes up the core of Sonys PlayStation 3 has been faster than on any chip weve done.

Translation IBM is quickly learning how to produce more working chips per batch than any other chip before.

Essentially what that means to us the consumer, the Manufacturing plant will be able to ship as many chips as needed, without having to worry about supply issues once the PS3 heads into full production.

However, as we all know consoles are made up of more than processors, so supply issues could still arise from other components experiencing manufacturing issues, as we saw with the Xbox 360 launch.

A great deal of the Xbox 360 shortage is due to the lack of available parts. No matter how fast they can assemble the consoles, if parts are not available, manufacturing will come to a hault

Zeitles also mentioned that IBM was able to increase their production of Xbox 360 parts quickly as well which enforces the idea if there is a PS3 shortage, dont blame IBM.

Now lets just hope the other 2,000 parts will be readily available.

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Introduction

The revolution of internet communication is here to stay for a very long time and this is primarily because it has done so much to help people by its mere presence alone. The voice over IP (VOIP for short) technology that has hit the market by storm over the last couple of years has now expanded to be a major competing technology in nearly every major branch of communications.

The VOIP revolution has been so fast and so fierce that even the most established conventional telephone companies are now rushing to create VOIP infrastructure that they can provide to their customers so that they don't end up losing them to other companies that are on the cutting edge. To that end, even mobile phones have been created that have the ability to use VOIP or a similar piece of technology in order to accomplish the same task.

The Mobile Phones

A question that very many people have when they initially here about the recent expansion into the mobile phone market has to do with the technology itself. While it is easy to understand how VOIP technology works on a conceptual level (i.e. the internet connection being used in conjunction with specialty software to facilitate communication in a manner similar to that of a telephone) for normal, land-based systems it is a lot more difficult to understand exactly how it works in the sense of a mobile phone solution.

If you have ever traveled on a plane before, you have more than likely seen a business person utilizing their internet through the use of mobile internet technology. This type of technology has been around for a very long time and all of the major businesses make sure that their correspondents have access to that kind of technology when they are on the move.

Wherever you have the ability to connect to the internet and therefore generate an internet protocol address, you have the ability to use the VOIP technology. This is ultimately how mobile VOIP services are utilized and because of the boom in the market many of these technologies are available for personal use at very reasonable prices.

Advantages

There are many advantages to using a VOIP mobile phone contract and the one that is largest in the eyes of many people is the price. The reason that conventional VOIP became such a popular service was that it was quite a bit cheaper than conventional telephone plans when it came onto the market. In similar fashion, a VOIP mobile phone contract is going to be quite a bit cheaper than the conventional mobile phone contract you have right now.

This decrease in the price has allowed many people the chance to save some money each month and when a person is able to save money without a reduction in quality, they quite obviously are going to become a very loyal customer. The ability of VOIP services to generate a large number of very loyal customers in a very short time is ultimately what has made many companies move a large part of their communication operations towards developing and promoting VOIP technologies.

Lee Smith writes about VoIP Mobile Phones and Mobile Phone Contract Plans VoIP Mobile Plans

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