NetBooks, a cross between an IPHONE and a LAPTOP. Or a small laptop, that will run on 3g services.

More to come....

PlayStation3 goes Home

New virtualworld opens to all PS3 owners

Eat your heart out, New Xbox Experience.Tomorrow, all Playstation 3 owners will get a chance to experience Sony's ownanswer to online socializing and game playing: a virtual world called Home.

There's no charge for the new feature, whichwill come in the form of a multi-gigabyte download that'll update the firmwareof PS3s around the world. Once applied, the first step for new Home residentsis to design an avatar, a process that's already necessary on the Xbox 360 andWii, but one that will be new to many PS3-only gamers. Sony's avatar system,though, allows for considerably more realism and detail than either of itscompetitors.

Once you're in Home's world, you can chat withfriends, set up multiplayer gaming sessions, listen to streaming music, watchmovies, and play minigames. It'll be a familiar layout to anyone who's playedwith other virtual worlds like World of Warcraft, Runescape, or even SecondLife, the anything-goes social world that Home most resembles. Sony has alreadylined up an impressive range of partners -- including Red Bull, Diesel, andParamount Pictures -- who'll be offering sponsored content inside Home.

On the official PlayStation blog,Home director Jack Buser gives some useful advice from getting the most out ofyour new online life.

"We have a tutorial built in that willget you started with the controls, as well as help menus for you to referencein the Menu Pad. If you don't have a USB keyboard or Bluetooth headset pairedwith your PlayStation 3, now is the time to do so -- either option will allowyou to easily talk and meet everyone," he said in a post today.

Officially, Sony's calling the much-delayedlaunch an "open beta," which means they're pretty sure it works, butif you break it, don't bother suing.

XBOX 720 already in development?

Yes, it is. Microsoft has already begun work on developing the Xbox 720. In an interview, Peter Moore, Ex boss of Interactive Entertainment Division at Microsoft, confirmed that “the production team from the Xbox 360 is working on the next Xbox 720 [our pet name], and they’re looking into what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012″. In fact, development on the Xbox 720 might have been going on for longer than we think, as Robbie Bach, the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft, said, “We started thinking about the next generation before we shipped the Xbox 360″. So, we can be dead certain that the X720 is already in development.

HDMI and Wi-Fi will be built in

The Xbox 360 Elite already has HDMI and in 2012, Wi-Fi will be a standard and so, it should be built into the Xbox 720. The PS3 already has a built in Wi-Fi Ethernet and Bluetooth.

A 4.7GHz CPU on the Xbox 720? It could happen

The Xbox 720 could feature something similar to Sony’s Cell-like processor. But will Microsoft invest in something like that? We already have four cores on today’s PC. They might not have to look farther than their partnership with IBM. IBM has already developed a dual core 4.7GHz server CPU, dubbed the Power6. Who’s to say that Microsoft won’t put it into their X720? Those extra GHz could go towards assisting the GPU and more realistic AI. Looks like Microsoft’s partnership with IBM is finally paying off.