13.5 million mobile subscribers downloaded a game in Q2 2006. Average monthly revenue is $46.9 million for the quarter. Annualized 562 million. Over the preceding six months subscriber numbers downloading mobile games  increased 15%. But revenues increased 63%  4 times as fast. Boom. Boom. Boom.

Sony is running late with the PSP launch.

This has got to be a body blow for the company notwithstanding the announcement today that IBM is on track, using the Sony 'cell' chip that is at the heart of the PSP, to build a new supercomputer.



The supercomputer is going to live at Los Alamos and be used to model nuclear aging. The PSP is also being planned to be networked by some people in the domestic environment to simulate supercomputer performance. So soon gamers will be able to contribute their downtime to research!

Technology always wins. The Australian Open Tennis tournament debuted a moveable roof on its Stadium in 1988. It's been used innumerable times since. For rain. For excessive heat. Whatever. But television worldwide fans always know that there will be tennis, entertainment, available when they tune in. It's a guarantee. It's a technology promise.

Tennis is global big business. Yet the pooh bahs that run it treat it like a cottage industry. They just don't seem to care about certainty.

Wimbledon consistently tut tutted a roof.  The US Open rejected a roof. Other tournaments sniffed. This week the US Open has spent days giving back millions of dollars for rain outs, and, losing viewers as they stage washouts. That's smart?

Getting line calls right with hawkeye. Good step. But you have to have playable games.

Head in the sand, you see it everywhere. But its amazing when there's an example that works, that's doable, that's old technology now, and yet, is rejected. They wonder why tennis is still a second order sport?

Oh yes. And eventually? There'll be a roof. Even Wimbledon, now almost twenty years on has moved, just they didn't want to rush into it. But technology always wins.