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Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook And PMP Features
6:45AM Jack Loftus | Details are sparse at the moment, but we do know this afternoon that Creative is hard at work on developing a “MediaBook” device that will combine video, pictures and text with what’s being described as an eBook form factor. More »
Music
Creative Zii Egg Android PMP Makes Its Hands-On Debut
4:50AM John Herrman | Creative’s Zii, which is either an extremely exciting platform for Android PMPs or a boring developers’ tool (nobody knows!) has turned up in CNET Asia’s offices. As you can imagine, it didn’t take long before they got a little handsy. More »
Music
Creative Zii Egg Plaszma: Android-Wielding iPod Touch
12:23AM Mark Wilson | Spotted in a recent FCC filing, the now-revealed Creative Zii Egg Plaszma boasts some of the world’s first “flexible StemCell architecture” that uses 24 floating-point processors. But you may care more because it’s basically an open source iPod Touch. More »
Music
Creative “Zii” Moniker Resurfaces On Touchscreen Media Player
8:35PM John Herrman | Creative hasn’t really been doing much at all for the last year. Except this, apparently: here’s an FCC filing for a Zii touchscreen PMP, which shares a name their mysterious system on a chip from January. More »
Business
11:57AM Nick Broughall | Creative sent through a release this morning stating that they were changing their business model. Originally I assumed it would have something to do with the new Zii platform, but after reading it through a couple of times, it sounds a lot more like they’re pulling operations out of Australia and running the show from Singapore. Have a read through yourself and tell me what you think: More »
UPDATE: Creative Labs ‘Changing Business Model’, (Not) Pulling Out Of Australia?
11:57AM Nick Broughall | Creative sent through a release this morning stating that they were changing their business model. Originally I assumed it would have something to do with the new Zii platform, but after reading it through a couple of times, it sounds a lot more like they’re pulling operations out of Australia and running the show from Singapore. Have a read through yourself and tell me what you think: More »
Hardware
Confirmed: Zii StemCell Computing Is Media-Savvy System on a Chip
10:00PM Wilson Rothman | The smoke surrounding Creative’s rumoured offshoot, ZiiLabs, cleared today at CES, where it was revealed to be a media-application processor developer with a very slick system-on-a-chip, less consumer product than building block for many. More »
Music
Creative’s Zii is Actually a Processor, Still No Idea What ‘Stemcell Computing’ Is
5:30AM Sean Fallon | The mystery surrounding Creative’s Zii “stemcell computing” technology is at least partially solved. Apparently, this MP3 player revolution they are proposing will come in the form of a processor that will debut at CES. More »
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