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Those looking to be a part of WWE’s annual sports-entertainment extravaganza, which for the first time will emanate from the Sunshine State of Florida, will have their chance a little sooner than they anticipated. On Friday, Nov. 2, from 6-8 p.m. ET, there will be a special WrestleMania XXIV pre-sale at Ticketmaster ticket centers located in participating Florida FYE stores. Visit your local FYE store for details.

WrestleMania XXIV will take place in Orlando’s Florida Citrus Bowl on March 30, 2008. The event will feature WWE Superstars from Raw, SmackDown and ECW, as well as athletes, entertainers, and thousands of fans from around the world. It is expected that fans will converge on Orlando from all 50 states and more than 20 different countries.

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John Cena is officially confirmed for NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice series.

Tonight’s Women’s championship match between Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle on Raw has been changed into a Best of Three Falls match.

A Diva “Halloween Costume Contest” has been added to this weekend’s Cyber Sunday PPV event in Washington, DC.

WWE has released a signed Wrestlemania 23 commemorative Undertaker plaque.

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SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has developed a more advanced flash memory chip that will allow increased data storage in digital products such as music players.

Samsung, the world’s largest maker of computer memory chips, unveiled a 64-gigabit NAND flash memory chip based on finer process technology using circuit elements that are 30 nanometers wide. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter; a human hair is about 80,000 nanometers across.

“The flash memory device represents a major leap forward in the move to higher density flash storage solutions at a time of exploding demand for flash as the main storage medium in computing and digital applications,” Samsung said in a statement.

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Dubbed mmWave, the computer component will use so-called millimeter wave radio technology to transmit the data.

IBM disclosed Monday that it has teamed up with Taiwanese vendor MediaTek to develop computer chipsets that the companies say will allow consumers to wirelessly zap high-definition content to televisions and other devices at push-button speeds.
Dubbed mmWave, the chipsets — which comprise computer chips and high-speed interconnects — will use so-called millimeter wave radio technology to transmit the data.

The technology employs ultra-high radio frequencies capable of sending and receiving large amounts of data at extremely high speeds to create what IBM and MediaTek are calling “revolutionary multimedia wireless products.”

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REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has released a lower-priced version of its Xbox 360 gaming console that comes bundled with five family-oriented games.

Dubbed the Xbox 360 Arcade console, the device comes with games and a wireless controller. Unlike other Xbox consoles, which come with hard drives and significant storage space, the Arcade console does not include a hard drive but comes with 256 megabytes of storage. The bundle costs $280.

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Chennai (PTI): World No.2 and French Open Champion Rafael Nadal of Spain has set his eyes on the elusive Chennai Open ATP title to start the 2008 season on a winning note.

The 21-year old Nadal, who won his third straight title at the Roland Garros this year, had confirmed his participation for the South Asia’s premiere ATP tournament which is in its 13th edition, a release from IMG, the organisers, said on Tuesday.

On his third appearance in the Chennai Open in last five years, Nadal sounded confident of making a good start to the new year with a title win here.

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Washington (PTI): US President George W Bush has congratulated Indian American Bobby Jindal for having won the Governor’s election in Louisiana, with the White House saying it was an “incredible honour”.

“… the President spoke to Bobby Jindal yesterday, congratulated him. It was really an excellent win for Bobby. I think the race was a little bit tougher than the numbers showed. I think something that we were all encouraged about was the strength of Republicans down on the ticket who also performed very well,” White House Deputy Spokesman Tony Fratto said.

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Microsoft Corp., trying to get more companies to use Windows Mobile phones, is introducing new server software for managing the devices, and revealing a relationship with a startup that specializes in rolling out mobile phones inside businesses.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, is expected to announce the new “Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008″ server product Tuesday morning at the Cellular Technology Industry Association convention in San Francisco.

Microsoft also will disclose that it helped form a company, Enterprise Mobile Inc. of Watertown, Mass., that helps companies deploy Windows Mobile phones. Microsoft has a financial stake in the company, acknowledged Scott Horn, general manager of Microsoft’s mobile communications business, declining to give details.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Microsoft will make more than 100 family-friendly TV episodes, ranging from Looney Tunes classics to “The Backyardigans,” available on Xbox Live for the first time, under deals announced Monday with Warner Bros. and Nickelodeon.

The software giant also unveiled a new version of the Xbox 360, dubbed Arcade, priced at $279 and bundled with five games, including “Pac-Man Championship Edition,” “Uno” and “Feeding Frenzy.”

Both announcements are designed to position the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live service as mass-market entertainment, and they will be backed by a major marketing campaign aimed at families this holiday season.

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The partners will develop and market mmWave technoloogy to replace Wi-fi.
IBM Corp. and Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek Inc. on Monday announced a three-year pact to develop wireless chipsets for a new technology to transmit large volumes of information, such as full-length high definition (HD) movies, between DVD players, HD-TVs, hand-held devices or other gadgets around the home or office.

The chipsets will use IBM Labs’ mmWave (millimeter wave) radio technology as a faster wireless networking alternative to Wi-Fi.

The companies will promote mmWave as a way to eliminate wires between HD-TVs, set-top boxes, DVD players and PCs.

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