Research firm NPD put the Nintendo Wii at 355,000 units for the month. Microsoft's Xbox 360 managed 228,000 units and Sony's PlayStation 3 just 127,000.

The world is running out of storage space for the data it has to hold according to a new report from IDC.

Microsoft is reportedly developing a portable version of its Xbox video game console in a bid to compete with Sony and Nintendo in the handheld game player market.

The device under development, which may be named the Xplayer, will also rival Apple’s popular iPod line of devices as it will also be able to play music and videos.

Ever since Google released its highly acclaimed GMail service, many users have found interesting ways to make the most of the available space provided by Google. While other free email services battle over megabytes of free space, Google currently leads all other services by the gigabytes. Using 3rd party utilities, it is possible to map your GMail account as a psuedo-drive in Windows and use the account as a drag-and-drop file system. With these tools, some users have even sent themselves invites to chain together accounts for an effectively unlimited amount of network storage space.

According to reports however, sometime in the near future this activity may no longer be limited to 3rd party utilities.

Despite the buzz being generated by its Origami Project, Microsoft plans to give it only brief mention at the upcoming CeBIT trade show, even though that event coincides with when the company has said it will offer more details. The project apparently involves a mobile PC running Windows XP, according to a Web site about it.

The company will discuss Origami for "only 30 seconds" during its main press conference at the giant CeBIT trade show next week in Hanover, Germany, according to a spokesperson. Frank Mihm-Gebauer, who is coordinating Microsoft's press events at CeBIT, says that Microsoft partners Intel and Samsung Electronics will provide the most information to CeBIT attendees about Origami, since Microsoft has not designed any new hardware for the project.

Sony, the consumer-electronics giant, today denied reports that it is planning to delay the release of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console.

The Japanese electronics manufacturer insisted that the console would be ready for spring 2006, but the company refused to give a specific launch date.

The denial was not enough to stop shares in Sony plunging almost 4 per cent on the Tokyo stock exchange, with investors worried that any delay could cost the company millions of dollars.

Sony’s denial was in response to a report from analysts at Merrill Lynch that said the PS3 might not be ready until the autumn in Japan and early 2007 in America. It is six years since Sony launched its highly successful PS2 on the global market, and gamers have been expecting the latest generation console since before Christmas 2004.

McDonald’s french fries just got fatter — by nutritional measurement.

The world’s largest restaurant chain said Wednesday its fries contain a third more trans fats than it previously knew, citing results of a new testing method it began using in December.

That means the level of potentially artery-clogging trans fat in a portion of large fries is eight grams, up from six, with total fat increasing to 30 grams from 25.