Target shipment of Sony PS3 may be halved [Digitimes].
Digitimes of Taiwan says Sony's target shipment of 4 million PS3 units by the end of 2006 will likely be halved in the coming weeks.
After the authorities began targeting shipments from certain African countries, the smuggling rings started sending the ivory through intermediate ports so that it appears to come from elsewhere.
Some members of the ring resorted to more old-fashioned crime, the authorities said, targeting a cargo shipment at Kennedy International Airport for theft, and planning to rob a bank in Forest Hills, Queens — both plots, the police said, were tracked and disrupted.
Also, Israeli officials confirmed that the country's air force carried out an airstrike against Syria, saying it targeted a shipment of advanced missiles bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, an ally of the Assad regime.
And it backed Israel's right to strike Syrian targets to disrupt shipments of weapons from Iran to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.
The South Korean firm is targeting 10 million shipments by the end of the year.
The cheaper iPhone would be launching in September following full production kicking off in August, according to some of Reuters' sources, with an initial shipment target of around 20 million low-cost devices for the holiday quarter next year.
The bad news is that the target date for shipment is next fall — meaning customers could wait nearly a year to get the AIRO that they pre-order tomorrow.
Targeted screening of shipments originating from eastern Australia (particularly the Brisbane-Sydney region) and enhanced checks for sheltering lizards may help prevent the establishment of additional invasive lizard species in New Zealand.
