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Iway Mobile in association with Cellcom, Israel’s largest mobile phone operator, have launched a communications, Internet and entertainment system for cars.

While the system will be initially sold only in Israel it is also planned to be shipped in other countries over the following six months.

Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries would likely be France, Russia and China.

"We are in talks with SFR, China Mobile and MTS," Knafou told Reuters on the sidelines of a news conference.

Sony Corp is to announce on Wednesday at the IFA technology show in Berlin about its plans to launch a new music and video download service linking a range of its devices, targeting to challenge to Apple Inc's dominant position in the market

Good news for YouTube lovers, the company has recently announced support for videos that are to be shown on 25-foot screens. That means YouTube now supports a resolution known as "4K", used   in movie theaters or when whole walls are used as televisions.

To underline the difference, it’s important to say, 4K is nearly four times the size of 1080p.

According to s study by Ipsos MediaCT that polled over a thousand of people 64% of gamers still like their media to be on physical discs.

“I believe the preference for physical discs amongst next gen gamers reflects the potential value they derive from the pre-owned market, which is holding up the preference for physical – this is unlike the music and film markets,” said Ipsos MediaCT director Ian Bramley.

The same survey found that music and film’s digital rejection rates were at 45 and 51 percent, respectively.

Sony has unveiled its new Memory Sticks capable to transfer data at 30MB/s. The cards called the PRO-HG Duo HX will be very useful in burst shooting for DSLR or recording HD video, says Sony.

Thus, with a 32GB capacity HX series Memory Stick in an Alpha DSLR camera, a user can snap about 260 images in 60 seconds. It is nearly 160% more images than a PRO Duo Memory Stick allows.

 At the Digital Contents Expo in Tokyo Sony is planning to present its new prototype 3D display that can be seen through 360 degrees without the need to wear special glasses. There are only scarce information about the new Sony’s invention but it is known that it will appear on Thursday at the expo and will have cylindrical shape so it can be viewed from all sides and is 13 centimeters in diameter. The length of the display and its case is 27 cm.

From now, Farkie will provide YouTube users with the ability to rip the audio from a variety of file types videos, including WAV, AVI, and MP3, as well as save entire videos as QuickTime (MOV), Windows Media (WMV), or Flash Video (FLV) files.

YouTube has announced that it is working on making its videos available offline. Thai Tran, Product Manager, has posted a blog content on the YouTube Blog informing the consumers of developments.

According to the product manager, YouTube will be using Creative Commons licenses that authorize license holders to reuse downloaded content in particular conditions.