Sony has announced that Skype services will be available to all Japanese PSP users from March 18.

After Sony confirmed that the Playstation portable (PSP) will incorporate a Skype Web phone function that will allow users to phone Skype contacts the world over provided they have the Skype software installed on a PC, or a similarly setup PSP earlier this year, there were issues with the microphone. The move is seen as an attempt to boost sales which are flagging behind Nintendo's DS sales.

Acer announced that it will acquire E-TEN Information Systems, a well known and respected manufacturer of smartphone mobile and handheld devices.

The acquisition has been accepted by all parties involved, and the undisputed takeover (to date) will go on, subject to the usual takeover procedures such as approval from shareholders and of course if the government regulators approve.

Acer over the last year has had a strong showing, with its acquisition of Gateway, and Packard Bell strengthening capabilities across their entire range of products, but in particular the mobile technologies. The acquisition of E-TEN will be another feather in the cap for the synergies of the hotly contested mobile devices arena.

AMD's first DirectX 10.1 technology demo has found itself out in the wild wild Web over in China.

Ping Pong demo is said to be the world's first DirectX 10.1 demo with the intention of demonstrating DX10.1 Cube Map Array technology derived from the real-time global illumination technology. It teams up with the work of dynamic environment blocking technology to correct reflection of space technology and delay rendering technology. Did you get all that?

Maybe we should have booked thought plane tickets to Germany after all. Nevertheless, the news continues flooding in and we find ourselves back at German website PCGH who scored exclusive pictures of an upcoming and improved AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 which has been rumored for the past week or so.

While Chinese phone maker Meizu was absent from CES in Las Vegas earlier this year, they promised to many a working demo at CeBIT in Germany and managed to deliver.

Thomas over at Engadget managed to spend some time with one of the company reps in the booth for a short video preview of the Apple iPhone-like M8 mini One phone. The phone which is on display is a very early prototype but it gives you an idea at what can be done when you have passion and the ability to copy others ideas.

They probably should have went along with a translator but take a look at the video that they uploaded to YouTube just below.

We are totally shocked to hear that MSI have plans to enter the memory module market under the "Star Memory" brand. We visited MSI in Taiwan for their pre-CeBIT bash but heard nothing about this.

On display in Germany at the MSI booth is the first set of Star Memory modules red or blue heat spreader. The modules on display are DDR2-800 with timings of CL5 - nothing overly exciting but you have got to start somewhere in the RAM business and this is a very interesting move by MSI.

Last week Razer teased its fans with a preview of an upcoming mouse which we can today confirm is called the Salmosa Gaming Mouse.

It is a 1800dpi mouse with 3G infrared sensor and is supposedly the fastest tracking optical mouse in the world and is said to enable movement speeds of up to 2.25 times faster than other regular gaming mice.

Yesterday photos of Albatron's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 surfaced in their booth at CeBIT and today we were emailed official product marketing snaps of the upcoming dual-GPU single PCB graphics card which is due to go on sale March 18 or thereabouts.

Apparently Nvidia board partners are allowed to display GX2 products but are not allowed to discuss performance numbers and specifications.

So, without further ado...

According to Engadget, the ASUS Eee PC is set to get an upgrade.

The specifications mentioned are 1GB of RAM up from 512MB, a 9" display, up from 7" display (8.9" to be exact), up to 12GB of SDD storage capacity an increase for the 4GB standard model and 8GB deluxe model, and last but not least, the price goes from 299€ to 399€.

Unless Nvidia made some type of exception for CeBIT, Albatron have well and truly jumped the NDA by showcasing its forthcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 in Germany at their booth.