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Tapwave, founded in May 2001 by former Palm executives, announced the Zodiac mobile entertainment console in May 2003 and began shipping in October 2003. Zodiac was designed to be a high-performance mobile entertainment system centered on games, music, photos, and video for 18- to 34-year-old gamers and technology enthusiasts. By running an enhanced version of the Palm Operating System (5.2T), Zodiac also provided access to Palm’s personal information management software and many other applications from the Palm developer community. The company was based in Mountain View, California.〔(The Tapwave Zodiac Console Now Shipping )〕 The Zodiac console was initially available in two models, Zodiac 1 (32MB) for $299 US, and Zodiac 2 (128MB) for $399 US and some of the noteworthy game titles for the product included: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 (Activision); Mototrax (Activision); Spyhunter (Midway); Madden NFL 2005 – (EA/MDM); DOOM II (id Software); Golden Axe 3 and Altered Beast (Sega); Warfare Incorporated (Handmark); and Duke Nukem Mobile (3D Realms/MachineWorks). Due to insufficient funding and strong competitive pressure from the PlayStation Portable (PSP) from Sony, (which was pre-announced at E3 on May 16, 2003 and shipped in North American on March 24, 2005), and the DS from Nintendo (released on November 21, 2004), Tapwave sold the company to an undisclosed multi-billion dollar corporation in Asia in July 2005. The Zodiac console garnered strong product reviews and received many industry awards. A few interesting example include: Popular Science’s Best of What’s New (BOWN) Award; Stuff Magazine’s Top 10 Gadgets of the Year; Wired Magazine’s Fetish Award, CNET’s Editor's Choice Award; PC World’s 2004 Next Gear Innovations Award; PC Magazine’s 1st Place Last Gadget Standing at CES; Handheld Computing Magazine’s Most Innovative PDA of 2003; Time Magazine's Best Gear of 2003; and the Business Week Best Products of 2003. == History of Tapwave == * May 2001: Tapwave was founded by former Palm executives * May 2002: Tapwave closed initial Series-A funding * May 2002: Tapwave signed Palm OS licensing agreement with PalmSource * May 2003: Company was formally launched at Palm Developers Conference & E3 * September 2003: Zodiac entertainment console launched at DEMO conference * October 2003: Zodiac console began shipping to customers directly from livescribe.com * November 2003: Tapwave announced that “over 1200 game developers” signed up for the Tapwave developer program * February 2004: PalmGear and Tapwave announced partnership to launch an online store to feature the best applications, game titles and ebooks available on the Palm OS platform * April 2004: Synchronization between Zodiac and Mac OS X desktops enabled by MarkSpace * June 2004: Zodiac launched into United States. retail distribution with CompUSA * October 2004: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tapwave Zodiac」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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