Citing a non-existent Dean Takahashi story, the always reliable Team Xbox is reporting what Bill Gates and Robbie Bach will announce this Sunday at the company's pre-CES speech.

Microsoft, according to the story, will be announcing that Microsoft has sold more than 10.4 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide since launch.

Gates will also announce that the Xbox 360 will soon be given the capability to serve as a set-top box for IPTV, a sort of hybrid television and video service that delivers content over a broadband network.

The Team Xbox story doesn't mention if there is any confirmation that Microsoft might be unveiling a new model of their console that features an HDMI output and larger harddrive.

I searched around on Dean's new blogs, one for his tech coverage and one for CES, and couldn't find the article that TX was talking about. I was, however, greeted with an error message on one of Dean's pages. Maybe an embargo was accidentally broken. Brian Crecente

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