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Economic Gloom, Presidential Politics Collide With Tech
LinuxInsider —
... gives big-media copyright holders an incredible amount of sway in having material removed from online publications. It's also a law that John McCain and 98 other senators -- including Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden -- voted for. 21st Century Campaigning No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That was, in fact, a presidential campaign ad for Barack Obama you saw whizzing by as you raced around the corner while playing "Burnout: Paradise City" on your Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox 360 . Yes, Obama is tapping the power of in-game ...
Economic Gloom, Presidential Politics Collide With Tech
E-Commerce Times —
... gives big-media copyright holders an incredible amount of sway in having material removed from online publications. It's also a law that John McCain and 98 other senators -- including Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden -- voted for. 21st Century Campaigning No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That was, in fact, a presidential campaign ad for Barack Obama you saw whizzing by as you raced around the corner while playing "Burnout: Paradise City" on your Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox 360 . Yes, Obama is tapping the power of in-game ...
Twittering Grannies, STD Greetings and Triboluminescence: The Week That Was
E-Commerce Times —
... subscriber, they'll be able to play a limitless stream of videos from Netflix's somewhat limited online library. Netflix has made similar deals with other companies recently -- the Xbox 360 ...
Planetary Goo and the Threat of Vegetarianism
E-Commerce Times —
... subscribe to Netflix and own a Series 3, HD or HD XL TiVo can watch at will. What's the Definition? If you know your TiVos, you'll notice that all the models that support this Netflix partnership are the company's high-definition models. But the Netflix online library is strictly standard definition -- sometimes a little worse. That's about to change , though -- the company says it's rolling out a library of about 300 titles available for streaming in HD. The Microsoft Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox 360 will also be able to access HD content at no extra ...
Planetary Goo and the Threat of Vegetarianism
LinuxInsider —
... subscribe to Netflix and own a Series 3, HD or HD XL TiVo can watch at will. What's the Definition? If you know your TiVos, you'll notice that all the models that support this Netflix partnership are the company's high-definition models. But the Netflix online library is strictly standard definition -- sometimes a little worse. That's about to change , though -- the company says it's rolling out a library of about 300 titles available for streaming in HD. The Microsoft Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox 360 will also be able to access HD content at no extra ...
Game Makers Going Soft? Don't Count on It
E-Commerce Times —
... emo-style ballad. Jarring? Out-of-place? Try dropping Wall-E in the "Grand Theft Auto" universe. "The Last Day" commercial for the new "Gears of War 2" game is another winning effort from the creative brains behind Xbox's ad agency of record, T.A.G. San Francisco. Its team gave you a similar take on the first "Gears" game -- Fenix running through post-apocalyptic ruins to the plaintive piano-tinged strains of "Mad World" -- but two years ago the game was just being discovered as the Xbox 360 ...
Canonical's $30 Million and Redmond's Gathering Storm
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... interface, for example, "has been changed so much that only the file format lock-in is a viable argument for that product any more," he said. "Windows has been bloated beyond all belief and Windows 7 seems to allay that issue mostly by coming out at a time when the machines can actually support it." Gaming, "an area in which Microsoft has traditionally been strong, has been hampered by the Vista-only nature of DX10 and the generally slow uptake of Vista," he said. "The Xbox 360 More about Xbox 360 was rushed and has some of the worst reliability ratings of any ...
Nintendo's DSi Gathers Buyers While Wiis Gather Dust
E-Commerce Times —
... by consumer tracking firm Nielsen. Wii owners averaged the fewest usage days and shortest daily average number of sessions. The Wii also had the lowest percentage of active users. The Wii's rivals -- Sony's Playstation 3 (PS3) and Microsoft's Xbox 360 ...
Can Microsoft Win the Online Game?
E-Commerce Times —
It's been another busy week in the gaming world. Topping the news was the announcement that game designer Will Wright is leaving Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) More about Electronic Arts to head up his entertainment think tank, Stupid Fun Club , full-time. Elsewhere, Take-Two may have another hit on its hands -- this time in downloadable form. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft will extend Xbox 360 More about Xbox 360 warranties, and a report from InStat predicts the console maker will rake in a wad of cash as its ...
Clash of the Consoles Gets Down and Dirty
E-Commerce Times —
... to get ignored. The Sony (NYSE: SNE) More about Sony PlayStation 3 More about PlayStation 3 was first, finally dipping below the US$300 price point with a new system sporting pretty much all the same features as the last model but with a smaller form factor. Then this week, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Apple Store Discount on Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition . Click here. More about Microsoft cut the price of the Xbox 360 More about Xbox 360 Elite down to the same $299. The stripped-down Xbox 360 Arcade ...
