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usatoday.com - 12/22/2008

Ad Track: Microsoft wants you to throw a party for its Xbox

— usatoday.com — House cleaners, hairdressers, guidance counselors and IT technicians got a $150 pack of Xbox freebies for opening... their homes to at least 10 friends or relatives. And they earned bragging rights. "It's cool because the kids in my school were like ... (more) Ad Track: Microsoft wants you to throw a party for its Xbox

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pwnordie.com - 12/24/2008

50 kids happy to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas from NickSmith

— pwnordie.com — Join Log in Upload Videos Upload Other Stuff Wish your girlfriend liked football games? USERS FORUMS SYSTEMS... PS2 PS3 PSP Wii DS Xbox 360 PC More... CATEGORIES PWNage Trailers Walkthroughs Reviews Cheats Records Live Dev Mods Machinima Fanboys ... (more) 50 kids happy to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas from ...

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tgdaily.com - 12/16/2008

Exclusive: First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1

— tgdaily.com — First Look – Microsoft quietly released the first update to its IE8 beta 2 to its closest... partners last week. This new version is marked as “Release Candidate 1” and is expected to be the final IE8 pre-release update Microsoft intends to make ... (more) Exclusive: First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1

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Could Hulu Be Coming to Xbox 360? [Xbox 360]
Gizmodo — ... In a talk with Bits about what Xbox "want[s] to be when we grow up,” Microsoft's Shane Kim clearly has video on the brain. With Netflix, he says, they're "just beginning to scratch the surface.” ...

NYT: What Xbox Wants To Be When It Grows Up [Xbox 360]
Kotaku — ... browser anytime soon. Kim said there are "no plans" to release a browser, saying they'll likely focus on doing specific partnerships with websites like Youtube and Hulu and find ways to integrate the 360 that way. Their fear is that if they open up the console too much, the consumer's focus might shift away from what they want the most: Gamers plopping down $60+ on a video game. “We don’t want to become just a carriage provider,” he said. That would tend to commoditize what we do.” What Xbox Wants to Be When It Grows Up (New York Times)

Xbox Explores Its Adolescence
Technologizer — It seems the Xbox 360 is confused with itself, judging from a recent New York Times blog post entitled “What Xbox Wants to Be When It Grows Up.” The author, Saul Hansel, notes that Microsoft “has resisted making the Xbox some sort of Frankensteinian MSN Windows Live Game Center Personal Spreadsheet Platform and Household Vacuum Robot.” Yet, that seems to be examctly what Shane Kim, the console’s head of strategy and business development, is angling for. “We don’t have the hubris that says we have been supersuccessful in gaming so let’s chase this separate entertainment ...

XBox 360 to get Hulu?
Crave: The gadget blog — ... already has Hulu support via the PS3's built-in Web browser. If Microsoft were to add Hulu as well, it would be a small coup, and it wouldn't be a shocker considering Microsoft has been looking at possible XBox 360 tie-ins to Hulu and YouTube for several months. Comments? Source: ...