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Gates Predicts End of Asian Piracy In 10 Years, Ice Cream Pandas to Live in Our Freezers in 15 Years

Gotta give Bill Gates credit where credit is due. I mean, look at that face? It’s obvious that the guy does know what he’s talking about sometimes. Like his prediction that Asian software piracy will be under control in 10 years time. We all know piracy is never going away full stop, but Gates talks…

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Aussies and Kiwis Get Delayed Xbox 360 Launch

Oops. Looks like Australia and New Zealand are going to have to wait a little longer for their Xbox 360s. The launch date in those countries has officially been delayed and is now March 23 of this year. Microsoft is claiming that this is due to their problems with manufacturing, but could it be that…

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New Ben-Q Quad-Band P50: Kinda Old OS

First Ben-Q announces a tie-in with Siemens to make cellphones and now we have news of the P50 smartphone/PDA. It offers quad-band coverage and runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 (that’s a bit odd, huh?). The insides are powered by an Intel PXA272 416MHz processor and it has 64MB of SDRAM and 64MB of Flash…

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Coming Soon: Microsoft X-Pod

BusinessWeek is reporting that technology powerhouse, Microsoft, is working on plans to develop some type of portable media player to rival the iPod. There is no confirmation whether this device will actually happen, but some little birdies within the corporation said that Microsoft has assembled a team that is analyzing the business aspect of such…

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No Xbox 360 for You

What’s the point of bringing the Xbox 360 out early if nobody can get their hands on it? Not much, if you ask me. And many gaming geeks may feel the same way once they realize that the 360 may not be available again until the spring. Things don’t look good for Big Bill on…

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Rumored Xbox Uno Woes

So our half-brothers out-of-wedlock twice-related, Kotaku, received a tip this morning saying that today the Xbox manufacturing would be stopped—most likely to pave way for the 360. The tip mentioned that Microsoft had no intention to keep the Xbox v1.0 any longer and would turn it into a bargain bin console. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox/the-xbox-is-dead-150209.php The Kotaku sleuths…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Regular-Looking Cellphone with Windows Mobile 5.0

In case you don’t feel like toting around a big clunker of a PDA-cellphone but wouldn’t mind having Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, here’s a new phone you’ll find branded from Cingular. Announced officially today, but kicking around since mid-December, the 2125 Smartphone is made by High Tech Computer Corp and is the first phone being…

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frog Design Mind

Made for CES By David Hoffer I m freaking sick of the iPod, so I was very much looking forward to CES this year. I thought that I would see something new and well-designed in Las Vegas, but I realize now that I was being nave. If CES were a high-school dance, design and companies…

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Live at Macworld: MacBrainiac Challenge

Macworld Senior Editor Chris Breen hosted “MacBrainiac Challenge V: A New Beginning,” where two teams competed to see how much Mac info they had stored in their highly specialized brains—or Googled on the team Macs and ganked an answer from Wikipedia. Team Smart Folders, headed by Jason Snell, vied with Team Force Quit, led by…

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Price Cuts For The PS2 And Xbox?

As expected, with the release of the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, Sony has some planning to do. The PS3 is due out sometime this year and PS2 sales are slumping. So Sony will most likely cut the price of the PS2 it seems from $150 to $130 to attract more buyers who can’t afford the…

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Live from CES: Microsoft and the 360

Old Billy McGates gave his keynote address today and there was plenty of Xbox 360 news. What did Microsoft learn from the release of the Xbox 360 nearly a month ago? Well, it’s pretty obvious: the 360 is a system that is flying off the shelves. Microsoft would ideally like to sell between 4.5 and…

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Dell to Microsoft: “It’s not you, it’s me”

It seems that Dell and Microsoft may be having a falling out as of late. For the past decade Dell and Gates have been closer than Bert and Ernie, but things are beginning to drift apart after two recent changes that Dell made. First, the company began shipping desktop and notebooks over in the UK…

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XBox 360: It is the End, My Only Friend

The strange saga of the XBox 360 seems to portend bad things for the gaming industry. The 360, while very cool, is pissing off people so much and making Japan yawn so much that folks are basically saying that the bloom is off the rose, lads, and the future will soon be gameless. Do we…

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Xbox Live Diamond Card Gets You Goods

Microsoft is saying thank you to Xbox Live users with the Xbox Live Diamond Card. This cute piece of plastic wil apparently net you discounts in participating stores and restaurants such as McDonalds, Ticketmaster, and Timberland. It’s 100% free to those Xbox Live users who have already prepaid for one year of service. The card…

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An XBox Miracle

We’re usually cold, heartless, and snarky over here, but today is the day before Christmas Eve, so here’s a tearjerker for you from reader Jason proving that even enforced scarcity can’t beat down the spirit of giving: Grand Rapids, Michigan — 12/22/05 After reading the post about the next Best Buy shipment, I decided to…

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Xbox Modders Get Thrown in Jail

Who would have thought that selling modded Xboxes was illegal? Apparently three Los Angeles men didn’t. Jason Jones and Jonathan Bryant, owners of the ACME game store in L.A., started selling modified Xboxes to customers at an incredible markup—sometimes netting over $500 for a modded box. Their pal Pei Cai had been modding the boxes…

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Microsoft Says “Peace Out Holmes” To IE For Macintosh

Uh-oh. Better watch out, Mac users. We know how some sites (especially government and collegiate ones) demand you still use stinky old Internet Explorer 5.2.2 on your Mac. Looks like that will have to change because Microsoft has oficially ended IE for the Mac. No more support or development means IE is pretty much dead…

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Best Buy Bait-and-Switch?

Dave at MobilityToday recounts his tale of visiting Best Buy at 6:45am and getting the old cold finger up the poop chute: As 8:00am approached, the line started moving and people were getting excited as they approached the door to then find out that they handed out 53 tickets at 6am. I personally knew what…

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Nissan To Give Gift of Game

Nissan could be bringing you Xbox-ers a dream come true. It’s a sports coupe called the Urge. This concept car has six-speed manual, rear-wheel drive, driver-integrated cockpit and a built-in Xbox gaming system. I guess the driver can drive while the passenger plays PGR? Look for this jewel at the North American International Auto Show…

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NTP Takes a Break From Blackberry, Goes for Microsoft

RIM must be breathing a tiny sigh of relief because NTP, the company suing RIM for patent violations, is taking a small break to start chewing out Microsoft as well. A software firm called Visto is actually seeking a permanent injunction against the Redmond-based giant, but only because NTP took an equity stake in it…

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Gates Predicts End of Asian Piracy In 10 Years, Ice Cream Pandas to Live in Our Freezers in 15 Years

Aussies and Kiwis Get Delayed Xbox 360 Launch

New Ben-Q Quad-Band P50: Kinda Old OS

Coming Soon: Microsoft X-Pod

No Xbox 360 for You

Rumored Xbox Uno Woes

Regular-Looking Cellphone with Windows Mobile 5.0

frog Design Mind

Live at Macworld: MacBrainiac Challenge

Price Cuts For The PS2 And Xbox?

Live from CES: Microsoft and the 360

Dell to Microsoft: “It’s not you, it’s me”

XBox 360: It is the End, My Only Friend

Xbox Live Diamond Card Gets You Goods

An XBox Miracle

Xbox Modders Get Thrown in Jail

Microsoft Says “Peace Out Holmes” To IE For Macintosh

Best Buy Bait-and-Switch?

Nissan To Give Gift of Game

NTP Takes a Break From Blackberry, Goes for Microsoft

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