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Windows XP on OLPC XO Laptop Now Official

Microsoft has officially announced that Windows XP is coming to the OLPC XO with trial runs beginning as early as June. This comes after months of discussion and speculation of when the move would happen. The operating system has been specially modified to run on the computer and support its ebook reading mode, writing pad…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Media Center’s Do Not Record Broadcast Flag Is Still Alive

Recently, some Windows Media Center owners were blocked from recording American Gladiators and Medium because of an incorrectly set broadcast flag from NBC. What’s the deal here? The broadcasters (NBC, ABC, HBO) can turn on a flag in their data stream that tells whatever DVR machine on your end that it’s NOT alright to record…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft TouchWall: Surface for the Common Man

While we found Microsoft’s Surface interesting for retail contexts, it’s simply too expensive (at $10,000) for the average consumer to get all that excited about. But Microsoft has an enticing alternative to the Surface called the TouchWall—a rear-projection system constructed from just “a few hundred dollars worth of readily available hardware.” And their demonstration is…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Microsoft Denies Slimmer Xbox 360

Everyone is pretty sure that Microsoft is shrinking the heart of the Xbox 360 onto one chip when the production process hits 45nm, but as we said yesterday, that doesn’t necessarily mean a slim Xbox 360 is on its way. Microsoft has officially responded to the rumor with a big “nayi”: https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-slim-might-come-in-2009-390095 While we don’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Microsoft Surface Model Now American Gladiator

Remember that Microsoft Surface model? The one that was a competitor on American Gladiators last season and actually managed to win the whole thing? She’s actually a Gladiator now (her name is Jet), and really beefed up for the part. We would make a multi-touch joke here, but she’d break our fingers off and shove…

Tech News Jason Chen

Xbox 360 Slim Might Come in 2009?

TGDaily has a very interesting rumor about the Xbox 360 getting not just upgrade parts, but an entire redesign based on upcoming hardware. After the next 65nm chip upgrade, the next 45nm one won’t just be a die shrink, but it’ll be a complete redesign, integrating multiple components onto one chip (system-on-a-chip design). By doing…

Tech News Jason Chen

Guitar Hero IV’s Drums Will Have Six Pads, Two For Cymbals

Cymbals! That’s what was missing from the Rock Band drum kit. Not missing, since some of the pads changed to cymbals whenever necessary, but it didn’t have two upper pads dedicated explicitly to them. No more. Game Informer says the upcoming Guitar Hero IV will have a six-padded drum set, but a custom-designed guitar due…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft’s LifeCam VX-5000 Webcam is Bendy, Portable, Not Ugly

The LifeCam VX-5000 is Microsoft’s first attempt at a halfway decent looking webcam: a lightweight, compact unit with a flexible base, it can hook on a laptop or monitor, or rest on a desk. The 640×480 video camera (1.3MP still) has 3x digital zoom as well as pan and tilt functions. The LifeCam features a…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Office for Mac 2008 Service Pack 1 Out Today; Visual Basic Coming Back to Macs

Today Microsoft is hooking up all Office for Mac 2008 users with Service Pack 1. The company is also announcing the return of Visual Basic for Applications—in the next version, though, so no specified date yet. Hey, at least they heard your concerns, right? Here’s a link to the SP1 download, which is said to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Zune Hits 2 Million Sales, Drinks Creative’s Milkshake

Industry numbers group NPD has just confirmed that Microsoft’s Zune’s sold 2 million units, just slightly under one year after it sold its first million. Where is Microsoft getting the marketshare for the extra million? Mostly from Creative, who dropped from 4% marketshare to 2% from Q1 ’07 to Q1 ’08. Apple’s also gone down…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Goes Big Brother on Low-Cost PC Makers Using XP

According to confidential documents obtained by IDG News, Microsoft plans to issue a list of demands incentive-backed requests to ultra low-cost PC (ULPC) makers interested in Windows XP, such as Asus and OLPC, asking that their screens are smaller than 10.2 inches, hard drives are under 80 GB and touchscreens are not used. In addition,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

One-Eyed Alligator Eats an Xbox 360

It just goes to show you that a pissed off one-eyed alligator will eat just about anything in a pinch. All joking aside, this is actually a cool- looking casemod produced by a talented guy with the forum handle dfw monkie. The alligator effect was pulled off using hand-sculpted layers of Bondo coated with paint…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Hotmail Comes to BlackBerry

In addition to the big Bold BlackBerry news at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium, the company announced it would finally support Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, says Crave. This includes push, realtime synch and full HTML support, plus an “almost PC-like” Messenger experience, with file transfers, custom status messages and cartoon emoticons. Like the Bold itself,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Rumor: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year

One fun rumor bopping around the phone sites is that MWg, the smartphone maker previously known as O2 Asia, will be rolling out a Windows Mobile 7 phone in the fourth quarter of 2008, specifically the Flame II shown above. That’s about a year earlier than we last heard. Everyone sounds skeptical, but you never…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Microsoft Offers Mega-Discount on WinXP to Low-Cost Laptop Makers

Ultra low-cost PCs such as OLPC’s XO laptop could end up bundled with copies of Windows OS after all, if Microsoft’s most recent scheme to grab market share works. The company is giving computer manufacturers Windows XP Home Edition at a steep discount to put on ULPCs, in hopes of luring them away from Linux.…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Watch Netflix Downloads On Your Xbox 360

By installing the vmcNetflix plug-in to a Vista Premium Media Center computer, you can watch streamed Netflix content on an Xbox 360. It’s buggy, but it’s a lot better than watching Netflix on a laptop screen. (Providing you have Netflix, an Xbox 360 and a Vista Media Center.) Maybe Netflix should open up streaming to…

Tech News Brian Lam

Vista Media Center Supporting BBC iPlayer (Unofficially)

For those living in the UK, the BBC iPlayer is a pretty fantastic VOD service with one drawback: you have to watch shows in-browser. Now one philanthropist coder has written a Vista Media Center interface for the iPlayer. So you can view BBC content on your TV without the PS3 and Wii workarounds, or, at…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Dealzmodo: 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate

Here’s how you take money from Microsoft’s pockets and put it into your own. First, you need to want to buy Microsoft Office Ultimate. Second, you need a .edu email address. It doesn’t matter that you graduated in 1994 and the last time you stepped foot in a classroom was 1993, all you need is…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Surface + Xbox 360 = What?

Stefano from onthetabletop attended CHI 2008, where several members of the Microsoft Surface team was there tossing around ideas. One of the more interesting ideas, besides slimming down the table so it could fit inside spaces smaller than bars and AT&T stores, was shoving an Xbox 360 inside. Why would you do this? To allow…

Tech News Jason Chen

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

XNA 3.0 tech preview is out, and with it, you can dev or install some homebrew games on your Zune right now, like Alien Aggressor and Galactic Wars 3. The directions are at [Zuneboards, thanks IPXX]

Tech News Brian Lam

Windows XP on OLPC XO Laptop Now Official

Media Center’s Do Not Record Broadcast Flag Is Still Alive

Microsoft TouchWall: Surface for the Common Man

Microsoft Denies Slimmer Xbox 360

Microsoft Surface Model Now American Gladiator

Xbox 360 Slim Might Come in 2009?

Guitar Hero IV’s Drums Will Have Six Pads, Two For Cymbals

Microsoft’s LifeCam VX-5000 Webcam is Bendy, Portable, Not Ugly

Office for Mac 2008 Service Pack 1 Out Today; Visual Basic Coming Back to Macs

Zune Hits 2 Million Sales, Drinks Creative’s Milkshake

Microsoft Goes Big Brother on Low-Cost PC Makers Using XP

One-Eyed Alligator Eats an Xbox 360

Hotmail Comes to BlackBerry

Rumor: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year

Microsoft Offers Mega-Discount on WinXP to Low-Cost Laptop Makers

Watch Netflix Downloads On Your Xbox 360

Vista Media Center Supporting BBC iPlayer (Unofficially)

Dealzmodo: 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate

Microsoft Surface + Xbox 360 = What?

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

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