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Even with the recent price drops on the Xbox 360 Elite to $299 , a new announcement today on an additional $50 rebate for customers in the U.S. from now (September 22) and October 5, 2009. More information on the rebate can be found here . Fine print:
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Sitting down with a glass and a controller in my hands, I logged into Xbox Live for a post getting-the-kids-to-bed Xbox 360. Ooh, that's a new screen. Turn off the non-responsive Xbox 360. RROD . Another Groundhog Day : it's Saturday night, after the
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The past week has flown by as the mercury rises on the thermometer Just as Jason Brooks of EWeek says in the article, Seven Client OSes That Could Replace Windows , that "Microsoft's Windows is the undisputed king of the desktop, and, for a long time
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A quick reading list as I post before leaving the office (yes, early today... we have a busy weekend and I was up until too late last night working on, well, work ;). On top of that, I'm a week behind in posting the reading list. I have to go home and
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It's a long time coming, but good to see that after a few hints here and there, we finally have word from Kristin Kalning, Games editor on MSNBC in this article that beginning this fall in the States, the catalogue of streaming video titles available
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Back from vacation and waiting for a meeting to start (whilst hungry attendees grab lunch ;) I find that I have a couple of minutes to post - normally I wait until after work's done for the day, but here's an exception to the rule. Last night I made a
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I have seen a couple of customer instances (including one at home ;) where I wanted to move downloaded games and other content from an old Xbox 360 to a new system (as we did when we moved to an . Well, now there's a way to do it. Click here for more
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Just as I (finally!) near the point of completing Halo 3 on Heroic, I learn that the add-on Heroic map set is available for free. (Full disclosure: my nine-year-old has already whooped me by completing the last level in Halo 3 at the highest level...
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With all the talk this weekend of HD-DVD (as Reuters noted this weekend ) and that main supported Toshiba "will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment" (as reported on Japan's NHK public broadcasting network), interesting to see the increased interest in
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Bloggers and the press are out in force at CES in Las Vegas, tonite covering Bill Gates' keynote at CES 2008 . You can find several entries listed here . Check out video coverage at Microsoft's CES site and on Microsoft PressPass . [More on the keynote
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Remember, this is an external news report, on Dealerscope this morning... Microsoft Preparing Xbox 360 with HD DVD "According to an Australian Web site citing inside sources at Toshiba, that company and Microsoft are at work on a new version of the Xbox
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I missed this article last week. We have an Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel , and one that has taken a back seat to the of Dance Dance Revolution pad. I learned from Gregg Keizer at Computerworld (and various news sites ) that the Wheel should have a free
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It's returned home. Our Xbox 360 that suffered from a severe case of the dreaded three red flashing lights arrived on Friday and is now up and running. Well, not exactly the same Xbox 360: we were informed that the unit we received was a replacement unit,
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This evening whilst trying to set up Dance Dance Revolution for our boys and their friends, we ran into a small problem: no video. Hmmm... Could it be that I set the switch incorrectly on the Xbox 360 Component HD AV Cable ? The cable may be switched
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Netflix chose to develop and offer video on demand (and even hired Anthony Wood , CEO of ReplayTV). Video rental chain Blockbuster is going the route of "buy." Blockbuster announced that they will acquire Movielink , the digital movie download service
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