Archive for December, 2007



Xbox Live - The Christmas Zombie (Slashdot)

Monday 31 December 2007 @ 12:35 pm
SEWilco writes "Xbox Live is not working, as mentioned 36 hours ago in an Xbox team blog. Even if you can get logged in, multiplayer matchmaking doesn't find enough players for games. For a while Zune Marketplace was also affected. At present Zune status claims 'Up and running' while Xbox Live status continues to say 'Users may experience intermittent issues logging onto Xbox Live. Our engineers ...

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Digital album packaging should improve in 2008 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Monday 31 December 2007 @ 9:52 am
There is a reason people still buy CDs more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several, but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't the only culprits.

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Ten Best Technologies and Trends of 2007 (ExtremeTech)

Monday 31 December 2007 @ 7:17 am
The best technology gadgets, hardware, software, trends and toys of 2007.

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Apple, Microsoft see massive web traffic increase on Christmas day (Pocket-lint via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Monday 31 December 2007 @ 6:45 am
iTunes and Zune site gets festive visitor boost

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Visions of Gates’ keynote swan song (Seattle Times)

Monday 31 December 2007 @ 3:15 am
The line may already be forming in Las Vegas for the big event Sunday, the last performance of the Bill Gates roadshow before his role as...

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Digital album packaging should improve in ‘08 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 10:41 pm
There is a reason people still buy CDs more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several, but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't the only culprits.

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SOFTWARE NOTEBOOK / 2008 marks departure of Gates - to a degree (San Francisco Chronicle)

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 10:20 pm
Just as Microsoft's past year was characterized by launches, the next will be defined by a departure. But even as Bill Gates leaves his full-time executive role, the company will be grappling with some of the biggest competitive challenges in its history,...

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Software Notebook: Gates picks challenging year to leave Microsoft (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 3:25 pm
As Bill Gates leaves his full-time executive role in the next year, Microsoft will be grappling with some of the biggest competitive challenges in its history. Here's our annual look at what to watch at the company in the year ahead.

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Options galore! (The Palm Beach Post)

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 10:25 am
While Christmas is, as the song says, "the most wonderful time of the year," for retailers, it's the days and weeks following the holiday that bring cheer. That's when customers come in, eager to redeem gift cards received as presents over the holidays.

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Warner Music to sell tunes online (Calgary Sun)

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 5:32 am
SEATTLE -- Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Amazon.com Inc.'s digital music store.

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