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Analysis: Microsoft’s Plan to Ban 360s was Poorly Planned

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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I was at GameStop the other day and listened to a customer's questions about Microsoft's banning of modded XBox 360s. The worker tried to explain that this banning was for those people that hacked their XBox 360. The customer was worried that if her child downloaded any kind of content through the XBox 360 that this might constitute a reason for a banning for her son's system. She was confused, so she decided to purchase a PS3 ...

Insider says MS Plans to Ban 1M Console

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada.

The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a ...

Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends

During the free LIVE Weekends, all Xbox LIVE Silver members can enjoy: online multiplayer, Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM, Netflix, Sky Player, Halo Waypoint and 1 v 100 (Some features are only available in specific regions)

Alarm Clock Features Voice Recognition

Bucking the trend of alarm clocks that make hitting the snooze button an extremely physical chore is this model from Hammacher Schlemmer that uses advanced speech recognition technology to control the most common functions.

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional [...]

How to Turn Your Laptop Into an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter for Windows XP

So, you want to connect your Xbox 360 to the Internet, but its too far away from your router/modem, and you don’t want to fork out a stupidly large amount of money on buying a wireless adapter to plug into the back of your Xbox… well here is a cheap and easy way to connect your Xbox 360 to the Internet through your Laptop.

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