Posts Tagged ‘Xbox 360’

Datel sues Microsoft over Xbox 360 memory unit crackdown

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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Datel Design & Development, a maker of memory units for Microsoft's Xbox 360, has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft over its moves to prevent the U.K.-based company's products from working with the game console. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, says Microsoft is unfairly favoring its own Xbox 360 accessories by disabling the functionality of competing technologies.

Microsoft announced last ...

Metal Gear Solid Rising confirmed for PS3 and PC

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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It was just a rumor earlier this week but now it's official. During Konami's E3 2009 press conference this week they indeed confirmed that Metal Gear Solid Rising will be released for the PC as well as the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. Other than the fact that the game will feature Raiden as the main character no other info on the title was announced (no release date either). ...

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 ...

Microsoft Banning more than just Pirates?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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So by now we have all heard that Microsoft has recently been banning consoles from connecting to the Xbox Live Service for violating its terms of service. In Microsofts efforts to combat piracy, the banhammer has cracked as many as 1,000,000 users. I think we can effectively call this a ban nuking.

With many warnings leading up to the bans, by Major ...

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DVR Pen Camera Recorder Captures Audio & Video

While it appears to be considerably larger than most pens, I think if you were discreet enough you could probably get away with using this DVR Pen Recorder. It comes with either 2GB or 4GB of flash memory that allows it to capture up to 30 hours of audio and video.

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 [...]

Sprint’s 4G Xohm WiMax: How fast is it?

With most American mobile data networks busy trying to deliver third-generation (3G) mobile wireless access to traveling businesspeople, Sprint’s newly launched Xohm service takes a giant step forward by offering America’s first 4G system.
Based on WiMax technology, it can deliver broadband data speeds to notebooks, Internet tablets and eventually smartphones. But at the moment, there [...]

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