Microsoft is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360® console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.) estimated retail price.

Available in retail stores in the U.S. and Canada starting in early August, the upgraded Xbox 360 will include a 60GB hard drive for storing the growing wealth of digital entertainment available for the …

Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leading provider of television advertising solutions. Navic’s technologies include sophisticated campaign management tools that use relevant data to optimize the delivery and placement of targeted interactive television media and through Admira provide a unified ad network for targeting audiences across television advertising inventory. With the addition of Navic solutions, Microsoft’s comprehensive advertising platform will be able to facilitate enhanced digital advertising across online and offline environments.

“Television media represents the largest …

HP today announced that HP MediaSmart Connect, a digital receiver that brings digital media from around the home or the Internet(1) to any HDTV, is now available for pre-order.

Whether digital videos, music and photos are stored on a notebook across the room or a desktop in a home office,(2) HP MediaSmart Connect can find and display them all in a single list on any HDTV.(3)

Additionally, the digital media receiver can connect people to a wealth of online …

For the first time, in my life as a mac user, Apple puts its pants on and goes to hunt. Everytime a new upgrade of any Apple product, there is an automatic price reduction, but this time is totally different, Apple is on a mission, not just to sell 10 million iphones this year, but to posititon the iphone as the premier mobile platform, even if they (Apple) have to shake the devil’s hands.

The business orientation of …

Mac OS X Lite is a new version with limited functions and with a 30 days use period created to be given away to any pc user that buy an ipod or any ipod related stuff at Best Buys, Target or Circuit City. The idea is give users the possibility of test drive the new Mac OS X Leopard in its own machine (PC) parallel to Windows.

This is a Guerrilla marketing that will put OS X …

Today Microsoft Corp. announced that a limited-edition Zune digital media player designed by Peter Saville will be made available to commemorate the DVD release of “Joy Division,” the critically acclaimed documentary. The film will come pre-loaded on a custom black Zune 80 player that is etched with an adaptation of Saville’s iconic artwork from Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” album. Five hundred limited- edition players will be available for purchase June 17 for $399.99 through http://www.zune.net and http://www.zuneoriginals.net. …

Super Talent 128GB SATA SSD is the world’s first to earn Works with Windows Vista and Designed for Microsoft Windows XP logo certifications. Super Talent’s SSDs (solid-state drives) are data storage devices that use NAND Flash memory as the storage medium. SSDs have lower power consumption, faster performance, and are lighter, less noisy, and more durable when compared to conventional hard disk drives. …

Dell launched 15.4-inch entertainment notebook ‘Inspiron 1525′ during CES 2008. The Inspiron 1525 features Intel Core 2 Duo T5450(1.66GHz) and 15.4-inch wide LCD(1200×800). It supports up to 250GB HDD and 4GB memory. Suggested price is 499USD.
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I should not have been talking about this until next year, but a story of a motion sensing add-on for the Xbox 360 controller forced me to interrupt my holiday break. First, let me tell you that the image floating around with supposed prototypes of a motion sensing Xbox 360 controller is FAKE.

The image in question, which you can see below, was taken from a Gizmodo article that showed the …

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The all-new Fujitsu LifeBook® U810 has the functionality of a traditional notebook, but only half the size. With a 5.6″ WSVGA Crystal View display and weighing a mere 1.56 lbs, it is one of the world’s smallest convertible notebooks. It fits in your palm, yet it is rich with features that let you work, access e-mail, watch video, listen to MP3s, browse the Internet, take pictures, or stay connected with friends and family. It revolutionizes the way …

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 dashboard update has sneaked in something extra: the hoped-for addition of DivX playback functionality.The Xbox Team’s official blog includes an AVI file support FAQ, which says the console now “supports files encoded using MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple and Advanced Simple Profile”, which the team adds are “often referred to as Xvid …

D3 Publisher and Digital Extremes have released the third of five Dark Sector webisodes. Webisode #3 explores the grim infection process that consumes Hayden and leads to his transformation into the most powerful anti-hero this side of Lasria!Dark Sector is D3 Publisher’s upcoming action-thriller for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 that thrusts players into the role of Hayden Tenno, an elite black-ops …

Nokia today kicked off its own Nokia World event with a controversial plan to offer freemusic to its phone owners. Known as Comes With Music, the service is based …

microsoft has announced the features that will adorn the Xbox Fall Update. Due on December 4, the new Dashboard Update will be available for all connected Xbox 360 consoles free of charge, bringing an array of new enhancements to Microsoft’s successful console. Among the key new enhancements are the previously announced Xbox Originals game download service, Family Timer parental control feature and expanded social networking experiences. Xbox 360 owners can also look forward to …