Month: October 2009

Game Consoles Affordable In Time For Holidays

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Now that class is back in session and the overwhelm of “Back to School” sales has ground to a halt, the Christmas shopping season is already shifting into gear. Sony has gotten a jump start on the holiday by cutting a hundred dollars from the price tag of its PlayStation 3. The cut, and the advertising barrage than accompanied it, boosted PS3 sales by three hundred percent in the last three weeks of August alone, with revenue process up by 140 percent. That figure is lower than the unit-sales figure because of the price drop, and still remarkable due to that fact.

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Sidekick’s Data Loss Fiasco

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The data loss catastrophe suffered by T-Mobile users is continuing to make ripples, and T-Mobile itself is beginning to appear downright sinister, if such a dark word can be used.

The company has frozen all Sidekick sales, online as well as in stores, and there are rumors that customer complaints are actually disappearing – suspected of having been deleted – from public Sidekick forums. Meanwhile, user outcry grows louder and more strident.

In some cases, an amount of data is being recovered. By and large, however, the problem still persists, as do the complaints. This is an update.

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End Possibly In Sight For DVDs

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According to Netflix executives, the days of the DVD may be numbered – but the replacement media isn’t Blu-ray.

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix said in a Montley Fool podcast that sometime within the next two years, DVDs may no longer be the number one source of the company’s video distribution. He did not give any specific predictions for what would assume the top spot, but it can be inferred from several statements in the podcast that he doesn’t believe Blu-ray will assume the crown. If that’s true, then he is echoing the sentiments of many theorists that have spoken up since Blu-ray won the format war with HD-DVD.

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Details Leaked For Windows 8

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Thanks to an unauthorized information source within the United States R&D division of Microsoft, we now have some information about Windows 8, which should become available in 2012. This is embarrassing to Microsoft because they have not even released Windows 7, which is due for release on October 22.

Robert Morgan, an employee of Microsoft who lists his job description as “senior research and development,” used his LinkedIn account to provide details on Microsoft’s Windows 8 project. His profile was removed from the LinkedIn network, though it can be found in the Google search cache by a determined researcher.

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Netbooks Bundled with Service Providers – Advantageous?

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If you check out the service provider bundled netbooks, you will find that the prices you will get on them are way cheaper than buying a netbook and then a data plan separately. With existing service providers like Verizon or AT&T, you can sign up for a two-year lock-in plan period which will allow you to avail of a subsidized netbook along with the plan.

These kinds of packages are similar to the ones that many of these companies provide to cellular phone users. It was found that the prices used on cellular phone plans are comparable to the netbook plan when looking at the bottom-line prices of the two-year plans offered.

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Hello Windows 7, Goodbye Vista

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With the release of Windows 7, everyone is anticipating a much better product that will far out shadow all the things we loved to hate about past Microsoft products, the Vista operating system making the top of the list.

Although some Vista users got used to the product and virtually adjusted to the malfunctions of the operating system, those that hate Vista far outnumber the few (very few) fans. It was just a great relief to see Microsoft mend its ways by releasing a much better product in Windows 7 to help people forget the terrible mistake they made when they introduced Vista about three years ago. With Vista now gone, here are some things that can be enumerated about Vista that many loved to hate, and are glad they never have to go back to anymore:

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The Joy Of Spam

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Anyone who uses email has at some point been faced with what this writer lovingly calls the Spam Dilemma. The mailbox shows ten messages, but once opened, reveals only one actual email – if the mailbox owner is lucky. The remaining nine email messages are an advertisement, opportunity, or incentive.

Rather than running out of steam and going away, the Spam Dilemma continues to plague email users worldwide. The reason the deluge of junk mail continues is as upsetting as it is simple: Spam works.

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keeping Your Wi-Fi Connection Exclusive via Anti-Wi-Fi Paint

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It is never a good thing to install Wi-Fi in your home for your use only to find out that your neighbors have been able to hack it and mooch off your connection. The most cumbersome thing about it is they probably use it more than you and slow down your connection with their big downloads. Aside from this, you are faced with a real threat of compromised security within your own home. Solutions to this kind of problem remain limited and burdensome.

However, with the new Anti-Wi-Fi paint, your internet security issues may be solved sooner than you think. The Anti-Wi-Fi paint can be used on the walls of the rooms where you want the wireless connection to remain exclusive, and will keep the signal in that room and that room only. Seem impossible? The secret ingredient in the paint is the aluminum-iron oxide particles which basically reverberate suing the same Wi-Fi frequency and radio wave frequency, thus disallowing signals from passing through the layer of paint on your wall. Ultimately, nobody will be able to access you Wi-Fi signal at all from outside the room that is painted with Anti-Wi-Fi paint.

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October 2009’s Record Breaking Patch Tuesday

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Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of each month when Microsoft releases updates or fixes to its software. It has been recorded that the name Patch Tuesday was already in use since the last quarter of 2004. The reason why updates are lumped together to be released once a month and not right after they are packaged is to allow system administrators to mark a day in the month to prepare all computers for the patch, and this work involves backing up files, disabling network connections and other stuff required to make sure that computers will not malfunction after the fixes are installed. This may seem pretty trivial to most of us who own one or two computers, but remember, there are companies with hundreds, if not thousands of computers and updating each one of them will be really major work.

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