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- Will gamers embrace Wii Fit?
- Regular readers of this blog know all about my reluctance, for right or wrong, to embrace social networking. And you know about my confusion and puzzlement over recent trends toward virtualizing human experience (i.e., companies sponsoring virtual golf outings to let employees "get to know each other." Blech!] But...
- Tags: Nintendo Wii, Games, Game Players, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- If you can't stand the heat stay out of the electronics
- Heat is a dangerous thing when it comes to electronic components. Without proper ventilation to dissipate the heat generated we get equipment behavior that ranges from intermittent errors, to plain failure, to outright fire. Microsoft is still trying to quell a rash of lawsuits regarding the combustible...
- Tags: Electronics, Equipment, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Cracking Open the Sony PlayStation Portable
- Follow along as we disassemble Sony's popular hand-held gaming system--the PlayStation Portable. by Anthony Sullivan
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, cracking open, geekend, off topic, Screw, Screen, Battery, Ribbon Cable, Engineering
- Image galleries 2008-04-22
- LinkedIn: Dealing with the unwanted invitation
- Yesterday I got a LinkedIn invitation from someone I worked with about 15 years ago. I have not kept in touch with this person nor can I readily even picture her. If you asked me what role she had in the company back then, I would draw a complete blank....
- Tags: LinkedIn, Recruitment & Selection, Game Players, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Guitar Hero on the Nintendo DS just got cooler
- It's no secret I am nuts about Guitar Hero. So you can imagine that I am pretty excited about the upcoming "Guitar Hero on Tour" game set to be released for the Nintendo DS handheld later this year. Today, I got even more excited after seeing the...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Games, Keyboards, Game Players, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Microsoft gaffes aplenty
- Microsoft has been in the news lately for problems in its products and services, and the anti-Microsoft crowd is getting whipped into a frenzy over their chance to pillory their adversary. Over the last two weeks of December, the Xbox Live service, Microsoft's online gaming service, experienced glitches as...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Game Players, Microsoft Office, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- My Top 5 Tech toys for Christmas
- It's that time of year again. A time to give and receive the latest Tech toys! So what's hot this Christmas? Here are my top 5 Tech toys for the season: Sony Ericsson K850i Now I know a lot of people will be hoping...
- Tags: Game, Phone, TomTom, Microsoft Xbox, Camera, Xbox 360, USB, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Cracking Open The Xbox 360 Elite
- Cool is the name of the game when it comes to Microsoft's new Xbox 360 Elite. Learn what changes Microsoft's made to keep this hot game system running cool. by Erik Eckel
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Xbox 360, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Erik Eckel, Game, microsoft xbox, game console, cracking open, off topic, geekend
- Image galleries 2007-12-18
- XBOX 360 DivX support disappoints (so far)
- As I mentioned last week, Microsoft released their XBOX 360 Fall Dashboard Update that adds DivX support to the console. It was the one feature that I was really excited about because I have been doing a lot of stuff with DivX as a beta tester for the DivX Connected...
- Tags: DivXNetworks, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Unboxing Rock Band
- Photos of me unboxing the Rock Band bundle for the XBOX 360. by Shawn Morton
- Tags: xbox360, rock band, game, video game, TechRepublic Inc., Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton
- Image galleries 2007-12-04
- Geek Gifts 2007: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
- One of the hottest, and most surprising, game franchises of the past few years has been Guitar Hero. Originally developed by Harmonix and launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2005, the franchise has steadily grown in popularity (Activision made $550 million on Guitar Hero in 2007 alone) and has expanded...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Geek Gifts 2007: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
- Photos of the hardware and software available in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for the XBOX 360. by Shawn Morton
- Tags: xbox360, guitar hero, video game, game, TechRepublic Inc., Legend, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton
- Image galleries 2007-12-03
- DivX support coming to XBOX 360 on Tuesday
- Microsoft has announced all of the details on the upcoming Fall Update for the XBOX 360 that is set to go live at 2AM PST on Tuesday, December 4th. Most everything on the list had been reported or rumored like downloadable original XBOX games and parental controls;...
- Tags: DivXNetworks, MPEG-2, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, DVD, Game Players, Digital Video, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Sony to pull out of 32-nano production efforts
- Sony is withdrawing from research related to the development of manufacturing technology that produces chips of 32 nanometers and below. Excerpt from ZDNet: Sony has been moving away from the production of advanced semiconductors, which involves heavy investment. The Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment company...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Manufacturing, Game Players, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Get rocked like a hurricane 9 days early [updated]
- If you're a fan of Guitar Hero and you own an XBOX 360, you can play the 5 song demo version of Guitar Hero III more than a week before the full game comes out on October 28th. The demo includes the following songs: ...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Xbox, Demo, Game Players, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Quality, Business Operations, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- The top 25 best-selling video games...EVER!
- Whilst everyone is going nuts over today's release of Halo 3, how about we reign in the "most successful video game ever" hyperbole and take a walk down sales-figure lane to recall the 25 best-selling video games of all time. And before you predict H:3's eventual place on a revised...
- Tags: Game, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo GameBoy, Video Game, Video, Sony Playstation, Copy, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices after billion-dollar-plus chargeback
- After a billion-dollar chargeback for defective Xbox consoles with the 'three flashing red lights of death' defect, Microsoft has decided the Xbox 360 is worth less than before and slashed prices starting tomorrow by $20 to $50 on the gaming system. The 20-Gbyte version will...
- Tags: Chargeback, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Lea Rush
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- HALO 3 may save the Xbox from itself
- The above image is the Xbox 360 HALO 3 Special Edition console, complete with a 20-GB hard drive and a system architecture that ostensibly won't eat itself, which is important since nearly every regular Xbox on the shelf right now is defective. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Verdict: All 11.6 million units of XBox 360 faulty
- Finally, it is official: Microsoft has admitted that all of the 11.6 million faulty XBox 360s sold over the last 19 months, are, erm, faulty. According to Microsoft, every single one of these consoles suffer from a fundamental design flaw that could lead to the machine failing....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Seems like old times
- Â The CAPCOM and nVidia folks have created a demo version of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. This is the PC version of a previously released XBox 360 game. The exciting thing about the demo is that there is a DirectX 10 version -- the first playable DirectX 10 demo. ...
- Tags: DirectX, Demo, Game Players, Games, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
