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- 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
- For Xbox 360 Production, Microsoft Speeds Deliveries 20 Percent, Cuts Inventories 10 Percent
- For the next-generation Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, Microsoft faced more complex manufacturing requirements than it saw with the original Xbox console. It also faced a need to speed production and reduce inventory costs compared to the performance of its earlier, EDI-based supply-chain solution. To provide full, real-time...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Process Automation, Game Players, Web Services, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, It Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Business Management Solution Supports Virtual Manufacturing, Streamlines Production
- Microsoft Home and Entertainment Division (HED) needed to minimize the time and money spent developing Microsoft Xbox 360. To meet this goal, HED brought some research and design tasks in house, forming the Silicon Operations (SiOps) group to oversee development of the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) Manufacturing would remain outsourced,...
- Tags: Business Management, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Game Players, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies
- 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
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Prima Official eGuide (exe)
- Maintain an edge with complete weapons stats and deployment tips. Move up the ranks and unlock gear with info on the new PEC reward systems. Unlock criteria for all weapons, armor, clothing, and camouflage patterns. Dominate your opponents in multiplayer with detailed maps and field-tested tips. Covers: PC, Sony PlayStation...
- Tags: Weapon, Prima Games, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- Running Linux on the PlayStation 3: More Than a Toy
- The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this paper, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking. When Sony first...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Linux, Game Players, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-03-18
- 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
- XBox 360 3 Red Light Troubleshooter (exe)
- This troubleshooter will find the most common causes of the XBox 360 3 red light error and how to fix them without the need for any technical knowledge or expensive tools. Most cases can be resolved before having to physically ship out for repair. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- Microsoft Online Customer Story: Jeep
- Over the past three decades, Millward Brown has grown to be one of the world's leading research companies. One will hear a lot of talk around the marketing water cooler about purchase drivers. But what if getting people to react positively to a brand - and hopefully influencing their future...
- Tags: Tycoon, Microsoft Corp., Game Players, Marketing Research, Manufacturing, Team Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-11-21
- Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom: Prima Official eGuide (exe)
- Taking advantage of the Xbox 360's processing power, randomly generated dungeons and landscapes, along with thousands of fierce onscreen enemies attacking from all directions, Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom will test the abilities of even the most skilled gamers and make for a new adventure around every corner. With...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Xbox, Gamer, Games, Game Players, Team Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-28
- Wondershare Xbox 360 Slideshow (exe)
- Wondershare Xbox 360 Slideshow is a powerful and easy to use photo and video movie maker for Xbox. It provides a quick and completed solution to make an entertaining photo and video movie, along with fair-sounding background music, magical clipart, and amazing transition and ken-burns effects. Also, the powerful photo...
- Tags: Slideshow, Video, Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
- X360 Xplorer (rar)
- The X360 Xplorer application was designed to allow you to open and modify XBOX 360 image files. You can extract the contents of the ISO images and modify the data. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: ISO, Iso standards, Game Players, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- 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
- River Past Crazi Video for XBox (exe)
- Use Crazi Video for XBox to convert your video to XBox 360-compatible media files, so you and your family can enjoy the big screen TV, instead of watch the video in front of the computer. Built on our Video Cleaner program, Crazi Video for XBox accepts the same wide range...
- Tags: Video, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- XNA Game Studio (exe)
- XNA Game Studio Express enables hobbyists, academics, and small, independent game developers to easily create video games for Windows and the Xbox 360 console using new, optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on .NET. This official release enables the creation of games for Windows XP SP2-based PCs. Combined with an active...
- Tags: Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, XNA Game Studio Express, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 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
- 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
- Videora Xbox 360 Converter (exe)
- Videora Xbox 360 Converter is a free Xbox 360 video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them on your Xbox 360. The software can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, mkv, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into...
- Tags: Video, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Corporate Communications, Game Players, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-12-11
- Agogo Video to iPod/PSP/Cell Phone/Xbox/Pocket PC/PDA/MP4 (exe)
- Agogo Video to iPod / PSP / Cell Phone / Xbox / Pocket PC / PDA / MP4 is all-in-one professional mp4 converter, it was designed for anyone who wants to enjoy movies on portable video devices such as iPod, PSP, Cell phone, Xbox, PDA, Pocket PC, and PMP. This...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Portable Video, Video, Sony PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Xbox, Pocket PC, PDAs, Corporate Communications, Game Players, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-12
