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Submission + - February Sees Sales of 335k Wiis Vs 127k PS3s

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eldavojohn

on Friday March 16, 2007 @07:55AM

eldavojohn writes: "Both the PS3 & Wii debuted in November of this year and the console counts are in for the number of each sold in the United States in the entire month of February. While you may be able to claim the Wii is clearly more popular and that Nintendo won the month of February, please do note (as the article does not) that a Wii grosses $250 while a PS3 (on average) grosses $550 meaning that Nintendo grossed about $84 million while Sony grossed around $70 million on consoles — two numbers a bit closer revealing it may be too early yet to declare a victor. I hope I never see a victor declared & the price wars continue with added game innovation to utilize the power of the PS3 & the unique controls of the Wii."

Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year 357

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 16, 2007 @07:22AM from the procrastinists-in-luck dept.

An anonymous reader gave us a heads up on this article for people who like putting things off. It begins: "Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end-run around one of Microsoft's key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today. Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."

Submission + - Europe exec confirms Google Phone

Submitted by cyberianpan on Friday March 16, 2007 @07:09AM

cyberianpan writes: So Google has confirmed that it is working on a phone News.com The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," Ok this could be the 20% free time development but publicising that would be stupid. Obviously this phone could link in with Google Earth/Maps... it is a marketers dream regards targeted advertising, literally the shops may talk to you when you pass about products that they know you want. Thos could lead to Goolge having more power than any IT company ever. Obviously barriers present, chiefly in that Google doesn't have mobile phone networks & thus would have to cut deals.

Submission + - IT industry publishes Government 'To Do' list to m

Submitted by

Chris

on Friday March 16, 2007 @05:18AM

Chris writes: "PublicTechnology.net.net reports that: IT trade association Intellect yesterday published a paper entitled "Implementing Shared Corporate Services in the Public Sector" that details the steps government must take by the end of this year if it is to make shared services, and all the associated benefits, a reality.

The full story is at: http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=mod load&name=News&file=article&sid=8181"

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