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Comment Good luck (Score 1) 59

by saintm on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @05:16AM (#26143071) Attached to: Club Nintendo Goes Live

If it is anything like Nintendo's European efforts, good luck with actually getting anything worthwhile.

The best you'll end up with is a crappy wallpaper as they'll only have 5 DS cases available between the hundreds of thousands of users.

Submission + - Cheapest way to UK Vista is through WGA

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @02:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: Details of Windows Vista's UK prices can be found here http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.c fm?newsid=7668 According to techworld Vista Prices are significantly marked up in the UK compared to the US, as much as 80% for some versions. Ironically in the UK apart from buying abroad, and hoping customs doesnt add VAT to your order... the cheapest way to get a legal copy of Vista in the UK is to first get WGA to flag your copy of XP as illegal. Then UK users can purchase legitimate copies of XP for about £53 for the XP Home version and £92 for the XP Pro version. http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2154729/micros oft-increases-checks From Here they can download the form for an upgrade for only £10 http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/1/AD102 E9D-2DCF-4552-ADE3-68C02F0938E8/unitedkingdom.pdf That means the total for Vista Home Basic = £63 Vista Bussiness = £102 Still expensive by US standards but cheaper than buying from a UK retailer.

Submission + - PS3 European Launch 23 March, $835

Submitted by Andy_R on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @09:38PM

Andy_R writes: Sony have finally committed themselves to a European launch date for the PS3, after disappointing European fans by not having the promised worldwide simultanious launch, then missing the lucrative Christmas period. The BBC are reporting that the console will arrive on the 23rd of March. We'll only be getting the 60Gb version at first, and it will be priced at 599 Euros or 425 pounds in Britain. At today's exchange rates, that's a wallet-busting $835.99!

Submission + - Microsoft Vista Family Pack

Submitted by

Vinit

on Friday January 19, 2007 @11:21AM

Vinit writes: "Microsoft has announced a new plan according to which if you buy the Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, you can buy two more licenses of Vista Home Premium for only $50 each. The buy-one-get-two-at-reduced-price offer is available only in America and Canada from the January 30 launch until June 30. The software giant is following Apple's successful OS X "Family Pack" scheme which allows you to legally installed OS X on up to 5 Macs for US $199 — only $70 more than the US $129 cost for a single OS X license. But in Microsoft's case, you can only install Vista on two more PCs besides your main computer. The company also lets you to upgrade your Vista (in case you run Vista lower than the 'Ultimate' version) by paying some bucks, so you don't have to buy a new box or re-install your computer systems. Don't be very happy with the "upgrading" scheme because if you want to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate on your two additional PCs, then you have to pay $159 — for each computer. According to a report at CNET, Bill Mannion, a director in the Windows Marketing Group, said that: "It's targeted at what we term the 'super-engaged customers' [that have more than one PC]. This is a focused program designed to encourage these super-engaged customers to upgrade multiple PCs in the household." http://www.pclaunches.com/software/microsoft_vista _family_pack.php"

Submission + - Germany Searches Credit Cards for Child Porn Pay

Submitted by

narramissic

on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @12:32PM

narramissic writes: "According to an article on ITworld, police in the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt have teamed with credit card companies to sift through the transactions of over 22 million customers looking for those who may have purchased child pornography online. To date they have identified 322 suspects. From the article:
German data privacy laws allow police to ask financial institutions to provide data about individuals but only if the investigators meet certain conditions, including a concrete suspicion of illegal behavior and narrowly defined search criteria, according to Johann Bizer, deputy director of the Independent Center for Privacy Protection in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

In the case under investigation, police were aware of a child pornography Web site outside of Germany that was attracting users inside the country. And they asked the credit-card companies to conduct a database search narrowed to three criteria: a specific amount of money, a specific time period and a specific receiver account.

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Submission + - World's Largest LCD TV

Submitted by ZeldorBlat on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @12:14PM

ZeldorBlat writes: At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Sharp has unveiled the largest consumer LCD TV measuring in at 108 inches. This beats the previous record held by a Samsung 102 inch plasma TV. From the article: "Sharp and its rivals also announced technological improvements to how LCDs render high-speed movement, cutting down on the staccato image trails that have so far made LCDs less smooth than plasma models."

Submission + - MI5 to send terror alerts via email

Submitted by Dik Zak on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @05:25AM

Dik Zak writes: CNN reports that Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 has launched a new email alert service on Tuesday to warn the public about changes in the security threat level. Users will be able to register with MI5 to receive emails detailing the changes in security threat levels.

Submission + - Tonight: A Movie In A Virtual World

Submitted by

Jerry23

on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @05:24AM

Jerry23 writes: "Tonight at 5 PM PST the indy film Four Eyed Monsters is screening on the Sundance Channel's new sim in Second Life. The FEM creators have a nice machinima invitation and walkthrough on how to attend. "Someday immediately after a film is complete it will be able to instantly premiere to a worldwide audience in every theater that wants it. And even though it doesn't work that way in real life, Second Life is a place where this is possible today.""

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