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Submission + - Netbooks have a huge impact on the PC industry (itrunsonlinux.com)

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Xbm360

on Monday September 14, 2009 @05:43AM

Xbm360 writes: "A report from researcher Canalys said 13.5 million netbooks were sold globally in the 1st half of 2009. Telecom companies have several bundling deals, with about 50 operators selling netbooks. The succes of Netbooks also surprised Microsoft & forced them to lower the prices of their XP Home licenses, to regain marketshare over Linux."

Journal Journal: PDP Gametrak Freedom gives the Xbox 360 Motion Sensing Technology

Journal by Xbm360 on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:40AM

PDP (Performance Designed Products) unveiled its latest technology for the Xbox 360, a controller with motion sensing technology (as used on the Nintendo Wii), the Gametrak Freedom.

PDP Gametrak Freedom gives the Xbox 360 Motion Sensing Technology

Bookmark PDP Gametrak Freedom gives the Xbox 360 Motion Sensing Technology (hdtvinfo.eu)

by Xbm360 on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:37AM

Bookmark Some Xbox 360s fail with an E74 error (hdtvinfo.eu)

by Xbm360 on Sunday March 22, 2009 @04:36AM

Submission + - Some Xbox 360s fail with an E74 error (hdtvinfo.eu)

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Xbm360

on Sunday March 22, 2009 @04:32AM

Xbm360 writes: "According to data collected by Joystiq as well as Google Trends, there's been a steady rise in reports & discussion of a so-called E74 error at Xbox 360 consoles since mid-October, last year.

The E74 error is related to video problems caused by either a faulty AV connector or, a loosened ANA/HANA scaling chip (more often).

http://xbox.hdtvinfo.eu/news-sections/2-hardware/17-some-xbox-360s-fail-with-an-e74-error.html

This is not the first time the Xbox 360 experienced technical issues, because the last years many people complained about scratched discs, or over-heated consoles (RROD)"

Submission + - Microsoft .NET patch makes PCs go "haywire"

Submitted by yuna49 on Thursday July 12, 2007 @11:52PM

yuna49 writes: Various people are reporting that the MS07-040 patch for .NET released on Tuesday can cause a variety of seemingly unrelated problems. According to the SANS Internet Storm Center "the reports we got so far seem not to lead to any specific thing that happens in many cases, just various things going haywire." Some commentators on The Register's report of this story indicate that the patch failed to install at all, while others report things like the mouse suddenly failing to work or long periods of hard drive thrashing. In some cases a hard reboot seems to fix the problem, but other reports suggest that a reinstallation of the .NET framework itself is required. The problems may be related to the MSCORSVW.EXE process which recompiles all the .NET assemblies when the patch is downloaded. While the recompilations are supposed to run as a background task, in some instances the recompilation will drive the processor to 100% usage.

Comment Re:Investigated by Dutch tv program (Score 1) 133

by Xbm360 on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @05:58PM (#19831231) Attached to: Microsoft Sued Over Scratched Xbox 360 Discs

Sorry, I'm not yet used to URL mentioning over here :-) http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/game-consoles/lawsuit- against-microsoft-about-scratched-xbox-360-discs.h tml this is the right link to the article about the Dutch program...

Submission + - Microsoft sued about scratched Xbox 360 discs (hdtvinfo.eu)

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Xbm360

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @04:57AM

Xbm360 writes: "Microsoft has been sued by Jorge Brouwer from the US who claims that Xbox 360s scratched his game discs, making them unusable. Jack Evans, a Microsoft spokesman, stated about these complaints; "Out of the millions of Xbox consoles in use, Microsoft has not received any widespread reports of Xbox 360s scratching discs""

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