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Comment This is going to.... (Score 1) 1

by mwilli on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @02:14PM (#35011066) Attached to: Java to be Rstricted to Enterprise Use Only?

kill the Java platform if true. However, Adobe has created a similar platform through Flash, and is working quickly to expand it to as many platforms as possible, now including Android, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry. Unfortunately, Flash has a greater resource overhead than Java does.

Inside the New Xbox Experience 50

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 01, 2008 @01:25AM from the more-and-better dept.

Eurogamer has an in-depth look at the new Xbox Experience, which is coming on November 19th. They discuss the new interface and features, and their reaction is generally positive, citing graphical improvements, smooth file management, and better chat functionality. "The Guide is also your access point to the new Party system, where you can gather eight of your friends together in a voice-chat channel and move the group between games. You don't even have to be doing the same thing: you can just chat along regardless. And because it's a service layer, it automatically works with all your existing games. Gears of War treats it like it's always been there. Instead of inviting a player, you invite the group; instead of ending a session and having to reassemble for another, you stay together. You can open it up to friends or set it to be invite-only, and while it's one of NXE's quieter additions, it's also its most authoritative statement: this is Microsoft saying, 'We figured we might need to do something like this, so we made sure we could.'"

Comment What I want to know is.... (Score 1) 70

by mwilli on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @12:40PM (#24198359) Attached to: Cybercrime Organizational Structures Evolve

if this is similar to a 'mob' type hierarchy, who is the godfather?

Submission + - Microsoft, Sony clash over Vista Turbo Memory

Submitted by Anonymous on Sunday June 10, 2007 @02:04AM

Anonymous writes: Sony is claiming that the current release of Vista does not support Intel's Turbo Memory technology, but Microsoft has dismissed the allegation. If Microsoft is telling the truth then all is well. But if Sony is right, Microsoft has opened itself to being sued for deceptive marketing practices.

Submission + - Justice Dept Defends Microsoft Against Google

Submitted by

Frosty Piss

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @01:52AM

Frosty Piss writes: "The Seattle PI reports that Google has complained to U.S. antitrust officials about the hard-drive searching tool built into Windows Vista, saying that it stymies Google's similar search program. The complaint, lodged late last year, was revealed Saturday by The New York Times in a story on its Web site about the Bush administration's handling of Microsoft antitrust issues. The real story, though, is not the Google complaint itself, but how the Justice Department is failing to enforce the Microsoft anti-trust decree. According to the story, Thomas Barnett, the assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of antitrust issues, sent a memo last month to state attorneys general across the nation, seeking to persuade them to reject Google's complaint."

Marriott IT Exec Shares Network Horror Story 98

Posted by Zonk on Saturday June 09, 2007 @11:56PM from the waps-that-kill-ip-layers-run-amok dept.

alphadogg writes "Neil Schubert is only partly kidding when he calls Marriott International's move toward a converged network a horror story. 'I'm here to tell you a terrifying tale of network design, support and administration,' he said at an IT conference in Boston, referring to a major bandwidth crunch caused by guests wielding Slingboxes and other network devices that overran the hotel chain's outdated network. 'One of the things we've learned about our guest networks is we have one of the most foreign, hostile environments known to man in the network administration world ... I can take 100,000 customers a night on that infrastructure and we actually have less incidents of harm than we do on our corporate back-office infrastructure.'"

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