Walmart Ad Has Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming August 8th?
Without seeing the alleged Walmart ad with my own eyes, this is still in BIG RUMOR form.
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29.7.2007 Bill Gates Still the Richest Man
Microsoft chairman architect Bill Gates is still the wealthiest person in America with a total of $51 billion, according to Forbes' annual list. Four out the top five richest Americans represent the technology industry, with fellow Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison trailing Warren Buffett.
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What kind of man gets two Zune tattoos?
I didn’t get it before, and really don’t get it now.
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20.6.2007 Meet the man behind the Windows 7 wall
Anyone using Windows 7 can't help but have noticed the array of creative and vibrant content that comes preloaded with it and is also available to download. Will Austin is just one of the photographers who will find his way onto millions of desktops worldwide when Microsoft's new operating system launches later this year.
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27.8.2009 Gates no longer the richest man in the world?
Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned as the world's richest man. But based on his past comments, he probably isn't disappointed.
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4.7.2007 Bill Gates no longer richest man on earth
After 13 years on top, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That honor now belongs to his friend and sometimes bridge partner Warren Buffett.
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6.3.2008 Microsoft boss Bill Gates doesn't want to be the world's richest man
Bill Gates told an online advertising conference Wednesday that he'd prefer not to be the richest person in the world.
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4.5.2006 The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie's Vision for Connected Software
Ray Ozzie has a long and storied history of technological innovation, with accomplishments that include creating Lotus Notes and founding Groove Networks.
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14.4.2007Walmart To Start Selling iPhone on December 28th
Endgadget is reporting that the iPhone will go on sale at Walmart on 12/28. The rumored price of $99 seems to be just that, a rumor. According
to an alleged internal memo, the iPhone will be $197 for the 8GB model and 16GB model will run $297, both with 2 year contracts. An internal
pilot program kicks off today at 488 stores across the nation. See link for copy of the memo. News source: Endgadget
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18.12.2008Walmart to shut down DRM servers
Walmart is becoming the latest music vendor to shut down its legacy digital rights management (DRM) system, prompting warnings of potential for lost
purchases. The company is advising users to back up any songs which are currently running with the company's DRM software. When the company shuts
down in licensing servers on October 9th, users will be unable to verify new machines or transfer songs to other systems.
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Walmart has been selling DRM-free files for more than a year through its online service. The new files are being distributed as clean MP3 files,
whereas the DRM-equipped songs and videos were encoded in the WMA format. "DRM-protected music has been a sensitive issue and we recognize how
confusing it can be to customers," lead music buyer Tom Welch said in a blog posting.
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01.10.2008CircuitCity beats Walmart with 'sub'-$200 HD DVD player
Walmart may or may not be on the verge of offering a $198 Toshiba HD DVD player, but CircuitCity already is. That’s right, Toshibas HD-A2,
which started out at $500 is now priced at $200 at CircuitCity, available via online purchase with free shipping or in-store pickup. Toshiba
is pushing the price advantage viciously, but will it be enough? One can argue that whether or not Walmart offers the $200 price tag is much more
important, seeing as it is the biggest retailer in the U.S. I personally believe that the rumours are true, and expect the Walmart offer to begin
within a week. It will be very interesting to see how Sony will respond; there is still much time until the holidays. The HD war continues: to the
consumers delight, prices are dropping, but to the consumers dismay, a winner has yet to emerge.
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27.10.2007Walmart: $98.87 Toshiba HD DVD Player
Walmart has yet again proved that it can afford to make ludicrous price drops and leave the competition dazed. I was trying to figure out yesterday
why there was no longer a mention of an HD DVD player over at Walmarts website. The answer came in the form of an excited post by one of our members
on the forums. This Friday, dont be surprised to hear reports of a human stampede towards your local Walmart store.
The largest grocery
retailer in the United States has done the unthinkable by pricing an HD DVD player, which not so long ago cost half a grand, within only 2 digits.
That’s right, forget Toshiba’s sub-$200 HD-A2 and embrace the sub-$100 HD-A2. The device may be an outdated product, but it will
definitely be sold out before the holidays. The fact that Toshiba (or Sony for that matter) has yet to start cutting prices in time for the shopping
craze that is December is probably the most important piece of information here. The recent price cuts have been all done by retailers and they chose
HD DVD.
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01.11.2007Microsoft's major Xbox 360 announcement is... Pac-Man
Internet rumors suggested
Microsoft was preparing a
major announcement for this
morning, and, in a historical
sense, they have: Pac-Man
creator Toru Iwatani has
collaborated with Namco Bandai
and Microsoft on Pac-Man
Championship Edition for Xbox
Live. What's so special?
Iwatani's help designed new,
dynamically changing maps for
gamers -- the first in 26
years.
Pac-Man
Championship Edition will be
available tomorrow for 800
Microsoft Points ($10) and
includes the classic Pac-Man
already available as an XBL
Arcade release, plus a slew of
new timed modes:
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The Championship Mode designed
by Namco Bandai and Iwatani
specifically for the
championship round of the Xbox
360 Pac-Man World Championship
and features redesigned mazes
with wide maze walls and a
widescreen configuration to
better enable high-speed game
play. Timed limit of five
minutes...
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06.06.2007Man charged for attempting to hire a hit man online
The month of love does not always end happily for everybody. One such case of an unhappy ending is that of Karim Emara. Reports have surfaced which
state that Emara has been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault after an online posting requesting a hitman to attack his ex-girlfriend
was discovered by the NYPD. Emara posted online a request for a hit man to brutally assault his former lover. The request was quite specific as well,
stating that whomever was to take the job would be expect to "hit the woman in the knee with a blunt object, preferably a baseball bat and
permanently scar her face". The payment was to be for the sum of $5,000.
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28.02.2009Florida Man Gets Six Years for
Piracy
A Florida man has received a
six-year prison sentence after
being convicted of conspiracy
and copyright infringement
charges related to the sale of
pirated software. In addition
to the jail term, he has also
been mandated to pay $4.1
million in restitution...
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26.08.2006Exploding cell phone didn't kill Korean man
It was a story destined for big headlines: A cell phone battery exploded and caused the death of a man in South Korea. Fortunately for handset maker
LG Electronics, it just wasn't true...
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30.11.2007Pac Man Founder Calls It Quits with New Version
For a video game legend,
Wednesday's release of
"Pac Man Championship
Edition" for Xbox 360 will
mark the end of a nearly
three-decade career for one of
gaming's most illustrious
developers...
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07.06.2007Man Sorry For Faked Wikipedia
Post
The man responsible for
writing a Wikipedia entry that
linked John Seigenthaler, Sr.
to the assassination of John
F. Kennedy has come forward
and apologized to the former
presidential aide. Brian
Chase, 38, has resigned from
his job as operations manager
at a Nashville delivery
company over the flap...
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12.12.2005WalMart to sell $199 HD-DVD player in Q4 2007?
WalMart is known for being
able to majorly cut its prices
thanks to mass production for
a wide range of products. Now
that I think of it, my first
DVD player was from WalMart,
purchased at a mere $30
CAD.
And now,
rumour has it that WalMart
plans the same type of move
with HD-DVD players. If the
source and translation is
correct, Taiwan based
manufacturer Fuh Yuan and TDK
have been contracted by the
retail giant to produce the
blue laser drives for
2-million HD-DVD players.
Broadcom will reportedly
supply the system-on-a-chip
decoder and China's Great
Wall Corporation will handle
final assembly. The deal
represents around USD $100
million and it is reported
that a new manufacturing plant
has already been opened to
fulfill the order. Speculation
suggests the players will
arrive at retail in late 2007
and will be priced between
$199-299 USD. Now, the end
of the year is quite a ways
away, so Blu-Ray has time to
respond - either they'll have
to match it or come very
close. Isn't competition just
lovely?
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21.04.2007Walmart Offers $197.88 Venturer HD DVD Player
The cheap Venturer HD DVD rumours have finally turned to rock solid fact. It may not cost
$98.87 but, on the
other hand, it does not appear to be a limited time offer. The largest grocery retailer in the United States has yet again showed that it is more than
happy to fuel the HD war by beating competitor's prices. It may not carry the Toshiba brand, but the $197.88 Venturer SHD7000 is in stock and
ready to go. Many have emphasized that $200 is the magic number for the holidays. For Toshiba's sake, I hope that's true. These additional
players may finally get those HD DVD movie sales numbers up. Then again, this is a US-only deal, and HD DVD really needs help in Japan and Europe. It
will be quite interesting to see what Toshiba will offer those regions during these holidays and how Sony will respond.
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04.12.2007Wal-Mart Zune Comes With Free Porn
It's not the first time, nor
the last, that people will
find porn on (supposedly) new
or recycled consumer
electronics. This time it
happened to a family in
Southside Chicago who
purchased Microsoft's Zune
from the local Walmart for
their 12 year-old daughter.
The daughter, who
says the box looked like it
had been opened (the charger
was missing) discovered that
her player contained porn.
When confronted, the Walmart
store manager initially blamed
Microsoft for the pre-load.
Later, a Walmart spokesman
said they would investigate
the matter and provide the
couple with a full refund plus
a ษ gift card, presumably
to pick up a copy of "My Two
Daddies" to help the mother
explain to her daughter why
the "5 men were having sex
with each other." Uh, "join
the social" Microsoft?
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20.12.2006British Man Successfully Sues
Spammer
It what is believed to be the
first successful suit to seek
damages against a spammer for
sending junk mail, a British
man has won monetary
compensation for his troubles.
The suits are allowed under
new European laws that allow
junk e-mailers to be sued for
sending unwanted e-mails...
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29.12.2005Row, row, row your boat, TCP/IP...
Bon voyage and safe travel, Oliver Hicks! Afloat on a flying carrot in the company of virgins, the... *cough* Okay, let's try that again. Oliver
Hicks, the 26-year-old rower who was the first man to solo-row eastbound across the north Atlantic, has set off on an attempt to be the first man to
circle the globe rowing alone. And technology is there...
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11.02.2009Man pins child porn accusations on pet cat
Child porn is, understandably, a very serious offense; so much so that there's an entire TV show dedicated to catching those willing to have sex
with a minor, thus potentially also guilty of the first crime. As you can expect, people will do near anything to escape charges, though sometimes
they end up getting themselves into worse trouble than they initially were. One such example is a 48 year old man named Keith Griffin, as NBC Miami
reports, who told police that his cat was the one behind the 1000+ child porn images on his computer.
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08.08.2009Man Pleads Guilty to eBay DoS
Attacks
A 21 year-old Oregon man has
pled guilty to charges that he
was behind attacks targeted at
eBay and other online sites in
2003. Anthony Clark infected
20,000 computers with a worm
and then used them to launch
denial of service attacks.
Clark could face up to ten
years in prison...
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29.12.2005Calif. Man Arrested for
Running Botnet
A California man was arrested
by federal authorities on
Thursday, accused of running a
400,000-computer network for
illegal activities. This
network, called a
"botnet," contains
systems that have been
compromised by a hacker who
can upload files or control
them remotely through an IRC
channel...
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05.11.2005Fortune: Gates No Longer Richest Man
An era has come to an end,
says Fortune , as Bill
Gates is no longer the
world's richest man,
according to the magazine's
latest tally. Mexican telecom
billionaire Carlos Slim has
surpassed the Microsoft
founder with an estimated
worth of $59 billion compared
to Gates' $58 billion...
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07.08.2007Internet Founding Father Joins
Google
The man widely known as a
"founding father" of
the Internet is now a Google
employee. Vinton Cerf, the man
who helped co-found TCP/IP,
the system that routes
Internet traffic, will join
the search giant as Chief
Internet Evangelist...
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