quinta-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2008
Abit's Death Date Reportedly Set: 31st of December, 2008
Abit to Close Its Doors Forever on the Last Day of the Year
Seagate Reduces Certain Hard Disk Drive Warranties to Three Years
Seagate Cuts Warranties on HDDs for Distributors
terça-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2008
Documents suggest Microsoft knew Xbox 360 could damage discs all along
URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/3iKWRYH0N7M/
Microsoft long ago fessed up that the Xbox 360 was capable of scratching discs, and it even offered a (somewhat limited) exchange program for damaged games, but some recently unsealed documents from an ongoing lawsuit now suggest that the company was well aware of the issue for about as long as the console has been around. According to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Microsoft first discovered the problem in September or October of 2005, and it even went so far as to send a "team of engineers" to stores across the US to determine the best course of action. Apparently, they came up with three options, two of which proved to be impractical, and one of which (installing small bumpers in each and every console) proved to be too expensive, leading Microsoft to offer the disc exchange instead. What's more, the documents apparently also revealed that some Microsoft employees thought that the warning labels on the console were insufficient, and that the company has received complaints about the problem from more than 55,000 customers as of April 30th of this year. No word on any movement just yet in the lawsuits themselves just yet but one of them, filed back in July of 2007, is seeking class-action status on behalf of everyone that's bought an Xbox 360.[Thanks, Lyons]
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segunda-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2008
Xbox 360 Sales Double PS3 Sales as Sony Remains Blind to Reality
URL: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13677
Sony proclaims they have "momentum" as the PS3 and PSP finish last in sales...
sábado, 13 de dezembro de 2008
BD+ Successfully Resealed
URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/efWonk7ZGcs/article.pl
IamTheRealMike writes "A month on from the story that BD+ had been completely broken, it appears a new generation of BD+ programs has re-secured the system. A SlySoft developer now estimates February 2009 until support is available. There's a list of unrippable movies on the SlySoft forums; currently there are 16. Meanwhile, one of the open source VM developers seems to have given up on direct emulation attacks, and is now attempting to break the RSA algorithm itself. Back in March SlySoft confidently proclaimed BD+ was finished and said the worst case scenario was 3 months work: apparently they underestimated the BD+ developers."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
sexta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2008
Five PC Power Myths Debunked
URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M_0RlvJv3u4/article.pl
snydeq writes "Turning off PCs during periods of inactivity can save companies between $25 and $75 per PC per year, according to Energy Star, savings that can add up quickly for large organizations. Yet most organizations remain behind the times on PC power management, in large part due to common misperceptions about PC power, writes InfoWorld's Ted Samson, who outlines five PC power myths debunked in a recent report from Forrester, ranging from the energy savings of screen savers, to the energy draw of powering up, to the difficulties of issuing patches to systems in lower-power states."
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