Xbox Live Arcade will offer real currency payments soon, says Microsoft
Xbox Live is as good an online service as the console world has right now, but it’s got at least one glaring problem : the Marketplace does most transactions through an oblique “Microsoft Points” system that hides the true price of games instead of pricing things in real-world currency. According to Xbox Group Product Manager ...
Facebook preparing games dashboard introduction
Facebook is about to get really serious about games. The proof comes from details posted on the Facebook developers blog about the forthcoming games dashboard feature.
Through this new dashboard you’ll be able to get a wealth of information specifically about games on the social network. You will see what you have been playing, what your ...
Boxee to start charging for some content
Over the last few months, Boxee’s gone from being a charming, attractive and sophisticated XBMC fork to its own high-tech set top box. Clearly, this is a team with long-term business ideas, so its not too surprising that they are now looking into rolling out their own, pay-for-video-content system.
According to Boxee’s Avner Ronen, Boxee’s Paymet ...
Bungie donating proceeds from online store to Haiti relief during February
Who says nothing good ever comes from playing video games? Well if you know someone who thinks that video games are all about shooting guns and extreme violence then show them this.
Bungie, the makers of the extremely popular Halo video game franchise is reaching out across the globe to help those suffering in the country ...
Apple is doing something right, controls 99.4% of the app market
The graphic really speaks for itself, but some of the facts behind it are interesting.
Citing a Gartner report Ars Technica has posted an article about the mobile app market. And when we talk about the “mobile app market” we are really talking about iPhone/iPod touch apps, as at 99.4%, they make up the preponderance of ...
35 terabyte tape sets new World Record for IBM
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Although tape storage is viewed as a legacy storage option by most people it is still a very reliable and cheap way to store large amounts of information. And it now looks set to be around for a lot longer. IBM and FujiFilm have managed to increase the areal density of tape storage 39x, in ...
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s next big thing? A 0 iSlate with a long-lasting battery, analysts say
Forget about e-books, OLED display, and movies – the top features of Apple’s rumored tablet will be the price and battery life. If the iSlate is really Apple’s next big thing, it shouldn’t cost more than 0 or force us into another monthly data plan – and it absolutely must run at least six hours ...
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