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Entries for November, 2009

Project Natal to cost just $80

Microsoft hopes to price Project Natal low enough that virtually every gamer can add it, a major rumor claimed on Wednesday. Alleged sources of MCV’s argue that the Xbox 360 motion controller is being designed with a price target of £50 (about $80) or less with 14 games, presumably mini-games, included in the box. The [...]

Vimeo converts videos for iPhone and Android

Vimeo on Wednesday announced plans to extend its movie service onto the iPhone and Android platforms, according to CNET News. All of the site’s content from the staff picks and HD video showcase have already been converted to formats optimized for mobile handsets.
“We’ve been working on it for the last few weeks. This is sort [...]

Windows 7 design takes cues from Mac OS X

The “look and feel” of the Windows 7 interface borrows from Macs, according to a Microsoft partner group manager, Simon Aldous. “One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s very graphical and easy to use,” explains Aldous in an interview. “What [...]

Firefox most vulnerable browser

Despite stereotypes, Mozilla’s Firefox is significantly more vulnerable to web attacks than any of its rivals, a Cenzic study (PDF) claimed late yesterday. About 44 percent of the 3,100 exploits tracked by the researchers attacked the open-source browser where only 15 percent of them would work in Internet Explorer. Safari is notably much closer to [...]

Walmart offers BlackBerry buyers $100 gift cards

Walmart said on Wednesday that it will offer buyers of the BlackBerry smartphones it carries a $100 gift card to use in store for whatever they want. This promotion will only last one week, and will start at 8am on November 14th. The BlackBerry handsets will also need to have two-year contracts attached to them [...]

Analyst backs CDMA/GSM hybrid iPhone

Rumors of a dual-network iPhone gained fuel on Wednesday with an analyst report from Northeast Securities claiming to know of the device. Pointing to checks within the parts chain, the analyst group expects an iPhone with both CDMA and WCDMA support to be ready by the summer of 2010. The change would let the phone [...]

iBuyPower adds its first Core i7 Laptops

A basic configuration starts at a high $2,114 but starts with a 1.6GHz Core i7, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive and extras like Bluetooth and a fingerprint reader. Options give it up to two 500GB hard disks or 256GB solid-state drives as well as 8GB of RAM and Blu-ray. Orders placed today should [...]

HP buys network firm 3Com

HP in a late afternoon update said it had bought 3Com in a cash deal the equivalent of $2.7 billion. The deal is meant to help HP’s involvement in the server and networking businesses and turns the PC builder into a near-total source for datacenters and other large-scale server environments. The two partners are still [...]

  
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