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Attendees at Microsoft's annual E3 press conference are accustomed to flashy game announcements and big-budget trailers, but the company had a surprise in store at today's Los Angeles event. The Xbox 360 is getting a slimmer, angular new look, and an internal redesign that'll reduce noise and add much-wanted new features -- and it'll be in stores as soon as this week. Packing a black-finished case with prominent cooling vents, the new machine -- nicknamed the Xbox "Slim" by fans -- will retail for $299, the same price as the current 120 GB Xbox 360 Elite system. It will be compatible with all Xbox 360 games and hardware, with the exception of old-style external hard drives and memory cards.  Xbox 360 Slim It's not any more powerful, but the redesigned 360 nevertheless addresses a number of recurring gripes with the existing design: aside from being smaller, it's quieter, includes built-in super-fast 802.11n wireless networking, and packs an internal, replaceable 250 GB hard drive. It's also equipped with a smaller power supply, a dedicated connector for Microsoft's upcoming Kinect motion control system, and five USB ports. A matching black wireless controller will ship with the system. Conflicting reports exist on whether the older models will remain on sale, but according to at least one specialist blog, the normally reliable Joystiq, Microsoft is indeed "no longer manufacturing the original Xbox 360 hardware in any form." Alternatively, Microsoft is cutting prices of the existing Xbox range to $149 for the basic Arcade model, and $249 for the upgraded Elite. It's unclear whether that's a time-limited clearance offer, or if it'll be permanent -- but if you want to snag a cheap Xbox, and you're not too bothered about getting the brand-new Slim, this could be your chance. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:54 |
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That's the surprising consensus reached at a meeting of 30 CSOs representing some of the UK's leading enterprises held in London during the past week. This despite a poll at the bi-annual CSO Interchange event revealing that those same CSOs view social networking as the most over-hyped threat.
When it came to the round table discussions on the subject of social networking, however, the gathered CSOs expressed what has been called a "strong preference" for companies to consider banning them all. Well, almost all, as LinkedIn gets an exception as most of the CSOs considered that acceptable. Could that possibly have something to do with the CSOs being more likely to be active members of LinkedIn, a business-to-business oriented social network, than Facebook or Twitter I wonder? Perhaps they missed the news about LinkedIn and Twitter integration last year.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:25 |
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Measures being taken to prevent future problems.
McAfee has apologised to its users about the faulty update file released on Wednesday which caused crashes in Windows XP SP3 systems across the globe.
Barry McPherson, McAfee's executive vice president of support and customer service, said in a blog post late last night that his team had been battling round the clock to fix the problem and to work with affected customers.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 24 April 2010 05:39 |
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Opens up possibilities.iPhone users looking for a fully functioning operating system now have the option of loading Google's open source Android operating system on their shiny Apple smartphone. A talented coder who previously worked on jail-breaking various iPhone OS releases also demonstrated, a year ago, the Linux kernel running on an iPhone. This time he goes one better, not only showing that the iPhone can indeed dual-boot, but can do so between the iPhone and Android OS. By using the previously released Openiboot loader, the user, upon firing up the device can choose which operating system to load. |
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Thin clients sought to replace one-size-fits-all approach.The Department of Defence kicked off an overhaul of its 115,000-seat desktop environment by issuing a request for suppliers this week. The so-called 'Next Generation Desktop Project' was part of the department's ICT reform program, which was expected to cut its ICT expenditure by $1.9 billion within ten years. Next Generation Desktops were to transform Defence's existing one-size-fits-all approach to a dynamic, user-centric delivery model based on each user's location, application requirements and profile. Defence said that today, only ten percent of the department's 95,000 users access virtualised desktops (via Citrix's XenApp 4.5 suite) either remotely, on thin clients, for specific applications, or from non-Windows systems like Linux and Sparc. The majority of users connected to the Defence network via traditional PC-based technology with Windows XP and Windows 2003 back-end server software. |
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