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01/27/2007
Two months on, the Wii shortage hasn’t eased
The Wii has been on sale for two months, it is still not reliably available in shops, and I am now fairly confident I…
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Gaming
Video games, consoles, gaming hardware, esports and events — PAX, Gamescom, Game Awards.
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01/24/2007
TiVo needed the people it was robbing
TiVo makes the best digital video recorder anyone has built and is losing to boxes that are worse in every respect. The reason has…
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01/20/2007
CES got upstaged by a keynote 400 miles away
Twenty thousand people spent this week walking a convention centre in Las Vegas and the only product anybody wants to discuss was announced four…
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01/16/2007
Apple TV is a bookmark, not a product
Apple announced two things in San Francisco this month and only one of them is going to matter, which is a shame, because the…
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GAMING
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01/13/2007
Apple iPhone Introduction Announcement
Apple introduces iPhone revolutionizing mobile phone design with touch screen interface and intuitive user experience.
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01/11/2007
Everyone is selling 1080p and nothing outputs it
Las Vegas this month was wall to wall with 1080p panels, and the number is on every sign because it is the largest number…
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01/09/2007
Steve Jobs Unveils iPhone at Macworld, Revolutionary Multi-Touch Smartphone Launches June 29
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone on January 9, 2007 during Macworld Conference keynote presentation introducing revolutionary multi-touch smartphone combining iPod music player…
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GAMING
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12/31/2006
2006 Console War Results: Wii Sells 3.5M Units While PS3 Manages Only 1.2M
Nintendo’s Wii sold 3.5 million units globally by year-end 2006 while PlayStation 3 managed only 1.2 million, establishing Nintendo’s motion-controlled console as the surprise…
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GAMING
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12/31/2006
2006 was a year of positioning, not products
If you had to explain 2006 to somebody in one sentence, the honest version is that a great many companies spent it positioning for…
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12/30/2006
Three consoles, two different fights
Three consoles launched into the same eight weeks and the industry has spent the whole year describing it as a war between them. I…
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12/23/2006
2006 was the year nobody fixed the phone interface
Every smartphone worth discussing this year was operated with a thumb on a keypad or a stylus on a resistive panel, and I have…
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GAMING
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12/16/2006
Flat panel prices collapsed and nobody is ready for HD
A flat panel television that cost several thousand dollars two Christmases ago is being sold this month at a price that would have seemed…
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GAMING
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12/09/2006
The Zune’s best feature was negotiated into uselessness
Microsoft has spent five years telling hardware partners to build music players around its PlaysForSure system, and this month it launched a music player…
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12/02/2006
Nintendo Wii Launches in Japan Introducing Motion Controls to Mainstream Gaming
Nintendo launched Wii in Japan on December 2, 2006, introducing motion-controlled gaming to mainstream audiences with innovative Wii Remote controllers and $250 pricing that…
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12/02/2006
The HD disc war is a fight nobody turned up to
Both high definition disc formats have now been on sale for most of a year and the honest summary of the war so far…
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