Halo 3 Launches on Xbox 360, Record-Breaking $170M Opening Day Establishes Gaming Scale
Microsoft released Halo 3 on September 25, 2007 exclusively for Xbox 360 concluding Master Chief’s fight finishing trilogy begun with Combat Evolved…
Halo 3: The Launch That Out-Grossed Hollywood
Halo 3 launched September 25, 2007 and pulled roughly $170 million in 24 hours, out-grossing Hollywood and cementing Xbox Live as the…
Facebook’s platform is a spam machine that also works
Facebook's platform, opened to outside developers, has led to a flood of applications that annoy users through relentless notifications. While many low-effort…
Most HD sets have never shown an HD picture
High definition sets are now selling in serious volume, and I would guess a large fraction of the people who own one…
Amazon is renting out its own spare capacity
Amazon has been selling storage by the gigabyte-month since early last year and virtual servers by the hour since the summer after.…
The cheap laptop is a category, not a compromise
Asus showed a small laptop at Computex in June and it is finally close to shipping. The Eee PC has a seven…
Sony Launches PSP Slim and Lite Redesigned Handheld with Reduced Size, TV-Out Connectivity
Sony launched PlayStation Portable Slim and Lite (PSP-2000) model on September 6, 2007 introducing redesigned handheld gaming hardware featuring reduced thickness from…
Apple Unveils iPod Touch with iPhone Interface, Wi-Fi, Multi-Touch Display Without Cellular
Apple introduced iPod Touch on September 5, 2007 during special media event unveiling iOS-powered portable media player featuring 3.5-inch multi-touch display, Wi-Fi…
Three consoles playing three different games
Three machines are in shops competing for the same shelf space and the same Christmas money, and they are not in the…
The only spec war where winning makes it worse
The compact cameras on sale this month are advertising eight, nine, ten megapixels, and past a certain point every one of those…
BioShock Launches, Redefining Narrative-Driven First-Person Shooters with Underwater Dystopia
Valve Corporation released BioShock on August 21, 2007 for Xbox 360 and Windows PC platforms, delivering narrative-driven first-person shooter set in underwater…
Five years of silence between browser releases
Firefox is somewhere around fifteen percent, depending on whose figures you trust and which sites they measured. That number gets quoted as…
Satnav is a business built inside a tariff
You can buy a decent satellite navigation unit for under two hundred dollars now, which is roughly a third of what the…
Amazon’s sellers are paying to do its market research
A large share of what you buy on Amazon is not sold by Amazon. Somewhere approaching a third of units now come…
Buying a router for a standard nobody finished
The wireless routers on sale this summer advertise three hundred megabits per second and comply with a specification that has not been…