GAMING
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02/10/2007
LG shipped a touchscreen phone and nobody noticed
LG has a phone on sale in Europe with no keypad at all, operated entirely by touching the screen with a finger, and roughly…
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Gaming
Video games, consoles, esports, studios, and the global gaming industry.
GAMING
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02/06/2007
Sony Ericsson’s W880 makes 9.4mm feel like a promise, not a spec
Sony Ericsson announced the W880 today, well, W880 for most markets and W888 for a couple, which I will not pretend to fully understand,…
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GAMING
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02/03/2007
Samsung’s F700 hedges where Apple refused to
Samsung brought a touchscreen phone with a slide-out keyboard to Barcelona this month, six weeks after Apple announced one without the keyboard, and the…
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GAMING
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01/30/2007
Microsoft Launches Windows Vista Operating System After Five-Year Development, Faces Compatibility Challenges
Microsoft launched Windows Vista operating system on January 30, 2007 following five-year development period under “Longhorn” codename, introducing redesigned Aero graphical interface featuring translucent…
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GAMING
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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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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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GAMING
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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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GAMING
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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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GAMING
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11/28/2006
PlayStation 3 Launch Sales Miss Targets With Only 600,000 Units Sold Worldwide
Sony announced disappointing first-week PlayStation 3 sales reaching only 600,000 units across Japan and North America combined, falling significantly short of the company’s aggressive…
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GAMING
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11/25/2006
What’s actually worth buying this Christmas
The most useful thing I can tell you about buying technology this December is that two of the three consoles are effectively unavailable and…
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GAMING
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11/19/2006
Nintendo Wii Launch Revolutionizes Gaming with Motion Control, Sells Out Nationwide
Nintendo launched the Wii console on November 19, 2006 in North America with revolutionary motion-sensing Wii Remote controller technology establishing $249.99 price point significantly…
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CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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11/19/2006
The Wii Is an Overclocked GameCube, and Nintendo Is Betting the Company on a Wrist Flick
Nintendo's Wii stands out with its unique motion controller and focus on casual gamers, contrasting sharply with the power of competitors like PlayStation 3…
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11/19/2006
Six Years, Three Survivors: How the PS2 Era Ended and the Real Console War Began
The release of the Wii at $249 in North America contrasts sharply with the $599 PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. This generation showcases…
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