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POPSMicrosoft: No New Xbox Anytime Soon One of the things that make boxes like the Xbox and PS3 more useful is that they're connected to the internet, and can download new software updates that radically change the feel of the machine. In some ways, the "New Xbox Experience" released last years was like getting a whole new system.
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POPSIn-Game Advertising Picks Up Most in-game ads appear virtually the same way they would in the real world -- like a billboard on the side of the road in a racing game. But if advertisers really do see positive results from these ads, expect to see them in more creative formats: * Mario wearing Nikes * Master Chief pounding down a Red Bull * Sonic The Hedgehog eating at a Sonic drive-through
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POPSMicrosoft Mulls Instant-On It's a safe bet that the next Windows operating system will boast faster load times than Vista, which has been consistently criticized for taking ages to start up. Whether or not that will mean an "instant on" feature is up for debate -- but I'd love to see it.
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POPSZune Is For Babies How do you know your product is a dud? When your marketing strategy requires winning over unborn children.
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POPSFormer Googlers Launch New Search Engine People in the tech industry love to speculate about what company might finally unseat Google as the king of search -- and more often than not, the answer they come up with is "nobody." Cuil has a good a chance as anyone else -- which, when you're competing with Google, is very, very slim.
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POPSXBox 360 Price Cut Coming The price cut comes right before Microsoft gives a big presentation at the E3 conference -- so there's some speculation that they're going to introduce a new model with more power or extra features.
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POPSMicrosoft & Yahoo: Is A Deal Back On? Microsoft withdrew its $33 a share bid in May, because Yahoo wouldn't come down from $37 a share. If they can get the board booted, you can bet that the price will be quite a bit lower.
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POPSAre Apple's Salaries Too Low? One important points not addressed in this story; if Apple employees are receiving lots of stock options, they're making money that way. Shares of Apple stock were trading under $10 five years ago; today they're around $180.
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POPSHow Yahoo Torpedoed Microsoft Bid If the allegations are true, the adoption of this plan is just one of the ways Yahoo sought to poke Microsoft in the eye. Complaints like this one surfacing cant help the continuing efforts to get the two companies talking seriously.
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POPSNintendo Launches WiiWare Nintendo has a lot of catching up to do in the downloadable game space -- until now, all it has sold is ports of its own old console games. It's interesting to see the company focusing on new and indie developers, but that may not deliver enough buzz to make the service popular.
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POPSXP and Vista Service Packs Knocked Out The new XP service pack reportedly applies some helpful speed boosts to users' systems, so there's a lot of folks waiting for it. The fact that Microsoft issued a service pack with a major bug in it is not encouraging.
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POPSMicrosoft Forced To Give XP Another Reprieve Plain and simple, most people don't want Vista. It's telling to look at the poll results in this story -- 45.7% of users say they're holding out as long as they can before switching, and a huge 32.3% say they will never switch.
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POPSMicrosoft Slashes Vista Prices This is a really unusual move for Microsoft, and may betray the company's concerns about how poorly the operating system has been received.
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POPSMicrosoft Lets Gamers Design Games "Microsoft wants to do for video games what YouTube has done for video..." and just like YouTube, 99% of the content created with these tools will be utter junk. But it will be cool to see the rare game that's actually fun to play.
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POPSVista Update Makes Things Worse Vista users can not get a break! The new OS is sluggish and buggy enough as is -- and then an update that's supposed to fix it makes things worse.
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POPSYahoo Haggles, Microsoft Says, "Tough." Yahoo likely wants $40 a share from Microsoft -- but Gates and company definitely do not want to raise their bid. Look for Microsoft to argue the deal directly with shareholders, maybe get them to throw out Yahoo's current board of directors.
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POPSMicrosoft Gives Away 85 Million PCs This is an interesting strategy -- Microsoft is at a major disadvantage in developing countries, where free operating systems like Linux are way more attractive than expensive, proprietary Windows.
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POPSMicrosoft's $528 Mil Tax Break Keep in mind these numbers are all estimates, and that Microsoft is definitely not the only company that does this sort of thing. But I figure that doesn't make it any less sleazy.
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POPSVideo Game Sales Way Up Christmas came late for the video game industry; sales of consoles and games are both way up, and should drive significant revenue in the quarter.
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POPSWill The Mac OS Run Windows Apps? To translate this from the geek speak: Apple may be adding code into their newest operating system which would allow user to run Windows software, natively, from within the Mac OS. Right now, you have to run a special program, and run windows inside of that -- or else boot your computer into Windows entirely. If this is true, it would be huge -- and a major threat to Microsoft's domination of the OS market.
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POPSGaming Giants Fail At Green Tech When Apple placed last out of 14 companies last April, the company promised to clean up its act -- and has now climbed to number 11. Let's hope Nintendo, Philips and Microsoft follow suit. Since game consoles are such huge sellers, that's a lot of pollution and waste out there.
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POPSMom Puts Microsoft's Ballmer On The Spot The anti-Vista backlash is strong, and growing. It's nothing new for a Microsoft OS upgrade to be met with complaints and moaning, but this time it seems unusually extreme. People are actually uninstalling Vista and going back to XP... will the trend get even bigger and continue to hurt Microsoft?
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POPSHalo 3 Hits $300 Million Everyone knew Halo 3 would be a big hit, but these numbers are really stellar. If the sales hold up, this carries Microsoft a long way towards catching up with the Nintendo Wii -- and towards meeting their promise that the Xbox division of the company would turn a profit this year.
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