Company Sues Sony, Wants PlayStation 3s 'Impounded And Destroyed'
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| Parallel Processing Corp. is asking a federal court to order Sony to destroy
| its PlayStation 3 videogame consoles, which PPC claims infringes on its
| patents for microprocessor technology.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070801/tc_cmp/201202099
Selling Sony's PS3 is "illegal in Argentina"
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| Sony's local branch has this humble correspondent's e-mail address, so I
| suspect they will let us know when this PS3 ordeal comes to an end and people
| can buy the console with a proper local warranty and the whole shebang.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41356
Microsoft Apparently Cutting Prices On Xbox 360
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| At the recent Microsoft Financial Analysts meeting in Redmond, Robbie Bach,
| President of the Entertainment and Devices Division, dodge the issue: “We
| have very specific plans on what we will do about pricing, but we are not
| going to talk about it today,” he said.
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/31/microsoft-apparently-cutting-prices-on-xbox-360/?mod=yahoobarrons
http://tinyurl.com/2wns89
Related:
Linux on the PS3
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| After a lot of back and forth I finally got Linux installed on my
| PS3. Ended up installing Yellowdog Linux.
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http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2007/05/21/0
PS3 Real-time Ray-tracing
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| IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3)
| to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in
| today's games.
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http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-33982.aspx
Opera Desktop Team: Approaching 9.2 [with PPC Support]
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| The most important is that we've fixed some issues with Flash 9
| on Linux. This means that you can now watch YouTube video
| fullscreen! (And close annyoing Flash ads.)
|
| [...]
|
| ...we have now ppc-linux .6 packages: that means that they work
| (okay, should work) on your PS3! -- if you installed Linux on it.
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http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/03/30/approaching-9-2
PS3 Yellow Dog Linux Install Videos
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| Due to the demand on the PS3 forums I am making some install videos of
| Yellow Dog Linux. Sorry about the slightly shaky footage, since I was
| installing and holding the camera at the same time.
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http://fatpenguinblog.com/?p=798
Yellow Dog Linux launches for PS3
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| Once the software is released for download on the public mirrors, it will
| be free of charge.
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http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6162316.html?sid=6162316&sid=6162316
Microsoft deletes mass Xbox 360 crashing claims from Forza 2 forums
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| In what appears to be an effort to conceal the over 900 replies gamers
| provided on the official Forzamotorsport.net forums about Forza Motorsport 2
| crashing on the Xbox 360, Microsoft has deleted the long thread, now stating
| that it’s “exclusive content for registered forum users” only. However, the
| thread was removed entirely, even to registered members.
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http://gamerush.zoomshare.com/files/my_images/GameRush_Entertainment_Microsoft_deletes_mass_Xbox_360_crashing_claims_from_Forza_2_forums_News.htm
Insider Trading Hasn't Affect Microsoft Stock - Yet
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| MarketWatch.com reports that Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's
| Entertainment and Devices division, sold $6.2 million of Microsoft
| stock just prior to announcing that Microsoft was going to have to
| extend XBox 360 warranties to three years because of extensive
| failures. The filings note that this was not part of any
| scheduled diversification or selling program; this was a
| conscious, unscheduled sale by the guy in charge of releasing
| news that could affect the value of Microsoft stock.
|
| [...]
|
| Insider trading is a very serious violation of the law; just
| ask Martha Stewart, who served five months in prison for
| avoiding losses of $43,000 through trades that just had suspicious
| timing (no insider trading was actually proven). This is $6.3
| million that went straight into Robbie Bach's pocket.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070713/40947_id.html?.v=1
Cringely the Unemployable on the fallacy of Web 2.0, Microsoft ruthlessness,
and the CB radio of our decade
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| Davidson: Which software company would you hate to compete against? What
| makes you single them out?
|
| Cringely: Microsoft of course. They have the deepest of pockets, unlimited
| ambition, and they are willing to lose money for years and years just to make
| sure that you don't make any money, either. And they are mean, REALLY mean.
|
| Davidson: Why do you think Microsoft is mean? Are you implying some kind of
| malicious intent rather than just ruthlessness?
|
| Cringely: Maybe "mean" is the wrong word to use for Microsoft. "Ruthless" is
| good. The company is built in the image of Bill Gates and Bill is a guy who
| gets caught-up in the game of business and doesn't typically see its personal
| cost. To use what might seem to be an obscure example, just look at all the
| various partnerships and industry consortia that Microsoft has announced
| through the years that never produced a product or even a usable
| specification. There have been literally dozens of these operations that are
| intended solely to freeze the competition until Microsoft can figure what the
| heck it actually wants to do. To Microsoft its a PR exercise that helps them
| compete but to customers it is just a damned lie. That's ruthless. There are
| plenty of other examples I can give but you get the point. I represent the
| concerns of users, not vendors, and Microsoft doesn't really care about
| users.
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http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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