Tag: Xbox 360

Students Get a Free Xbox 360 with $699 Notebook Purchase

Students Get a Free Xbox 360 with $699 Notebook Purchase

| May 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

Beginning May 20, students going back to school can get a steal on an Xbox 360 when they buy a qualifying Windows PC for $699 or more. I say a steal because, you’ll feel like your stealing since the 4GB Xbox 360 is free. That’s right! Get a free Xbox 360 with a band new [...]

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An Xbox 360 Laptop You Can Buy: Gaming Notebook

An Xbox 360 Laptop You Can Buy: Gaming Notebook

| May 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

When you think of gaming notebooks, normally your mind goes to the recently refreshed Alienware systems, but now you can get your Xbox 360 gaming on with a custom built Xbox 360 Slim notebook. If  you want, you can even get the Xbox gaming notebook customized with a custom engraving and your choice of paint. [...]

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How to Stream Your iTunes Library to Xbox 360 from a Mac [DRM Free]

How to Stream Your iTunes Library to Xbox 360 from a Mac [DRM Free]

| April 20, 2011 | 2 Comments

Rivet is a tiny piece of Mac software that will help you stream video, music and photos to an Xbox 360. Many people have their iTunes library of music and movies on their MacBook which can’t stream to the Xbox 360 by default. Following this simple guide, you can take that library on the road [...]

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Microsoft Kinect Officially Supported on PC in Spring

Microsoft Kinect Officially Supported on PC in Spring

| February 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

Microsoft will be officially supporting the use of their wildly popular Kinect Xbox 360 add-on for use on the PC with an SDK to arrive this spring. The Official Microsoft Blog made the announcement Monday. Microsoft won’t be creating a consumer product themselves, yet. But they will offer a free downloadable software development kit aimed [...]

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Microsoft Announces Xbox Kinect Controls and Xbox Live Avatar at CES 2011

Microsoft Announces Xbox Kinect Controls and Xbox Live Avatar at CES 2011

| January 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

During the Microsoft CES 2011 Keynote Steve Ballmer and others from Microsoft announced some interesting improvements to the Xbox including Kinect control of both Netflix and hulu coming this spring. Kinect is the new add-on for Xbox 360. The idea is “you are the controller”.  As a resuilt, using gestures and voice, the Xbox Kinect [...]

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Top 10 Most Exciting New Gadgets for 2010

Top 10 Most Exciting New Gadgets for 2010

| December 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

2010 was an interesting year for tech toys and gadgets. We share with you our most exciting or interesting new items introduced in 2010. To make the list only one criteria had to be met. It had to make us say, “Wow! That is so cool!” as we reach for our wallets. We count down [...]

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Funny Video About the Naming Schemes of Tech Companies from the BBC

Funny Video About the Naming Schemes of Tech Companies from the BBC

| December 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

The names of our gadgets and technology companies can be a bit humorous, but these two comedians on the BBC take the naming humor to a whole new level with a pun filled skit shown below. The skit covers the easy targets like BlackBerry, Apple, Orange and Windows and also is able to bring in [...]

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Nintendo Joins Sony and Microsoft with Brisk Holiday Sales

Nintendo Joins Sony and Microsoft with Brisk Holiday Sales

| December 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

One right after the other, the big three game console makers have been bragging about their sales, now with Nintendo joining in the dueling press releases. According to an AP story, Nintendo sold 600,000 Nintendo Wii gaming consoles on Black Friday. They also sold an additional 900,000 Nintendo DS handheld gaming systems on the same [...]

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Sony Move on the Move with 4.1M PlayStation Move Controllers Shipped

Sony Move on the Move with 4.1M PlayStation Move Controllers Shipped

| December 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

Upon hearing Microsoft’s announcement of 2.5 Million Xbox Kinects sold in the first 25 days, Sony must not have wanted to be upstaged. They announced that they have shipped 4.1 Million PlayStation Move controllers … to retailers, according to Engadget. However, this is not comparing two of the same. Microsoft’s report was of sales while [...]

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Microsoft in Talks to Bring HBO and Showtime to Xbox 360

Microsoft in Talks to Bring HBO and Showtime to Xbox 360

| November 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

Dexter and True Blood fans hang on to your remotes, Tech Crunch is reporting that Microsoft is in talks with Showtime and HBO to bring programming from both premium networks to the Xbox 360 as a channel subscription and as a la carte downloads. If this works out, it could easily turn the 360 into [...]

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