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Double Feature Update for Microsoft's Xbox 360

Coming out of a longer no-new-features-for-the-Xbox cycle Microsoft's game device will get two firmware updates in just one week: yesterday an update has been released, which will bring WPA2 security for WLAN networks, and next week another one will expand its Dashboard with community services ... [More]

End of free beer at Hulu?

Owned by NBC Universal, News Corp and Disney, the free video platform Hulu thinks about getting rid of the 'free' part - or at least News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey does in a discourse given before an audience of broadcast and cable executives ... [More]

Netflix plans streaming services outside of U.S - maybe even on Wii and PS3

Seems like the streaming service and movie download portal Netflix likes to expand in different directions - because of its Xbox 360 success on more home devices and besides that on more countries outside the U.S. ... [More]

Blu-ray add-on for Xbox 360 ... or not?

In an interview with Gizmodo Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer confirms a Blu-ray add-on for the Xbox 360 - while its german production manager for the gaming console denies ... [More]

Not really worth mentioning: The Windows 7 Whopper

In Japan Microsoft and Burger King team up to promote the new Microsoft with a monstrous 'limited edition' burger - seven-layers thick ... [More]

Danny Boyle: Cut movie prices to fight piracy

The director of last year's Oscar winner 'Slumdog Millionaire', Danny Boyle, obviously has a different view when looking at Internet movie piracy as the big players in Hollywood: In his opinion the best way to fight piracy is not by sueing customers, but through cutting theatre prices ... [More]

Free WiFi on Virgin Airlines

Search giant Google and Airline Virgin America joined for a common project, bringing a free WiFi on all flights from the UK to the USA, including destinations like San Francisco, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington Dulles ... [More]

Sky TV ready for Xbox 360

According to Microsoft, the long awaited addition of BSkyB TV to their Xbox 360 will begin shortly on October 27th ... [More]

Private British TV first to broadcast for free on YouTube

The private British TV network Channel 4 recently signed a long termed deal with YouTube, making all self produced content available for free on a YouTube channel ... [More]

Worth mentioning? Maybe. New Star Trek Movie Available On USB Drive

For friends of collectibles and gadgets comes a Star Trek Starfleet badge shaped USB drive, including the new Star Trek movie ... [More]

Worth mentioning: Free music from Mojo Nixon

Hard to get more Rock'n'Roll for free - at least legally. Mojo Nixon gives away most of his music catalog for free on Amazon MP3 ... [More]

New iTunes rivals approaching

Two new iTunes rivals showed up, trying to commercialize digital music in times of the Internet and save as much old school business model as possible. One is 'Virgin Media' with a limited 'unlimited music service', the other is 'Sky Songs', one more subscription service combining streaming music with MP3 downloads ... [More]

Worth mentioning: Hulu for Linux

Hulu recently rolled out a Linux Desktop version of its online video service ... [More]

Wii price drop in UK

From Amazon.co.uk comes the news, that the price of the Nintendo Wii has been slashed again, this time from £179.99 to £139.99, which includes ... [More]

Sony faces lawsuit over broken PS3 consoles

According to Sony, the latest firmware updates 3.0 and 3.01 did nothing harmful, according to many users, 3.0 caused irreversible hardware damage and 3.01 didn't help much. One of them, John Kennedy, of Florida, is now leading a class-action lawsuit ... [More]

Full Flash for Smartphones

With Flash 10.1 Adobe brings full Flash support to Android, webOS, Symbian, BlackBerry and WinMo, making smartphone users happy and pushing them one step ahead of iPhone owners, since Adobe does not add Flash support of this device - for reasons unknown yet. ... [More]

Free All Music offers ... well, free music ...

The service, which has been launched recently, presents a new ad-model for legal music downloads, being a somehow modified replacement of the failed one, but including more interaction and choices about the ads to be seen. ... [More]

Palm restores iTunes sync

Just after everybody thought, Palm did actually give in, the company rolled out a new firmware for their Pre smartphone, which includes a restored iTunes synchronization feature, continuing the war with Apple ... [More]

Free anti-virus software from Microsoft

A few days ago Microsoft published its new malware protection software called 'Microsoft Security Essentials'. The security suite is available for download and can be used freely. It offers real-time protection for Windows OS, is avaliable as a 32 and 64 bit version and guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. ... [More]