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Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/23/HNemmyibm_1.html IBM and Microsoft are about to pick up impressive new hardware to stick in their corporate trophy cases: Next week, the companies will take home their first Emmy awards for technical innovations. Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) scored in the recently created video game ...

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4650225.stm 22-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console. The Cambridge graduate was sentenced at Caerphilly Magistrates Court in Wales to 140 hours of community service. The man had been selling modified Xbox consoles which he fitted ...

Source: http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/05/18/0518automarketscan16.html    Goldman Sachs maintained an ''outperform'' rating on Microsoft after meeting senior management late Tuesday. ''Microsoft observed that the upcoming Sony PS3 appears to be a powerful box similar to Xbox 360, but believes that [it] will have an important ...

Checkout some of the hightlights from E3 here.  The highlights of the Xbox360 are good as are some of the game videos http://www.e3insider.com/floored.aspx

Kool upto 40 Games by launch and the best bit it will be backward compatible with top-selling Xbox games Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4554405.stm Up to 40 games are expected to be available by the end of the year for the Xbox 360, Microsoft says. At a news conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft officials said 160 titles ...

This is a good read! Source: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000440041962/ We couldn’t pin him down for as long as we’d have liked, but Bill sat down with us at last week’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference for a one-on-one. The clock ran out before we were able to ask him about Portable Media Center, what smartphone he uses, and of ...