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Entries from September 2009

Microsoft To Cut Xbox Prices Following Sony’s Lead

September 8th, 2009 · 4:19 am

Microsoft just announced that it will cut prices of it’s Xbox 360 Elite by 100 dollars. This announcement comes one week after Sony dropped the price of Playstation for the same amount. Research group, NPD Group, released figures that show video game sales falling for the fifth straight month in July of 2009 ( down [...]

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Yahoo Messenger 10 Boosts Video Conferencing Performance

September 6th, 2009 · 4:46 pm

One year ago, Yahoo rolled out Messenger 9 with video conferencing abilities. It was not a strong competitor to Skype, but was an obvious direction for the IM powerhouse. With Yahoo Messenger 10, video quality will be greatly improved making the tool a strong competitor with Skype for Windows users. Yahoo Messenger 10 will not [...]

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Data Transfer Quotas May Be A Thing Of The Past

September 4th, 2009 · 7:10 pm

One of the largest web hosting companies just removed data transfer quotas from their hosting packages. 1 & 1 Internet serves 9 million customers has been in what has been termed an “arms race” for market share.

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