SquareTrade, a company that deals in selling warranties for electronics, decided to look at a pool of just over 1,000 warranty claims for Xbox 360 consoles. What did they find as a failure rate? 16.4% of Xbox 360’s fail, and 60% of those failed with the infamous red ring of death.
Is that worse than other [...]
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A few weeks ago word came out about an out of control spy satellite that was weeks away from hitting Earth.
Appropriate government agencies were said to be monitoring the situation to decided what, if any, action should be taken.
Shooting it down was not ruled out and it looks like that’s exactly what will happen.
To help [...]
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Palm, leaders in coming in at the bottom of customer satisfaction surveys, decided to have a little fun with their new ad at the expense of BlackBerry maker RIM.
As you may have heard (or even experienced first-hand) RIM suffered from a service outage on Monday after a network upgrade went wrong.
Palm, striking while that is [...]
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If you have an Xbox 360 that was released before Microsoft updated the consoles to include an HDMI port but really wish you could use HDMI without having to buy a new console, MadCatz has you covered with its Xbox 360 HDMI Conversion Kit.
This $89.99 kit plugs into the consoles standard output jack and gives [...]
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