Wed Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 16, 2005 at 3:11:49 PM
Microsoft expects good Xbox 360 launch. Too expensive!
US to give no control to UN.
Ventura bets on sports.
Sony BMG recalls all DRMed CDs. Finally, consumers have some power.
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The world's largest software maker plans to launch Xbox 360 on Dec. 2 in Europe and Dec. 10 in Japan. Microsoft convinced some of Japan's hottest creators, animators and musicians to create games for the new Xbox, including "Final Fantasy"'s original producer, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and publisher Square Enix.
US to give no control to UN.
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The last-minute deal, reached just hours before the World Summit on the Information Society, or WSIS, began Wednesday, effectively postpones a long-simmering dispute over the future of Internet management. China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued that the U.S. and other wealthier nations must share power--complaints that now will be taken to the new U.N. forum.
Ventura bets on sports.
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Ventura is the new spokesman for BetUS.com, a Web site operated from Costa Rica that lets people wager on sports contests from their home computers. "This is a step toward bringing something above-board that clearly many people want to partake in," Ventura said.
Sony BMG recalls all DRMed CDs. Finally, consumers have some power.
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"We share the concerns of consumers regarding discs with XCP content-protected software, and, for this reason, we are instituting a consumer exchange programme and removing all unsold CDs with this software from retail outlets," Sony BMG said in an statement.