Archive for June 4th, 2007

MLB backs off of Sling — a little

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Filed under: Home Entertainment Major League Baseball may not be happy about Sling Media enabling fans to stream out of market baseball games over the internet, but it is apparently backing off of plans to sue the company into oblivion, RIAA-style. Bob Bowman, president of Major League Baseball Advanced Media said ...

Red Zune coming on June 10th, try and contain your excitement

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video If you've been holding out for a red version of the Zune to hit the market before you finally make the plunge, we're guessing the more reasonable metrics of "number of friends with a Zune" or "number of rational software features implemented by Microsoft" aren't ...

Big Xbox announcement tomorrow? We’re so not holding our breath

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Filed under: GamingWith the Pac-Man World Championships set to go down in New York tomorrow, earth shattering events are bound to happen, right? That's the word from Gamertag Radio's Godfree anyway, who says he was chatting up Xbox's Aaron Greenberg about the Tuesday event, and Aaron mentioned that "we have ...

Microsoft briefy ignores beef with Linux, signs IP deal with Xandros

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops It seems the love / hate relationship between Microsoft and all things open source is swinging back to the mushy side of the equation, and while this isn't exactly the retaliation we were expecting after getting blasted by Linus Torvalds, it's intriguing nonetheless. In an agreement that ...

Flextronics purchasing Solectron for $3.6 billion

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsDon't feel bad if you've never heard of Flextronics, Solectron or both -- we polled our mom on the subject, and she asked when we were going to give up this "blogging nonsense" for a real job -- but these two fairly low-profile contract electronics manufacturers churn ...