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Nintendo Making a Profit on Wii Hardware
I’ll be the first to admit my Wii takes a back seat to my other gaming consoles. I do play it occasionally and my wife is a Wii Fit fanatic, but compared to the 15 games I own for my Xbox 360 the 3 I have for my Wii is a pretty small collection. However, according [...]
Continue reading...Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]
Continue reading...Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Update #1: To clear up any confusion, this article is focused on the business value of Java - it’s ability to control and generate revenue - not it’s value as a language or a technology. So the word “irrelevant” is applied to it’s business value, not if it’s a good technology or not. Sun Microsystems announced [...]
Continue reading...UK Government Needs $20 Billion for Increased Spying Program
Monday, October 13, 2008
Want to see an agenda get sold? Check out the front page of Slashdot on Sunday. More specifically, earlier today: UK Government Says More Spying Needed “Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we’re not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton’s phone calls, e-mails, and [...]
Continue reading...Dow Down 700 Pts Again, After Bailout… Herald in the Amero and the North American Union
Monday, October 6, 2008
The first time the $700 billion buyout bailout was voted on, it failed, and the Dow dropped 770 pts. The next time it was voted on, and passed, the Dow dropped. The last time it was re-voted on it finally passed and what’s that? Yep, the Dow dropped another 700 pts just for good measure. How did this [...]
Continue reading...wikinvest Launches Interactive, Annotable Embeddable Stock Charts
Thursday, July 31, 2008
For the investors or financial bloggers in the group this is some really hot news. It looks like wikinvest has launched new support for embeddable and interactive stock charts that are also annotable. For example (click and drag around this thing): You can check out the main chart page for Google here. It’s a really nice touch with [...]
Continue reading...Foreign Exchange Trading via Games
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
When you think of “foreign exchange trading” don’t you think of something that looks hellishly complex with trend charts and eye-rapingly wonderful graphs like you see above? I do. Well a long time reader sent in a story about eToro, foreign exchange trading software that masks the complexities of foreign currency markets in the guise of [...]
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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