Archive for April 21, 2008

Help! Microsoft Thinks I’m A Thief For Wanting My XBox Back!

Microsoft hasn’t returned Tiffany’s XBox 360 for four months because they think she is a thief, even though she has her original receipt and a credit card statement proving that she is the console’s rightful owner. Tiffany even sent a letter to Microsoft’s legal department asking how else she could prove ownership. That was 22 days ago.

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Beta Launch for YouTube Feature Updates

These tests are already being served to a small percentage of randomly selected users,but anyone can choose to opt in and test them out. Once logged in to your account, click the following links to start using the beta versions of the new Inbox, My Contacts and My Videos features.

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Half-life (orange box) being ported to Linux?

title says it all folks, someone claiming to be a valve employee entered #ubuntu-offtopic looking for win->linux porters, just directed them to job description and asked them to email valve, jobdescription: http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html

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Apple Store to go Virtual

A patent application’s stated goal is to create an online shopping experience that doesn’t feel “sterile and isolating” like a traditional retail website, and includes a diagram depicting stick figures walking around in a retail store with an Electronics, Books, and Music section, underneath a sun– i.e., MacNN speculates, in a virtual world like

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