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Xbox Live provokes profits: in the black by 2008

Chris Davies, May 6th 2007 Discuss [0]

I can quite easily imagine my bank manager's face if I went to him and said "I'm planning to work at a loss, if that's okay, and build up a few million in debt" - in fact I can imagine the sound thrashing he'd give me - but things obviously work differently in games console land. We already knew that Microsoft had applied some still-leaky sutures to the gushing wound that is their Entertainment and Devices Division, bringing losses down to a mere $315m; now division president Robbie Bach has given an interview assuring us that through a complicated sum of Xbox Live revenue and game royalties the console will actually turn a profit next year. Read The Full Story

Gateway puts quad-core PC on store shelves

Chris Scott Barr, May 2nd 2007 Discuss [3]

Are you looking for a quad-core PC that can tackle your everyday needs, but you don't want to pay for shipping and wait for the UPS man to drop it off? Now you can pick one up at you favorite brick-and-mortar stores. Yes, you've actually been able to do this for a little while now, however Gateway has released their new quad-core PCs for a more reasonable price than those currently available. Look for the FX8020 with an Intel Q6600, 2GB of DDR2, 512MB Radeon X1950, gigabit ethernet and a 500GB hard drive. Read The Full Story

Gateway offer low-price, high-spec Tablet PC, the E155C

Chris Davies, Apr 19th 2007 Discuss [1]

Mainstream PC manufacturer Gateway have just unveiled their latest Tablet PC assault on the Best Buy masses, with the introduction of the E155C "Thin & Light Convertible Notebook". They've obviously been studying their market, too; Gateway's first foray into pen-computing was very much a normal laptop with the addition of a swivel hinge and digitiser (in an act of cost-cutting they even eschewed the by-now industry standard Wacom digitiser panel), but the E155C has picked up on many of the successful innovations from other tablet manufacturers with the bonus of a typical low price. Read The Full Story