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GameStop reports Kinect shortages
Nov 19th
GameStop has confirmed that it has encountered shortages of Xbox Kinect controllers and bundles, as demand has proven greater than initially expected. Executive VP Tony Bartel suggests “expanded audiences” have been showing interest in the controllers, which are expected to bring sales performance similar to Nintendo’s Wii launch.
“I think you are going to have consumers following the UPS truck to our stores to pick up that product as soon as they can find it,” Bartel said during a recent conference call. The executive suggests PlayStation’s Move controller has also proven a strong seller.
GameStop does not expect to be able More >
Consumer Reports: end to iPhone 4 case program is unfair
Sep 13th
Consumer Reports today chastised Apple for the decision to end its iPhone case program at the end of the month. Resorting to contact with AppleCare is “less consumer-friendly” as it forces customers to do more work to address signal drop problems and limits their choices to just Apple’s Bumper case. The magazine reiterated that it still won’t recommend the iPhone 4 as free cases don’t address the root cause of the signal issue, an external antenna that isn’t insulated accidentally bridging antennas and stifling reception.
“Putting the onus on any owners of a product to obtain a remedy to a design More >
Acer ‘ZGA’ Chrome OS netbook starts popping up in Google bug reports
Aug 24th
Some more interesting stuff on the Chrome OS hardware front has started to pop up courtesy of Google’s own Chromium OS bug reports. Multiple references have been made to a mysterious Acer ZGA machine, which we have on good authority is also referred to generically as Google’s “dogfood device” in bug reports — dogfood referring to the practice of using your own products before you unleash them on the world. Even more interesting, someone actually managed to post a syslog of the machine, which is running an Atom N455 processor, has a 8GB SanDisk pSSD-S2 drive, sports a webcam, 802.11n More >