Profits Down at the House of Mario
Sony continues to lose money in it's entertainment division on sales of the PlayStation 3.And Nintendo continues to turn a profit on sales of the Wii.Then why are investors driving Nintendo's... My Problem With Cellular Providers
Remember when the typical cellular phone advertisement showed a woman with a small child near a broken down car on a dark highway? Cell phone in hand, she would call a tow truck and be on her... Netflix Streaming Arriving Soon on PlayStation 3
Netflix's Instant Watching feature allows subscribers of the DVD rental-by-mail service to stream a select group of 17,000 movies to a PC or a compatible device . Up until now, the XBOX 360 was... Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
Windows 7 was released for general availability today, and there has been no shortage of digital ink extolling the virtues of the new operating system. The reviews have been mostly favorable and... CLEAR 4G Wireless Internet
Atlanta is one of a handful of cities with 4G wireless service already available. This first salvo in the race to 4G is an implementation of WiMAX , which claims speeds comparable to Wi-Fi over... My Problem With Apple
I've been a Mac user for a little over three years now. In fact, I daresay that my fingers spend as much time on the keyboard of my MacBook as they do on any other computer. I'm not an expert,... Blockbuster Partners With TiVo, Others
After watching for years as upstarts likeNetflix and Redbox eroded their customer base, Blockbuster has finally launched a few salvos of it's own in the war for movie viewers. Notably,Blockbuster... Mobile TV Standard Approved
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has approved a standard for mobile digital broadcasts . This comes after some bickering between factions promoting different standards finally... Whither Nintendo?
I love Nintendo. I really do. I love what they represent in the world of gaming. It's such a unique and venerable company that most long-time gamers can't help but root for them to succeed. And... Analysis: Sony
Sony was the undisputed king of the last generation of consoles, selling over 100 million PlayStation 2 systems and a mess of games to go along with it. This happened, ironically, despite the fact... Analysis: Microsoft
Since Microsoft was first out of the gate in this generation of home consoles, we'll start by taking a look at them. Microsoft's business analysts crunched the numbers and determined that the first... Happy New Year!
And so begins a new year for the gaming industry, a chance for each company to look back on the successes and failures of 2007 while making plans for total industry domination in 2008. As gamers,... Folding on the PlayStation 3
The new PlayStation 3 firmware that includes the software for Stanford University's Folding@Home project has been released. And setting it up reminded me of the choice I had to make at the... February's Sales Numbers
Hardware sales were way up in year-over-year comparisons in both the US and Canada. Leading the charge in hardware was Nintendo, with it's Wii and DS systems forming a potent one-two punch. Both... New Blog? Maybe.
I've been kicking this idea of doing a blog around for a while now. I haven't committed to the idea because I don't know if I'll have time to keep it up even if I do start it. But it's a new year...