Archive for July, 2008

I wish my XBOX 360 Red Rings of Death struck me in NY

July 14, 2008

As I’ve posted recently my family’s XBOX 360 system was struck by the dreaded Red Rings of Death, I’ve arranged for free shipping and it looks like free repair from Microsoft.com with a return of an XBOX 360 that will actually have a 90 day warranty. While reading emails from Microsoft and UPS in my [...]

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Gmail looking out for security – again

July 13, 2008

Gmail once again shows their concern for security by adding a new security feature: remote sign out. If you ever wondered if you left your Gmail logged in somewhere or maybe someone figured out our password, now you can not only find out, you can figure out where they logged on from (by IP address), [...]

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Why XBOX 360 Red Rings of Death?

July 8, 2008

I’ve been asking myself this question since I got the dreaded red rings of death myself, and it seems ZDNet found an answer, for some of us at least. Now I’ve owned 2 XBOX 360′s, one of the original systems released the same time the original Gear of Wars came out, and after I got [...]

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Google Stung by data theft

July 8, 2008

ZDNet Australia recently reported on July 3, 2008 that Google has been effected by a recent theft at Colt Express Outsourcing Services on May 26th of this year – showing sadly that sometimes the big guys get stung, too. The theft of personal data of Google’s US employees hired prior to 2006 has been confirmed [...]

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Fix XBOX 360 Red Rings of Death

July 8, 2008

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