XBOX LIVE ACTIVITY for the week of August 10, 2009

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)

1 Call of Duty: WaW
2 Halo 3
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2
5 GTA IV
6 1 vs 100
7 FIFA 09
8 Trials HD
9 Battlefield 1943
10 Madden NFL 10

Sunil

Sony finally bows down to pressure and cuts the price of the PS3 by $100 (Now $299.00) and announces a new PS3 Slim

The internet blogs and news outlets were buzzing about a Sony PS3 price cut for the past year or so. The CEO of Activision (maker of the popular Call of Duty series) even came out and threatened the CEO of Sony about needing to cut the price of the PS3, otherwise they may be forced to make Activision games for consoles who are selling more (i.e Wii and Xbox360). Read the wonderful news about the PS3 Price cut and new Slim line series!

Sunil

Google is going to revamp it's file system and backend!

The Goliath (i.e. Google) is set to re-do the original Google File System (GFS). If you really want to know what Google is made up of and how it runs, read this article!

Sunil

Microsoft is starting to promote Hyper-V? Yes, Microsoft is getting into the VMWARE World.

Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 on the market recently. Is this something new? Not really. Just better management utilities and better security features, but the real push behind Windows Server 2008 is MSFT's Hyper-V technology. The virtualization software that Microsoft is bringing to the small and medium size business world. Hey, if the large customers (i.e. Nissan) want to use our Hyper-V technology, then why the hell not? Well, it seems Nissan just recently did. Check out the article! I think this is just the start of a battle in the Virtualization world. Of course, we have the behemoth VMWARE. Lets see what happens. Lets get readyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to rumble!!

Microsoft encouters a nasty memory leak problem. Will Windows 7 still come out as planned on 10/22/09 or will it be delayed?

Microsoft was almost at the end of the tunnel with Windows 7. The blogs and reviews of Windows 7 for the past seven months have been great and with news of RTM (release to market) version of Windows 7 going to prominent partners (i.e Asus, Dell, Acer, HP,e tc..) in the past few weeks, one would think that it was going to be a stellar Fall season for Windows 7. Unfortunately, a major flaw was found recently in Windows 7 RTM version. It's a major memory leak that will cause our good ole BSOD. The infamous Blue Screen of Death. Microsoft is blaming the problem on hardware vendors, but read the article and you make the call. I am currently running Windows 7 on one of my machines. I was loving it till i read this article. Lets see what Microsoft is going to do fix the problem.