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...easy is it to connect the Xbox 360 to a Wi-Fi network? Out of the box, the Xbox cannot connect wirelessly to a network, but with a $100 Microsoft add-on, it's simple. Yes, $100 extra when you've just spent $300 or $400 on your console, but I have to hand it to Microsoft for making the experience a positive one. Many Wi-Fi devices can't deal with different formats of wireless security (WEP, WPA, etc.), but when I plugged in this accessory, the 360 saw my network and knew what to ask for to make...
...iPod semi-connectivity is a ray of light in a generally partisan and overly protected musical landscape. What's depressing is that much of Microsoft's own protected content doesn't play on the system, either. For nearly a year, Microsoft's Windows Media division has promoted subscription content that you can play on your PC or on a portable player, after paying a fairly low monthly or yearly fee to Napster, RealNetworks or Yahoo! Typically, you can play songs on a PC and even move them to participating non-iPods, such as Dell's Ditty. What's messed...
...outside the WTO framework, sends shivers through multinational corporations, who are the first to feel the impact of trade restrictions. The Doha round is needed to "keep in check the ever-present threat of protectionism," says a petition signed this month by the chief executives of 60 companies including Microsoft, Nestl? and corporations as far afield as China and Pakistan. The statement urged governments to "redouble their efforts to break out of the current impasse." A similar plea came from 21 leaders of Pacific Rim countries attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in South Korea last week. They issued...
...Internet, which is currently managed by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit company set up by the U.S. Department of Commerce to oversee the use of domain names, addresses and country domain suffixes. Although technology firms such as Google, IBM and Microsoft testified that ICANN is doing a good job with no interference, ever, from the U.S. government, developing countries insisted that the Internet should be managed by a multinational body such as the UN. The issue was resolved on the first day of the summit by creating an Internet Governance Forum...
...Right about now, fans of Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition are saying, "Big deal-Windows PCs have shipped with remotes to manage all of the above, plus true television recording, for years." There's no escaping the fact that Apple, as usual, is following someone else. But even fans of the Media Center PC know that it hasn't taken off like wildfire, and there are plenty of reasons. The biggest, I feel, is that digital TV from cable or satellite providers makes the recording process a bit complicated, and when you throw in new high-definition cable...