The development of paid fantasy gaming occurred when sports sites discovered their ad revenues drying up. It is clear from this that gaming of all kinds will become a big revenue stream on the internet as broadband proliferates.
The device, which Redmond originally envisaged as an ultra-mobile PC - with all-day battery life, yet small enough to fit in a pocket and much cheaper than a laptop - has not lived up its original brief.
In particular, the operating system now supports the same kind of power-throttling features on desktops that have been standard on laptops. In some cases, that meant that laptop owners thought they had put a PC to sleep, only to discover a few...
I don't have a games console, so there's no online gaming with teenagers around the world courtesy of the folks at a Microsoft or a Sony. One thing I'd looked forward to was connecting it to my home network and entering a networked gaming nirvana.
And with justification: the market was ripe for a sub-notebook from Apple and the company has always been ahead of the game with its laptops. Two laptops, consumer and pro. In its last quarter the company reported record Mac sales and in recent...
I lament the passing of XP, having recently bought a Vista equipped laptop, I wish Microsoft would listen to its customer base and merely continue to improve XP. Phones are no more risky than laptops in this regard and probably less so.