Latest articles by Marcus Yam
Xbox 360 Disc Scratching Investigated, Tested
The Xbox 360’s hardware failures are a widely publicized fact, but few know that it’s more than just the Red Ring of Death.
Best Buy Sued for Price Match Denial Policy
Internal Best Buy documents point to shady anti-price matching policies.
Amazon Will Now Buy Your Used Games
Much to the displeasure of developers and publishers, the used games market just got bigger. Amazon launched on Thursday a used games trade-in program where gamers can send in their unwanted software in exchange for Amazon credit.
Bill Proposes Phones Must Take Noisy Pictures
Wired today reports that a new bill introduced that, if passed, would see a requirement for mobile phones with digital cameras "to make a sound" when a photograph is taken.
Shocking: 95 Percent Music Downloads Still Illegal
It’s no at all shocking that the majority of music downloaded today are illegal, but numbers released by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) are somewhat worrying.
Report: MSFT Knew Xbox 360 Scratches Discs
\One lesser known, but still common enough defect is the Xbox 360’s nasty habit of scratching discs while inside the console, creating another undesirable type of ring of death.
iPhone Hacked to Run Linux
Planetbeing, a lead developer on the iPhone Dev Team, announced on their blog that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to the Apple iPhone.
