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I just got the I-Mate SP5m, one of the smallest new Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones. I was very curious as to how far along Windows Mobile has come. My only prior experience was with an Ipaq a few years ago, which is now collecting dust on my shelf as I really don’t use most of [...]

When Microsoft released the XBox 360, they added a new feature to their online “live” service called “Live Arcade.” The idea behind the arcade is that smaller independent developers (”Indies”) can develop lower cost games, and market them at lower prices to consumers without having to get shelf space at the local GameStop. In principal, [...]

Microsoft’s XBox 360 is quite the disappointment to me. First off, it still has the potential to be a *great* game platform. The graphics are definitely amazing, even on a regular TV (although I’m on a quest to up grade to HD in the next month or so). However, there are STILL no new games [...]

Last night, I got off of work at 9:30, got home from the train an 10:30, and headed straight over to Wal-Mart, in order to purchase an XBox 360, which was supposed to go on sale at midnight. The first Wal-Mart I went to had only 14 units, and they had sold them all the [...]

So, my private business, ThoughPut Inc is winding down. The cell phone market has almost completely consolidated at this point. The big carriers have learned that if they carry more than about 100 games, it begins to hurt their overall sales. Because there are so many game developer wannabe’s (including me, up until recently), the [...]

Fedora Linux (as well as Suse and other leading distributions) are getting pretty close to where they need to be for mainstream public acceptance. I think the largest remaining area which needs some significant (but not necessarily difficult) improvement is application and driver installation.
Fedora Linux comes with several gigabytes of applications for free, which are [...]