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Xbox repair process leaves gamers with the blues

News on the Xbox Live Forums. Visit, for instance, Microsoft's official Xbox Live forums. Microsoft's announcement that it will spend $1bn to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a step that would assuage disenchanted customers.

6 August 2007, 10:00

PayPal woes anger online customers

News A statement from PayPal's parent company eBay, posted on one of its discussion forums on Sept.apologised for the inconvenience and said: "Although we initially believed this irregularity was corrected last week, it appears that some transactions...

26 September 2005, 9:02

Dell without a 'Care' in the world

News For those of us that have spent the past few years on these forums, we know the tens of thousands of people that the moderators have helped," Rick said in a post this week. Shutting down the Customer Service (non-technical) forums will only further...

14 July 2005, 9:07

PowerBook screen riles Apple customers

News Debate has raged for some time on Apple's online forums, with differing opinions as to how severe the issue is and whether Apple should be responsible for replacing the displays. Some Apple users are complaining that, although the new 15-inch...

19 December 2005, 8:38

News.blog: MySpace and the conspiracy theories

News The concern is nothing new, but it has generated more talk on various forums since MySpace suffered some high-profile outages, which in turn gave rise to rumours that profiles had been deleted. The copyright police have focused much attention on...

2 August 2006, 9:53

Microsoft confirms Vista hack

News In response to widespread chatter on blogs and forums, Microsoft has acknowledged the presence of hacks that may allow pirates to bypass the product activation security feature in its Windows Vista operating system.

13 April 2007, 9:28

Halo 3 cheats banned until 9999AD

News The crackdown came to light when a 17-year-old Minnesotan who goes by the handle 'Scar' posted a tale of woe on the forums of the Halo-focused modding site Se7ensins.com.His post was accompanied by a photo of his ban notice from Xbox Live, which...

10 September 2007, 9:14

Display problem blights some Intel iMacs

News The issue, which has been the subject of a number of reports on Apple discussion forums, is particularly noticeable after launching Front Row, Apple's remote-controlled media software. Apple said on Friday that it is looking into reports that a...

13 February 2006, 9:36

Consumers to turn into armchair gadget designers?

News So-called 'prosumers', a marriage of consumers and producers, will use Web site forums and email to pipe their ideas straight on to company production lines says the report. Apple's style gurus should watch their backs because the killer-gadgets of...

Tags: consumers, gadgets, customers, analysts

14 July 2008, 8:11

Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 Elite

News As previously hinted at on many forums and blogs, the new console will have a variety of different bells and whistles to the traditional Xbox 360. Following months of speculation, Microsoft has officially unveiled a new version of the Xbox 360.

28 March 2007, 10:42

ID cards labeled 'creepy' by students

News Site forums so far have raised fears about data security and governments abusing the information despite the glowing assessment of the scheme offered by home secretary Jacqui Smith as she launched the site on

Tags: age, cards, scheme, identity

10 July 2008, 9:01

PC Gaming Alliance formed to fight consoles

News The first body ever formed solely to promote the PC gaming industry, the PCGA is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to "driving co-ordinated marketing and promotion of PC gaming.and creating forums for member companies to co-operate on solutions...

Tags: board, developers, companies, market

21 February 2008, 9:00

Dell Core Duo laptops inadvertently revealed

News A poster at technology review site NotebookReview.com noticed the spreadsheet and posted the link in one of the site's discussion forums. Dell's future laptops were briefly exposed by Google's search engine on Tuesday, before the spreadsheet was...

2 February 2006, 10:28

Mac fans love Boot Camp

News But when Apple announced Boot Camp on Wednesday -- software currently in beta that will make it possible to run Windows XP on Intel-based Macs and that will be incorporated in the next major upgrade to Mac OS X -- the Mac community went against...

6 April 2006, 9:37

News.blog: Dell XPS 700 ready next week

News Users have been clogging Dell's Community Forums with rants about poor customer service. Dell's new blog, DellOne2One, was updated on Friday with news about the XPS 700, which has been a little slow out of the gates.

17 July 2006, 11:10