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Microsoft announces an Xbox 360 wireless headset with Bluetooth and Xbox 360 media remote coming early November 2011. The Xbox 360 wireless headset with Bluetooth is an all in one device where gamers can go from chatting on Xbox Live to talking on a Bluetooth mobile device without changing headsets. The headset is compatible with Bluetooth devices such as mobile phones and PC’s, and the headset connects to the Xbox 360 via the consoles standard radio frequencies. The Xbox 360 Wireless Headset will be available for $59.99. Also available will be Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Media Remote which will be able to control the Xbox 360 dashboard along with DVD, CD, and media playback via Xbox Live. The
A lot of new hardware features were rolled up into Dell’s PowerEdge 11G servers, which came out in 2009 and were enhanced throughout 2010.
But up until now, Dell has not discussed an important feature of the plain vanilla PowerEdge servers that it has kept in its back pocket in reserve as it did further testing: They can run hot for a period of time and not fry themselves.
Many small and medium businesses, who often put servers in the most unlikely of places, already know this, but Dell has done years of design and testing on the components in selected models of the PowerEdge 11G machines so it can not only certify that the machines can run at a substantially higher temperature and humidity levels than are in the spec sheets, but also keep them under the same Dell warranty.
This has some important implications for customers who want to run their data centers a little hotter to save money on cooling and is particularly interesting for those shops who want to use free-air cooling by opening up the walls of their data centers and throwing out their expensive chillers.
Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot: Insert “nice rack” joke here
Eric Wilcox, power and cooling product manager for the PowerEdge servers at Dell, tells El Reg that the plain vanilla PowerEdge machines (as distinct from the PowerEdge-C cloud servers that are only sold on a bespoke basis) are rated to handle as much as 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) and an 85 per cent relative humidity level.
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The cuts will see 11 per cent of the Canadian tech giant, which practically invented the smartphone market until Apple came along with its pesky iPhone, collecting their P45s as the company struggles to keep up with the game.
RIMs first foray into the tablet market with its business-centric PlayBook device seems to have been an unmitigated disaster, with reports suggesting that the company has only managed to ship 50,000 units of the touch-screen gadget.
It looks like things are being further shaken up at the companys Ontario HQ with COO Don Morrison taking early retirement and Thorsten Heins stepping into his shoes in an expanded role of COO of product and sales.
RIM said in a statement that it would be shedding staff throughout the company in an attempt to “focus on areas that offer the highest growth opportunities,” according to Bloomberg.
RIMs BlackBerry handsets, which were once the de facto standard for besuited business types because of their bombproof email and messaging services, have since been overtaken by devices running Apples iOS and Googles Android operating systems.
The company announced last month that it had failed to meet even lowered profit forecasts and had reduced shipments of hardware in light of reduced sales.
The companys stock has dropped 52 per cent already this year and is bound to take another kicking once this news gets out.