Computers-Plus

We review Microsoft’s new and improved Xbox 360 Slim console which offers a number of new features in a smaller, quieter package.

Introduction

It has been four and a half years since the original Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005. New bundles have come out, hard drives for consoles have jumped in capacity exponentially, and there is even a black model of the 360 out there, but at its core the console has remained the same in terms of design.

When the Xbox 360 originally debuted against the Sony PlayStation 3, it did so with somewhat similar hardware, but several less bells and whistles.

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Verizon Wireless lined up its partners – Google, Motorola, and Adobe – to announce a Droid successor a day before the iPhone 4 launch. The aptly named Droid X launched with much fanfare at a New York event labeled “Unleashing the Next Generation of Droid.”

The Droid X is a solid upgrade over the Droid which arrived last Fall as the first viable alternative to Apple’s iPhone, backed up with an aggressive marketing push by Verizon Wireless. The Droid X features a large 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display running at a 854×480 pixel resolution, incorrectly first advertised as a 720p screen. And just l

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People trust Apple more than Facebook, and Google more than Twitter, according to a poll from Zogby Interactive.

Steve Ballmer must have an awfully reassuring face, because 49 percent of US adults said they trusted Microsoft. The same number felt equally warm and fuzzy about Apple and Google.

But, like the two-faced person who acts like your friend but isn’t, social networking sites are deeply mistrusted. Only 13 percent of people said they trusted Facebook, and Twitter scored a measly eight percent.

There’s a clear generational difference, says Zogby. Microsoft and Apple were particularly mistrusted by those under 30.

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Andreessen Horowitz, the venture-capital firm launched a year ago by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and former Opsware chief executive Ben Horowitz, is beefing up its ranks with a new general partner and two other partners.

The firm is bringing on board John O’Farrell, 51, most recently executive vice president of business development for Silver Spring Networks and a onetime Opsware executive, as a general partner who will help the firm invest in technology companies. In addition, Andreessen Horowitz is adding Jeffrey Stump, 37, a partner at executive recruiting firm Howard Fischer Associates International, to focus on talent searches. L

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