Microsoft slams Google Apps, calls its costs tantamount to excessive taxation

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Everyone knows that Microsoft is never going to cede one inch of its market position in the enterprise sector to Google without going to war first, and the company again made that plain today in a fiery blog post that called out Google Apps for small and medium-sized businesses as far more expensive than advertised.

Microsoft, using its cash as a weapon, interviewed 90 companies (small to medium in size) in five countries that use Google Apps and found that 90% use Microsoft Office alongside of Apps.

But Microsoft was not content to just point out that many companies require the (it must be said) more extensive productivity feature set that Office offers over Apps, but went after Google Apps for being too costly:

On the surface, Google Apps may seem like acceptable replacements for enterprise-grade products such as Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft Office. But many IT organizations have found that Google Apps bring extra, hidden costs. Organizations that have evaluated Google Apps have found that the projected versus actual costs of switching to Google Apps greatly increase their total cost of ownership (TCO). In particular, these IT organizations have found that Google Apps are not enterprise-ready and are inadequate without costly add-on applications, even for most small and medium-sized organizations. The three general areas where organizations feel the Google Tax most strongly are deployment, IT support costs and user training.

Microsoft whipped up this rather childish ?infographic? to illustrate its point:

Of course, this is a one-sided view on the matter, but Microsoft?s point that a company coming from a legacy position as a Microsoft customer looking to move to Apps can?t just look at the yearly cost per user as advertised, is fair. Then again, if any company actually thought that that was the case, that they are still in business while suffering from such ignorance is a miracle.

For truly nimble small businesses who doesn?t need Postini, or Google support, or to migrate from anything to Google Apps, the cost could truly land down around the $50 mark, which is quite the deal.

We watch the productivity space very carefully here at TNWmicrosoft because Office is such a driving force in Microsoft?s earnings. Sound off in the comments if you think that Google is going to respond.

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Gaming 25 - Hegway Seaven

Gaming 25 - Hegway Seaven

Posted on 1st May 2011 at 10:28 by Podcast with 13 comments

It's only a short week this week what with all the bank holidays and such like but Paul, Joe and Clive still managed to find time to sit down and mull over some of the goings on in the gaming world.

First up, predictably, is the current situation with Sony's PlayStation Network. The service is currently down due to a hacking attack and Sony are currently rushing to rebuild the network from the ground up. This is little comfort to the 75 million PSN users though who have been told that the hackers made off with their personal details and possibly their credit card details too.

We then move on to discuss Portal 2 and what we thought of one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the last 12 months. There is no doubt that the game is great fun, but there are a few niggles in there too.

Finally up for debate is Nintendo's announcement that it's working on the successor to it's immensely popular Wii console. The console is currently titled Project Cafe and there are only a few shaky details about the specifications of it but it's interesting to see Nintendo setting out its stall relatively early on in the next-gen console wars.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition too, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Speedlink Strike FX wireless gamepad. This game pad is compatible with both the PC and PlayStation 3, and functions at distances of up to 10m.

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Unthinking Machines

Some of the founders and leading lights in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science gave a harsh assessment last night of the lack of progress in AI over the last few decades.

During a panel discussion?moderated by linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker?that kicked off MIT's Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium, panelists called for a return to the style of research that marked the early years of the field, one driven more by curiosity rather than narrow applications.

"You might wonder why aren't there any robots that you can send in to fix the Japanese reactors," said Marvin Minsky, who pioneered neural networks in the 1950s and went on to make significant early advances in AI and robotics. "The answer is that there was a lot of progress in the 1960s and 1970s. Then something went wrong. [Today] you'll find students excited over robots that play basketball or soccer or dance or make funny faces at you. [But] they're not making them smarter."

Patrick Winston, director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, echoed Minsky. "Many people would protest the view that there's been no progress, but I don't think anyone would protest that there could have been more progress in the past 20 years. What went wrong went wrong in the '80s."

Winston blamed the stagnation in part on the decline in funding after the end of the Cold War and on early attempts to commercialize AI. But the biggest culprit, he said, was the "mechanistic balkanization" of the field, with research focusing on ever-narrower specialties such as neural networks or genetic algorithms. "When you dedicate your conferences to mechanisms, there's a tendency to not work on fundamental problems, but rather [just] those problems that the mechanisms can deal with," said Winston.

Winston said he believes researchers should instead focus on those things that make humans distinct from other primates, or even what made them distinct from Neanderthals. Once researchers think they have identified the things that make humans unique, he said, they should develop computational models of these properties, implementing them in real systems so they can discover the gaps in their models, and refine them as needed. Winston speculated that the magic ingredient that makes humans unique is our ability to create and understand stories using the faculties that support language: "Once you have stories, you have the kind of creativity that makes the species different to any other."

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For Obama, Big Rise in Poll Numbers After Bin Laden Raid

The glow of national pride seemed to rise above partisan politics, as support for the president rose significantly among both Republicans and independents. In all, 57 percent said they now approved of the president?s job performance, up from 46 percent last month.

But euphoria was tempered by a sense of foreboding: more than six in 10 Americans said that killing Bin Laden was likely to increase the threat of terrorism against the United States in the short term. A large majority also said that the Qaeda leader?s death did not make them feel any safer. Just 16 percent said they personally felt more safe now.

Though there has been talk in some quarters that the United States military can now leave Afghanistan, the poll showed that public sentiment on the issue seems more complicated.

Nearly half said the nation should decrease troop levels in Afghanistan. But more than six in 10 also said the United States had not completed its mission in Afghanistan, suggesting that the public would oppose a rapid withdrawal of all American forces.

One Democrat polled, Richard Olbrich, 68, said in a follow-up interview that Bin Laden?s death was not sufficient reason to remove all American forces.

?The Taliban needs to be defeated,? said Mr. Olbrich, a lawyer from Madison, Wis. ?I have no idea how long it will take to complete that mission. And we can?t leave until Afghanistan is back on its feet a little bit.?

The Obama administration has said it plans to begin a gradual drawdown of troops from Afghanistan starting this summer, with a complete withdrawal to be completed in 2014, when the war will be in its 13th year.

It is common for presidents to see their poll numbers shoot up after major military or foreign policy successes. What is less typical is for presidents to sustain those high ratings.

The president?s job approval rating rose 11 points, compared with an 8-point increase for President George W. Bush after the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003. Mr. Bush?s bump evaporated within a month.

The increase in Mr. Obama?s ratings came largely from Republicans and independents. Among independents, his approval rating increased 11 points from last month, to 52 percent, while among Republicans it rose 15 points, to 24 percent.

Among Democrats, 86 percent supported his job performance, compared with 79 percent in April.

But in an indication that anxieties about unemployment, gas prices and the national debt have not withered with Bin Laden?s death, good will toward Mr. Obama did not extend to his economic policies. More than half said they disapproved of his handling of the economy, similar to the result last month, the poll found.

Mr. Obama received higher marks in several major areas of foreign policy. Just over half said they liked the way he was handling foreign policy generally, up from 39 percent in April. About six in 10 approved of his handling of Afghanistan, up from 44 percent in January. And more than seven in 10 supported his handling of the terrorism threat, up from about half in August 2010.

Perhaps least surprising, more than eight in 10 said they supported his handling of the pursuit of Bin Laden, who half of Americans think was still in charge of Al Qaeda when he died, the poll found.

Diane Bottum, 63, a Republican from Lafayette, Ind., said she thought that the commando operation to kill Bin Laden was a ?macho thing? that would encourage many Republicans to vote for Mr. Obama next year.

?Wiping out Bin Laden has been almost 10 years in the making, so it?s really significant,? Ms. Bottum, a retired university professor, said. ?I?m convinced he?s nailed the next election.?

The government placed military bases and diplomatic offices on higher alert in the aftermath of Bin Laden?s death, and those concerns about retaliatory attacks by Qaeda supporters are reflected in public opinion.

About seven in 10 said they thought a terrorist attack in the United States in the next few months is somewhat or very likely, the highest percentage since 2004.

?When I first heard the news, I thought, we?d better watch it,? said Monica Byrne, 48, an independent from Paramus, N.J. ?Attacks could be anywhere, but I feel the New York metropolitan area is a target because they want to disrupt our lives, especially in the financial and business sectors.?

In the long term, Americans were divided over the impact of the Qaeda leader?s death, with about a quarter saying the threat of terrorism would increase, a quarter saying it would decrease and about 40 percent saying it would stay the same.

Americans were less ambivalent about whether the killing was a success, with nearly 90 percent calling it either a major or minor victory in the war on terrorism.

More than four in 10 Americans, 44 percent, also now think that the United States and its allies are winning the war on terrorism, up from 36 percent in 2006. But a significant minority, 45 percent, say the war is a draw.

The poll found opinion divided about whether the death of Bin Laden had brought a sense of closure about the attacks on 9/11, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Half said it had, while 45 percent said it had not. A majority of Northeasterners said they did not feel closure.

The nationwide telephone poll was conducted May 2 and 3 with 532 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points for all adults.

Megan Thee-Brenan, Marina Stefan and Marjorie Connelly contributed reporting.

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Obama Says He Won?t Release Photos of Bin Laden?s Corpse

?There is no doubt that we killed Osama bin Laden,? Mr. Obama said in an interview with the CBS News program ?60 Minutes,? according to a transcript read to reporters by Jay Carney, the White House press secretary. ?We don?t need to spike the football.?

After intense discussions with his national security team, Mr. Obama decided that the photos were too graphic and could further enflame Bin Laden?s followers, according to Mr. Carney, but would not change the minds of skeptics. Mr. Obama indicated in the interview that gloating by releasing the photos ?is not who we are,? Mr. Carney said.

Part of the interview will be broadcast on CBS?s evening news program Wednesday, the network said.

The debate over whether to release photos of Bin Laden had consumed the White House over the last two days. Some senior officials said the release of photos was inevitable. On Tuesday, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, said he did not think ?there was any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the public.?

But officials at the Pentagon and State Department expressed qualms about releasing gruesome photos of Bin Laden?s bloodied corpse, and when the decision was made on Wednesday, ?the majority of opinions? within the administration favored withholding the photos, Mr. Carney said.

Some argued that no matter what the photos showed, they would not silence those who doubt that Bin Laden was killed in the American raid on a fortified house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, early on Monday, which the administration says is established beyond question. ?The fact is, you will not see Osama bin Laden walking this earth again,? Mr. Obama said in the interview, according to the transcript. 

Mr. Carney added at the briefing that the administration felt no need to release the photos to establish that Bin Laden was dead, and that the president had decided it was not ?necessary or prudent? to release them.

Some lawmakers expressed similar views, saying that releasing the photos would serve little purpose and could endanger American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

?Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaeda killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the Internet,? said Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. ?Osama bin Laden is not a trophy. He is dead, and let?s now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaeda has been eliminated.?

The White House said that Mr. Obama would take part on Thursday in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial in lower Manhattan. He is also scheduled to meet with relatives of the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks, but he will not make a speech. The White House invited former president George W. Bush to accompany Mr. Obama in New York, but Mr. Bush declined, his spokesman said.

The plans came as further details emerged about the raid on Bin Laden?s fortified house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Administration officials said that after members of the Navy Seals shot and killed Bin Laden, they found that he had money ? 500 euros (about $746) ? and two telephone numbers sewn into his robes. That suggested that Bin Laden had an escape plan, which he was not able to carry out when American helicopters landed in the compound.

Administration officials reiterated that Bin Laden had not tried to surrender in the final moments of his life, and that that justified the use of lethal force by the Navy Seals. On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder laid out a broader justification, citing Bin Laden?s role as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

?It was justified as an act of national self-defense,? Mr. Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee. ?If he had surrendered, attempted to surrender, I think we should obviously have accepted that. But there was no indication that he wanted to do that and therefore his killing was appropriate.?

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Meet Heather Poe


This is Heather Poe. She?s a young woman, living in Los Angeles and attending college there, though it isn?t her hometown. She?s kind, happy, eager to please and a little bit geeky. She?s also one of the best features of one of my favourite games, Troika?s Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

You find Heather in the hospital, where she?s been rushed into the emergency room for some strange neck wound. As a newly turned vampire yourself, you know that there?s more to this story than meets the eye, but your heightened senses also tell you that she?ll survive her undead encounter if she just gets some fresh haemoglobin. Unfortunately, there isn?t a doctor to hand and the hospital is criminally understaffed.

Earlier, a friend of yours told you that vampire blood has certain special characteristics when drunk by humans ? mainly as a healing elixir. You pause, then slit your wrist to save her young life before disappearing back into the night. You have errands to run, after all. Little do you know that this isn?t the last time you?ll be seeing Heather.

She shows up a few nights later, grabbing you on the street and desperate to thank you. She?s babbling and doe-eyed and she knows far too much about you and your kind ? you?ll suffer reprisals if you don?t take this matter in hand, but now is not the time. You send her back to your haven ? that grotty motel in Santa Monica ? and tell her to wait for you.

You have a choice now. Your blood is mixing with Heather?s and creating a potent, mind-altering brew. The more time she spends with you, the more she falls under your thrall, whether you want her to or not. You know you should send her away, break the bond and tell her to forget all this silliness about vampires. You know you should, but a lot of reasons run through you mind for why you shouldn?t ? a lot of excuses.

You?re little more than a servant for others at the moment, so the idea of cultivating your own slave does have a certain appeal. Letting her go may bring the wrath of your superiors if she exposes you. You wonder about the direction you could steer Heather, making her serve you in a way that seems repugnant in the daylight hours.

That?s what's great about being a vampire; not casting a reflection. You can avoid a lot of guilt and shame when you don?t have to meet your own gaze.


Over the next few days or weeks, Heather changes. Sometimes you're the one pushing, telling her how to dress or to surrender her life savings. At other times, it?s the blood that changes her. She was eager to please at the beginning, but now her devotion is fanatical. One day you find she?s bought you home some food - still alive and locked in the bathroom. The longer the ?relationship? lasts, the more you get the idea that it isn?t going to end well, but the harder it becomes to end it.

Heather?s fate ultimately lies in your hands. She?s a nice, likeable person and you want to do well by her. At the same time, though, the rest of LA is working to reshape you. You may have been just an average guy a few weeks ago, but now you?re a vampire; suffering and cruelty is your stock and trade.

As you acclimatise to this new existence, you start to adapt. You already don?t have to look at yourself in the mirror, but now you?re learning to hide the rest of yourself behind your new definition of what you are. You are a demon. Once you accept that, it becomes very easy to do very nasty things to a very nice person.

Then, when the game ends, you realise what?s happened and you learn something about yourself. That?s why Vampire: Bloodlines is one of my favourite games.

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For Obama, Big Rise in Poll Numbers After Bin Laden Raid

The glow of national pride seemed to rise above partisan politics, as support for the president rose significantly among both Republicans and independents. In all, 57 percent said they now approved of the president?s job performance, up from 46 percent last month.

But euphoria was tempered by a sense of foreboding: more than six in 10 Americans said that killing Bin Laden was likely to increase the threat of terrorism against the United States in the short term. A large majority also said that the Qaeda leader?s death did not make them feel any safer. Just 16 percent said they personally felt more safe now.

Though there has been talk in some quarters that the United States military can now leave Afghanistan, the poll showed that public sentiment on the issue seems more complicated.

Nearly half said the nation should decrease troop levels in Afghanistan. But more than six in 10 also said the United States had not completed its mission in Afghanistan, suggesting that the public would oppose a rapid withdrawal of all American forces.

One Democrat polled, Richard Olbrich, 68, said in a follow-up interview that Bin Laden?s death was not sufficient reason to remove all American forces.

?The Taliban needs to be defeated,? said Mr. Olbrich, a lawyer from Madison, Wis. ?I have no idea how long it will take to complete that mission. And we can?t leave until Afghanistan is back on its feet a little bit.?

The Obama administration has said it plans to begin a gradual drawdown of troops from Afghanistan starting this summer, with a complete withdrawal to be completed in 2014, when the war will be in its 13th year.

It is common for presidents to see their poll numbers shoot up after major military or foreign policy successes. What is less typical is for presidents to sustain those high ratings.

The president?s job approval rating rose 11 points, compared with an 8-point increase for President George W. Bush after the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003. Mr. Bush?s bump evaporated within a month.

The increase in Mr. Obama?s ratings came largely from Republicans and independents. Among independents, his approval rating increased 11 points from last month, to 52 percent, while among Republicans it rose 15 points, to 24 percent.

Among Democrats, 86 percent supported his job performance, compared with 79 percent in April.

But in an indication that anxieties about unemployment, gas prices and the national debt have not withered with Bin Laden?s death, good will toward Mr. Obama did not extend to his economic policies. More than half said they disapproved of his handling of the economy, similar to the result last month, the poll found.

Mr. Obama received higher marks in several major areas of foreign policy. Just over half said they liked the way he was handling foreign policy generally, up from 39 percent in April. About six in 10 approved of his handling of Afghanistan, up from 44 percent in January. And more than seven in 10 supported his handling of the terrorism threat, up from about half in August 2010.

Perhaps least surprising, more than eight in 10 said they supported his handling of the pursuit of Bin Laden, who half of Americans think was still in charge of Al Qaeda when he died, the poll found.

Diane Bottum, 63, a Republican from Lafayette, Ind., said she thought that the commando operation to kill Bin Laden was a ?macho thing? that would encourage many Republicans to vote for Mr. Obama next year.

?Wiping out Bin Laden has been almost 10 years in the making, so it?s really significant,? Ms. Bottum, a retired university professor, said. ?I?m convinced he?s nailed the next election.?

The government placed military bases and diplomatic offices on higher alert in the aftermath of Bin Laden?s death, and those concerns about retaliatory attacks by Qaeda supporters are reflected in public opinion.

About seven in 10 said they thought a terrorist attack in the United States in the next few months is somewhat or very likely, the highest percentage since 2004.

?When I first heard the news, I thought, we?d better watch it,? said Monica Byrne, 48, an independent from Paramus, N.J. ?Attacks could be anywhere, but I feel the New York metropolitan area is a target because they want to disrupt our lives, especially in the financial and business sectors.?

In the long term, Americans were divided over the impact of the Qaeda leader?s death, with about a quarter saying the threat of terrorism would increase, a quarter saying it would decrease and about 40 percent saying it would stay the same.

Americans were less ambivalent about whether the killing was a success, with nearly 90 percent calling it either a major or minor victory in the war on terrorism.

More than four in 10 Americans, 44 percent, also now think that the United States and its allies are winning the war on terrorism, up from 36 percent in 2006. But a significant minority, 45 percent, say the war is a draw.

The poll found opinion divided about whether the death of Bin Laden had brought a sense of closure about the attacks on 9/11, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Half said it had, while 45 percent said it had not. A majority of Northeasterners said they did not feel closure.

The nationwide telephone poll was conducted May 2 and 3 with 532 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points for all adults.

Megan Thee-Brenan, Marina Stefan and Marjorie Connelly contributed reporting.

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JPR: Intel, AMD gain GPU share at Nvidia's expense

Jon Peddie Research has published the graphics market's first quarter results, showing a 10.3% spike in shipments. JPR said the change was welcomed after a weak holiday quarter, especially considering PC shipments were down 5% in the same period. GPU makers witnessed an unusually low seasonal demand in the fourth quarter and at the time JPR described the 7.8% on-year decline as unimpressive and disappointing.

JPR's enthusiasm for the unusual increase between the fourth and first quarters was followed by a cautious outlook for the second quarter. The outfit noted that the average change between the holiday season and first quarter is -4%, suggesting that vendors might be stocking up on parts. That could negatively affect the industry's second quarter performance as system builders bleed their existing inventory.

In all, more than 125 million discrete and integrated graphics chips were shipped in the first quarter. According to the stats, Intel and AMD enjoyed gains at the expense of Nvidia. Intel celebrated its fifth quarter of selling processors with integrated graphics cores, or "Embedded Processor Graphics" (EPG), and felt a 9.7% increase on-year. AMD fared even better with a 15.4% boost, undoubtedly thanks to its Fusion chips.

During the same period, Nvidia's share slipped 28.4% from the year-ago quarter, further cementing the company's third-place position. Intel led the pack, controlling 54.4% of the market, well ahead of AMD's 24.8% cut. Nvidia trailed with a share of 20.0%. The remaining fraction of a percent was largely represented by Matrox and VIA/3, who had a combined share of 0.75%, while SiS was entirely off the map this quarter.

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JPR: Intel, AMD gain GPU share at Nvidia's expense

Jon Peddie Research has published the graphics market's first quarter results, showing a 10.3% spike in shipments. JPR said the change was welcomed after a weak holiday quarter, especially considering PC shipments were down 5% in the same period. GPU makers witnessed an unusually low seasonal demand in the fourth quarter and at the time JPR described the 7.8% on-year decline as unimpressive and disappointing.

JPR's enthusiasm for the unusual increase between the fourth and first quarters was followed by a cautious outlook for the second quarter. The outfit noted that the average change between the holiday season and first quarter is -4%, suggesting that vendors might be stocking up on parts. That could negatively affect the industry's second quarter performance as system builders bleed their existing inventory.

In all, more than 125 million discrete and integrated graphics chips were shipped in the first quarter. According to the stats, Intel and AMD enjoyed gains at the expense of Nvidia. Intel celebrated its fifth quarter of selling processors with integrated graphics cores, or "Embedded Processor Graphics" (EPG), and felt a 9.7% increase on-year. AMD fared even better with a 15.4% boost, undoubtedly thanks to its Fusion chips.

During the same period, Nvidia's share slipped 28.4% from the year-ago quarter, further cementing the company's third-place position. Intel led the pack, controlling 54.4% of the market, well ahead of AMD's 24.8% cut. Nvidia trailed with a share of 20.0%. The remaining fraction of a percent was largely represented by Matrox and VIA/3, who had a combined share of 0.75%, while SiS was entirely off the map this quarter.

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Hardware 22 - The Second Day Magazine

Hardware 22 - The Second Day Magazine

Posted on 23rd Apr 2011 at 09:52 by Podcast with 7 comments

It?s podcast time again, and this time we?re talking about all the lovely hardware we?ve seen in our labs over the last few weeks. Clive starts off by telling us all about the AMD Radeon HD 6790, and why it?s only likely to be around for a relatively short period of time.

We also get chance to quiz Antony on the Silverstone TJ11, which it was his pleasure to review. The case is humungous, but isn?t quite the water-cooling behemoth we expected. Paul then gives us an account of his recent trip to Istanbul to cover the MSI Master Overclocking Arena European finals. Extreme overclocking and benchmarking is a funny old world, and it?s always interesting to get to see the action first hand.

Finally, we find time to discuss some of the larger tech news stories such as Seagate swallowing up Samsung?s hard disk production division, and the rumour that AMD is planning to mass produce its Radeon HD 7000-series GPUs in May.

Hardware 22 - The Second Day Magazine

As always, we've also set up our weekly competition too, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Speedlink Strike FX wireless gamepad. This game pad is compatible with both the PC and PlayStation 3, and functions at distances of up to 10m.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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