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Who would have guessed it: Non-profit companies and for-profit companies don’t get along too well when they’re both peddling the same product. It shouldn’t come as any huge surprise then, that Intel has recently cut off its involvement in the One Laptop Per Child program, which it only been participating in since July. One Laptop Per Child is the non-profit program behind the XO Laptop, a low-cost device designed to be… Read More

The Xbox Live Marketplace may have sounded controversial at first thanks to a pay-per-download business model wrapped around exclusive content and arcade games, but with 24 million downloads since the Xbox 360 was introduced last November and counting, it appears that only the critics are complaining.   Last week during the Electronic Entertainment Expo AKA E3 1.5 million users logged into the Xbox live marketplace to download exclusive… Read More

 The combination of the two labels would reduce the "big five" down to four. CNN says both sides aren't commenting what is to be expected in such a large scale deal, if it is in fact goingdown. With the music business sucking wind for the last two years, record companies are prime for consolidation and the economies of scale that come with making two big companies into one. AOL is comingoff of the worst quarter for ANY company in… Read More