The Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation can already stream Hulu Plus content.
You can rent movies on Microsoft Xbox 360 game console, but you can't watch them on the Zune.
With the Microsoft Xbox Live Gold membership, Xbox console owners receive access to Facebook apps and games, Netflix, and Twitter.
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Customers are holding off buying new games for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, likely to debut around the holidays.
Note that the company supplies several key components for the Microsoft Xbox Kinect device, for instance, while also selling specialty inks for currency printers.
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In 2004 Taylor tried shopping it around for play on a console like the Microsoft Xbox or Sony PlayStation 2, but no publisher wanted to risk a flop.
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Partly as a result, the PlayStation 3 has lagged behind the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 in sales--even as analysts credit the PlayStation 3 with giving Blu-Ray an edge over HD-DVD.
Microsoft Xbox will be a technological wonder.
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Last year a truck filled with microchips that were flown in from the Philippines--earmarked for use in the new Microsoft Xbox videogame machine--was hijacked on the drive from the Guadalajara airport in Mexico to the nearby Flextronics park.
The company has trumpeted enhanced video and memory capabilities on the new system as a way to provide an experience that's at least on par with the rival Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation consoles, which are preferred by many diehard gamers.
Partly as a result, the PlayStation 3 has lagged behind the Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY - news - people ) Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 in sales--even as analysts credit the PlayStation 3 with giving Blu-Ray an edge over HD-DVD.
Look at what Amazon is doing, Google, Microsoft with Xbox (video content).
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Apple may have initiated this effort with Airplay but similar solutions are now available from Google (leveraging DLNA), Microsoft (Xbox Smartglass) and others.
This is Kinect Sesame Street TV, a fully interactive version of the award-winning educational program that goes on sale exclusively for Microsoft s Xbox game console in September.
Flextronics, based in Singapore but listed in the U.S, is benefiting from an assembly contract from Microsoft for Xbox, but many Asian tech investors are anticipating Sony's outsourcing assembly work for PS2 this year, as it has suggested it will do.
"Joining forces with Microsoft and Xbox, we are breaking the boundaries between TV and gaming, and furthering the borderless lifestyle Verizon customers enjoy with our new offers and services, " said Eric Bruno, vice president of consumer and mass business product management for Verizon.
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Throughout most of the year, earlier installments of the game held between two and three slots on the top five most-played games list on Microsoft's Xbox Live online game service, according to Microsoft.
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The real future of book and media could be in Microsoft's Xbox, Jayson says.
You can even slap a miniature QWERTY keyboard onto Microsoft 's Xbox 360 controllers.
Wednesday's announcement gives Sony a head start over Microsoft and an Xbox 360 successor.
Microsoft's Xbox console, launched a year after the PS2, has sold 6.5 million units worldwide.
In the end, Microsoft's Xbox 360 hit its target launch in November 2005, becoming its own success.
Microsoft rushed the Xbox 360 to market, and it had the crippling technical problems to prove it.
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Social games are less complex than those played on consoles like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3.
It manufactures products like Amazon's Kindle, Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation, among many other consumer electronics.
In contrast with the Dell and the Mac, Microsoft's Xbox 360 uses an even quicker, three-core IBM chip.
The development gives the struggling Japanese electronics company a head start over Microsoft and an Xbox 360 successor.
The personal camcorder, the Atari game "Pong, " Microsoft's Xbox console and HDTV all chart their origins to CES, too.
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