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Jan 18

Xbox 360 video access increased 140 percent in 2011

Microsoft went big with its plans for new video entertainment options in December for its Xbox 360 console thanks to the launch of a large number of additional video entertainment apps for its gaming console. Today Microsofts Major Nelson web site offered up some new statistics for video and entertainment app use on Xbox Live.

According to the site, the total number of hours of video that were viewed by Xbox Live users jumped 140 percent in 2011 compared to 2010. The web site did not go into specifics of how many hours were actually viewed by Xbox 360 owners.

In addition, the number of people that used entertainment apps on Xbox Live such as Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus and others increased by nearly 50 percent worldwide in December 2011 compared to November 2011.

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Nov 27

‘s Tellme not the same as Siri, as video explains

Which is more important: getting a product out first, or taking more time but getting it done right? The answer may be best explained by a video comparison between Microsofts Tellme and Apples Siri, both of them being the voice-enabled Jeeves (or Jeevette?) of their respective smartphone operating systems.

Lets rewind a few days back, where in an interview with Forbes, Microsofts Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie asserts Windows Phone 7 had voice-enabled searching before Siri hit the global spotlight:

Around that time last year, Microsofts Kinect for the Xbox 360 launched with much fanfare in the media, arguably at a comparable level as the iPhone 4S with Siri did.

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Posted in Hardware Trends S Tellme Video