GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

The onetime Microsoft executive, who was a co-founder of Xbox and a force in the video game industry before leaving the tech giant after 19 years, is joining Intellivision Entertainment as global managing director. Intellivision was an early video game console released by Mattel in the late 1970s. Project 529 Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still an intriguing one.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Bluetooth has been around since 1994 as a wireless connectivity specification, but the first mobile phones did not appear with basic Bluetooth services until 2001. When upgrading to a new smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device with Bluetooth, many migration tools in the operating system will transfer your previous Bluetooth connections.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A few decades ago, getting phone calls on your landline that were meant for whoever had the number before you might be annoying, but you weren’t being blasted with large blocks of texts, images, and videos that were meant for someone else, nor was your phone number the key to unlocking various goods and services.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The topics covered included anecdotes from the start of the project, insight into what motivated some of the earliest decisions in the Xbox’s history, and predictions about what’s coming next in the video game industry. “Music and video and TV real-time broadcasting, that’s all coming together.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The cable companies, telephone companies, you can provide video service, internet service, phone service, long distance, everybody can do everything. It had to because everyone was going to have all these additional zeros and ones that they were going to be trying to send out through their systems. Everybody can do everything.

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