All Posts Tagged With: "Gizmondo"
Gizmondo CEO Arrested On Suspicion Of Grand Theft
I was watching a lucky bugger on TV who had won the lottery and was choosing his first supercar, when I spotted this story in The Times. Stefan Eriksson CEO of the ill-fated Gizmondo, was arrested at his Bel-Air home in California on Saturday night after detectives served a search warrant, the Sheriff’s Department [...]
10Apr2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Gizmondo Exec Loses Another Car
The poor old Gizmondo didn’t stand a chance with idiots like this running the company. After writing off his Ferrari Enzo last month, Stefan Eriksson of Gizmondo has now lost his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which is one of my favourite cars as I work very near to the new McLaren super-factory so I see [...]
29Mar2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Gizmondo Goes Into Liquidation
Well, it looks like it is the end of the road for the Gizmondo as its parent company Tiger Telematics has gone into liquidation. Tiger Telematics has also announced that it expects the
liquidators to cease all operations and terminate all employees.
Its a shame but I really think everyone but Tiger Telematics knew things were going [...]
R.I.P Gizmondo?
I thought I’d check up on how the British-based Gizmondo was getting on, and I wasn’t surprised to see that things weren’t going very well, but I was surprised to see that the parent company Tiger Telematics had filed for bankruptcy.
The poor fella never really stood a chance going up against the PSP and the [...]
How Much Storage Is Enough?
Techdigest have just written a feature about a media PC from EPC which offers the following hard drive choices - 300GB, 600GB, 1TB and a whopping great 2TB. This is the first time I’ve seen a system offered with TBs of storage.
When I built my new PC I put in two 250GB hard drives [...]
More Ways To Speed Up Windows XP
Update: If you are using Windows Vista then check out 10 Simple Ways To SpeedUp Windows Vista.
Athough I’ve just got a new PC that is scarily fast (well, compared to my old machine) I’ve still spent quite a bit of time trying to make it even faster, and I’ve discovered some handy tweaks that I [...]
Xbox360 Will Never Support DivX According to Major Nelson
Major Nelson of Xbox Live fame, who is also a Microsoft employee, recently stated that the Xbox360 will never support DivX. And the reason why? Because DivX is primarily used to “backup” DVDs and Microsoft don’t want to get involved in this contentious area.
If this is the official view from Microsoft it’s complete [...]
Xbox 360 Vs PC for Gaming - Which Is Better?
Oppposable Thumbs wrote recently comparing the experience of playing Call of Duty 2 on the Xbox 360, which has been
ported over from the PC. Ben and his friends concluded that the experience was the same, although the Xbox 360 had the advantage of also being hooked up to his 56inch screen ad surround sound [...]
Gizmondo Delayed In The US
It just seems to get worse and worse for the poor old Gizmondo.
The latest from across the pond is that its US launch has been put back from August to October.
It just seems to be one piece of bad news after another for the poor old Gizmondo. Oh well, keep your chin up - [...]
Gizmondo Close UK Office
Gizmondo has just given their UK staff at their studios in Cheadle 28 days notice. The company has decided to relocate their development studio to the U.S. and just sack the UK studio staff.
Not looking good for Gizmondo. I don’t want to say ‘I told you so’, but….
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