2008

Lively, another Google fail

Despite supposedly employing the brightest people on earth and having the riches of Croesus, Google continually fail to extend its business model successfully beyond search advertising. This must be infuriating when it sees […]

Making gold in China

The most frequent spammers on the Harbury Villagebuzz websites are people trying to sell something called World of Warcraft Gold. They are selling virtual goods and services for players of video […]

Peer to peer thieves pay the penalty

You have heard the mantra on here before, interweb downloads of games, music, films and TV programmes is the biggest binge of stealing in the history of humanity. Now people […]

Japan is sold out of Xbox 360s and Microsoft have apologised: “We truly thank you for all your patronage in the past. Currently, the Xbox 360 is sold out, and […]

Beware. Russia and your game console

Russia has blown it. With massive wealth from oil and gas, a well educated population and a fledgling democracy they could have done great things to become a modern, wealthy, […]

Microsoft crack Japan

The failure of the original Xbox in Japan was something that many people used to beat Microsoft with. And the 360 didn’t seem to be doing better, so the derision […]