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Virtual marketing failures: Apathy or hubris?

2008-10-27 12:00:00 by Tateru Nino in Massively
 
...failures among marketers -- particularly among those marketers who actually attempted it. Meanwhile, on the education side of things, Ignatius Onomatopoeia has done exactly those things that seem to have escaped almost every Second Life marketing strategy we've seen. Faced with a lack of direction and engagement in his students in the virtual...
 
Tags: virtual, virtual worlds, virtual environment, collaborative virtual environments, failures, life, business models, marketers, hubris
 
 
 
 
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A year in Xbox 360 failures: 2007 Edition

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2008-01-01 00:00:00 by Alexander Sliwinski in Joystiq
...failures: 2007 Edition Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
Tags: xbox, current lifetime xbox, disc drive failure, failure, console, non-user-error console, microsoft xbox, defective console, edition permalink
 
 
 
 
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Report cites 10% of all 360 failures due to RROD

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2008-02-27 10:30:00 by Dustin Burg in Xbox 360 Fanboy
...failures. The other 6% were attributed to things like disc read errors, hard drive freezes and disc tray malfunctions all of which would not be covered under Micrsoft's extended warranty . SquareTrade also mentioned that due to the Elite and Core test subjects not having enough warranty claims, they removed them from their statistical...
 
Tags: rrod, warranty, warranty claims, firm squaretrade, squaretrade, due, warranty tests, problematic pro skus, rrod relief
 
 
 
 
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New details on warranty firms 16.4% Xbox failure rate figure

2008-02-26 09:10:00 by One Gamer in Video Games News: Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and Nintendo Wii
 
...failures were down to RROD, but other problems included disc read errors, video card failures, hard drive freezes, power issues, and disc tray malfunctions The new report does note that this only tracks up to 10 months after the warranty purchase, and once a longer period of time is given, the failure rate is likely to increase. It's also...
 
Tags: failures, electronics failures, hardware failures, squaretrade, squaretrade analytics team, failures spike, disc tray malfunctions, disc, video card failures
 
 
 
 
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Rumor: Insider Reveals Truth About 360 Failure Rates

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2008-01-22 09:02:46 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
...failures, most of those Xenons. Some of those are repeat failures. Life expectancy is all over the map because the design has very little margin for most of the important parameters. That means it's not a fault tolerant design. So a good unit may last a couple of years, while a bad unit can fail in hours. I have a launch unit and have not had...
 
Tags: launch unit, unit, failure, bad unit, source, inside source reveal, repeat failures, failures, bad
 
 
 
 
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Rumor: Anoymous Microsoft source reveals truth about the Red Ring of Death

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2008-01-19 00:00:00 by Griffin McElroy in Joystiq
...failures, you may find yourself asking questions of your spiritual leaders and community pillars -- questions like: "Why did my 360 stop working? Was the system rushed to release? How do they go about fixing them All of these questions and more are apparently answered in a recent article by Jake Metcalf from 8Bit Joystick (no relation), who...
 
Tags: microsoft, anonymous microsoft tipster, suffer hardware failures, microsoft xbox, hardware failures, death, recent article, jake metcalf, jake
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Insider Details Xbox 360 Red Ring Problems

2008-01-21 10:35:51 by admin in Video Games Blog
 
...failures and why they are so common. 'RROD is caused by anything that fails in the "digital backbone" on the mother board. Also known as a core digital error. CPU, GPU, memory, etc. Bad parts, incompatible parts (timing problems) bad manufacturing process (like solder joints), misapplied heat sinks or thermal interface material, missing...
 
Tags: red, xbox, microsoft insider, bad, solder joints, bad joints, mother board, core digital error, gpu
 
 
 
 
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Xbox Insider Talks 360 Failure Rates and More

2008-01-23 20:02:01 by Chris in Gaming Today
 
...failures, most of those Xenons. Some of those are repeat failures. Life expectancy is all over the map because the design has very little margin for most of the important parameters. That means its not a fault tolerant design. So a good unit may last a couple of years, while a bad unit can fail in hours. I have a launch unit and have not had...
 
Tags: xbox, failure, launch unit, unit, units, original units, design, fault tolerant design, launch units
 
 
 
 
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Xbox 360 failure rate at 16%, warranty provider reports

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2008-02-14 00:00:00 by James Ransom-Wiley in Joystiq
...failures it's documented and supposes that figure could keep growing. "It is reasonable to believe these failure rates will increase over time, since the Xbox 360 failure issues tend to increase with prolonged use where overheating appears the main culprit," SquareTrade CEO Steve Abernethy told 1UP Admittedly, SquareTrade does not track...
 
Tags: xbox, failure, warranty, microsoft xbox, company reports failure, warranty provider, original xbox, failure issues, squaretrade
 
 
 
 
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Xbox 360 16% Failure Rate

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