The first article I read today was "iPod Touch Gains Retina Display, Dual Camera" from CIO.com. I'm not really sure why these additions to the iPod touch are huge breakthroughs since they are already a part of the iPhone 4. It should have been a given that the iPod touch was going to get these upgrades as well. It is pretty interesting that the iPod touch is outselling Nintendo and Sony in the portable gaming industry. I never really thought of the iPod touch as a gaming device. I just thought of it as a music playing device. So much for an iPod just playing music.
Another article I read because the title caught my eye was "The Halo Effect of Microsoft's Halo" from businessweek.com. Since my undergrad degree was in management, I have studied the halo effect in multiple classes. I'm not sure the author actually stuck with the halo effect topic throughout the article though. By definition the halo effect is when one trait of a person/thing is influenced by the perception of another trait of the person/thing. Maybe the article is meaning that Halo the franchise is causing a halo effect of Microsoft in the gaming industry. Halo is Microsoft's only successful game at the time. I think it is really interesting that Halo is exclusively for the Xbox only. I'm not a big game but I thought that usually games are made for all of the gaming systems. I didn't realize until just now when I looked it up that Microsoft is the maker of the Xbox. It totally makes sense now that Halo is only made for the Xbox. Even though I don't have an Xbox and probably won't ever play Halo, I am interested to see if this game lives up to the rest of the Halo franchise.
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