Former Valve business head now at Microsoft to lead PC gaming division

 Lets hope he gets the support he needs. Microsoft have never really been good at pushing the PC as a serious gaming platform (apart from all their work on DirectX). Its weird as this is where some of the biggests RTS's and MMO's are and generally the platform pushes graphics forwards in the later years of the console markets life-cycles.

http://www.neowin.net/news/former-valve-business-head-now-at-microsoft-to-lead-pc-gaming-division

In Theory: Can Xbox One multi-platform games compete with PlayStation 4?

 Good article. PS4 comes out on top but i'm starting to sway back to the Xbox One with all the expected U-turns.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-can-xbox-one-multi-platform-games-compete-with-ps4

BT Sport attracts one million customers, says its strategy is working

I don't get this. The numbers seem low to me given how many broadband customers they have. 

I did want to see the Emirates cup but I soon gave up looking for just a day pass to the service.

http://www.eurocomms.com/industry-news/49-online-press/9216-bt-sport-attracts-one-million-customers-says-its-strategy-is-working

Thinkbroadbamd speedtester

I quite like the new style of thinkbroadbands speedtester although its missing jitter and latency on their buttons currently.



http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=137625054038153321796

Twitter looks to be the new battleground for UK ISP support.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/08/which-uk-broadband-isp-and-mobile-operator-gives-the-best-twitter-support.html

Xbox One controller to get PC support

Good to see they are making an effort with the PC support. Its a good platform in the later years of a control cycle for testing new graphics APIs and a fair amount of PC gamers are starting to use controllers with the likes of SteamPlay.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-xbox-one-controller-will-work-on-pcs--in-2014

A new major release of FreeNAS is out!

First link for the news, second for the user manual.

http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/2013/08/ixsystems-announces-revolutionary-freenas-9-1-0-release.html

http://www.freenas.org/images/resources/freenas9.1.0/freenas9.1.0_guide.pdf

F1 2013 game gets new ‘Hungaroring’ trailer, October 4 release date

I haven't actually played the F1 games yet (although I love watching PC). Keep telling myself it would be pointless without a wheel. Any recommendations?! Logitech seem expensive these days for wheels!

It's a shame theres no Mac version as well!

Cisco Live US 2013 Keynote Demo: Internet of Everything

Didn't expect the cannabis joke but hey ho... The keynote is quite interesting but nothing that sounds overly revolutionary.

SATA gets updated, about time to!

The interface really was starting to get left by the wayside with harddrive manufacturers really pushing into the PCI express market with performance drives (OCZ for example). Good to see M.2 standard finalised which should make upgrading laptops still a relevant possibility (take note Apple, Not happy with the limitations of this MacBook pro!).

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/09/sata-3-2-ratified/#continued

Windows Phone update in testing, includes rotation lock and text syncing to PCs

About time for the rotation lock. That was so annoying I gave up on the platform. What a pain trying to check your emails in bed when you woke up.

Also I welcome the feature that we had BACK ON WINDOWS MOBILE CE, which was to be able to send SMS from a PC. It'd be better if we could have it emulate the display like we used to. (With the MobileMe app (program as they were known back then)).

If it gets swype / Swift key then I might even go back to the platform, dodging Nokia unless they have a think high spec model that doesn't fall over at the sight of a bit of dust.

I tried to love the platform.... see historic posts. It just didn't love me... 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/9/4604990/windows-phone-update-rotation-lock-text-sync-features

Xbox One unboxing

So does it have wireless power... We didn't see him plug it in, did we?

AnandTech | Khronos @ SIGGRAPH 2013: OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL 2.0, & OpenCL 1.2 SPIR Announced

AnandTech | Khronos @ SIGGRAPH 2013: OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL 2.0, & OpenCL 1.2 SPIR Announced

Skyrmion breakthrough could boost hard drive capacities

Potentially this might lead to vastly increased storage sizes:
Skyrmion breakthrough could boost hard drive capacities

Got your own CDN's to host Netflix's content. The you could have SuperHD streams.

See link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/07/netflix-superhd-3d-comcast/