Xbox 360 to $ 100 may be sold outside the United States

 

"Microsoft says study lead model for other markets.
Game plan is sold with two-year subscription."

The Microsoft study carry the sales model that allows selling Xbox 360 game console for $ 100 through a subscription plan to other markets.
According to Chris Lewis, vice president of business entertainment company in Europe, the sales model, still unique in the United States, can be expanded globally.
"We see [the model] with great interest and decide whether it makes sense to expand sales in the U.S. or even globally," he said in an interview with "VG247". "The goal is to give option of choice for consumers."
The Xbox 360 sold for $ 100 has 4 GB of memory, which can be expanded using USB drives, and motion sensor Kinect. The game is sold with a subscription plan two years of Xbox Live with the user paying $ 15 per month for two years. The apparatus for this price began to be sold in stores in May at Microsoft, Best Buy and GameStop.
In Brazil, the cheapest model of the Xbox 360 without Kinect, is sold for $ 800.

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Google launches broadband service and television in the U.S.

The Google presented officially on Thursday (26/07) in Kansas City, Google Fiber, your broadband service and television in the United States.

The company promises an Internet 100 times faster than the major U.S. and ensures that the download speed is 1 Gigabyte per second for downloads and uploads.

Fiber The service also comes with TV with local channels and integrated with Netflix and YouTube, allowing content to watch live or on demand, when the user wants. In addition, you can record up to eight concurrent programs and store them in the cloud (with 1 Terabyte available in Google Drive).

The equipment that act as central content were all baptized of Network Box They come with 2 gigabytes of storage space on your hard disk, transmit video up to 1080p, Ethernet will have four inputs and act as points of Wi-Fi

Prices and installation

There are three packages available for residential plans. The most basic is $ 300 for the installation of cables and offers a much slower service internet (downloads to 5 megabytes per second) and a TV with only a few channels.

For the complete contents and full-speed connection, you can pay $ 120 for the plan and broadband TV or $ 70 just for internet. Who to hire full service, will still receive a Nexus 7, which also function as control of the TV.

To install the fiber optics, the Google will require a number of requests in the same region they call "fiberhoods." The company also said it will pay for the installation of cables in places such as schools and libraries.

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