Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Microsoft pulls the plug on X-rated Santa
1:47 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|children|Controversia|Internet · Comments Off
11 Dec 2007
“Ho Ho Ho” has a whole new meaning at Microsoft Messenger, where its Santa Claus IM bot (pictured at right), an automated chat buddy for children, apparently has a real potty mouth. A reader of the UK’s The Register was innocently showing his young niece how she could chat with Santa online when sex-imbued IM mayhem began.
The holiday cheer soured this week when a reader of a United Kingdom-based technology news site, The Register, reported that a chat between Santa and his underage nieces about eating pizza prompted Santa to bring up oral sex.One of the publication’s writers replicated the chat Monday. After declining the writer’s repeated invitations to eat pizza, a frustrated Santa burst out with, “You want me to eat what?!? It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else.”
L.A. Latino Kids get New Xbox 360 Arcade Console
10:18 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Los Angeles|Tech · Comments Off
24 Oct 2007
Most kids these days want a video gaming system and Xbox representatives along with the organization Para Los Niños made that want a reality.
The new Xbox 360 console and more than 200 educational games and entertainment programs in English and Spanish are being released nationwide, and to mark the occasion, Microsoft Corp. is making a donation for the benefit of Spanish-speaking and low-income families. Para Los Niños is being equipped with two Xbox 360 Arcade consoles that include five games, a wireless controller, a 256MB memory unit and parental controls to help parents or caregivers monitor use of the console.
Mapuches Vs. Microsoft
8:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business|Chile|language · 2 Comments
27 Nov 2006
Microsoft Corporation isn’t making any friends in Chile after it rolled out a Windows software package in Mapudungun, the langauge of the Indigenous Mapuches who are mostly based in the south of the South American nation.
At the launch in the southern town of Los Sauces, Microsoft (Charts) said it wanted to help Mapuches embrace the digital age and “open a window so that the rest of the world can access the cultural riches of this indigenous people.”
But Mapuche tribal leaders have accused the U.S. company of violating their cultural and collective heritage by translating the software into Mapudungun without their permission.
They even sent a letter to Microsoft founder Bill Gates accusing his company of “intellectual piracy.”
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