Tonight is the unveiling of the latest Xbox gaming console from Microsoft. The features of the new device have been kept very secret and no one really knows what’s going to be in the new system – rumour mills as always have been churning over what it thinks could be in the new system from the removal of the DVD/HD drive to a slimming the whole unit to compete with the PS3 slim. Microsoft are the last of the Gaming consoles to release a new unit in recent times and you can guarantee that all three vendors will be fighting for the top spot at this year’s E3 show next month.

The gaming market has become as cut throat as a trading floor. Microsoft will want to increase the performance against its old 360 unit that was the first to be released to the marketplace but was never top of global sales. When it comes to the best games console there are many people who will choose different units. With technology growing and software becoming just as important as the hardware, designers have to be at the top of the game.

Nintendo have already noticed that Gaming community is not for the light hearted with the WII U not selling as they had hoped. When the Xbox came on the market it landed with an explosion of graphics and games which left gamers and game-makers smiling. Now the world is a very different place – mobile vendors change hardware every other week and games are now more common from places like Steam and origin.

Microsoft doesn’t need to worry about Sony or Nintendo they have to worry about Apple, Google and Samsung. Microsoft always packed in loads of extras to the Xbox for example Sky Player and DNLA capability’s to make it a complete entertainment system. As an Xbox owner I will be sitting waiting for the new unit to be unveiled.

Well its the day after the Lets Do Business Brighton Exhibition and James and the team would like to say a thank you to the Lets Do Business Team and everyone who we spoke to yesterday about Tetrabyte Managed IT services and products. After a long day the team are back to the normal day to day jobs of helping customers with there technical problems. If anyone is looking for Excellent IT support please give the team a call on 0800 160 1066 and see how we can help save you money.

Once again our thanks go out to the Let’s Do Business Team and everyone who took part – and see you at the next one.

Here at Tetrabyte Managed IT it’s a busy week. We are in the process of getting ready for the Brighton’s Let’s Do Business exhibition at Brighton racecourse on Thursday. Bringing lots of new Services to the range of Tetrabyte products like the new and improved SpamCleric eMail Filtering System and our UNLIMITED Off Site Backup and all on our 30 day rolling contracts. Do you have this with your current I.T. Support Provider ?

We are at Stand Number 1 at the Brighton’s Let’s Do Business Exhibition showing you how our knowledge and understanding of Businesses and Charities lets Tetrabyte bring you the best I.T. Support at fantastic prices. So come see us at the front of the Let’s Do Business Show at Brighton Racecourse on Thursday 16^th May.

If you want to save money and have an excellent I.T. Support firm looking after your I.T. Support then you need to speak to us today – We guarantee to beat your current I.T. Support Costs on any like for like service and as a one off, the first 10 customers that sign up will get an iPad Mini.

Keen torrent downloaders may have noticed that the mighty pirate bay website has been playing in the dark as Swedish authorities were in the process of attempting to seize the current domain. Pirate Bay, known for their shadow games moved from a Swedish .se to a greenland .gl domain in the early hours of Tuesday morning before the seize was put in place.

Thursday morning many users noticed that the sites on both .se and .gl were both down but now the .se site is back up and running . Tweets went out all over the tweeter network of upset torrenters that could not access the mighty Pirate Bay Site.

A Greenlandic telecoms company ‘Tele-Post’ the company reasonable for all .gl domains fired a mighty flaming cannon ball at the ship of Pirate Bay stating that they were concerned that the domain was going to be used for “illegal” uses.

In the process of playing the shadow games that Pirate Bay are so well known for they thought they had found a home port finally in the tiny Denmark town. However the new hosts decided to fire its Barking Irons at the file sharing company by blocking access to two of the domains of pirate bay.

Pirate bay have been Anchored in Sweden for a while due the support from the pirate party in the Scandinavian nation and the use of the .se domain. The Captain of the ship Pirate Bay stated that he had plenty of new sea dogs at his disposal just in case his first mate and crew got killed in the line of duty.

Will the curse continue to haunt this ship of freedom or will it end up in Davey Jones locker

Service provider Zendesk have been at the claws of a successful hacking attempt where the guilty parties were able to breach its networks and download email addresses for users of the social media services such as Tumblr, Pinterest and twitter.

The hacker managed to get in to the support desk for zendesk where they got the information which included message subject lines and email addresses. Although this was the furthest the hackers got they will still be able to match up usernames to email addresses and potentially unmask the anonymous tweeters, pinteresters and tumblers that keep them self hidden from the lime light.

A statement from zendesk read:

“We’re incredibly disappointed that this happened and are committed to doing everything we can to make certain it never happens again,” the firm said. “We’ve already taken steps to improve our procedures and will continue to build even more robust security systems.”

“We are also completely committed to working with authorities to bring anyone involved to justice and make certain we fully understand what happened. As this process unfolds, we aim to update our customers in as transparent and timely a manner as possible about new developments.”

At 03:23 AM this morning Twitter released the following :

Emailing a small percentage of Twitter users who may have been affected by Zendesk’s breach. No passwords involved. http://www.zendesk.com/blog/weve-been-hacked …

At the same time Tumblr sent out a reminder email to all affected uses to not give out password information and watch out for unusual activity.

Good news this month in Tetrabyte as we welcome two new members of staff to our team. Peter and Amy join our team with the target of getting our message of the excellent support at great prices out to more people nationwide. As Tetrabyte continuously find new ways to provide excellent support our support team have been finding themselves twiddling their thumbs waiting for people to ring up on one to many occasions, our leader has thus taken on a marketing campaign to ensure more people get access to our great support.

Also this month, Tetrabyte are proud to announce the successful launch of the SpamCleric Spam Filtering Service for business email domains. This new service provides a fully redundant market leading SPAM filtering service to Tetrabyte customers with built in Anti-Virus, Spoofing and Fraud detection and daily Anti-Spam reports.

So all round a good month and we are looking forward to many more in the future!!!