(Editor's Note: What better way to start the month, you ask? Another healthy dose of news spammage from QuickJump QuickPeek!)

Are you guys busy chasing around girls and boys for a special date come February 14? If not, we suggest some of you better stay away from razors. No wrist slashing for the sake of unrequited love, please! So, here's something else to busy yourselves with! It's this week's QuickPeek (and there's nothing emo about it!).

*Article originally posted on Feb 02, 2008 at 04:28 PM.

(Editor's Note: Don't you just love weekends? We make it easier for you to catch up on all the highs and lows of the week with yet another QuickJump QuickPeek edition! Clear the decks! This one is huge!)

Last week started out the year with a big bang - and this week, it's been blown out of proportion... in a good way of course! Get ready for a lot of clicking, folks! We've spammed up the whole page with tons and tons - and tons - of links!

(Editor's Note: Happy new year! Time to serve this year's first ever QuickJump QuickPeek; now let's party like it's nineteen seventy-ni.. err... 2008!)

Had fun with our barrage of QuickPeek special edition fireworks? Last week sure capped the year on a good note, and this week, the gaming industry welcomes 2008 with its own dazzling display of pyrokinetics - including some pre-CES goodies on the side!

* Article originally posted on Jan 05, 2008 at 02:38 PM.

When Bill Gates categorically mentioned that he wanted Vista and Xbox 360 to provide users with "further connected experience", it seems that everybody paid attention and wanted to follow his lead. Probably one of the first companies to make such a move is One Voice Technologies Inc. when it announced its Media Center Communicator.

If you are not quite familiar with One Voice, it is actually a voice solutions provider both for the telecom and interactive multimedia markets. It focuses on giving consumers the option to send messages, purchase products, get information, and control devices just by using their voices. Regarding the new product, President and CEO of One Voice Technologies Dean Weber comments,

Imagine walking into your entertainment room and simply saying, for example; Xbox Play U2 or Xbox Play American Idol, and your Xbox immediately starts playing that content. With our technology you can control both the main Windows Vista computer along with controlling up to five Xbox 360 game consoles using voice commands.

Accordingly, in case you own more than one Xbox 360, the Media Center Communicator allows users to name each one of them uniquely. So if you have five units and named one "QJ", you can instead say, "QJ Play Conan O' Brien". And it does what you tell it to do. Anyway, pricing and the availability of the product is yet to be announced.

In case you're wondering what other features Media Center Communicator has, here are the few remarkable ones:

• Simple to use voice commands with no voice training required
• High accuracy with wide range of accents
• Voice commands for Xbox 360
• Play MP3 or Apple iTunes music using voice commands
• PC-to-Phone calling using Skype to anywhere worldwide
• Home automation for setting thermostats, lighting, security cameras and much more
• Read and send email
• View photos and photo slideshows
• Create your own custom voice macros to launch websites and applications
• Works with Media Center DVD players (Sony and Niveus)
• USB microphone included