The day before the doors to the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) show floor open in Los Angeles, Monday, June 6, Microsoft will spend 90 minutes convincing folks at a press conference that Xbox is an entertainment console, rather than a game console. They've been singing this mantra for nearly 10 years, and I've been writing about this transformation for almost as many, most recently in April.

On June 8, 2011, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo join content delivery networks Akamai and Limelight, as well as the Internet Society, to test the next-generation Internet protocol, IPv6. The companies support more than one billion combined Web site visits daily. All plan to enable the IPv6 protocol on their main services for 24 hours. I detailed this back in January. Now the day is upon us.