Oxford: 'Unfriend has real lex-appeal'
Social networking is everywhere these days and that hasn't escaped the lexicographers at the Oxford University Press. They have chosen 'unfriend' as the 2009 Word of the Year. Apparently nothing earth-shattering is expected during the next 6 weeks but it does give them a jump on rival Merriam-Webster who waits... Read on »
PSP Rumour: Sony Ericsson to challenge Apple's iPhone
Sony Corp. of Japan and Sweden's Ericsson have a long established joint venture in the Sony Ericsson line of cell phones. According to Reuters, it was reported in Saturday's Nikkei business daily that Sony would like to bring enhanced portable gaming features to the Sony Ericsson label to compete directly... Read on »
OnLive: The end of console gaming is nigh?
Before you pitch both your Xbox and your PlayStation, let's take a look at the technology behind the console-less console that was revealed last night at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been created by the same people who created WebTV which was ultimately sold to Microsoft... Read on »
Cisco's new blade servers to compete with existing partners
Cisco Systems is going to go in direct competition with their existing partners such as IBM and HP with the release of... Read on »
Panasonic erodes profit forecast, cites financial crisis
Panasonic Corporation, who legally changed their name from Matsushita Electric Industrial Company on October 1st, has "downwardly revised" their current year profit... Read on »
HP to gut nearly 8% of their workforce
Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd decided that HP's future was in the more lucrative world of corporate service contracts when they purchased Electronic Data Systems in May of this year. That move placed them in direct competition with IBM, who also started with personal computers before specializing in corporate service... Read on »
EA's bid to acquire GTA franchise shot down
And who said there is never any news on Sunday? Electronic Arts has "terminated discussions" with Take Two, the makers of Grant Theft Auto, after spending nearly seven months working on a potential merger deal. EA had offered $2 billion for the company, something that Take Two considered to be... Read on »
New online digital storage 'Ecosystem' to rival iTunes?
A consortium of media companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox, HP, Intel, Lions Gate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign and Warner Bros plan to create a digital video ‘ecosystem'. This new digital framework, essentially an online virtual storage library containing a digital rights locker,... Read on »
iPhone 2.1 firmware released
Apple has released new iPhone 2.1 software on its iTunes online service that offers to decrease dropped calls, improve the battery life, improve e-mail reliability, improve text messaging notification, reduce 3rd-party application crashes and reduce the time it takes to sync the device with a computer. Users have noticed more... Read on »
Comment on this article and your next boss may read it
A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com has found that 22% of hiring managers regularly screen social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace, before hiring new applicants. An additional 9% of hiring managers do not yet screen applicants online but they plan to do so in the future. Two years... Read on »
Yahoo! offers makeovers and access to competing content
Yahoo will offer its 500 million users something new to look at as they plan to revamp several sections of their site, including their home page, over the next few months. Yahoo has had its troubles over that last two years. They have lost search relevance to Google, they have... Read on »
Video game sales slow to single digit growth
After two years of double-digit growth, sales of video games have slowed down. According to NPD market research, sales have slowed from 28% growth in July to only 9% growth in August. Sales in the video game industry will always be dependent on the titles released and the biggest seller... Read on »
Virginia, US: Citizens have a constitutional right to SPAM
Authorities claim that Jeremy Jaynes sent up to 10 million unsolicited bulk e-mail messages a day from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2004, he was charged in Virginia due to the location of the AOL servers that he used to send the messages. He became the first person... Read on »
Canada's wireless spectrum auction is coming to a close
Nationwide market leader Rogers is in the lead with a C$997 million dollar bid for more wireless bandwidth. Telus (at C$879 million) and BCE (at C$738 million) are in second and third place respectively. In order to encourage competition, the federal government also set aside some bandwidth exclusively for new... Read on »
Will the newest iPhone turn you into a jerk?
Will purchasing the newest iPhone make you become a jerk? Are you dreaming of future Zune models but worried what it would do to your reputation? According to the latest U.S. research, if you are a gadget lover, you may be both assertive and arrogant. Take some comfort, however, in... Read on »
Video Game Industry Predictions for 2012
PricewaterhouseCoopers is about to release a new industry report titled "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2008-2012". The overall video game industry is expected to grow 10.3% annually but console games will continue to dominate sales which will grow at a healthy 6.9% per year. Online games are predicted to see... Read on »
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