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Later this year, Skype plans to release a mobile Internet cell phone together with the Three operator in the UK. An official for Three confirmed that the company was working with Skype to produce a...

Gamesindustry.biz is reporting some fairly big news for all our Mac gamers out there in Neowin land. Aspyr Media has announced that they are developing a digital distribution service for the Macintosh platform. This new...

The folks over at Channel9 lead by self-proclaimed 'Microsoft Geek' Robert Scoble have posted some great videos as of late concerning the development of Windows Vista. The amount of work that goes into creating a...

Apple Computer is shopping for software developers that can help it build "new complex" iPod applications for the Windows operating system, according to recent company job posting. "The iPod Application...

Speaking in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz, SCEE development chief Phil Harrison has said that the PS3 will be cheaper to develop for than the PS2 was initially, with the system's power being much easier...

Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet, CNET News.com has learned. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company plans to introduce the music...

In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. The students were equipped with notebook computers...

Wired article says the Hong Kong action legend's game company is working on "ShadowClan," due in fall 2006; Die Hard director's Ubisoft project also detailed. With the convergence of the film and...

Midway Games Inc. plans to publish a "mature"-rated pro football video game with the kinds of violence and excess shunned by the National Football League, the company said on Thursday. The game, called "Blitz: Playmakers,"...

America Online is developing a new service that will let its members back up files from their PCs onto AOL data centers, so members can recover files either deleted accidentally or lost due to a...

Little is known about the PC title other than its name--Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion. First screens inside. Early purchasers of the Final Fantasy XI expansion Chains of Promathia are reporting...

The Demon Stone studio is hiring designers for two high-profile projects, hints next-gen projects will start soon. With the release of Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone less than a month away, Stormfront...

MMORPG based on Shenmue franchise set to launch in China in '05 Sega has planned to enter the Shenmue series with a PC massive multiplayer title, Shenmue Online, into the Chinese online...

Kuju Entertainment has announced the latest in a series of development deals with important publishers. The new studio created when Kuju attained Brighton developer web games. The new prototype work announced by Kuju is a...

Microsoft has quietly lent its support to Nintendo's DS handheld, it has been alleged, with wholly owned British studio Rare apparently already working on two titles for the new console. According to US website GCAdvanced,...

VU Games and Monolith Productions will give the media a preview of the next action-packed project from the developer of the No One Lives Forever franchise and Tron 2.0. It's an intense close-quarters combat experience...

The electronics colossus and Toshiba are already starting work on a sequel to the Cell chip. According to multiple media outlets (including Reuters), Sony and Toshiba are begininning development on a new...

Thailand's People's PC project, initiated last year by the ICT Ministry, has been the genesis of a new operating system from Microsoft Corporation that is now under development, according to Microsoft Thailand Managing Director Andrew...

Japan, China and South Korea are reportedly planning to jointly develop Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the next-generation Internet standard, a move that will challenge the U.S.-dominated market for current IPv4-based Internet technology. The report...

BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies said it is currently shopping a digital-rights-enabled BIOS system to top PC OEMs, the most aggressive use of DRM technology to date. Phoenix executives said Wednesday that they've developed a prototype...

And it's with great enthusiasm that I read part two of our friend Paul Thurrott's Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold. This time Paul takes a look at the build process, with exclusive pictures...

While the US government maintains that it hasn't launched any big hacker attacks, officials appear to be working on rules for when that will happen. According to reports on Friday, US President George...

In the latest issue of the Japanese magazine Arcadia, Capcom revealed that they are currently in development with their first game for Nintendo's TriForce arcade board. This game will be based on the Gundam franchise;...

Toshiba is cooperating with Sony and IBM on a chip that might be used in the PlayStation 3. Production of "Cell", the name the chip bears, will begin as early as 2004. It is capable...

The long wait for a strategic computer simulation of the Napoleonic conflict is over. Matrix Games has joined with SPME Technologies to develop Napoleonic Wars, the wargame that gives players a chance to command one...