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After a long hiatus, Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Direct presentation for tomorrow, February 17. It will last 50 minutes, the longest presentation Nintendo has held in over a year.

Sun Microsystems on Thursday apologized for the mess it caused its solution providers with a 25th Anniversary Sale direct sales promotion to customers, and unveiled measures to help soothe partners' concerns that the promotion could...

Sun Microsystems' solution providers are in revolt after the vendor unveiled a two-week promotion that cut prices for many of its server, storage, software and services products by 50 percent and more, but only for...

According to the America's Army website, a new version dubbed "Direct Action" will be made available at 12 Noon PDT today. Included in the new version are two new maps, a new training mission, Tournament...

About four years ago, Microsoft's R&D team came up with a new technology called Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) which uses FM radio signals to broadcast information to your wristwatch. After a few delays, the...

The Hollywood Reporter says the Hong Kong action master may direct the adaptation of the Midway classic. The Hollywood Reporter reported that famed Hong Kong director John Woo is to direct Spy...

Microsoft Corp. today added professional baseball season content for 2004 to MSN® Direct's Sports Channel so subscribers can keep tabs on their favorite pastime while on the go. Microsoft also added three new channels to...

Basketball Fans Now Have Access to Scores, Updates, Schedules and More At the Flick of a Wrist Microsoft Corp. today announced the kickoff of sports content for Smart Watches for MSN®...

ONE OF OUR WISE WHISPERERS has suggested that the next implementation of DirectX 9 won't be labelled 9.1 at all. As many readers will be aware, the most recent revision of DX is 9.0b. And...

Smart Watches for MSN® Direct are now shipping for broad retail availability, as announced by Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates during his keynote address at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show...

Direct Connect offers a community-oriented, open, user-controlled network. Moreover, its network architecture is built on a peer-to-peer foundation; users run, control, and maintain the network. Users are able to share any type of file -...

Microsoft has a new strategy to boost its sales and fend off rivals: go direct. During the past two years, the Redmond, Wash.-based giant has increased the amount of software it sells through...

Direct Connect brings Macs and PCs one step closer by allowing them to seamlessly peer with one another on our unsurpassed file-sharing network. Direct Connect offers a community-oriented, open, user-controlled network. Moreover, its network architecture...

Thanks tmaxxtigger who posted in BPN & Vla who has shown me a link on MSDN that has all the available downloads for the final DirectX even if its not on the official site yet....

Microsoft has found some mercy in its heart and will finally end the agonising wait for DirectX 9 and is likely to release it tomorrow. With three betas and two release candidates version we saw...

FROM THE FIRST moment ATI introduced its 9X00 generation of cards we were a bit confused. We couldn't work out whether ATI had changed its naming logic or not. To remind you, last year ATI...

The Microsoft DirectX® Web site has evolved into something new—and, we hope, much improved. Our goals were to provide you with a better Web experience and make it easier for you to find the content...

Dear DirectX Beta Tester, We appreciate your interest in testing DirectX 9.0 and look forward to working with you in the near future. The DirectX 9.0 beta releases will be available via download...

Microsoft's efforts to "kill cross-platform Java" by growing "the polluted Java market" seem to be bearing fruit in at least one place. The Internet banking arm of UK bank First Direct supports the Microsoft Virtual...

Yeah! thanks Vla for the heads up, for those of you that took up our advice and signed up to the DX 9 beta, it may well of paid off, as the application today came...

Thanks Vla. Earlier tonight Beta Place posted the final of Direct X 8.1 If you want to run the latest games and applications that use Microsoft® DirectX® technology, you've come to the right...

Release Candidate 2 (October 6) Build (0710) For the RC2 release, we have provided you with the DirectX 8.1 Runtime and SDK downloads. Your assistance in quickly evaluating the quality of this...

The DirectX team plans to release DirectX 8.1 RC2 to Beta Place this weekend. The only change between RC1 and RC2 is one fix in D3D8.dll relating to alpha in texture palettes. If...