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Head of Xbox Japan resigns from his post following poor Xbox One sales

Usama Jawad — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:02:01 +0000

After eight years at the helm as Head of Xbox Japan, Takashi Sensui is resigning from his post which according to most analysts is due to Xbox's poor performance in Japan. Read more...

Microsoft Search Head Denies New Project

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:13:58 +0000

Microsoft Corporation's head of search and advertising is denying that a team of developers in Silicon Valley were working on a cutting-edge search project. "When they get it done, I hope they'll send me a... Read more...

Warner Music head backs DRM

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:56:54 +0000

After Steve Jobs wrote that music companies should abandon digital copy protection, Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman called on Apple to open up its iTunes software to other forms of DRM: "DRM and interoperability are... Read more...

Microsoft business unit head to depart

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:42:40 +0000

Doug Burgum, the executive behind Microsoft's business software unit, will leave the company next year. Burgum, who relinquished day-to-day operations of the Microsoft Business Solutions unit in November, will be succeeded by Satya Nadella, a... Read more...

NBC, ESPN Shows May Head to iPod

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:37:06 +0000

According to sources, NBC Universal and Apple are close to a deal that will make programs from NBC's broadcast network and several cable channels such as USA Network and Sci Fi Channel available on-demand on... Read more...

EA Announces NFL Head Coach

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:09:11 +0000

Electronic Arts has announced a third game in its NFL lineup, NFL Head Coach (working title). While EA's Madden series offers traditional sim football and NFL Street gives gamers the over-the-top arcade feed, NFL... Read more...

Google Goes Head to Head With PayPal

Tom Warren — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:50:54 +0000

According to Reuters Google is planning to offer an internet service similar to PayPal. Google's payment service is likely to allow users to pay for web purchases through Google and it's highly likely... Read more...

Head of Mac hardware leaves Apple

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:17:40 +0000

On Monday, November 8th, the vice president of Apple's Mac support unit left the company. Exactly one week later, Tim Bucher, head of Apple's Mac hardware engineering, did the same. Word of Bucher's departure began... Read more...

SCE's Kutaragi To Head Sony's Home Electronics and Semicondu

Fri, 21 May 2004 22:50:47 +0000

At Sony's annual corporate strategy conference in Japan, SCE President Ken Kutaragi announced that he will head the company's home electronics and semiconductor divisions in addition to his position of heading the video games division,... Read more...

Microsoft, Lindows Head Back to Court

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:56:58 +0000

Lindows.com and Microsoft will argue their sides in the latest twist of a prolonged, international trademark battle before a Seattle judge on Wednesday. Lindows says that U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour has granted... Read more...

Nvidia, ATi head for PCI Express showdown

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:00:51 +0000

JUST A FEW months before the official announcements, our oriental colleagues have extracted the first PCI Express benchmarks, enabling us to compare PCI Express implementations from the pair of graphics Tweedledumbos. ATi developed its RV380... Read more...

Via takes Nvidia head on with DX9 future parts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:10:50 +0000

JANUARY ROADMAPS seen by the INQUIRER show that Via is preparing an onslaught on the firm that it sees as its chief rival, Nvidia. The battle as, you'd expect, is being fought on several fronts... Read more...

Microsoft game studio head resigns

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:43:32 +0000

Ed Fries, the long-time head of Microsoft Game Studios and the man responsible for cementing industry relationships for the company's Xbox video game console, has resigned, Microsoft said Tuesday. Fries' resignation was... Read more...

NEC demos first next-gen DVD drive with one red, blue head

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:33:50 +0000

NEC has built the first optical storage drive to support not only today's DVDs but tomorrow's High Definition blue-laser technology-based discs, the company said today. The machine uses a single optical head that contains one... Read more...

Xbox Accelerates Into Holiday With Full Head of Steam

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:40:50 +0000

Fueled by a highly touted lineup of new game titles and the growing popularity of its unified online gaming service, Microsoft® Xbox® is outpacing the industry as the only next-generation console to continuously demonstrate positive... Read more...

Radeon 9800 & 9700 Pro head to head

Julio Franco — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 10:02:39 +0000

TechSpot has posted a review of Sapphire's Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro videocard today. Given that the potential performance of the 9700 has been exposed many times before, this review is solely dedicated to compare the... Read more...

Ex-Senate staffer chosen to head RIAA

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:57:37 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America has tapped a former Republican Senate staffer to replace Hilary Rosen as chief executive, firming up the group's leadership during one of the most controversial moments in its history.... Read more...

Microsoft's head honcho has his own security access problems

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:23:01 +0000

Billionaire Bill Gates learned the hard way that the Secret Service means business when it comes to checking identification at the White House gates, ROLL CALL reports. Gates showed up at the White House on... Read more...

OT: Head Re-attached in Arizona, USA

Steven Parker — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:27:31 +0000

Phoenix, Arizona — In Phoenix, they are calling it a miracle operation - surgery that re-attached the head of a car crash victim. 18-year-old Marcos Parra doesn't remember the crash some months back... Read more...

Activists target Pentagon internet information head

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:54:39 +0000

Internet activists have a message for John Poindexter, the head of a controversial Pentagon research project to find terrorists by searching the everyday transactions of Americans: Threaten to invade our privacy, we'll invade yours. ... Read more...

Dueling DVD groups head for showdown

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:33:11 +0000

The two industry groups fighting to set a rewritable DVD standard are showing no interest in working together, but technology tricks and behind-the-scenes talks could inch the sides toward a compromise. The DVD+RW Alliance,... Read more...

Final Fantasy remakes head to PSOne

Marcel Klum — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:02:34 +0000

A remake version of Final Fantasy I and II are scheduled for a release on the PSOne. According to online reports from Japan, Square plans to release remake versions of Final Fantasy... Read more...

Windows worm rears ugly head

Darren Bolton — Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:47:00 +0000

Datom.A virus poses as Microsoft update Windows users are being warned to be on the lookout for a virus disguised as 'copyrighted Microsoft code' and claiming to be a Windows update. ... Read more...

HP notebooks head out on the highway

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:56:39 +0000

With its new line of Compaq Computer Presario notebooks, Hewlett-Packard is looking for road warriors who enjoy the freedom of movement, but prefer to stay plugged in at home. The Presario 1500... Read more...

Software piracy head sent to prison

Sat, 18 May 2002 16:10:21 +0000

Thanks neo1980 for the heads up. The leader of "DrinkorDie," one of the oldest and largest international software piracy rings on the Internet, was sentenced on Friday to three years and eight months in prison... Read more...

DVD Copy Controls Head to Court

Darren Bolton — Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:23:09 +0000

Small software firm challenges digital copyright law, tries to assert the right to backups. Call... Read more...

Yahoo hires new HotJobs head

Mon, 08 Apr 2002 19:17:31 +0000

Web portal Yahoo on Monday appointed former Knight Ridder executive Daniel Finnigan to oversee its job-listings subsidiary HotJobs.com. Finnigan's appointment comes a few weeks after Yahoo unexpectedly announced Dimitri Boylan, CEO and... Read more...

Ex-Netscape Head Talks Microsoft

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 05:19:35 +0000

Former Netscape head Jim Barksdale, one of the central figures in the Justice Department's 1998 antitrust trial against Microsoft, says he'd rather not use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, but he has no choice. ... Read more...

Lindows moves to head off Microsoft

Sun, 17 Feb 2002 06:05:03 +0000

Lindows, a start-up developing software that would let many Windows programs run on Linux computers, this week released legal papers designed to head off Microsoft's efforts to thwart the product. In December,... Read more...

Beach Head 2002

Marcel Klum — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 09:27:16 +0000

Saw this over at gamers.nl. Beachhead 2002 follows on the success of BH2000 with ease of use and hard-core, non-stop 3D shooting action in a photorealistic and accurate environment. Players will be assigned... Read more...

MS moves to head off Linux desktop 'threat'

Steven Parker — Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:41:24 +0000

Here is something Steve Balmer can do a jig and sweat to :P Is Linux ready for the desktop? Microsoft seems to think so, if a company channel partner email leaked to The... Read more...