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Chinese Internet users rises to 298 million

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:18:03 +0000

The number of Internet users jumped to 298 million between 2007 and 2008, according to a report released by the China Network Information Center (CNNIC) yesterday. According to the BBC, the rise of nearly 42... Read more...

Best Buy 3Q Profit Rises, Boosts Outlook

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:30:49 +0000

Best Buy Co., the nation's biggest consumer electronics retailer, said Tuesday its third-quarter profit jumped 52 percent, boosted by holiday shopping and sales of higher-ticket items such as flat-panel TVs. The results beat Wall... Read more...

HP Profit Rises as Notebook Sales Grow

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:31:46 +0000

Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest personal computer maker, issued a better-than-expected quarterly profit and outlook on Monday, driven by strong sales of notebook computers. HP also announced an $8 billion additional share buyback program, but... Read more...

Nvidia Quarterly Profit Rises On Strong Sales

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:50:00 +0000

Graphics chip maker Nvidia posted a sharply higher quarterly profit Thursday on stronger sales of its products, especially ones for laptop computers. Nvidia also forecast that its sales would rise by more than what Wall... Read more...

NASA's Dawn Finally Rises

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:30:40 +0000

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, originally scheduled for launch on June 20th, is finally on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station yesterday morning following a... Read more...

Sony Profits Fall, But End of Year Forecast Rises

Joe Cashman — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:22:09 +0000

Sony's net profits for the three months to 31 December fell to 159.9bn yen ($1.3bn; Â£669m) from 168.9bn yen the three months before, a drop in 5.3%. The huge losses were down to the gaming... Read more...

Rise of Legends demo rises up Friday

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:13:40 +0000

In 2003, Rise of Nations was released, which allowed gamers to build a civilization based on real history. The game quickly became a success. The lead designer Brian Reynolds has now been inspired to make... Read more...

Interest Towards Xbox 360 Console Rises

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:07:20 +0000

Demand for the Xbox 360 game console worldwide seems to be increasing as Japanese customers are getting more interested in the Xbox 360 game than before, whereas at least one U.S.-based online store has pre-sold... Read more...

Apple Under Scrutiny as Music Competition Rises

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:19:27 +0000

Apple Computer Inc. may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but competitors are turning the up the heat... Read more...

iPod US marketshare rises to 82 percent

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:00:35 +0000

After clothes, money and a car, an iPod is what U.S. teenagers want most this holiday season. A survey of 600 high school students by Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster found Apple Computer... Read more...

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War rises to retail

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:30:50 +0000

Players of Warhammer 40,000 no longer have to worry about arm-twisting unwilling friends every time they want to play a game. THQ and Relic Entertainment announced today that they have shipped the latest PC real-time... Read more...

Sun rises on AMD's new Opterons

Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:14:08 +0000

dvanced Micro Devices got a vote of support from Sun Microsystems and added three new models to its stable of 64-bit Opteron processors for servers. The chipmaker, which announced a partnership with Sun... Read more...

PayPal scam rises again

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 May 2003 11:02:27 +0000

PayPal users are once again the targets of a hit-and-run e-mail scam aimed at conning them out of their personal and financial information. On Thursday, netizens began receiving a convincing forgery of a PayPal e-mail,... Read more...

Sun rises on acquisition speculation

Sun, 04 May 2003 15:04:10 +0000

Is Sun up for sale? Shares of Sun Microsystems, which have fallen 92 percent in the past three years, rose 12.3 percent on speculation the company might be bought by a larger... Read more...