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For the first time since its debut in 1966, the A.M. Turing Award, which is granted by the Association for Computer Machinery, has been awarded to a woman. Frances Allen, a 74-year-old IBM Fellow Emerita...

Electronic Arts today revealed that NASCAR Nextel Cup stars and Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson will be adorning the cover of NASCAR 06: Total Team Control. The move to include the...

Atari today made an official announcement on the next installment of games based on the Matrix franchise. Dubbed The Matrix: Path of Neo, the game is set in the universe of The Matrix trilogy. Path...

Quoting Shakespeare, no less, Electronic Arts has officially unveiled its next World War II-based Medal of Honor console title, having mentioned one was in development earlier this week during an investor conference call. Medal of...

Developer BioWare has been named as one of the top 100 employers in Canada by Mediacorp Canada and Macleans magazine, and has also been placed in Deloitte's Canadian Technology Fast 50 listing. This...

Austin, Texas based development tools provider Metrowerks has announced an agreement with Nintendo which will see the company providing the official development suite for the forthcoming Nintendo DS console. Under the terms of...

Britain's net industry has named internet domain giant Verisign as its villain of the year. It won the accolade for a system it set up that hijacked mistyped web queries and sent people...

Google, the top Internet search engine which is expected by bankers to list its shares this year, has gained a fillip as it was named Global Brand of the Year by consultants Interbrand for the...

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday nominated a Silicon Valley engineer and entrepreneur to a technical committee that will oversee Microsoft's compliance with its antitrust settlement. If approved by U.S. District...

Thanks to username for posting this in BPN At Comdex, AMD today announced it has selected "AMD Athlon 64" as the brand name for its next-generation processor for desktop and mobile PCs,...

IBM President and CEO Samuel Palmisano has been elected chairman of the company, succeeding Louis V. Gerstner Jr., who is retiring at the end of the year. Palmisano, 51, will take on the role...

Industry sources have named Seiko Epson as the manufacturer that supplied Nokia with faulty components that led to a high screen failure rate amongst its handsets. Nokia was instructed by the NSW...