Nintendo Co Ltd, already struggling with shortages of its Wii video game console, is also seeing signs of higher-than-expected demand for its DS handheld device, a top executive said on Monday. "The DS continues to...
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The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that's so significant, it might be the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been...
Microsoft Corporation Vice President Will Poole has announced the software giant has made progress in getting a basic version of Windows XP to work on the low-cost One Laptop Per Child Foundation's laptop that currently...
The video game industry's annual showcase is saying goodbye to scantily clad booth babes, extravagant multimillion dollar exhibits, celebrity appearances, blaring lights and pounding music. This year's version of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, renamed the...
Yahoo is overhauling the way it sells advertising in the US in an effort to help revive the business. The internet firm, whose boss Terry Semel quit this month after recent poor trading, is...
With a certain portable system from Nintendo breaking hardware and software records, you just knew there was going to be good news overall for the game industry come the end of the fiscal year. Sure...
At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco smart card vendor Gemalto will introduce new technology designed to give online shoppers an easy way to log on to their accounts using a smart card device...
Not only has Gears of War become the undisputed king of the 360 at the moment breaking numerous records, but it has also been a key factor in an increased usage of Xbox Live. Other...
Microsoft Corp. expects software piracy, which costs the company billions of dollars every year, to ease with the introduction of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 software suite, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer...
Samsung Electronics said Tuesday "major nations" will use Korea's homegrown WiBro mobile wireless Internet technology from next year. Samsung Electronics president Lee Ki-tae made the remark at a meeting to promote the technology that was...
Google has seen its year-on-year third-quarter profits almost double, rising from $391m (£202m) in 2005 to $733m (£390m) for the past three months. The search giant's revenues also rose dramatically, up 70% from last year...
US movie director, George Lucas, sees the future of film in downloads. Speaking to Variety, the Star Wars director revealed that, while he's not rushing to be among the first to release movies through iTunes,...
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu said he has looked at the Zune documents that Toshiba filed last week with the Federal Communications Commission and is not impressed. "We are frankly underwhelmed by the much-hyped...
The company on June 20 released a community technical preview or beta of its Microsoft Robotics Studio. The company's robotics software development suite, previewed here at the Robo Business 2006 Conference, is designed to grant...
1Up.com reported that the official X-Box 360 Backwards compatibility list has been updated with three new games. These include: Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Winning Eleven 9, and Black. Considering that Black was never to see...
If you were to ask Bill Gates who Microsoft's top competitor is, what company would he name? Would it be Apple, Google, or Sony? This question is exactly what a Reuters journalist asked Gates, and...
Intel Corp., the world's largest microchip maker, said on Thursday it expected to implement trials of the emerging wireless broadband technology called "WiMax" in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by year-end. Intel, which...
Microsoft Corp. made a deal with the European Commission to resolve their differences over remedies imposed on the software giant for violating antitrust laws before the end of May, the EU's competition chief said on...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable, he told a German newspaper. "As good...
Bill Gates doesn't think his company has been slow to crack the cell phone market. He just thinks the little devices have yet to catch up to the power of his company's software. ...
Sony has announced that in the first two days of sales, 500,000 PSPs were sold in America. The PSP, which sells for $249, generated $150m for retailers in the first week. Sony's PSP...
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief operating officer and president, on Tuesday presented a spirited defense of his company's decision to use the Common Development and Distribution License for its OpenSolaris project rather than the GNU GPL,...
Computer memory chip maker Micron said on Wednesday it had indications that demand for DRAM memory chips, used mainly in personal computers, would be robust enough to soak up rising supply in 2005. ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in a lighthearted mood during a swing through the Netherlands, but did he give a serious clue about Longhorn? During a keynote speech at the company's TechNet/MSDN Briefings...
Industry analysts at Wedbush Morgan predict a Christmas "disaster" for console publishers off the A-list. Wedbush Morgan Securites, financial analyst has issued that its annual preholiday reports in the console gaming sections....
Microsoft has offered to extend the duration of its protocol licenses for an extra two years. The licensing program, MCPP, was set up two years ago as a requirement of the Antitrust settlement, and a...
Sony Corp. believes that its market-leading PlayStation 2 video game console can continue to sell until 2010, twice as long as most in the industry had assumed was possible, an executive of Sony's U.S. video...
Dell reported this week that it has won a contract to supply PCs to the Environmental Protection Agency over the next three years, as well as help the regulatory body recycle its aging hardware. ...
A top Intel executive said 64-bit technology, which gives computers greater memory capacity and more powerful data crunching abilities, would not become relevant to home PC users until sometime in 2006, later than anticipated by...
Google Inc., the No. 1 Web search provider, is in the cross-hairs of media services company Yahoo Inc. and software giant Microsoft Corp. -- a fact not lost on Google co-founder Sergey Brin. "There's a...
Microsoft sounded a cautionary note with financial analysts on Wednesday, warning that it faces challenges to keep growing its sales at the same rate it has in recent years. In a presentation...
Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of networking equipment, expects the IT market to recover within months, its chief executive was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "In the next two to four months,...
March was another bumper month for spam, with the latest figures revealing a continued increase in the amount of unsolicited e-mail traffic. Anti-spam firm Brightmail recorded a 4-percent month-on-month increase in the amount of spam...
With feverish demand for digital cameras fueling growth in the photography industry, manufacturers hope to persuade consumers that printing pictures is just as important as snapping them. Printing of digital photos, whether...
No. 1 video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. posted a larger fiscal third-quarter profit on Wednesday, driven by sales of new games based on movie series like "James Bond" and "Harry Potter." Redwood...
The computer maker announced after market close on Thursday that it recorded a profit of $501 million, or 19 cents per share, on revenue of $8.46 billion for its second fiscal quarter, which ended Aug....
Pirating is up by 50 per cent, says BPI The number of illegal CDs in the UK has increased by almost 50 per cent, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). ...
The fate of the biggest merger in the history of the technology industry may hang on a single conversation. A straight-talking Delaware business judge will open a trial on Tuesday to determine...
Compaq Computer Corp. Chief Executive Michael Capellas said on Wednesday his company and Hewlett-Packard Co. were determined to hold shareholder votes in March on their $22.3 billion merger, and said regulatory approval was on track...
Wireless technology giant Motorola Inc. said on Wednesday it still sees a return to profitability in the third quarter after a year and a half of expected losses, thanks to new cost cuts and improved...
